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50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain

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For every person who staunchly believes that “ghosts aren’t real,” there are folks who insist that they’ve had paranormal experiences. Humans do love to “explain” things they don’t entirely understand and spirits are, for some, a useful explanation.
We’ve gathered stories from people who insist they’ve had a “paranormal” experience. Do any of them seem real? You be the judge. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the best examples and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments section down below.

#1

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
When I was 10 a horse told me his name was Blackjack so I could put it on the pic I drew of him. The owner saw the pic I left on the fence and asked how I knew his name and I said he told me.
39points

#2

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
My partner woke up to someone holding his finger and saw that there was a baby between us with their other hand on my stomach. That was the first night we were able to sleep after losing our baby
36points

#3

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
This isn’t really scary but I was pregnant, one night I had a dream my grandmother who passed was holding a baby boy they both had a big smile on their face. I miscarried the next day
32points

#4

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
I've had some pretty odd experiences and have assisted some or know people who've had some CRAZY experiences. It's late so I'll just post one that's not all that spoopy, then come back tomorrow to tell more. There was a time where I was at my lowest in my life as a teen and had been waiting by the train tracks. I sat there for a good few hours and watched several trains pass; the moment that I decided that it was it I went to jump into it's path and a man bear hugged me. I cried and fought but he never gave up that embrace. Once I calmed down he sat with me for a while and talked about my tribulations. He walked with me until we had reached the break of the field the tracks were in. When I turned around to say goodbye he wasn't there. I've searched for his face in crowds everywhere I go but have never ran into him again. To this day I believe that he was either a guardian angel, or the remnants of someone who had previously passed in similar feelings/emotions.
31points

#5

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
I have a ghost that leaves me money I’ll be fully broke and just find 20 dollar bills laid out for me around the house💀
29points

#6

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
When my granny passed, I wasn’t allowed back right away, so I peeked into the room and saw my granny’s spirit standing next to her body, with her late husband’s spirit standing next to her
28points

#7

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
I was sitting with a confused elderly patient during a night shift on a unit I’ve never worked on before. Patient starts pointing next to me and says “whose that little girl”…and proceeds to watch something move across the room and then starts leaning over the railing to look under her bed…then she starts giggling and goes “she wants to play hide and seek under my bed”. I mentioned it to the staff who usually work on this floor and they go “oh that happens all the time, all of our elderly patients talk about little kids running around the halls and in their rooms”…
27points

#8

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
Woke up in the middle of the night & looked at the clock. Not time to get up. Rolled over. Saw a see-through lady. She touched my hand & said it’s OK Im a friend of your moms. My mom had died.
25points

#9

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
My friend died in a car accident. My parents said she passed quickly, but I kept having vivid dreams where she showed me how it really happened—and it wasn’t quick. We had lots of deep discussions in my dream. A month later, I told my mom, and she confirmed the details matched the real accident. I still dream vividly about her each year on the anniversary of her death. I’m confident it’s her coming to visit.
25points

#10

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
A few weeks after my 16 year old passed away suddenly, I was doing yoga to pull myself out of my depression. Heard her voice loud and clear “Mom, get up RIGHT NOW.” Industrial steel fan crashed down
24points

#11

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
Not scary but one day when I was lying down alone, I felt a small animal jump onto my bed and little footsteps approaching me, I didn't move because something felt different. The footsteps stopped and then I felt something press against my side, a very familiar shape and weight and the exact spot my old dog used to lay.
24points

#12

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
my daughter died.. I heard a baby crying every night.. never told anyone.. my mom came to help during my sadness.. I found her on the couch terrified hearing the baby cry.. I never seen her so scared
23points

#13

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
My old porcelain doll turned its head and looked straight at me. I was 13 and still believe what I saw really did happen.
22points

#14

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
I was supposed to be a twin, growing up i used to have an “imaginary friend” who would pick on me and she looked like me (i didn’t know at the time i was supposed to be a twin). I remember sometimes crying and being mad and the one time i said “samantha stop!” And my mom said my twins name was supposed to be Samantha. So this girl haunted me as a kid
18points

#15

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
My non verbal autistic daughter is clairvoyant… and she used her communication device to tell me my dad died before I received the call from my mom
18points

#16

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
My dad forgot my 1 year old brother in his high chair. Halfway to church, he realized. When he got back to the house, my brother’s hair was curled into spike just like my dead grandpa used to do.
18points

#17

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
I was sleeping with my daughter in her room. My husband had Covid. I think I was getting it myself but didn’t know it till the next day. Anyways I’m having a hard time sleeping. Sweeting in bed and all. Then all of a sudden I feel the urge to sit up. It felt like someone else was in the room. I just sit up and say no, go away, get out of here. I could tell something was there. I could hear my husband get up to us the bathroom so I got up to check on him. This was late like 1-3am idk. He looks at me and goes my dad just pasted away. He was sick in the hospital for the last 2 weeks. I think it was him coming to check on our daughter then his son in the next room.
18points

#18

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
Xmas morning, opening gifts with my husband and I heard in my head loud and clear, "Enjoy, this is your last Christmas together," and it was. he was caught cheating by a family friend who told my brother who told me. when I was told it gave me the strength to leave, bc I was warned. I divorced him and found out his whole life was lies.
16points

#19

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
As a child I had an imaginary friend named Grandpa Rufus. My mom was convinced it was a ghost in the house but didn’t have proof. We moved shortly after. 20 years later I’m in a whole different country at work and a new coworker comes up to me straight faced and says “Grandpa Rufus wanted me to tell you hello.” He said “you’re followed by the spirits” when I asked him what he was talking about and then never said anything about it again.
16points

#20

50 Stories From People Who Witnessed Things They Can’t Explain
i’d like to give a real one ☝️. my mom, me, my sister, and aunt were playing an ouija board to contact passed away family members. this was in like 2018 when it was a “trend” anyways we contacted a spirit who said he was related to us. they said their initials were KM. we asked if he was on my grandpas side of the family (my moms dad) and they said no, which didn’t make sense because no one else in our family had the last name starting with M besides my moms’ dads side, and her siblings(whom were all well alive). we asked how they died, they said “crash. motorcycle”. we apologized and said that we believed they contacted the wrong family, and disconnected with them. me, my siblings and aunt would all sleep in the living room and have family sleepovers. the next morning outside the living room window my mom was on the phone sobbing. she got a call that her cousin with the initials KM died the night before in a motorcycle accident. (the night we played the ouija board). we put it away and i’ve never played it since. i was always skeptical about ouija boards but that 1000% confirmed it for me.
16points
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