10 Eerie Stories That Will Haunt Your Dreams

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These extraordinary moments often challenge our understanding of reality and invite us to explore the unknown.

My friend Minji worked as an English tutor in South Korea. Once, she was tutoring a high school boy. They were up studying pretty late, and the buses stopped running. The boy asked if he could sleep on the floor and get the first bus the next morning. Minji was very reluctant, but eventually she relented.
At maybe 2 am, the boy wakes her up and says, “I’m really hungry. Let’s go get some food”. Minji looks up at him in disbelief, “Food? Now? It’s 2 am, go back to bed.” The student insists, “No, I’m so hungry, let’s eat something now.” She tells him that there’s some ramen in the kitchen, but he wants to go to a 24-hour place just down the road.
Eventually, the boy gets Minji to come with him to the restaurant. As soon as they’re on the street, the boy turns to Minji, and says, “I’m not hungry. I woke up in the middle of the night, and looked under your bed. There’s a man sleeping there.”
They call the police, and discover that a homeless man had been living in Minji’s apartment, sleeping under her bed, for over 2 months. The boy only saw him because he was lying on her floor, so had a clear view under the bed. The police arrested the man, and thankfully there were no other issues, but that’s by far the creepiest thing that’s ever happened to anyone I know. © Adacore / Reddit

When I was a kid, I remember lying on my bedroom floor with the door wide open while my parents watched TV in the living room at around 1 a.m. Suddenly, I’d try to get up to use the bathroom, and my brain would almost act out me doing it.
It wasn’t until about the fifth time that I realized I had never actually gotten up. I was stuck on the floor, unable to move, talk, or call for my parents. It felt like something had sucked the soul out of my body, and I was pinned to the ground. It wasn’t until my dad walked in to put me in my bed that I started bawling my eyes out. © Stockwaa / Reddit

One summer night when I was in high school, I was asleep with my window open. At around 3 a.m., I heard someone ferociously honking their car horn over and over. At this point, I wasn’t fully awake and comprehending where the sound was coming from. Then suddenly, I heard a woman scream, “Somebody, please help me!”
This made me jump out of bed instantly, and I ran to my mom’s room to tell her we needed to call 911. My mom called and reported the incident. After a few minutes, we saw the cops arrive, and they looked around with flashlights for a few minutes but couldn’t find anyone in their car, so they ended up leaving.
The next day, we asked the neighbors if they heard or saw anything, and no one had even heard a peep. It still weirds me out to this day. © No_Director2816 / Reddit

When I was a kid in the early 2000s, my sister and I had a TV in our room that was just for watching DVDs (we did not have cable). On occasion, the TV would turn to a black terminal screen and start typing words to us. It would essentially curse us out and also identify that we were two girls. We thought it was funny and crazy and would call up our parents, saying, “Look what the TV is doing!”
As adults, my sister and I are beyond creeped out at how the TV was able to do that. As to who or what was behind this phenomenon, we still have no idea. © neogirl22 / Reddit

I had a dream of my husband and me having three children. It was sweet and happy until they started slowly disappearing, Thanos style. I remember waking up and feeling “off.”
The next week, we found out I was pregnant with triplets. One of them I miscarried, the second one became suddenly unviable, and the third had to be removed because it was far undersize and a danger to my life.
It was the creepiest experience of my life. © prznmike / Reddit

I recall 17 years ago when I had my first baby and was laying in the hospital room with the baby in her crib thing next to me that night. A nurse came in and said they could take the baby to the nursery for a few hours, so I could get some sleep. I said no thanks, I want my baby next to me, so I can stare at her.
The next night, I was very tired and asked the nurse if she could take the baby to the nursery for a couple of hours. That nurse turned pale, and said, “Your baby is supposed to stay with you in the room. We don’t have a nursery. Nobody would ever come take your baby from you!” © Trailerparkqueen / Reddit

I was on the Tube in London, and there was a guy sitting right opposite me with a very unusual, colorful t-shirt that was eye-catching. So, I spent the journey glancing at him and his shirt, as you do when you’re on the Tube.
I got off at my stop, and the t-shirt guy stayed on the train. On my way up the escalator to street level, the exact same guy passed me on the opposite escalator coming down from the street.
There was no way he could’ve been there—I left him on the train. It freaked me out good and proper. © Abervilla / Reddit

There was a girl who was head over heels for me, but I didn’t really want anything to do with her. After school, I didn’t think about her, but one year when I went back home for the summer, I found out she had moved to my family’s building, to the apartment across from ours (my building has two apartments per floor).
I had never told her where I lived prior to this. I decided to be cordial and talk to her family and all, welcome the neighbors and whatnot, and I found out from her mom that the girl had actually suggested they move there. Now, I can’t tell either way if it was deliberate or pure chance, but let’s just say we live in a big city, and the odds of that being a coincidence were low. © Kenhamef / Reddit

Many, many years ago, there was an abandoned old house at the far end of a plant nursery. We had heard from others that they would go there to party. So, one night, a friend of mine, his girlfriend, and I grabbed some snacks and headed over, guided only by the light of the moon. We found the dilapidated house behind some tall trees and moved towards it.
As we got closer, I heard a single frog croaking. As we approached even more, more frogs started making noise. A few steps further, and the sound of thousands of frogs drowned out all other noises, seemingly warning us not to venture closer to the blackened-windowed home. We took the frogs’ advice and went back home with our snacks, where it was safe. © Buck-osogrande-5150 / Reddit

When I was a child, around 7, I lived in a house where the previous owner had passed away. My parents were unfazed by it, as they didn’t believe in the paranormal and thought nothing would happen. My room was the coldest in the house, and one night I woke up to a pale, lean man staring at me from the end of my bed. I didn’t scream; I was so shocked I must’ve fainted because the next thing I knew, it was morning. I never told my parents for fear of seeming crazy. But I remember his face so well. © Informal_Mushroom115 / Reddit© Informal_Mushroom115 / Reddit

After my dad died, I was in my family home by myself and I kept hearing a small bell ringing. I’d lived there for years and never heard the bell before or since. I searched around the house and it was coming from my mom’s bedroom. On the window ledge was a small porcelain bell but it didn’t have the ringer inside. I went back downstairs and the ringing started again.

I rang my mom at work and asked her if she knew where it could be coming from. She broke down crying and said years before I was born she and my dad had agreed to ring the bell if they ever died to let the other person know they were ok. I’m almost certain I never knew this story. © TheThickneySnowman / Reddit
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