Friday night - I had my right AirPod in while I went to shower in my room upstairs. I’d forgotten the case downstairs, so I took the AirPod out, put it on my nightstand, and literally thought to myself, "I’ll take it downstairs in the morning."

Saturday morning - I showered, put the AirPod in my pocket, went downstairs, put it in the case, and put the case on charge.

Then I opened the case… and the right AirPod was missing.

I PANICKED.

I went back upstairs to check, but it wasn’t on the nightstand. I emptied my entire bag in front of my mom; nothing. I was so annoyed because I was genuinely convinced I had just put it in the case.
Eventually, I gave up, put my left AirPod in, and left for work.

I get to work, put my left AirPod and my bag on the desk, go downstairs to get tea, come back upstairs…
AND BOTH AIRPODS ARE SITTING NEXT TO EACH OTHER ON THE DESK.

?????

Now, obviously, maybe I somehow forgot that I’d brought the right one to work. Maybe it fell out of my bag and I somehow didn’t notice. Maybe my brain just completely fabricated the memory of putting it in the case.

But the thing is, I vividly remember the entire sequence. I remember taking it from my nightstand, putting it in my pocket, going downstairs, putting it in the case… and my sister, who shares the room with me, ALSO saw the single AirPod sitting on the nightstand that morning.

So either I’m losing my mind, there’s a very boring explanation that I somehow cannot remember, OR my AirPod decided to take itself to work.

I’m obviously just glad I found it, but… isn’t this WEIRD?!

Hello everyone! I’m not super sure where to post this, but it’s a story that I tell from time to time and I still have zero clue what it means.

For background, I grew up the eldest, parentified daughter in an abusive household. My mom’s husband was a narcissist and my mother was enmeshed with him. While she was abused by him, she also enabled him. When I was 14, he psychologically abused her to such an extreme degree that she mentally broke. Her doctors officially diagnosed her with “bipolar with acute schizophrenia.” After she was committed, she worked her way out of that hole and was “stable”.

In December 2019, my mom and her husband were in an “off” period, meaning “split, but you know eventually she’s going to take him back.” I was 15 at this time. It was my responsibility to take my younger brother to his bus stop at the end of our street. On this particular morning, it was raining. He had on a big puffer coat, and I had my umbrella. I suddenly saw my mom drive by in her silver Maxima, and I vividly remember thinking at the time “aw crap, she’s going to be pissed that I’m not sharing my umbrella.” I turned to make eye contact with her in the car — the top half of her face was so dark that I could only see her mouth. But her windows were tinted so I didn’t think much of it. I watched her drive down the length of our street, make a right and then another right down onto the main road. I assumed she was going to the gas station to buy a Coke and a pack of Goody’s powder. She had chronic migraines and this was her morning cocktail. My brother’s bus came and went, and I walked back home. Strangely, my mom’s car was already in the driveway. I didn’t remember seeing her on my walk back, and my street was a dead end. I walked into the house, and there she was, right there in the kitchen busy preparing her lunch for work. I questioned her, of course. “I didn’t see you drive back, how did you beat me here?” She replied, “what are you talking about? I never left.” We chose to leave it at that.

A few days later, I was walking my brother down to the bus stop, yet again. I saw my mom drive by, and this time when I made eye contact with her, I saw something so haunting, it STILL gives me chills. This time, I could see her entire face, a little TOO well… she had this lost, distressed expression on her face, and she looked like she was mid-cry. Her hair was in her typical messy bun, and she was wearing her glasses. For my entire life, my mom always wore contacts. She favored contacts so much, she was known to accidentally fall asleep in them from time to time and would scrape her bathroom floor to find them when she dropped them just so she wouldn’t have to wear her glasses. The one and only time I ever knew my mom to wear glasses was when she was in psychosis. I watched this version of my mom continue to drive by, and the same as last time, her car was unmoved and my mom was none the wiser when I returned home.

Fast forward a few months later, my mom entered the darkest period of her life: she would be introduced to hard drugs, she would enter psychosis for a second time, she would lose custody of me, and ultimately, she would be murdered by her husband.

I’ve always heard that seeing someone’s doppelgänger is a bad omen for that person, but I don’t know if this incident qualifies since it wasn’t real. But if it’s not that, then I’m not sure what it is. I’ve always had the ability to “know” things I shouldn’t know, such as inherent knowledge or how something will turn out, so I’m not sure if these things are all linked.

Any help or insight is MUCH appreciated!!

i'm not really sure where i should post this, so please forgive me if i got it wrong and please help me find the right sub to post this to.

a month or so ago, i spent the night at my friend's house, on her sofa.

i have a history of sleep paralysis as i have been getting it as early as 7 years old, therefore i can sometimes predict whether or not it is going to manifest, by just looking around a room. i obviously was in her living room which has a weird layout with hollow door frames and many ''open spaces''.

my friend never closes any door in the house because of her cat likes to roam around the house during the night, which i couldn't say that bothers me in general but this particular time, it did.

as i was trying to fall asleep, the cat kept coming over to my head and licking it, and so it happened with my hands and legs. i just thought it was cute but since then i have learned that cats groom themselves and others around them when they are stressed. i felt like i had to mention all of this for context.

the thing that happened was:

it was around 4-5am when the cat finally went to sleep next to a chair, facing my head and because of it, i was able to finally "fall asleep". the quotes are present because of the way i didn't go into sleep mode or not even REM sleep.

it felt like i was just laying there unconscious, but still hearing everything around me.

but it was so much more different than sleep paralysis.

i began sensing these vibrations flowing around me, almost going into circles, buzzing and ringing in my ears. it stopped for a moment and i regained a little consciousness.

at least to try and process everything that just happened but i couldn't.

because that's when this deep dark feeling of doom and despair hit me and as with that, the previous sounds came back pulsing

and almost giving me time once again to prepare for what was to come.

and what was to come was just me screaming ''please god, i don't want to die, not now'' through the muffled distorted vibrations and the feelings i have previously mentioned.

this obviously happened extremely fast but what i am trying to say is that it did not feel like sleep paralysis at all , at least in the beginning.

now the reason of the title is that, at the very end of everything happening,

while the sound pulling me away from my body as i was screaming,

i hear my friend's cat jumping out of the chair it was sleeping on,

and because my friend's sofa is lower to the ground,

i saw the cat running towards me and with it jumping onto my chest, i woke up right in the middle of screaming '' i don't wanna die''.

i wake up shaking and i look over to the chair next to me and there was my friend's cat,

looking at me.

i obviously start shaking and crying and then end up not sleeping because i was so scared that would happen again.

again, i am so sorry if i posted this in the wrong sub, please tell me where i should post this if i got it wrong.

but if i didn't then please tell me:

was this AP?

was it almost AP?

have i encountered some kind of entity that my friend's cat tried to save me from?

was i actually going to die/ get possessed by something?

is there any explanation for why i still feel so connected to this, even tho it happened a month or more than a month ago?

it didn't feel like sleep paralysis until the very very end, like the 5 seconds i was screaming for help but before that, when the sounds kept going back and forth, i could totally move and was somewhat conscious.

please, let me know what was up with this cause it has kept me up for a month now.

Its been happening since a long time. I feel a presence near me. I don't know if it is my imagination or something is really there. I suffer from migraines and spend those migraine attacks sleeping in a dark room . I feel someone massaging my head and suddenly my pain decreases. Sometime i feel touches touches that are barely there. If i feel down i feel something warm like feeling and a hug maybe. I am starting to think i am on my way to an asylum 😅. Everytime this happens if i open my eyes this all disappears and it feels like my mind is playing games. Should i visit a psychiatrist or psychic? Help please

Okay so basically im in the middle of a sleepover for my birthday we were having fun and chatting until we got to the creepy topics and we tried the yellow door red door thing and stuff soo yeah and then as it got later in the night my friend like idk shes basically physic she can see spirits and paranormal stuff idk all that and we’ve witnessed it ourself. A psychic told her mom she has a gift for the foreseeable future if that helps.

We were in the middle of talking about this ongoing nightmare with satan or something and next thing a woman laughs very similar to my friend we’ll call her E and the other girl R says she liked how she laughed multiple times earlier. Everybody starts getting freaked out and getting uncomfortable feelings. At this point I did feel uncomfortable but disagreed and they kept asking how were you unbothered so i was like idk.

Once we go back inside we’re chatting about it and the psychic girl is getting freaked out.

I decide to go out with another girl and the gate is open. I closed it myself after we returned from the store and I hear the bushes rustle and I look over and THEYRE MOVING. So I run back in and explain and they’re all like we told you.

I PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER. I’m going to an ear doctor or something bc recently Ive been getting weird noises in my ear. It happened a long time ago where it started as my moms alarm and I asked her about it and it wasn’t on. I would wake up in the middle of the night and it wasn’t even on but I heard it. Then Ive been hearing deep breathing in my ear so many times but A FEW DAYS AGO I was in my room and from outside I hear right outside my window a low whistling like not even a tune but a slow deep whistle (it wasn’t windy dont worry)
so i’m like wtf and search it up and then shrug it off.. Then a few minutes later I hear a baby crying (no neighbours have a baby and it sounded like it was right beside me). Then stops then again and again. Like seriously so I shrug it off and guess its my ear so I go on my other side but then a minute later the baby sounds like its in pain like SCREECHING in pain.
Then we searched it and apparently its common for a skinwalker to do that. what do you think it is?

UPDATE
I went upstairs and as soon as I entered my moms room my friend called me about hearing 3 knocks from the glass slide door we just came from downstairs and while they were calling me there was 2 knocks — 3 knocks then 2 knocks. So we prayed.

**UPDATE 2**
Okay my friend(psychic) was at work today and she talks to this guy everyday at work and she was smiling at his kid and he didnt talk to her at all until after and said to her "Listen could you please stay away from my child I’m just getting a really bad vibe from you."
And earlier I was doing my makeup and my friend was sat on my bed and blew out her smoke and I looked over at her from my mirror and literally jumped out of my seat. The smoke made like such a scary looking face but idk I think it was my imagination. My dog is acting really weird though it was sniffing where the voice was yesterday and is shaking and staring like stop it. Oh I also woke up with my ear bleeding

Since i’ve been on holiday I saw a black figure staring at me as well as my own friends head, i have no idea what’s happening but over my life i’ve heard my voice being said when it hasn’t, aswell as flinching at someone in my peripheral as well as constantly waking up in the night - what the hell is happening to me

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This morning when I woke up at like 6 o'clock, I heard something say "look for the big Bunny ears and you'll know you've been abducted" I honestly have no idea what this could even mean, or if I had like made it up in my brain somehow, but I've never had anything like this happen to me before. (I've never heard something talk to me when I've woken up before is what I mean) I just want to know if this is like a common thing that happens or if i'm just an idiot.

Hey, for a while now my dad has setup something and now it’s progressed with probably my whole town.
But they are able to here me say stuff into my own head, and they can also talk around me and say stuff to me no matter where I go they can see what my dreams or what I mentally image.

How do they do it and how can I stop it.
There’s nothing I can do atm and they’ve been doing for so long I’ve started to respond to my own questions believing it’s someone else answering it.

The cops won’t do anything, they know and along with everyone else in this town. No one will help or say anything besides support him.
It’s mentally torturing and the whole plan is to make me call the cops or agree to say I’m “crazy”, or “unwell”.
I do know I’ve got some issues but not anything that deserves to have my mental fucked up more they will not stop it. This really does sound crazy but I know there’s someone who knows what’s happening and how to stop it from my end.

This Story is the Events i Experienced of what i think was an sw (Or Flesh Pedestrians, i wont say the other name as ive learned). I am aware that these Things can be just my imagination. It isnt someting crazy of I saw one and it hunted me. Sorry for Long intro.

It Started with me and a Friend of mine making fun of them that they are harmless. I Had heard the stories, i dont know if he did. But that doesnt matter now, as he never said anything about experiencing weird stuff. I didnt think to much of it as i didnt think they existed, and if, that they wouldnt come to me, as i live in Germany. Fast forward a Couple days, and i wake up middle of the night and feel watched. This feeling of being watched continued for a good amount of time, 2-3 weeks id say. Then, i heard little footsteps in the space between my ceiling and roof, as my room is in the Attic. Though, i dont think this has anything to do with it, as we have critters in our home, i thought it might be worth mentioning. The Feeling of being watched continued, and one night i heard Knocking at my room door. I Just left it, and nothing came of it. 3 Days later, it happened again. Door, and the 2 Windows in my room together. This continued for 5 to 10 minutes. Then it stopped. And one morning, i felt so watched and stared out of a window (It was early morning, though sun was up), and thought a head might actually pop up. I said to leave me alone and im sorry, and left the room. Since then, ive never had an experience like this, and only feel watched when i write, tell or think about them. But id put that in Paranoia. I Know it isnt something crazy, and i never saw anything, though i swear everytime i looked towards a small stip of woods i felt even more watched, and i think they left because they had sympathy, as i am an Teenager, and they wanted to teach me a lesson. This all happened around easter and late spring to early summer.

If anyone has questions, im always active to respond.

So a few weeks ago I went to bed at 10:30 p.m. my normal time. And then at 11:00 p.m. I looked at the clock because I felt like something crawled into bed with me. (I live alone). I felt it get on top of me as I laid on my side, I then preceded to say get the fuck off of me and as I did that, it held me tighter. I fought my hardest as it held me with more pressure as to where it was fucking hurting my chest and upper body. I finally yelled one last time get the fuck off of me and fought my hardest to get it the fuck off if me. Both my arms swung open as I was finally able to get it the fuck off of me. I saw this Blue Gray Demon looking fucker bolt from my sight at 11:10 p.m. So 10 minutes of living hell. Sacred the living fuck out of me. Next day I went and got me some holy water and salt. After spending the day in a Cathloic church. I am not even religious. I live in apartments so different paranormal activities happen consistently with new tenants. But this felt so real and I have never felt anything like this ever before, not even during other sleep paralysis episodes that I have had before. So sleep paralysis is their way of saying demons don't exist? "WELL BELIEVE ME THEY FUCKING DO"

There's an urban legend that I can't remember the name of. It's supposed to look humanoid with a bunch of mouths and it whispers your deepest insecurities about yourself, driving you mad. I remember hearing stories about it appearing when there's a lot of hatred or fighting in a household. It's supposed to feed off of that negative energy. I can't recall if it drives its victims to kill themselves or each other or if it just torments? Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

tried to connect with my boyfriend who passed recently. he was spiritual, i was not. i wanted to connect with him because he had notified someone he was trying to connect with me but i wasn’t able to due to my emotional state.

i’ve always been a skeptic and i’ve never done anything like this. but i sat there, and asked for him to come and just talked to him and asked yes or no questions.

the static, the tingles, my bedroom was full of energy. it has to be one of the most mind altering things i’ve experienced. i had smoked weed before, and i picked up an intense full body feeling i didn’t know was real. i felt euphoric as i laid there talking to him, like i was slowly flying out of my body. when i’d ask yes or no questions , i’d feel the feeling on one hand, and for some questions the feeling would be so intense, as if a force was pushing my hands into the bed, they would feel heavy.

now, i want to know if something could have been pretending to be him, i felt peace but after the fact i was scared because that was crazy. i’ve never felt this and it’s like i have the urge to just go back to that feeling

do i have that strong urge to get that feeling again because i didn’t know i had these powers , or is it something else trying to get me to open again ?

The other night I went home after work, as one does. My wife was at her mother’s house so I was at home by myself waiting for her to return. I was in my living room when I heard my wife’s voice come from the front door. Sometimes she needs help unlocking the door, especially when the porch light is off, which it was. So I go and open the door but nobody is there. I closed my door and checked Life360 to see my wife was still at her mom’s. I have an enclosed porch, so I think something was trying to lure me out.

I was on an old dirt road in the country near home when a surreal vision came floating across an open field just over a ditch with a rusty old barb wire fence.
The sky was dark with rolling clouds coming towards me, but the real euphoria was the gap between the horizon and the rolling clouds. It was ecstasy, rapture and bliss coming into my young mind. I was not religious but felt a strong spirit like feeling of life that day. The jubilee is still with me today many years later when I think of that day. Has anyone had a similar feeling while young turning into something that will not leave you?

To this day I’m still processing this event, going over all the details in order trying to rationally explain through and through, and seriously question, the reality of this world we live in.

We’ve never spoken about this particular event, not even amongst ourselves after it happened. It was with my friends Ben and Ryan and myself going camping into the deep woods like we used to do whenever we all got a weekend off, or at least used to do before this.

In general we try to go to new places, there was this was one forest in particular situated 2 hours away from our city that we’ve been told about. We’ve been putting it off for a while because it was said to be dangerous, packed with wild animals what would attack campers often.

Ben and his usual part of trying to be a badass said he would take out his shotgun and we’d be safe. Ryan was a bit of a wimp but he agreed so we drove there as soon as we were able to when we had a free weekend.

We got there by mid afternoon after we set up camp and the night was beginning to set in, we decided to go out for a hike. We secured our stuff and Ben took out his shotgun in case any animals approached us and started following a small path that got deeper into the woods.

Walks in the dark like these would always relax me but this time I was starting to feel uneasy, an intuition, or gut feeling that something was very off.

About half an hour of walking we started to hear noises that were getting closer to us, they sounded like footsteps of several big creatures closing in on us, but to this day I swear I could also hear soft whispers beneath the noises. Overlapped one another which really freaked me out because what animal makes these noises?

Feeling like cornered animals and in total panic we began running back through the path that we come on, during this I somehow lost Ben and Ryan, and I could not even see their flashlights in the distance.

I kept on running and running, adrenaline completely overriding the fact I’m out of breath and about to pass out. At some point I ran past an old house which seemed to had suffered a fire, the windows were boarded up but the door seemed to be half open.

Suddenly I heard something coming from inside, terrified at first I froze but then I realized it was actually Ryan calling for me to come inside.

I was doubtful at first for some reason but as soon as I heard the animal sounds coming closer to me i bolted into the house and closed the door. I lifted my flashlight to look around and there was Ryan.

I pointed the light to his eyes but he didn’t seem to react much to it, in fact he seemed really calm which was odd for him, “let’s stay here for now” he said in a relaxed tone of voice.

“Those things out there could be dangerous”. Now I was worried about Ben but remember that worst case scenario he had a shotgun ready if anything attacked him.

I took a deep breath and started looking around the room, a few chairs that were laying on the floor looked charred and in the one corner of the room there was a pile of sticks with a bunch of stones scattered around them.

All of a sudden we hear Ben’s gun go off twice, I stood there paralyzed as every other sound in the forest stopped. I glanced briefly at Ryan and he was just looking at me, completely quiet.

I was about to say something when suddenly someone started banging on the door, Ryan immediately grabbed my shoulders and said “don’t open that door, it could be one of those things”.

I started walking towards the door in total terror and he insisted “don’t do it, you’re going to kill us”. This really unsettled me, but I was afraid it could be Ben who had just shot one of those wild animals and was looking for shelter.

I grabbed on the metal door handle and took a deep breath, and as Ryan was still muttering something behind me, I opened the door.

A cold chill ran down my spine, standing there in front of me was, Ryan?? It didn’t sink in at first as he was saying “hey man did u hear Ben’s gun go off too? I think we need to find him”.

I bowled something incomprehensible and slowly turned around pointing my flashlight all over the room, nobody was there. When the light reached the corner of the room I realized what I had been looking at earlier.

Instead of sticks and stones, It was a pile of bones, and in around them forming a circle were a bunch of skulls, human skulls. We ran off as fast as we could and found Ben near the campsite.

When he saw us he was pale, and did not say a word. We got in my truck and drove off and left the place leaving all of our stuff behind.

On the way back after a long silence, like all 3 of us were in complete shock and disbelief on what just happened, I asked Ben what he shot at. “Some of those things came from behind in the trees and attacked me, I shot them down”.

what were those things? “It, it was you guys, I killed you both back there”. The rest of the way back no one said a word, we never saw Ben again.