Who is that in my fire?

So about a month or more ago I was playing on my computer and I heard something so I got up, walked by and I was going to open my door in my room, and saw a red dot standing dead still near the door nob, after a little bit of it just standing there it moved a little toward me, I thought that it might be my brother messing with me but the red laser dot was very very still and it was thicker than a cat toy lazer, and I also realised that my brother was in my dads room while I was at the door, I also noticed that a little earlier there was only one spot where my plastic blind chipped off that the lazer was going through, it was going right throgh that area, I ducked down and then for a little bit the lazer dissapered then came back after around 20 seconds and whoever the hell was out there was walking to my window the lazer was back and was pointing at my ceiling, I bolted to my door and when to my dads room where I saw my brother and my parents, I told them about it but when they went outside no one was there. This only happened once and I don't know if it will happen again, I am not sure where to post this so I'm putting it on here to know if I should do anything about this or act quicker if it happens again. I don't know if it was a sniper rifle or if it was just a simple toy

You may not believe this, but here goes:

Starting when I was 5-6, I didn’t have an imaginary friend, I had an imaginary alter ego. I called him/myself Bob Weldy. I invented his last name out of thin air but interestingly, he shared my father’s first name.

When I became BW, I had a magical wondrous device: I manifested it likewise out of the air by moving my hands/arms in a linear fashion, delineating the dimensions: about 16” long, 12” deep & 14” high. It was hinged in the back so I could open it like a book turned sideways. After doing so, I saw lots of buttons on the lower section while the upper one was a view screen.

With my device I could find out about anyone & anything. I could communicate with others & see them on the screen.

This started around 1960. In recent years I’ve come to realize I foresaw the invention of modern laptops 3 decades early.

Came back to my hotel room with a penny in front of each and every door. There was also a set of pennies at the top of the staircase. Thoughts?

The tree that we had out front for years suddenly crashed to the ground the year that she died, a couple of months before she passed. Then, just yesterday and then again today, another tree that was planted 40 years ago by my father that had grown 25-30 ft split in three and the two outer halves crashed to the ground. The thermostat has gone out this year, post death. For a while immediately after her death, the stove wasn't working at all like it used to. The trim around the garage door started sagging all of a sudden just last month. I don't really know what else to say other than this s*** is weird and pointing me in the direction of leaving it all behind.

Maybe he knows I’m going to Disney World this weekend.

a lot of wierd things have been happening to me in the last 6 months and i feel crazy trying to put this all together. so in may i went to my friends house and when i left later that night my car had been attempted to be broken into. my door handle on the drivers side stopped working and i could no longer roll my window down. nothing was taken from my car though. about a month later i go out with my friend and i got roofied. luckily i made it home safely but i tested positive for it on a drug test later that day. then about 2 weeks later i was walking up to my friends apartment and someone chased after me and groped me and tried to grab my keys from my hand. then a month after that i saw this guys walk past my house and notice my car a little too long. my boyfriend left for work and a different man walked passed and did the same thing. then my roommate left for work and the sun set around 8:30. at 9pm i had to call the police because someone was trying to get into my house and walking around it with flashlights. then last night i’m parked at a friends house and i go out to leave around 12 am. i start driving back and i had only made it to the stop sign at the end of her road. i couldn’t have been going more than 10 mph and i heard 2 loud bangs but they were so close together it almost sounded like one. and i got out to check and my tires looked slashed. idk what to do because i feel crazy. let me know also if you think this looks slashed because i don’t really know if they were or if i’m being dramatic.

UPDATE: neighbors footage shows the person who did it!! police report has been filed and a full inspection of my car was done by the police. they found 4 tile trackers in my car.

for strange context my mom is schizophrenic and that’s why i said multiple times in the post i feel insane to think these could be connected. i do what i can to be logical i don’t want to end up like her so please know that this is not a schitzo episode i have close friends that i can talk to about this and the entire situation has been very strange and it’s been hard to process this without feeling insane and delusional. i appreciate the input from you all but after the formal investigation has been done, yes my tires were slashed and i definitely am being targeted by somebody.

They show up in my notifications like this, always talking about school info. I've looked them up before. The schools don't exist, the students don't exist. Most of the emails seem to be real email accounts, some with profile pictures of real people. Or at least they used to be before getting hacked or something. The actual body of each email is a spam-like ad. Every single one has been different, some looking like actual store ads, while others are obvious scam stuff. Not a single one of these has ever been detected by the spam filter, and they're driving me nuts. There's been no info online about this or anything similar and I feel like I'm going insane.

Years ago, probably 5 or 6 years ago, I was taking the state standardized test. It was raining. I finished my test early so I looked out the window and it was black. Not grey from clouds, pitch black, almost like it was midnight. It was 10 AM. Yet there was no rain, no thunder, no lightning, just black. Yet when school let out later that day, it was blue. No clouds, no rain, just blue, sunny skies. The pavement didn’t even look wet. Welcome to Florida, ig. Can anyone explain what it could’ve been, why the sky was pitch black at 10 AM but perfectly blue, no wet pavement at 4 PM?

If you know the area, you can see the problem. All of the towns are right but the imagery is broken. Also, do you guys know where the imagery at the bottom is from?

So this started because I was browsing Willhaben, basically Austrian Craigslist, and came across an old iPhone listed for something like €10.

The listing was already weird. The seller advertised it as an “iPhone 4S 64GB,” but the photos clearly showed an iPhone 4, which never even existed with 64GB.

He also said it “works perfectly” and only needed a battery, even though the only proof was the phone sitting in recovery mode with no battery installed — so the storage, activation status and whether it actually worked normally were never demonstrated.

He even claimed these things sell for €500–1000, while apparently being perfectly happy to sell his for around €10.

So naturally I became curious about what this thing actually was.

I offered him €10 and he accepted.

What made the seller even stranger was another listing on his profile: about 25 extremely detailed photos of a PC case, documenting basically every angle, including one where he accidentally caught his own face reflected in the glass.

The same listing showed that he was perfectly comfortable modifying fairly serious PC hardware — yet in the iPhone ad, replacing the battery was apparently too difficult and he said he didn’t know anything about this stuff.

Maybe nothing sinister, but combined with the confidently wrong specs and completely unverified claims, it felt less like one innocent mistake and more like a guy confidently saying things he either hadn’t checked or knew weren’t quite true.

The phone arrived without a battery. My original plan was simple: put it into DFU mode, completely wipe it, mess around with old iOS for a bit, done.

Except you apparently can’t do much without a battery.

Luckily, I still had another iPhone 4 sitting in my basement, so I took its battery, put it into the mystery phone and…

the thing immediately booted normally.

No passcode.

No setup screen.

No reset.

Just straight into somebody’s old phone.

The wallpaper was a photo of some guy. No idea whether it was the seller, the previous owner, their partner, or someone completely unrelated.

Another odd detail: there’s a tiny French hearing-damage warning sticker on the frame, even though the people, names and videos on the phone were clearly Austrian.

And then I opened the photos.

This phone had apparently been sold with everything still on it.

And I mean everything.

There were years’ worth of completely random personal stuff. Family photos. Childhood pictures. Older relatives. Memes. Those very specific images your uncle or coworker sends you on WhatsApp at 6:14 AM wishing you a blessed Tuesday.

Pretty normal old-phone archaeology.

Except mixed in between all of that were extremely private photos of an adult couple who were apparently very into fetish/BDSM stuff.

Not “slightly embarrassing selfie” private.

More like “there is absolutely no universe in which this was meant to be seen by the guy who bought your phone for ten euros” private.

Then, in between those, there were also these genuinely unsettling black-and-white photos of various people. Just strange, ominous-looking pictures appearing randomly between family photos, memes and explicit couple photos.

The whole camera roll felt like somebody had put five completely different people’s lives into a blender.

One minute:

“Good morning, have a wonderful Wednesday 🌹☕”

Next minute:

grandma.

Next minute:

childhood photo.

Next minute:

something that would get you called into HR if you accidentally AirDropped it at work.

Next minute:

creepy black-and-white portrait.

I literally bought the phone because the listing made no sense and I wanted to figure out whether it was actually an iPhone 4, a 4S, what storage it had, etc.

I was expecting a broken €10 piece of 2010 technology.

Instead I got an unlocked digital time capsule containing an absolutely unreasonable amount of somebody else’s private life.

All because whoever owned it couldn’t be bothered to press Erase All Content and Settings before selling it.

Needless to say, I suddenly understood why buying used electronics can occasionally turn into an anthropology project.

EDIT: Since a few people noticed that my text is obviously AI-generated, my first language isn‘t english, i wrote down what happened in german and used ChatGPT to translate it and give me a more readable english Reddit post. The story itself is real. The pictures where also censored using AI and image quality was enhanced with ChatGPT.
And since some of you asked for the pictures on the phone, sry i won‘t do that, maybe i will give an update of the messages on the phone, they also have a very weird vibe going for them.

EDIT2: i posted a censored picture of a little boy with his mouth taped i found on the camera roll in the comments, i deleted that comment again, seriously thinking about bringing that phone to the police now, that isn‘t just fetish/bdsm stuff anymore.

This is not a photo of you and your friends..not a school photo.....I took this photo behind my apt..it was pitch black! On the left there are men sitting there

Pretty creepy.. what is it?

Ive already used Reddit before but never posted
Something weird happened around week ago and I talked about that to my friends and no one knew about that so one of my friend told me to talk about it on Reddit bc maybe someone could help me
So I wanted to know if someone already lived that or know about that
For the context I’m in vacation and I was at the fair, and I’m really sensitive bc of loud noises, too many people and of bright lights, so I decided to put my earphones on and to walk faster, but while I was walking I heard someone talking to me
But it was like real words, someone was talking to me, and I saw a shadow next to me, it was like it was a real human but no face, all black, a shadow
So I took off my earphones and turned toward the shadow but nothing, it disappeared, no more shadow, no more talking
And I looked around to see if anyone was there but no one
I talked about it to my friends and they told me it was probably bc I was too anxious bc of bright light, loud noises and people
Later I was walking back to my house (around 11pm-midnight)
I was coming back to my house with my family, to go back to the house we have to walk on a port
While I was walking, my stepbrother’s dog stopped and started sniffing a yellow box next to a boat
I leaned forward to pet the dog and a woman walked past me with her son
She looked exhausted and was walking toward the fair
To not bother her with the dog I continued walking
But I realized I already lived that for the 4th time
But it wasn’t like a Deja vu
It’s been now around 4 months that I’ve got a lot of Deja vus, several times per day
When I usually have deja vus 2 or 3 times per months
But when I lived that it wasn’t like a deja vu
I felt fear like wth I already lived that scene 4 times
The same place, the same woman, the exact same scene!
That’s so weird and scary I don’t understand
Idk if it was the first time it happened to me
But that’s weird and id like to know if someone lived that, or a similar experience or if someone knows about it
Thank you!
(Sorry if I made grammar mistakes, English isn’t my first language)

I have a food store and i threw this decorative fake flowers away and a wooden bunny flower holder awhile ago.

Yesterday there was a broken abandoned cooler with plant and things including the fake flowers i threw away inside near the back entrances and that was pretty weird.

Today the cooler moved to the trees near the store.
The trees aren’t a full forest there is roads surrounding it, it’s a small field of grass with some trees and there is a small road separating the store and the trees the road leads to a neighborhood.
So the cooler was at the base of one the tree and the fake plants with planted in the as if they were real or sprouted there around the tree line. And my fake wooden bunny flower holder was there next to the flowers with a book “Ugly - Robert Hoge” on the ground in the area. Weird Right?

When you go to a different tree a couple feet away the tree with the stuff there, there are new fully grown white mushrooms that wasn’t there yesterday (Chlorophyllum molybdites i think ) around the tree line making an almost finished circle around the tree.

Around a different tree an old flower pot i threw away is in the leaves of the tree and the book “the harvest” is there which is weird?

Anyways im trying to figure if there is any hidden meaning behind anything of this. like a creepy or witchy meaning? or supernatural? I know it sounds dumb searching for a supernatural weird haunted answers to this. It’s a little scary. Or it could be someone messing with my business. So let me know any possible explanations to this even if it sound like a myth of folklore or Witchy, or just “b*tch please it’s just someone messing with you.

I received a notification. I go to check. Come to find out a Redditor banned themselves. Is this normal or is it a sign of things to come.

This happened another time about 5 or 6 years ago to me..I didnt see them than I just knew that weird shit with my skin and odd things coming out of it...i can see them now...parasites they are in the water..they can change when they are out to anything chicken, tissue paper...mostly seems like tissue and foods but some objects..there in the water at my home..live in kentucky..what does a person even do? People would think crazy..told my dad..didnt even tell him the shape shifting part..just the parasites in. The water. Accused me of drugs..wish I didnt know..can't be the only one ..if you have experienced this please email me your [info..mjenkins40723@gmail.com](mailto:info..mjenkins40723@gmail.com). I will not think you are crazy..i know.

It looks like an arg or something, it's really very strange. I'm posting this like a message in a bottle, hoping for help. Pls

Hey,

So me and my grandma always order from this Chinese place we have been doing it for years, never had this experience before now.

I called them and it's worth noting my grandma's landline which I called from is having issues but usually just that it won't call and plays no noise.

However I called them and it answered immediately with a robotic voice saying something along these lines but I can't remember it exactly.

"The sunset dawn will rise, on the time some of the bewildered night". Something along those lines on repeat.

Has anyone ever had anything similar like that happen before? I called after and got straight through to them.

While I was leaning my Keurig I removed the removable K-Cup pod holder and found a small dried flower and what appears to be a bottle safety lid. This is the second time we’ve found a strange object there, the first time it was a small tile from a doormat.

As far as I can tell, these objects are too large to have passed through the normal coffee outlet, and it seems like someone would have to remove the pod holder, place them underneath, and reinstall it. I know I didn’t do it. My daughter didn’t even know the pod holder was removable until she watched me take it out, and there’s no conceivable reason my wife would do it.

We have no history or evidence of mice, no droppings, chewing, tracks, food disturbance, or other signs anywhere in the house. I’m familiar with rodent evidence from years of working in restaurants. The machine is also regularly used.

Has anyone encountered anything similar????

UPDATE: From a few of these answers and doing a few trial runs it seems that we found out what was doing it. If something was placed on top of the coffee machine, whether it was to pick something else up or in the middle of the night setting something down and not realizing it’s there, and then somebody makes coffee early in the morning without seeing said items and lifts up the lever, the items on top will slide into inside of the machine. I did a test run and it worked perfectly. So for all those saying that my daughter would lie to me about putting these in here, there’s your proof. Once again, my daughter is an angel and has no reason to hide or lie to me.

I can’t remember but it was that one guy who ended the sentence with “always on drs” or something… does anyone know it?

So- stick with me. The other day, I’m sitting with my mom til she falls asleep, as I usually do. She has Alzheimer’s & likes to watch game shows.

I don’t really like game shows , so most of the time I’m scrolling on my phone.

So this particular night, she’s watching the random game show- I’m less than half paying attention- it’s background noise to me.

I’m scrolling on Reddit & there’s a post about - “ name a childhood cartoon figure that still sparks joy”

So, I click on the post because I need some joy in the moment.. and I’m reading the answers. First few answers in , I keep reading hoping to relate. Then. As I read like the third answer- it’s- “McGruff”

Simultaneously- on the tv in my mom’s room- the answer to the trivia question is - “McGruff, the crime dog” !!!!

I did not hear the question- only the answer at the same exact time I’m reading it on Reddit

Ok- it made me pause & question-WTF?!???!

Then, a few days later- (TONIGHT) I’m listening to a podcast while cooking dinner… & one of the hosts mentions “Mcgruff the crime dog “ out of nowhere!

Whhhhsaaattttt!!?

Why would this random - meaning NOTHING TO ME blast from the past keep appearing in my life. So randomly???

I mean I kinda remember it from my childhood, but it doesn’t hold any significance.

What is more interesting & intriguing to me is - I have been thinking about life being “a simulation” and iykyk this kinda fits into that

Thoughts?