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Strange, spooky, unexplainable shit that's happened to you

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Twilight Gap

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Last week, my cousins put on a horror film and asked me to watch it with them. I'm not into the genre, but I reluctantly decided to give it a shot. Aside from not finding the movie particularly scary (as far as horror goes I guess), I didn't think much of it. Well, not until the following night.

One of the plot points involves a woman waking up with large bruises around her body. Though not as dramatic, I've also been waking up to unusual scratches, scrapes, and bruises in various locations since watching the film. I've ruled out all the logical ways I could have scratched myself (my nails are very short for one), and I'd normally just shrug it off since they're minor (albeit irritating) injuries. I'm not particularly superstitious either, and every thing I've read about it online sounds like a parody, so that hasn't been much help. I thought I'd forget about it a few days ago, but new ones have appeared daily and it's a bit unsettling not being able to find a rational explanation for them. I guess the only thing left to say is "am I already dead, GAF?"

Anyone experience something weird (similar or otherwise) and found no way to rationalize it?
 
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Zeppeli

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As a kid I used to see shit at night without any sort of sleep paralysis. I slept with my head under the blankets in pools of my own sweat just because I didn't want to see the man outside of the window.

Kids imaginations are crazy.
 
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Laieon

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Not me, but my mom. My family was in a major car accident back in '06. My mom (who was in the passenger seat) swears that she saw my grandpa as one of the people helping pull us out of the vehicle. That's not really possible though, because he had just passed away less than a week before.
 
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Banjotanooki

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I always thought I was an alien as a kid since I ALWAYS saw these bad boys:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater
 
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ronito

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I had a seriously weird thing with de ja vu for about 3 weeks when I started college. I don't share details much because most don't believe it and it still sorta freaks me out.
 
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Tenrius

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I think I remember reading a similar thread hear on GAF, and the it turned out to be some sort of bed bugs eating the poor OP there. You might want to look into it yourself, might be the same case.

As for me, unfortunately I haven't had any strange, spooky and/or unexplainable shit happening to me. Being a rocket scientist (among other things) probably protects me from such evil and spookiness.
 
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umop_3pisdn

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When my friend and I were 17 we were smoking weed in my car in an alley on a residential street at night, in the distance in a dark patch between the streetlights we could see a shadowy figure, it looked like if you drew a person's silhouette using a charcoal briquette. He/she/it burst out into the most insanely choreographed musical theatre type dance performance. It was like a 'singing in the rain' type thing, and it was frankly incredible, like virtuoso type shit, we were watching it totally transfixed. At the same time we weren't even sure if the figure was 'human', because in that light it looked extremely otherworldly and that illusion never broke, and then it slipped into the darkness. It was like a shared hallucination. It's strange how well I can still remember it.
 
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Spinluck

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ronito said:
I had a seriously weird thing with de ja vu for about 3 weeks when I started college. I don't share details much because most don't believe it and it still sorta freaks me out.
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way, people don't believe in deja vu?

it happens to me all the time. it's a weird feeling, but that's about as far as i go with it lol.
 
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Deified Data

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Never had any visual hallucinations during sleep paralysis, but audible hallucinations are common. So is a sensation of something jumping up and down on my chest. It's happened to me so many times that it's more annoying than scary. Just keep your eyes shut so you don't see anything freaky and force yourself awake. People who often experience sleep paralysis inevitably learn to live with it.

Never saw anything I legitimately couldn't explain, though.

Edit: At work once I'm closing up, just me and another person. I'm downstairs in the basement, other employee is upstairs. I turn the lights off downstairs on my way up. The other employee never goes downstairs and only leaves my sight when they use the restroom. On our way our we see that the lights are back on downstairs, switches all flipped. We turned them off and left. Still no clue how that happened, I guess. Not scary, but definitely inexplicable.
 
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Twilight Gap

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xxracerxx said:
Do you share a bed?
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Not in a long while :/

And especially not with one of those creepy motherfuckers.

Tenrius said:
I think I remember reading a similar thread hear on GAF, and the it turned out to be some sort of bed bugs eating the poor OP there. You might want to look into it yourself, might be the same case.

As for me, unfortunately I haven't had any strange, spooky and/or unexplainable shit happening to me. Being a rocket scientist (among other things) probably wards me off such evil and spookiness.
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If I was still on my old mattress, I'd be inclined to agree. But I haven't encountered any insects or other critters around since dealing with the ant problem I had a few weeks ago.

...unless they're using stealthy attacks now o_O
 
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Thequietone

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Seems like this kind of thread has been locked a couple of time before but here goes. I've had a few things over the years some were sleep paralysis, but some happened when I was awake. The most popular that intrigues people is the man with the long mouth. A little back story; this house in my old neighborhood was known for being haunted, people getting picked up and thrown out of the house, stuff being stacked into a pyramid. Most of the time the place is unoccupied because people who move in quickly move out. Even during the day time the place wasn't safe.

One day I walked by one of the windows and I look inside and see a man facing away from me in an old reclining chair watching some tv. Now this house is supposed to be vacant and nobody and no furniture is supposed to be in this house. On the tv there is a swirl moving counter clockwise and is flashing many bright colors. The swirl is kind of like Poliwhirl from Pokemon but flashing lights like hypnotoad from Futurama. Anyways, as I am mesmerized by this I notice the man has turned towards me and staring at me. I break away from the tv to meet eyes with him, and this grotesque face is staring back at me and his mouth begins to open wider and wider and wider. In a state of shock I cannot move to run, scream, or do anything. His mouth just seems to have no end in how wide it will open and then all of a sudden I break free from the fear and run my ass out of there.
 
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Crayons

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umop_3pisdn said:
When my friend and I were 17 we were smoking weed in my car in an alley on a residential street at night, in the distance in a dark patch between the streetlights we could see a shadowy figure, it looked like if you drew a person's silhouette using a charcoal briquette. He/she/it burst out into the most insanely choreographed musical theatre type dance performance. It was like a 'singing in the rain' type thing, and it was frankly incredible, like virtuoso type shit, we were watching it totally transfixed. At the same time we weren't even sure if the figure was 'human', because in that light it looked extremely otherworldly and that illusion never broke, and then it slipped into the darkness. It was like a shared hallucination. It's strange how well I can still remember it.
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Shared hallucinations happen all the time with weed. Someone can suggest someone and then you're just like "DUDDEEEEEEE YES I SEE IT TOO"
 
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Goddard

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A lot of creepy shit has happened to me but most of it is explainable. For instance, for a few years I thought there was a monster living in my attic, so I always hid under my blanket at night for fear of being eaten or some shit. That was obviously because of a horror movie though.
 
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leadbelly

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Well, I've mentioned before I had a dream once that appeared to come true. It was quite a dark experience, but at the time, it also seemed quite mind blowing. These days, I don't really know what to make of it.

In terms of horror movies, I had a dream once that was like something from a horror movie. It was a nightmare where I thought I woke up, but actually I was still dreaming. The nightmare got worse which caused me to wake up again, but this time it was for real (lol). That was one of the strangest, most disorientating dreams you can imagine. Never knew that kind of thing can happen in real life. lol

Lately I have had really strange dreams. Not strange as in really weird, but rather strange in how incredibly mundane they were. I had a series of these kind of dreams. In one of the dreams I was just doing my shopping at the local supermarket. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. I just got my shopping and paid for it at the checkout. lol

Actually, there is another thing I just remembered. I remember hearing voices calling my name while walking home on my own on LSD. I was about 14 at the time. Really strange experience. It wasn't simply that I could hear voices, they were coming from directly behind me. Almost like whispers. There was no one there though.
 
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umop_3pisdn

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Crayons said:
Shared hallucinations happen all the time with weed. Someone can suggest someone and then you're just like "DUDDEEEEEEE YES I SEE IT TOO"
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That sort of thing has never happened to me. At that time we both actually had a huge tolerance because we were ridiculously chronic with our habit, and the entire experience was really lucid. I'm sure it was actually a person just rehearsing a dance or something as they went on their way down the dark alley, but it was so surreal.
 
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gosox333

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The switch that controls the electricity in my room constantly gets switched off, and it's definitely not me doing it.

I hope it's my roommates or something, because if this is a haunting, it's the lamest and most annoying haunting ever.
 
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Thursday War

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xxracerxx said:
Do you share a bed?
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jesus fucking christ man

some people are trying to sleep

;_;

leadbelly said:
Lately I have had really strange dreams. Not strange as in really weird, but rather strange in how incredibly mundane they were. I had a series of these kind of dreams. In one of the dreams I was just doing my shopping at the local supermarket. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. I just got my shopping and paid for it at the checkout. lol
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lolwut
 
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stormplyr

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Nothing has really happened to me but some close family members. My grandfather passes away when I was like 2. Well few years ago idk how we got on the topic of ghost stuff. My grandma said that sometimes when she wakes up in te morning she'll smell my grandfathers old spice deodorant he wore everyday. My uncle has a bar in the basement of his house. Well my grandfather was a very heavy drinker and smoker or so I've been told. My uncle said that once in awhile when he goes out to the garage thru the basement and bar to go to work he'll smell cigarettes when he nor his wife smoke at all. They said its kind of comforting if it really is him coming around.
 
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RoKKeR

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Woke up uncharacteristically early the day my dog was to die and I sort of "knew" what was going to happen before even walking downstairs. We put her down later that day.

It sort of freaked me out, even though it was just a small thing.
 
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SymbiantXenos

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Used to have what felt like fingers running up and down my left arm as I lay in bed back when I was 11. I wasn't the only person that happend to in that room also.
 
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Salsa

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linkman26 said:
I always thought I was an alien as a kid since I ALWAYS saw these bad boys:

eye_diseases_and_cond_s17_floaters3.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater
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I have a severe case of these that suddenly appeared a year ago and according to 2 different doctors it wont go away. There's surgery but it's expensive and it can fuck you up worse. I even see them with my eyes closed.

I didnt get used to them as much as I learned to live with it. Being outside during the day can suck, but it is what it is.

It was a cause of depression for me for a while but that's mostly cause if you look it up online you'll see tons of message boards with people straight up considering suicide, so it's one of those cases when reading about it is more harmful than good.
 
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Dog Problems

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Back in 2006 one of my girlfriend's grandmothers died. That night my girlfriend and I went to her mom's house to be with her and help get things ready for the funeral. Now, her grandmother had a cat named Pico. Anyway, we went to bed and at some point I woke up around four or five in the morning and laid there for awhile. I was wide awake and heard a voice very clearly say, "Pico" in my right ear. It sounded like it was just a few feet away but the tone of the voice was like a loud whisper. My girlfriend was asleep next to me on my left and I woke her up to tell her and it freaked her out. It took us awhile to finally go back to sleep. The only other person in the house was her mom and she was asleep on the other side of the house. I've tried to come up with explanations but can never think of anything else. There was nothing running that could have caused a noise that sounded like that.
 
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3N16MA

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Got up to use the bathroom and when I looked in the mirror I saw a demon like head on my body. I must have been around 10 or 11 when it happend. It was my body but the head was messed up.

When it was morning I said it had to be a dream even though in the back of my head I knew it was not.
 
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Citizen Mane

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I was playing flash light tag at a buddies house when I was younger. Thought I saw one of my friends crouched on the ground next to a tree. I shine the light on him and say "I see you", the dude stands up and it's a grown ass man who then super jumps over a barbed wire fence and takes off into the night. It was really spooky at the time ;_;
 
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3N16MA

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There was also an instance where I had my arm hanging off one side of the bed. I was not touching the ground but I felt something touching my fingers like someone was reaching from under the bed. It was not an itch because I could actually feel the crawl move on different fingers. I shook my hand like crazy and put on the light to find a decent sized spider on my bed. I must have flung it off of my hand.

I actually don't find the spider spooky at all as I picked it up but I know 95% of GAF would have burnt their room down.
 
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SonofdonCD

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So back around October I was in a car with my bandmates, and we were going to a gig in Brooklyn at this place called the WayStation. Dr. Who themed bar. I get a random phone call, but using Skype. NOBODY has ever called me with Skype. I decide to answer it. The lady says, "Hello, this is your mother."

Keep in mind, my mother had just died maybe two months prior.

So I am petrified. I know that this isn't my mother. It sounded nothing like her. But she did call me by name. Not some random common name like John or Tom. MY NAME, which isn't common at all. The only thing that I could say was "No....." in like five second intervals. Eventually she hung up.

I still don't understand it fully, as she never called me back again. The only theory I have is that I had once looked up my name on Google, just to see what results would come up. I got plenty of references to me, but also another dude, who was something like a model somewhere down in Florida. I can only assume she meant to call him and got me somehow.
 
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Coketruck

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There used to be an old, two story crumbling house on the outskirts of the small country town I grew up in. Of course, there was a local legend that it was haunted, and most of us kids gave the place a wide berth growing up. My friend, however, lived near the place. One night while I was staying over at his house (we were about 12 or 13 years old), we decided we'd be brave and walk over and check it out.

The walk was short, which was good because there was hardly any moonlight and we didn't want to use our flashlights for fear of someone seeing us and calling the cops, so we were stumbling blind through the woods. When we got there, we risked turning on our lights and headed inside.

The house was very old, built from almost all wood and had been abandoned for years, so it was really falling apart. We poked around, but the floors were so rotted that we couldn't explore much. We wanted to check out the second floor, but the staircase had pretty much disintegrated, making it impossible to get up there. We quickly figured out that there wasn't much else we could do and started to walk back to his house.

As we were walking away from the house, my friend glanced back and froze, staring wide-eyed and openmouthed. I turned and saw a light moving around the second floor rooms... The second floor that was impossible to reach.

Suddenly, the light stopped moving, then disappeared. We set world-record times running back to my friend's. The old house was turn down a couple of years later. Good riddance.
 
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hokahey

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Citizen Mane said:
I was playing flash light tag at a buddies house when I was younger. Thought I saw one of my friends crouched on the ground next to a tree. I shine the light on him and say "I see you", the dude stands up and it's a grown ass man who then super jumps over a barbed wire fence and takes off into the night. It was really spooky at the time ;_;
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Lmao
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
I work the graveyard shift (midnight to eight) in a old ass hotel

The stories I could tell you
 
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