Rather long, once posted this on … another forum. Sorry for the length but it’s fairly complete.
When my daughter was around 2 years old we moved to a (new to us) 4-bedroom house, built in the 1950s. We may have even bought it from the original owners, I’m not certain. Anyway, master bedroom was for my wife and me, the other, smaller bedroom was to be our daughter’s room.
Soon after moving in we noticed that after putting her to bed for the night, we’d hear her talking and laughing long after she should have been asleep. Peeking in after about the third night of this we found her standing at the end of her crib, chattering away, seeming to be talking with the closet door about 5 feet away. Typical new parents, we’d tell her to lie down and go to sleep. Probably a shadow on the door or something like that.
This continued for many nights, and then we noticed she was actually holding conversations - talk a little, listen some, answer “yes” or “no” or “I don’t know”.
When we asked her about it, she said she was talking to “the lady in the green dress”. When we asked what she talked about, she either said “stuff”, or “School” (daycare) or “I don’t know.”. This continued sporadically over the space of about a year, and eventually died down to where if she was continuing the conversations, we weren’t catching them.
Her little brother was born, and after the initial months of the baby-in-the-parent’s room phase, we moved them together into the room. At about age 1 or so, when he could stand on his own, pulling himself up on things, the same thing happened. We’d hear him babbling, and peek in to see him doing the same thing his sister did - stand at the end of the crib, talking to the closet. On each occasion we peeked in to find him doing this, his sister lay fast asleep in her bed. His pattern followed hers exactly, sounding exactly like we were eavesdropping on one side of a conversation. We even got the same answers when asking about them: talking about “stuff”, or “school”.
Again, this behavior continues sporadically, slows, stops.
Almost three years go by. Everyone’s two years apart. Two boys now, so Big Sister gets her own room and the two boys share The Room. Around age 1-ish the youngest gets to where he’s able to pull himself up to stand, there he is in the crib, babbling to the closet.
We have no way of knowing if they discussed this among themselves, but each described a “lady in a green dress”. In asking them separately, our daughter might mention “she has long hair”. Youngest son might say “She has black hair”. If asked if it’s long or short, curly or straight, he’d say “It’s long”. And so on in many details. When we requested a new detail from one, and gave a multiple choice for that detail to the other, they’d always agree - belt or no belt, color, shoes, white lady/black lady/Indian lady, whatever. At this point though, we’re thinking they could all be remembering the same picture from a story book or something, so no conclusions here.
Again, the conversations slowed, then stopped. Then the weird stuff starts happening.
Now, the wife and I were both smokers, and the rule was one could smoke outside, or in the bathroom upstairs (which had a ceiling exhaust fan) but nowhere else in the house. One fine cold evening, too cold to go outside for just a smoke, I used this rule. My wife was out of the house until later, and I’d put the youngest to bed. The two older children were downstairs watching a movie.
Suddenly I hear the two oldest running through the house, yelling the youngest child’s name.
This makes more sense if you know the downstairs came up into the kitchen; cross the kitchen to the right and you’re in the dining room; cross the dining room and turn right, you’re in the hallway; follow the hallway to the right and you’re in the living room; pass through the living room which connects back to the kitchen. Just a big circle really, through several rooms.
The older two kids were running this circle and yelling the youngest’s name in an exasperated way.
So I stub out my smoke and exit the bathroom just as the older two were making the circuit again.
“What’s going on you guys?” “We’re chasing (youngest). He’s supposed to be in bed!” I peek into the bedroom. “Yes, he is in bed.” “No he’s not. He just went into the kitchen again. We heard him on the stairs and just saw him run up. He’s not supposed to be awake watching movies now so we tried to tell him but he kept going around the corner so we ran after him.”
So, basically, they’d each heard and then glimpsed someone on the steps and chased the figure. Every time they turned a corner in this circuit, they caught just a glimpse of the figure turning the next corner, and continued the chase. My youngest was truly asleep. This sort of game might have repeated once or twice more over the next 12 months or so, then ended.
Turned bedroom #4 into a study. It was downstairs. One day I’m home in my study, wife at work, kids at school. Someone is pacing the floor above me. A slow walk from one end of the living room directly above me, then back again. Since I know no-one is home I guess it’s my sister-in-law, who has a key and a penchant for dropping by from time to time unannounced. I wait a while for her to announce herself, but all she does is pace back and forth. And she sounds… heavy. Finally I go upstairs, doors are all locked, nobody there. Could be street traffic? But it was exactly the sound of someone walking above, that one squeaky floorboard and everything.
That evening I mention this to my wife. “Oh, you heard The Walking Man. When I stayed home sick that day last month I heard it all the time. Someone walking back and forth in the living room, but nobody ever there when I checked.” Why did she call it the Walking “Man” then, I asked. “Heavy-sounding steps, more like a man’s.”
Okay, so we got that going for us, which is nice. I’m wondering how to enlist this character to push a vacuum cleaner while he’s at it. I mean, if he’s bending floorboards he has mass, and could push a vacuum…
No more Green Lady chats; no more phantom kids running around the house. The Walking Man is heard from time to time but I’ve learned to ignore him. He doesn’t answer to questions or anything like that. We’ve left out pen and paper, nada, okay, we’re cool, he’s cool, whatever.
We’re moving - just need a bigger house. The realtor [with a sideways roll of the eyes] assures us we don’t have to mention the other residents to prospective buyers, so that’s nice. She thinks we’re nuts. Most of the stuff is packed up, moved into storage so the house “shows” well. Someone buys it and we start packing the last of everything so we can move later in the week. With the “shows well” it just looked… roomy. Now it actually looks like a place someone is leaving.
My oldest son is now 12, and still in the second upstairs room, the Green Lady bedroom, where he shares bunk beds with his younger brother. He gets up in the night to use the bathroom.
In the living room, clearly visible down the hall, is a tall man standing and staring at the wall, his back to my son. My son said he knew instantly it wasn’t me. This tall figure begins to turn slowly towards my son. My son changes his mind about using the bathroom and runs back into his own room, where there’s a woman wearing a green dress, sitting on the floor. In her lap is a small child. They’re both looking at my son, who at this point is screaming his head off and running into our room/bed/covers.
So we check, and there’s nobody else in the house of course. His brother was asleep in the same room as the lady/kid, and didn’t hear anything until my son yelled. He didn’t see anything on waking.
We now had a video camera, though! For the next couple of nights, just because, we set up the video camera in the corner of the living room that would give the most coverage: Living room, hallway, kitchen on the left. We don’t have motion sensors, and the tape runs 8 hours or so on lowest quality, but in the two or three nights we taped after bedtime nothing happened, at least nothing caught on tape.
And we moved, and that’s it.
Except -
We never really noticed until the move, but when you walk into a house and there’s nobody home, you somehow feel that. “I’m home, and I’m the first one home, and I’m the only one home”. We realized that we had never felt that since 1988, only in the new house. My wife also said it felt “lonely” being the first one to come home to the new house. So at some level, maybe we all sensed something.
I was riding my moped on a dark gravel road back home with my buddy and as I make a left turn, I can see in my headlights someone doing jumping jacks on the middle of the road ahead. I pull aside thinking what the hell did I just see as my friend who was following me pulls next to me, lifts up his visor and is like ‘did you fucking see that?!’ We immediately go back to inspect and there’s no sign of anyone anywhere.
It’s not exactly paranormal but just very strange.
It took place on a weekday morning, in the late 2000s, I dropped my ex at her workplace, and then I start driving towards my own workplace. I need to take a tunnel downtown, there’s a traffic light just before the tunnel. The light is red, I wait. The light turns green, I go ahead, along with another car next to me.
Right behind me, in my mirror, I see police cars blocking the street at the traffic light. I’m the last car that went through the traffic light. No other cars can make it behind me.
I’m kinda freaking out. Why are the police cars blocking the way to the tunnel?
I then realize there are only two cars in the tunnel, mine, and the car just before me. No other car. At 9am. On a weekday. What the hell is going on?
I keep on driving, everything seems normal, apart from the complete lack of cars.
Eventually, I see the end of the tunnel, with police cars on either side of the road. And police officers making OBVIOUS signs with their arms : “Get the fuck out of there, quick, faster!”.
Me and the other car make it out of the tunnel, then In my mirror, again, I see 4 police cars blocking the way out of the tunnel.
I turned on the radio. Nothing about this event. I searched the news websites for the whole day, I didn’t find anything. I asked around, at work, in social media, nobody knew about this. I didn’t think of calling the police station. I never learned what the hell happened in this tunnel.
My bet is it was either a bomb threat, or they had to catch a known criminal in this tunnel, or maybe a collapse danger of some kind. But the fact that it didn’t make local news is mind boggling to me. I sometimes wonder if I dreamed this.
My mysterious police experience was waiting at a tram stop, traffic jam around and then a civilian police car was forcing its way through the cars. Four people in the car, the driver and three people in the back. The two in the back were leaning over a person in the middle who was covered with what looked like bullet-proof vests. All visible people were wearing storm masks. I also searched the news but I never learned what the fuck was going on there.
I’m the last person to believe in anything paranormal, but I’ve still got a story that one could have interpreted in that way if one was so inclined.
Age 12, lying in bed thinking about how great everything was, starting to get to a point of realising not everything was going to last forever and things sometimes change. Said to myself “I hope nothing will ever change”, had an overwhelming sense to look through my window. Saw a massive shooting star. Next day my parents announced we were moving to a different country.
My wife used to work for one of those “paranormal investigation” companies. She saw it as a bit of fun but lots of people took it very seriously. One night I went along to a spooky old Manor House to see what it was about and I had this digital camera with an IR night mode. I took this one photo during the night and you could see a ghostly figure standing in the background. The camera used long exposures along with the infra red to get the night shots so I knew it wasn’t really a ghost but I showed my wife, she showed the organisers who shared it with the “community” and a few months later I got calls from a paranormal magazine wanting to run the picture.
Hanging out in old houses at 3am is super fun though and I enjoyed it a lot.
I grew up in the a house from around the 1900s. I swear i woke up in the middle of the night and and looked down the stairs and saw a couple in older period dress standing at the foot of the stairs.
I also remember being terrified of the cellar door which I would feel a distinct force whenever I went to close and lock it.
Both of these things I know weren’t dreams because I remember them vividly even today when dreams usually fade
The paranormal experience was actually a simple one, checking a 1 TB Nvme and 2 1 TB HDDs every boot is just not efficient, especially if they shut down unexpectedly before. Changing the 2 to a 0 for the backup LV in /etc/fstab fixed that.
When I was about 15 I woke up at about 4am, super distressed, and I knew someone had died. I didn’t want to go look so I just hoped it wasn’t my mother or father, shamefully I thought it would be better if it was a grandparent. There was a lot of going over possibilities and mental bargaining.
Eventually I calmed down and realised it was irrational and finally got back to sleep, the following day I found out it was a close friend of my mother’s. She’d killed herself. I don’t understand what happened, I don’t really believe in the supernatural but it was very strange.
I had a similar but far less important experience a few weeks ago. Woke up in a super distressed panic at 2AM. I decided to go downstairs to shake it off, and my teenaged stepdaughter had left the front door wide open.
Took me a few hours to get our animals back inside. I was pissed. Point is my body knew something was wrong.
I had a dream with my aunt. She was in an all white dress in a field waving goodbye at me and she was yelling stuff at me but I couldn’t quite make it out. I was trying to get to her, but I couldn’t get past a fence even though it was like 2 feet tall and I could easily jump over it. It felt like it was a goodbye. After a while I stopped trying to understand and get to her, and just waved goodbye, then the dream ended.
I woke up and wrote my dream down and went on with my day. It wasn’t until later l found out she had passed away. I was like 10 and at that time and I was very scared, so I didn’t tell my mom about my dream until years later. She told me that happens often in my family
I don’t necessarily believe in the supernatural either, but some things I don’t think can be explained. Like if it happens once I get it, but this has happened multiple times. I’ve seen my brother wake up from a dream and tell us about how he said goodbye to a family member only to right then and there find out they had passed away. I cannot explain it
Be 9. I woke up to the crash of breaking glass from the direction of the kitchen. Heart racing, listening as hard as I could for someone breaking in. I hear men’s dress shoe footsteps, slow and methodical. They’re coming closer to the hallway to the bedrooms. The hallway light turns on. Someone jiggles my parents’ locked bedroom doorknob. The light turns off, the steps walk slowly back towards the kitchen. Silence.
I woke up the next morning to find out the cat knocked my toy off the kitchen table and the pieces scattered all over the floor. No sign of entry; apparently my mind fabricated the lights and sounds that I knew were real.
I was walking around a computer centre, comparing prices of games. There was one store with a really low price, so I marked down the name and kept comparing.
After all the comparisons, that store was still the lowest, so I was planning to head back to it. I walked through the entire centre 3 times and couldn’t find it.
I asked the staff at the information counter. She said, “this store you’re looking for doesn’t exist”.
I have a few explanations for this. If you don’t want to ruin the fun, don’t read the following.
!The store was so small that I walked past it multiple times without noticing.!<
!I actually got the name wrong, so the staff said it doesn’t exist.!<
!The staff was getting minimum pay and had no responsibility to guide me correctly.!<
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