31 Paranormal Experiences That People Can’t Explain

‘We know we aren’t crazy because the dog saw it too’
31 Paranormal Experiences That People Can’t Explain

We can apply knowledge to situations in order to come to conclusions about some things, but not all things, which is why we still have no concrete explanation for why people dream or why sea turtles live to 150 and humans don’t.

The same goes for a bulk of paranormal phenomena — it’s impossible to figure out a rational way to account for every spooky experience. A bar in Washington has even stopped trying to explain things, despite patrons having witnessed everything from pint glasses exploding in their hands to women being locked in the restroom when no one was outside of the door. Instead, they say, “Yeah, stuff like that happens all the time here,” and move on. 

To that end, Redditors have remembered the totally inexplicable supernatural things they’ve seen, including a mysterious melody, an eerily tall man and strange scratches on the door.

clarkster1964 3y ago When my youngest son was about 3 years old we were eating out in town and he got a bit restless. I decided to take him for a walk and as I held a door open he got away from me and made a break for it(pedestrian area so safe) Не bolted into an adjacent site which had a ruined chapel/almshouses with info boards for tourists. I found him staring up at the Chapel ruins. 'What are you doing, mate?' His reply?.....'A long time ago I got married here' 'What!?' 'A long time ago.....! Then a switch
yourfavtechnoslut 3y ago Edited Зу ago My first year of university a girl I lived with had her friend over one night. He'd been shooting footage on London Bridge at ЗАМ to get some shots of it abandoned at night. Не was really riled up about something and insisted we watch it with the audio up all the way and listen closely. Around the 1 minute mark I heard a low, deeply menacing voice whisper slowly as you walk the devil's path.. then something unintelligible... then ...death. It felt so final and evil. Не turned to us and said, did
FreshKittyPowPow 3y ago Teenage Girl in the 80's was killed in a freak accident after running away from home in my hometown. Had heard stories for years about people seeing her, she died riding her bike wearing a baseball cap which is what people had described seeing her wearing. One night I was coming home real late and I was stopped at a red light all by myself and I saw something out of the corner of my eye, I turn and look and there she was, baseball cap and all on her bike starring at me. I then looked
Gorilla-Samurai Зу ago Edited 2y ago Working on ships, some are pretty old and you hear some weird stories. 4 years ago during a South American season, I used to hang out with the Brazilians, fun and cool people, one was the gift shop manager. He'd rant and rant about how his team is lazy and how they keep trying to weasel out of working because they claim to see a little girl running around the gift shop, one night, we were having coffee with the head of the Photography department and he's extra salty, talking about how he'll have
sadshire 3y ago Something kind of similar happened to me. I was getting ready for bed in the bathroom, I had the door open as I was talking to my husband who was sitting on the bed. I was having a whole conversation with him, I even looked at him a couple times then he stopped answering me so I repeated myself and he answered but was in the living room. Now the living room was passed the bathroom and I never saw him walk by and there was no way I would've missed it. Не comes into the bathroom
Aquadire 4y ago Got a second hand mattress when I turned 5/6, started having the same dream every night of a lady coming out of a house in the woods and screaming at some kids playing in a sandpit out the front. For two years I had the same dream and could even hear the woman screaming while I was awake. Mum ended up giving the mattress away to her skeptic friend who needed it for her son. I stop having the dreams and the friend's son started waking up with night terrors.
habitualinesteppa 4y ago - Felt really uneasy one night so I went downstairs to sleep instead of in my room. The next day everyone in my family said they saw an ominous orb of light floating around. + 266 ...
NordyNed 4y ago I'm going to preface this by saying I don't believe in ghosts at all. But one night a couple months ago, I was washing a dish in my sink when suddenly two wrinkled hands with long nails grabbed my ankles and yanked backwards, hard. I dropped the dish and cried out in surprise, but the hands weren't there when I turned around. It happened at an angle that was impossible unless the person was laying on their stomach behind me. No markings were left on my ankles, but I felt it for sure. + 208 ...
RabbiRaccoon 3y ago I posted this in another thread like this a while back Several years ago, some friends and I were driving through one of the millions of small towns around the North/South Carolina border in the mountains. It was well after midnight. My friend looks behind us, and sees a pair of headlights coming up on us. Quickly. Like, easily 60-70 MPH when the limit is 25 or so. No signs of stopping so my friend pulls over to let the car past. And what passes us is two lights. Just lights. Far too bright to be a
ThatsMyOnionJerk 3y ago This happened to me when I was 6. was in my bed sound asleep when I felt the mattress beside me slowly shift as if someone was laying beside me. I opened my eyes and there was a full grown adult woman beside me. She wasn't particularly scary, just normal looking but she was a strange person in my bed. Of course I opened my mouth to scream but before I did she put her finger to her lips as if to tell me to be quiet. Her eyes looked very frightened and she seemed to be
UltraRunner42 4y ago I had a friend who was very sick at the hospital this past Spring (not Covid, but sepsis from an operation on his back). I went to bed, and in that in- between stage where you're not awake and not quite asleep, I could sense him standing by the side of my bed. We said a few words to each other, and then he hugged me. When I woke up the next morning, I found out that he'd passed not long after I'd gone to bed. Many people would say it was just a dream, but I
cantuseasingleone 4y ago Not mine but one I think of a lot. I was at work one night and my mom was visiting my newborn son and wife. I get home and my mom tells me she heard my dad talking to my son. My dad died 8 years prior but she swears up and down it was his voice. My wife heard it too but never met my dad, so she couldn't say much about it. Just that it was a mans voice. Then it happened again when my daughter was born. I really want to believe my dad
Lexocracy 4y ago Edited 4y ago I was visiting family and staying in a hotel with my boyfriend (husband now). The first night there we went to bed and I woke up in the middle of the night facing the window. I noticed there was a dark shadow in the corner of the room that looked human shaped. After staring a while I realized it must have been a floor lamp since that corner was kind of bare and that's the logical choice. I rolled over and went back to bed. The following morning I remembered this and turned to
Joubachi 5y ago Still the apartment in which my mom and I lived couple of years ago. Missing and reappearing items were really creepy. The bathroom light turning itself on several times one night was worse. The handprint on the glass door to the attic (located in the bathroom roof) was the worst. Funfact: my mom told me around one week ago that the landlords mother has died in that apartment and NOONE lived there longer than half a year - including us. 59 ...
Zectx 11y ago This may sound weird and to this day I still have no explaination as to how this happened. I live in a 36 story apartment building and was on my way to go out to the mall. We live on the 30th floor. I get in the lift at floor 30 and press the ground button (floor G). When the lift opens at ground, I notice the whole foyer/lobby area is COMPLETELY different. Different couches, lights, colours etc. I was really taken back by it. I make my way to the exit and after seeing the outside
musicman0326 8y ago When I was a kid, I lived in a house that was haunted with all sorts of paranormal beings. One of my first memories was actually an experience with one of these beings. I was about 4 years old, standing in the entryway in our house, facing the door. I stop and notice there are two people standing in front of the door, staring at me. One was a tall, middle-aged man, dressed in an black 1900s-era suit. The other was a boy, wearing what I figure now was a red baseball uniform. The boy looked up
churrosricos 8y ago I used to have this reoccurring dream where this black figure with no face would visit me and try to posses me. It would typically enter my being through my mouth and at that point I would have no control over my dream. It would tell me to do terrible things to people and it had a scratchy voice. The weirdest part that every time it would be inside me I physically would feel ill. I would wake up with the same feeling often times vomiting right away. The last time this happened must have been 3
KimJongFunk 8y ago When I was in elementary school, I shared a queen size bed with my older sister and our family dog (a mutt that looked like a short haired Lassie) would sleep at the foot of our bed every night. When I was about 6 years old, I woke up one night around midnight and saw a dark figure standing at the foot of the bed. The figure was entirely in black without any eyes or a face. I tried to wake my sister up, but she rolled over to go back to sleep. My sister must have
 11y ago This wasn't me but my ex and it still weirds me out when I think about it. It's not particularly long or weird but here's what happened: One day he went for a bike ride, rode around town, came home, the end. This is where it gets weird. Seemingly to him, he arrived home the same day some 2 hours later like a normal ride. His family freaked when he walked inside though. Не had been missing for 2 days. No one could find him, they even started to get the police involved....he literally thought he just
Unforgotabble . 5y ago . Edited 5y ago Went running with my dog and saw a white outline of a young woman running alongside me out of the corner of my eye. When I looked over, nothing. About 5 mins later I got a call that my great grandmother had passed, she was in hospice. Still think about that a lot.
sentientgypsy 8y ago When I was a young teenager my father and my step- mother had gotten married. This forced me and my little brother to move into her home and share the same bed room for quite some time. Three weeks before we moved in. My step-mother's mom had died where I slept for most of my child hood. The spooky part happens one night when I got off of my computer and I was going to bed. I had laid there for maybe 10 minutes when I started hearing scratching at my closet door. I figured it was
feeling_psily 8y ago Growing up, my older brother had a computer program that he used to compose piano music on. I remember I was reading in the living room when I heard the most beautiful violin melody I have ever heard. I listened to the whole thing which was several minutes long. I walked down the hallway to compliment my brother on his masterpiece when I realized my brother was not using the computer, and I was home alone. + 1.4K ...
Armantes 8y ago Edited 8y ago Middle of the night, sleeping. I hear a sound like someone is taking a paperclip from my desk and throwing it against the wall and it bounces across the desk. I wake up to this noise, turn on the light right by my bed as I sit up. I look over and see nothing. Weird. As I'm ready to lay back down my 20lb steel gumball machine falls from the shelf over my bed directly onto my pillow where my head was not 30 seconds earlier. I flip out and scramble out of my
TheTrueLordHumungous 8y ago Not creepy but kind of cool. My mother split and transplanted a rosebush from my grandfathers farm about 40 years ago. It took but never bloomed. At that point she only kept it because it grew into the fence nicely and kept us kids from climbing it. My grandfather died about 5 years after she transplanted it and that spring it bloomed red roses. A few years after that my grandmother died and the spring after it bloomed white roses. These are the only two years it has ever bloomed. 585 ...
lookssharp 3y ago This is pretty mild, but I took my dog for a walk, got home, went to the corner store 5 minutes away. When I came back opened the door and my whole house smelled like perfume. Locked gate, locked house, security cameras and a dog that barks at everything. I live alone, nobody stopped by and my house smelled like someone ran around spraying Chanel number 5. It doesn't sound believable, I'll never be able to explain it, but it happened. + 2K ...
Bigbybest5 3y ago My dad used to work at a haunted house and wanted to add a ghost story to the website to get more people to come. Не hired a medium to look around the place to see if she sensed anything. My dad didn't really believe in the stuff though. Half way through the tour she asks if my father was missing a hammer. Не said he was missing a lot of his tools. The medium said an old women died in the floor above and had the hammer. My dad asked the spirit to give it back
retiredgunslinger66 3y ago 9 As an officer on a reservation, we kept getting reports of a tall man at different places in a town on our reservation. One night we was able to catch him on a thermal camera. There was about 8-10 officers there. It was on a hill overlooking the town that was right below. + 783 ...
bobthepomato 3y ago Edited 3y ago Went on fishing weekend with best bud in college. Stayed at his grandpas house in middle of bum fuck nowhere. We where sleeping in the sun room as it was a gorgeous night, and I was asking my friend bout the noises. Deer, foxes, and the like. Then we hear what is best described as a scream/wail...his grandpa came out of the house said You boys just come on sleep on the couches now. Never offered an explanation and I didn't question shit. 90yr old man with a 12gauge in hand says move...you move.
Mr_Mojo_Risin_83 3y ago ok, so not really a cryptid, but i reckon i've seen something undocumented: my wife and i were driving along the highway in remote northern west australia. we come around a corner from behind a hill and there's this massive bird in the middle of the highway ripping into a kangaroo. we slam on the brakes to avoid hitting it and it spreads it's wings and flies away. this thing's wingspan was easily longer than our corolla and the top of the bonnet was probably 2/3 the height of it standing on the road. it looked like
ether314 Зу ago In Snohomish, WA there's a bar called the Oxford, it has a violent history as there have been at least 2 or 3 deaths/murders there. My parents have gone a few times to listen to live bands and heard of women being locked in the bathroom and plates shattering in the kitchen when no one was around. One night my dad had a glass of red wine and headed downstairs to the basement, where there's pool tables and another bar. Не says that the cup part of his glass exploded in his hand, there was a pop
mrbeefthighs 3y ago This is my sister's story and idk if it is paranormal or not, but she thought it was a lil spooky. She lived in a tiny lil studio apartment one summer and came home to quickly get a bite to eat, wash up and go back out with friends. She puts some bread in the toaster and goes into bathroom to wash face/do makeup etc. She hears the toaster 'pop' and comes out to get it, but the toast is nowhere to be found. She checked the floors, counters everywhere and it was just gone. Toaster was

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