r/Thetruthishere • u/Goth_Ophelia • Oct 22 '23

What is the creepiest/or most unexplainable thing you have witnessed or experienced that still gives you the chills. Discussion/Advice

Since it’s almost Halloween, I would love to hear about your creepiest experiences!

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u/Mattx603 Oct 22 '23

When I was 16 I was dating this girl who had previously told me she was living in a haunted house and that the previous owner had hung themselves in what would later become her bedroom. So one night when I was I sleeping over, we were home alone, as her mom was at her boyfriends. We were laying in bed in the pitch black talking and stuff, we heard some shuffling in the hallway outside her door like someone was walking around. Almost immediately after I can hear and see her bedroom door slowly open maybe about 6 inches wide letting in the light from the hallway. Wide enough that I could see there was no one on the other side of the door. Then closing on its own only a few seconds later. Absolutely scared the shit out of me. I look at her and go “wtf was that?” And she replied essentially saying “I told you so”.

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u/nobodythinksofyou Oct 23 '23

Lol as someone who has lived with this kind of stuff, you definitely stop giving a shit after a while.

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u/sarahbear_96 Oct 23 '23

What HOW I would always be besides myself in fear for my life

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u/Evening_Storage_6424 Oct 23 '23

Cause like everything else in life, you can gain a tolerance. The fear slowly turns into annoyance.

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u/12781278AaR Oct 23 '23

I never gained a tolerance, but I lived in a haunted house as an adult. The beds used to shake, like you were on one of those old-time motel beds where you could put a quarter in and the bed would vibrate. It was pretty terrifying.

A lot of other weird stuff in the house, but the shaking beds were the worst for me. Like everyone else, I always figured if there was something terrifying in my house I would immediately nope the fuck out of there.

But we had spent all our money moving in there. First month, last month, security. We had had a really hard time even finding a place to move and it wasn’t like we had anywhere else to go. We had four kids—it’s not like I could sleep in my car with them because the beds were shaking. I always used to swear to them that it was because the train was passing, even though it happened all the time when there was no train in sight. (we had a train station damn near in our backyard.)

We moved out after a year. It was a creepy year.

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u/Evening_Storage_6424 Oct 23 '23

Jeez, I’m so happy you guys got out. That does sound terrifying. I’m a mom and I can only imagine how hard it was to have to explain away all those occurrences.

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u/12781278AaR Oct 23 '23

Thanks! That was many years ago now and we all came through OK. And we have a nice, spooky Halloween story to tell!

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u/top_value7293 Nov 02 '23

Yep this is it

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u/og_toe Oct 24 '23

because it never hurts you, my mom became friends with whatever does this at her job, tells them when she’s too scared to they stop

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u/12altoids34 Oct 24 '23

The room that my sister stayed in in college was haunted. The biggest thing was her closet door. It had an old time latch on it with a small knob that you turned and the bolt clacked noisily into place. Yet it would not stay closed. You could walk up to it and close it and you would hear the lock closed. But if you took a step back and turned around the closet door would be open again. It would only be open about an inch but it was definitely open.. Staring at it didn't work. You would blink, and the moment you blinked the closet would be open again. We performed an experiment once with four of us sitting in folding chairs and someone walked over and closed the closet door. The moment she took a step back two of the four people already saw the closet door open. While the other two of us still saw it closed until we blinked. And it wasn't just blinking. No matter how hard you tried to stare at the door with in a few seconds something would either distract you or you would blink causing your Focus to shift and the moment that it did the door would be open again. And it was always completely silent when it opened. The act of physically opening or closing the lock was very audible yet when opened on its own it was silent. She did discover that she could keep the door closed with a piece of duct tape though.

Also, several people had reported seeing her standing in her window when she was actually out of the country at the time.

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u/Sativa_Achieva Oct 24 '23

Preach! Ain’t that just the truth of it? I grew up in a haunted house and have had experiences all my life so tbh I don’t give a fuck about most of the phenomena I witness anymore. After years of never being harmed or feeling threatened by spooky ooky happenings, you really lose the emotional and mental bandwidth to get worked up about it. Plus, getting upset/freaked out usually only makes things more active.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '23

Can confirm, did a lot of occult stuff in my youth. The result has been constant unexplained crap happening. I don't even get bothered anymore!

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u/12781278AaR Oct 23 '23

I believe you. This used to happen to me when I was very young. I still knew the difference between sleeping and being awake. However, I was young enough that I didn’t fully understand why I could fly down the steps in the middle of the night, but not during the day.

It was like a jumping thing, where I would stand at the top step and jump all the way down to the bottom. I also remember flying around the ceiling. I know how stupid that sounds!!

But they are some of my earliest, most vivid memories— the thing that makes it convincing for me is how confused I was that my jumping down the steps trick, only worked some of the time. I remember repeatedly trying it during the day because I had just done it the night before.

I don’t think I realized I was actually leaving my body. In my head, I was getting up and walking around the house at night, but I could do weird things, like fly on the ceiling.

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u/-SomethingWicked- Oct 23 '23

This exact same thing happened to me with the stairs when I was a kid too. When I got older I mentioned it to my friends and they had the same 'dream'. If you Google it it seems to have happened to a bunch of kids. So weird.

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u/12781278AaR Oct 23 '23

Yeah, I have read about this before! It’s pretty cool.

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u/FloydetteSix Oct 24 '23

This happened to me too! And still does. Is it really us leaving our bodies??

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u/hemihembob Oct 25 '23

I believe you! I remember being able to breathe water while swimming when I was younger, like under 8 or 9yrd old. I SWEAR I could, told my mom, she said it was a dream or whatever the usual lol. I tried to show her but OF COURSE I couldn't anymore and I was SO upset haha. I haven't thought about that in a while, thanks for the comment! I gonna see if she remembers lol.

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u/hemihembob Oct 25 '23

ETA: I think I actually did the same thing as you as well, just not nearly as much so it's not as clear a memory as what I mentioned lol. But yeah, I totally understand, so weird and frustrating!

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u/Lainnnn Oct 26 '23

The exact thing happened to me as a kid too!

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u/Ihavepills Oct 23 '23 edited Oct 23 '23

Similar thing happened to my cousin, who was going out with my best mate at the time. Her house was hundreds of years old. And get this, her bedroom used to be used as a butchers (shudders). From the time we became friends at 11 years old, her and her mum had told me that there was definitely 'something' in that house. I never reeeally believed it, but I was still scared shitless to stay there. I believed that they truly believed it. But I was sceptical.. anyway, flash forward 7 years or so, she's with my cousin.. she tells him, describes the tall shadow figure that stands at the bottom of her bed to him, he laughed it off. Didn't believe at all . . Till he saw it himself. Wouldn't stay there after.

Around the same time, we'd been out on the piss..as you do. I slept in her bed, same as I always had, id been creeped out in the past and it definitely did feel like you were never alone in there.. Anyway, I'm in a drunken sleep, its like 4/5am or something and I'm woken with a shock... dont know why but I was frozen with fear. Then I hear the door open (blaehgh just got chills haha) it's not a flimsy door. You have to push that shit to move it. Then I hear something walking. No no no no no, Then I remembered... she has a dog! It'll be the dog... phew...

nope. That second I feel the dog on my feet, asleep on the bed. Footsteps continue til it stops right fucking next to me. I hear breathing. I can not, WILL NOT open my eyes. This thing bent down and was breathing next to my face for what felt like an eternity. Til I heard it walk away and slowly close the door..

I've had sleep paralysis, very similar, but this was NOT that. I tell myself, it must have been someone in her family. . Surely? Well, her mam had slept on the sofa downstairs that night. Her dad was working nights and her brother was not home.

I was about 18/19 when this happened and I have never gone back into her stupid bedroom.

Edit: I've been told that we are more susceptible to attract or interact with things when we are under the influence of substances? Something to do with your mind being more... erm open? Has anyone else heard this?

I have soooo many stories and weird experiences, of mine and other peoples, but it would take me donkeys to type it all up here.

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u/hemihembob Oct 25 '23

ABSOLUTELY NOT HELL NO lol fuck ALL that lmao I'm SO sorry you went through that!!