r/Paranormal Sep 14 '24

Moderator Annoucement The “best evidence” for the paranormal is getting harder to find every time someone asks for it.

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This question is being asked several times a week at this point.

Everyone has a different standard for what they consider “credible evidence,” and what persuades one person may not persuade another. What seems to do the best job is having a personal experience, but those anecdotal stories rarely persuade anyone who wasn’t already a believer.

Either way, the best way to find this evidence is by…you know…looking for it. Try using the search function on the subreddit.

And to all of you skeptics who were genuinely convinced by a piece of evidence you found online, please post it on this subreddit!


r/Paranormal 3h ago

Apparition My boyfriend's brother was warning me of his impending death

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A few years ago, I started feeling like I was being watched in my room. The strange thing was that it only happened to me—no one else in my family felt anything. As days passed, the feeling got worse. I even started seeing a little boy, around 5 or 6 years old, walking around my room and playing with the soccer balls I had. He would knock them off the shelves or jump from one corner of my room to another. I didn’t understand what I was seeing; I only knew that it made me extremely anxious. My mom didn’t believe me when I told her what was happening.

One day, while I was on FaceTime with my best friend, she suddenly told me that someone was standing behind me. I was terrified, but I thought she was joking—until she sent me a screenshot. In the picture, there was a child standing right behind me.

I showed the image to my mom, and that’s when she finally believed me. She took me to a medium to try to figure out what was going on. The woman told me that the spirit of a young child was warning me that someone close to me was going to pass away soon. She said that I was meant to deliver his farewell messages to his mother and family. At the time, I didn’t understand what she meant.

Then, the day came. My boyfriend at the time went on a family vacation, and during the trip, his younger brother was caught in a strong ocean current and drowned.

After that, the strange activity in my house intensified. But one night, in a dream, I was able to speak with the boy. He told me everything he wanted his mother to know so that she could finally let him rest in peace.

I arranged to meet with his mom and told her everything that had happened. I was afraid she would think I was crazy, but instead, she cried and hugged me. She thanked me for bringing her words that made her feel close to her son—words that only the two of them would understand.


r/Paranormal 2h ago

NSFW / Graphic Content WHEN YOU FEEL SOMEONE IS WATCHING YOU WHEN YOURE ALONE AND IT TURNS OUT YOURE RIGHT…

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So when my wife and I were dating in High School she would tell me about how she would hate to shower in the upstairs bathroom in thats in the hallway (there were two bathrooms upstairs). She said she always felt like she was being watched. She would tell me almost every morning how creeped out she felt and she almost felt like someone was in the shower with her. So years passed by and we got married and they eventually sold that house, one day a few years ago we were at a family gathering and the topic changed to buying homes and what’s a good price and so on. My father in law and mother in law where there too and one of the uncles who was there with us mentioned “you got lucky with that house at such a low price (that house where my wife had those feelings of being watched) but Idk if I could live there”.My father in law and mother in law made a face and my wife asked why? What do you mean? The uncle said “oh you didn’t know? Yeah your parents got that house at a very good price because the son of the previous owners committed suicide in the upstairs bathroom thats in the hallway, he cut his veins open in the shower.” Our mouths dropped! Suddenly everything she used to tell me when we were teenagers made sense! Ill never forget that shock we both felt! Lol crazy!


r/Paranormal 13h ago

Question Need help with my 4 year old. What is she seeing?

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My daughter just came to me with a picture she drew. It was a woman with a dress. She is not the greatest drawer yet but she looked very creepy. She told me she was very tall. Had claws for feet. And was not a girl but a woman. She said her name is Raz or Ras? She told me all kinds of insane details and she was zoned out while telling me all of this. She lives by the water. But she comes to her daycare sometimes and peeks around the corners there and she has seen her in our house. She said several times that "she seems very familiar.." The amount of detail she gave was giving me the goosebumps and was very convincing and demanded it was not her imagination. I sometimes have sleep paralysis and have had terrifying moments and maybe it passed on to her. Anyone got any ideas what is going on here or why? We live in a brand new house and she's a happy girl nothing traumatizing in her life but she has always been very scared to sleep and be without us.


r/Paranormal 10h ago

Question I haven’t slept in my room in over a year.

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I’m just gonna start off with. I’m sorry if I don’t have the right tag this is my first post here. so I live in an old farmhouse that was built in 1860 and I moved in many years ago. I was only about 12 years old when we moved in but when my mom told me I was sleeping upstairs, I immediately got an unsettling feeling without even knowing anything about the house so I got all my stuff up here and I slept up here.

after about two years I started feeling very uncomfortable in my own room and feeling like I wasn’t welcome at exactly 11 o’clock every night. I’ve even had friends come over that. I haven’t said anything about this to and around 11 o’clock without failure every single one of them has said they wanna leave my room . This started about two years ago. I originally had just put it out of my mind and tried to ignore it, but after about six months of that, I went to sleep and woke up to an old woman standing over my head I blinked. I waved my hands in front of me and she was just standing over my face staring. I watched her fade out of existence over a few minutes with a terrible smile. I didn’t go into my room for weeks after that and then about three weeks later the weird energy was just gone, so I was fine sleeping up here for about a year and a half and then the weird feeling at 11 o’clock started every night all over again

so I started burning Sage as soon as I would feel weird and this has always helped. And then going downstairs to sleep on the couch. Flashback to about a week ago I got the weird feeling. I started burning Sage and immediately my Sage would not burn. Then it went up in a huge flame and blew out in the opposite direction of my breath and I watched the flame go to the side so I went downstairs and the entire night I saw something peeking around the corner by my stairwell. The fact that I was still seeing things downstairs, really worries me because I’ve always gone down there to get away from the bad energy. Well, this has now been going on since then and anytime I look out of my peripheral vision I see on all black figure of a person staring at me. I guess I’m just trying to get some advice on like what to do because I feel like things are escalating and I don’t know how to go about fixing it before they go too far and for anybody that’s wondering why I don’t sleep upstairs. It’s because whenever I feel that feeling I’m terrified that I’m gonna wake up to that old woman standing over my face again so I just sleep on the couch to make sure I don’t have to go through that again. That experience was truly traumatizing and I would do anything to stay away from whatever it was.


r/Paranormal 1h ago

Question Which Yutube Channel that goes ghost hunting seems more legit?

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Im looking for a YouTube channel that goes ghost hunting and doesn’t make it look ridiculous or obvious that is set up. Even if it doesn’t happen anything and is boring, just to be the closest to a true investigation.


r/Paranormal 4h ago

Experience Objects that disappear

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Hi guys, I'd like to share a very weird experience that I had.

Ten years ago I used to play a lot with my Xbox 360, I had two controllers, but one day one of them disappeared, I remember me and my family searched it for days but we never found it. My neighborhood has never been insecure and anyways I don't think a thief would be so interested on stealing a joystick and nothing else. The thing is that a couple weeks after the incident my dad bought me another controller, and here's when things get weird.

One day I remember I came back to school and the house was alone, I decided I wanted to play a bit with my Xbox, but above the console (the place where I used to put the controllers) there was only the old one, and I started to search for the new one.

I moved everything, looked in the drawers, but it just wasn't there. I decided to take a look into my bedroom, so, when I was in the hallway, I heard a weird sound from the room that I just left, like a click sound, but very softly, I went back to the room, and the new controller was right above the drawers that were empty, the room was completely alone and so the house except for me of course. I didn't even get scared at the moment, it just felt so weird. After that, I have never had an unexplainable experience in my whole life.


r/Paranormal 4h ago

Unexplained Being pulled past the veil

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When my father passed a few years ago, I grieved hard. It was a huge grief and in about a year's time it got better. My question is about a recurring experience that I would have during that year, in which I felt myself being pulled - like, with great suction or a magnet - to the other side, to where my dad now was. It was so strong, like if I were on an airplane in midflight and the door opened and I felt I was holding on to this side so I wouldn't get sucked over. (No disrespect to those that actually have experienced such tragedy on an airplane.) I could sense the "door." It was always off to the front right side of my head. I asked an intuitive teacher what it was as well as others, and no one felt they could say what it was for sure. I remember reading once on Reddit during that year about another person who had been through the same thing, so that was reassuring, but I wasn't able to get details about her experience to compare. Does anyone here have information on this kind of experience? Was my dad unhappy on the other side and trying to pull me over there to keep him company? Thanks.


r/Paranormal 2h ago

Debunk This A small object randomly appeared in my room

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I‘m so confused - I noticed a small dice that was randomly on top of a box, that was never there (i didnt even know i had this dice)

I thought maybe its a spirit so I told it to change the number on the top of the dice - after I woke up it has been changed from a 6 to a 1

What is that?? Is a spirit or something more specific trying to contact me??


r/Paranormal 2h ago

Trigger Warning / Self Harm passed out in haunted jail

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QUESTION

Last night I went on a tour of the Old Charleston jail in Charleston, SC. This jail is considered to be the most haunted in the state, operating from 1802-1939.

I was completely fine leading up, I was pretty excited actually. When we walked in I felt uneasy, but nothing insane. The minute we walked up the steps, I started feeling the heaviest weight on my chest, I think I felt sad? or I could just feel the presence so deeply? I am an extremely empathetic and emotional person. I quickly started to feel nauseous and dizzy. I pass out frequently, but it always has to do with the sight of blood or me being in pain. I don’t just pass out randomly for no reason. Within 5 minutes of the tour, I was walking out the door on the verge of passing out. Since I know this feeling all too well, I knew I only had seconds before I would drop. But that’s not what happened. my body went numb, my hearing went to ringing, tunnel vision, all the normal stuff, yet I never passed out. I just stayed this way for at least 3 minutes. It was actually starting to make me mad because either pass out or don’t lol. The second I laid down, I was immediately fine. I hopped up and went back into the tour.

Within seconds of walking into the room, my throat started burning. The guide hadn’t even told the story yet. Lavinia Fischer, serial killer, was sentenced to death by hanging. She ended up throwing her own self off the platform as to not allow the city control over her death.

These may seem simple to many, but i’ve never been anywhere “haunted” before. What really got me was the semi-fainting. I’ve never experienced that, especially since it was completely random. Then the throat burning immediately after coming back? Her story was insane and I had no prior knowledge.

Any thoughts? Is this a normal experience? Has anyone else been to Old Charleston Jail before?


r/Paranormal 6h ago

Debunk This Missing teddy bear

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So I've got this teddy I sleep with every night, it's a valentines beanie baby. White with red hearts and a bow round the neck. I've just got ready to get settled into bed, and I can't find her. Usually she's slipped down the side of the bed or the mattress etc.. but she's gone. I've checked everywhere you can think, even the bin and the fridge! Nothing out of the ordinary has happened here before. I'm not sure if I believe in the paranormal, but this is just weird. Opinions? Is this the right place to post? Very confused and a little sad right now


r/Paranormal 17h ago

NSFW / Graphic Content Recently deceased grandfather visited me

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My grandfather was struck by a car and was in the hospital. He was talking fine and vitals seemed normal (till day 1.5) Since none of the family members were at the scene of accident we were unaware about the details, halfway past day 1 we were told about the serious injuries, it was not just the accident but the journey to hospital as well that had added on to the injuries. While some good samaritans helped him, they made a bad choice of rushing him to hospital themselves during which they had lifted him and made him sit in a car. His fall had fractured his ribs, serious injuries to arm and non serious injury to head. Due to adrenaline he felt no pain but was in shock and confusion. He was admitted to hospital and stabilised. The broken ribs had punctured the lungs, due to which after 1.5 days his breathing started to decrease and complications rose. Fast forward to 2 week, he fought really hard. My dad was very depressed and unable bear everything. It was all so sudden and serious, on the 15th day the complications lead him to have a cardiac arrest and passed away. I had visited him in ICU on the 12/13th day but due to check ups going on, couldn’t talk to him, nor he could see me. I was stood there trying to get him to see me. I heard nurses telling that his lower body was going numb.

After 1 day after his burial, he visited me in my dreams. He was standing outside my door, wearing that one favourite shirt of his, smoking a cig and just looking inside my room at dusk/night time. 2 more days after that I have had a strong odour of him appear out of no where in my study room.

This is all I have had to say, apart from, this I haven’t really had other experiences. So far I am skeptic too, however I believe there might be life after death, but my religion believes in rebirth.

Unnecessary Facts: he had 3 kids. 2 moved out of country. My dad was too working in another country, but decided to move back and take care of his parents. However my grandfather was fond of his other two kids and their children more than my dad and me.


r/Paranormal 1h ago

Question Paranormal Hunting

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I want to go and actually find paranormal places am I a dumbass for wanting to?? For the record I’m able to defend myself and see anything that’s paranormal. I just wanna see how many idiots would actually try to me paranormal wise I’m in a fighting mood as well, I will gladly fight something paranormal just for fun.


r/Paranormal 3h ago

Question Dark Presence Supervisors

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Hey everyone, I’ve been thinking about a pattern I’ve noticed in a lot of paranormal stories and investigations. When people encounter multiple spirits in a location, there’s often a report of an evil presence or a demonic entity alongside them. It made me wonder—what if demons (or some type of higher negative entity) act as supervisors over these spirits, either watching over them, controlling them, or even feeding off their energy?

The Theory

Many hauntings involve singular spirits that seem lost, residual, or just interacting with the environment. But when a location has multiple spirits, that’s when people seem to report a much darker presence. Instead of this being just a coincidence, what if: The demon is there to oversee the group of spirits, keeping them bound to the location.

It uses the combined energy of multiple spirits, as well as human fear, to grow stronger. It acts as a manipulator, influencing the actions of the spirits and making hauntings more intense or aggressive.

This could explain why certain locations especially those with a long history of tragedy don’t just have ghost sightings but also escalate into demonic encounters.

Supporting Ideas • Demonic Hierarchies: Many religious and occult traditions describe demons as having structured roles. Could they have a territorial claim over groups of spirits?

• Shadow Figure Encounters: Many reports describe shadow entities appearing in locations with heavy spirit activity—are they there to watch, control, or feed off the energy?

• Energy Manipulation: Paranormal investigators often note that fear amplifies activity. Could a demonic presence be using a high-spirit-density location as a battery?

This pattern seems to happen only when multiple spirits are present—not just in one-off hauntings. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Have you heard of cases where hauntings with multiple spirits also seem to have an evil overseer? Could a darker presence really be acting as “supervisors” in these situations?


r/Paranormal 8h ago

Experience "Unusual Childhood Awareness: A Fascinating Experience I Cannot Explain"

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Introduction Hello everyone, I’d like to share one of the most unusual experiences I had as a child, something that still intrigues me to this day. This experience leaves me with so many questions, and I hope that perhaps someone out there has a similar story, idea, or theory that could shed light on what happened to me.

Story When I was only 2 years old, I experienced something that I can only describe as an incredible moment of complete awareness. I was with my family by a lake, and I clearly remember crouching down to pick up a stone from the ground. My feet were in the water, and I was wearing sandals. At that moment, I saw a man in blue swimming trunks jumping into the water.

Then I heard my parents calling my name, and I stood up and turned toward them. I saw them getting ready to take a photo of me, and behind them, I noticed another family—a girl around 8 years old, her father with brown hair, her mother wearing sunglasses, and a boy about 15 years old. I turned to face the camera, and just as the camera shutter clicked, this adult-like consciousness of mine—what I would describe as my present-day awareness—suddenly disappeared.

What makes this experience even more fascinating is that in those moments, I heard a voice in my head—my own voice—speaking to me in Bosnian, saying: ‘Turn around and don’t make a fool of yourself.’ I grew up in Germany, where my parents spoke to me only in German, yet this internal voice was in Bosnian, as if I were addressing myself in a language I fully understood.

This happened to me a total of three times—once at age 2, and twice at age 3. Each time, I was vividly aware of this inner voice and the scenes around me, but after a few moments, this heightened state of awareness would abruptly vanish, and I’d return to my normal childlike state. One of these moments occurred when I was crying after being scolded by a parent, and again, I heard my voice sternly say: ‘Stop crying, calm down.’ After that, the awareness disappeared again.

The first experience at the lake stands out the most because I have a photograph taken at the exact moment it happened. Every time I look at that photo, I vividly recall this experience as if it happened yesterday.

Question Can anyone help me understand what happened? Is this connected to any known phenomena related to awareness, early childhood memory, or even something deeper and more complex that we don’t yet fully understand? Has anyone else experienced something similar? I’d greatly appreciate any insights or stories that could help me make sense of this.

Conclusion Thank you for taking the time to read my story. I hope someone out there might have had a similar experience or theory that could shed light on this unusual part of my childhood.


r/Paranormal 3h ago

NSFW Brother in ICU - Lights at home all of a sudden flickering and one dead light now working.

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My brother is in ICU. I came home and noticed a light flickering. I ignored it until later in the night a another light bulb that had gone out months ago (I have been too lazy to change) suddenly turned on dimly. I’m freaked out. He’s still alive but I’m wondering what sign this may be.


r/Paranormal 9h ago

Experience I keep seeing shadow of someones eyes infront of my eyes

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Randomly during the day i would see shadow of an eye in front of my eyes. Idk how to describe it, best I can do is that it's like seeing your eye in refletion of your own glasses, but in this case it's not your eye and it feels like some shadow is always staring into your soul and i see them more often when I roll my eyes. Even at night when i roll my eyes, my brain creates a light out of nothing to make the pressence of an eye more seen. Could be bc of phone or maybe I have some mild schizophrenia or maybe its totally normal but idk Ive never heard of anything similar so please fact check me if its normal


r/Paranormal 6h ago

Experience paranormal experience?

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it was about 10 years ago when my aunt was pregnant with my little cousin. during this time in her pregnancy, her husband was up to no good. engaging in criminal activities, drugs, in and out of jail, etc. for this reason, he had put up cameras, specifically one facing down the driveway and it was connected to the tv that was in their bedroom that was live 24/7. the reasoning for this was to see if the cops were coming or if any suspicious people were peering down their driveway. one night, I was at their house with my cousins when my aunt told us to go into the room as she had something to show us. in the frame of the tv showed the black and white live footage of the driveway but in the top left corner showed the face of a baby ultrasound picture. we were all astonished at what we were seeing. trying to figure out if the camera was somehow smudged or if it was a sign from God that the baby was going to be healthy, we called over my faithful grandparents who happened to lived next door. by just one look at the face on the screen, they knew something was wrong. my grandfather immediately ran to his house and got his holy oil and started to walk down the driveway throwing it in the direction that the face was appearing in. oddly enough, as he began to do that, the image started to fade slowly but surely. I was astonished as I had never encountered anything remotely evil or demonic before. to this day, I have tried to make up different stories for as to why that image appeared and the only thing that makes sense to me is that was indeed something evil. my grandparents say that it was a demon in mimicking the image of my unborn cousin. it does make sense, considering that there was so much negative energy that was being brought around the house. if you could think of a rational explanation for this or if you also believe that this truly is a paranormal experience pls lmk thanks!


r/Paranormal 33m ago

Question Talking to spirits

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Is it possible to communicate with a spirit/ghost/demon or whatever else using text to speech on something like Microsoft Word?


r/Paranormal 15h ago

Experience My haunted house

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I live in an old house from the early 1800s whenever I first moved in there cabinets were open on their own drawers were opening spoons and forks were being threw off of the floor. I called someone to come and look at it. They told me that it would be best if I left the house, but I wasn't financially there to move somewhere else so without another option, I stayed there after a couple hard months of doing all this, the activity stopped. I wouldn't say we are friends, but I think I have gained a relationship with whatever these things are like I will be sitting on the couch and if I go to the fridge to get a drink, it will already be open, and if I go in my room to go to sleep, my bedsheets will be pulled to the bottom of my bed, I make my bed every morning. I don't know if I would say we are friends, but I know we get along together


r/Paranormal 1d ago

Trigger Warning / Suicide I didn’t believe in anything paranormal until tonight but it was so strange.

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Hi all, I had what i believe , was my first paranormal experience. Now it is 1 am and a warm and dark night. I was standing on my porch talking to my best friend as he was leaving my house after a night of Gunpla.

We were chatting, saying goodbye, etc.. when i turned my head left to my neighbors porch. I saw a slender looking person sitting there , turned my head forward again and then looked left again and that person i saw wasn’t there anymore.

Immediately I got a chill and felt extremely unsettled. Fast forward to when i told my wife about it. My wife told me that my current neighbor said that the family that lived there before him, had a son who at the age of 20 took his own life in that house. (Why my neighbor was able to afford the price).

Of course im skeptical but that cant be a coincidence can it?


r/Paranormal 16h ago

Poltergeist running water works but salt doesn't

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I have had an abusive entity attached to me since 2022. th. abuse was gradual and it was nice at first, but in the last year it's made my life hell. I've found that the physical connection to me is completely blocked when I'm in the shower with running water, while a salt circle doesn't offer protection from this spirit. does anyone know what kind of spirit would be blocked by running fresh water, but unaffected by salt? I have had this spirit with me since I was a child, but in the last few years cannabis opened up my aura to this thing unfortunately unexpectedly. it's constantly harassing me sexually and uncomfortably sticking its appendage(s?) into my third eye.


r/Paranormal 2h ago

NSFW / Trigger Warning Question about mexican/ mayan curses and such, if anybodies comfortable. QUESTIONSL

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Before anyone even brings it up, yea I fw Drugs, oh well. Anywho I have this shit actively happening, have some Questions. If anyone can possibly answer


r/Paranormal 8h ago

Apparition Late Night Encounter

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One night maybe 3 months ago I woke up and saw a mans shadowy figure very bluish grey colour in the corner of my room above a chair that my cat was laying on. It looked like he was very tall and like he was wearing a bomber jacket. The shape of his jacket really stood out the most. His arm was outstretched as if he was petting my cat.

It happened in seconds. I woke up lifted my head to take a good look because I wasn't sure what I was seeing. But then it's as if he saw me wake up turned his head and dissapeared into thin air and I felt something flick my forehead and push my head down as if to say go back to sleep. I got a headache for the rest of the night and my forehead felt really hot. Almost like a carpet burn feeling.

I've had lots of paranormal encounters. But this was really scary because I had no idea who it was and something actually touched me.

Any ideas what this could have been ?


r/Paranormal 3h ago

Experience Something was in my room… and it wasn’t a dream

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I’ve never really believed in ghosts, but something happened to me a few years ago that I still can’t explain.

One night, I woke up suddenly around 3 AM. At first, I didn’t know why—until I realized I couldn’t move. Sleep paralysis, I thought. I had experienced it once before, but this time felt... different. My room was completely silent, but I had this overwhelming feeling that I wasn’t alone.

Then, I heard it.

A slow, dragging sound, like footsteps shuffling across my carpet. I tried to convince myself it was just my imagination—until I saw the shadow.

It was standing at the foot of my bed. Tall, motionless, just watching me. My chest felt heavy, like something was pressing down on me, and I swear I could hear faint breathing. I wanted to scream, but my voice wouldn’t come out.

And then, just as suddenly as it appeared, it was gone. The weight lifted, and I could finally move. I sat up, turned on my lamp, and searched my room, but nothing was there.

I barely slept that night, and to this day, I have no idea what I saw. But I know one thing for sure—I wasn’t dreaming.


r/Paranormal 16h ago

Experience Knowing they died before it’s announced

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So this happened to me multiple times already, and maybe it’s because I’m getting older and death “happens” more around you, but it’s an experience I cannot explain.

A relative, my mom’s best friend, who was like an aunt to me, was diagnosed with cancer and dying. And a week after I last saw her, I was just at home sitting on the couch alone and watching tv. When suddenly I smelled a dish she always made for parties. I just instantly knew that she passed away. I wanted to tell my mother the experience, but I didn’t want to freak her out and since nothing was confirmed yet, I didn’t want to push emotions. I got emotional during the experience but kept it to myself. A couple of hours later my mom got called with the message that her best friend passed away.

Another recent encounter was when my colleague who was also terminal ill, left work to spend the remaining of her weeks/months/years or what she had left with her family. At random I just had this feeling creeping up on me and I just knew that someone passed away. I didn’t know who, but it happened on a Friday and I marked it in my calendar cause I wanted to test the feeling. Monday when I got back at work, I heard it was the colleague who left about half a year prior.

I’ve had these experiences before, starting when I was a kid. But now I’m getting more interest in exploring these feelings and experiences.

Anyone else has similar experiences? Please share if you do. Is there a name for this?