17. Someone carved my name in the attic

“So when I was about 17 we were redoing the ceiling above our porch/carport and doing insulation in out attic. We found this extra “room” (it was really just like… area above the carport ceiling) which we found out you could actually get to through either our attic by squeezing down this little area, or from a crawlspace that went from my at the time bedroom closet to my parents bedroom closet and farther on (had never explored there, just figured it went to attic space.)

In this “room” was a single wooden chair, a gas lamp, and a 1′ by 1.5′ board, like an inch thick. This board had several names carved into it. One in each corner, a couple in random places spaced out, and one directly in the middle.

The one in the middle was my name, which is weird because the spelling is not the normal spelling of my name. That name was also the only name that was not only carved, but also lined in red ink. It also had several scratches through it. and a large X carved through it. Never knew where it came from or who was hanging out in that little area by themselves, sitting in a chair with a single gas lamp carving names into a board.”

18. We found a mysterious man in our photograph

“Three years ago I travelled with my parents and younger sister to Chicago and while we were waiting for our hotel room to be ready, we went to the Navy Pier. At ten in the morning the pier was pretty empty so my dad took a picture of my mom, sister and I standing on the steps in front of the Ferris Wheel. No one else was near except for a woman and her daughter at the very top of the steps (in the photo the mom has her back to us and the daughter is out of frame).

During lunch we were going through the camera photos and spotted this strange figure standing just behind myself in the Ferris wheel photo. The figure was literally standing on the step behind the one I was on. He/she was very short (a foot shorter at least, and I was 16 yrs old and 5’2. All four of us can attest that no one was close to us when my dad took the picture. The person was wearing long charcoal grey pants and black boots with a long sleeve blue shirt, which was strange in its self because it was quite hot that day (nearly everyone we saw on the pier was wearing shorts and t shirts). The scary thing about it is how close the person was to me.” — pizza95

19. Someone was camping behind my house

“When I was around 10 years old, I was in the woods behind my house and found an old tent, with food, a radio, and a sleeping bag inside. Outside this tent was a fire that was still smoldering. I was young and wasn’t really worried about strangers living in my woods, so I didn’t tell my parents. About a week later, I decide to head out there again and see if the tent was still there. It was gone, and to this day I still wonder who was camping out or living in the woods behind my house.” — ConnorTG