Strange Experiences That Were Almost Too Creepy to Be True
Horror movies are full of extreme situations that are invented to test your ability to stay calm. If fictional events of terror make your heart race, you probably won’t stay as cool as a cucumber when something really creepy happens.
When the lights go out and there’s a voice on the other side of the house, who would you call to make sure that everything’s alright?
Some of the creepiest experiences are caused by people being where they shouldn’t be. Whether someone wandered onto someone else’s property or intentionally broke into a place that they knew they shouldn’t be, it’s not clear whether these incidents were caused by humans or some other worldly force.
I Try Not to Think About it
I had a house in London that was quite old, circa 1835. In the basement, the plaster was cracking and falling off of the one wall. We had to remove it to treat it with a mold-proof membrane. Removing the plaster to bare brick revealed something disturbing: a bricked-up doorway.
We decided to open it up to see what was behind it.
It was a small room with a rough wooden bed that all rotted away except for the frame. There was also an upright chair with the back broken. But the creepiest thing was a kind of tailor’s dummy standing on a wooden platform.
The dummy had the heart, liver, kidneys, and other anatomical parts drawn on, and each part had been stabbed multiple times.
Mildewed newspaper cuttings were also on the chair, most too badly rotted away to read, but the ones in the center were more preserved.
They were ink pictures of women with names like “Florrie Corrigan, the Irish Rose” and “Irene Atkins, the Clapham Nightingale.” Whoever the papers belonged to had added some “edits.”
Some had their faces disfigured or slashed. Some had dripping wounds and cuts drawn on them. Most also had genitals drawn onto them. My wife was fairly freaked out and had the room blessed to remove bad spirits. I try not to think about it.
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A Dark Silhouette
One night, I awoke with a start, frozen in place, eyes wide open, having a familiar episode of sleep paralysis. This time, I didn’t immediately begin the struggle, because something was different. My gaze was transfixed on the dark silhouette of a woman sitting on the edge of my bed.
She had long, dark, stringy hair, and she appeared to be wet from head to toe.
She was reminiscent of a corpse that had been retrieved from a body of water. When I awoke, it was as if she became aware of my attention, and at that moment she spoke to me.
I will never forget what she said, “I am the one you are always with, but you never want to admit.” And then she was gone, and I was free.
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We Never Looked Back
We went out to an extremely secluded camping spot years ago. A buddy of mine had this secret site up in the mountains that was literally in the middle of nowhere in the mountains, about an hour off of main roads, with no GPS or map.
We arrived and started setting up, when all of a sudden, I saw a single light through the trees about 100 yards away.
It was moving as if it was a headlamp of some sort. When I pointed it out, my buddy shouted “Hello!” towards it, and the movement stopped abruptly. I wasn’t that nervous until my friend who’s spot it was said he’d never seen another soul in the area in all the years he’d camped there.
We called out again, but the light remained motionless.
We were all getting a creepy feeling, concerned about why it wasn’t moving anymore. I casually/jokingly commented that if it was me and I wished us harm, I’d have strapped the headlight to a tree and then snuck around behind us.
Literally at that moment, a branch snapped about 30 feet behind us, to our left. We immediately threw everything back into the truck without a word and hightailed it out of there without looking back.
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An Unknown Photographer
When I was 17, I was really into cosplay. So, one day I was doing a photoshoot with my friends in a park near my house. Since it was super close, I just walked there in my Lucy Heartfelia cosplay.
A man in his mid-40s drove past me once, and then I assume he drove around the block, because the next thing I knew, he had pulled over next to the sidewalk I was on.
He called me over and tried to get me in his car, but when I told him I was underage, he drove away. I thought it was creepy but shook it off. I got to the park and we started taking pictures. I was posing when I noticed the man, there at the park, taking pictures of me from behind.
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