When Have You Encountered “Ghosts” That Were Just Innocent And Easily Explained Things? (Closed)

A few times I went to pee at night, and as I exited, got startled by a black figure that was about a foot away from me. It was just a jacket on a hanger. Scared the heck out of me. You know, it looks like a human figure, so there's no wonder why it was so startling.

So back when my gradma was alive and living in our house she would get up in the middle of the night to check on us. Well one night I was dead asleep the I woke up because I felt like something or someone was watching me. I look towards my door, see it wide open and a black body shape thing standing there not moving not talking at all. Then it walks away I hear it go into my grandmas room then the dots finally line up together. She was just checking up on me. I didn’t have a demon ready to steal my soul!

ok, so plz dont laugh.....
So I was like 5 and every time I went to bed, I would hear footsteps. But then when I got up out of the bed, the footsteps stopped. This freaked me out for 3 years straight, because I thought there was a demon and it wanted to eat my soul. Years later I just realized it was my heart beating against the bed...... ;w;

One time when I was younger, I thought that there was a ghost in my house because I always heard voices from downstairs at night. I was big into ghost stories, and my house is over 100 years old, so I totally thought it was haunted!
Turns out it was just my parets eating desert and watching tv without me. TwT

I kept seeing a black cat in my house out of the corner of my eye. Apparently, my ADHD medicine can cause hallucinations. I thought I was going mad

My mom and I had moved into a newly built house one summer in a quaint neighborhood. There didn't seem to be anything amiss in the home or on the property. For a few months, everything was fine. Then one evening I was laying in bed and heard a slow creak in the attic above me. It was a faint noise so I wasn't sure I'd actually heard anything, but then a few moments later I heard the same faint creak a few feet further down the ceiling line, and then another a few more feet down the attic floor towards the end of the house. There were footsteps slowly and carefully walking across the attic floor above me. It was night and my mom had just gone to bed so I wasn't sure I wanted to wake her so I waited. Nothing. No noises. 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes pass and nothing. I start to relax and then I hear the faint creaks at the end of the house slowly start to walk back across the ceiling towards the area over my bedroom. I'm in a full panic now. At first I thought it might be a ghost, but then I began to fear that someone had gotten into the house during the day and was hiding in the attic above. I slipped quietly out of my room, lept across the hall and woke up my mother. She didn't quite understand what I was trying to urgently whisper as I dragged her into my room. My finger against my lips we sat in the dark, waiting. Nothing. Everything was quiet. Just as I thought I'd lost my mind a tiny faint creak right above our heads. Her eyes got wide as did mine. We listened as the creaks slowly crossed the ceiling again, in the same pathway down the spine of the attic floor towards the end of the house footstep by slow methodical footstep. It stopped once again and she and I rushed downstairs to the living room. We made a plan. She got her firearm and I got a knife. We poised ourselves at the bottom of the attic staircase. Everything was silent as she went up to the attic and I stayed in the hallway. A few minutes passed and she yelled down that there was nobody there. The attic was empty. Just then, the central heat kicked back on and I once again heard the creaking above me. The hot air was expanding the metal vents just slightly as it progressed down the floor of the attic and into the rest of the air vents. When it turned off, the vents began to cool and contract in the same way, only backwards so it sounded like footsteps. That fall evening was the first time we'd used the heat!

My cat once batted at nothing. Probably weird thing cats do though.

Well, I was awake late at night, and looking out my window. I saw a "ghost"- a figure walking that disappeared when they turned the corner. It could've just been a person wearing a white shirt, though.

I'm 67 years old & I still can't hang my hand over the edge of the bed at night because I still believe something might reach up from under my bed & hold my hand.

I'm only 13, so bear with me. My mom has this really creepy jester mask that she pulls out every year, and this year she decided to do something new with it. She brought it out to our car, and put it in that little gap between the window and the door, and it sat there for WEEKS. Every time I go out into the driveway, I see this thing, and it scares the crap out of me (Not literally, but you get the point). She only just put it away a couple days ago, but I still check the window. Plus, she has gotten so many text messages and pictures from her friends that say that they were surprised when they came out of somewhere and saw this thing. It's also hilarious to see the looks we get from strangers on the road, looking at our car, and having their face go white from shock. It's so much fun, I'm going to do this every year!

One time, my sister and I were home alone, and the power went off while it was still daytime. Later, I heard the floorboards creaking, but my sister was right next to me, then, I heard voices. Later, I realized that our house is 100 yrs old and moves, so that was the creaking, and the voices was just the T.V. turning back on because the power came back on.

So my brother got these huge stuffed animals for christmas. I walked to the bathroom in the middle of the night without my glasses in the dark. And I thought I saw a dead body, about the size of my older sister. Who was not home at the time. I got closer and realized it wasn't my sister, but it still looked like a body. I switched off the light really quick to not wake my brother, and it was just a lion.

this was actually very recent. While working on homework, I heard knocking on my window. When I opened the window, I saw a woodpecker fly away. Not sure if it was pecking the window pane for insects or it was fighting it's reflection.

One night, at around 2 in the morning, I woke up to a yowling-scream-thing from outside my window. It sounded animal, almost catlike. Anyway, I was groggy and terrified, and covered my ears. No matter what I did I could still hear it, after what seemed like forever the yowl-screaming stoped, and I lifted my hands of my ears. I heard a moaning sound. it continued, on and of until I fell back asleep. I don’t know for sure, but it was probably a cat fight. I checked in the morning, but there was nothing outside. (I know I was not dreaming because my brother heard it too)

okay, so the night after i watched the first movie of the lord of the ring (yikes that was superrrr long ago, i think i was 8) and i went to bed, i put some tea on and forgot about it, i ended up falling asleep upstaires in my bed.

i wake up to the sound of a faint whistling, that grew louder and louder. i got freaked out because i thought that it was someone whistling as they were coming to kill me. i was young and lived with my fam, so they turned it off, and went back to bed, i got freaked out because it stopped and a couple of minutes later when i got the courage to check on my parents and sisters, they were gone from their beds and i freaked out so much and ran back to bed and i tried to sleep but i couldent so i went under my bed so the whistling man coudent find me and i thought that in the morning i would get up and call the police and i somehow fell asleep under my bed.. i woke up to the sound of my name being called. i thought it was the whistling man and i stayed under my bed. not to long after i heard footsteps and then someone looked under my bed and i screamed but then i realized it was my mom and i was so surprised that the whistling man didnt kill her then she laughed and told me the story and i felt so stupid later XD anyway that was really scary

One time, I woke up earlier than usual, and it was still dark. I get up to turn on the light, and I feel something that feels like hair brush my hand. Human hair. I freaked out and ran the rest of the way to the light switch, flipping it on as fast as I could. It was a cobweb.

Literally every time I go to bed and decide to open my eyes, I see ghosts and demons EVERYWHERE. I don't sleep a lot.

I occasionally see a shadowy figure moving in peripheral vision. As a child my eye was scratched by my pet bird leaving a permanent scar in my eye. Its only visible when the lighting is low enough for my pupil to open up but not too dark. It appears to move because our eyes work in funny ways. We only focus on small areas of our field of vision and our brains fill in the rest.

I got spooked by the reflection of car tail lights once. To be fair, it was right after i got spooked by the bathroom hangy lightswitch thing.

The night before halloween I hung my costume up on my closet door, and so did my sister. But I didn't notice my sister hang hers up and the costumes made a shadow that looked a like a large reptile with long claws. It scared me and I got about 5 hours of sleep only.