“They Thought I Was Crazy”: 77 Creepy Incidents That Made People Believe In The Paranormal

I felt one of my cats jumping on the bed. I turned to see which cat it was. No cat and all our cats were asleep. I’m 100% sure it was our recently deceased cat saying hi…and I’m one that doesn’t even believe in ghosts.

Fell asleep really late/early morning. Couldn’t sleep at all almost as if something was keeping me awake. Husband snoring, I’m laying on my side with my back towards him. I felt “him” tap my arm (he’s still snoring). I ignore it, then I feel “him” grab my shoulder. I jumped up like “STOP PLAYING WITH ME” I startled th out of him so I knew it wasn’t him……got up to use the bathroom (still creeped out) 3 minutes later my aunt called and told me my dad passed away.

I’ve had a lot, but the most recent one was less than a year ago. I moved in with my then-partner to the same house she once shared with her whole family. Her family were non-practicing Catholics with some background in witchcraft, her late grandma was a devoted Catholic though. My ex kept our bedroom door open for the cat.
One night I woke up to someone calling my name. I looked over, my ex was asleep. Since I was up, I went to the bathroom.

Walking past the living room, I caught someone sitting by the couch in my peripheral vision but ignored it. I knew I’d have to face whoever it was on the way back. And there she was: her grandma, who’d passed two years earlier. She just looked at me, I smiled back, then went to bed.
I tried telling my ex the next day, but she hates when I bring up things like that, so I never mentioned it was her grandma Chuy. I brought my rosary and put it on the living room shelf.

That same night I woke up again, this time she was in the bedroom. She smiled at me, I smiled back, and that was the last time I saw her. Idk why but I’m guessing she just wanted me to bring faith back into my ex’s life, even just a little bit.

A few hours after my mom [passed away] (self inflicted) I went to my baby sister's(14) and climbed in bed next to her, neither of us could speak. We just laid in silence, in the dark. Then clear as day I heard our mom say “I love you girls. Goodnight.” And I just held my breath. After a few minutes, my sister asked “what did you just say?” And I was hesitant bc in those few seconds in between I had convinced myself she didn’t hear it and that I was just grieving/in shock. So I answered her “I said I love you.” She said…. “You sounded just like mom.” I didn’t respond. She spoke again and said “why did you say you girls? With an S.” I told her that I was just tired. First thing out of her mouth the next morning? “I know that wasn’t you. You heard her too. Mom said she loves us.” I think she’s right.

As a nurse working night shifts on long term care/dementia unit, I would see people standing in the doorways of the patient rooms, when I would go to the room, the patient would be soundly sleeping in bed. Anytime this happened, a patient would pass sometime in the next 24 hours. Happened at least 10 times in the 2 years I worked there.

I just moved to this house about 2 or 3 months ago now
1. Hearing someone walking around;
2. Doors being open or shut when I know for sure I left it open or closed;
3. Saw someone walk behind me while I was doing the dishes.

All of this could totally be explained I am a paranoid person BUT THEN one day in the bathroom I saw my hairbrush in front of my eyes slowly turn and pointing at me with the end. Since then I have not been talking to myself but to now my ghost roomie.

I was about 14 or 15, asleep. Felt myself being shook awake. I'm thinking it's like my mom or dad waking me up for school. My eyes fly open to the face of a man I have never seen in my life! I was so terrified I was frozen silent. I closed my eyes thinking something terrible was going to happen to me. But nothing does. I open my eyes, the man is gone. I couldn't shake his face from my mind for a long time. I chalked it up to some sort of dream.

At 19, still living with my parents, my bf of the time was spending the night. He stayed in the guest room. Woke up that next morning and he was looking at me funny. I asked him what was wrong. He then said "Why didn't you tell me your house was haunted?" I'm looking at him like 😐 whaddu mean? He then describes in detail the same man I saw those years earlier.

When I was pregnant with my daughter my ex husband & I stayed with people at the time before moving into our house & every single night I would wake up panicking & crying because I would see people standing over us watching us sleep. This happened every single night until we moved out. Sometimes it would be one person. Sometimes it would be a whole family just standing over us watching us sleep. It traumatized me so bad that I can't watch scary movies anymore & I used to LOVE scary movies.

My room in the apartment where I grew up.Every night, I heard children giggling in the closet. I usually left and slept on the couch.
My grandmother had dementia and my mother moved her in and gave her my room. She lasted two nights. She screamed all night long that children were eating her.
My best man slept over the night before I got married. He didn’t sleep a wink. He heard children laughing all night long.
That night, in the kitchen, something whispered DIRECTLY INTO MY EAR “Bye, Frank”.

When my kids were 4 & 3, they still would usually end up coming into my bed at some point during the night and sleeping there At like 4am my son sat up abruptly which woke me, and looked out in the hallway, and then he got up and went out the door. I figured he had to use the bathroom or get his blankie or something But he went into his room, then down the hall to his sisters room, then came back in and said “mom I can’t find sissy.” And I said “she’s right here buddy look she’s sleeping” and pointed at her in bed with me. And he said “then who was the little girl that just ran down the hall?” And I was like nope nope nope GET BACK IN THE BED FAM We only lived in that house for a few months, haunted as hell.

In 2017 there was a big power outage during summer so everyone in my house was sleeping with their bedroom doors open or in the living room bc it was so hot. Well I was sleeping at the foot of my bed facing the open door and suddenly it felt like someone kissed me but also like the sensation of when you lick the end of a battery. I jolted awake and saw the outline of a person that looked like they were made of electricity. I heard them say “I’m sorry” then walk out of the room. Then a few seconds later my sister in law ran to my room and said she saw someone walk out of my door and into the kitchen then disappear. That wasn't the only weird thing that happened there but it was the most like intense one for me.

I lived in an apt, it was my dearest friend who passed, apt. Once I was doing paperwork and suddenly smelled cigarettes, like someone was smoking next to me. I was home alone. A few days later I was walking through the dining room and smelled patchouli burning. I had no incense. Later my TV turned on to channel 42, we don't get that channel, it was static. These all related to my friend. He smoked, loved patchouli incense and we often watched Buffy on VHS tapes. Buffy aired reruns on 42 then.

When I was 8, my 3 y/o cousin Christina was in the hospital w/ leukemia. My mom also minded a 5y/o named Christina. Our phone rang--1979, landline--My dad picked up expecting bad news. It was a toddler saying hello? Dad asked who it was, she said "Christina" & hung up. My mom called the mom of the girl she babysat to see if it was her. But she was asleep, she didn't know our number, and couldn't reach the phone anyway. We got the call the next morning that my cousin Christina had [passed].

The house I own now had a previous owner whose mom [passed away] in the house. My first night in the house, my babies and I had to sleep in the living room (the second floor was under construction) and when I woke up in the morning, every single cabinet was open in the kitchen and every window in the house was open, including the second floor, in rooms where the window was inaccessible due to the construction. I told that ghost we could cohabitate but that she was never allowed to scare my kids.

My ex and I were in his room at his grandmas house , we KNEW that house was haunted but nothing crazy happened just a feeling until one day we were talking and his hat fell off the wall from its hook and we were both freaked out and I said it’s ok it was probably a small earthquake to lighten the mood then seconds later a stuffed animal FLEW from the inside of his closet and fell in between us across the room and we RAN LIKE WE WERE SCOOBY AND SHAGGY.

Me and my daughter (she was 5 y o at the time) came home to my old apartment once and in the hallway she stopped, looked into the kitchen and said "hi". I said "Who are you talking to? There's just us here". She said "No, someone's in the kitchen. He said hi". A few nights later I was watching TV and the door to the living room just slammed shut. I knew this already before moving in: An old co-worker of mine lived there before me and [passed away] in his bed. He had cancer.

One night when I was a kid I was sitting at my bedroom window with the curtain at my back, watching a thunderstorm. Lightning flashed, and when it faded away I saw a glowing figure with big black holes for eyes standing right in front of me on the other side of the window. Not just for an instant, either. I remember several seconds of direct eye contact before I finally chickened out and came out from behind the curtain. Ever since then I have been totally fascinated by the supernatural.

I was hiking with my mom, and I saw an indigenous woman perched on top of a rock. I could tell that she was a woman because of her curves, but when she looked at me, her face didn't have features. She jumped off the rock and vanished. Mom didn't see her. I wasn't even a kid. I was an adult when I saw this. Once in a while I hear things I can't explain. One time I was in the shower, right after my husband's heart attack. He was still in the hospital. I heard a voice say, "QUE TONTO!"
It means, "How dumb!" I thought it was my grandma as she would lob that one at our brother once in a while and she's been gone for a while. I told my husband about it, and he said, "Pretty sure that was my grandma yelling at me because she couldn't see where I was."

We moved into a new house and after about three months, our boy looked ragged. (He was about 6 at the time)
I asked him what was wrong and he said as if it were completely normal, "The old woman at the end of my bed won't let me sleep."
We never told them that the house used to be a hospice.
I saged the room and he never talked about her again.

Not me but my cousin. He was a security guard at a haunted hotel that had shut down a whole floor in the 50’s because a man [unalived] his wife on it and guests kept reporting seeing her in her red dress. Anyways he decided to walk the full hallway once and he said all the rooms were locked except one which he opened and saw the woman sitting on the bed, she looked at him, he booked it to the elevator, and when the door was closing he saw her walking towards him. He quit that job later that week.