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Didn't happen to me, but when my dad and uncle were like 10 years old or so, my grandma saw a man standing in the corridor of their house. She started running towards the figure yelling and swearing like a sailor and tacled the figure only to find out that it was just a raincoat.
I'd like your grandmother to be on my team. Dunno what *kind* of team, but it's clear she'd be awesome. Just going to ignore the fact it was actually a raincoat. Details, details...
One night I was sleeping and from the corner of my room I hear someone playing my guitar. I ignore it for a few minutes then it strung again. I was actually excited to see a ghost but when I turned on the light, a huntsman spider was stuck on the strings. I would have preferred a ghost.
Russell sent a clear message with that head. Stop watching me piss. Also, as someone who has had to go outside in the dark as a female alone - I have kids and dogs. Most dogs stay in the house with them and I lock the door behind me. I take one with me. We don't stay long, just enough to get or fix whatever we needed out there. No guarantees but better than 100% screwed from the getgo.
Recalled a story from one time doing this but didn't want to add onto the original comment. The first gaurd dog I used to take with me is some sort of feral looking mutt, tall, and is antisocial...but smart and loyal. I was home alone and heard a truck outside. We live twenty minutes by highway from town, in the woods, with a half mile gravel driveway. It's the only house and you'd have to pass our barn and private property signs. Anyway. I'm protective of my home, and seeing a man I didn't know had to be confronted. I stepped outside with the dog, who stood on the steps with me in silence, staring at him with her head lowering. He leapt in surprise and dashes for his truck. "Does that thing bite?" "Not from this far away." He told me he was working for a construction company they'd had at a neighbor's and had a full dump truck there that was leftover, and came to ask if we wanted it. Gravel is expensive, you can't see the neighbors from our house nor ours from theres to know we exist, and he didn't have a uniform of any sort or any names on his truck. But he was eager to leave when he got the stare from my dog, and he promptly did. He wasn't the first dude to change paths around me when she was out with me, either, when all she did was stop and stare at certain people.
I gotta wonder when the guy realized he was being watched each time he went to pee, and decided to swap-out the lady mannequin in the window...?!?!? 🚽😳 I couldn't help but laugh at how THAT likely went down.
A dude actually tried to pick me up in his windowless van when I was walking to the mall when I was 12. Middle of the day. I lived in an apartment complex behind a shopping center that was accross the street from a mall. I would make that walk every day during the summer. I was more just angry that he kept asking to give me a ride that he thought I would be so stupid. We were still in a populated area so I wasn't as freaked as I prob should have been
Sad/sweet. There was a lady sitting against the wall outside a bar kinda out of it. My friend (both female) and I were walking towards her and a gentleman on the other side of her starts waving us down. As we approach he asks can we please check that lady is alright, as she seems to need help but he doesn't want to intimidate her or give the wrong impression. She was OK (getting air/space) but it bothered me that a Good Samaritan had to take an extra step for CYA.
25:45 "I just realized, this is the first story in this thread that the call was coming from inside the house." Good gawd maybe I'm just old. But the first thought that came to mind was the scene from the movie Dial M for Murder.
Back when I worked at the video store (named Moovies, for those who remember that chain), I was closing with one other person one night, and we'd just locked the outside doors while we were getting the rest of the stuff done to finish up for the night. Some guy came up like a few minutes after we locked the doors and tried to come in. I told him we were closed, and he just said "I know" and stood there staring at us for a waaaaaaaaaaay too long time. Given that we were two not very big ladies, we ended up calling the police/sheriff's department (can't remember which now) to report it. An officer or deputy came by and stayed with us until we were done and walked us to our cars after. The guy definitely creeped both of us out.
God, the one hunting story in the woods? Meeting that guy sounds like the start of a horror movie! Good thing OP had the good sense to nope out of there. Just... Nope, nope, NOPE, this is some shit that sounds like it's right out of the movie 'Us'. Good thing that OP trusted both his gut feeling and his dog's intuition: animals are a good judge of intention. If an otherwise friendly animal is stressed out of their mind around someone, then it's definitely time to be worried. Not ignoring stuff like that can really save you, and I wish people would take early signs of something being wrong more seriously. I once heard this reddit story of this really sweet blind bulldog who pretty much got along with everyone it met. But it got really angry with someone's coworker out of nowhere, and got really protective of the owner's young son all of a sudden. I dunno, the kid was around 5 or 6 years old, and the dog wouldn't let that coworker anywhere near the kid. Barking, growling, the works: no matter what OP did, he couldn't get the dog to calm down. Eventually, the coworker left. The OP of that one was wondering what was going on in the moment, but later heard that this very coworker got arrested and convicted for possession of CP. It was one of those cases where the police went through his computer. Moral of both stories: Trust your pets, folks, they'll know something is up before you do.
I'm beginning to realize that the majority of freak out moments are due to non paranormal events as opposed to paranormal ones. I guess it's just easier sometimes to blame the paranormal when you don't have any other reasonable explanation.
So a few years ago me and my sister were home alone. My sister was probably 21-22 and I was 11-12. My dad had a specific door knock he would do when knocking to let him in. At the time we lived in apartments and only could use the peep hole to see who it was. My sister opened the door and it was 2 randoms asking for gas money and laundry detergent. it weirded us out for awhile as we’ve never seen or heard anyone else do this knock in our lives especially on our front door 🗿 we moved into a nice quiet neighborhood since then and we have a ring doorbell.
I had some people break into a shed in my garden while I was asleep in bed and steal a lawnmower I never woke up until the morning and saw the shed door open now I get nervous when home alone as I always think they might return or someone else could appear
30:03 "... I think my friend saw what looked like a gun in his hand. 30:15 "I immediately freaked and I screamed at my friend to get in the car. He jumps in and I floored it past the guy screaming at us." Rock, paper, scissors, gun, two+ tons speeding projectile aimed at a raving lunatic. Who wins? And when asked by the cops, the only thing "fuzzy" is your memory of whether you could've swerved to avoid hitting him. Adrenaline be funny like that sometimes though. 😉
Last year, when Tennessee flooded and all that, me and my dad were heading home from Georgia, we live in michigan, we leave at 5 in the morning, then it starts pouring rain, so bad you couldn't see 100 feet in front, now, my dad is used to driving in storms and he confidently goes 70 mph during this storm, I think there was close to half an inch of water on the highway Not scary, but for me it was probably one of the scariest moments of my life
When I was about 18 or 19 I was working on a fishing boat lobster in off the coast of Maine well we just got done doing a run so we're trying to take a quick nap I hear something up on the deck I'm like all right nobody's supposed to be there the captains up in his chair so I went up there there is some guy standing on the edge of the back of the boat and just Dove off into the ocean I questioned myself if I really saw the person or not as the captain he said he didn't hear anything or see anybody I looked around I didn't see any boats till this day I have no clue if it was a person or a figment of my imagination like the captain told me it was LOL but that creeped me right out
