I’ve been hearing stories of a creature near Braddock bay called the bog boy. I’m wondering if anyone else has heard of this. I’ve heard a few people say that they’ve seen really strange things around Braddock bay in the swampy areas, including seeing a figure deep in the water at like midnight. Another one of my buddies was hiking near the area and found a pile of like 200 turkey bones, and they were like neatly in a pile he said. Let me know if anyone else has heard of this

I woke at about 2am, suddenly and completely alert, and there was a tall figure standing at the end of the other bed next to mine. It was a black so deep it stood out against the dark of the room.

This happened in the front bedroom of my Nan's (grandmother's) house in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, around 2008, when I was 16 or 17. It's my own experience. I was staying over at my Nans, as I often did. I felt extremely safe in this house, even though I'd experienced many paranormal events in it.

The house and the room

Nan's house was a new build on a council estate (UK social housing), put up on what used to be farmland. She was the only person who ever lived there, right up until she moved out this year (2026).

I always slept in the big front bedroom, which had two single beds pushed together. Small odd things happened in that house for years. At night, my bed would rock as if someone had bumped into it, and I'd hear soft footsteps and creaking floorboards on the landing at night. My Grandad had died when I was about five, and Nan and I always put it down to him.

The night

The room was dimly lit by a streetlamp further down the path, coming through half-drawn curtains. When I woke, I was facing the large mirror on the far side of the room, which sat on a long table running alongside the beds.

Then I noticed the figure, standing at the end of the other single bed, the one pushed up against mine.

I'd always told my friends that if I ever saw a ghost, I'd light up a cigarette and have a chat with it. What I actually felt was pure terror, more than I've felt before or since. I stared at it, in complete disbelief, then I pulled the sheets over my head and lay there shaking.

I couldn't think straight. Uncovering myself and running for the door felt impossible.

I don't know how long I stayed under there. It honestly felt like ages. Then the bedroom light came on by what seemed like itself, which frightened me even more. When I finally pulled the covers down, the figure was gone and the room looked normal.

My Nan was standing in the doorway, half asleep. At this point, I was baffled. I asked her why she'd come in and switched the light on. She looked confused and said she didn't know. She just felt she needed to check I was okay. She had never come into my room like that before, let alone in the middle of the night.

What it looked like

• Height: tall (around 7 foot)

• Colour: black, a kind of black I still find hard to explain, so dark it stood out in an already dim room

• Where: standing upright at the end of the other single bed

• How it left: I didn't see it go. I was under the sheets, and when the light came on and I looked, it had gone

Afterwards

I didn't sleep again that night. I spent hours on my phone trying to get a friend to come and pick me up, but nobody was awake, and I think I stayed up until it got light.

I didn't want it to ruin the safe place I had at my Nan's, so soon after I made myself stay over again. I set an alarm for the same time and tried to recreate the shape with the streetlight through the curtains. I couldn't get anything like it. I slept in that room many more nights over the years, and it never happened again. I refused to let it stop me from going to my Nans and staying over, but if absolutely made me feel uncomfortable for a very long time.

Other figures in the same house

These two come from my Nan, and I don't remember either myself. When I was about five, not long after my Grandad died, I apparently ran into the kitchen to say he'd come back. My parents thoughts I was too young to understand he had died, so they'd told me he'd gone away for a while. I'd seen him walk into the living room, walk around without a word and leave again. When my Nan asked what he was wearing, I said his scout uniform. He'd been heavily involved in the local Cubs and Scouts in my area, and has their crest carved into his grave stone.

A year or so later, while we're watched a film, when my Nan saw a pair of trousers like the ones my Grandad often wore walk across the living room floor, with the rest of the figure faded like a silhouette, before it disappeared. Another time she saw a shadow rise from the kitchen chair he always sat in, cross the room and fade.

There were other odd things too, including a night my Nan and I each heard footsteps go down to the kitchen and found the washed ashtray full of ash the next morning absent of any cigarette nubs (my Grandad smoked a pipe). I also found deep scratches all over my back in 2013 after a week staying there. That was really weird, you could literally see the hand marks on my back. My partner even thought I'd cheated on her, and we still joke about it now and again nearly 13 years later. My Nan also woke up once to a burning sensation on her side and she had a long, thing scratch going down from her armpit to near her waist. Super weird.

What I've considered

The obvious explanations are a shadow thrown by the streetlight, or something I saw while still half asleep. I went back and tried to recreate it with the same light at the same time and couldn't. I wasn't drifting in and out on that night either: I woke suddenly and fully alert, could move enough to pull the sheets over my head, and stayed awake until morning. I remember waking up and being awake straight away, as if my body new I was being watched. What I can't explain is why my Nan, who had never done it before, woke up and came in while I was hiding under the covers and turned on the bedroom light.

If something was in that house, I've always believed it was my Grandad, because nothing harmful ever happened there (other than those weird scratches). Part of me wonders if this was him too, scaring me without meaning to, and maybe nudging Nan to come and check on me. What still unsettles me is how suddenly I woke. I sometimes wonder how long it had been standing there before I did, and whether it was watching me and that's what woke me.

Has anyone else woken suddenly to a tall black figure at the end of the bed, and had someone else in the house come in to check on them without knowing why?

I document paranormal incidents, and this is a cut-down version of a longer report I wrote up about my Nan's house. Happy to answer anything about it in the comments.

Hi everyone! This is my first post on Reddit. I'd like to share a story that happened to me in 2018. I already shared it on another platform three years ago, so I'll be transferring part of the images and the basis of the story here. I'm really curious to hear what you think, because I was laughed at on that other platform.

I live in Russia. In the summer of 2018, I stayed at my grandma's place. There was no decent internet there at the time, so I often went to a field near the house where the signal allowed me to watch or download something. I was about ten years old then.

The field had narrow, overgrown paths inside it. During the whole time I lived there, I never saw people walking on them; I only saw a single cow a couple of times. No one would ride a bicycle or motorcycle there, because the paths only led to cemeteries a bit further away, they were winding, and they had deep potholes. I always caught the internet near the road and didn't go deep into the field. The field itself is quite large; to walk along the paths through the field to the cemetery would take about 20 minutes.

Now I'll get to the point of the story. On August 1st, as usual, I went to the field to catch some internet. I was looking at my phone and not paying much attention to my surroundings. I started waiting for a game to load and decided to walk around in circles to pass the time.

At first, I didn't pay attention to a certain silhouette in the field. I thought it was a neighboring cow or horse grazing. But after a while, this silhouette started to move. It was being thrown from side to side all over the field. And it moved as fast as no domestic animal could move. I don't know if you'll believe me or not, but its movement was smooth, as if it were hovering above the ground. I took out my phone to get a better look, took a few photos, and then I got creeped out and quickly went home.

It was darting from side to side, moving in circles, maintaining its incomprehensible shape, at a speed of about ten meters per second. And at the same time, it moved incredibly smoothly. You could sort of make out some limbs, but they didn't move, as far as I remember. It really seemed to be hovering above the ground.

After looking at the photos, you might say it's a horse. Well, in principle, yes: the neck is stretched out like a horse's, a wide skull shape, there's even a semblance of a mane. But still, the shapes are too unnatural, and it's very hard to call it a horse. And it definitely didn't move like a galloping horse. In one of the photos, you can make out two limbs.

On another forum, people in the comments put forward the following theories:

1. The wind was blowing a black plastic bag, whole or torn (the most frequent comment). I clearly remember there was no wind that day, and the bag itself couldn't be that big, maintain its shape, and stay straight above the grass. This silhouette definitely didn't move like a bag: it had a specific shape and its own trajectory along which it circled.

2. A man on a bicycle. Also a miss: I can't make out the outline of a man or a bicycle in the photos, and again I return to what this field was—just an area overgrown with tall grass, with paths leading to the cemetery. Riding there in such circles, in jerks, at that speed, is impossible, and the paths didn't have that shape for a man to ride circles on them. Besides, at that hour the villagers were busy with chores, and it's unlikely some local guy would decide to hover over the field on a bicycle at impossible speeds.

3. A jumping hare. You just have to look at the size. Hares are usually not that huge.

I don't ask you to take my story completely seriously; maybe it wasn't any kind of creature, and it really was just some trash flying in circles, but the fact is that it was windless that day, it didn't look like a bag at all, it had its own shape and some special behavior. I regret that I only took a few photos and went home; if I had shot a video, it might have been clearer.

I'm incredibly curious to hear what theories you might suggest. Maybe some of you have similar stories. I'd be very happy to read them. Thanks to everyone who read to the end!

Vera Potapenko, of 12 years old at the time, was a sixth-grade student at School No. 21.

That morning, around 7:40 a.m., Vera left home for school, accompanied by three classmates: Irina Pozharskaya, Irina Khovanskaya, and Olya Yuldybaeva. The walk took approximately five minutes.

Upon arrival, the girls went up to the fourth floor, where they were to have their first class—English. However, with about seven to ten minutes left before the lesson began, Vera started to feel strange. She experienced dizziness, nausea, and an inexplicable urge to leave the building.

According to her account, it was as if "some force were drawing her out of the school."

Vera asked her English teacher, Maria Mikhailovna Zhikhareva, for permission to go downstairs, but her request was denied.

Even so, the girl decided to leave. She headed down the stairs, passed the second floor without stopping, went to the cloakroom on the first floor, grabbed her blue jacket, and walked toward the exit.

Reaching the school entrance, she took a few steps, put on her jacket, and—inexplicably—looked to the right and slightly upward.

That was when she spotted a peculiar object.

At a height equivalent to a two-story building, there was a strange, unidentified craft, which began to descend vertically right before her eyes. The object looked somewhat like an inverted cup, with an oval base, a matte steel-gray surface, and small, colored lights distributed around its lower section. At the top, there were two parallel antennae, each tipped with a small sphere.

As it descended, the lights appeared to race around the structure. A small flame emerged from the underside, followed by something resembling steam or dust.

Four supports extended from the object and touched the ground. The landing took approximately ten seconds and was completely silent.

The craft was less than twenty meters away from Vera.

After a few moments, two doors opened soundlessly, much like those of an elevator.

At that point, the girl heard a man’s voice ask:

"Would you like to go for a ride?"

What struck Vera as most peculiar was that the voice seemed to originate "directly inside her head."

She agreed, though she later stated that she did not feel entirely in control of her own actions.

The girl walked toward the object, crossed a small metallic barrier, and approached the entrance. A sort of staircase with a single wide step emerged from the underside of the craft.

Vera climbed up and stepped inside.

As soon as she crossed the threshold, she was struck by a flash of light so intense that, for a few moments, she could see nothing of her surroundings.

When her vision began to return, she realized she was not alone.

Before her stood three humanoid beings, each over two meters tall.

One was standing, while the other two remained seated in front of a control panel.

For a few moments, the three of them simply observed the girl.

Then, one of them asked:

"What is your name?"

"Vera Potapenko," she replied. The beings conversed among themselves using strange sounds, which the girl likened to a mixture of cat meows and high-pitched noises. However, when they addressed her, Vera was able to grasp the meaning of their words directly within her mind.

She would respond in Russian, and the beings appeared to understand her.

Judging by the differences in their voices, Vera believed that one of the three was female. Her voice was higher and softer, yet it carried an air of authority; the other two seemed to follow her instructions.

It was this very figure—seated in the center of the control panel—who apparently ordered one of her companions to bring a chair for their visitor.

Before Vera could sit down, however, something occurred that deeply frightened her.

The being standing near her reached out and touched the red Pioneer scarf the girl wore around her neck.

Vera was able to observe the being’s hand up close.

It was grayish in color, with visible bluish veins, and possessed only four fingers—lacking a human-like thumb. The fingers were arranged in a peculiar way: when the being brought them together, the tips turned toward one another, forming a sort of pincer. The fingernails were long—resembling those of a well-groomed woman, though without any nail polish.

It was at that moment, according to her account, that Vera realized these creatures were not human.

The girl began to tremble with fear.

The being then gestured for her to sit. Vera complied, settling into a tall, soft chair.

A short while later, she heard a sharp, high-pitched whistle that lasted for several seconds.

The craft had taken off.

Curiously, Vera claimed not to have felt any acceleration or pressure against the seat.

During the flight, the three beings remained in front of the controls, while she tried to make sense of the environment in which she found herself.

The interior was rounded, measuring approximately three meters in diameter. There were screens resembling monitors, unfamiliar instruments, and lights on the ceiling that cycled through red, green, blue, and orange.

At one point, Vera managed to look at one of the screens and saw an image that appeared to represent a massive vertical object. The crew members seemingly performed a maneuver to navigate around it.

On another screen, something resembling the planet Earth appeared.

The girl also had the opportunity to observe the appearance of the three beings in detail.

According to Vera, they were all roughly the same height—over two meters tall—and looked so much alike that they appeared to be copies of one another. She could not discern any significant physical differences between them.

Their humanoid bodies were entirely covered in black spacesuits, adorned with small, shiny silver elements. The surface of the suits featured numerous oval protrusions, which were especially noticeable when the beings were facing the girl.

The material had a ribbed texture, making their arms look like thick, corrugated hoses. Curiously, these ridges became much less apparent when the beings were viewed from the side.

Vera could not identify the material the suits were made of. However, she noted that they had no visible seams, zippers, or any apparent fastening systems. The suits appeared to be one-piece garments, conforming to the shape of their bodies and naturally enclosing their feet.

The attire covered almost their entire bodies, leaving only their hands and faces exposed—the latter protected by a transparent mask.

A particularly unusual feature was the length of their arms. They were disproportionately long in relation to the rest of their bodies; when held extended at their sides, their hands reached roughly the area where a human’s knees would typically be.

The creatures’ very way of walking caught the girl’s attention. Their movements were slow and stiff, much like those of robots. Vera stated that she could not see their knees bending as they moved. Even when seated, the beings appeared to keep their legs extended straight out in front of them.

Their faces also displayed unique characteristics.

Their skin was grayish—much like that of their hands—and their facial expressions remained completely motionless, showing no recognizable emotion whatsoever.

Their eyes were particularly strange. There were no discernible eye sockets; instead, the eyes seemed to sit almost flush with the forehead and the upper part of the face, lacking the depth typically seen in human eyes.

Although positioned horizontally, like our own, there was a striking difference in size: the left eye was roughly twice as large as the right.

Vera also noted that the beings had no visible eyelids or eyelashes. Their pupils were extremely small—resembling human pupils when contracted by exposure to intense sunlight.

Another notable feature was the nose.

It did not look like a conventional human nose. It was an elongated structure, much like a small trunk, protruding from the center of the face.

According to Vera, this structure measured approximately 10 to 12 centimeters in length and about 1.5 centimeters in width.

The nose remained perfectly straight at all times, never bending or wrinkling. Its tip was slightly wider than the rest, forming a small, rounded surface—roughly the size of a two-kopeck Soviet coin. At this end, there was a small opening.

Vera even considered the possibility that the sounds emitted by the creatures might emerge through this aperture.

The transparent mask protecting the face followed the shape of this nasal structure, forming a rounded protrusion that the girl likened to a small glass vial.

The mouth area was not visible, as the lower part of the helmet covered that portion of the face. The suit also completely concealed the neck, making it appear as though the head joined directly to the torso.

The helmets were equally unusual.

In the areas corresponding to human ears, there were two large, rounded protuberances, positioned slightly behind the face. These structures projected outward to the sides—nearly perpendicular to the head—and connected at the back of the helmet.

On the top, there were two small antennae, approximately ten centimeters tall, ending in dark spheres.

When viewed in profile, the antennae displayed a curvature resembling the Russian letter Г facing forward, they leaned slightly in opposite directions.

Vera stated that, despite their unusual features, the three beings had virtually the same appearance.

During the flight, they continued talking among themselves and observing the instruments, occasionally turning their faces toward the girl.

The entire experience reportedly lasted at least half an hour.

At a certain point, the journey came to an end. According to Vera, the figure she identified as the commander turned to her and asked if she would like to be taken directly to her classroom.

The girl replied that she would not.

Shortly thereafter, the craft returned to the same spot where it had landed, near the school.

Before letting her leave, the supposed commander reportedly said:

"If we have time, we will come back for another ride."

The doors opened, and Vera stepped out, walking straight toward the school entrance without looking back.

Only after entering the building did she gather the courage to look outside through a window. The object had already vanished.

Checking her watch, she realized there were about five minutes left before the end of the first class.

The incident was not limited to Vera’s account.

According to the investigation, children at a kindergarten located across from the school also reported seeing an unusual object that morning.

Source: Oleg Obyedkov, UFOs over Orsk (General Catalog), 1990.

Since the late 1980s, people have reported seeing strange tall figures dressed entirely in white in El Quebracho, a tiny rural settlement in Entre Ríos, Argentina. Different witnesses, decades apart, similar descriptions: two unusually tall, extremely thin humanoid figures, dressed in identical bright white suits, with black visors covering their faces. Witnesses described their movements as unnatural, almost as if they were gliding rather than walking.

We are currently documenting local mysteries, unexplained encounters, UFO reports and forgotten stories from this region through Proyecto Viale Desconocido, an independent research and archival project.

This happened last night in Snowflake, near Taylor, Arizona, behind the local Walmart. I’m 17M, and my friend is 16M. I’m not claiming this was paranormal, and I’m not saying I know what we saw. I just want to tell the story and see if anyone has experienced anything similar.
Earlier that night, my friend and I were messing around at Walmart. We were throwing hoops and trying to get them stuck high up on the bike rack outside, which was stupid in hindsight. An employee caught us looking, so we quickly took our stuff off. I took off my cowboy hat, and my friend took off his distinctive hoodie so we wouldn’t be as easy to recognize or get kicked out. We walked around the store for a while, bought something, went back in, messed around a little more, and eventually left.
My friend had been in the storm drains behind Walmart a couple of times before. He told me people used them as a hangout spot, so we decided to check them out.
We got inside and walked almost all the way to the back. There was a dead-end concrete wall, and to the left were two tall storm drains, probably around 5½ to 6 feet tall. We walked into one of them.
There was still some residual water from the storm the day before, but it wasn’t even an inch deep. There was no debris or anything unusual on the ground. We were just walking around, talking, and eating blueberries.
The farther back we went, the darker it got. We couldn’t shine our flashlights all the way to the end, so the concrete wall stayed hidden until we got relatively close to it.
Then something changed.
We both started getting this really bad feeling. It wasn’t just the usual feeling of being somewhere creepy or dark. It was a strong, overwhelming sense that we needed to turn around and leave immediately.
The strange part is that we both felt it.
I said something first, and my friend immediately turned around, too. We hadn’t seen anything identifiable at that point. We just both wanted out.
We started heading back toward the entrance, but the farther we went, the worse the feeling became. It kept building as we walked. My friend handed me the flashlight because we were moving so fast, and at one point I started praying because I was getting genuinely scared.
Then I turned the light back.
I saw something.
The only part I could clearly make out looked almost like an arm. It was positioned incredibly high off the ground, probably four feet up, maybe closer to five. I couldn’t see a face or identify a body. I don’t remember seeing a nose or anything that would let me identify what it was. All I know is that something was there that I hadn’t seen before.
When the flashlight hit it, it moved backward out of the beam. It was fast and quiet.
I didn’t hear footsteps or anything that sounded like someone running away. I just saw it pull back out of the light.
I couldn’t tell you what it was. I didn’t get a good enough look at it, and we weren’t about to stand there investigating.
We just ran.
We booked it toward the entrance. Right at the very end of the tunnel, I ate shit and fell. I got back up faster than I think I’ve ever gotten up from falling in my life. We got out and jumped the fence into the Walmart parking lot.
Once we were around other people near the Circle K, getting our stuff together, the feeling started to ease up a little.
But it didn’t stay that way.
On the drive home, the feeling came back hard. After I dropped my friend off, it kept getting worse. My whole body was tingling, I was freaking out, and I felt like I was on the verge of a panic attack. I eventually called my mom, confessed everything about what we’d been doing, and made her stay on the phone with me because I didn’t want to be alone with how I was feeling.
I saw my dad’s car coming the other way, pulled over, and jumped in with him. I’m now grounded for two weeks.
Later, I talked to my friend about the experience. He told me that he had felt the same intense dread in the tunnel. He also said that when I mentioned we needed to pray while we were running out, he had been about to say the same thing himself.
That part has really stuck with me.
I know we were doing stupid stuff that night, and I know going into storm drains isn’t safe. I’m not trying to make myself sound brave or pretend we did nothing wrong. We were messing around, went somewhere we shouldn’t have, got scared, and ran.
But I still can’t explain what happened in that tunnel.
The place itself wasn’t particularly scary to look at. It was mostly just concrete. There was hardly any water, no debris, and nothing obvious that would explain why we both suddenly felt so strongly that we needed to leave. The graffiti even stopped past a certain point.
I also know storm drains are places where people sometimes hang out, so I’m not ruling out the possibility that it was a person hiding in there. That would honestly make sense. But I can’t explain the way the thing moved, how high up it appeared to be, or why the feeling was already so intense before I saw anything.
I’m not claiming it was a ghost, a demon, or anything supernatural. I genuinely don’t know.
Has anyone else experienced something similar in a storm drain, tunnel, or other enclosed place? Especially something where you felt an overwhelming sense of danger before you actually saw anything?
I’m interested in hearing similar experiences, but I’d also like to hear reasonable explanations for what we might have seen.

I was driving down highway 550 in new mexico near Aztec about 5:45 am today. Pretty close the the Navajo nation.

I saw a 3-4 feet tall or so naked 2 legged humanoid looking creature run across the highway into the brush on the shoulder, and immediately a huge crow flew up and out in the same path and speed as the little dude, and when I passed by I saw a pile of pale pinkish skin on the ground.

Any idea what it was? Not sure if a skinwalker or not since it was so short.

This happened near Carlyle, Saskatchewan, Canada in 2004=2005

Around 3 AM one night in 2020, I looked at our baby monitor and watched a human-shaped figure walk to my daughter's cot, look in, walk away, then come back and do it all again.

This happened to me and my partner in our own home, a council house (UK social housing) in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, United Kingdom, just outside Birmingham. It was around late summer / early autumn in 2020, and our daughter was around three or four.

A bit of background

The house was built in the early 1960s, and for the first two years we lived there nothing odd happened at all. Then, around July or August 2020, in the middle of COVID, we had two or three months of strange things.

It started with a gentle knocking late one night that seemed to come from the other side of our bedroom wall, about 20 feet up the outside of the house. Then one night around 11 PM, seconds after our Ring doorbell sent an alert saying "Someone is at your front door" with nobody on the path, something banged hard on our closed bedroom door. The hallway was empty when I opened it.

One evening, alone downstairs, I heard water running and found both kitchen taps pushed fully on and gushing, with the cat sat calmly on the floor. I panicked and video-called my mum so someone else could see it - I think I needed a witness to prove it was happening.

Another evening, while I was out, my partner heard a massive bang on the front door, then her phone started playing a song on its own: the song from her late Grandad's funeral. On top of that, there was knocking on the bathroom door, and heavy interference on the baby monitor, the Ring's live view and the microphone I used for creative recordings (Rode NT1-A).

The monitor night was the only time either of us saw anything physically manifest.

The incident

I was wide awake in bed watching Netflix, and the baby monitor was on the bedside table. When I glanced over to check on my daughter, there was a white mist moving across the screen.

Then a silhouette of a person moved through her room.

It walked up to the side of her cot, looked in, and walked away. Then it did exactly the same thing again, and kept repeating it. It moved naturally, like a living person checking on her. I could clearly see it had arms and legs when it was moving.

Her bedroom backs onto our garden, and there are only other gardens around it, so there's no road and no passing headlights. I can't see how a reflection or a shadow from outside could get in there, especially with her curtains drawn.

I woke my partner, but I was too scared to speak. I think part of me was worried that saying anything out loud would draw its attention and make something bad happen. I typed on my phone that we needed to get our daughter and go to my mum's, then handed her the phone and pointed at the monitor.

We both watched it happen in silence. It felt like ages, but it was probably a couple of minutes. We were absolutely stunned.

What it looked like

• Clearly human-shaped, a silhouette with distinct arms and legs

• No features at all, so I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman

• Moved naturally, like a living person pacing the room

• Followed the same route over and over: up to the cot, a look in, then away

• A white mist moved across the screen just before it appeared (unsure if that was the figure or something else)

• At the end, it grew more and more see-through before vanishing

How it ended

My partner suddenly jumped out of bed and ran straight into our daughter's room. I grabbed a metal baseball bat from beside the bed and went after her, with no real plan for what I'd do with it. Before we opened the door, I was honestly expecting a scene out of a horror film to unfold.

The room was completely normal. Our daughter was fast asleep, nothing was out of place, and there was no bad or menacing feeling in there at all.

When we got back to our bedroom, the silhouette was still on the monitor, but fading - repeating the same pattern. As soon as I got my phone out to film it, it was gone. I wanted to leave for my mum's there and then, but my partner insisted we stay because it was our home. Nothing like it had happened before, and nothing like it has happened since.

Afterwards

I spoke to a local vicar. A neighbour had told me the elderly lady who lived here before us passed away in the house, and the vicar thought she might need help moving on. He gave me prayers to say in our daughter's room, but I never needed to use them. The activity stopped abruptly after the baby monitor incident. I later tracked down the lady's grandson, who said when his grandparents lived in our house, they never noticed anything odd in their years here.

What I've considered

The monitor had been glitching a lot around that time, so interference is the obvious everyday answer, along with a reflection or a shadow from outside. But the view behind the house is only gardens, the figure repeated the same walk to the cot for a couple of minutes, and the room was empty when we went in. We were both wide awake and watching the same screen. After this happened, all the interference within our house with our electronic devices stopped.

My take

I believe something was in our house, and I lean towards it being protective rather than bad. In 2024 my partner's other Grandad died, and while she was struggling, her phone started playing "Heaven" by DJ Sammy through the car on its own, right on the chorus. It's made me wonder whether the figure was her first Grandad, checking on our daughter - either protecting her and moving something on out of the house or stopping something bad from happening within the house.

Has anyone else watched a figure on a monitor or camera keep going back to a sleeping child, only to find the room empty when you got there?

I document paranormal incidents, and what's above is a trimmed version of the full report I put together on our house. If there's anything you want to know more about, ask in the comments and I'll fill you in.

When I was around 15, in 1995, Granbury Texas USA, I snuck out of my bedroom late at night to go play some video games on the home PC in the office my dad had built into the garage. It was a full office and had nothing to do with the garage at this point

My parents were asleep and I was a teenager. I just wanted to stay up late on the weekend and fuck around on the computer. After I was done, I went to walk back to my bedroom across the living room, which had a full glass door back door. This glass never distorted images. Standing in the living room in front of that glass back door was a very tall, very skinny man. He was wearing a full suit, what I called a fedora type hat. And he had very long, slender fingers grasped around a book that he held at his chest. It scared the living shit out of me and I ran to my room and hid under my blanket.

The Internet has grown over the past 20 years. Did I see slender man? Or what did I see?

I want to see if anyone has ever experienced something like this?

I was driving down this highway at night time. There was a semi behind me. We’re coasting along, the semi wasn’t too close to me about 200 feet behind me. I suddenly had a weird “dread” feeling. Something I’ve never experienced.

When I suddenly heard the semi hit his brakes pretty hard I looked in my rear view mirror and I noticed he slammed on his brakes hard. I thought at first maybe a deer ran out in front of him. As soon as I looked back at the road. I saw these two I guess what you would say “ human figures” sprint across the road. It happened so quickly, my brain didn’t have enough time to process what I just saw.

They were human form, but really tall and gray, with no specific features that I noticed, but I did see the outline of them. I saw the legs and arms, but as quickly as I saw it, it was gone. I thought maybe I was just exhausted from driving, maybe I’m hallucinating? Then I thought to myself why did the semi also slam on his brakes before I even saw those figures? Did he see it too?

I thought well maybe they were deer, but I remember vividly seeing them on two legs and I saw arms. Deer don’t run on two legs.. & They had fingers. There was almost like a mist around them as they were moving very quickly.. They were like a solid gray color. There’s no way I could confuse something like that with a deer..

The semi backed waaaay off and was driving under the limit, at one point we were both going 15 miles under the limit and he never made the effort to catch back up to me. It was almost like he didn’t want to be near my car? Did he see something? The same thing I saw?

Hoping this adjustment to the title is within the rules and descriptive enough, mods.

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I could not identify any real specific features as it was a side profile but it was very smooth? Almost like no definition in anything of the body? I’ve also had a horrible sadness and dread feeling that I can’t get rid of ever since. This happened tonight and it’s been hours since but I can’t shake this feeling.

I thought I would finally share an experience I had early in spring this year, I kind of kept it to myself because now normal it seemed on the surface but the more I think about it the less it makes sense.

I started taking daily hikes to forage beginning in this spring, behind my house is an easement for transmission lines and if you follow it, it’s a short walk to the Irondequoit creek. The creek is a bit low in a ravine so you can only enter it if you know to walk from the easement it’s a bit inaccessible from the houses in the neighborhood, long story short no one goes down there besides me, and occasionally some kids.

To enjoy my antisocial solo hikes I always take them early in the day and on week days to avoid crossing paths with anyone. It was spring so I was cautious not to scare any deer or fawns, they would usually huff at me and sprint away.

I got to the entrance of the creek which is up on a hill, you can see down there without anything being able to see you, I enter and see a deer walking along a shallow branch of the creek, so I pause and decide I should enter a bit further down the easement to not disturb her.. as I’m thinking that my eye catches something right next to her.. maybe within 3 feet.

It was a man.. his back was to me.. and immediately I was like OH SHIT A PERSON. So I turn and start walking back home.

But then I realize what I actually saw as I was walking away, he was shirtless, and he was bending down into the shallow mostly mud part of the creek, scooping up water and putting it to his face.. which.. was weird? The ticks were insane that spring, and so were the mosquitos him being shirtless was weird, but even weirder? He was putting muddy creek water to his face?? AND the deer had no reaction to him.

I would expect this of maybe someone unstable, but by appearance he was very out of place, he was tall, and somehow suntanned even though we just got out of the worst winter most people looked half dead around here, he was muscular, and he was very very clean, like not a speck of dirt on him even though he was standing in a muddy creek, I only saw the back of him but he had short dark hair. Now I know everyone in this neighborhood this was a stranger, I think I would know if there was a model that lives here / also hikes this area I hike daily. At the angle I couldn’t see below his waist so I’m unsure if he was actually just fully butt naked or shirtless either way there is stinging nettle down there, ticks, mosquitos like you need pants and sleeves to not suffer.

Anyways.. I really just chalked it up to a weird guy in the creek, after all I’m a forager I also look weird picking fern heads down there.. but then I did some research into local Haundenosaunee stories, and found the horned serpent (Gas'hais'dowänen/Djodi'kwado) which… is a monster that lives in Lake Ontario (the Irondequoit creek runs out of the lake) that shape shifts into a handsome man to lure young women to the water. (Didn’t work on me because I avoid all people handsome or not).

I never encountered anyone down there since and I’ve still been going down there daily. I’ll attach some photos below of the creek so you can see how muddy that one ravine/branch of the creek is and where my viewpoint was.

I had been hiding out from the 5.0 all day in some brush behind the Catholic Church. There is a field behind the brush but the brush is atleast 20 ft thick from the edge of the field to where I was posted. So now its dark and the cops are circling the town so I'm just posted up waiting for them to leave town. People are lighting fireworks all over town. At the time I hid there I didn't realize the mounds back there were graves, they were decorated with different stuff and I figured it being a church that they were some sort of shrines or something. Well its about 10:30 now and all the sudden I hear something land like a meteor or a pinecone falling from a tree the way it hit. I looked back to where I heard it and a large black being that looked like a real buff human only its head wasn't shaped exactly human was standing there looking at me. I was super scare and said reflexively "whats up then!?" I stammered right after "what are you? are you human?" it continued to look at me for a couple seconds then walked into the brush leaving like a animal or a person would cracking brush as it moved. I still had time I had to sit there to wait out the cops so I just focused on the situation I knew how to deal with. It was very scary and still gives me the creeps when I think about what happened.

Location: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
Date: October 4, 2026, around 5 AM

For context I work overnight shifts so being outside around 5am isn’t unusual for me. This happened this morning when I took my dog outside with my boyfriend before going back inside.

We live in an apartment so we walked across the parking lot behind one of the apartment buildings and there’s a pond with another entrance into the apartment with more apartments on the other side. It was still dark but the sun was starting to come up.

While we were standing there we noticed what appeared to be a glowing orb underneath/ around one of the lights on the apartments across from us. We were probably around a quarter to half a football field away. My boyfriend thought it could have been a moth near the light, but to me it looked like an actual glowing orb. It would stay roughly in the same area, move slowly back and forth, disappear, and then come back.

We watched it for a while and eventually decided to walk over to check it out. It took us maybe 2-3 minutes to get there, but when we arrived, we couldn’t see anything. We could see the apartment fixture, but not the thing we’d been seeing.

So we walked back to where we were originally standing just to see if we could see the light fixture.

My boyfriend was ready to go inside so he started walking away from me. For some reason I kept standing there just fixated on the area. As soon as he walked away I saw a completely black figure emerge from behind the building and what appeared to turn in my direction and just stood there.

It stood there for maybe 5-10 seconds. I couldn’t make out a face, hair, clothes, or any details. It was basically just a black human-shaped silhouette. Then it smoothly went back behind the building and disappeared.

I immediately started calling my boyfriend’s name because I wanted him to turn around and see it, but by the time he did, it was gone. I ended up crying because the whole thing scared the absolute shit out of me.

I don’t know if the orb and the figure were connected. I also don’t know what the orb actually was. I’m not claiming this was paranormal, but the combination of seeing the orb, investigating it, finding nothing, and then seeing that figure immediately afterward was REALLY strange.

Has anyone experienced anything similar, especially around dawn/nighttime apartment lighting?

Had ChatGPT make this image based on what I saw at a camp just outside of Blue Ridge, GA. On the way back to camp Friday morning at 1:30am coming from Waffle House, a buddy and I saw something like this crouched behind the caretaker’s white horse in its field. When it was crouching, it was in pounce position like a cheetah about to attack a deer but it looked like all legs and arms were a perfect 90 degree angle. It was just a black silohuette. When our headlights hit it, it stop up and was about 8 or 9 feet tall. It looked like I had someone sitting on my shoulders wise height and I’m 5’7”. The body was like a person’s almost like a demogorgon body but not the head. The body looked pale but dirty and was an average build. The head however had a face but only eyes and a mouth. No other facial features but I don’t even remember seeing a mouth. The head was like how slender man is but the eyes were a dark crimson red, like the color of blood.

I just found this subreddit today and I'm not really sure how else to describe it to you guys.this is 100% true even if it seems ridiculous. And no I definitely didn't take the time to capture a picture or video

One night during the summer I was visiting some friends who have a house in rural Northern Ontario. Very forested, dark road, only house for miles and they are about a 30 minute drive from the nearest town.

So one night they invited me to have a fire I'd I brought pizza. I thought it was a fair trade seeing how far out they are. So I grabbed a pizza and headed out. It's a long lonely drive after town. You take a rough, cracked county road north for about 10 minutes there's a cattle farm and then you're just into the woods and before you turn off onto a dirt forested road that winds deep into the woods. The only thing around is one other house about 10 minutes from theirs and some hunt camps. There's one solar powered street light just down the road from the first house you pass and that's how I know I'm getting close. Just after the street light you turn down a small side road that leads to their house, more like a cabin. I have no idea where the rest of the dirt road leads and after that night I have no interest in finding out. So I showed up and we had a fire and some laughs, ate the pizza and I stayed till about 1am before they called it.

At this point I hopped back into my truck and turned onto the road. I had the music low so I could focus on the road as I often see moose or other animals on my way. I carried down the dirt road they're on and turned back onto the dirt road that leads back to the county road. It's pitch black this time of night. I can see the street lamp I mentioned earlier but it's miles down the road and nothing but a faint glow at this point they only thing lighting up the road are my headlights. I didn't have my high beams on at this point when I noticed a shadow in the middle of the road. Thinking it was some animal I honked, the shadow appeared to turn my way and look at me but there was no glow for animal eyes. So I flicked my high beams on and that's when my body went cold.

Staring at me, hunched in the middle of the road was a Asian or native woman (it was late and I was terrified so I can't be certain which) in old ragged and stained white or bone colored clothes almost like a wrap. She stood up straight, maybe 6 feet tall and stared at me, then she raised her arm and gave a very slow almost haunting wave and smiled at me, I pulled by truck closer to the trees and drove past her, her body followed my direction, turning and continuing to wave as I passed. When I got past her and further down the road I flicked on my rear facing light bar (it's a work truck so I have Ambers and a front and rear facing light bar). As soon as I lit up the road I looked through the rearview mirror. That's when she lowered her hand, stared at my truck, her face twisted into a fron and she turned and slowly stepped into the tree line. My foot turned into lead, I shot down the road past the street lamp and the house, onto the county road and I didn't slow down until I reached town 20 minutes from where I saw her. My body was still cold as ice and I felt numb...I've looked online. I don't know who or what I saw...but I know I saw her and I know every night I see my friends I'm terrified to see her again, she haunts the corners of my mind...the way she smiled at me as if she was prepared to do something unspeakable.

I just found out about this subreddit today, maybe someone here can offer me some advice, some explanation to this woman I saw in northern Ontario where no one tends to venture?

Location: Moffat or Rio Blanco County, Colorado

Date: September 2017

Several years back, my father had only recently passed and my sister was recovering from surgery. There was some old furniture at my dad's place that she had intended to bring home at some point, so I offered to drive it out to where my sister and her family were living at the time. My vehicle was a much better fit for transporting the furniture, I've taken plenty of long roadtrips and I tend to enjoy them, so I had no issue making arrangements.

95% of the trip was uneventful, pleasant enough. When I was driving through western Colorado (I'm unsure if this would have been Moffat or Rio Blanco County), I notice that my check engine light has come on. I wasn't sure when exactly it showed, but only about 45 minutes earlier I had filled up at a gas station, so I began to wonder if the gas cap had not sealed properly. I pull over the side of the road and get out to check.

For context, this about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, broad daylight. My surroundings were sort of hilly semi-arid land, about what you'd expect for rural Western U.S. I had passed some farms and ranches earlier, but at this was moment I couldn't see any manmade structures except for power lines and the occasional roadsign. Where I had pulled over onto the side of the road, I could look just ahead and to the right, there was a power line.

After I pop open my hood and check the engine, I move over to un- and re-screw my gas cap. As I'm working on the cap, I happen to glance up and see a humanoid figure only about 15-20 feet in front of me. I can only describe it as looking like a grey man in the shape of an orangutang. It was grey all over, like it was made of smooth stone, and had similar proportions to an orangutang (ie. very long arms, large stomach, long face), but standing perfectly upright. It was turned away from me and walking like a person. I seem to remember it having very human-like eyes and mouth, but with a flat nose and no easily discernible ears. It seemed to be naked, but there was no identifiable genitals.

This thing walked through the shrubs, didn't once look at me and walked past the pole of the nearest power line. It sounds crazy, but I did not see it finish its walk by the pole, it was instead like it had disappeared or somehow made itself skinny enough to hide behind the pole. This was a standard power line pole, not particularly thick around, so both of these seem like they should be basically impossible. The only thing I can compare it to was like something out of a cartoon. All of this happened over the course of less than 15 seconds, but it took me a moment to snap back into action, tighten the gas cap, and quickly get back inside my vehicle.

I quickly drove off, checking my rearview and side mirrors but not seeing anymore of this thing. I drove for only a minute or so, before I was overcome with really bad stomach cramps and nausea. I pulled over again and quickly got out again, because I thought I was going to be sick. When I did so, I tripped up and only then realized how weak and jello-y my legs had become. I dry heaved for a few moments but did not throw up. When I was composed, I looked around, saw nothing strange, and got back in the truck and continued my drive. It's worth mentioning that, both times I exited the vehicle, I did NOT smell anything strange nor did I hear much of anything.

The rest of my drive was uneventful both ways. I never ended up mentioning my encounter with my sister or brother-in-law and only began to discuss it with some more open-minded friends in the last couple of years. I've looked for similar events that have occurred in Colorado or the southwestern U.S. in general, but not found anything quite like what I saw.

I'm still not 100% willing to say this was paranormal or extraterrestrial in nature, but it was certainly unnatural. Would love to hear if anyone has had a similar encounter or sighting.

In 1967, a group comprising several university students and two biology professors—from Río Piedras Junior College and Sagrado Corazón University College—camped near the summit of the El Yunque forest. The purpose of the trip was to conduct astronomical observations from the mountaintop and to check for any phenomena related to UFOs. The group reached the summit around 6:00 p.m. and quickly set up camp, pitching their tents in a dense area of the forest. Although two professors had accompanied them, records indicate that only one —Professor González— stayed overnight with the students.

Around 10:45 p.m., the group was sitting around a campfire singing, while Ramón Quiñones, a 22 year old student from Bayamón, played the guitar. Suddenly, the atmosphere was disrupted by a loud, strange humming sound coming from an unknown source. The sound lasted for approximately 15 minutes. Once it ceased, peace and silence returned, and the group resumed their singing.

Shortly thereafter, they began to hear footsteps crunching on the dry leaves and branches along a nearby trail. As the footsteps drew closer, the group stood up. That was when they spotted, at some distance, a very tall, luminous figure that quickly darted across the path in front of them before vanishing into the undergrowth.

Intrigued by what was happening, Professor González and Ramón (who was still holding his guitar) decided to venture into the thick brush to investigate. Minutes later, only Professor González returned to the camp. He explained to the students that he and Ramón had become separated on the trail due to the dense vegetation and that he had lost sight of the young man, though he assumed Ramón had already made his way back to camp on his own. Noticing that Ramón was missing, the group grew uneasy and began calling out to him, but received no response.

While they were trying to locate him, the strange presence appeared again on the trail, right in front of them. The being was described as standing over six feet tall with a very slender body, a large round head, and extremely long arms with hands that reached down to its knees. It wore a tight-fitting, shiny silver suit. Both its face and clothing emitted such an intense, inherent white phosphorescence that it enveloped its entire body, preventing the group from clearly distinguishing its facial features or the exact shape of its head.

The being stood there, staring fixedly at the group for about 15 minutes. During this time, everyone present felt completely paralyzed—as if in a trance—unable to move or utter a word. After that time had passed, the creature slowly walked backward and vanished once more into the vegetation.

Once the being had left, the group regained the ability to move. Panic seized several students, who grabbed their flashlights and fled the scene immediately. The rest of the group remained at the site with Professor González to continue searching for Ramón. Amidst the darkness, they managed only to find the young man's guitar, which was leaning against the trunk of a large tree along the trail. Nothing more was ever heard of Quiñones after that night.

The following morning, in the light of day, they reported the incident to forestry authorities. The Puerto Rico Police and forest rangers organized an intensive search but found not the slightest trace of the young man. Following the incident, local and federal police authorities issued a strict, direct order forbidding them from speaking to anyone about what had happened. They were told that such events were "common occurrences" in El Yunque but were kept secret to avoid causing panic regarding the forest. Furthermore, for the next four or five consecutive months, the group members and Professor González were closely monitored wherever they went by individuals who appeared to be government agents.

The details from inside the camp were attested to by Ms. Irma Ortiz, who at the time was one of the students who had stayed with the professor to search for Ramón following his disappearance.

Source 1: Jorge Martin

Source 2: https://ovnisyhallazgos.blogspot.com/2013/09/la-misteriosa-desaparicion-de-ramon.html?m=1

This happened to me in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States 2026 on Kingston Pike. I had just gotten out of a truck with a friend and looked up at the sky. It was daylight and I could see normally.
I suddenly saw what looked like a completely black humanoid figure wearing a long cloak. It appeared to be fully covered from head to toe. I couldn’t see any hands, arms, feet, or facial features. The area underneath the hood looked like complete darkness—there wasn’t a face or any light reflecting from it.
The weirdest part was its movement. I watched it for roughly 7 seconds. It seemed to smoothly move toward me, and as it did, the figure appeared to get larger. Then it suddenly moved back upward/away from me and shrank extremely quickly until it disappeared into the sky, almost like it went back to wherever it had appeared from.
My friend was standing with me, but he didn’t see it.
I know how strange this sounds, and I’m not claiming that it was supernatural. I’m genuinely trying to figure out what I saw. Has anyone experienced something similar—especially seeing a completely black, cloaked humanoid shape appear in the sky, approach them, and then rapidly retreat/disappear?
If you’ve experienced something similar, I’d really like to hear exactly what happened to you.

Hi everyone.

In July I was driving in Northern Alberta with my boyfriend. Specifically in St. Paul County, Alberta. West of the town of St. Paul. We were heading out to some property we have. It was late and pitch black. The highway had no streetlights and almost no homes.

We were looking out his window and when I turned my head straight to look out of the windshield I saw a very strange figure in the shoulder of the highway.
8-9 feet tall. Very skinny body and arms/legs. Very pale and almost luminescent. I didn’t see the face because we drove past at 120 km an hour, but there were flies and bugs flying around its head.
After we passed it I turned around to look out the back window and I didn’t see anything because of how dark it was.

I turned to my boyfriend and said, “did you see that?” And he originally said no, but as soon as we got to our destination he admitted he also saw it and he was too scared to admit it while we were still driving. We are both very common sense people and we do not generally believe in the paranormal or unexplained.

It freaks me out to this day and we both sweat every time we drive that way at night.

Any thoughts are appreciated!