Patricia Grisafi
The world is weird — and not everything that’s creepy happens at night. Some scary or unusual things happen when the sun is out. On Reddit, people are sharing some of these creepy things that go bump in the day. From seeing a man hop into the sewer to witnessing a black-eyed-person to surviving a break-in because of your awesome dog, these stories will make your skin crawl.
1. Haunted Crossroads
“Weird intersection near my house that about 3 months ago started to be torn down for being too dangerous, replaced by a roundabout Funny thing is, it was a normal intersection 4 directions, 2 lanes in 2 lanes out with dedicated left turn lanes. Except, just about every week, SOMEONE crashed there. Every month we’d hear of a near fatality or worse. Police couldn’t figure it out so they started to petition for them to change it, they changed the light pattern and reduced speeds, which brought total crashes down but here’s the fucked thing serious injuries tripled! it got so bad they posted cops permanently to Monitor the intersection, and what they noticed was, If they watched the intersection, non stop, nothing would happen but the INSTANT you’d take you eyes off it someone would speed through a red light or make a left turn on red. They then finally tried one last thing, remove 2 of the lights, in favor of stop signs on 1 of the roads First day there was a multi car pile up Second day there was a minivan roll over 3rd day the mayor’s daughter hit someone going 50. Day 4, intersection was closed for construction.” — bretttexe
2. Sewer Man
“I was a kid about 15 and I saw some old man looked about 70. He opened up a sewer grate and just hopped in.” — jdog_woof1234
3. Missing Biker
“2008 mountain bike race in The mid-west. It was 100 degrees that day. Almost no oxygen on the woods. It was a hot day. Three of us were well ahead of the pack. We were about to lap another racer when he just rode off the trail and down a steep ravine. All three of us stopped. The ravine was steep and very deep. We found his bike half way down. We never found the racer. They sent search party and found nothing. To this day he’s never been found.” — -Economist
4. House In The Woods
“When I was a little girl, I was playing in my room one morning with my sister. I looked out my window and saw a man staring in at us. I told my sister to leave my room and ran to get my father. He didn’t believe me and thought I was crazy. Needless to say, I had an awful hard time sleeping that night. Throughout my childhood, I’d hear what sounded like footsteps outside at night, or my parent’s car doors opening long after they had went to sleep. Several years later, I looked at our house on Google maps. I always assumed we lived by ourselves in the woods, far from anyone else. It turns out there was a small house that looked like it was being lived in only a few hundred yards in the woods from us. My family was less skeptical of my ‘crazy stories’ after I showed them that.” — SnooSquirrels4093
5. Losing Time
“When I was a teenager, I was at a friends house when his parents and family were not home. I was on his back porch tying my shoes then I went back into his house. Tying my shoes, a 20 second action. NO! I walk inside and his entire family is back home and they’re sitting at the kitchen table eating dinner and they ask me what I am doing here?! They’re staring at me like I am crazy and asking why I just walked into their house. I ask for the time, they tell me it is 6:30 PM. I lost an entire hour doing a 20 second action. To this day I still have no clue what happened or where the time went.” — ionlywanttheneck
6. Cats
“It’s such a strange memory. Back in primary school I remember clearly that one day, while waiting to go into the actual school building, quite an amount of students gathered around a poster taped to the library on the opposite side of our school. I went there, to see what they were looking at. The whole situation was so strange, many were disgusted and frightened. I still remember that poster, vaguely. It was different pictures of cut apart cats, like there was a picture of a cat’s head next to its body, feet cut off etc. There were like six or so different pictures on there. In the middle was apparently a warning – keep your cats inside (idk what exactly was written there, because I couldn’t read too good back then… And all I remember was the pictures) Our teachers noticed, because a few kids cried. They had that poster taken down immediately. I seriously would like to know what sick fuck put this thing next to a primary school. I remember our parents telling us to not play in the woods – there was one (or maybe more, who knows) person actively mutilating cats. We knew this, we didn’t need the pictures…I guess the police caught whoever it was, because two weeks or so later nobody talked about it anymore.”—JoleneGoFuckYourself
7. Black-Eyed Person
“When I was 12 I saw a black eyed person. Not just dark eyes, but the kind of pitch black you see in horror movies where the entire eye is black. This was in 1995, before colored contacts were widely available (and I think they were like hundreds of dollars) so I’ve always found that explanation unlikely. So I’m at a huge water park in my city in the wave pool. My friend and I were on a double Inter-tube just splashing around when we ended up in the middle of the giant pool, bumping into other tubers. I look up and a few feet away is this guy. He’s about 25 and he’s staring at me. Not just staring, but staring into my eyes. into my soul. It was a creepy stare, but not sexual or anything. It was just too intense. I couldn’t look away for what felt like a long time. It felt like he knew what I was thinking. Definitely felt predatory in an animalistic way. I swear he had a small smirk on his face. After what was probably only a few seconds but felt much longer, I looked away and that was that.” — RevolutionarySun5533
8. Grand Canyon Ghost
“When I was 15, my family went on a cross country trip and one night we camped in the Grand Canyon. We went to a ranger lecture around 6pm (this is summer) so it was still pretty light when we were walking back. We went off the trail as a shortcut and after walking a ways noticed a light up ahead. As we drew closer there was a man sitting at a desk in the woods with a lantern. Just a full wood office-sized desk in the middle of the woods. I distinctly remember he had long sideburns and feeling like he was dressed like a man from the 1800s. My dad backed us down towards the trail and we went on our way. The man never made a peep or looked up or acknowledged us. There were two adults and three teenagers and we all remember the event really clearly. I don’t believe in ghosts or spirits but have no explanation for what I saw. As I got older I figured I was misremembering but everyone else in my family says they saw the same thing.” — kickingtv
9. Blood From The Sky
“Nothing dangerous, but as I was walking up my grandparent’s driveway, a drop of blood landed on my hand. I looked up, and the were no birds or trees branches above me, nor was it a windy day. It has been 15 years and the image is still a passing thought in my head from time to time. Although their house is surround by the woods, there weren’t any animals nearby at the time.” — MagicPedestrian
10. Doubles
“Not me, but my Dad. He was outside at the far end of the yard and saw me standing on the stairs, whistling for him to come back to the house. When he got back inside he asked what was up and why I changed my shirt. I hadn’t been outside, didn’t hear any whistling, and was wearing the same black shirt I’d been wearing all day, not the white shirt he saw ‘me’ wearing when he saw me outside a few minutes earlier.” — Go_Ask_Alyss
11. Random Tooth
“A tooth just materialized on my kitchen counter one day. Asked around all my family and nobody lost any teeth, no kids lost any teeth, I never lost any teeth, no clue where this tooth came from, it just appeared one afternoon.” — Ultimator4
12. Bolted From The Inside
“In college I lived on the 11th floor in an apartment with no balcony and it was about 4:30 in the afternoon. I watched a man walk into my apartment about 10 seconds before I walked in, and habitually bolted the door behind me (it locked automatically on the outside). I was living with three room mates at the time so I just figured they were having guests over, no biggie. I put my stuff on the couch and went towards the back bedroom to say hi to whoever came over. My room mates had no idea what I was talking about. It wasn’t a big apartment but I searched everywhere. My room mates stayed in the back bedroom sufficiently freaked out. There was no one else in the apartment and the door was still bolted from the inside.” — AnotherXRoadDeal
13. Doppelganger
“Crossing at a busy intersection and seeing my perfect double walk towards me. We basically eyes-locked until we passed each other. A total mindf*ck. Even more disturbing. Instead of stopping and chatting and being amused by the entire biological coincidence. My immediate subconscious reaction was a massive rising internal rage that someone, somehow had ‘stolen my face.’ Very, very weird.” — Basher57
14. Good Dog
“When I was 4 and my brother was 10, he stayed home from school and my mom left him to babysit me. She left numbers on the fridge and stuff and off to work. I don’t know how much longer after she left it happened but we heard our dog barking viciously which was completely out of character for her. At this point my brother and I are in the kitchen waiting for our biscuits in the oven and the sound of Fluffy barking gets incredibly louder which meant she was in the front lawn around the side of the kitchen entrance. The gate that lead to the back was a little further down the side of the house and whoever was outside was in the gap in between out of Fluffy’s reach. My brother opens the kitchen curtains to see if he could get a view as to what’s going on. Right as he opened the curtains there was a man looking right down at us, almost like he expected my brother to open the curtains. The doorknob began to rattle and my brother ran to the living room and grabbed the phone, taking me with him. As soon as he got on the phone, the rattle stopped. My mom came home and at the same time the police showed up for a statement. They never found the guy.” — _lucymolly_
15. Another Good Dog
“I was an only child. When I was around 5 or 6 I was routinely left home alone after school until my parents got home. We lived in a house in a forest clearing, 1 driveway in, a flimsy wooden fence (the typical 2 plank across thing). My dad trained dogs. Police dogs. We had a doberman that was big, gentle, but very protective of 6 year old me (he attacked my dad once for trying to spank me). I came home from school one day to find the sliding glass door on the rear of the house broken and on the ground. With the dog staring out into the forest, there were tattered pieces of clothing on the ground, a shoe, and some blood. Apparently, someone broke in while the dog was asleep on a bed, and he got ahold of them. He was a big boy, so imagine a 50 lb doberman running at you as soon as you broke into his house. The creepy part for me was how he just stared, didn’t bark, didn’t growl, just stared and waited.” — LordRahl1986
16. Planking
“While this can be explained the image still creeps me out to this day. It was around the time of planking craze. I had no idea what it was and hadn’t heard anything about it. Got a taxi into town and was walking around the city centre and life was normal. I then take a turn into the town square and there was around 200 people planking everywhere on everything. I don’t know what was going on. I thought there may have been gunshots or a bomb. Or maybe the world was ending. I then asked someone next to me and they explained it and we laughed it off but for that brief moment of time I’ll never forget that uneasy feeling.” — Thequeensarmpit
17. Horse Leg
“I used to live on a farm and one morning there was a full horse leg on our driveway. Like still had part of the hip attached and was fresh. We sprinted down to our horse paddock to find all our horses completely fine. We disposed of the leg and never got an explanation! Very creepy!” — Mushylover6969
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