October may be the spookiest month because of Halloween, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only time weird, unexplainable things can happen. In fact, they’re probably more likely to happen in any of the other 11 months of the year.
Whether you’re a true believer or a supernatural skeptic, you can’t deny that some people experience some truly spooky things . Like the people in this list, who shared their experiences on Reddit .
“I was a kid but a teenager, old enough to know that Santa Claus didn’t exist.” – jmvk2018
“But one Xmas eve was staying at my uncles old farm house. In the middle of the night, I awoke to the sight of an old man looking exactly like the typical Santa. I was so confused and scared so I just kept my eyes closed and eventually fell back asleep.”
“Told my family about this mysterious Santa visit and to my surprise, no one ridiculed me for thinking I ‘saw Santa.'”
“Instead they determined I was old enough to know the truth about the former owner of the farmhouse. He was a real person who was sadly found dead with suspicious conditions.”
“Turns out my uncle had had plenty of odd occurrences throughout his time living there.”
“Never anything hurtful or violent but definitely his presence was known. What really sealed the deal was when they showed me a picture of said previous owner, Saul, and what do you know…he had a remarkable resemblance to Santa. RIP Saul!”
“Sitting at the desk in my basement at my house during college, I saw a ball of light the size of a basketball ‘manifest’ across the room from me, fly towards me, then veer off and disappear.” – milkomeda
“It was the middle of a clear, sunny day. Not sure, but given it’s the only time something like that has ever happened to me, I would classify it as abnormal, maybe even paranormal. Also, immediately after, it was like I could see the air ‘flowing’ in the room.”
“Phantom whistling that followed a tune that me, my brother and my sister were singing (Greensleeves—very random lol) while doing dishes in the kitchen one summer.” – Kskeen19
“The whistle continued the tune for about 5 seconds after we finished singing and it just dissipated.”
“My sister and I can’t whistle and we were all staring at each other while the whistling occurred.”
“My brother and sister immediately checked outside for a passerby (we live in the country, no neighbors and if there was someone there they would have seen them for sure—not to mention the whistle was right in the kitchen with us) while I covered my ears and started having a panic attack from fear lol.”
“They checked inside the house for someone too. We couldn’t explain it and still talk about to this day.”
“My parents still live there and continue to have odd experiences but nothing to that level.
“Edit to add: we also tried singing in the same spots again to see if there was maybe just an echo—but there was none.”
“When I was 7 my family made a quick road trip to visit my grandma who was in hospice.” – TheBrontosaurus
“We got back home late at night and my sister and I saw our grandma sitting in the rocking chair in our room. The rocking chair that had belonged to her husband.”
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“Our mom walked in and told us that grandma had died and we were gonna drive back in the morning.”
“My sister and I didn’t mention it for years but we both are absolutely certain grandma stopped by to say goodbye.”
“The night my grandpa died he came to me in a dream.” – doesitmatter83
“He had suffered a heart attack and was feeling rather poorly afterwards for a couple of days. He died in the night, but the moment he died he told me in a dream not to worry, that he was ok now. It made his passing easier for me because I know he came to reassure me and say goodbye.”
“For background, I work in a retirement home doing activities. On this day I was filling in at the Healthcare Center, which is basically hospice.” – smokealarmsnick
“I was in the day room reading stories with one of the ladies. She suddenly asked me who that woman was, while (to me) looked like she was pointing across the room.
‘I don’t know, but I’d be happy to ask her so we can find out.’ I thought she was talking about one of the CNAs who was sitting across the room.”
“‘No, the woman right next to you. On your left.’ There was no one sitting next to me. She continued.”
“‘She looks just like you, but her hair is longer. She says she doesn’t have a name. But she’s very nice.’ I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck standing on end, and I must have been giving her a look.
“‘Did I say something wrong?’
“‘No, no. Nothing’s wrong.'”
“I made a quick excuse to leave, and practically ran back to my memory care unit.”
“Now here’s what shook me up. I was supposed to be an identical twin. But my twin died while we were still in the womb. Leaving only me. This is not information I share with the people I work with.”
“When I was in college a guy started chatting me up in the on-campus Starbucks.” – AgentCarmichael20
“He walked me to my class and then got disoriented and said, ‘For some reason I can’t remember where the business building is’ so I gave him directions.”
“When I went to look him up on Facebook that evening I found a memorial group for him.”
“He was a student at my college who died in a car wreck before I even attended.
“Not sure why his ghost was lingering on campus but I hope he made it across before too long. I never saw him again.”
“Saw an old lady walking in front of me. I walk past her, she smiles at me, I thought she might know me, I smiled back.” – Dark_ReapeR_666
“After maybe 10 seconds, I look back and she vanished! It was broad daylight and not a very busy road, it goes straight with one just one turn which is clearly visible too. It was 10 secs, no normal person can vanish like that.”
“Had visitors and their kids liked my room because it had a massive bed that they could play.” – illogicalfuturity
“We thought they were there because they were noisy. One of the mothers was about to tell them to be quiet when all kids came inside from the backyard asking for snacks.”
“The noise from my bedroom was gone and we asked the kids if they’ve been in my room.”
“They said no because they were told not to by someone, they didn’t elaborate on who that someone was.”
Straight out of a horror movie, that one.
“When I was a baby, my parents used to put me down to sleep in a standard sized cot in the front room.” – Global_Ad9616
“(No point putting me out of sight upstairs, back in the day when everyone left their doors open).”
“She walked in to check on me from doing her chores more than a few times to find my cot surrounded by attentive guarding dogs.”
“We didn’t have a dog, all the neighbourhood dogs, including my aunt’s from half a mile away would sneak in and congregate around my damn cot, no fighting, like I was the damn Anti Christ or something.”
