Warning: these will keep you up at night.
“I used to be in the military and the training camp bunk that we lived in was said to be haunted. It was one night after lights out and my friend was on his phone texting his girlfriend. Most of us were drifting off to sleep, and were lying on our beds etc. Suddenly, he heard the shuffling of feet from the corridor, so thinking that it was our sergeant, he quickly hid his phone under his pillow, rolled over on his side and pretended to sleep.
Till this day, what happens next chills me to the bone. While he pretended to sleep, he heard someone right behind him, at the other side of his bed going “Don’t worry, you can continue to pretend sleep.”
I would dismiss this as a figment of his imagination, except about five other people around him heard it as well, including me. Creepier still, there was no one there, and it was the voice of a little girl that said it.
To make matters freakier, when we came back from our weekend home leave, there was a bunch of female hair on his bed, neatly bundled up, long and jet black. under his pillow was a note – “remember me?”.
Now as I said we were in the middle of a forest, in the middle of an island. And at that point in time, there were no female recruits / personnel on the island. Our bunks were locked up for the weekend and the duty sergeant had no idea that the incident happened. we never spoke about it after that night. Still chills me to the bone thinking about it.”
-Reddit user Madrampager
“I woke up to a tall dark figure that was standing a foot from my bed too. Except it did have bright, human-like eyes in contrast with its dark body.
I don’t know how long it was there while I was asleep, but even though I was unconscious I somehow became aware that I was being watched. The feeling of being watched was very intense. So I opened my eyes, sat straight up, and stared directly at it.
We stared at each other for what seemed like a long moment. I might be sounding crazy, but I felt like it wanted me to know it was there and it was gauging my reaction towards it. It occurred to me that under different circumstances I probably would’ve been scared upon suddenly seeing a dark unknown shadow, but in reality I was too tired to care. I didn’t dare blink until it dissipated away like smoke. Then when the heavy feeling of being watched finally went away, I lied back down and immediately went back to sleep. Not a scary ending, but it was a memorable moment for me.”
-Reddit user
“When I was about 14/15, my family took my cousins because of family complications. My cousins would always have scratch marks on them, and their mother, my aunty, was absolutely batshit in gypsy magic stuff. Everytime my cousins met, they’d always say that they’d be scratched in the middle of the night by someone, and once my grandmother heard, there was a huge legal battle to take my cousins away from my aunty because we thought she was hurting them and abusing them. 2 months pass and my aunty goes into a psychiatric jail and my cousins are living with my family. One night I wake up to my cousins out of bed crying, scratch marks on their arms, I mean deep scratch marks. I go to my parents, they treat them and stay up with them. I return to bed, get into my blankets and I feel a serious pain in my thigh, I get out of bed and I have 3 marks on my leg, I run down to my parents and show them, same time as I do, all of the doors start slamming upstairs.”
-Reddit user GodOfEnnui
“When I was a kid, I woke up in the middle of the night to my bed shaking. Normally, that would scare the crap out of me, but instead, I was just kind of annoyed. I rolled over and muttered, ‘Stop it.’ The shaking stopped immediately. Then, a male voice speaks right beside me, saying, ‘Sorry.’ That’s when I freaked out. I’m pretty sure my childhood house was haunted.”
— Reddit user NinaLaPirat
“On my previous job, when our building was still under construction, the only floors that were occupied were the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th and 7th. One time, I was alone inside the elevator going from 1st to the 6th floor when, suddenly, it stopped and opened on the 3rd floor. Normally, I would just disregard it, but rumors were all over that a ghost child was playing around on the vacant floors. So I pressed the closed button as I fast as I could. When it closed, I heard noises like someone was tapping their fingers on the walls of [the] elevator.”
— Reddit user sizzlorr26
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Words by Kate Stevens
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