“What’s The Creepiest Thing You’ve Ever Seen That Still Haunts You To This Day?” (28 Answers)

When I was younger (7 or 8?) and still lived in Korea, I remember occasionally waking up in the middle of the night from nightmares and yelling for my mom from my bedroom (their room was across my bedroom door). I’d never walk to my parents’ room nor got out of my bed — I only screamed for my mom till she heard me from across the apartment. My mom was always puzzled on why I didn’t simply come over to their bed, despite her constantly letting me know that I’m allowed to.

What she didn’t know was that my nightmares always occurred in my room. And they weren’t just nightmares. And in my room, beneath my bed, there was ALWAYS darkness. “Darkness” wasn’t just a shadow, but it was there physically. And it never spoke, but communicated to me that the moment I left my bed, I’ll be swallowed.

When my son was 5 (he is now 20) my now ex-wife, myself, him and my infant daughter were traveling back from my parents house after dark. They live about 2 hours away. May aunt "R" had recently passed away, maybe 2 months earlier? My son randomly says i see aunt R. We asked him where and he said she was up in the hill watching us. There was a hill at this particular location but there weren't really any lights on it for him to even see a person on it.
Recently, a couple of months ago, I was visiting my mom and she mentioned that around this time she was watching my son, at their house, and he was playing in the backyard. She heard him talking to someone, carrying on a conversation, and when she asked whom he was taking to, he said it was aunt R. She was taking to him as well.

When I was 14 I was living with my dad, stepmom, and baby brother in an old stone farmhouse, like older tan American old. One night my stepmom, baby brother and I were up in my parent's bedroom waiting for my dad to come home. The front door was right below us and consisted of a wooden storm door and an inner wooden door that was about 3 inches thick. We heard both doors open and close and were like, cool, dad's home. But we didn't hear him come upstairs, so I went to the front window to see if his car was there. It was not. My stepmom is a pretty unshakable person, but she locked the bedroom door and wouldn't let me leave until my dad finally came home about an hour later. Still scares me 30 years later.

One time I was sitting and watching friends (I’ve watched that show too many times to count, this was at the time it played in the tv (rerun) and suddenly 3 .. girls? Demons? Ghosts? Appear on the screen and I freak out. I can’t explain the icky feeling it gave me, and I panicked and screamed and had the most creepy unexplainable feeling. My mother and sister didn’t really believe me, but my mother could tell I was afraid.
To this day I have no idea what I saw. My husband says it was probably a Halloween prank played in national tv. It wasn’t Halloween. And no.

Creepy in hindsight, but also still a sweet memory… it was Christmas Eve in the 90’s, and I was 6/7 years old. My 2/3 year old sister and I were sprinkling reindeer feed (oats with sparkles) on the front lawn as my mother supervised us. It had snowed so the night felt extra magical. I looked up in the sky and i saw Santa flying in his sleigh with Rudolph at the front. Santa looked down and waved, both my sister and I started waving back while yelling at my mom that we could see Santa.
Of course I believed I saw this and I talked about it for years. My mother waited until I was 12 (way too old lol) to tell me Santa wasn’t real. But… then what did I see? Was it a dream?
Well, I asked my sister and my mom if they remember. My sister says she does remember seeing him but hasn’t been able to explain it to herself either. My mom, she couldn’t see him but remembered us yelling and waving. I mentioned earlier that my sister was 2/3 years old, but she has an uncanny ability to retain early life memories, which we have confirmed with other family lore.
Upon confirming with my mom and sister, the memory has become a bit more eerie. Like, who or what did we really see? Because to this day I can relive this memory in detail, and what I saw was unmistakably Santa.

My oldest when he was maybe 3 used to talk about a friend called "Katinka" and had a red candle that he was very protective of, and called "Linen". At the time he had no knowledge of Eastern European names, and "Linen" is close enough to "Lenin" that it creeped me out.

Was out the front of my parents house at night with a friend. He was having a smoke while I was chatting away. For about five or seven seconds the whole sky went bright blue. It was like blue daylight everything completely visible but blueish. Along with a high pitch ringing for a couple of seconds. 

We were just staring and then when it suddenly stopped I said hey um did you happen to see and hear that. He said yeah. And that’s all we said about it. 

I messaged him maybe ten years later when I was with friends telling spooky experience stories. Just said hey do you remember that thing we saw can you tell me what you saw and heard. 

He responded with all the details. Freaked all my friends out when I let them scroll through our past messages to prove we hadn’t set it up and actually fell out of touch a fair while ago. .

Not creepy per se, but definitely unexplained. Was riding shotgun with my family through a pretty densely populated area in central Florida, during broad daylight, and looked out the window to see a group of 6-7 people in either colonial or what I can only presume to be 'Amish' (? if I'm rationalizing) dress standing around the narrow strip of grass in front of an operating Burger King restaurant, digging a hole in the ground with a shovel. The man was in a black frock coat and pants and a black wide brim hat, and the women were all in long skirts with kerchiefs and bonnets. Nobody else saw it. The fact that it was on the Burger King property is possibly what perturbs me the most.