25 Traumatized People Share An Unsolved Mystery From Their Dark Past

23. We don’t know how the picture got on her phone

“My mom’s coworker has a photo taken on a cell phone of me and my best friend, but none of us remember the instance the photo was taken or why my mom’s coworker would have it.

Curiously too is the fact that the photo looks candid; it’s blurry, and show’s my good friend in-motion, probably acting out some scene or something we were all laughing at. My mom or someone else in the room must have taken the photo either by accident or just to do it, because the photo isn’t special in any way. It wouldn’t even be worthy of a family photo album being as its just too blurry from the motion.

Fast forward to recently, and my mom’s coworker gets a new phone. She approaches my mom and says that its the weirdest thing, but every time my mom calls her, that picture shows up as the contact photo of my mom’s number.

Alright, that makes sense. Except for the fact my mom doesn’t have the photo in her phone anymore, and that the photo doesn’t show up as being inserted as the contact information picture.

Immediately I thought it had to be some wireless back up or syncing process. My mom sends the photo or whatever files to her over the years for fun, the co-worker gets a new phone, when she sets it up the files tha are backed up on her computer or account or whatever insert themselves back onto the phone. But neither my mom or I have her coworkers email. I don’t have her phone number, and she also switched phones. There doesn’t seem to be a real solid tie between my mom and her coworker to insinuate that wireless technology/backup technology would have anything to do with it.

I can’t possibly think how that picture got to that woman’s phone. None of us even remember the instance that the photo was taken. It had been off of my mom’s phone for a long time at that point if I remember correctly.” — sillyapples

24. I woke up covered in blood

“I once woke up from a night of moderate drinking with a pair of neat, 4 inch long slashes in an X pattern cut into my back, over my ribs. I would never have known if my shirt hadn’t been stuck to me from the small amount of blood that had leaked out, as it was almost completely painless.” — Aurell1an

25. A mysterious man visited my grandmother

“When I was a kid, I saw a man in a suit and a top hat, a little fat and with a mustache, standing outside the door on my grandma’s house. He was just standing there looking at me. I freaked out, obviously, but I didn’t tell anyone.

Years later, in my 20’s, my grandmother told me that my mother used to see a mysterious figure in suit and top hat, fat with a mustache when she was a kid in her room, the same one where I saw him when I was a kid. So I told them that I saw him too, and everyone was freaked out, and we have no idea what the hell that is.” — Bergara Thought Catalog Logo Mark 

Holly is the author of Severe(d): A Creepy Poetry Collection.

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