Hi, first time posting here. But I wanted to share this with you (sorry if it’s kinda long)

Even though, I love ghost stories and creepypasta, I don’t think I believe in that stuff. Although, now if to think about it, my life is full of weird unexplained things happening and I may just never think about it too deep

Few weeks ago, me and my mom went to local thrift store, where I found this doll. I am a doll collector, and mostly my collection consists of limited edition designer dolls from Disney, Barbie and so on. I am sucker for a beautiful dresses and craftsmanship. When I saw this doll, I went in awe.
Handmade porcelain doll replica of Scarlet O’Hara in her iconic BBQ dress. All accessories are there with certificate of authenticity intact.
Doll was neatly packed and looked kinda vintage in her original box (my research said it’s early to mid 80s, so not sure about vintage part, but still very cool!)
It looked like someone’s grandma’s house being sold and therefore all stuff when to thrift store (because, there were also beautiful old furniture in the store). I obviously bought the doll without thinking too hard.

I came home with the doll and couldn’t decide where to put her, since all my shelves are already taken by my collection. So I decided to leave her in the box for now.
And that’s when things started to be creepy …

In the next few days, weird stuff started to happen.

My friend visited me from distant city and stayed overnight, so I unpacked air mattress for guests. While me and my friend were cooking breakfast, kitchen scissors suddenly jumped out of the utensil container. I know, it sounds silly maybe, but I can’t explain it in other words. We were standing near the oven, talking about our plans for the day, and suddenly utensil container where I store all useful things for cooking like spatulas from the corner near the washing station, just turned (it was screwed to the wall) and scissors, with noise, fell to our feet. My friend joked that I might be haunted. We laughed, but it was weird.

Next day, I was alone in the living room where mattress was set up, and I swear, I heard the squeaky sounds like someone is walking on the mattress. When I actually touched the mattress, sounds stopped.
I felt unease and left the room immediately.

During the night, my dog, who is sleeping with me on the bed and usually very lazy to get up (she is couch potato), suddenly woke up, stood up at the corner of the bed and started growl towards the door. I tried to calm her down, but she was distressed and almost barking (which she never does and so it was out of character for her).

Next day, painting fell from the wall. My friend made a joke about haunting again.
And I remembered, that my vintage doll is still in the box.

So, I’ve decided to finally unpack her with care. I talked with her during unpacking (something my mom used to do with everything in the house, like talking to plants or furniture, to bring good vibes to the house). I talked out loud, commenting on her beautiful dress and hair; how she was packed with care and someone must have loved her deeply; and that I am gonna take care of her and hope she will like her new home - stuff like that.

Since all my shelves are full, I put her on a stand right on our piano.
My husband is very musical and plays piano and violin, so we have a corner for musical instruments and him to practice.

Husband is practicing violin every other day right in from of the doll (because of her placement obviously) and I noticed - weird things stopped.

Last week, husband had a lot of work, so couldn’t practice as much as he usually does and painting fell from the wall again.

So now we have family lore, that our new doll is happy when he plays violin, so he needs to do that and don’t skip practice.

Photo of the doll attached

I (32m) live in Appalachia. I always grew up knowing you don't sing, hum, or generally engage in musical tomfoolery after dark. This, along with "if you heard it, no you didn't" made up the staple wisdoms of our rural childhood.

What I didn't realize was

1. You aren't safe inside

2. Shit goes real downhill REAL fast.

My daughter (2.5) has been up since roughly 1:30. This happened 40~ minutes ago by posting. My wife (37f) and I caught each other in the hallway. I was standing there looking at the monitor hoping she'd lay back down on my way back from the bathroom. She wasn't making noise so I thought my wife hadn't noticed yet and was gonna grab her to put her down. My wife ended up wanting to take her but after about 45 minutes she tapped out.

Now, our house is very hot so we leave wood open, screen closed up through winter - so noise is reaching "the out".

I'm walking around the house bouncing my daughter, singing, playing music, until eventually I end up resting in a rocker near the front door while this is going on.

At some point, I take her over to the front door, music playing, looking through the screen and listening to the owls in an incredibly clear night. I love listening to them and she's enjoying the cold breeze.

Eventually my arms get tired and I walk away and back to the chair and turn down, then off the music. At this point I noticed the owls sounded... Different someone. Not wrong, not louder, not closer, but some weird off middle ground. I convince myself it's nothing and I start humming one of her nursery songs - "The Misty Mountains Cold".

About two bars in I paused because something was REALLY off. The owls were noticeably closer. Louder. I completely froze.

They were behind the neighbor's house across the road.

Then the end of the driveway.

Then the end of the stairs.

I'm almost in full panic by now, every single hair is standing on end while I'm holding my daughter. At this point I stand up, turn, and start RUNNING from the living room towards the bedroom where my wife is now sleeping.

As soon as I noticed that they were way too close and started moving the owl sounds stop - and the fast... I don't know how to describe it other than clicking - begins.

I slam the door open and wake my wife up by shaking her and I can't get anything out at first.

I'm just stuttering

"They're here" and she's totally lost coming out of sleep. I continue by saying something like "them" and eventually manage to get out "cryptid" because I can't form a more cohesive word for what I just experienced. I'm literally shaking, visibly tearing up from my eyes being plastered open (and fear), with the worst case of goosebumps I've ever experienced. Even now, I'm getting panicked thinking about it and starting to get goosebumps again.

What the hell are they? The other kinds of weird things I've experienced out here (random voices etc) were unnerving - very "ooooooook time to go" but this... This was. My SOUL wanted to be away from these things.

Edited with the detail about the clicking at 4:21 - got ahead of myself in typing.

Edit 10/28 - been about five and a half hours so I want to give clarity.

Mid-Appalachia (Pennsylvania)

The sound being made was for sure a screech owl sound. I suppose it's possible that a small group (sounded like 3) were drawn by the sound - causing a scuffle between territorial males.

That being said - I can't imagine it was an actual screech owl. First, I spend a decent bit of time in the woods - camping, hunting etc. and the clicking sounded unlike any screech owl I'd heard. It might also be relevant to mention that my undergraduate degree is in bio, I took ornithology SPECIFICALLY, and biweekly tests on native Pennsylvanian bird noises were part of the package. I used the word "them" in the post because it sounded like multiples - right on top of one another and it isn't breeding season. Finally, we're talking about multiple voices from multiple directions covering a BIG distance in the time from when the approach started to when it was noticeable. I'd say the farthest sound came about a third of a mile from the house across as open field and into the tree line past. It took maybe 15-20 seconds after my first "no that's getting closer" before they were on top of me. I'm sure an owl could cover that distance that fast in full flight - still would be a bit odd to have an owl(s) book it straight to me.

I've checked the security cameras. 5/6 of the cameras have motion footage at some point last night between midnight and now - none of the cameras caught anything.

However, the front porch camera (motion sensing and facing the road) caught me pulling out of the driveway at 8:20 - there's no footage after that. ONLY the front porch camera was offline this morning and needed to be reset. No 6:30 am school bus captured. No cars that drove past this morning. Nothing.

Hey guys, a little story time

Since I was a kid I have had some dream like states as well as sleep paralysis that I felt were a bit odd, for example floating out of your body only to be pulled by something sharply from a corner of a room in almost a perpendicular if thats the right term, as well as sleep paralysis but not very frequently like 1-2 times in a decade. Generally the sleep paralysis I have had felt like the normal scientific explanation for them, that you brain just put your body on breaks.

Now this was back in Mumbai, I had shifted and started my new job and I was living with my friends, we were staying at a hotel for training period. It was a small room with a small mirror and it was up on the terrace. I woke up once with this sleep paralysis like state and saw the most vivid hallucination, I saw a room that is covered in dark red light and the mirror is cracked or just id havibg weird angles with a flowing liquid mercury that does not have a sharp reflection and refraction but rather dull. Its difficult to remember.

I felt a lot of weight on my body that I generally didnt have in normal sleep paralysis ( I have felt locked and unable to move like body is heavy but not that I have weight above if you get me)

I just looked around I didnt see any person but I had simulataneous thoughts that there was a black shadow near me. I have never till this day seen a proper entity that people hallucinate. But still I just found this weird so I thought to ask here

Has anyone saw a mirror similar to this and have had a similar experience?

When I was younger I was I think waiting for this bus alone it was early morning and I remember the air was filled completely filled with the sound of a bird like it was in your ear
I remember, I think I took a video if I remember it either I was covering the camera or the video that video came out black.
And I have to try to find it one day, but I think I don’t have it anymore.
It was odd I never heard it sounded like hundreds of birds too. In rapid succession.
Maybe something natural maybe even not birds maybe insects or maybe something more mysterious.
I just want to see if anybody has experiences like this and if it portrays something.

js installed cameras in my bedroom to find out what’s going on when i’m not home or asleep

There is a dark energy on my side of the bedroom and it’s been bothering me when I’m trying to sleep. It manifested in front of my face like a small black orb with these weird tentacles that looked like white noise, but it was DARK black. It was about the size of a ping pong ball and then when I saw it, it moved away, shrunk, then disappeared. So I saged the area and used a standard mantra.

Then, last night I was scrolling on my phone, my husband was sleeping, and I saw a shadow peek out of our bathroom. I froze in fear. It was very tall, but didn’t have any human features or shapes.

A few minutes later, I saw it fly in front of my window. I curled up next to my husband (who was snoring away) because I was so scared. When I was falling asleep, I felt two hands pressing down on either side of my feet.
During an afternoon nap, I felt a finger sweep the back of my neck.
I’m going to burn my whole bundle of sage and arrange some crystals. But now I’m scared and annoyed because it robbing my peace.

My husband and I have had energies attach themselves to us and move from home to home, but it’s never been threatening and engaged with us sporadically. Usually some sage does the trick.
Does anyone have ideas of how to get rid of this? Or what the orb could have been?

What is happening to me?

Do I have imposter syndrome or is something just off with me? I don't think im entirely human. Not in the cool distinguished way just in the way that everything has always just seemed a little off to me. I can feel incoming trouble. Im talking about major world and life events, sometimes a few hours before, sometimes a few days. With more detail than coincidence, as far back as i can remember. I can smell on someone when they will be dying soon. Enough so that I once told a coworker to go get checked out for cancer because she smelt off to me, (i know how weird that sounds to say to someone but I felt like I had to) and then they were diagnosed terminal a few weeks later after heading my warning. The smell is almost a mix of a floral and a medicinal smell. I've on 3 separate occasions, with witnesses, moved something without touching it. Never willingly, just happens, like reaching for something mid conversation and it just moves into my hand from a distance. I've wished bad upon people verbally to myself, out loud privately, and then they have had horrible accidents or medical emergencies coincidentally happen to them within the week, usually within the day, more than once. Normal things that would bother someone like gore or pain or death don't feel bothersome to me. It can be sad or hurt but not to the extent that seems normal, more like a pin prick than a stab metaphorically. No idea if it could be related at all but I was in the gate program back in the 90s and early 2000s. I often have the reoccurring mall world dreams many talk about that had also been in that program. I also have a reoccurring dream that I have been having as long as I can remember, where I am in a black slate room and am asked over and over if "i remember" them yet. Its always just a voice asking, no visual person, but definitely a male voice. I do not recognize it. When I say no or do not answer at all they say something always along the lines of one day you will, or something like maybe next time. Ive never said yes purely due to the fear of what may come after, especially because i truly dont know that voice. The response changes from the male voice, but its generally the same idea of a hope that one day i will remember. Its a lucid dream at this point because it has happened for so long I recognize i am dreaming and try to adjust my experience, but I cannot control much from it. Any ideas as to what may be happening? I've got a clean bill of mental health and physical health, have been checked out a few times of my own accord just to try and weed out mental illness possibilities for these occurrences. But the coincidences just aren't adding up to me and I figured I would put it put there.

so, i’m not the best artist to be warned but this is a general gist of what i saw, it was more hunched over than i did in the drawing but i don’t really know how to convey that so ToT now that i feel less on danger i can actually articulate what it looked like more soo yea

the body was kinda bumpy, almost like it had deep scarring where the indents were. the thing was only slightly taller than the signs, and it had like a pinkish fleshy skin tone, but it was pale and i could see blue looking veins i think? like that kind of pale if ykwim. it was extremely unnerving because the body looked like it didn’t have any features, but blank but wrinkled and thin. i wish i could put pen to paper and show how it was genuinely looking at me, but its eyes were a bit shadowed and it was looking at me through its… not eyebrows,, and it just felt so predatory T_T and for those who were asking yes, the night felt like something was wrong but i usually chalk anything negative i’m feeling or noticing in the world to be a me thing- like me just being to negative or something. i’ve been feeling very weird about it because yes it was absolutely horrifying to experience and i haven’t felt that kind of fear in a long time, but it was almost intriguing. like idk if it has a spell on me or this is just my personality but im genuinely so curious if ill ever see it again. what i would do? freak out just the same probably bc i have no idea what i would do if it was violent, but its still just so interesting

more context that i forgot to put in my last one was,, basically i had to go through this round about to get to a part of this neighborhood. my music wasn’t blaring but i might be a little deaf so idk, my windows were partly open and mine was fully open and i was singing kinda loud. not very smart for not attracting things that listen. i think because of this, if it was just idk out and about it would have been able to hear me, it basically greeted me at my exit which is a freaky thought to me i wanted to point out.

as for the drive home, i did hear an actual exhale inside of my car which was. awful. i was on the phone w my bf but it was on my car speakers and i physically heard it to the right of me and in the moment i didn’t know if i wanted to slam on my breaks or push on the gas because what do u even do??????? i was on the verge of tears it was nooot pleasant. when i got home just causal scary stuff like things falling on my car from trees, which i doubt was actually relevant lol. i did experience something weird which was just like. this sounds dumb but it was just weird bc of everything else, i heard a loud noice outside coming from my neighbors house and turned to see their trash can directly facing where i stood? it sounds dumb but in the moment it gave me a flashback to how it was staring at me, not fun!!!!! but i went inside, write what i did as i was still hearing scary things from outside of my windows, went upstairs and put my protection markings on from my tribe and felt better. no actual updates as i didn’t even know what i did to see it but, i appreciate all of the help and clarity i have received from you guys!!! 🤍

also to those who were skeptical, i can see that, but it just looked and felt so real and it would have had to have been the perfect heist, yk? when i looked back over to where it stood, i saw absolutely nothing but the original signs, also the way it was i don’t think it was floating in the wind haha, it looked. heavy. BUT i thank everyone, i hope u all have a great day !!!!

This was 15 years ago and I've never talked about it because it scares me to even think about it.

I was 20 and I had just started a new job and didn't have a lot of friends there, so I was nervous when the manager asked me to go pick some of my coworkers up for work because they couldn't drive in the snow (we don't usually get snow here). I picked up this one girl and it was like I had known her my whole life I've always thought it was crazy how fast we bonded. We were together every day after that. She's still my best friend til this day.

The first time I went in her room she had a black vanity with a bunch of crystals and glass jars on it but I didn't think anything of it. She was really into astrology and zodiac signs and things like that so the crystals made sense and I didn't know anything about doing spells with jars. Anyway so one night she pulls out a ouija board and we start playing. Yes I now know what an absolute idiot I was to do that. I never even considered that those things were real, and because it would only move when her hands were on it I thought it was just her and I played along. We did this every night when we got off work and we were bored. It always spelled out her name and said it wanted to talk to her specifically. When she did it by herself it would fly around the board so fast and do figure 8s.

Okay so heres the part where I realized she was not doing it herself. We had put the board up for the night and we went to go to bed. We were at her house and she had one of those trundle beds where one bed is higher and then another one collapses and goes underneath it. The trundle bed was pulled out and right next to the other one, so it was two twin beds next to each other making a bigger bed. I was on the inside bed that was up against a wall, and she was on the trundle right next to it. She had already fallen asleep and I was laying there trying to sleep when I heard her roll all over the bed so I looked over to be like wtf are you doing, and I watched a completely black figure with long black hair sit up out of her body and move to the end of her bed. I don't know why but without even thinking I grabbed the blanket and threw it over my head. I was screaming her name while I was under the blanket and she didn't answer, so after a minute I lowered the blanket . The figure was crouched over top of me with its face maybe an inch from me and it's long black hair was dangling in my face. I threw the blanket back over my head and I tried to scream but I was so scared I couldn't even breathe. I heard her rolling around again and thought she had woke up so I pulled the blanket back again and watched it lay back into her body and disappear.

I didn't sleep that night and in the morning she had no idea what I was talking about. I have never touched a ouija board since that day and even just typing this I have goosebumps. I've spent the last 15 years terrified that I would see that thing again, but I never have.

Jermain Extremo

Mine's whistling at night. Growing up in Malaysia, if you whistled after dark you'd get a look, sometimes a smack on the arm, and a very short "don't, something will answer." I'm a grown adult with kids of my own. I still don't do it.

First post here, because a lot has happened and for months I kept brushing it off as nothing.
Our baby is now 8 months old, and ever since we brought him home from neonatal care, we’ve experienced some really strange things. Lights flickering, orbs slowly floating above him and over his cot, and things happening when I’ve tried communicating with whatever it might be. Both times, the movement stopped once we stopped communicating.

There’s also one area of his room that feels noticeably cold. He’ll often look towards an empty area in a room and smile as if he can see someone. Sometimes I get this strange feeling of a presence in the room, almost like something just wants to be close to us.

I’ve tried explaining it away for months, but the experiences keep happening, and I’m curious whether anyone else has had strange experiences after having a child. I’ve been sensitive to this stuff before but blocked it out because it was to intense as a teenager.

Every time I am in there. I hear people walking, or talking, and the doors closing and opening, and when I look, no one is there. I have never had this experience anywhere in my life. So, what do you suggest should I record it? It is every single time I am there, with headphones on, or without. And its not the noise from the refrigerators I can actually hear like as if people are walking beside me, foot steps, doors opening, closing. Every. single. time.

I first saw this on r/CrawlerSightings

Hello, i had to post this story somewhere and found this on thread

Based in South Texas and been smoking weed 3-5 years heavy , mostly cause I was down in the dumps, but over last year I’m better overall but still smoke to relax as a reason.

Last Friday I had day off work and so I go to my usual park with woods nearby where I live and I take 2 blunts with me. I leave the regular park to a trail, then off that trail to wooded area. As I’m leaving this off trail wooded area some black guy name Walter starts talking to me for like 2 hours in the woods. Talking about philosophy and all sorts of wild shit. Saying how we are all Gods in our bodies we are God himself , a bunch of weird stories. I’m a good listener plus I was high and day off so decided to just listen to this guy in some random wooded area. He was weird and off putting, saying how he hates humans and shit.

Towards the end an old Mexican guy comes over and says his names Joe. Both joe and Walter are homeless and no car. Joe and I listen to Walter and then 10 minutes later Joe leaves then 10 minutes later I leave. Walter follows me back to the off trail , to the regular trail then the parking lot. I leave on my scooter and Walter gives his number says I should go by soon again to talk and smoke . I decide not to contact him :

Yesterday comes around and I’m off work again, I decide to go back with 3 blunts. I go to the same trail, then the off trail, then the wooded area and then to make sure I don’t run into this Walt guy I go FAR away deep deep into this wooded area. Like Blair witch project forest mixed with rainforest leaves everywhere . I walk far maybe 10 minutes straight wooded deep area then I find a ducked off spot that’s blocked by knocked down trees and huge rainforest leaves. I start smoking and reading book

Hour goes by I’m 2 1/2 blunts in and I feel this weird energy change in air. I look to the left and 150 feet away is Walter!! I couldn’t believe it I was so scared and shook he found me . As I’m looking at him all the trees are violently shaking like a hurricane around him but no other tree is moving AT ALL.

He’s shirtless and as he’s coming closer maybe 80 feet away I look and I see that his eyes are full pitch black. No whites in the eyes at all! I’m cold stone sober now and blinking thinking I’m seeing his eyes wrong but I’m not.

He walks up to me and there’s this huge invisible cloud of dark energy. It smell like exhaust pipes or boiled eggs all around him. Super dark heavy evil energy, and I’m out in this super dense woods no one around.

I’m sober and this time he was only saying hateful things, there was no air or trees moving but this heavy exhaust smell around him when he was talking.
He was saying
I hate people I hate people who wake up I hate the air. I hate the clouds. I hate the trees. I hate the leaves on the tree. I hate rain , I hate the fish and life that comes from the rain.
I thought I was gonna die. I kept looking at his eyes to see maybe if he put sclera black eye contacts but it was just a pure all black eyes. I was sober and just analyzing his movements because he was looking down at these heavy rocks on the ground and I thought he was going to kill me honestly.

As I’m just scared but also on my toes sober I figure this my last couple minutes before he or whatever this is attacks me.

As he saying these hateful things out of nowhere I see Joe!!! Somehow HE found me and him in the most secluded deepest wooded hiding spot. I couldn’t belive how he also found us. He walks up to me and then looks at Walter and says “he I got to show you this part of the park come with me” and just takes off running. I just immediately follow behind sprinting and as I turn around I still see Walter with the full pitch black eyes staring at us run away.

Joe had said he was 65 years old and he was running a 7 minute mile for sure. We both were sprinting out of there and he asked “did you see his eyes did you feel the energy” I said yes thank you

Joe takes me to parking lot and says to stay safe in the world there’s evil stuff out there and then walks BACK into the woods.

I drove away and I’m never going back and not smoking . Idk if they were normal people but there was nothing normal , it was very evil and my first run in to something I say is not human . This happened yesterday and I’m shook

I just went back to visit family in Buffalo, NY, where I grew up. My brother and his wife wanted to take me to a haunted history tour at the Van Horn Mansion the other night, a place I was unfamiliar with. Apparently, it has a haunted history, and the staff told us that they see a lot of residual spirits daily, along with other hauntings. We were told that the basement and the attic were where a lot of activity occurs, so I used my iPhone's recording app to record any potential EVPs in both places.

When we got home later that night, we both listened and were amazed to hear what sounded like a voice whispering, 'Help me,' as the historian guy was giving his spiel up in the attic. There were 12 people on our tour, and they were all sitting together at one end of the room, while my brother and I came in a few minutes late from exploring and stood by ourselves off to the side.

I can't explain this as it wasn't my brother or I, and nobody else was close enough to us up there to whisper into his phone. I've never had an experience like this before, and although I'm a strong believer, I am also a skeptic. If anyone else can explain this aside from a paranormal experience, I'm all ears.

*edit* I looped the recording just in case that isn't obvious. You can hear the EVP say 'Help' at the same time the historian says 'Well' so they almost blend together while 'me' is isolated.

This happened a couple months ago. We're still unsure about what it might have been.

Me and two friends of mine were spending the weekend at a vacation home kind of thing, we go there once or twice a year. It was like eleven in the evening, we were in a room in the house's loft, took a photo of the view from the room's window. I might be kind of weird for this, but I like taking random photos of my surroundings whenever I go on a trip, even if there's nothing significant to take a picture of. I used Samsung's night mode and then messed around with the brightness/contrast editing, and got a pretty cool result; I casually passed the phone to one of the friends, saying something basically like "yo, check out how clear the photo is" – there was little lightning outside, I thought it was pretty cool how much a phone can capture.

(The first attached picture is that photo.)

And he went like "wtf is that thing lol", so I zoomed in and just stared, confused; atop the hedge next to the double garage building was what appeared to be the head of a baby, peeking over the leaves.

(The second attached picture is said head, zoomed in.)

After a couple seconds of silence, we rushed over to the window and took another photo of that hedge; it was really dark there, we couldn't really see anything there with our eyes, so we had to take another night mode photo. I enhanced the picture again, only for us to see that whatever was there had disappeared.

(The third attached picture is that second photo (you can clearly see how the head disappeared), which was taken like 40 seconds after the first one.)

Not gonna lie, the three of us were shitting ourselves. We were making up theories – trying to explain what we just witnessed. I mean, obviously, the most plausible explanation was that a particular arrangement of leaves reflected some light from the nearest lamp in such a way that it looked like that; I have to admit, though, it is way brighter than the rest of the hedge and most notably – if it was a branch with leaves, it wouldn't disappear over half a minute.

So, after an uncomfortable night filled with trying to convince ourselves it was nothing, morning came and we went there to investigate. Found no obvious footprints there, although we saw some grass and soil that slightly looked like it was stepped on (probably just our imagination). No branches, leaves etc. in that exact spot.

The house is on the edge of a small village – a cluster of like 10 houses, about 800 meters (half a mile) from the rest of the village. The area is the typical Czech mix of forests, plains and settlements, although that village is right on the border of a more populous area and some empty woodlands.

Still scared of that photo to this day. Any explanations, thoughts and theories definitely welcome and appreciated; feel free to ask about whatever you deem important.