"Nobody Believes Me": 25 Strange Experiences People Can't Explain That Range From Kinda Heartwarming To Super Creepy
Recently, u/sofialoveofficial asked people on Reddit to share things they've experienced that they still can't explain, and people had so much to say. Here are some to the best stories:
1."When I was around age 28, I had a very vivid dream. In the dream, someone was handing me a dog. A black dog. The person said to me, 'This is your dog. Your dog's name is 'Hudson'.' I replied, 'I already have a dog,' which was true. I had a 20-pound Beagle/terrier mix; a really great dog. One month after my dream, there was a terrible wildfire. Two people and 26 horses died. Homes went up in flames and people lost everything. The day after the fire, a couple I knew showed up at my front door."
"They had a smallish young black dog. The guy was holding her in his arms. She was maybe 18 lbs at the time. She looked like she had some Queensland heeler in her, but she definitely was black.
The couple told me the dog needed a home, that she'd lost her home in the fire, and asked if I would consider keeping her, just until they were able to find her a new home. I took one look at that dog and said, 'No. That's okay. I'll keep her.' They never told me her name.
Hudson turned out to be one of those once-in-a-lifetime dogs. She was hyper-smart. She took the blue ribbon in every stage of obedience training. I got a book at the library and taught her a lot of cool tricks. We joined a group called 'K-9 Kapers,' and would go to old folks' homes, nursing homes and entertain the residents with dog tricks.
Of all the dogs I've had or ever known, Hudson was the stand out. Extraordinary, special. My heart aches just thinking about her."
2."My cousin bought his first house in the early 2000s. After my freshman year of college, I ended up moving in with him for a month until I could find my own apartment. My cousin sold the house in 2005, and moved out of the area. Fast forward to 2008, and my best friend and his wife bought their first house. It was the same house my cousin had bought. When I pulled up to help him move in, I was like, waittttt a minute...... Relatively decent-sized coincidence, but hey, weird things happen. But wait, there's more."
"After about five years of owning that house, they sold the house to another couple.
In 2014, I started dating a new girl, and she sent me a Snapchat when she was sitting on the deck of the house she was living in. The view looked very familiar, and so I asked her about the house.
Turns out, she was renting a room from the couple that bought the house from my best friend.
Mind you, the city I live in has about 125k residents, and the metro area is about 200k, so this wasn't just some small town coincidence that happened 'cuz there were only 10 houses in the town."
3."Some years ago I was staying in a hotel for this work training thing in another part of the state. It was like 3 a.m. and someone called my cell phone; not my room phone, mind you, my PERSONAL cell phone and said, 'I see you in there' in a creepy voice. I look toward the windows (curtains closed thankfully) and there's an outline of someone standing outside. It wasn't a dream either, I looked at my phone's log the next day and the call was right there."
"No one I worked with had that phone number. In fact, the only people that did were family and friends back home, a three-hour drive away, and no one in my family would stalk me like that they're all very normal, boring country folk."
4."When my twins came home from the hospital, one of them was on oxygen. Because he could potentially injure himself, the cannula tube was threaded through quarter-sized stickers on each side of his face near the top of his cheekbones to keep them secure. They had to be changed each week, and you can imagine how hard this was on baby skin. By the time he was off the oxygen, he had two round rashes on each side of his face. I struggled to clear them up. I was a new mom and I tried various creams that did not work. I should have brought him in and been done with it, but kept trying different remedies. This is where the unexplained comes in."
"His twin developed the same sized round rash in the EXACT same spots. They should never have developed because he never wore stickers. Honestly, it really creeped me out. Anyway, my mom found the right cream and that was that, but when I hear creepy twin stories, I always think of the rashes."
5."One day in high school, I had an incredibly vivid dream where I lived out a normal day at school, sat through lectures, talked with friends, etc., that went until lunchtime. I was standing in line for food and a girl about three people ahead of me suddenly ran to a nearby trashcan and threw up, mostly missing and getting it down the side of the can. Then I woke up. The day I lived was exactly the same, same lectures, same conversations. All day I felt... out of sync? Sort of off and weird and I was convinced I was still dreaming. I got in line for lunch and saw that girl and thought, 'oh, she's going to throw up.'"
"And she did. All down the side of the trashcan like in the dream. As soon as that happened, it was like I synced back up with time or reality or something and I stopped feeling 'off' but i was extremely nauseated and got a pounding headache. It was really disorienting and I spent the next several days waiting to see if I would 'wake up' again, worried I was still dreaming."
6."When I was in my twenties, I had a platonic gal-pal come stay overnight at my one-bedroom apartment for Saturday night dinner, movies, etc. Because we had been up most of the night watching movies, after a while on Sunday afternoon, we both wanted/needed a nap. I went into my bedroom for at least an hour to lay down, she to my couch and we both zonked out hard, separately, for at least an hour. During my nap, I remember an ominous feeling of someone being in my room, watching me sleep, and as hard as I tried I COULDN'T WAKE UP. I remember almost feeling a little frantic about it."
"When I eventually awoke from my nap later, I went out to my living room, where my friend was just waking up. I asked her if she had come into my room and stood over me watching me sleep, and telling her I couldn't wake up no matter how hard I tried.
She got this extremely anxious look on her face and said the exact thing happened to her and she was going to ask me if I had stood over her watching her sleep. It was an EXTREMELY spooky moment for us both that we would revisit occasionally over the years."
7."I was living in northern Vermont. One cold ass winter night at about 11-ish, I decided to go outside and look at the sky for no particular reason. Directly south, I saw four flickering lights in the sky. They began to fly in formation but shifting in perfect unity, going in all cardinal directions. Then they became solid lights and started shifting faster and faster. After about a minute, the lights started to flicker again but really fast, and then they all lifted up in the sky and completely disappeared. This was before drones and nobody else lived on the lake in the winter except me. To this day, I have absolutely no idea what happened or what they were or why I decided to go outside at that particular moment."
8."A friend died in a car accident. A few months later, she visited me in a dream to tell me everything was okay. It was a dream like no other. I had never felt such strong warmth, love, and emotion. When I woke up, I broke out in tears because I wanted to feel that warmth and emotion again."
9."My dad and I were very close, and we used to joke that we had 'telepathy,' mostly because he knew me so well he could predict what I would do, down to picking up the phone and just knowing it was me (this was before caller ID). One day when I was in high school, I came home and he was there. He was sick and stayed home from work. He said he was falling asleep for a nap and had a vision of me running through the hallways of school, crying. I had, indeed, been running through the hallways of school that day, crying."
"When I confirmed it, he seemed satisfied and not at all unnerved, and neither was I. I guess we both kind of half-believed the joke.
I should add that my father was a scientist and a very logical person who did not generally believe in paranormal stuff at all. He was an MD/PhD internist and pharmacologist but had originally planned to become a psychiatrist and had read everything Freud ever wrote. I later found out that Freud did think telepathy might be possible — but only among people who were close and in moments of anguish."
10."An incident I had with a Ouija board as a teenager, almost 20 years ago. So it was me and my two friends, who we'll call Kevin and Lisa. We were at Kevin's dad's house and we'd gone out and bought a Ouija board and decided to mess around with it in the VERY creepy basement. We get started and the pointer starts moving. Lisa almost immediately gets scared and takes her hands off the pointer. So it's just Kevin and me. Both of us are convinced the other person is moving the pointer so we're laughing and not taking it seriously. We start asking the usual questions, like the name, gender, year they died. Then one of us asks, 'Were you murdered?'"
"We hear this LOUD noise come from the floor above us and then what sounds like loud, thumping footsteps run across the floor. Kevin and I are both terrified, Lisa is crying, and we ask if we can say goodbye and then run upstairs.
No windows open. Nothing was moved. Kevin's dad was gone for the night. No pets. No obvious reason for the sounds we heard. We left, went to a Tim Hortons, and stayed up all night."
11."I saw my cat walk through a wall. Twice. Right through the wall, he just appeared in my room nowhere near the door."
12."When I was a kid, I told my parents when I was first able to talk that I was my dad's mother, who had passed years before I was born. They laughed and said, 'Oh, when is your birthday?' I told him her actual birthday. I also told him some other stuff about the house they used to live in and a dog they had. I was just barely old enough to speak sentences. I think around 2. I still have occasional dreams of an old house that I later saw in some restored pictures that she lived in before I was born."
13."My neighbor died soon after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. We had studio apartments with a shared wall. We were pals, but he always complained that my television was too loud. No issues; I would turn the volume down whenever he asked. The day after he died I flipped on my TV. The volume control on the TV screen popped up and it appeared like someone was pressing the button to lower the sound. I wasn't touching the remote. I tried two or three times to increase the volume and again the sound decreased by itself. This had never happened before or since then. I wasn't scared or surprised. It's like my neighbor was wishing me goodbye."
14."I used to play RuneScape in elementary school all the time. I had a friend I met in-game and we would always do stuff together. Years later, during my sophomore year of high school, I was hanging out at my real-life best friend's house. We had never met until high school where we hit it off really well. He asked me if I had ever heard of RuneScape, and I told him yes. He pulled it up on their family computer and began typing his login info to show me his character. I instantly recognized the name as my old RuneScape buddy and asked him to pull up his friends list. Sure enough, there I was."
15."One time I saw like a 3-foot long worm. Nobody believes me but I know what I saw."
16."I have hypnopompic hallucinations nearly every night, and it's been going on since I was a baby (mom says it was every night like clockwork). One night, I was in bed with my friend, who was aware of my hallucinations. I was dead asleep, and he was awake on his phone. He said he heard someone come into my room and felt a presence, and he assumed it was my sister, who would always sneak in to steal my weed. He was pretending to be asleep so that my 'sister' could just take what she needed and left. That's when I shot up, looked directly at the wall by my door where I kept my weed and started yelling."
"'Who are you? What are you doing here?' I remember seeing a man in my room, like I always do. It was the first and only time another person interacted with one of my hallucinations. It changed the way I think about these 'dreams'."
17."Happened to me last month. I went camping with some friends and lent one of my buddies a headlamp. He's using it for like 20 minutes when it dies. I open the back to replace the batteries and... there's no batteries in it. It's my headlamp. I've had it for many years and it's a cheap piece of shit and needs AAA batteries to work. It was empty. My friends and I still have no fucking idea how he was using it for 20 minutes."
18."Me and my girlfriend at the time decided to go for a Sunday drive, and at every intersection we would rock paper scissors. If she won, we turned left, if I won we turned right, and if we drew, we went straight. We drove for over half an hour, about 40 km across my city of about 4 million people, and ended up in a dead-end street. As we pulled up, my previous ex-girlfriend who I hadn’t seen in years, and who my girlfriend at the time had insecurities about, walked out of an appointment, noticed me in the car and came over for a chat. My girlfriend couldn’t believe it and thought I’d somehow set her up, even though she was part of the random decision-making."
19."I usually need glasses, and one day I woke up a little freaked out because I could see PERFECTLY without my glasses. I even went out with my boyfriend and was able to read faraway signs and everything. I googled it but there was nothing about such a thing. I went to sleep and the next day it was back to normal; I needed my glasses."
20."When I was around 5 through 8 years old, I had a recurring dream about a house in the woods. It was very vivid; I remember the weather, trees, feeling, shadows and looks of everything around. I used to draw the house once or twice a week trying to remember what it was from. I was never able to find it or see it in real life. I moved away from the area in my early 20s. About five years ago, I was at a classified base in the back of a van driving down the road. I looked to my left and there was the house and it was exactly the way it was in my dreams: right down to the last detail including the weather. Later I drove to it and walked around with a sense that it was exactly the house I remembered from my dreams when I was a kid."
21."When I was around 11, we moved into a new apartment. A while later, I'm not sure how long, I woke up at night/early morning to get water. As I passed the living room on my way to the kitchen, I saw an old man with long gray hair and a red jacket sitting on the floor and smoking. I don't know why but it didn't totally freak me out. I was too sleepy so I completely ignored him especially 'cuz his vibe wasn't evil, if that makes any sense. It only hit me when I got back in bed but then I fell asleep. I never told anyone about this 'cuz I assumed It was just a dream."
"Years later, my little brother, who I never told this story to, started telling me how he had a weird dream that he woke up at night and saw an old man with long hair and a red jacket sitting on the living room floor and smoking. The moment he said that all the hair on my body stood up, I've never experienced such fear in my life. I almost slapped him before he finished the sentence. I didn't tell him it also happened to me around a decade earlier as I didn't wanna freak him out but I still think about it to this day and have no explanation as I don't believe in the paranormal."
22."I was driving with a friend in Maine, on our way to Bar Harbor. We’d already driven there before, so I knew the way, but still, we put on the GPS. It seemed like forever and we still hadn’t hit town yet. I pulled off, reset the GPS, and just turned around. We traveled on the exact same road we started out on, and in about two minutes flat, we were in Bar Harbor. Neither of us can explain it."
"How could we possibly drive through an entire busy town during tourist season and miss it? We didn’t. How did we not get there on that road, but when traveling the same road, we somehow found it? Neither of us has any idea what happened. I even turned to my friend and said, 'Are you experiencing the same reality as me right now?' We’re convinced we ended up in some kind of wormhole or something. Still can’t explain it after looking at maps and everything."
23."One time when I was about high school aged, I was sitting in my dining room doing something on my phone. My brother was on the other end of the room also doing something on his phone. All at once, the room was drowned out completely in really bright white with a bluish light around the edges of my peripheral vision. It was like I was nowhere. I don't know how long I stayed there. Then gradually, the room slowly started to return, peripheral to center. I looked up at my brother and he looked visibly upset. I asked him, 'This is gonna sound crazy, but did the room just...?'"
"And he started yelling about the white with blue edges. We were both on the verge of tears just because it was so unsettling to experience something so extraordinary and having both shared the experience but having no sense that the other was there. It's hard to explain to this day.
After trying to rationalize what happened and failing, we went to our parents room to see if they experienced anything or noticed any changes in the last few minutes. They had no idea what we were talking about and dad made a joke about the house being a portal or something and they went back to their TV program. I still have no idea if we lost any time that day or what happened, if something inexplicable happened or we shared a tiny moment of shared delusion. I have no idea. Still makes my skin crawl to think of it over a decade later."
24."I have a dark patch on my right arm. It almost looks like I have a tan, but only on one random spot on my right forearm. This mark for my entire life had been described as a 'birthmark' which I understand can be totally random and just happen as a baby based on cell deformities. One day, I asked my mom if she knew why I had the birthmark."
"She tells me that when she was a little girl, she was reaching over the stovetop to grab something in a cabinet up high while there was a pot being cooked on the stove. She accidentally touched her right arm against the pot and singed her skin.
She claims that for her entire young life, she had a nasty burn-like tan mark on her forearm. However, that burn mark magically disappeared…. after I was born. Where it instead appeared on my arm and remains there to date.
Maybe there’s a way to explain it, but this still blows my mind."
25."A phenomenon which here in Finland is known as 'Mets?npeitto' (or forest’s blanket). I was casually walking along a forest trail in the woods behind my house, when suddenly I realized it was quiet. No wind and no birds singing. When I started looking around, I noticed that I was not on the trail and had no clue where I was. In a panic, I started going around looking for any landmarks i would recognize, but nothing. This lasted for 10 minutes or so, when I sort of snapped out of it and the forest came back to life, birds singing, and the wind brushing the trees. And there I was, on the trail."
"It was as if I had been teleported into an another world and then back from it. Everything felt normal except there was no sounds of nature and the surroundings were unfamiliar.
As I stated, folklore knows this phenomenon, and according to it, evil spirits trap you in the world of the goblins, and those who don’t find their way out stay there forever. Now I don’t buy this explanation.
For a long time, I wondered if it even really happened or if I’m crazy, but turns out other people have experienced it too."