18. A psychic told us something evil was hidden in the basement

My family moved into this house when I was 8 and it was bigger than any house we had before and had a massive unfinished basement. That basement had windows that lined three of the walls so it wasn’t the dark basement that most people think of but for some reason I was still terrified of being down there at night. And every time I would go upstairs, I’d sprint upstairs because I felt like something was following me up. For 11 years that went on and my family acted like it was just my imagination.

For the last few years, my dad had moved his office down there since he worked from home and he was hellbent on having guest bedroom in our house. Now one thing about my dad is he never really stops working. When everyone else is getting off work early on Fridays, he always kept working until he was done. That meant he would be down in the basement way after it got dark.

Then about a year ago I was back home from college for the summer and my dad got rid of the guest bedroom after ten years and moved his office in there. it felt the same when I went down there, but it kept getting worse. I started noticing that my dog would never go down there with me even though he used to love being down there since there’s space for him to run around. He would stand at the top of the stairs unless I forced him down there. Then once he was down there, if I took my eye off of him, he would sprint upstairs.

It started getting to the point where I was overcome with fear even walking down there during the day and I just started avoiding it completely. My dad asked me why I wouldn’t go down there and I told him that I couldn’t explain it and I was just scared.

That’s when he told me that whenever he was down there after dark, he couldn’t bring himself to look away from his computer screen because he always felt like something was behind him and that he would sprint upstairs after he turned off his computer and that he would see shadows and stuff sometimes on his way up and he has a friend that does the psychic medium stuff and told him that while she was visiting, she felt something really evil whenever she passed the basement door and that she was worried it would try to hurt us. He also told me that when we first moved in there, I would regularly tell them I saw people in our house but I’ve forgotten about that

My dad is the most rational person I know and even he was scared. He started talking about getting the house cleansed and over the course of the next two months, that feeling of fear and being watched was no longer only in the basement, it was everywhere. It got to the point where even when I was outside, I was scared to look into the house because it felt like something was there.

It’s pretty anticlimactic, because we ended up getting the house cleansed and all went back to normal, but for a couple months, I was constantly overcome with fear.

And my dad and I were the only ones that felt it. And my dog too I guess, but I can’t exactly ask him about it.

19. A creature lifted me up and tortured me

In 1993, our family lived in a small town called Ritzville, Washington. I was 5 years old at the time and what I experienced has left me thinking about it every single night for the past 22 years.

I shared a room and bunk bed with my little brother. The room had a small, fairly deep closet located a few feet from the foot of the bunk bed. Located on the wall was small vent that at night, when the living room light was on, would shine through giving my room a slight ambient glow.

Well, one night I had to go to the bathroom, and when I sat up and was about to take the covers off, I noticed that at the foot of the bunk bed was this…tall black figure with a giant oval head that spanned the width of the bunk bed staring at me. It had two small yellow eyes that were far apart and I noticed this thing stood around 6 feet tall. It’s skin was charcoal and lumpy. I stared at it for a good 5 seconds before I threw the covers over my head. 5 seconds of this…monster being ingrained into my head. I could feel the evil surrounding it.

I was up for a while before I fell asleep again, so I have no idea how long it was there. In the morning the first thing I noticed was the closet door. I make it a habit to close closet doors every night but it was wide open. My mom was the first to know about it and you know how most parents kind of waive off their kids’ experiences as a bad dream? She didn’t. She knew I saw something because they’ve seen things.

I had nightmares for weeks after seeing it. In my dreams this “being” picked me up and started torturing me. I haven’t seen it since and I NEVER want to see it again.

20. I found a massive car crash in a ghost town

About four years ago I was getting off work late around 11pm when I hopped on the highway to head home. I got onto the I-10 in the middle of Phoenix Arizona. This a big city on the busiest highway they have. But when I got on there was no one for a mile or two until I came across a police cruiser driving about five miles an hour zig zagging back and forth the entire width of the highway with lights on. This was the first time in my 15 years of driving I’ve ever encountered something like this and did not know what to do so I slowed down to his speed and just stayed behind him. We were the only two on the road and this crap went on for about twenty minutes. I started creaking out because there was just no one else on the road. Like… Was I not supposed to be here? Wtf is going on? And then just like that the cop turned his lights off and took of, and fast! So I did too, for about a quarter mile until I started coming across the most insane car-tastrophe I have ever seen. There were at least a hundred wrecked cars on the side of the road and in the road. Some looked like minor damage while some were completely fucked. I remember seats from a mini van just lying in the middle of the road. But the weirdest part was there were no people. Not a single fucking one. No drivers, passengers, no cops, paramedics, fire trucks, nothing. It’s like this huge crazy crash happened and they came and loaded everyone up and just… Left. It was like driving through a scene of the walking dead. Completely unreal. Four years later and I have not met a single person who saw it or found a news article on it. People think I’m crazy.