Curious to what made you believe in the paranormal?

This was around Halloween last year. I live with my dad in my late grandmother's house. Around 2-5am every night for a week or two, I would hear footsteps walking around the house or sounding like someone walking up and down the stairs. I was caring for my dad who has cancer, so I would get up to check on him thinking he's awake. He would be sound asleep every time.

I told my dad I was hearing footsteps and coming to check on him only to find him sleeping, and he said "No way! I heard footsteps and got up to check on you, and you were sleeping." So we were both hearing it.

After a couple nights, I would hear footsteps clearly going up and down the steps and could hear them upstairs right above my room. It sounded like heavy boots walking around. It didn't feel evil, but I couldn't sleep out of fear. I do not think it was my grandmother before anyone suggests this.

After around a week of this, I was upstairs taking a bath late at night. I once again clearly heard someone walk up the stairs and walking around outside the bathroom door, to the point I was sure it was my dad, but part of me was too afraid to call out and see. I then heard the cabinet door we have outside the bathroom open and close with a bit of a slam. I immediately called my dad on the phone and said "you're up here right?" He said no? I said "then you need to get up here right now because something's up here." He immediately came and searched the room outside of the bathroom and found nothing.

I haven't heard anything since. This was the only true without a doubt paranormal experience I've ever had. This house has long had paranormal activity that I haven't personally experienced, but have heard stories from my dad and grandmother and their guests. Slamming cabinets and doors for the most part. Finding all the kitchen cabinet doors open.

I still wonder why it just stopped. It was around Halloween, so maybe that gave the "spirit" more energy. I do still experience sleep paralysis and nightmares almost every night, however. Just wanted to share.

Yesterday afternoon, while in my car at a red light, I saw 2 bright flashes in the sky. Looked almost like lightning flashes. I thought it odd because it was a sunny beautiful day. I said 'huh, that was wierd' then all of a sudden the air looked wobbly. It reminded of the videos where you see a shockwave from an explosion. It lasted about 2 seconds. I felt immediate fear. I realized that what i saw didnt happen as no cars were effected. I thought, oh god, am i having a medical issue? I feel okay. Then, my thoughts went to...I really hope that wasn't some sort of premonition. I debated posting as I know many may not believe me. I guess I'm posting as a way to calm my worry, also to leave a trail if something actually does happen. Thanks.

Idk if this is the tight community but it’s kinda along the lines so roday I decided I wanted to make shakshuka for dinner, and I have never in my life made it before and neither has anyone else in my house. I’ve had it once in a cafe for brunch and that’s it. I didn’t have all the ingredients so I had to take a trip to the supermarket and my uncle just happened to also be going to the shops so we went at the same time and on the way he says he’s planning on making shakshuka I didn’t once mention I was making shakshuka, and I’ll say it again that nobody including me has ever mentioned making it before today where we both happened to be going to the shops to buy ingredients to make it one of us has clearly read the others mind bc there’s no way….

My parents, only just recently, told me a story about something that happened when I was around 2 years old.

When I was around 2 years old, I would often say: "Our neighbor's mother will come by soon" whilst playing in the living room. I would say it during random moments on the day, on random days of the week.

This went on for about a year or so, and once during that year, my mother (a bit creeped out at that point) would ask me: "Why is she coming by?" to which I would response with: "She is angry".

What neither me, nor my parents knew at that time was that our neighbor's mother had actually passed away not long before that.

I don't actually remember this myself, but rather because of my parents who told me this story. They have certainly not forgotten what happened in that year.

I have searched the online for any scientific study that proves paranormal but most sound a bit shady. Do you know any genuine study which prove paranormal?

Ok this is going to sound insane. I feel insane. I have never posted on reddit before but I looked all over the internet for answers and I can’t find anything that explains what just happened. So a couple of weeks ago I put up LED light strips in my bedroom. About a week or so after that my roommate got some for her room as well (both from different brands). I’ve had them before in previous places I’ve lived and they’ve worked as normal, no turning on and off on their own or anything like that.

Maybe a week or two after getting them the LED strips in my room started to go haywire. They were turning on and off on their own, changing to different colors etc. Even when I turned them off through the remote they would turn back on. I thought it was just faulty wiring so I unplugged them for a day or two. When I plugged them back in that’s when I started to notice that they would react to whenever my roommate would talk/make noise. Right when she would talk they would turn on/off or turn to a different color. She was playing a game on her pc so I thought maybe it was the way the vibrations were carrying through the house when she was speaking. I tried to go into whatever room she was in and be as loud/repeat whatever she said and have my boyfriend stand in our room to see if they changed but they never did anything when I was making noise. That was weird enough for me so I unplugged mine but my roommate left hers plugged in.

Things were normal for a few days but then my roommate said that hers started to change on their own too. At first it was at random but then she said that if she woke up from a bad dream they would be on. Then they seem to start changing to her emotions? For example, the other night she was really upset over something and they would continually flash, and turn back on even when she turned them off. That I can still chock up to faulty wiring or something wrong with our outlets but what happened tonight I cannot. So tonight we were hanging out and talking about the lights and if anything had happened with them lately. We had the good idea to see if we could ask it yes or no questions and see if it would respond. For example: Are you a ghost? Change the lights blue for yes and green for no. Every. Single. Time. my roommate would ask it a question it would respond with one of the two colors she asked for. But when I tried asking a question nothing would happen, the color would stay the same. It will only respond to her. She even changed the two color options for yes and no every time she asked a question and she always got a color that was one of the two options she asked, never a random color. She even asked for colors like “teal” and “magenta”, and she was able to get one of the two. These lights aren’t connected to the wifi and the remote was sitting right in front of us so we know that nobody inside or outside the home was physically changing the color. To make sure it wasn’t my boyfriend trying to prank us, we closed the door to his room where he was playing on his pc and my roommate went into her room and whispered the questions so nobody else could hear. She STILL got one of the two colors she asked for.

I really truly dont even want to write this next part out because I know nobody is going to believe me and also think we’re insane😭 When we were asking it questions we asked 1. Are you a ghost? Answer: No. 2. Is this a demonic presence? Answer: No. 3. Are you an alien? Answer: Yes. We went on asking questions for nearly two hours, getting a clear response each and every single time. We asked if we could videotape the lights changing when we asked questions but it said no and we didn’t want to piss it off so I don’t have video of our actual questioning session that happened tonight but I do have video of the lights reacting to my roommates voice a few weeks back.

So my question to you guys: Has anyone experienced something like this? Any idea of what this could be? The logical side of my brain keeps trying to come up with some rational explanation but I simply can’t. It’s too much a coincidence that we both had different brands of led strips, they both started malfunctioning, they would only react to the sound of my roommates voice and that she went on for two hours tonight asking questions and getting a accurate response every single time. Even my boyfriend, who is the most logical/scientific man I know is a little shaken up and can’t explain this. Please let me know what you guys think

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I don’t know where to post this, but I’m hoping someone could tell me if it was just a nightmare or there’s something in my room. I had a very disruptive nightmare last night I dreamt that I was sleeping in my bed and I heard my mom calling me and I said hmm and she called me again and then I got chills and I didn’t answer but then I started to smell rotten eggs and I got really scared and I told Siri to call mom and she wouldn’t and I told her to do it again and it wouldn’t go through so I went to my mom‘s room and she said that she heard someone calling her name too, and when we got up, we saw this grudge looking girl with really long black hair coming out of our attic but then I had the front door open and and she turned into one of my cats and ran out of the door (This part a little crazy) This nightmare was so vivid. I could remember everything from it I’ve never had a nightmare this strong and just affecting me so bad I’m not really religious, but I said a prayer and I brought a Bible into my room and set it next to my bed and I felt a little bit of release for a while, but I had went to the store just a little bit ago and when I got back, my cousin told me that she heard voices in my room and her dog looked to my room as well thinking that I was here she opened my door and there was nothing in here and now I’m kind of freaking out. Does anybody think that there’s like a demonic presence in my room or there’s an evil spirit or maybe my cousin was just hearing my fan going and it was just a dream but I fear that it wasn’t a dream It was a premonition

Lately, I’ve been experiencing some weird paranormal activity in my home. It started with random smells of perfume appearing out of nowhere and my dogs acting strange, barking at nothing, staring into empty spaces like they see something I can’t.

Then, I had a dream where I was home alone and kept experiencing paranormal occurrences. The weirdest part was when I went to the bathroom and saw a framed picture on the wall of an elderly woman. She had curly white hair and was wearing a pink dress. The thing is I don’t recognize her at all.

I haven’t noticed anything else out of the ordinary, but the dream and the real life experiences are making me wonder if there’s some kind of connection. anyone experienced anything like this before? Could the dream mean something, or is it just my brain making things up?

I was a crazy girl growing up, and I’ve always been fascinated with ghost and demons and haunted stories. One time I went to my friend’s house, and she pulled out a couple of pencils. We played a game called Charlie Charlie. This game basically connects you with a spirit name Charlie and you get to ask him yes or no questions depending on the way the pencils move dictates whether it’s a yes or no. I thought this game was bullshit, until one of my friends took a photo of us playing the Charlie Charlie game… there was a red circle surrounding me and my friend in the photograph… ever since then I believed in the Charlie Charlie game. I was around 15 when I played this game for the first time.

When I was 16 I was admitted to St. Vincent’s. I tried to kill myself a bunch of times so my school sent me there for a few months. At the time there was a program where you were able to basically go to school at the mental hospital from 8 o’clock in the morning to 3 PM. It would usually go like 8AM you came in and had breakfast, 9 AM to 10 AM was a therapy session and from 10 AM to 11:30 PM was rec time. Rec time was held in the gym, and what looked like to be an abandoned stage. I’m not sure why this was allowed, but behind the stage there were glass bottles, and a lot of cardboard. Usually the people looking after us didn’t really keep a good eye on us so we were able to break the glass bottle and create an Ouija board with the cardboard that we found. We do the Ouija board as best as our abilities and we started playing immediately. We felt the glass move and we were all super freaked out. Basically, a boy named CJ came to us on the Ouija board. Obviously, I didn’t believe any of this, I felt like the girls I was with were moving the glass piece around the board… Until CJ told me my dad’s middle name, my brother’s middle name, and my middle name. I’ve never told anyone my dad’s middle name or my brother’s middle name… But maybe I could’ve mentioned my middle name? As the days go by, we continue to talk to CJ and he tells us how he died. CJ said that he was eight years old when he was admitted into the mental hospital because he tried to kill himself because his uncle tried to touch him. He got sent to the mental hospital and a little while after he successfully killed himself, and he said that he saw the light, but he didn’t want to go because he wanted to stay with his family.

We continue to play with the Ouija board for about two weeks. We were just messing around asking CJ questions, trying to convince ourselves that this was real. Sooner or later CJ was gone. We asked who we were speaking to, and they mentioned the Latin name. We looked up the Latin name and it was something scary, that’s all I remember. We tried to discard the Ouija board… we couldn’t sit it on fire because we didn’t have access to lighters, and we get checked for stuff before we’re able to enter the building… So what we did was ripped into pieces and buried it in the backyard. I’m not sure if this was the right way, it probably wasn’t.

After about six months of going to school at the mental hospital, I ended up going back to real school and that same day I went back to school I got sent back, but inpatient this time. I was going insane. I was also getting bullied, but that’s besides the fact. Two weeks inpatient… I came out of inpatient, came home… And a lot of weird shit started happening. At my parents house we had a living room door… it’s a really heavy door, and it would sometimes get stuck on the carpet when you would want to close the door so you’d have to really push. One time the door slammed shut behind me, but I didn’t think much of it. A few days later, my dad was telling my mom about how the bathroom window slammed shut out of nowhere when he was taking a bath. He thought it was really strange because with the kind of window we had, it can’t slam shut. The paint also would get sticky so sometimes it would be really hard to open her clothes the window, but regardless there was a mechanism that held it open, so for it to slam shut someone had to slam it shut! After I heard that I let them know about the living room door and my mom asked me what games am I playing? Am I bringing the Devil into the house? I told her what I did at St. Vincent’s, and I told her the game me and my friend would play… she immediately called my grandmother to get holy water to bless the whole house, and everyone in it. They specifically overly blessed my room.

From that day on nothing weird has happened.

This is a real story, these are my real life experiences, I made none of this up.

Ok, so for starters when I was little I grew up in a very haunted house (story for another time) and I kind of told a spirit that we could be best friends and that they could follow me anywhere, and wich they did. We had to move multiple times because of the activity, but randomly it all stopped, I didn’t do anything, not a change of heart, religion, or started any new habits. And I was wondering if the spirit gave up, and if they can even do that

This is obvious, but not taken very seriously. It's always the lunatic in popular media that's actually the one hearing legitimate voices. But if there were a civilization of advanced hyper-beings that are just beyond the reach of Earth's grasp, this is definitely how they'd do things.

"Well why'd they interfere with Earth life anyway?"

Yeah, sure, but that isn't the question. We're just assuming they are at this point, and figuring out the why part next.

It's rather ingenious though because if you look at Earth there's absolutely no evidence of alien or mystical life anywhere. If there are outside intruders, they have kept Earth completely sterile and clean of their influences. So what's the point?

The point is to the naysayers, doubters, and deniers, that if there are outside visitors here on Earth, then of course you'd never know. The only people who know are they people they want to know, and those people will never be able to prove it. So next time you say, "oh *snortsnrollseyes* guffaw, there's no way that could ever happen." Just remember, this all could be hidden from you completely and you'd never know.

#TheyDidntBelieveMe

it was the middle of the night when i woke up from the cats on my bed, at first i was upset that they woke me up, then i brought them out of my room. i then realized my light was on and my door was open, which was odd and freaked me out a little. my doorknob is broken because i didn’t install it right and it was a little old, so all you had to do to open my door is lightly push it without even turning the knob, so i put a loopy rope thingy around my door knob and the small closet door next to my room, i can’t open it no matter hard i try when i put it on. when i went to bed that night i asked my mom to put it on from the outside while i was in my room. i then was gonna ask her to open it the next morning(if i really needed to get out i could have) i put a heavy laundry basket in front of the door to so even if the rope on the door wasn’t on the cats wouldn’t be able to push it open, that night the rope thingy on the door was on and the laundry basket was in front of the door. that night i went to bed and i know for sure the light was off when i went to bed but when i woke up from the cats on the bed the light was on and the door was open, with the rope thingy off the door and the laundry basket away from the door, i was very confused but thought maybe my mom or dad heard me having a night mare or just decided to check on me, but that wouldn’t explain why the door would be open still because they know I don’t like the cats in my room and even if the cats accidentally got in my room while they were checking on me, why would the light be on? because if they turned it on just to make sure everything was okay they would’ve turned it off after. just to make sure i asked both of my parents in the morning if they went if my room last night for any reason they said no. i tried to think of a reason the door would be open i couldn’t, no signs of a break in or anything, my house only has three rooms and two bathrooms is one story and pretty small. There’s no way there could be a squatter or anything, but just to make sure I checked the entire house every cabinet even. all the windows are always locked in my house and even if someone did break in why would they leave the light on and my room door open? it’s not like there’s any sign of paranormal stuff either. i can’t think of any explanation even crazy ones, none of my family sleep walks and neither do I the only sleepy issue I have ever had is ive had sleep paralysis a few times, and i only started happening 3-4 months ago. it then happened again the other night and that night my sister was staying over. again i woke up in the middle of the night to my cats on my bed the only difference is that the light wasn’t on, in the morning i asked her if she saw or heard anyone come over to my room and she said no. i know it’s probably nothing but i really can’t think of any explanation for this happening besides maybe paranormal stuff but i don’t quite know what’s going on

I live in Canada. I had received several promptings for the past three weeks to visit a very specific location in south east Ontario within Prince Edward County. It is a county known for its "hampton-like" beaches and vineyards. It is a very quiet town with little to no light pollution and only has "life" during the summer/early autumn season.

I drove there last night and parked at a particular spot where I believed the universe/God/my ancestors were calling me.

I looked at the stars and asked out loud "Why am I drawn to this location? I want clarity. I want answers. Show yourself to me."

I turned around and my partner immediately saw shooting stars. I was not lucky enough to see anything. I turned around and several stars appeared. I was not satisfied with my experience and admittedly a bit frustrated with the fact that I had driven nearly three hours east of Toronto for a (albeit beautiful) star filled sky.

As I was driving home I suddenly saw a green orb about 100-150 feet in the air appear and disappear. It quickly appeared, flew by at an incredibly fast speed and then dissapeared. It looked to be about the size of a motorcycle or a small car and almost like a boomerang/triangle shape.

I quickly yelled at my partner asking if he had seen it and he said "no, I had turned my head before it appeared."

I received my answer last night. These UAP, UFO's, ORBS, interdimensional beings are not "alien" in nature. They are spiritually connected to us. They are part of US. We are part of a collective conscious and we can summon/manifest these beings if we have a sincere purpose and seek earnestly.

I have not been able to sleep.....

This was a usual night for me,late at night playing the game , no lights on, and the only person awake.

I had to have been playing with my buddy for hours at this point and both of us were tired and it was already 3:00 to 4:00 o clock in the morning so he hopped off.

i was thinking of doing the same, so i was just sitting on the Home Screen about to turn off the Xbox, Until i hear my name get called out from behind me. At first i thought it was my mind playing tricks on me (to be fair i was half awake) so i gave it no mind,then again i hear “Adan”. When i heard this it woke me up like i just got water thrown at me.

Im sitting on the couch staring behind me in pretty much pure darkness waiting to see something for a solid minute, Eventually i snap out of it and say “mama?” No Response. So i start walking to my moms room, and to get there you have to walk past the kitchen and thats when i see it.

A silhouette of a woman sitting on the ground,back to the wall,knees to her chest and hands covering her face. I didn’t know what to think, i just froze.

when i finally snapped out of i just full on sprinted towards my room (me and my mom’s room was pretty much right next to each other’s) and slammed the door shut and got under my covers. Then my mind starts to try and make a understanding of it all “was i seeing things?” “Was there really something in the kitchen?” “Who was that?” none of it made sense. “There couldn’t have been anyone there i was sitting in the living room right by the front door” i had to have been seeing things. But then it hit me, “it said my name”. “How could it have known my name?”

some how i ended up sleeping that night and i still dont know what to believe years later, we moved out of that place and nothing has happened since, thankfully.

Here's a YouTube video I found interesting. Could this be what they are calling "Non-human biologic" ufo? (From Uap files pod S2. E50) https://youtu.be/ANgTP3eedAQ?feature=shared

About a year ago I had two separate paranormal experiences.

The first experience I had a witness. I was out of town in New York doing work on an old Amish barn that was being renovated and turned into a house. I was 17 at the time, I’m 18 now and still remember everything clear as day. Anyways, we were on this job site for about a week and we were staying in a hotel that our boss was paying for after we got off work. My cousin who was working with me at the time was sharing a room with me. We both just got home and were eating dinner on our beds. Now in this room there was a small table in the corner of the room adjacent to my bed. Both of us were sitting in bed and eating and nobody else was in the room. On the table sat a sign that said “free WiFi” and had the hotel’s WiFi password written on it. Out of nowhere this sign proceeded to be slapped into the air by some invisible force and managed to land in the 2 inch gap between the table and the wall. Up until this point I never saw anything like this and as soon as it happened my cousin looked at me and just gave me a “WTF was that?” Look. Had some trouble sleeping that night. Keep in mind this sign weighed about half a pound and was made out of thick plastic, that thing wasn’t going to move unless you wanted it to move.

The next experience was only a few months later. I was working on an old townhouse built some time in the 1800s. My dad had just left the site to get materials and I was shoveling mud out of this old ass basement. Nobody else was in the house except for me. And all the doors were locked. So as I was shoveling mud into garbage bags in that nasty basement, I heard heavy footsteps and faint talking upstairs. Like someone was actively talking to someone else.

I assumed it was my boss and he was there to take pictures of the house for his investors and went upstairs to greet him. I’ll restate that I was the only person in this house. I came up the stairs and turned the corner to go to the kitchen and called out for my boss. No answer. I was about to step into the kitchen and 3 brooms that were leaning up against the wall all fell down at the same time. I was already freaked out so I headed straight for the side door and I shit you not, the two cellar doors that led to the basement slammed shut right in front of me. These doors weighed about 100lbs each and were made out of thick pieces of plywood. Not to mention the doors were being held open by two hooks that were attached to the wall and to the door. I stayed outside for about 30 minutes in the freezing cold until my dad came back. Never went into that basement alone again.

It was facing south ever since I placed it there in the kitchen by the window and then this morning it was facing due West. I wonder what it means if it's a foreboding to the West.... It's a special angel from a special person that died around Thanksgiving last year. And after he died my TV turned on by itself 3 different times in the middle of the night when I had woken up and was staring at the TV thinking about him. No there was no remote anywhere near me and the TV had never done that before. It's a 2007 RCA.

One day, I was sleeping and I woke up, but I couldn’t move very much, This happened around 10 years ago, so I will try to remember it best I can, I had an experience with shadow people, there was many, many shadow people running around, and one of these shadow people climbed on top of me, and tried to choke me but I broke free somehow, I could still move and speak although it was really hard, so I wasn’t 100% paralyzed, after I fought it off, the shadow people disappeared

All I can say about these shadow people is that as soon as I saw them, I started panicking and was freaking out, breathing hard and it was the most terrifying experience i’ve ever experienced, I’d say the shadow people were around 6’0 or so, and had a humanoid shape.

This is not the only paranormal experience I have had either, There is no history on this house as we had bought it just after it was built, although my city IS built on land that used to be settled by Native Americans.

I don’t really know if this was just a hallucination, or if it was a real experience with the paranormal, what do you think?

I do. I am a tenant, always renting a room since I moved to North America. English is not my first language so please bear with me.

When I first moved to this room I am now renting, it felt weird how a small room could have 3 big mirrors (1 is full body sized). In my culture, from SouthEast Asia, it is never recommended to have a mirror facing a door or a bed. But this room I am renting not only was it facing a door but also the bed.

I could never had a good sleep in this room since I moved and always had weird dreams unless I slept with a light on. My landlady wants me to turn off the light to save electricity but what I do is turn the light on after her bedtime which is 10pm. One night, I slept with a light off coz I felt lazy to turn on the lamp shade and was just really sleepy. I dreamt that I woke up and tried to turn on the lamp shade, but it didn't work. So I got up and went to the bedroom light switch which is located outside the door, when I tried to turn it on, it didn't work also. But since the door is facing the bed, I saw that there is a person in my bed, which is myself! Mind you, everything looks exactly the same with the bedroom, and myself. My instinct was to go back into my body and tried waking up. I tried yelling but no voice is coming out of me. Not sure what happened next but I woke up and breathing heavily then when I tried to turn on the lamp shade and the bedroom light, everything works. I was happy it was only a dream, or was it???

I could not sleep after that. In the morning, I spoke with my landlady if I could cover the mirrors and move the bed just so it is not facing the door. She agreed and after I moved everything, I didn't have sleeping issues or anything creepy. I still sleep with a light on though.

In my culture, we also don't recommend a bed facing the door especially if your feet is right at the door. They say that your soul could be 'snatched' out the door.

Anyways, mirrors has always been creepy for me. If you even put two mirrors facing each other, it creates an infinity loop.

Do you guys know any superstitious beliefs or practices that you follow to this day?

Thanks for reading this post.

Lately, I've been experiencing sleep paralysis quite often, but each episode seems to be getting worse. I'm beginning to wonder if what I'm facing is truly just sleep paralysis anymore.

I often feel uneasy when I’m about to sleep and think I might experience sleep paralysis. My ears are ringing loudly, and it feels like they are trying to make me deaf. Even so, I can't fight my sleepiness and end up dozing off. That's when the story begins.

I am not interested in seeing them, so I always cover my eyes or my whole body with a blanket when I’m about to sleep.During the episode, something quickly pulled down my blanket, just like in a horror movie. I was shocked and tried hard to wake up. When I finally woke up, my blanket was all over my feet.

I had a dream where I felt like I was possessed. I was floating above my bed and circling around. It really felt so real with my back aching due to being curled while floating, but I couldn't move. When I woke up, my whole body and head were sore.

One night, I woke up under my bed. When I tried to stand up, I felt very light, almost like I was flying. As I got up, I saw my body sleeping on the bed in my usual position. When I touched myself, I realized I was a ghost or something similar. Since that night, I have struggled to sleep without keeping the lights on.

I had a wonderful, kind friend who I worked with for a few years at a large hospital in San Diego. She LOVED her job and came to work with a big smile each night shift often in pink scrubs and a high ponytail. She was a joy to be around and sadly, diagnosed with leukemia and passed away 2 years later. About 6 months after she passed, I was walking down the hall of the hospital unit we worked on. It was probably between 0100-0400am and I would often walk the halls to get some exercise and stay awake. When my friend was alive, she would sometimes take a nap in an empty patient room on her “lunch” break. As I walked that night I passed by an unoccupied patient room and as I passed the door, realized that a woman was actually inside the room sitting on the hospital bed wearing pink. It took me a second to register that, but knowing that there should not be a person in that room, I walked back to check out the room, and for the briefest moment, saw that it was her; sitting on the side of the hospital bed in pink scrubs, ponytail, big smile on her face as if to say “hey, just checking on you all and hoping the night is going smooth.” I called out her name and then she was gone. I immediately started to cry and rushed to the nurses’ station and told my colleagues. They ALL thought it was her and that of course she would show up at work because she truly loved it. This was honestly reassuring to me and I think to my colleagues because we knew how much she missed work in the two years she was ill and unable to be there. This is a happy haunting and cemented in my mind that there is another realm we just don’t understand.

I was recently talking to my dad and an old story was brought up. I thought it was really interesting, so I figured I would share it here.

When I was a kid, I was really into anything creepy or horror related. I was eating dinner with my parents one night and asked if they had any paranormal experiences. Neither of my parents really believe in the paranormal. My mom said she didn’t, but my dad told me he had one story:

When he was growing up, his family was relatively poor. Because of this, he had to share a room with his mom. My grandmother has always been super into gardening, so the windowsill was full of flowerpots and plants.

My dad described seeing a little man wearing a flowerpot as a hat that would dance among the flowers when they went to sleep. He was really small, and didn’t seem to do much other than walk around the flowers. He described him as being almost a shadow, and so my dad figured he was seeing things and it was a weird shadow cast by one of the flowerpots.

The thing is, he would see this little man often. One night, he decided to get up and go look at what it was up close. As he approached the windowsill, my grandmother woke up and warned him to go back to bed. She has always been superstitious and a believer of the paranormal, but she was also known to be no nonsense. When she told him to go back to bed, it wasn’t with annoyance or tiredness, but with a sense of fear and urgency. He did what he was told, and never went back to see what the little man was again.

As unsettling as that story was, it’s not the real thing that creeps me out in hindsight. Like I said, I was very into anything creepy, and that also involved urban legends. One of my favorites was the duende, which is seen in some Filipino folklore, which was interesting to me as my grandmother was born in the Philippines.

Without missing a beat, I told my dad that he probably saw a duende, and of course, he had never really heard of them. Even though my grandmother believed in them, she wasn’t keen on sharing the creepier folklore with her sons.

My dad looked up an artists rendition of what they might look like and I saw his face go white. He said that’s exactly like the little man he saw all those years ago, and he thought he was crazy until he saw that picture.

I can still be skeptical of the paranormal, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to explain how I was able to identify something paranormal my dad saw as a child from a simple story.

So we are planning to move into this new house. My older sister, who sees ghosts, says that there is a playful ghost child residing in there. So we asked the carpenters who are currently renovating the house about the kid, and they were shocked how did we know about the child. They mentioned that the child can touch objects (it opens the faucet). They began scolding the ghost, and the next day, they got a fever. The fever was intense and had already lasted for a week, so they went to a witch doctor. The witch doctor says that a child ghost made them sick. And the child ghost likes being piggyback carried. My older sister mentioned that the child ghost seems friendly and keeps on smiling. The ghost child even escorted her to the gate and said goodbye. Normally, she said that it just keeps on running around the house and playing. My sister also said that the child ghost also holds my mom's hands when she visits the house. Now, we are unsure if we should continue moving in the new house. We are thinking if the ghost is evil or not. What's your thought?

EDIT: The carpenters didn't cursed the ghost. It is more like they scolded the ghost shouting that the child should behave.

in my house we have a second floor where the only doors are the door to my step brothers room, the door to a bathroom, and the door to the attic. the only one that has a real lock is that of my step brothers room. it has been TWICE now since the start of 2025 that one of the doors on the second floor has mysteriously locked without anyone inside, the first and most confusing being my step brothers room. he had to sleep on the couch that night since he got home late and couldn’t come tell us, and nobody has a key to that room. we had to pick the lock the next day. tonight, the door to the bathroom locked itself without anyone ever going inside. this one doesn’t have keyed lock, so it’s going to be less tedious to pick it, but it is still strange and suspicious that this has randomly happened on two separate occasions, and only with the locks upstairs.

does anyone have any similar happenings? do you think this could be mal intent of a ghost toward my brothers? mainly just confused.

I tried to kick her out of my room but she wouldn’t leave. A crash come from my attached bathroom, but I was too tired to get up. In the morning, I found that 2 things fell off my toilet tank lid, one from each side. Both items had flat bottoms. Not sure how to explain this. Ive heard noises in the house previously, but I could never identify where the were coming from. I suspect that at least one of the aged people who owned the house before me passed here. The house is 56 years old. I’m not weirded out or anything, just found it kind of interesting.