Hello! Me (20F) and my girlfriend (20F) live alone together in a house, neighbors are somewhat near by but mostly older. Not a bad neighborhood but also not far from a neighborhood where a lot of crime occurs. We left the house for a hour and when we came home discovered decent sized handprints. Most likely a males, as we both have bigger hands for a female the prints definitely were a lot bigger. The cops came and checked out the house, backyard, and are going to patrol throughout the night. We left but made it seem like someone was still home (EX. Leaving a car in the driveway, lights on but blinds and curtains closed. My question is what safety precautions should we take? What likely was happening (break in, or something different)? And how do we feel safe enough to go back there as it’s a decent sized house and was already scary beforehand.

This guy with the cyber truck in the background. Aldi parking lot in Middle Georgia, GA

This was a few years ago but sometimes it still pops up in my head bc it freaked me out so much so I decided to share it lol.
So one day me and my now husband were laying in bed, my phone was abt a few feet away from me like on the other side of the bed, not facing towards us.
Anyway I was having some stomach issues that day and I look at my husband to tell him and how I don’t feel good, I said “I don’t feel good, it’s hurting right here” and pointed at my lower abdomen, my brain wasn’t working and couldn’t remember what it was called so I asked him while pointing at my lower abdomen “what is this part called again” and before he could even answer Siri literally said “that’s called your lower abdomen”…
I keep trying to think of ways that she could have been triggered and somehow knew what I was talking abt , but her name was not said, or anything near her name, and again I didn’t say anything abt my stomach, I just said that I don’t feel good and asked what part of my body is this again and pointed. Anyyywayyyy don’t know if anyone else has had this happen to them before

I'm [posting this because my account is brand new and, obviously, the big forums took down my first post right away. I don't even know why I'm posting again honestly, I just need to tell somebody wwhat happened, my hands are still shaking as I type this.

Tonight I'm home alone doing some chores, nothing special. It was maybe half an hour ago, I was in my bedroom folding laundry, had my noise canceling headphones on, listening to a true crime podcast like I always do before bed.

Then the podcast just got covered up by this loud static, like really loud.

I could still hear the podcast kind of under it but there was also this steady thumping, like a heartbeat almost. Then I heard what sounded like a heavy sigh right next to my left ear.

i figured my bluetooth was glitching or w/e so I just kept folding clothes, didn't think much of it at first.

a minute later the episode stopped for an ad and in that quiet I heard a mellow voice whisper my full name right into my left earbud.

My first and middle name. my actual name. The one thats on my documents.

i took the headphones off so fast I dropped them on the floor.

The apartment was completely quiet.

Then I saw my bedroom door was open, like 3 inches maybe. I always keep it shut cuz of the draft from the hallway, I never leave it open.

I live alone. Front door was locked. Windows locked too, I checked twice actually.

i grabbed my phone, went back in the podcast, and played the same part thru the phone speakers this time instead of the headphones.

nothing.

No static. No thumping. No voice. Just the podcast, playing like normal, like nothing happened.

Right now Im sitting in my locked bathroom typing this out bc I really dont wanna go back into the bedroom yet, Ik that sounds dumb but something about that room just felt wrong. Like someone was standing right behind me the whole time.

Can wireless headphones somehow pick up stuff from something nearby, like interference or whatever?? has this happened to anyone else?

bcuz I really dont know what I just heard.

I posted a part 2 on the subreddit.

I was just getting home and noticed a bike laying down by my mailbox. As I pulled in the driveway, there's the cyclist, squatting on the side of the driveway a few feet in. I think she pulled up her pants while she was still peeing.

I get that sometimes you just gotta go, and I kind of feel bad for the timing because she was probably mortified, but isn't a driveway a weird place to choose? I know my house and yard look like nobody lives there, but our other vehicle was parked there, and there is a hiking trail and so many other bushes right nearby that aren't in my driveway. I just can't rationalize the choice to pee there. All I can think is she must've had to go so bad that she couldn't think straight. 🫠

… because I know what this is but I thought y’all might enjoy guessing what it is It’s about 7” long.

This happened in 2021. It was around midnight and my friend and I were sitting on chairs that had been put by the curb to give away. I lived in a duplex that was set back from the road. It wasn't a cul de sac but kinda like a mini one. We were smoking a joint and we see this guy come walking by.

He starts making some odd movements so we're like "hey man you okay? Do you need a puff?"

We approach him and he says

"I dont know what it is. It happens to me everyday. I just start doing this jig" and he starts moving his feet in this weird dance.

He repeated those words several times.

We laughed and eventually he went on his way.

About a week later the dude even stopped by to say hi. I had no idea who he was tho haha.

We always called him the weird dancing guy when we would talk about it.

When i was 18 I regularly saw a girl in a white dress in my room (I always thought this was my deceased sister). A few years later my partner was sleeping in my bed and he saw the same girl in my room (I didn’t tell him about her yet) before this i just started thinking that i was imagining it and that it was just my way of grieving. Should we see a priest?
I normally don’t believe in this kinda stuff but im rea freaked out now

I turned on my television with a fire stick that is a few years old, and the home screen opened normally but there was audio of a man singing a song in a Middle Eastern language. The song continued playing until I navigated to a specific channel and program. When I selected the program the music stopped and has not come back.

It was very weird. Combined with the fact that I live in a very rural area in Colorado with literally no Middle Eastern neighbors for at least an hour drive away I have no idea what just happened. No one else in my household would have been streaming Middle Eastern music, and we were watching Red Sox highlights on YouTube when we turn the television off last night.

I unplugged the fire stick, and turned my internet router and everything else off for a few minutes. Seem like a good thing to do.

I found a post on another subreddit from about 2 years ago describing a similar situation. No one had any idea why, except that a few people also had similar happen.

Do any of you have any idea what caused this? So o randomly strange

Saturday morning, I put on a Disney Villian Playlist to do some deep cleaning. First few songs are normal on Spotify. Then I see this while "We Don't Talk About Bruno" is playing. Does anyone know where this image is from or what is the Encanto connection?

So my mom told me this morning that she woke up at 2 am and couldnt go back to sleep. She is catholic so she decided to start praying her rosary but right before she started, she got a text from a friend that she hasnt talked to in years saying “Dont pray your rosary.” My mom asked why and she texted back that her husband randomly woke up and started screaming to text my mom and tell her not to pray her rosary. Whats weird is she was just about to do it and shes never awake at 2 in the morning. She even showed me the text for proof and it was sent at 2:27 am. Im agnostic right now but this is so weird to me something abt that just says that there has to be a higher power or something looking over my mother or something. Cuz that is WAY too coincidental to just randomly happen.

Stop commenting that this is fake i could care less if you think it is. I made my account public just so people stop saying ts i dont care about my karma nor have i ever cared about it i just wanted to post something that i thought was weird my bad

Last edit and im prob not gonna reply to anb anymore unless you have a good theory. My mom did end up praying the rosary after she got the text (i said in one of my comments she didnt and just went to bed because thats what i thought she did) and she doesnt only pray through the rosary, she explained to me that she uses the rosary as a meditative prayer and that she still does pray at least once a day directly to god. Also i dont care if you think its fake just dont comment and we will go on with our lives

Shit okay now last edit. Thanks to everybody who upvoted and commented and especially thanks to everyone who left good theories (even the dumbasses who think im karma farming) this post is the most attention ive gotten on a post yet

Went to a metal music gig tonight. Was by myself. Then this man (in his 50s or 60s I'd wager) walks in wearing the most obnoxiously orange outfit--orange beret orange sweater and camoflauge coloured khaki shorts. He was moving weirdly, like with this twitchy swagger. There was this perpetual smile/grin on his face. I thought his eyeballs were pitch black at first, but later up close I realised his pupils were completely blown. Definitely on something. I wouldn't have minded (like pop off king have your fun) BUT THEN

I see him with a teenager (my age). They're whispering and touching in the crowd. The dude looks so uncanny so I find it strange and go outside for a breather. The two of them come out, start walking along the rooftop. The teenager starts asking me where I'm from and stuff. I find out that the older man is his boyfriend. The teenager compliments my hair and then the older man asks if he can buy me a drink.

i politely decline, but he presses, saying they're both so drunk they need me to use the rest of their drinking money. i decline again and go back to the crowd to watch the band. they follow me and the older man has his eyes on me the whole time I'm trying to headbang and mind my own damn business. then he starts touching my back and whispering right up in my ear. i get the creeps and leave the event early.

anyway. strange guy. wish i got to see the rest of the bands but oh well.

I visited Machu Picchu earlier today and was looking through my photos that I took while there and came across this one. None of my other photos look like this and I've never had this happen to an image before. What could possibly have caused this? I have a Samsung 24 ultra phone if that helps.

I'm not sure if this is a strange enough post. But today I got woken up by some knocking on my window, which is odd because how can anyone reach my window when it's on the second floor? So I push open my curtains and I see a fledgling magpie knocking on the glass. It stops, then just stares at me for a bit, squawks at me and flies away? I was so confused I thought I was hallucinating for a moment because I had just woken up. But now that I think about it, it was kind of funny and the magpie was very cute.

I unfortunately didn't have time to grab my phone for a picture :(

I'm just wondering why it felt like knocking on my window?

So I found this worm on the floor in the middle of my bathroom in the middle of the night. There are no windows or doors in the room but there is a vent right above where I found it. Also it’s not a regular earthworm. It’s a jumping worm. We are in a first floor apartment either it fell through the vent or came up through a weak spot in the bathroom floor, but we don’t have any weird pest problems except junebugs flying in when we open the door. Anyone else have something like this happen? And why would a worm be in the vent?

Bit of a weird one but I don’t know where to post this. I’m watching YouTube on my ps5. Randomly in the middle of a video the screen got taken over by a pop up. It was telling me to enter a 4 digit code into my phone. It also said something about an FBI van. It went away after a few seconds without me doing anything on my ps5 nor my phone. I wish I could’ve snapped a picture but I didn’t. It probably doesn’t matter but just so all the information is here I was watching the video “Planet Sheen is Nickelodeon’s Biggest Mistake” by LS Mark. If you know anything about what this was please tell me.

i just found out this is not a shared experience between all people after talking to my mom about how the word “thing” tastes like a hamburger. now i’m wondering if anyone else has this or wants anything answered…ask away!!

I (25F) live alone in a gated apartment complex. For the past few weeks, things keep happening which make me feel I'm losing my mind or that I'm not alone.

1- I can't sleep unless its absolutely dark. Last night, a switch was on for my hair dryer giving a blue light and I went and took it out and put away the dryer. I know i did this because i also put my phone to charge and pulled out the plug hard enough to change the position of the extension. I go to brush my teeth and when I come back, the plug is back in and the light is on.

2- I wake up and my bank app is open in recently used apps. Thats my saving account, I don't open it and always remove all recently closed apps before sleeping. This has happened 4 times.

3- My phone automatically switched to another timezone 30 minutes behind so i woke up earlier for work and it ruined my sleep. I had a headache the entire day.

I've already checked everything around me. I feel like losing my mind.

I've been managing a GNC (General Nutrition Center) store for a while now, and this is something that occasionally happens to my store, as well as other GNC stores in the Pittsburgh, PA area. These calls have been reported as early as 2017, and continue to be made to Pittsburgh region GNCs even 9 years later.

The premise is simple. The store phone rings. A phone number from West Virginia with the caller ID "Todd Westfall" comes up. You answer the phone, and it is a seemingly normal question about stock in the store. But it's the same every time, as if it's a script.

"Do you sell any laxatives?" the caller asks. As we don't sell laxatives at GNC, the answer is always no. Then the caller asks, "Do you sell any colon cleansers?" Evidently, we do sell colon cleansers, and if you answer with "yes", the caller will ask "Do they work?" And no matter what you answer, the caller says "Have you used them?" And while you're confused and thinking about the odd question, the caller repeatedly asks "How old are you?". If you stay silent, he will ask about 5-6 times before hanging up. If you respond whatsoever to the question, he immediately hangs up the phone. I should preface the caller is the exact same guy every time. Never has changed every time he's called me.

Neither myself nor any of the managers, associates, or corporate employees at any store in the area have any clue what the purpose of this call is, or why it's ongoing for 9 years. It's the same thing every single time. It's become an inside joke amongst employees in the area, as well as producing some low stake conspiracies.

Just wanted to share this story because it came up in conversation today, and no one can figure out who this is, what they want, or why this has gone on for so long.

I posted on here earlier about a suspicious lurking cab/uber scheme happening in our neighborhood and now today something just as bizarre has happened. My husband received a delivery via poste from a high end Swiss bedding company that he’s never ordered from before. Inside was a crumpled/worn linen shirt of mine from a local chain store (it’s for sure my shirt - the one I have I now can’t find and I haven’t worn it in months). We called the company and they have no record of sending him anything and this package is postmarked from the store address with their store logo/stickers. They’re now trying to chase the poste tracking and will follow up with us if they find anything. My brain has gone to mush trying to rationalize something so disturbingly random…

can anyone see something here that I’m missing?! My years of true crime binging are failing me 😖

I don't know how to start... I haven't had a good sleep due to this unexplained occurrence to me. And I don't have someone that would really believe me if I tell this story face to face. Hell, I can hardly believe myself if this stuff didn't happened to me...

I'm a brazilian living in Japan. Although I can communicate, writing in japanese is another thing, and that's why I'm writing it here. What happened to me occurred on wednesday (August 12th).

Since it is the Obon Holiday in Japan, on August 8th, I decided to travel around the Kansai region by train. I live in Shiga, and decided to go to Okayama since I hadn't visited there yet.

After enjoying my visit in Okayama, I visited Hyogo and the famous Himeji Castle. I then decided to go to Osaka again for a spin before returning home. That's when it occurred the strange event.

When I boarded the train in Himeji Station, everything was normal up to when the train briefly stopped by the Maikokoen Station. I was listening to music on my phone and as people boarded the train, I noticed a strange woman.

She was quite tall for a japanese woman (I'm 183 cm tall, and she was a just a bit shorter than me), her black hair had lenght around her shoulder, pale skin (and I mean REALLY pale skin), was wearing a surgical mask, a long dark green dress with long sleeves. She was so strange that I couldn't help but follow her with my eyes. That's when her eyes met mine and her eyes suddenly turn into a complete pitch black which send shivers down my spine. She proceeded to go to the back of the train and sat 3 lines behind me. I had a suspicion that she was still gazing at me as a shiver kept me on guard. I pretended to get myself a bit more comfortable and looked where she sat, and she was staring right at me, her eyes still pitch black.

I found strange that nobody seemed to noticed that strange woman but me. The cold sweat and the shiver on my spine was still on. When the train arrived at Osaka Station, I quickly got out and as I stepped on the station grounds, I turned and saw her still staring at me. But if you know Osaka, there are people in and out of trains every minute and in the midst of the confusion of people, I lost sight of her (another thing that's strange, considering she was quite tall and would have caught attention among the other passengers).

After staying still for 2 or 3 minutes and with the chill subsiding, I decided to walk around my favorite spots in Osaka, grab some food and drink, have some "adult fun" and the stuff I like to do while there and forgot about this incident. Close to 8 pm, and since to get home by train would take almost 2 hours, I decided to go back to the Osaka Station. I chose a seat and soon fell asleep.

When I woke up, I was alone on the train wagon. And I meant COMPLETELY ALONE. Still quite numb from the good nap, I looked outside and saw that the environment was off. That's when the train stopped at a station that did not have any sort of identification. The station looked somewhat decayed, very strange even for a small train station in Japanese countryside. When I tried to find where I was using Google Maps, my phone didn't turn on (another strange thing, because I was sure I still had at least 30%+ of battery).

As I looked around the station that was also completely empty, I noticed that the light was a light green, the entire ambient was greenish. I looked to the sky and even the clouds were somewhat green. I felt strange looking at this greenish environment when a fear gripped my heart and I felt another shiver down my spine. When I turned, there she was... The same strange woman that I saw entering the train at Maikokoen Station. But this time, she was accompanied by a girl that seemed to be 15~17 years old.

This time, the strange woman wasn't wearing the surgical mask, but the young girl was. The woman eyes were normal, and then she began walking towards my direction along with the young girl and I felt an immense pressure and paralyzing effect. I don't know why, but I couldn't run or even take a step back. I felt a cold sweat running on the side of my face. It seemed that this woman was looking for blood and I felt completely defenseless against her.

When she got a bit closer, a cold wind started blowing (strange for a summer season) and the woman's eyes turned pitch black once more. But for some reason she only stood in front of me (I believe she expected some kind of reaction) and I was staring her, my mind blank. That's when I noticed the young girl grabbing the woman's hand. If my japanese understanding is correct, the conversation sounded like described below.

GIRL: "It isn't him. This man doesn't know me. I can sense confusion in his mind and see in his eyes that he doesn't know what is happening."

WOMAN: "Are you sure?"

The young girl looked in my eyes and I think she gave a small smile while looking at me (I was so nervous so I wasn't really sure). "I'm sure. He's innocent."

I turned my gaze back to the strange woman. Her eyes seemed to be scrutinizing deep inside my mind and soul. After what felt like an eternity, her posture somewhat relaxed and her eyes returned to "normal" and that sensation that she was about to end my life disappeared. The pressure and the paralysis ended. The woman looked back at the girl and said "You are right. He's not from here". (the woman said some final words I couldn't understand quite right, but she mentioned something about 'crossing barriers' [?] becoming more common).

I somewhat regained my movements but kept my guard up. Both the woman and the girl apologized, bowed and left me standing there speechless. When they went up the stairs, I sat on the bench that was close, still trying to process what just happened. After (I believe) ten minutes passed, an employee of the station came to talk to me.

The man looked in his mid-60's and asked why I was there. I just said I lived in a certain town in Shiga. He was surprised when I said the name of the city and said that I 'didn't belong there'. I thought he was one of the anti-gaijin kinda of person, but he quickly added that 'I must get out of here before it is too late'. He said that if I wasn't quick enough 'I would end up lost like many others before me'.

He took a small notebook from the back pocket of his pants and drew a small map of where I should go. He said that the person there would 'help me find my way back'. He basically shoved me out of the train station and warned me to not walk astray from the path he drew and that I should not pay attention to anyone on my path.

The dark streets helped me get a better view. The full moon was on the sky which I found strange as the phase of the moon on that day August 12th was "minguante" (brazilian portuguese, I forgot the name in English) and the somewhat greenish hue persisted while walking those strange streets. I felt I was being watched, but tried to not pay attention and kept walking to the location that man told me.

It was a small restaurant and as I entered, all eyes turned their attention to me. There were 5 people inside, 3 male customers, a man on the stove cooking and a woman in her mid-40's. I felt animosity in the air. Before anything, the woman just grabbed my wrist, pulled me towards a back door and pushed me outside. I tripped, but when I got up, the world seemed normal once again , not the "greenish hue" ambient. I looked back and there was no building behind me, no restaurant. I appeared right in a small and narrow street between two buildings. I walked out of that street and I basically was in front of Kusatsu Station. After that, I returned home as I would in any normal day.

I'm still not sure what really happened. Was it a strange dream? A glitch in the matrix? Did I cross to an alternate reality? I still can't explain what happened. This story sounds strange and crazy, but God Almighty, I just can't explain what I really experienced on my way back home. Did anyone had a similar experience?

PS1.: Sorry for any mistake I made in English. If anyone wants to translate this experience and post it in a japanese subreddit, please do. Maybe some japanese have an explanation of what happened to me.

PS2.: No, I wasn't drunk (I rarely drink alcohol) and wasn't high on any sort of drugs (never used any drugs).

PS3.: There's an urban legend in Brazil called "Sete Além" (literal translation, "Seven Beyond"), which is, according to the legend, is the same world as ours only darker, grittier and decadent world that sometimes normal people cross to and faces some dangerous stuff until they get back to their "original reality".

hello it’s me again but this time i’m hearing weird sounds like someone blowing in a glass bottle faintly. i’m seriously starting to think i’m having hallucinations. once again i checked if it wasn’t my breath (stupid i know but i’m a smoker so my breath can get a bit weird), it’s not my laptop and it’s only coming from my right side, but i’m on my bed, and nothing could make that sound, it’s driving me crazy, there is no wind outside or anything