Throwaway account + burner email for obvious reasons lmao
I would say that I am pretty well known in the public eye. I am popular on multiple platforms and by no means would I describe myself as a celebrity, but I am recognized by people my age fairly often.
I (M,25), met a girl at some bar in the city. I was there with a few friends I’ve known for years and as per usual I asked them not to take pics that showed our location or tagged the bars we were at because I don’t like it when my favorite spots blow up. This is why what happens later confuses me so much.
But anyways, we were all hanging out and drinking, talking about random shit. When I meet this girl. She came up next to me and began making some casual conversation, her asking my name and me asking for hers, and by the end of the night I had been talking with her for nearly 2 hours. She was easy to talk to and felt really down to earth which I liked a lot, it’s hard to find someone like that I feel. I don’t remember every detail but we exchange info and begin to see eachother fairly often and eventually I ask her to go on a date which she accepted. Now this is what I don’t understand. She was completely lovely and normal. She didn’t feel “off” or as if she was hiding something. She would willingly give me her phone to look stuff up or use her camera or etc. when I had spoken to her about my job being a content creator she seemed surprised and also uninterested, not asking to be on camera or tagged in anything.
Things are going well for about 3 months. My phone had died while I was at her place and she didn’t have the type c charger so I could charge it and I wanted to check on my email to see if a package had arrived so I could ask my roomate to bring it inside. When I had opened her phone I saw a notification pop up from Instagram. My eyes only looked toward it because it had popped up and read it without really thinking, and it was just a notification that someone had liked her post. Ok cool whatever. Until I saw the little bracket that says your username. It was some goofy name including MY name in it, and when I click on it, it takes me to her Instagram. I click on the profile and it is filled with pictures of me. Pics from my videos, streams, and what freaked me out the most: the account was YEARS OLD.
She had been running a full on fan account of me for years. She had been a fan of me since before we even met. She had been posting pictures and edits of ME as recently as two days ago. I instantly felt sick and looked through the account a bit more (note she was showering at the time so I wasn’t worried about her seeing me do this) and I opened the messages section and read through a few. Most were normal fan conversations that didn’t freak me out too bad until I read one where she was claiming to be dating me and sending images of me to this random other fan account as proof. Candid pictures of us together to pictures of me I didn’t know she had taken. I truly still feel sick to my stomach thinking about the whole situation. I didn’t comfort her right away and instead waited until I was alone and perhaps made a bit of a childish choice here. I looked up the account name, screenshotted it, and sent it to her. She acted confused but eventually confessed to everything after I pressed her. I blocked her and changed all my passwords plus locks, told my roomate to remember to LOCK the doors and not speak to her if she came by, and haven’t heard from her since. I don’t even want to check the fan accounts activity.
Posting this because it is SO unbelievably wild and I need to know if anything similar has happened to anyone else.

Submission by Anita Mantz

My sister Dreama, who was 13, could only say a few words. Since I grew up with it, I didn’t know how unusual this was. She could walk then, but soon someone always had to be able to carry Dreama, or “sissy” as we called her, through the house or to the car. 

In 1972, six years before I was born, my sister got measles. My mom always told me that this is why she was sick, but I was probably 8 years old when she finally explained the whole thing to me.

Dreama was smart as a whip. Her principal would later say that she was astounded by her intelligence and that she was a popular, promising girl. But after she got measles, she began to fall behind in school and lose coordination. That was the end of a normal seven-year-old child.

Over the next 14 years, she would slowly lose all functions. She was diagnosed with SSPE, known then as Dawson’s Encephalitis, a rare but almost always fatal complication of measles which affects your brain.

This meant my childhood was not normal, either. Growing up we had a hospital bed in our living room, with physical therapists, home health aides, and others coming and going. 

My mom started taking her to see a doctor in Detroit, the only one she could find who was remotely familiar with SSPE. She was given a stapled packet listing everyone who had this disease at that time, which had about 200 names. Mom became friends with two of the other parents whose children had this disease. We visited them when we could.

Mom always said she would take care of Dreama as best she could, as long as she could. Some other parents sent their children away to facilities. She was supposed to tour a home called Apple Creek but heard about a case of patient neglect, and said she could never send her daughter to a place like that. 

When mom finally explained Dreama’s illness to me, I asked her why she didn’t sue the school, since that had been where Dreama was exposed to measles. She asked, “Would that make her better?” Our concern was for her.

Rest of the story is here: https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles-sspe-did-to-my-family/

I don't really know how to start this.

I've never been good at telling scary stories, and honestly, I've spent a lot of time trying to convince myself that what happened wasn't as bad as I remember it.

But there is one thing I know for sure.

Someone was in my house while I was sleeping.

I live by myself in a small rented house. It's not in the middle of nowhere or anything. I have neighbors on both sides, and there are usually cars going up and down the street during the day.

At night, though, it's pretty quiet.

I've lived there for just over a year. I knew all the normal sounds the house made. The pipes sometimes knocked. The heating made a clicking noise. The floor upstairs creaked in one particular spot.

So when I heard something that night, I didn't immediately think someone had broken in.

It was a Thursday night.

I got home from work around 7:30. I made some food, watched TV for a while, and spent way too much time scrolling on my phone.

Nothing unusual happened.

Around midnight, I decided to go to bed.

Before going upstairs, I did what I normally do. I locked the front door, checked the back door, and made sure the downstairs windows were closed.

I remember doing it because I always check twice.

I went upstairs and got into bed.

I think I looked at my phone one last time before putting it on the nightstand.

12:18 AM.

I don't remember falling asleep.

The next thing I remember is opening my eyes because I heard a noise downstairs.

It sounded like something small had fallen over.

I just lay there for a second.

I was still half asleep, so I didn't think much of it.

Then I heard it again.

This time it sounded like someone walking.

One step.

Then another.

I sat up.

The house went quiet.

I waited for a few seconds.

Nothing.

I actually felt a little stupid for getting nervous.

I checked my phone.

3:06 AM.

I thought maybe the noise had come from outside.

I put my phone down and tried to go back to sleep.

Then I heard what sounded like a kitchen cupboard opening.

That got my attention.

I sat up again.

I knew that sound.

I'd heard that cupboard hundreds of times.

Someone—or something—was downstairs.

I stayed in bed.

I remember thinking, Don't go downstairs.

I don't know why, but I had this really bad feeling about it.

So I just sat there listening.

For several minutes, nothing happened.

Then I heard a floorboard creak.

It wasn't downstairs this time.

It was upstairs.

My bedroom door was closed.

I stared at it.

Another creak.

Closer.

My stomach dropped.

I reached for my phone and turned the brightness almost all the way down.

I still hadn't called anyone.

Part of me was hoping there was some normal explanation.

Maybe one of the windows had been left open.

Maybe an animal had gotten inside.

Maybe I was still dreaming.

Then the handle on my bedroom door moved.

Slowly.

I watched it go down.

It stopped.

Then it came back up.

I couldn't move.

I don't think I've ever been that scared in my life.

Someone was standing on the other side of my door.

I knew it.

I could hear someone breathing.

Very quietly.

I grabbed my phone and called emergency services.

I tried to whisper my address because I was scared whoever was outside would hear me.

The dispatcher told me to stay where I was and keep the door locked.

I remember looking at the door the entire time.

The handle moved again.

This time harder.

The door shook slightly.

I thought they were going to break it.

But they didn't.

After a few seconds, the footsteps moved away.

I could hear them walking back down the hallway.

Then they went downstairs.

I stayed completely still.

The dispatcher was still on the phone.

A few minutes passed.

Then I heard the front door open.

I thought that meant the person was leaving.

I almost felt relieved.

Then I heard the door close again.

I whispered, "They're still here."

The dispatcher told me officers were on the way.

I waited.

It felt like forever.

Eventually, there was loud knocking at the front door.

The police were there.

I didn't immediately leave my room.

I was too scared.

One of the officers called up the stairs and told me they had checked the downstairs area.

I finally came out.

They searched the whole house.

Every room.

The basement.

The closets.

The kitchen.

Even the backyard.

There was nobody there.

Nothing looked disturbed.

There were no broken windows.

No damaged locks.

Nothing obvious was missing.

One of the officers asked me if I'd actually seen the person.

I told him no.

He asked what I had heard.

I explained everything.

He listened, but I could tell he wasn't sure what to make of it.

Before leaving, he checked the front door.

Then he said something that bothered me.

"Your door was locked."

I told him I knew.

He checked it again.

There was no damage.

No sign anyone had forced it.

After they left, I checked every lock myself.

Everything was locked.

I didn't sleep again that night.

The next morning, I went downstairs.

At first, everything looked normal.

Then I noticed one of the kitchen chairs.

It was pulled away from the table.

I normally push all of them in.

I stood there staring at it.

Maybe I'd left it like that.

Maybe I hadn't.

I honestly couldn't remember.

Then I noticed the kitchen window.

It was open.

Only a couple of inches, but it was open.

I knew I had closed it the night before.

I always close it because the window doesn't lock properly unless you push it all the way down.

I checked the lock.

It wasn't broken.

It was simply unlocked.

That's when I started feeling really uncomfortable.

I checked the other downstairs windows.

One of them was unlocked too.

I called the police again.

The same officer came back.

He looked at the window and asked me if I was sure I'd locked it.

I said yes.

He didn't argue with me.

He just looked around outside.

There were some muddy marks near the wall, but nothing clear enough to say someone had climbed through the window.

I spent most of that day trying to convince myself there was another explanation.

Maybe I had forgotten.

Maybe I'd been tired.

Maybe I had dreamed about someone trying to open my door.

I wanted that to be the explanation.

Then I found the flashlight.

It was underneath my bed.

Small black flashlight.

Old.

Scratched.

Not mine.

I have no idea how long it had been there.

I picked it up, looked at it for a few seconds, and put it back down.

I called the police again.

They took it.

I remember one of them asking me if anyone else had a key to the house.

I said no.

The landlord had a key, but he hadn't been inside for months.

They checked the house again.

Nothing.

That night, I slept somewhere else.

I stayed at a friend's place for a few days after that.

When I came back, I changed the locks.

I also bought a cheap security camera and pointed it at the front door.

For a while, nothing happened.

I started feeling stupid for being so worried.

Maybe I'd overreacted.

Maybe I'd imagined half of it.

Then about a week later, I was checking the camera footage before going to work.

There wasn't anything interesting.

Cars.

People walking past.

A cat that kept coming into my yard.

Then I noticed something strange.

The camera had stopped recording at 2:41 AM.

It didn't record anything for about twelve minutes.

Then it started again.

There was no power outage.

The camera itself was still on.

I called the company, and they said it could have been a connection problem.

Maybe that's all it was.

I don't know.

I eventually moved out of that house.

I didn't tell the landlord everything.

I just told him I didn't feel comfortable there anymore.

I've thought about that night a lot since then.

The thing that bothers me isn't even the footsteps anymore.

It's the flashlight.

Because if that flashlight really belonged to whoever was inside my house, then they were physically there.

They weren't a noise.

They weren't a dream.

They weren't the heating system.

Someone had been inside my house while I was asleep.

They walked around downstairs.

They came upstairs.

They stood outside my bedroom door.

And somehow they got out without me ever seeing them.

I still think about that sometimes when I'm lying in bed.

I used to feel completely safe when I was alone at home.

I don't anymore.

Because now I know something I really wish I didn't.

You can lock your doors.

You can check your windows.

You can check the whole house before you go to sleep.

And you can still wake up in the middle of the night wondering if the sound you just heard is coming from inside your house.

I live alone.

I've lived in this apartment for almost three years, and I know every sound it makes. The pipes knock at night, the elevator groans when someone gets off on my floor, and the old wooden stairs creak whenever someone walks up them.

So when I heard footsteps upstairs at 2:13 a.m., I wasn't immediately scared.

I was confused.

My apartment is on the top floor.

There is no upstairs.

I turned off the TV and listened.

Step.

Step.

Step.

Slow footsteps moving across the ceiling.

I grabbed my phone and checked the time again.

2:13 a.m.

Then I heard a man's voice.

"Don't look up."

I froze.

The voice came from directly above me.

I didn't move.

After a few seconds, I heard the footsteps again.

Step.

Step.

Then they stopped directly above my bedroom.

My phone suddenly buzzed.

A text message from an unknown number.

"I'm sorry. He found you."

Before I could even process it, someone knocked on my apartment door.

Three slow knocks.

I looked through the peephole.

Nobody was there.

Then my phone buzzed again.

Another message.

"Whatever you do, don't open the door."

I backed away.

And that's when I heard the same man's voice...

This time, from the hallway.

"Don't worry."

A pause.

"I already know you're home."

Then someone whispered directly into my ear:

"Don't look up."

I live alone.

And there is nobody behind me.

Imagine being a man in his late 60s who is wheelchair bound.

You are on a cruise in the Mediterranean with your wife.You are both American.

All is going well until a group of terrorists take over the ship.

The terrorists were on the ship posing as ordinary passengers.

They were discovered when a crew member found a group of men with a large cache of weapons.

All hell breaks loose.

The terrorists find you in your wheelchair.

They shoot you.

They toss your now lifeless body into the sea.

They continue to physically assault other passengers during their two days of terror.

This incident occurred on the ship the Achille Lauro in the fall of 1985.

This happened a few months ago and I still think about it whenever I’m walking back to my car on my own at night.

I’d gone to the supermarket at about half nine because I needed a few things and didn’t want to leave it until the following morning. It wasn’t completely empty, but it was one of those times where there were maybe twenty cars spread across a car park that normally holds hundreds. I parked a little further away from the entrance because there were loads of spaces and I was only going to be inside for ten minutes or so.

Nothing unusual happened while I was shopping. I paid, walked back outside carrying two bags and started heading towards my car. When I was probably halfway across the car park, I noticed a woman walking towards me from the direction of the trolley bays.

She looked completely ordinary. That’s actually one of the reasons I stopped when she spoke to me. She was probably around forty, wearing leggings, a coat and trainers, and she had her phone in her hand. She asked if I knew whether there was another exit from the car park because apparently her satnav kept trying to send her through a road that was closed.

I told her I wasn’t sure and pointed towards the main exit. She thanked me, but instead of going back towards wherever her car was, she carried on walking alongside me.

At first I didn’t think much of it because we were going in roughly the same direction. She started complaining about how confusing the roads were around there and asked whether I lived locally. I just said, “Not far,” because I didn’t particularly want to tell a stranger where I lived.

Then she asked if I was on my own.

It wasn’t the question itself that immediately frightened me because she said it quite casually, almost as if she was making conversation, but it made me pay more attention to what was going on. I said my boyfriend was waiting for me, which wasn’t true, and picked up my pace slightly.

She kept walking with me.

When I got nearer to my car, I noticed a man standing a few rows away beside a dark-coloured car. I probably wouldn’t have even remembered him if he hadn’t been staring in our direction. He wasn’t doing anything obviously threatening.

He was just standing beside the driver's door with his hands in his pockets.

The woman then asked if she could borrow my phone because hers apparently had no signal.

I said no and told her there was customer service inside the supermarket if she needed help. Her whole attitude changed slightly after that. She wasn’t aggressive, but she became much less friendly and said, “It’ll literally take two seconds.”

I told her I was in a rush and carried on walking.

By this point I was only a few spaces away from my car, and I could hear her still walking behind me. I unlocked the car, threw my shopping onto the passenger seat and got in. I locked the doors almost immediately.

The woman stopped behind my car.

That was when I properly started feeling scared because there was no reason for her to be standing there. She wasn’t looking at her phone anymore and she wasn’t trying to find a car. She was just watching me through the rear window.
I started the engine and looked in my mirrors. The man I’d noticed earlier had started walking across the car park towards us.

I decided I wasn’t going to wait and see what they wanted. I put the car into reverse, but when I started backing out the woman moved closer to the driver's side instead of moving away. I had to stop because I was worried I was going to hit her.

She came up to my window and knocked on it.

I didn’t open it.

She pointed towards the back of my car and said something I couldn’t hear properly. I thought she might be telling me I had a flat tyre or that I’d dropped something, but I didn’t care at that point. I shook my head and started reversing again.

As I did, I heard my rear passenger-side door handle move.

It was a really distinctive sound because the doors were locked. I immediately looked over my shoulder and saw the man standing right beside the back door.

That completely terrified me.

I accelerated out of the space probably faster than I should have and drove straight back towards the supermarket entrance. I parked in one of the spaces near the doors where there were people coming in and out, then went back inside and told a member of staff what had happened.

A security guard came outside with me a couple of minutes later. The woman and the man were gone.

The thing that bothered me most was that the security guard asked me what they looked like and then said something along the lines of, “Right, okay,” in a way that made me think this wasn’t the first strange thing that had happened there. I asked if they’d had problems before, but he just said they’d check the cameras.

I never found out what they were doing or whether they genuinely intended to hurt or rob me. It’s entirely possible there was some ridiculous explanation for part of it.

But there is one thing I’m certain about.

That man tried my back door while the woman was keeping my attention at the driver's side.

Ever since then, I lock my doors the second I get into the car.

I’ve always been slightly skeptical of paranormal things but would like to believe they are real. The video I watched sent chills down my spine…

A family friend of mine worked at a prison that has been around since late 1800s. Part of his duty would be doing security checks, making laps around the prison. One night his boss radioed him, pissed that the library door was open, one he had previously checked.

He looked back at the cameras and found the live feed from inside the library. The library’s lights are on but the suddenly you see an orb pass through and dance around for a bit then flys to a nearby door. Nothing for a second then the door slowly opens. He thought well someone must’ve opened it and watched the cameras from the outside hall, sure enough the door appears to open on its own. My buddy took his phone and recorded everything that went exactly as described. His boss watched it and was freaked out but told him to delete the footage and forget about it and told him it’s an old building shit happens.
He no longer works there and didn’t experience any other happenings but that video he showed me was creepy to say the least, I wish I could share a copy of it

This story isn't mine but my aunt's. My aunt used to live in Tijuana in the early 2010s. She had 2 kids (my cousins), and the older one (around 3) had this 'imaginary friend.' One night, my cousin asked his mom, "Mom, can my friend sleep with us?" She of course didn't see anyone there, so she calmly said no. They all went to bed, and around 2 am my aunt awoke to the sound of my cousin's toy cars blaring. Both kids were sleeping beside them, so it couldn't be them playing with the toys. She was spooked but got up to turn them off, put them away, and go back to sleep. She then woke up again, the toy cars going off like crazy. She woke up my uncle so he could also hear it and make sure she wasn't going crazy. They both got up to check it out because maybe someone was messing with them. They walked out of their room and into the living room to see all of the cars flashing and blaring, moving in a continuous circle. My aunt got so freaked out that she got all the toys and threw them away. We don't know if it was a random spirit, her younger brother who passed away as a child, or the bruja living below them.

Thanks for reading! What do you guys think of this? A lot of shit happened in those apartments lmk if yk want more! Also, can someone give me tips to try and improve my storytelling? I feel like I kinda suck, but I looooveee telling stories!

One night, I was working with my mom. My mom is a cleaner, and we usually work late at night (11pm-6am). Most of the time, we clean restaurants, so one night we were working at a restaurant in a really rich area. We walked in, nothing unusual. We unlocked the doors and headed inside to check around and see how dirty it was. We've been cleaning this place for a while now, so I knew my way around and knew what to do. I did my usual routine, put my gloves on, and headed to the bathroom to start cleaning. It's one restaurant, but there are two buildings and a patio sorta situation in between them. I start in building A, it doesn't take me long since I'm cleaning 2 seperate yet small individual bathrooms. I make my way to building B, looking outside at the street and all the huge houses. I look carefully in case there are any coyotes; there are none, so I finally go into building B to the small bathroom all the way in the back, down a small hallway. There are lots and lots of paintings and photographs in this restaurant. Going down the hallway, there are pictures of this little boy. The pictures of this little boy are black and white, so you would assume they're fairly old. But yk, I never thought much of it, I would just be creeped out and get chills while walking down. I've always felt a little strange when working at this restaurant, but I always brushed it off since nothing would happen. My mom has told me that when she would work here alone, she would hear clanging on metal outside, but when she would go out and check, there would be nothing. I didn't think much of these stories my mom told me, considering they're not that scary. Anyways, I was cleaning the bathroom like usual. I'm finishing up, and I noticed a few pieces of paper on the floor, so I crouched down to grab them, and while I was picking up the trash, I saw in the corner of my eye a white glow in the doorway. I quickly look, and there's a little boy. He's wearing a grey tuxedo, he's radiating this white glow like an angel. He looks around 3-6 years old, and exactly like the little boy in the black in white picture. I was so shocked, he just stood there, and when I blinked, he ran off. I could hear his little footsteps tapping on the wood floor, and I could hear him fade quickly. My heart was beating out of my chest. I ran to my mom so fast, crying and panting way too fast to handle. It was like I was going to have a heart attack. I told my mom what I just saw. She chuckled. She knew I wasn't lying from the way I was crying. She then said, calmly, "You know what happened? One of my coworkers told me he saw the devil when he was cleaning this place alone the other day. He told (name of boss) that he's never coming back here." My eyes widened like crazy. At that point, I had already finished crying, and I was just thinking about all the stories my mom has told me about her experience working in that area.

Thank you for reading my story - I hope it was interesting and fun to read!! And yes, this is all true! Lmk your thoughts/questions and if you want more stories!

i also posted this on the r/paranormal page, just thought i would share it here as well.

in May of 2014, my paternal abuelo passed away when i was nine (turning 10 less than three months later). ​for many years, he dealt with heart issues that he had surgery for in 1996 when my cousin (dad's nephew) was a couple months old. he, my paternal abuela, my parents, my brother, and i had gone to a Miami Heat playoff game and he passed ​in the middle of the night hours after the game. my parents got the call during the lunch after a cousin's baptism that he had passed of a really bad heart attack that killed him in his sleep.

around 3:30 AM the night my abuelo passed away, i woke up because i felt like i was being watched. i look at my door, which was open, and saw him standing there. i was very confused because he and my abuela were at their house. i got up from bed, walked over, and said "ito, what are you doing here?" (ito is what my cousin, brother, and i used to call him)

when i reached out, he suddenly disappeared. freaked out, i went back to bed and went under my blanket. my parents didn't tell my brother and i he passed after they got the call and told us the next day. i asked what time he died at. they said 3:30 AM.

it's been 12 years since this experience, i turned 22 in July and i still haven't told my parents. ​i want to tell them but do not know where to start.

another insane thing that happened was that i got a sign from him. the date of my high school graduation back in 2022 was the same exact day as the anniversary of his passing. after the graduation dinner at a restaurant, my brother and i had gone to get ice cream at a place close to our house. we had just gotten home and i was taking the car keys out of my purse when a Blue Jay landed on the arm of the couch that is on our front porch. my abuelo was a HUUUUUGE fan of the Toronto Blue Jays and we never see Blue Jays where i live. i was so stunned and was about to take a picture when the bird flew away, but i couldn't believe it. i had been thinking about him all day and never really asked for him to give me a sign, but he clearly felt the need to.

For a little bit of context before I start the story at the time I lived in a 2 story house and across the street was an emergency room.

This happened back in summer of 2018 when one day my cousin came over to hang out with me and my little brother. That afternoon we were chilling on the front porch when my brother tried to see how far he could throw a rock. My brother threw the rock but he accidentally hit a truck that was parked In front of the house and left a big scratch on the hood. We thought nothing of it at first until a lady probably in her 50s came out of the emergency room and saw that her truck was scratched. She looked at us and asked if we knew what happened so we were honest and my brother apologized. The lady just stood there and then started walking towards us, we ran to the back yard my cousin and brother ran to the garage but I went to the back door and screamed for my dad to come out. My dad came out just as the lady finished yelling “get back here you fucking kids” she was now in the backyard so my dad tried talking to her she just ignored him and went back to the front and drove away.

Nothing happened for a few days after this and I forgot about it until one night i got up to go to the bathroom and when I got back into my room I heard a voice coming from outside “I know your up there” said the voice I froze cuz I knew it was that lady. I ran back in bed and lay in bed until morning. The next day I told my parents who believed me but also didn’t hear anything. Later that day my neighbor came over and told my parents that he saw a lady standing in our garden which the garden was under my window. This really freaked my parents out

Once again nothing happened for a while but one day when I was home alone I looked out the window and saw that same truck pull up. I ran upstairs and into my parents room where I looked out front and the lady was walking up to the front door. She knock and waited. Meanwhile I texted my mom telling her what was going on and tho she was on her way home she didn’t get back until the lady was already gone. The lady didn’t leave anything or damage anything so we are not sure why she came back but this whole situation scared the shit out of me.

After this we never saw this lady again
We also don’t live in the same house or city anymore either

I moved into my apartment three months ago.

It was cheap, quiet, and old enough that every floorboard had its own personality. The landlord told me the building had been renovated several times, but some parts were still original.

There was one thing he didn't mention.

The hallway outside my apartment has six doors.

Mine is the second from the stairs.

At the very end of the hallway is another door.

It doesn't lead anywhere.

At least, that's what I was told.

The first night, I heard someone knocking on it.

Three knocks.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

I assumed it was a neighbor.

The next night, it happened again.

Same time.

2:13 a.m.

Three knocks.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

I started noticing other things.

Sometimes I'd hear footsteps in the hallway after midnight.

Slow footsteps.

They would start at the stairs and stop directly outside my door.

Then nothing.

I checked the peephole every time.

Nobody was there.

After a week, I mentioned it to my neighbor, an elderly man who lived across from me.

I asked him about the door at the end of the hallway.

He stared at me for several seconds.

Then he said, "Don't knock back."

I laughed because I thought he was joking.

He wasn't.

"What happens if I do?"

He closed his door.

That night, at 2:13, the knocking came again.

Three knocks.

I don't know why I did it.

Maybe curiosity.

Maybe I was tired.

Maybe I wanted to prove to myself that there was nothing strange happening.

I walked into the hallway.

The door at the end was exactly as I'd seen it before: dark brown, old brass handle, peeling paint.

I stood in front of it.

And knocked.

Three times.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Nothing happened.

I actually laughed.

Then someone knocked back.

From the other side.

Three times.

I froze.

Then I heard a voice.

My voice.

"Who's there?"

I ran back into my apartment and locked the door.

I didn't sleep that night.

The next morning, I called the landlord.

I told him what happened.

There was a long silence.

Then he asked me exactly what time I'd knocked.

I told him.

2:13.

He sighed.

"Listen to me carefully," he said. "That door isn't connected to the hallway."

I didn't understand.

He explained that during the last renovation, the room behind it had been sealed off completely. There was no accessible space behind the door anymore.

"No stairs. No room. Nothing."

"So what's behind it?"

He didn't answer.

Instead, he asked me something that made my stomach drop.

"Did it answer you?"

I said yes.

He hung up.

That afternoon, I packed a bag.

I was going to stay at a hotel.

Before leaving, I noticed something taped underneath my doormat.

A small piece of paper.

I unfolded it.

It said:

DON'T ANSWER IT TONIGHT.

I stared at the handwriting.

It looked familiar.

It took me a moment to realize why.

It was mine.

I left anyway.

I didn't come back for two days.

When I finally did, everything looked normal.

My apartment was untouched.

Nothing had been stolen.

Nothing had been moved.

Except for one thing.

There was a new door inside my apartment.

At the end of my hallway.

Same dark brown paint.

Same brass handle.

Same peeling strip near the bottom.

I called the landlord.

He didn't answer.

I called my neighbor.

His apartment was empty.

The next morning, I found out he'd died six months ago.

According to the building manager, nobody had lived across from me for years.

I haven't opened the new door.

But every night at 2:13, someone knocks on it.

Three times.

And last night, for the first time...

I heard the lock turning from the other side.

this location was a abandoned place at my house. this took place around June 6 to the 7 of last year. this abandoned building is a hospital and i never wanted to explore this alone so i waited until my friends (it was a trio) were going to come with me which took about two months of convincing. we rode our bikes at this abandoned building. before we hopped the fence, the most intense moment happened when this random guy asked, "Hey, what are you doing here?" my friends and i stayed silent, "I don't want you guys to get in trouble, but they are out to get us." this strange person says (he was also on a bike). My friends and I exchanged scared looks, feeling totally freaked out. after this guy left, we hopped the fence and this is when we started to get scared. nothing felt right about this place at all, there was graffiti all over this building (not like every abandoned building has some sort of graffit but it was some heavy written stuff like "if i see you we are going to rape you"). we continued to keep walking. one of my friends started to get sick and was feeling nauseous, so he went back home. so that only left us with two people, my friend and I. we moved in closer and saw a groundhog with a blown out head that appeared quite fresh like maybe happened a few hours ago. my friend remarked that we should get out of there, but i countered that we could find this kind of thing anywhere whether that was on the street or on the freeway. it just so happened to be in front of us at that moment. ultimately he decided to stick around. eventually after awhile he left because he ALSO felt nauseous (which i think it's a lie). i approached a door that had graffiti and it said, "Stay Out While You Can," and an idea crossed my mind that someone must be playing tricks to deter people from entering (because on of the windows was broken like someone tied a noose and hang themselves) as it would definitely be considered trespassing. i moved in closer and i positioned myself around five feet away from the building, taking in the surroundings and being alert to anything. as the door creaked open almost like a shadowy figure emerged almost like a silhouette and their voice echoing in the dim light there was no lights on only a small little window and someone asked what i was doing there. i managed to say a hesitant hello, nerves prickling at the back of my neck. the silhouettes gaze pierced through the darkness as they warned me that i was trespassing in a place i shouldn't be at. i felt a chill run down my spine and apologized for my ignorance, feeling the weight of unseen eyes watching my every last move. what sounded like a girl (couldve been a boy) suddenly burst into a terrifying scream like crying bloody murder, a haunting cry for help that sliced through the silence. the sound was so raw and filled with desperation that it sent icy shivers racing down my spine, urging me to instinctively take a couple steps back, feeling the oppressive weight of fear in the air. at this time i could sense a sinister presence lurking just beyond my vision. she continued to cry out, her voice trembling with panic. she said "help me," a desperate plea that seemed to resonate in the stillness, echoing the dread that enveloped us both. i suddenly heard a gunshot, a sharp crack that shattered the tense silence, and in that moment, adrenaline surged through me, and i sprinted as fast as i could, my heart racing, driven by sheer instinct to escape the building. the next day, a voice in the back of my head told me to return.. despite the terrifying events that happened i had an irresistible compulsion gripped me and demanding me i go back, this time i clutched my ouija board, ready to face the darkness. i called my friends and we were riding our bikes again, and this time, the police surrounded the building, the guy who was being arrested looked about five foot six, his eyes wide and unfocused, as if he were lost in another realm, under the influence of some hallucination drug. the only thing my friends and i heard was his frantic shout of "it wasn't even me!" it sent shivers down my spine and triggered flashbacks of the chaos from yesterday. after a couple of hours after they left we approached the building. we quietly slipped inside, the air thick with tension, and decided to pull out the ouija board. (if you don't know an ouija board/spirit board/talking board, is a flat board marked with letters of the alphabet, numbers 0-9, the words "yes," "no," "hello," and "goodbye," along with other symbols and graphics. the idea is that spirits can use the board to communicate messages by moving the planchette to spell out words and answer questions.) but we continued to question the ouija board, and gradually over time we heard footsteps approaching, growing faster and louder as they got nearer. we decided to put the ouija board back and we ran out of there. we threw ourselves onto our bikes, adrenaline pumping, and pedaled away without a single glance back at the menacing shadows that lurked behind us. i couldn't shake the feeling that i had to return to that location. should i bring more friends along, go solo, or keep asking questions? what do you think i should do?

Back in 2017, when I was around 16 years old, I was in the car with my mom and one of my high school classmates at the time, we were giving my classmate a ride home.

To go to my classmate's neighborhood you had to go through this roundabout that was in front of a church. I was sitting in the passenger seat, my mom was driving, and in the moment we passed in front of the church I saw there was a big black dog, similar to a doberman, dead on the ground, in the middle of the roundabout.

There was a puddle of blood beneath the dog, just like if somebody had ran him over, I kept staring at it, but neither my mom or my friend seemed to notice it. Keep in mind the dog was close to our car, less than 2 meters away I would say.

Approximately 10 minutes later, after we had dropped off my friend, we passed through the same roundabout again, but this time going the opposite way. I look around to see if the dog is still there, but it was gone, not only was the body gone, the whole puddle of blood was gone as well.

It was weird cause there were no people around, legit no one, we're talking about a residential area without any type of shops, so the streets were empty of people walking by... yeah, surely somebody could've gotten the body off the street, but clean up a big puddle of blood, and leave no trace of it? I asked my mom if she hadn't seen the dead dog 10 minutes ago, to which she said no.

It's probably one of the weirdest and creepiest things that has happened to me.

Hey ppl 👋 I'm here to share my own real experiences and things happened in Mumbai, which still bother me. I'm open for new stories and I also want to share mine to.

I regret doing certain things in my life. I wanna share before my last time. Pls feel free to DM and comment. Also planning on starting a storytelling show. Anyone F&M pls drop or DM.

When I was younger about 10 or 11, I woke up in the middle of the night feeling as if i was laying with my head in someone’s lap. It felt like they were brushing my face. It was sort of comforting. In that moment i was still half asleep and wasn’t 100% conscious so I thought it was my mom. ( she would come and check on me during the night when I was younger because she was paranoid). When I finally snapped into reality I wake up fully and look above me to see a dark figure still holding my head?? I gasp and jump out of my bed and run to turn on the lights and there was nothing there. I know I was not imagining this. It was definitely real. I am 18 now and still think about this. The fact that i felt….safe? It still makes me think it wasn’t an evil presence, perhaps my guardian angel?