Reality should be fairly stable. The sun rises, day becomes night, objects (generally) stay where we left them. But every now and then, the universe seems to play a few tricks on us. We see things or people that surely should not be there, or experience moments that make absolutely no sense at all. It's almost as if the world has glitched.
Thankfully, there's an online community out there dedicated to "exploring the mysteries of life while staying grounded in wisdom and insight." More than 880,000 people gather in this "rare space" to share personal experiences of the Mandela effect, glitches, déjà vu, reappearing items, astrological phenomena, and more.
From the creepy to the comforting to the downright bizarre, Bored Panda has put together the best posts from the Matrix Mysteries page. Many might leave you questioning some moments of your own reality.
#21
I wonder if anybody else ever saw / experienced this.. when I was walking home from achool with my mum, brother and sister (maybe around 22 years ago) we looked in the sky and saw a ship, like an old style wooden boat with sails.. but from what I can remember it was all white. It was very high in the sky and definitely wasn’t a kite or balloon or anything like this. I can still remember it now and we all watch it and even a man walking past stopped to look. This has been a mystery all these years and we’ve never been able to explain it!
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#22
Most people only know about my NDE but I wanted to share a moment that happened before my NDE.
2007 I lost everything in a house fire at my ex’s home. I got a phone call late at night telling me to rush home, the house had caught fire. My first thought wasn’t about things. It was about the grandmother and my ex girlfriend’s four year old son. When I found out they were safe, I drove as fast as I could, sliding on ice covered roads. Someone even hit me from behind and I told him I couldn’t stay, I had to get home right away.
When I pulled up, it felt unreal. The flames were huge. Firefighters spraying water into what used to be a home. People don’t realize it isn’t just fire that takes everything. It’s the water damage. Everything was gone.
In that house was a small wooden box with a wolf on it. I had kept for years. Inside were birthday cards and personal things I kept from different times in my life. It sat in the closet. I accepted it was gone. Days later I searched through what was left, soaked debris, ash, broken pieces, but it was nowhere. So I had to let it go.
About a month later, while I was still living out of a hotel, I walked out to my car and opened the trunk. And there it was. My wooden box.
I opened it and everything was inside. Dry. Perfect. Exactly how I left it.
I never put it there. There’s no way my ex would have. It was in the closet the night of the fire. I still remember just standing there in shock, trying to make sense of it.
What sticks with me isn’t just the flames or the chaos. It’s that swing from losing everything to feeling overwhelming gratitude for something so small but incredibly meaningful. Some moments stay with you not because you can explain them, but because you can't.
2007 I lost everything in a house fire at my ex’s home. I got a phone call late at night telling me to rush home, the house had caught fire. My first thought wasn’t about things. It was about the grandmother and my ex girlfriend’s four year old son. When I found out they were safe, I drove as fast as I could, sliding on ice covered roads. Someone even hit me from behind and I told him I couldn’t stay, I had to get home right away.
When I pulled up, it felt unreal. The flames were huge. Firefighters spraying water into what used to be a home. People don’t realize it isn’t just fire that takes everything. It’s the water damage. Everything was gone.
In that house was a small wooden box with a wolf on it. I had kept for years. Inside were birthday cards and personal things I kept from different times in my life. It sat in the closet. I accepted it was gone. Days later I searched through what was left, soaked debris, ash, broken pieces, but it was nowhere. So I had to let it go.
About a month later, while I was still living out of a hotel, I walked out to my car and opened the trunk. And there it was. My wooden box.
I opened it and everything was inside. Dry. Perfect. Exactly how I left it.
I never put it there. There’s no way my ex would have. It was in the closet the night of the fire. I still remember just standing there in shock, trying to make sense of it.
What sticks with me isn’t just the flames or the chaos. It’s that swing from losing everything to feeling overwhelming gratitude for something so small but incredibly meaningful. Some moments stay with you not because you can explain them, but because you can't.
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#23
I had a crazy dream about my grandmother who passed 13 years ago. We were very close when she passed and I think of her frequently. I’m no longer sad when I think about her, but rather joyful to reminisce on her memories.
When I remembered the dream the following day, I was overcome with so much emotion, I couldn’t help but cry for a while (I’m not a super emotional person). It felt like she came to me. We were sitting at a long dining table set up outside in a field/woods, surrounded by our family. Her and I were sitting at the end of the table, but I was the only one that could see/hear her. I said to her “everyone probably thinks I’m crazy because it looks like I’m talking to myself”. Within our conversation, she told me that she visits every March because “that’s when all her babies were born” (she never had babies, she adopted my father and his two brothers. She was never open about why she didn’t have kids herself, but I’m wondering if she experienced miscarriages that occurred in March).
At one point I told her I was scared of my life ending and she told me not to be & that heaven is absolutely beautiful. In my dream, she was young (30ish) and healthy (she was very sick for many years). I remember feeling warmth from her, like the sun was shining through her onto me, and that feeling radiated throughout my entire day. The dream felt like a blessing! Would love to hear any similar experiences.
When I remembered the dream the following day, I was overcome with so much emotion, I couldn’t help but cry for a while (I’m not a super emotional person). It felt like she came to me. We were sitting at a long dining table set up outside in a field/woods, surrounded by our family. Her and I were sitting at the end of the table, but I was the only one that could see/hear her. I said to her “everyone probably thinks I’m crazy because it looks like I’m talking to myself”. Within our conversation, she told me that she visits every March because “that’s when all her babies were born” (she never had babies, she adopted my father and his two brothers. She was never open about why she didn’t have kids herself, but I’m wondering if she experienced miscarriages that occurred in March).
At one point I told her I was scared of my life ending and she told me not to be & that heaven is absolutely beautiful. In my dream, she was young (30ish) and healthy (she was very sick for many years). I remember feeling warmth from her, like the sun was shining through her onto me, and that feeling radiated throughout my entire day. The dream felt like a blessing! Would love to hear any similar experiences.
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#24
When I was 7 or 8 I had a reoccurring dream of me flying around our property. I can still feel the pressure on my body from "flapping" to take off. I never saw myself so I dont know if I was a bird or just a kid flapping my arms lol I would just cruise the sky. We had barns and I remember seeing two rocks on the tin roof of one of them. They were the size of a basketball. Fast forward probably 20ish years and the barn had to be torn down so I'm like WAIT!!!!! I NEED TO CHECK SOMETHING!!!! I made them put a ladder in a backhoe bucket to get me up there to look! Sure enough there on the backside of the barn roof were the two rocks!!!! Nobody believed me that I saw them while flying 🤣 But I know. I tried to find the rocks after the demo but as the bottom of the barn was old stone too I couldn't pick out which ones they were!
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#25
So day before the epic blizzard we just had this Sunday. I stopped at the liquor store to get red Mary mix. Each isle has tube lights over the bottles on the shelves. Lots of aisles. I walked up to the first aisle searching. When I walked up the light dimmed. O.k. lights bad. As I walked down the aisle each light would go out and the one on the far end would turn on. As I went to a different aisle the same thing would happen. By now the cashier noticed and another customer who had come down the same aisle. The customer said I was sucking the energy from the lights. It was just strange. I've had where our small chandelier lights in the kitchen and front entry hall explode over my head.
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#26
So I had a very vivid recurring dream for the majority of my childhood (up until I was around 16) that I still think about all the time. It would always just kind of start, or like I would drop in after it already started. It would be me, like real life me at whatever age I was, being dragged up a cliff in the middle of the desert by “aliens”. I feel like the “aliens” appearance changed over time, based on what I thought of them to be as I got older. There was always 4 of them, two holding my arms on either side, one behind us and one at the front. The one in the front always felt like the main one, head honcho or whatever. I would beg and cry for them to let me go, but they always acted like they couldn’t hear me and would just stare straight ahead and keep walking and dragging me along. We would get to the top, and the one in front would turn and look at me, but no one ever spoke or did anything but drag me up this cliff. Then with no warning, they would shove me off the cliff. I would fall for a minute, screaming, and then right before I hit the ground my eyes would fly open in real life. The weirdest part of the whole thing is that every. single. time. I would wake up from this dream, I would be jumping on my bed, and when my eyes opened, my legs would come out from underneath me involuntarily, and I would fall on the bed.
I had this dream frequently, at least once a month, for a LONG time. As I got older it wasn’t quite as often, but often enough for me to always wonder what it could have meant, or what was actually happening.
**Edit, I feel I should add that the last time I ever had this dream was when I was about 6 months pregnant with my son when I was 16. I’ve asked my son if he’s ever had any weird reoccurring dreams/nightmares and he hasn’t, but he did have night terrors when he was a baby. But I can definitively remember the very last time I had the dream was when I was pregnant with him.
I had this dream frequently, at least once a month, for a LONG time. As I got older it wasn’t quite as often, but often enough for me to always wonder what it could have meant, or what was actually happening.
**Edit, I feel I should add that the last time I ever had this dream was when I was about 6 months pregnant with my son when I was 16. I’ve asked my son if he’s ever had any weird reoccurring dreams/nightmares and he hasn’t, but he did have night terrors when he was a baby. But I can definitively remember the very last time I had the dream was when I was pregnant with him.
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#27
My grandma passed away a few years ago. At her funeral my cousin sang over the rainbow because that was always her favorite song. Fast forward a couple of years I check my phone and got the notification that it was my grandma's birthday on facebook along with a recommendation for a video to watch on YouTube for an over the rainbow piano cover. I just thought this was cool, I think she was letting me know she made it over the rainbow somehow.
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#28
I was going to ask my 6 year old if her teacher mentioned any field trips coming up this year, because usually they take at least 1 and I haven't heard about any yet this year. I never asked her the question, yet out of the blue an hour later she answered my question. She said she doesn't know where their field trip will be this year. I asked her why she started talking about field trips out of nowhere and she seemed like she didn't even know why she was talking about field trips either.
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#29
Maybe it's not a glitch but it sure was interesting. Love to hear what y'all think the chances of this happening are? I knocked stuff off the table in my excitement to get the photo. This is my favorite coffee cup. I have 2 of them. We just got back from a lovely dinner with his parents. I made us both a cup of coffee and sat down to watch Andy Griffith. We both love them old shows. He was trying to adjust the volume with the remote and accidentally changed the channel. It was Wheel of Fortune and the start of a brand new puzzle. Neither of us watch the show and haven't seen it in years. 2 letters in, he yells "character". I'm already like "no way"! We both knew what it was going to be and I wanted a photo. I'm amazed that happened. I find it hard to believe that it was just a coincidence
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#30
I'd love to hear if anyone else has experienced seeing a being that resembled static.
My husband and I were watching TV and the cat and dog were on the ottoman in front of us. The animals turned their heads to look towards the entryway. We turned to look and a figure walked by as if it had just come down the stairs to go out the front door.
No noise, no negative feeling, never happened before or since, we both saw it, the animals seem to have seen it but weren't bothered by it.
It's like it was just walking through as if we weren't there. We couldn't see through it, but it looked like the static that used to be on TVs after hours.
It's one of the top strangest experiences I've ever had.
My husband and I were watching TV and the cat and dog were on the ottoman in front of us. The animals turned their heads to look towards the entryway. We turned to look and a figure walked by as if it had just come down the stairs to go out the front door.
No noise, no negative feeling, never happened before or since, we both saw it, the animals seem to have seen it but weren't bothered by it.
It's like it was just walking through as if we weren't there. We couldn't see through it, but it looked like the static that used to be on TVs after hours.
It's one of the top strangest experiences I've ever had.
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#31
I’ve washed all the baby clothes together so many times, but I’ve never ended up with duplicates before. I was totally shocked. And then this morning, my older son walked out wearing a T-shirt that I was sure was still drying on the rack
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#32
I ride a commuter train about an hour each way. I also get emails when the train is running late and the reason for the incident.
Yesterday I received a note that my train that I was on was running 20, min late due to equipment failure. There was no equipment failure. I checked and my train was running on time. I brushed it off as the person sending notices must have reported on the wrong train.
I looked at my watch 2 stops from mine, on time.
When I arrived to my stop (without any equipment failure), we were in fact arriving 20 minutes late.
(Important to note-the 'time between the 2 stops is 10 minutes). Somehow I consumed 30 minutes in a 10 minute run.
Then this morning, while on my bus approaching my work, I looked at my watch and noted the time. A few seconds later the bus started to turn the corner and we were almost T-boned by someone blowing the stop sign at the corner. It was quite the fright for those of us in the path of the car looking out the window. Fortunately the bus driver was savvy and we stopped in time.
I got off the bus and my watch was missing. I never felt it come off.
I got to my desk and was telling someone about this and my watch fell out of my sleeve, which I had checked several times!!! It literally disappeared for a few minutes.
So weird.
Yesterday I received a note that my train that I was on was running 20, min late due to equipment failure. There was no equipment failure. I checked and my train was running on time. I brushed it off as the person sending notices must have reported on the wrong train.
I looked at my watch 2 stops from mine, on time.
When I arrived to my stop (without any equipment failure), we were in fact arriving 20 minutes late.
(Important to note-the 'time between the 2 stops is 10 minutes). Somehow I consumed 30 minutes in a 10 minute run.
Then this morning, while on my bus approaching my work, I looked at my watch and noted the time. A few seconds later the bus started to turn the corner and we were almost T-boned by someone blowing the stop sign at the corner. It was quite the fright for those of us in the path of the car looking out the window. Fortunately the bus driver was savvy and we stopped in time.
I got off the bus and my watch was missing. I never felt it come off.
I got to my desk and was telling someone about this and my watch fell out of my sleeve, which I had checked several times!!! It literally disappeared for a few minutes.
So weird.
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#33
My dad passed away very suddenly in August 2021. I NEVER believed in anything like this but since he passed away, every single day I get my phone out randomly to check whatever , news etc .. WHENEVER I look at the time randomly it sure is 13:06 . My dad was born on the 13th of June . Almost 5 years and without a doubt i just randomly check my phone at 13:06...every single day
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#34
My uncle was amazing. He had worked for Disney in Florida for several years, and retired in the late 90s after a long career at Epcot. He and my aunt lived in that area and their house had Disney memorabilia, and we’d come home from vacations with all the Disney merch you’d want. For as long as I can remember, he wore khaki pants and a polo. By the time he passed away at about 80 years old just a few years ago, his hair was grey/white. My parents and I went to DisneyLand in California this past summer. We had spent the day exploring and going on rides, and by early evening were exhausted. I was tired and a little moody hy that point , and walked ahead of my parents for a few minutes. I saw an older gentleman standing by himself. He was wearing khaki pants and a striped polo. He had grayish hair and when he turned around, he looked at me, put his hands on his hips like he was waiting for me, and smiled. I thought “wow that guy looks like my uncle.” His family had returned from whatever they were doing, and they walked away, and that was that. I didn’t mention it at all. About ten minutes later, my parents and I were cooled off and walking together. My mother asked me if I had seen an older man that looked just like my uncle. My father chimed in and mentioned that he froze when he saw the man. We literally felt like we’d seen a ghost , but in the most peaceful sense.
Jo Ann Ferreri-Carr:
Well if he walked away with his family like you said how is that a spirit? I'm not saying that in that moment your uncle wasn't with you I'm saying the guy that looked like him was not a spirit if that makes sence...
Our loved ones passed are always with us watching we are always connected by love trust me, they speak when they have important things to say to their loved ones, perhaps your uncle was saying hi through this man that looked like him- there's many people in this world that look alike too What's important is how it made you feel regardless of what happened....
I sometimes have trouble with realizing when it's a spirit & when it's a person at 1st I'm very logical initially I once wanted to call the cops on a spirit I thought it was a real person my son's informed me that they did not see anyone where I saw them lol
My gut says I think your uncle used that man in a way to let you know he's around you & your family
I have another story on how Spirits work- I was in a situation where I wasn't sure if I was doing the right thing I asked my late father in my mind & all of a sudden this man walks in he acted exactly like my dad & he was sending Italian cookies from my dad's favorite bakery to his brother in Ca. Exactly like my dad did Happily many times it was uncanny & I felt this peace come over me & it said its all ok ....
I have trouble believing most of the posts on here lol but yours made me feel like responding I hope I could shed some light for you...
Jo Ann Ferreri-Carr:
Well if he walked away with his family like you said how is that a spirit? I'm not saying that in that moment your uncle wasn't with you I'm saying the guy that looked like him was not a spirit if that makes sence...
Our loved ones passed are always with us watching we are always connected by love trust me, they speak when they have important things to say to their loved ones, perhaps your uncle was saying hi through this man that looked like him- there's many people in this world that look alike too What's important is how it made you feel regardless of what happened....
I sometimes have trouble with realizing when it's a spirit & when it's a person at 1st I'm very logical initially I once wanted to call the cops on a spirit I thought it was a real person my son's informed me that they did not see anyone where I saw them lol
My gut says I think your uncle used that man in a way to let you know he's around you & your family
I have another story on how Spirits work- I was in a situation where I wasn't sure if I was doing the right thing I asked my late father in my mind & all of a sudden this man walks in he acted exactly like my dad & he was sending Italian cookies from my dad's favorite bakery to his brother in Ca. Exactly like my dad did Happily many times it was uncanny & I felt this peace come over me & it said its all ok ....
I have trouble believing most of the posts on here lol but yours made me feel like responding I hope I could shed some light for you...
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#35
So my husband and I are grabbing gas at our local Sam's Club and we are driving by not quite pulling in. I look over at the pumps from the side road that runs along the pumps, and I'm like frack there are a ton of people there. Must be worried about the gas prices going up. We get to the pump and maybe 10 seconds have passed and there are 3 cars at the station. My husband looks over at me comfused and says "wait weren't there just like 15 cars there?" And I'm like, I thought the same, where did they all go? There are two exits from the station and we drove through one of them. There is zero way that many cars could have filled up, had the cars behind them pump gas, and all left in the time it took us to turn a corner.
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#36
So weird thing happened today. I was training a new kid at work and we were talking about cars cause he likes them. Whatever, anyway. I was talking about the mustang Mach E suv. Talking about the doors and that there wasn’t any door handles, it’s just a button cause it’s an electric car anyway. He’s like, like that? I look out the window and it’s just in drive thru. It’s just weird, I was talking about it and it just pops up in drive thru
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#37
I've had this pack of highlighters for years. Yesterday I gave a patient her appointment slip and I remember opening this pack and taking out the yellow one to highlight her next visit. Today I open the drawer where I keep them and there was an extra yellow one out of the pack. I dont know where this extra one came from. And I keep this drawer locked overnight. Made me freeze when I slid it open and it was laying next to the closed pack
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#38
My mother gave me a memory box 15 years ago with childhood photos, newspaper clippings, trinkets and various little things from over the years. I am 49 with my own children and I cherish that box and I have gone through it countless times. I have emptied it and shown the items to my kids, my husband and friends many times. Yesterday this happened. I was speechless. As a child I had this ceramic jewelry box with a lid. I was devastated when the bottom broke so I kept the top. It was in my room until I moved to college. I dont remember if I inherited it or who gave it to me, it was just always in my room. Now I have two identical tops of that ceramic box... I called my older sister, she remembers the box, she remembers the bottom part had broken. She doesn't know if there were two. I called my mom, she is baffled. I am in awe of the things that have no explanation. It stopped me in my tracks. I have a twin brother and a part of me wonders if in a different timeline, I had a twin sister instead and we had matching jewelry boxes.
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#39
I purchased a book written by someone from my hometown. It was delivered at the beginning of the month. I have two places I put my books: either on the bookshelf [imagine that] or beside my bed on the floor with some stuff that sits between the bed and the nightstand. Nowhere else. I’ve spent the past two days looking EVERYWHERE for this book. I couldn’t find it anywhere. I was on the phone with two different people who experienced my frustration in trying to find it. I pulled the books off the bookshelf to see if maybe it fell behind. I looked here. I looked behind here. I read each individual spine because I didn’t know the color and thought maybe it was being overlooked. Friends… I got off the phone with one best friend whilst looking everywhere for this book. Got on the phone with another, walked into the bathroom [directly to the left of the bookshelf], came back out, and the red spine caught my eye. NO ONE ELSE WAS HOME. Just me, within a matter of minutes. And the spine is red? My mind is blown. I can’t fathom what happened. It was not there. You can see that. And then… ??? And it was tightly squeezed onto that shelf. Everything else is identical. What just happened!?
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#40
The other day I found a dog treat in my car. I don't have a dog. I've had my vehicle for over a year. No one rides in it. It's literally just me and my kids. I have cats but no dog. It's one of those greenies tooth brush dog treat things. It has no teeth marks on it. Don't even try to give rational answers because there's not one. A ghost dog or a timeline glitch. Something crazy! * I don't go anywhere. I don't have any friends. I don't have a partner. My kids are homeschooled and have autism, they're with me 24/7 . We didn't go anywhere for anyone to put it in the car. My car is in a locked gate.
Robert Chauncey:
Was stuck under the seat from previous owner and it finally worked its way out
Sara Toussaint:
Many years ago, I had a brand new, shiny silver key turn up in a brand new, sealed box of Pampers. It was one of the large, long keys (for a main door) so not really a small thing. I went through all the possible explanations in my mind. I had just come out of a painful breakup and was on the verge of starting a new college course. I would have loved to believe that this key was sent to me by the universe to represent new beginnings and the start of something fresh and exciting.
However, the reality is that the key somehow got dropped in there, lost by a factory worker, maybe on the production line or similar. It's an improbable explanation but entirely possible.
I still have the key all these years later because the whimsical side of me hopes that one day I'll come across a secret door or chest and my key will be the only thing that can open it. I've lost many of my day-to-day keys that I actually need whilst holding on to this one that is as shiny as the day it was cut. Meanwhile, somebody out there will be recounting the story of when they got sacked from the Pampers factory for misplacing the new master key
Robert Chauncey:
Was stuck under the seat from previous owner and it finally worked its way out
Sara Toussaint:
Many years ago, I had a brand new, shiny silver key turn up in a brand new, sealed box of Pampers. It was one of the large, long keys (for a main door) so not really a small thing. I went through all the possible explanations in my mind. I had just come out of a painful breakup and was on the verge of starting a new college course. I would have loved to believe that this key was sent to me by the universe to represent new beginnings and the start of something fresh and exciting.
However, the reality is that the key somehow got dropped in there, lost by a factory worker, maybe on the production line or similar. It's an improbable explanation but entirely possible.
I still have the key all these years later because the whimsical side of me hopes that one day I'll come across a secret door or chest and my key will be the only thing that can open it. I've lost many of my day-to-day keys that I actually need whilst holding on to this one that is as shiny as the day it was cut. Meanwhile, somebody out there will be recounting the story of when they got sacked from the Pampers factory for misplacing the new master key
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