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20 people share strange or creepy stories that still make them ask: 'what the hell?'

Have you ever encountered what you could only describe as a ghost, phantom, or mysterious shadow figure? Do you have a personal story you return to in your brain, still unable to fully piece together what precisely went down? If so, you aren&#39;t alone.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the strange and creepy experiences that left them wondering: &quot;what the hell was that?!&quot;And for better or worse, there appears to be a lot of people in this boat of creeped out confusion.1. From L3n777: Went camping with school. Stayed in a fairly nice campsite in the woods. The very first night about six of us shared a big tent and we&#39;re all laughing and joking as kids do.  Then one of the lads suddenly says &#39;what the fuck is that?&#39; with a genuine look of horror on his face. So we rush to his side of the tent and peer out into the darkness towards the big communal campfire and I shit you not, all six of us saw what I can only describe as a pair of white legs (no upper half) walking around the campfire before vanishing.  We were in shock for a while before we all collectively just laughed hysterically whilst crying inside. Still to this day I have no idea what we saw. It genuinely looked like a pair of white trousers just walking around.  EDIT: Someone suggested it might have been someone playing a trick, like say they may have been wearing a dark hoodie and shining a light on their trousers, but we could see the legs and the campfire over it, so there was defo no torso. Or in other words, if it had been someone doing a trick, the light and flames from the campfire would not have been visible.  I&#39;ve tried to rationalise it for years. Not saying it was a ghost or a cryptid, but I have no idea what we saw. 2. From sidneyprescotts: My friend and I were driving on a freeway when we both felt a random jolt run through our bodies. At first, I didn&#39;t realize my friend had felt it and kept it to myself. When I say jolt, I don&#39;t mean the car or seats shook and we felt a vibration from it. I mean we individually felt an isolated vibration, separate from anything else, move through our bodies. After that sensation, everything around us felt different. I mean, everything looked the same, but we still couldn&#39;t shake the idea that something major had changed about our surroundings, that something was suddenly very wrong, unnatural, and we experienced genuine fear for our lives like something was after us.  It even took weeks for the sensation to slowly go away. I realized my friend had experienced the same thing when I looked over nervously and saw that she was gripping her steering wheel tightly, finally asking, &quot;What was that?&quot; This was back in 2014, and we still talk about it to this day. I guess we&#39;ll never know what happened, but I&#39;m open to theories! Someone once suggested that we drove through some kind of chemical agent or a pocket of natural gas without knowing it. 3. From Nate_0-0: At the time, I never really thought much of it because of my age. When I was around 8 to 9 years old, we used to live in a semi-detached house where the stairs were by the left side of the house and the neighbours home was to the right (important for later), another important fact was that an old guy used to live there and unfortunately passed away.  I made friends with the neighbours kids because we realised we went to the same school. One day I was walking up the stairs whilst knocking my knuckles against the wall playfully like any child would. I heard something knock back and at the time I was young, so I assumed it was the neighbours kid knocking from the other side. I knocked again and heard the wall knock back.  It wasn&rsquo;t until I recall the memory and floor plan that the neighbours house wasn&rsquo;t aligned with the stairs. The other side of the wall I knocked on was plain land. 4. From psychologythrill: I had surgery recently and remember having a &#39;dream&#39; while under anesthesia where I was lucid and knew that my dream-body was not real and that my real-body was on an operating table (in the dream, I was back in my apartment and my cat kept trying to jump up on me and I kept thinking &quot;no, you can&#39;t jump up on me because I&#39;m actually on a table and you&#39;ll mess up the surgery!&quot;). I have no memory of waking up during surgery and have no idea how I knew, but I remember feeling a lot of distress that my cat was going to mess up my surgery. It&#39;s left me with a really bad/weird/creepy feeling, even weeks later. 5. From nerdqueen69: The time I visited a nursing home with my friend so she could go see her mom. We were on our way out when some old lady in a wheel chair gestured towards me and started calling me my moms name. My moms mom died in that nursing home and it was likely one of her friends, and I look a lot like my mom (at least when she was my age) so I can see how she&#39;d confuse us. I couldn&#39;t stop to talk to her because the nurse saw and told us we shouldn&#39;t. 6. From The-Blux-12: I tend to suffer from bad dreams, and occasionally a lucid one. I always sleep with the door open, so a bit of moonlight comes in, just enough to see a silhouette. One day I am in between being awake and being asleep and there is a black silhouette of a person standing in the door opening. I start screaming like crazy, and at the same time this person starts screaming too and runs towards me in the dark and sits on top of me. I scream even louder, almost to the brink of crying out of panick. This continues for a good few second until I recognize the voice: &uml;Calm down its me&uml;.  Turns out its just my girlfriend, who&rsquo;d gone to the toilet, tries to go back to bed as silent as possible and is met with insane screaming. There was a debate for some time who scared who more... 7. From feliciates: A guy fishing with a fully-dressed/outfitted dummy. It was in Luray, VA along the Shenandoah river, a pretty isolated area. We were walking our dogs and passed 2 guys at river&#39;s edge, fishing. Not that unusual, until I realized that one of the &quot;guys&quot; was in reality a dummy/mannequin fully dressed in a fishing outfit. It&#39;s arms were out, rigid, &quot;holding&quot; a fishing pole. I totally freaked out internally but kept telling myself I MUST be imagining it. I didn&#39;t say anything to my husband because I didn&#39;t want to draw the attention of what might be an absolute lunatic.  As soon as we got past &quot;them&quot; my husband, the most level-headed guy in the world, looked at me and asked if I&#39;d seen the guy fishing with a dummy. Cue internal screaming. 8. From forkiiiiiii: Used to work for this dementia home and one of the patients, who was particularly unstable, started screaming at me with a face of genuine fear. She then said, &ldquo;You&rsquo;re the boy, you&rsquo;re the boy, you&rsquo;re the boy&rdquo; before she got wheeled away. I knew she was sick but it really shook me up. Maybe I was the boy. 9. From uninpressedpanda45: I threw my towl on the floor to take a shower. The door was locked. When I stepped out of the shower, it was folded on the toilet seat. 10. From Canadabigjack: I was on a volunteer fire department and we were called out to a single vehicle roll over. There were two occupants in the vehicle, a guy and a girl, boyfriend and girlfriend, and the girl was very much dead when we got there. We waited with the guy on the tailgate of the vehicle until the ambulance arrived and stabilized him for transport to hospital. While we were waiting he explained that they were sitting side by side, cuddling as they drove and sharing Mike and Ikes between each other&#39;s lips while kissing.  The next day the fire department had a debriefing meeting to check in on one another after such a stressful event. This one guy starts explaining a recurring dream he had where the girl who died in the crash was trying to get his attention to explain what had happened, how they had a candy between their lips kissing. He didn&#39;t even know what Mike and Ikes were but kind of explained that that they were like candy tic tacs that were longer and started with the letter M. When one of us suggested Mike and Ikes he exclaimed, &quot;That&#39;s it! That&#39;s what she was trying to tell me!&quot;  This freaked the hell out of me. The guy was on tragic duty for this call and was easily more than 500 yards from the scene of the accident. There were only 3 firefighters at the actual scene, I being one of them. Because the accident was late in the evening, we didn&#39;t debrief immediately after because everyone needed their sleep. There was no way buddy could have known this intimate detail of the crash. It was all unexplainable and easily the eeriest things I have ever experienced. 11. From guyfromthecityofgold: I was chilling at a library one day and the lights went out I felt a hand on my shoulder and breath in my neck. When the lights came back on, no hand was there, no breath. Almost pissed myself in public. 12. From JustReid2: I randomly looked out my bedroom window and seen two guys at my elderly neighbour&#39;s back door working on the lock in the middle of the night, I phoned the police and must have fell asleep. I went round the next morning and chapped the neighbours door and got no answer. I left it at that and couple of weeks later I was in my pal&#39;s house and the neighbours grandson thanked me for looking out for them. Turns out it was two on call council workers repairing a damaged lock. I still don&#39;t know how he knew it was me. 13. From Badorkadork99: When my sister and I were were 9 and five we heard tapping in our second floor bedroom window. We were too scared to check it out at first but then we saw hands. Human hands. She opened the window and pushed the boy who lived next door out of the tree. 14. From inkognito444: This happened back in the mid 80s My sister&#39;s ex-boyfriend and I (we were friends, they were still on friendly terms as they shared a child) were driving home from San Bernardino. We were traveling west on Interstate 10. It was around 8:30 PM or so. We both noticed a really bright light (looked sort of like flames) to our direct right (there were fields to our right).  We felt a little rumble, then we saw (both of us, although I was also driving so had to be careful) a missal or something literally fly up into the sky from the ground. We weren&#39;t drunk or high we were just surprised. We saw other people looking over to the right as well from their cars. Two cars actually pulled off the freeway to the side. I was scared sh*tless. I told him to put it on one of the news stations, I told him try KFWB. He did and he was near tears. We seriously thought we were going to war or something. Finally, we put it on another station (we were still on the freeway) and we stopped on KIIS and they were actually talking about it but didn&#39;t have any specific details on it. Maybe a minutes worth of talking about it.  We finally got home and busted in the house telling everyone what we saw and I turned the tv to one of the main stations, hoping for a special report to break in. He went and turned on my stereo to the news station. Nothing. No reports other than the small snippet from KIIS FM We searched newspapers, watched news, listened to news for the next week. Nothing. We both absolutely saw this, as did other people on the freeway, but nothing was ever spoken about it after that. 15. From mostlygray:  My dad, my brother, and I were at house with several outbuildings that my uncle had bought to fix up and sell. My uncle was showing us around. It was a very weird place. It had wainscoting over a door in the basement and a long tunnel running to the outside with metal &quot;teeth&quot; over the end. You could see sunlight through the tunnel. It was just big enough for a small man to crawl through.  On the main floor, at the back, was a room with a lock on the outside. The room&#39;s walls were covered in black plastic, no windows. The floor was painted blue with milk paint. I felt an immediate sense of foreboding and refused to stay in the room.  My brother and I went and looked at the Quonset house that was one of the outbuildings. It must have been set up for a family member. Upon opening the door, we found the main room almost knee deep in kids toys. We walked towards the front where the kitchen was. There was no door, just a curtain. I immediately had an intrusive thought that told me that there was a family in there at a Formica table with silver edges. The mother was cooking and there was a man and two kids there. I completely felt that is what I would see. I could see that the table and kitchen were yellow. All of this in my head.  I pulled back the curtain and, of course, no one was there, but I had the kitchen correctly in my head. The entire layout was exactly what I thought it would be. My brother and I turned and left without speaking about it. About 10 years later, I brought it up to my brother about what I thought I&#39;d see after opening the curtain. He said to me, &quot;That&#39;s exactly what I thought I&#39;d see too.&quot; Something bad happened at that house. I don&#39;t know what it was, but something bad happened. 16. From ImReallyWalterWhite: On Christmas I had a dream that an ex boyfriend I hadn&rsquo;t spoken to in several years was holding my hand. When I woke up, I was laying on my back with my hand above the covers- I always sleep on my side under the blankets- and I could still feel his hand holding mine. It was like a cartoon, where the character falls as soon as they look down. I felt his hand holding mine as plain as day, as real as the bed beneath me, but the moment I looked, I couldn&rsquo;t feel it anymore.  It creeped me out for a few days and I couldn&rsquo;t get over it, so I tried to get ahold of him. His social media was inactive, so I shot his mother a message. He had taken his life a week before, and I was in his note. I hadn&rsquo;t heard from him in years and hadn&rsquo;t been thinking of him for any particular reason. Had I not had that dream, I wouldn&rsquo;t have made it to his memorial or seen what he&rsquo;d written me. Bittersweet. Creepy. Interesting. 17. From Longjumping-Block685: I was walking my dog one day in the park. The park is pretty big, with a lake and a part where the path leads through the woods. Me being a dumbass, I forgot it was getting dark early but I decided to continue walking. My dog is pretty big and protective so I felt save enough. She was walking loose ahead of me (her collar has red lights in them) when we turned the corner through the woods. It was getting darker and darker and even though I know the park like my back pocket I turned on the flaslight on my phone.  Anyway, a few minutes go by. Just silence, sounds of my footsteps and the wind in the trees, when my dog suddenly started growling. I stopped, she&#39;s standing a few feet away, just a ring of red lights staring at the trees. I call her and she&#39;s by my side in a second. I don&#39;t know why, but I dismissed it as dumb doggy behavior like smelling a rabbit or whatever and keep walking. Very stupid, I know.  So we keep walking, dog by my side, my flashlight in front of me. We turn another corner and my dog growling again. This time I freak out a little and look around me with the flashlight. Nothing. It was just a minute of walking before the path led us back into the park. I could make a run for it, but I had this weird feeling. So I took a few steps forward and saw someone standing a little away on the path. Just standing there. Like they just appeared out of nothing. It was weird and I immediatly felt nauseous.  My dog starts full on barking, growling, backhair standing up. She&#39;s a very social dog, even with complete strangers, so this had to be bad. Her barking kind of shocked me into moving. The moment I grabbed her to turn around to make a run for it, the figure stepped forward. I never ran so hard. I ran all the way back to the little bridge that connected the neighborhood to the park. My dog was still with me, thank god. The moment I got home I called the local police and asked them to check it out. They didn&#39;t take it that seriously, because nothing bad happened but they send a car over. They found nobody, of course. I slept badly that night and it took me a while too walk there again, even in daylight. 18. From Irateraidersfan13: I was at work, heading into my bar. To get to the bar, I had to take a freight elevator down. There was a man with a trench coat just staring at the wall . I didn&rsquo;t think much of it, so I just entered the elevator and closed the door. Mid elevator ride, the man let&rsquo;s out a creepy laugh and jumped and faces me and says &ldquo;you have sealed your fate!&rdquo;  I&rsquo;m thinking to my self, wtf is this, am I on camera or am I gonna get stabbed? So I proceeded to grab my knife out my pocket but the man said, &ldquo; hey have you ever played resident evil 4?&rdquo; I let out a nervous laugh, and said yes. He apparently was quoting a line from that game. Weirdest thing ever. Good thing I didn&rsquo;t pull out my knife. 19. From KarolineBl: A close relative had a rather strange coworker. At one point she was looking at my relative, then when relative asked &lsquo;what?&rsquo; she said &lsquo;you should be glad I didn&rsquo;t run you over with my car this morning&rsquo;. They didn&rsquo;t see each other at all that morning, didn&rsquo;t come from same place and went in five hours apart. 20. From Specifilly: When I was at my wife&rsquo;s parents house. She was in her restroom (in her room) and I was on the bed and whistled and heard someone whistle back from outside of the room. Nobody in the house admitted to the whistling and it sounded like it came from upstairs since her room is next to the stairs. I was later told it was her dads mom and she used to do that with him and his brothers when they were little in order to find them. This was told to me after I was having a conversation with my father in law and felt someone blow on my ear and at the same time he looked past me to the side of my head where I felt the air blow and said he saw her do it. 