Creepy unexplained stories

Oh wow, that is strange. One creepy possibility is that someone entered your house and took it but otherwise that is bizarre and weird. I like your rabbit theory, funny theory haha.

I’ve had that happen. So weird, yeah I can see how you would take that as a sign. So mysterious and it makes you feel like you’re stupid or going crazy.

I have had many so I don't know which one to tell. They would all be long winded, trying to explain the details.

That's okay. Come on, tell us one.

Oh okay yeah no problem.

I second this.

I’ve enjoyed reading these! Weird stuff happens with me often too!

One that I remember well was a few years ago. We lived by a creek and our back yard was fenced. I was walking through the backyard toward the gate that opened on the bank of the creek. For some reason, I stopped and stood completely still and goose bumps popped up all over me. It’s like I couldn’t move! I looked at the gate and there in front of it was a copperhead snake laying on the ground. My breath caught in my chest and I watched it slither into the creek.

I’m thankful for whatever froze me. I would have been in trouble had it not. I believe it was my guardian angel.

Glad you enjoy reading them! Wow, you were so lucky. As much as I don’t believe in ghosts, I do believe there are forces at play in the universe that we don’t know about, and whatever it is was definitely protecting you that day. Good story!

When I was a teenager, I had a very violent and disturbing dream where there was an explosion at a nightclub and band members were killed. It was very vivid and graphic. I had the dream at about 1:00am.

When I woke up after dawn, the news was on tv and it said that there was an explosion at a nightclub a couple of counties away at.....1:00am! Some band members were killed.

It was very disturbing. I still don't know why me, of all people would have that dream......

Oh wow that is disturbing! Wow, crazy how that happens.

Because you are special.

Just a weird coincidence.

Omg something similar like that happened to me. A few years ago in December I was at my old mental health clinic waiting for my mom to pick me up. I then had a random thought of “what stops someone from going into a metal health facility like this and start opening fire?” Then when I was at home they had a breaking news announcement that there was a shooting in a mental health facility in California. It had literally been starting to happen right when I was having those thoughts.

Yeah that's disturbing.

Not creepy just unexplained. I saw a well dressed man standing in the middle of Costco completely zoned out holding a pint of Hagen daz ice cream. It actually made me really sad. I had had a really bad day at work and I had no idea what was going on with the man but he had like business clothes on so I don’t know. I ended up learning a few hours later that day that my cat was dying. Ugh that day was a mess.

Aw I’m sorry you had a bad day that day. Yeah that stuff can happen.

Ok..this one stands out as the scariest thing that ever happened to me. Bear in mind that I am always a skeptic FIRST...and try to figure out what could have happened. I was living in Oregon at the time, working laundry at the nursing home. It was about 10 at night, and the road I was walking on was very dark. There were houses, but it was a Sunday night and most people's lights were out. I was in a very good mood as it was my "Friday" and at the time I had three days off. My husband was in off the road, and I knew he had ordered pizza and it was waiting for me, and I also LOVE the dark. So there negates a "poor state of mind". Anyway, as I got to the darkest part of the road, something darker than the darkness around it flew past , reversed, looked into my face then took off in its original path. This all happened in about 2 seconds. It scared me to the point that I shouted the F-word and jumped sideways into the street. If a car had been coming I would have been hit. It was about the size of a beach towel if you had it by, say a corner, and were pulling it in the air. So there is one story....

Oh I'm the same way. I'm a skeptic and look for a realistic explanation first as well. And your story resembles mine in the sense that they both took place in dark areas, although for you, it was probably much darker since yours was at night. Mine was during the day but in a semi dark building. Both saw something look at us and run off, all taking place within a few seconds. Honestly, the most logical explanation are hallucinations due to the poor visibility.

An alternative possibility is that someone actually was there but was acting very weird. But most likely, in both cases, it was hallucinations. Butt yeah, that is still freaky though and I would have gotten real scared too. When I saw the figure standing in the center of the basketball court looking at me, I left very quickly afterwards. Didn't run but didn't take my time either. Not sure if apparitions are real but that could explain it too but most likely, we experienced hallucinations. Very unsettling though.

I've had all kinds of interesting and mystifying thing happen to me, ever since I was fairly young, in my teens. These experiences run the range from knowing what's going to happen next, LOTS of deja vu, precognitive dreams, and what I believe are spirit visitations. (I am not into the occult and never went looking for these experiences, and I also tend toward the scientific, rational explanations I can find for these phenomena.) But there are always one or two that escape explanation.

My husband and I were renovating the house we now live in. It was a clear, sunny, cool early Summer day. We were bringing drywall panels into the one back bedroom. The rest of the house was basically empty, but we figured that room, off the beaten path, would be best to store big panels like this, and handiest at the same time.

We had about half the truckload in, when from out of nowhere, we both smelled the unmistakable waft of a freshly-lit cigarette. You know, that sweet fresh singular smell, that fades and changes as the cigarette is smoked-down. No one else was around, the windows were closed, and any air coming in through the back door would had to have traveled quite a way to reach us in that back room. He kept staring at me for a time, while we were both inhaling deeply the described smell. I peeked out the window---no one was around.

Suddenly, within seconds, the smell was gone, vanished...the way cigarette smoke smell does NOT behave.

We cracked up laughing. He was a bit more rattled by it than I was---I'd had things happen to me in the past. But this was a first for him. He just kept shaking his head---there was no need for him to say anything.

The people who owned the home before us were known to be massive chain smokers. The owner's wife had only passed away shortly before we were offered the house.

I dunno about 'creepy' but back in the 90's while blankly watching TV one time, I suddenly had thoughts about a first cousin of mine who I hadn't seen in a long time, maybe five years [a long time if you're say 24]. I thought to myself, wow, I wonder what she's doing these days, and how nice it always was to be in her company. I was smiling to myself thinking about those good times. And then less than a minute later the phone rings and guess who it was? That's right.

That's happened to me with family members more than once.

I went to a mountainside not far from here one time, to meditate on making some kind of contact with the higher beings whom I feel are present in life - it's a subject I'm interested in. It was a beautiful night, a partial moon had just risen on the eastern horizon, orange, and the eastern part of the cities lights looked beautiful to me - I felt invisible. I meditated for precisely 20 minutes with the intention of making a connection of some sort - half skeptical and half knowing. And when my phone timer went off marking the 20 minutes, I slowly opened my eyes and quickly decided to look directly up - and what did I see? High above, way up high in the night sky, unmistakable, was a big beautiful stationary orange orb of light, which then slowly faded out. And I said thank you. It was them.

Oh wow, that is crazy. Yeah I try to rationalize things as well and look for explainable reasons, but sometimes it's hard to do so and it makes you wonder. As you said, I agree that there are no ghosts, but I do believe there are forces at play that we don't understand yet.

Oh wow. I hear that is very common. Similar stuff has happened to me where I would think of someone and then I would receive a text from that same person.

Oh wow, that is very interesting.

Yeah, it was like just totally obviously a psychic thing as far as I was concerned, no doubt.

Another time, I'd fallen out with my sister for two years, and one night I had a very very strong feeling of her presence, of her being, and I just knew she was coming to see me. The next day - she arrived.

What about you @rdgrad15? What other things have happened for you?