21 People Share The Creepy (And Completely True) Stories That Will Make You Sleep With The Lights On

The hand

I was 14 and sitting by myself in my living room playing some Halo, when I noticed that the room around me seemed oddly quiet. I paused the game and tried to “listen” for the difference. It was strange, my house is over 100 years old and usually there’s an odd creak audible from somewhere nearby. Not now though, it was dead quiet. I felt strange, but not threatened. There was nothing sinister about the silence. I sat for a few more minutes just listening, it almost felt peaceful actually. Then suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, very lightly and briefly, but even today I still remember the distinct feeling of a hand on my shoulder. It didn’t scare me, nor did I jump up in surprise, I actually felt a familiar presence. Like family.

I mentioned the experience to my Mom, and she told me shed experienced the same thing, only one room over. She says she felt her fathers presence with the “hand”

Something tried to possess me?

my now ex wife and i had just gotten married and moved into a new neighborhood. we moved in, in the winter. as spring came we noticed there were multiple dead animals (birds, squirrels, raccoon ) in the yard. we cleaned em all up and started to do improvements to the outside of the house and painting on the inside.

i started to notice strange things going on. keys not where i left em, stuff like that small. i thought i was just being forgetful. then things slowly started to escalate. while in bed i could swear i could hear a barley audible conversation, like a radio in a far room. as soon as i would try to focus on it, it would go away. i started to hear footsteps at the other end of the house. one night while laying in bed, i hear a huge crash, woke me up out of dead sleep. i went into the kitchen and saw my kids hamster cage on the floor about 15 feet from where it was. (we would put it on the fridge at night, because we had a cat and didnt want it getting to it. now i know what you are thinking, cat knocked it off. but this cage had to fly over a breakfast bar and a kitchen table to get to its resting place.

then things got ugly. i would be sitting at home watching tv and i would have this uncontrollable thought. “what would it be like to be possessed?” or “i want to be possessed.” i couldnt get this thought out of my head. couldnt concentrate on anything but that. i would literally have to say in my head “i love god, i love jesus” over and over to get off the original thought. i need to add, that i am not a religious person.

as soon as i would leave the house, i would be fine. not one thought. but as soon as i pulled in my driveway it would start up again. uncontrollable.
i thought i was going crazy. i sat down with my wife and looked her dear in the eyes and said “i think i am going crazy, ive been having weird thoughts..” she turned white and before i could say anymore she said “that you want to be possessed?!?” come to find out for the past month she had been having the exact same thoughts. then we started to compare stories.

she told me that she was laying in bed without me (i worked seconds at the time) and she could hear a man whispering through the baby monitor while our child was fussing.

needless to say we moved out within the month. ate the deposit. her oldest daughter was still in school and we had moved across town. i had to pick her up at that house on my days off when she got dropped off by the bus. as soon as i turned the corner. i would get those thoughts. i would sit in my car in the driveway and not even go inside and wait.

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