People Are Sharing The Creepiest Message They Have Received, And These 43 Might Make Your Skin Crawl

I got a picture from a random number about 10 years ago. It was if a woman in her bra and underwear taking a selfie in a mirror. Not creepy on its own, but creepy because the woman looked identical to my wife(gf at the time). But it wasn't my wife, there were very tiny differences. It made me insecure for about a month before I finally asked my wife if it was her and she showed me a picture she received from a phone number identical to the one that sent me the pic except phone number was 1 number off. Anyway, she received a picture of a dude that looked almost identical to me taking a selfie in a mirror with only underwear on.

Totally bizarre. Both phone numbers never answered calls or texts from anyone who tried.

I was a kid. My cat went in to be spayed. I called the vet to see if it was ready to be picked up. I dialed a digit off. Didn’t realize.

Guy answers. Says the cat went crazy during procedure and bit a nurse. Says they put it down.

I get off phone, sobbing.

Mom asks what happened and calls the (right) number to vet. They sigh. Cat is fine. They said some psycho is a digit off their number and is tired of calls so he decided to start messing with people.

Got a voicemail from a Russian number. I check it and its a faint recording of a women crying and pleading for help. It was extremely unnerving. So much so that it took me a few hours to think to google-fu the whole thing and looks like it was a scam to trick people into calling back and getting exorbitant charges on their account. Would prefer to never get another one of those.

Text was bad, but the context was worse. A guy I met at a friend's party tried to get with me. I got a text from him 2 months later with a picture of my house and car asking if it was mine. Made a police report and the officer told me to be careful around him, that he has multiple pending charges against him for stalking.

Our landline number was 1 digits difference from the doctors surgery in the next village. We used to get a lot of old folk calling at 8am trying to get an appointment.

One time we got a call from a desperate cracking voice wheezing “nurse! Nurse help me! I’m on the floor! I fell down last night! Nurse! Nurse my catheter fell out….. help help!”

He couldn’t say his name, where he lived, he just kept pleading.

I had to call the doctors surgery to give them the phone number so they could check the records and find the poor guys address and get an ambulance. I think he must have had dementia too, but it was awful to listen to.

We disconnected the landline after that.

When I was little, like 10 or 11, my parents left me in charge of my younger brother (6 or 7) so they could go shopping. I always had strict instructions to keep the door locked, and if someone called the landline (the only phone we had back then, 90s kid) NEVER let the caller know we were home alone.

So, the phone rings, and I answer it politely, and the voice on the other end was a deep male voice who demanded to speak with my mom. When I said she wasn't available, he said, "Well, where is she?" and I said "Oh in the shower" and he said, "Go get her" and I said, "Um, I can't...", starting to get really flustered. He wouldn't let up. Finally, he said, "Let me talk to your dad". I said the same thing, "He's not available" and when he questioned me, I said "Um, he's mowing the lawn". I then got freaked out and hung up.

The phone rang right away. I picked it up, and his voice was angrier, more insistent, "Listen, I need to talk to your mom or dad". "Can't I just take a message?" I pleaded, "They'll call right back!" and he started demanding that I put them on the phone ... I hung up again on him.

My brother was watching the whole thing, and when the phone rang like right away, we both started crying. I let the answering machine pick up and his voice was even creepier, even angrier. I don't remember what he said because I think I blacked out in fear, I was completely terrified. My brother and I clutched to each other and ran upstairs to my parents room. The guy kept calling and calling, but didn't leave anymore messages.

In my kid mind he called for hours straight, but I'm not sure. I just know my parents came home to find us upstairs. I seem to remember my mom picking up the phone and laughing--- apparently it was an old college friend of hers? And he was just messing with us kids? She laughed it off and it wasn't really ever mentioned again. Still freaks me out to remember it. If it WAS her friend, that's a messed up thing to do to a couple of kids left home alone, especially if he knew we were home alone.

Joined a discord server with some guys I had just met after joining a new school hoping to make new friends. One of them recited my full name, all of my paternal relatives up to my grandfather (including the deceased), and my exact address. To this day, I don't know how he got it, but the other guys told him to knock it off and delete the messages. The guy did.

I didn't become friends with that guy.

I got a call about how I was recommended to get a job from this new local business. I contacted them multiple times talked to the same English speaking gentleman and discussed it with my mother, I was in high school at the time. Just before leaving for the interview, I looked up the place. It didn't exist, and the address was for some vacant storage unit in the town next to ours. I then decided it wasn't for me. If it weren't for that tiny bit of curiosity I think I would have gotten abducted at age 17.

I was on AIM (AOL instant messenger) in the early 2000’s, I was around 13 years old. A random username that I didn’t recognize IMed me that my dad likes to wear woman’s underwear. At the time, I knew it was true. I never did find out who was behind the IM.

Had a voicemail message once that said 'Hi (my name), we really need to talk. Don't be mad but your boyfriend got me pregnant. Call me back'. Came from a private number so I couldn't call it back. Also I'd been single for about 5 years at that point. Still don't know who it was.

Why are you awake. This was from a guy I met on plenty of fish and dated 3 or 4 months before realising he wasn't for me. My bedroom light was on as my dog had been sick at 3am. My bedroom is at the rear of my house so he had to have been my back garden as it cannot be seen unless you are in the back garden of mine or the bak garden of the houses at the back (terraced so gaps to see from the road etc ) . I went to the police the next morning .I never heard from him again.

I got a voice-mail at 3:00am that was just a man whispering "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.".

I was cleaning out my voice-mail just the other day. Had a message that went something along the lines of:

"Hey Agent A, this is Agent B. I can't get a hold of Agent C and didn't know what to do, so was told to contact you. I can't make many calls because I'm in rehab, but I'll call again when I can."

Maybe not as creepy as just super random and odd.

Ok so this is the reason I stopped answering unknown numbers. This was awhile ago. One day I sitting in my room watching youtube. My phone got a call from a different state. I answer and it's a women screaming and crying. I'm in shock and don't know what to do then she crys help and help me. I didn't know what to do at all and I was only 12 at the time so I just say "I'm only 12" then I hung up.

Some random number sent me a text with a picture of a bowl of dentures.

Unknown number at 2AM
“Looking forward to seeing you,last time I saw you looked delicious” clearly flirty but when I was sleep deprived af at 2am it was pretty creepy.

From an unknown number I received this as a text message:

"i am in the act"

Turns out they meant the ACT, as in the location "Australian Capital Territory". And it was an old friend with a different phone number.

Super not funny - someone overseas hacked the public school system where I worked and sent really disturbing messages to dozens of parents. Listing their kids' names, addresses, teachers - along with super disturbing and graphic threats. As you can imagine everyone was terrified. School was cancelled for a couple of days. The FBI got involved. If I recall correctly, the hackers were looking for a ransom. I'm not sure if they got it. I didn't get one of the messages but as a parent it would have just wrecked me.

It was a message from a rando on okcupid, that only said “you should really get your brakes checked”.

Promptly blocked the sender and carefully examined my car before carefully driving it. Thankfully nothing seemed to be wrong with the car.

Someone wrote their/a name in the bathroom mirror at my house. I didn't know it was there until it fogged up after a shower, I just got out and the name EMMA was written on the mirror. Thing is, I lived alone at the time and didn't know anyone by that name and didn't recognise it as a friend of a friend's name either.

I don't believe in the paranormal but I definitely thought I was at the start of a horror movie that night.