Sometimes, real life can be stranger—and scarier—than anything from a novel or movie. In this collection, you’ll read about real events that are so creepy, unsettling, or just plain bizarre that they could easily be the start of a horror story. From unexplained happenings to eerie coincidences, these tales will send a chill down your spine and make you question what’s possible in the world around us.
- I was babysitting for my sister. At 3 a.m., her baby monitor lit up. I checked—her baby was asleep.
Then a voice whispered through the speaker: “He’s not okay.”
I called my sister in a panic. She yelled, “Take my son and run to the car. Lock it and call 911!”
Turns out, she had also been hearing noises on the baby monitor, and it was freaking her out as well.Just then, as she was talking to me, I froze when I saw a shadow of a man pass by the window outside my nephew’s room. I walked closer and saw that the window was open—one we always make sure to keep shut. I grabbed my nephew and ran to the car.
When the police arrived, they searched the area but didn’t find anything. They told us that this specific brand of baby monitor is known for making “weird sounds,” and others had reported similar complaints in recent months. We replaced the monitor, and the sounds stopped.
But I know what I saw. That shadow, that open window—it still gives me chills.
- My brother and I are twins. When I was very little, my father took me to get a haircut and left my brother at home with my mother.
Apparently, sometime after we left the house, I kept pulling my dad’s hand and said, “Bob hurt” over and over. My father thought it was weird, so he called home. Nobody answered, so he got a little suspicious and took me right home.
Coming home to an empty house (in the days before cell phones), we just waited. Later, my mother came home with my brother, and we found out that he had fallen and had to get stitches.
- When I was younger and visiting a theme park, I ran into a guy who looked just like me. He warned me that I would lose my money that day and told me to watch my pockets.
Later that day, I noticed my money had fallen out of my pocket, but luckily it was on the ground nearby. I wouldn’t have noticed if that guy’s comment hadn’t stuck in my mind.
- When I was 9 years old, my older sister and I were drawing while nobody else was home, and suddenly we heard our piano keyboard playing upstairs. We listened and recognized the song—it was Fur Elise.
My sister and I slowly went up the stairs.The story doesn’t end here –
it continues on the next page.
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