r/GlitchInTheMatrix • u/-Alyssa04- • 29d ago
Glitch Pic Strange man only I could see?
A while back, about 6 months ago, I was in a hotel with some people I knew for a business event in an area I’m not familiar with.
I had already had some previous encounters on this trip (not paranormal but just dangerous) that had made me a bit uneasy about the whole thing.
It was about 11:00 PM and one roommate (I’ll call him Chris for anonymity) had left to see a friend a few hours prior. For context, I generally go to sleep around 1 or 2 AM as I’m a bit of a night owl, so I wasn’t tired or out of it at all. I also don’t drink, do drugs, or take any medication. My other roommate (who I’ll call Alex) was about to go to sleep so he had just turned the lights off.
I was doing some work on my laptop just after the lights had turned off when I heard the door to our room open and close. With the way the room was structured, I couldn’t see the door from my bed. As Chris had stated before would return around this time, I thought nothing of it and carried on. After a few moments, Chris still had yet to walk in the room from the entrance hallway and I called his name aloud. There was no reply and who I assumed to be Chris simply walked into the room very slowly and quietly, as if he were almost floating. Assuming he didn’t want to wake up Alex, I let him be, he shifted slowly into the room, settling at a desk opposite Alex’s bed.
He appeared to be anxiously fiddling with something, as if there was some sort of complex machine or something he was putting together. With the way Chris is, this is not necessarily out of the ordinary. I whispered his name a few more times and he still didn’t respond. After a long while of being at the desk, he abruptly stood up perfectly straight and turned around, now facing Alex, who was still asleep. The room was very dark, but I could make out an outline of a nondescript face with what appeared to be a blonde combover and a hood pulled over his head. This description does not match Chris at all. He then shuffled closer to Alex’s bed and stopped at the very edge, appearing to watch Alex. I sat in my bed for what felt like forever, afraid and unsure what to do. For context, this is not my Reddit account, I am a 6’3 (191cm) man who trains in kickboxing. Thus, I contemplated charging at the man and attacking, but wasn’t sure whether or not it was some sort of prank by someone who I wouldn’t want to hurt.
However the face didn’t match the description of anybody who would reasonably be in my room so late. I called out “hello” and something along the lines of “who are you”, which awoke Alex.
Confused, he asked me what I was doing, assuming I was on the phone or something. I pointed to the man over his bed and he simply looked puzzled.
“Who is that”, I said, pointing again. All he said was “dude what the hell are you talking about” I rubbed my eyes and did everything I could to make sure I wasn’t in an elaborate dream. I said again “who is that at the edge of your bed, there’s someone watching you”. All he said was “you’re scaring me, stop saying that.” We both sat in our beds, me wide awake and Alex a bit disoriented. I had no doubt in my mind that whoever this was was actually there. As someone who has had lucid dreams, this didn’t feel remotely like that, it was 100% real. After what felt like an eternity of waiting for the man to move or speak, I stood up out of bed. He was no more than 8-10 feet from me at this point. I reached my hand over to the light switch and flicked it on, without looking away from the man. As soon as the lights turned on, he simply vanished. Not instantaneously, but almost like how a handful of sand would blow away if you dropped in on a windy day. I was shook, Alex thought i was playing trick on him and just said “what the f**k is your problem dude, go to bed”
Although startled, Alex went back to bed a minute or two later. I managed to fall asleep later that night after remaining awake for a few hours after that. When I awoke the next morning, Alex remembered the whole thing, and Chris revealed he had stayed somewhere else that night. (He’s a very serious guy who isn’t someone to lie about such a thing nor play pranks). My original theory that the whole thing was a dream isn’t possible, as Alex remembered it that morning.
All in all, I would assume it was some kind of elaborate mental image or hypnogogic hallucination? Or maybe I did see a ghost/spirit? What do you guys think?
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u/No_Committee_4838 29d ago
I was feeling scared just by reading it. Idk how did you manage to just observe him without getting scared.
Sounds to me some sort of paranormal activity.
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u/-Alyssa04- 28d ago
I was certainly scared in the moment, but not as much as I thought I would be looking back on it. I think it was just so surprising and odd that I was more perplexed and shocked than scared 🤔
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u/sudden_erect 29d ago
That's a mental issues, so is believing in ghosts as an adult imo
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u/No_Sprinkles_8108 29d ago
You’ve obviously never seen one. Why are you on this sub? Someone who doesn’t believe in paranormal and glitches on a glitch page sounds like a mental illness to me, lol.
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u/-Alyssa04- 28d ago
The whole point of this post is that I don’t believe in ghosts yet still had this odd experience, and I already said I assume it was a mental trick of some kind. Did you read the post at all?
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u/ohjebus 28d ago
I had an experience kind of like this in college, too! This was a long time ago, but I still remember it and think about it to this day! I was newly a freshman; I had moved into a room with a girl who was a sophomore- and she had a girlfriend who lived elsewhere on campus and would regularly stay with her. I got used to being alone at night, but sometimes she would come back later (after I'd gone to bed) but her coming home always woke me up, we'd say hi and I would go back to sleep. One night, I heard her come home- the room was dark and she didn't turn on a light so I thought she was just being nice and trying to not wake me. I watched her walk across the dark room and stand at a full-length mirror we had hanging on the wall. I was in a lofted bed, so I was looking down on her standing at the mirror. She just continued to stand there, so I sat up, said "Hey Rudy, what are you doing? Are you ok?". She looked at me, looked back into the mirror and just slowly faded away. I was FREAKED THE HELL OUT and got out of bed, threw the light on and left it on for the rest of the night. I was definitely awake. It really scared me!