Freaky Friday Files: "Real" Life Paranormal Experiences

Ash
Sep 19
5 min read

Updated: Sep 23

Hello! Happy Friday, everyone! In this week's edition of Freaky Friday Files, I thought we could take a look at some of Reddit users' "real" life paranormal experiences.

I have taken a lot of these from posts in /r/Ghosts.

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"Real" Life Paranormal Experiences

User TheRakerzDozen recently asked on the Ghosts subreddit, "How many of you had paranormal experiences"? This is what people said:

User duckysmomma said, "I grew up in a house that was haunted and lived in one apartment that was haunted. My parents house [had] things like hearing people talking upstairs if we were downstairs. Mom used to tear the house apart looking for the radio or tv she thought we left on. I heard someone say “hello” when I was home alone once, I was 16 and terrified. My sister and mom experienced a ton of things too.

My apartment was crazier though, mostly centered around the bathroom. I was getting ready for work one morning and saw a lotion bottle just sorta jump off the shelf. I told the ghost he better not make a mess if he wants to live there lol my husband came home (no one home) and tossed my daughters doll onto the armchair, went to the bathroom, and it was sitting up dead center in the chair. Our small child would look down the hall and wave and say hi. I was taking a bath and the bubble bath bottle started wobbling. So much happened in that apartment, that’s the tip of the iceberg."

User JeffreyStryker said, "My workplace (ambulance base) is haunted AF. I’ve been at this base since January and seen the same apparition 4 times. I call him ‘hat man’, he looks like a frail old man, and he wears a 1970s style golf jacket and fishing hat. I’ve seen him from 3 different angles and different times of day so I don’t think it’s an optical illusion. He just stands there like he’s waiting for a bus that is late 🤷🏻‍♂️"

User 12ohmygod said, "I have. Several times.

My favorite story is that my sorority house was haunted. I went to a college close to where the Battle of Gettysburg took place. The town did have a connection to that battle. It was also notorious for being haunted.

Anyway, my sorority house was an old Victorian that sat on a steep hill. We called it the Psycho house for obvious reasons. Through the years that the sorority occupied it, so many sisters had experiences. Some sisters even saw full body apparitions.

One day, in the summer, I was in the downstairs living room. My bedroom was on the first floor as well. There was only one other sister in the house at the time. She and her boyfriend, now husband, were cooking dinner in her upstairs apartment. So, the house was super quiet. I went to get something from my bedroom and as I passed by the stairwell, I saw a white figure hovering a few inches off the ground in the middle of it. It was quite an experience."

Spooky old mansion with glowing windows, surrounded by overgrown bushes and leafless trees under a dark, cloudy sky. Crows perch on roof.

I also found an older archived post from 4 years ago, where user ovxrs asked, "What’s something weird that has happened to you that u never want to experience again?"

Here are some responses!

User eveningschades said, "The office where I worked at the time always closed at noon on Wednesdays. I had stayed to finish transcription and filing, as there were no phones or coworkers to interrupt. About 30 minutes in, I had this overwhelming feeling of dread and panic come over me in waves. I policed the building, it was empty and everything in its place. I tried for another 30 minutes and finally had to leave. Just before I arrived home, my manager called and asked what had happened. I explained to the best of my ability without sounding insane. She said she was with the police at the building. Every one of the windows had been shattered, but... according to one of the officers, it appeared they'd been broken from the inside. All the glass was outside, lying on the ground."

Spooky.

User mrkruk said, "Went to bed, had a weird dream and in the dream, this repetitive clicking kept happening. I got annoyed and yelled "STOP IT" and it stopped. It was like in dreams when it was really hard to yell it. Then in the morning, I woke up and my bedside table lamp was on. Obviously I had it off when i went to sleep. I jumped up and made sure no one had broken in. All was secure. I went to turn off my lamp, and the switch when twisted made a familar click-click sound that i'd heard in my dream. So...a ghost was playing with my lamp and i yelled and scared it and it stopped turning the lamp on and off - but left it on."

User Cambro88 said, "Being attacked by an evil spirit.

My girlfriend at the time was sitting with me in my living room around 11 at night talking about her last semester she studied abroad in Uganda. She spent a week in Rwanda and was telling me about the experience. Specifically, how scared she was when her group descended into a cave made from the bones of victims who died in the genocide. It was for education and to fully grasp what happened there.

While she was telling it, the room began to physically feel darker even though it wasn’t, if you can at all understand that. Like the lights were dimming and things were hushed even though they weren’t from what I could tell.

Then, there was overwhelming fear, a sense of dread, panic, and my eyes focused on one spot a few feet in front of us. Her eyes did too. It felt like someone was there and watching us, angrily. The way you can feel when someone else is home or entered a room before you hear them.

We’re Christian, so we started praying. While beginning the prayer suddenly I felt whatever It was rush me, and then physically go through me. It felt almost electrical meets a gust of wind. I immediately started feeling nauseous. We prayed harder and decided to step out.

Outside, she told me she started hearing voices before we left. Saying “let me have her. Let me have her. Let me have her.”

Nothing else ever really happened after that, we assume something dark attached herself from that place and talking about Rwanda stirred it up. Never want that terrible feeling again"