People Talk About Their Creepiest Paranormal Experiences

I’ve never experienced anything that I would consider paranormal, but I have to say that this kind of stuff really intrigues me and I’ve been interested in it from a very young age.

And the fact is that some people I know who are totally normal, sane, upstanding citizens have told me personal stories about things that happened to them that they just can’t explain…so you never know…

Have you ever had a creepy paranormal experience?

AskReddit users shared their spooky stories.

1. Grandpa’s old room.

“I was sleeping in my grandpa’s old room. He recently passed away and his body (in our tradition) was outside in the hallway. The hallway did not have a door and literally was outside.

Well the fabulous fam decided to move his body closer to my window. The whole night I could hear foot steps. I then saw a shadow of a man with a hat walking back and forth.

I’m a light sleeper so I said all angry “Shut Up! Let me sleep! Go to sleep or leave!” Lol the person left.

Well I found out my cousin thought she saw my grandpa walking around in the hallway but she didn’t understand as he was d**d.

So I guess we both saw my grandpa’s spirt? Idk?”

2. Deep in the forest.

“I do deep forest, as far from civilization as possible, camping and one experience creeped me the f**k out.

It’s the middle of the night, 2 am roughly, traveling through a forest a couple of miles from civilization because I got a call on my sat phone saying I needed to get home immediately. I stumble upon an old graveyard the latest tombstone I could read by my flashlight was 1831, and I hear a sound behind me. I whip around and there’s nothing but the still unending blackness of the night.

Then I hear another sound from my left. I look over there and again nothing. I think to myself I’m probably imagining it since I’m alone in a forest miles from civilization. I turn around and head back to civilization. Just as I’m about to pass the last tombstone I can see I hear a little girl giggle right in my f**king ear. Now I think I’m going crazy because s**t like this doesn’t happen in the real world only in horror movies. Suddenly a f**king rock hits my back.

Not a pebble but an avocado sized rock. I know I’m not crazy and I just book it the f**k out of there as fast as possible. I refuse to re-enter that forest to this day.”

3. I’m a believer.

“Worked security for a local security company that was just starting up and specialized in monitoring heavy levee equipment out in the orchards.

I had no radio, no g**, no mace, no flashlight, and no phone service. I was strictly there to monitor and take notes, but if anything DID happen the nearest help was 30-45 minutes away in town.

Fast forward to a few weeks of night shifts along the levee with it being surrounded by orchards, and i was pretty comfortable at my new location with its one road in and one road out as the only entrance for a few miles.

It was about 0230 in the morning when i hear an alarm clock going off somewhere in the murky darkness. Im positioned along side the levee in this position: o + o with my car being the “o” on the right, the levee as the “+” and the alarm sound coming from the “o” on the left. I turn my car on and drive over the levee to where the workers had a portable office container with a few chairs and a table set up and where it sounds like the alarm is coming from.

As my dim high-beams started to sweep across the orchard I see a dark figure multiple rows back seem to fade behind a tree quickly. I stop there and stare into the darkness barely disrupted by my POS cars head lights.

Nothing moves and I can hear the alarm still going off so I get out of my car and using my phones light, i find the culprit sat upon a white plastic table. A single small square battery powered alarm clock was singing away as my brain screamed at me to return to my car. I quickly popped the batteries out of the alarm and hopped back into my car as the silence returned to the orchards.

As i was reversing out of the spot, my headlights bathed the trees in light again and the same similar shape was now 3 or 4 rows closer and this time it seemed to crouch down behind a tree. I sat there for a moment longer staring into the void before my brain screeched, “What if theres more and this is the distraction?” That thought encouraged me to back up onto the high part of the levee and there i waited for the next three and a half hours “alone”.

It felt torturous. Like a thousand eyes were burrowing into every square inch of my car and soul from every angle. The quiteness of an orchard is something very unsettling in the winter time, as theres no insects or wildlife wandering about. All i could hear was silence and my pounding heart for the next three and a half hours of my shift. I almost wanted some monster to come tearing through the trees bellowing out, “Hahah here I am, here to eat you!” But instead i saw and heard nothing more.

My morning shifter shows up late and starts casually drinking his hot cup of coffee as i give him the run down while the sun starts to peak into the sky. I still remember the steam trail from his mug and the chirping of early birds as we decided to investigate further into the orchards.

We ended up at the spot where I saw the figure and after some quick scanning he ended up spotting some really large footprints from boots that seemed to pace back and forth in a line along one row of trees, we then tracked them as they led forward towards the workers office container and abruptly stopped near a tree while still a few rows back.

Nothing more. No follow up footprints leading forward or backwards. No vehicle tracks leading out of the dirt. No one could have gotten past me without trudging through the orchard. It was as if someone appeared, paced back and forth in a line for a few hours, walked forward, and then just disappeared without another step.

We reported it to the boss and he shrugged it off saying maybe it was an elaborate prank by the construction workers, but that was one of the last shifts I worked doing security.

Definitely made me more of a believer in the paranormal kind of things.”

4. Very weird.

“Pretty sure an aliens stopped me from st**bing my dad when I was 15.

One evening after school freshman year I had gotten into a huge argument with my father. He had a tendency to not calm down once he gets riled up, he was being very confrontational with me and had me cornered in the kitchen next to the sink. My mother had come out of the room she was yelling and doing her best to calm him down but it wasn’t working. Right after he pushed her away from him I had grabbed a huge knife from out the sink.

In that moment it felt like time stopped for what felt Like forever in my mind. So long that I had time to have a full dialog about what i wanted for my life. Suddenly time had resumed and everyone’s demeanor in the house had changed dramatically. I no longer had a desire to wield a weapon, my father who was just shouting and being aggressive was Suddenly docile along with my mother, they joined hands and walked into their room in near complete silence.

In complete shock from everyone’s sudden change in behavior, I scratch my head for a moment confused then I had this sudden urge to look out the front door of my house. As I peered out the window my eyes are immediately drawn towards the sky as there was this MASSIVE ball of green light over my house and the next moment it bolts south west through the sky never to be seen again.

It burned the mango tree across the street from my house too, causing it not to grow fruit or leaves for close to 2 years and had a section missing from the top of the tree that looked like someone had an ice cream scooper.

There were 5-6 other people at the school bus stop talking about the giant green light from the night before also. I didn’t see any lil green dudes but I feel like something or someone stepped into my life and hit a reset button in that moment and it changed my life dramatically… I’m forever grateful for that help that day idk where my life would be otherwise.”

5. There’s something out there.

“20 years old, taking my girlfriend home late one night on small country roads. I go to take a left turn then suddenly there are bright headlights coming through the passengers window.

She screams, I scream, we are about to be ki**ed….and nothing happens. We don’t get hit, the car just vanishes. She is hyperventilating and crying, Im scared as hell, confused, and adrenaline is racing. We sat there five minutes before I could drive again.

Start up the road and suddenly there are intense headlights behind us, they fly up behind us easily going 50 mph faster than us. Braced to get rear ended….and nothing. Girl is screaming so loud she is hoarse, all I hear is GO, GO, GO.

We drove the next 10 miles on little country roads at 110 mph, making curves that should have sent us into ditches, with the headlights either mere feet behind us or pulling alongside but we could never see anything but lights. Then my girlfriend suddenly screamed “What did you do with the f**king stars?!”

I glanced up, not daring to look away from the road very long, and the sky was black. Not moonless night black, I mean GONE black. I know how crazy it sounds but I am driving with the gas pedal on the floor at three times the safe speed, scared to death, with a screaming girl beside me and distinctly remember watching the trees in the headlights to figure out if everything literally vanished, ceased to exist once my cars headlights were past it because looking out the passengers window things seemed to just pop and vanish.

She curled up in her seat and passed out. There was a sharp 90 degree turn ahead with a huge, deep gully just past it and there was no way we could make it at our speed. I don’t know why but when I saw the lights beside me I slammed on the brakes as hard as I could. The lights zipped past us and vanished, the stars were back and somehow sitting there I just knew it was over

I woke her up, and she just kind of oozed into her seat and quietly asked me to take her home. We didn’t talk about it at all, she just got out and ran inside. I sat in her driveway and trembled for 10 minutes. I was terrified of going home the way we had come so I numbly drove 20 minutes in the wrong direction and slept in the parking lot of a truck stop because there were people around 24 hours a day.

My girlfriend would not return my phone calls for two days, I finally got her by calling her mom (who was as nice as ever). Told my girlfriend I really wanted to talk about what had happened, she said “it never happened.” In the driest, most emotionless voice that I can still hear 30 years later.

We NEVER discussed it and three troubled months later broke up (never discussed that either, just quit talking). I have never heard of anyone else seeing odd lights and I’ve never seen them again but SOMETHING was out there with us that night.”

6. The stair case.

“We lived in a house that had wooden stair case going from the first floor to the second floor.

I noticed that anytime we went up the stairs when we got to the fifth and sixth step we would stumble going up in the same spot. So it became habit to move to the left as if someone was blocking the way and we needed to get out of the way. We didn’t think about it. We would just move out of the way.

Crazy thing is the cats would do the same thing in the same area. None of us realized we were doing it. This was back in the day when we had 33mm film cameras. I had taken a few picture of my daughters one evening with the stairs in the back ground. Weeks later I had the film developed .

In every picture I took with the stairs in it there were two orbs floating over the exact spot on the stairs were we would trip.”

7. Freaked out.

“Woke up one morning and heard a full conversation going on downstairs. It wasn’t uncommon for the neighbors to be over and talking to my mom that early so I thought nothing of it and went to the kitchen for a drink.

Walked past my mom‘s room and noticed she was sound asleep and there was no one in the front of the house. Didn’t see anything but I was genuinely freaked.”

8. Skyscraper.

“I worked in skyscraper. Before I started working there, a teenage boy jumped off the building, he was distraught over his mother’s death.

It was very traumatic for the witnesses. I always parked on the top floor of the adjacent parking garage because it was less expensive. One morning I was waiting for the slow garage elevator and I was looking over the railing at the plaza seven floors below when I heard a voice say “just jump!”

I started parking across the street in a paved lot the next day.”

9. Man in the store.

“I went to Kroger late one night, since I was on a graveyard shift schedule, so this was about 1 AM.

I’m at the back end of an aisle where this was this poorly dressed man, looked about mid-40’s/early 50’s with a walking staff. As I stood near him for a few seconds to find my items, he started talking to me about religion. I initially thought it was just the usual crazy person, ranting about God or whatever popped into their head. However, after 10-12 seconds, he stopped and said “Son, you seem like you are carrying a burden”.

Over the next 10 full minutes, I had this very open conversation with this complete stranger about the world and spiritualism. It was the first real therapeutic moment since my mom had d**d and I couldn’t believe the setting of it.

After a little bit longer, he said he didn’t want to hold me up and to have a good night before he turned back around and started grabbing an item off the shelf. Since I was at the end of the aisle, it took me only a few steps to get into the back portion of the store where there was a Kroger employee stocking shelves.

He saw me and instantly asked “Hey man, who were you talking to? I was right here for a bit and only ask because you don’t have any headphones in and your phone wasn’t out”. I told him it was with that older guy in the aisle and the employee replied with “dude, nobody else was there”.

I instantly turned, took a few steps back to the aisle, and saw a completely empty aisle. I figured he probably just walked away right as I did, so I quickly jogged to the front of the store and looked around. This guy was nowhere to be seen.

With the condition this man appeared to be, there was no d**n way he hobbled to the front, checked out, and was gone within the 8-10 seconds it took for me to interact with that store employee. I even asked the security guard if he had seen that man within the last minute and he told me that nobody had come in or out since I walked into the store.”

10. Cursed key.

“I was on a long trip from Michigan to California.

I drove for 16 hours straight to eastern Colorado, where it started to snow pretty hard. I decided it would be a good time to pull over for the night and pulled over at a rest stop in Sterling, a small town in the middle of the Colorado plains. My first weird experience in this town was a random stranger pulling into the rest stop and asking me how to get to Denver.

I thought nothing of it and found the nearest motel. It had this old-west saloon theme and was completely empty, my car and the owner’s were the only cars in the lot. The snow started to come down pretty hard so I decided to stay there. When I checked in, the owner gave me this key with a keychain that had my room number.

I got my bag out of my car and put it in the room, and as I went back outside in the snow to get something else from my car, I noticed I lost the key and was locked out. I looked everywhere for it, and even took out everything in my trunk. As I was searching my car for the key, the snow started to pick up a little more.

I gave up and eventually went back to the owner for a new one, and went to sleep for the night. I couldn’t really sleep that whole night, and the room was eerily drafty. Flash forward two years, and I eventually forgot about the key with the red keychain. Until it magically re-appeared in my trunk in some random place I remember already looking in. I swear this key is some kind of cursed object.”

11. Hearing jazz.

“My husband and I had the “hang out house” of the cul-de-sac.

Everyone hung out in our garage. We had a friend “Tony” who would stop by after work, take a nap on my couch, and then hang out every night playing pool or just shooting the s**t before going home. Sadly, he was ki**ed in a vehicle accident. For nearly a year after that, we would wake up to the stereo in the garage turning on and playing the jazz radio station.

Tony was the only one who liked jazz – and our garage radio was never tuned to that station. Even if it was turning on due to some strange power surge, it would have turned on to the station we kept it set to, not the jazz station!”

12. Won’t stay there anymore.

“I won’t sleep in my nana’s house anymore now. Even though I basically grew up in that house as a kid with zero problems. I didn’t even believe in anything beforehand but this had me proper shook.

I was in my 20s and hadn’t been back for ages since I had moved away. But me and my mam stayed over one night visiting. I slept upstairs in the front bedroom (two single beds). Mam slept in the smaller “box room” that was a narrower room to the left of it. I can’t remember why it was that arrangement. Nana and grandad were in the back bedroom.

I woke up randomly in the middle of the night, wide awake. Went to the bathroom, checked my phone. Saw it was after 4am-ish. Tried to lie down and go to sleep and I suddenly felt really really awful. I can’t describe it. I felt sick, sad and terrified all at the same time for no reason. As if you were hiding somewhere from somebody and your heart is going crazy as they walk past looking for you.

I tried to close my eyes and nod off. Couldn’t really get to sleep. To the left of me the bed started dipping as if someone was trying to stand on the mattress and walk across it. Two more dips one after the other to where my legs were. The mattress was actually making noise under the weight. But there was nothing there I couldn’t see anything? It stopped as it got to the end of the bed. Then I kid you not the hand I had out over my blanket was touched and I thought I was going to cry or wretch (or both). I felt so sad and confused.

When the terror subsided enough for me to move I burst out crying and ran into my mam. Trying to tell her what happened through the gasps. She was already awake. She said a spider was crawling across her arm and it woke her up. Said she heard me come back from the bathroom.

She left me in her bed and got up to check the front bedroom. She told me that when she went in she felt sick and angry. The hairs on her arms were sticking up but she couldn’t see anything. She came back and told me not to go in there.

Of course then nana and grandad woke up to me crying and grandad dismissed it saying I was dreaming. I was awake and was on my d**n phone! My nana wasn’t too bothered and said something like “ah yeah I’ve felt and heard strange stuff for years but nothing dangerous”. Couldn’t believe she was only saying that now.

I didn’t stay over again after that. I dunno whether I got more sensitive to stuff that was already going on or that something awful started hanging around.

Mam and nana didn’t tell grandad and called a priest to come to the house (we’re Catholic). He was told everything and checked the house. He took some photos in that front room. He took a few photos of the wall over the beds and there was this blurry area in the middle over the headboards. He said that apparently from what he’s seen before it was a sort of gate where things can get in and out. So they were obviously coming out, landing on the bed and continuing through the house.

The housing estate itself is next to the biggest children’s hospital in the country and he thought maybe there were a lot of confused “entities” passing through that didn’t know where to go. So that explains what my nana says. But also older, meaner things were coming in and out and that could’ve only been happening recently.

My uncle told me afterwards that he stopped house sitting for them years ago because he could hear running across the house upstairs and couldn’t take it anymore.

Mam had to stay there a few more times for work and she said the night disturbances were getting more and more aggressive. More grabbing, things moving. My nana told me she locked up the house but when she came back and unlocked the front room the iron was plugged in and red hot. The house could’ve burnt down.

Grandad still denies everything but won’t sleep without a tv or radio on (so he’s afraid but won’t admit it). Currently waiting for them to move houses.”

Have you ever had any paranormal experiences?

If so, tell us about them in the comments.

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People Talk About Their Creepiest Paranormal Experiences

I’ve never experienced anything that I would consider paranormal, but I have to say that this kind of stuff really intrigues me and I’ve been interested in it from a very young age.

And the fact is that some people I know who are totally normal, sane, upstanding citizens have told me personal stories about things that happened to them that they just can’t explain…so you never know…

Have you ever had a creepy paranormal experience?

AskReddit users shared their spooky stories.

1. Grandpa’s old room.

“I was sleeping in my grandpa’s old room. He recently passed away and his body (in our tradition) was outside in the hallway. The hallway did not have a door and literally was outside.

Well the fabulous fam decided to move his body closer to my window. The whole night I could hear foot steps. I then saw a shadow of a man with a hat walking back and forth.

I’m a light sleeper so I said all angry “Shut Up! Let me sleep! Go to sleep or leave!” Lol the person left.

Well I found out my cousin thought she saw my grandpa walking around in the hallway but she didn’t understand as he was d**d.

So I guess we both saw my grandpa’s spirt? Idk?”

2. Deep in the forest.

“I do deep forest, as far from civilization as possible, camping and one experience creeped me the f**k out.

It’s the middle of the night, 2 am roughly, traveling through a forest a couple of miles from civilization because I got a call on my sat phone saying I needed to get home immediately. I stumble upon an old graveyard the latest tombstone I could read by my flashlight was 1831, and I hear a sound behind me. I whip around and there’s nothing but the still unending blackness of the night.

Then I hear another sound from my left. I look over there and again nothing. I think to myself I’m probably imagining it since I’m alone in a forest miles from civilization. I turn around and head back to civilization. Just as I’m about to pass the last tombstone I can see I hear a little girl giggle right in my f**king ear. Now I think I’m going crazy because s**t like this doesn’t happen in the real world only in horror movies. Suddenly a f**king rock hits my back.

Not a pebble but an avocado sized rock. I know I’m not crazy and I just book it the f**k out of there as fast as possible. I refuse to re-enter that forest to this day.”

3. I’m a believer.

“Worked security for a local security company that was just starting up and specialized in monitoring heavy levee equipment out in the orchards.

I had no radio, no g**, no mace, no flashlight, and no phone service. I was strictly there to monitor and take notes, but if anything DID happen the nearest help was 30-45 minutes away in town.

Fast forward to a few weeks of night shifts along the levee with it being surrounded by orchards, and i was pretty comfortable at my new location with its one road in and one road out as the only entrance for a few miles.

It was about 0230 in the morning when i hear an alarm clock going off somewhere in the murky darkness. Im positioned along side the levee in this position: o + o with my car being the “o” on the right, the levee as the “+” and the alarm sound coming from the “o” on the left. I turn my car on and drive over the levee to where the workers had a portable office container with a few chairs and a table set up and where it sounds like the alarm is coming from.

As my dim high-beams started to sweep across the orchard I see a dark figure multiple rows back seem to fade behind a tree quickly. I stop there and stare into the darkness barely disrupted by my POS cars head lights.

Nothing moves and I can hear the alarm still going off so I get out of my car and using my phones light, i find the culprit sat upon a white plastic table. A single small square battery powered alarm clock was singing away as my brain screamed at me to return to my car. I quickly popped the batteries out of the alarm and hopped back into my car as the silence returned to the orchards.

As i was reversing out of the spot, my headlights bathed the trees in light again and the same similar shape was now 3 or 4 rows closer and this time it seemed to crouch down behind a tree. I sat there for a moment longer staring into the void before my brain screeched, “What if theres more and this is the distraction?” That thought encouraged me to back up onto the high part of the levee and there i waited for the next three and a half hours “alone”.

It felt torturous. Like a thousand eyes were burrowing into every square inch of my car and soul from every angle. The quiteness of an orchard is something very unsettling in the winter time, as theres no insects or wildlife wandering about. All i could hear was silence and my pounding heart for the next three and a half hours of my shift. I almost wanted some monster to come tearing through the trees bellowing out, “Hahah here I am, here to eat you!” But instead i saw and heard nothing more.

My morning shifter shows up late and starts casually drinking his hot cup of coffee as i give him the run down while the sun starts to peak into the sky. I still remember the steam trail from his mug and the chirping of early birds as we decided to investigate further into the orchards.

We ended up at the spot where I saw the figure and after some quick scanning he ended up spotting some really large footprints from boots that seemed to pace back and forth in a line along one row of trees, we then tracked them as they led forward towards the workers office container and abruptly stopped near a tree while still a few rows back.

Nothing more. No follow up footprints leading forward or backwards. No vehicle tracks leading out of the dirt. No one could have gotten past me without trudging through the orchard. It was as if someone appeared, paced back and forth in a line for a few hours, walked forward, and then just disappeared without another step.

We reported it to the boss and he shrugged it off saying maybe it was an elaborate prank by the construction workers, but that was one of the last shifts I worked doing security.

Definitely made me more of a believer in the paranormal kind of things.”

4. Very weird.

“Pretty sure an aliens stopped me from st**bing my dad when I was 15.

One evening after school freshman year I had gotten into a huge argument with my father. He had a tendency to not calm down once he gets riled up, he was being very confrontational with me and had me cornered in the kitchen next to the sink. My mother had come out of the room she was yelling and doing her best to calm him down but it wasn’t working. Right after he pushed her away from him I had grabbed a huge knife from out the sink.

In that moment it felt like time stopped for what felt Like forever in my mind. So long that I had time to have a full dialog about what i wanted for my life. Suddenly time had resumed and everyone’s demeanor in the house had changed dramatically. I no longer had a desire to wield a weapon, my father who was just shouting and being aggressive was Suddenly docile along with my mother, they joined hands and walked into their room in near complete silence.

In complete shock from everyone’s sudden change in behavior, I scratch my head for a moment confused then I had this sudden urge to look out the front door of my house. As I peered out the window my eyes are immediately drawn towards the sky as there was this MASSIVE ball of green light over my house and the next moment it bolts south west through the sky never to be seen again.

It burned the mango tree across the street from my house too, causing it not to grow fruit or leaves for close to 2 years and had a section missing from the top of the tree that looked like someone had an ice cream scooper.

There were 5-6 other people at the school bus stop talking about the giant green light from the night before also. I didn’t see any lil green dudes but I feel like something or someone stepped into my life and hit a reset button in that moment and it changed my life dramatically… I’m forever grateful for that help that day idk where my life would be otherwise.”

5. There’s something out there.

“20 years old, taking my girlfriend home late one night on small country roads. I go to take a left turn then suddenly there are bright headlights coming through the passengers window.

She screams, I scream, we are about to be ki**ed….and nothing happens. We don’t get hit, the car just vanishes. She is hyperventilating and crying, Im scared as hell, confused, and adrenaline is racing. We sat there five minutes before I could drive again.

Start up the road and suddenly there are intense headlights behind us, they fly up behind us easily going 50 mph faster than us. Braced to get rear ended….and nothing. Girl is screaming so loud she is hoarse, all I hear is GO, GO, GO.

We drove the next 10 miles on little country roads at 110 mph, making curves that should have sent us into ditches, with the headlights either mere feet behind us or pulling alongside but we could never see anything but lights. Then my girlfriend suddenly screamed “What did you do with the f**king stars?!”

I glanced up, not daring to look away from the road very long, and the sky was black. Not moonless night black, I mean GONE black. I know how crazy it sounds but I am driving with the gas pedal on the floor at three times the safe speed, scared to death, with a screaming girl beside me and distinctly remember watching the trees in the headlights to figure out if everything literally vanished, ceased to exist once my cars headlights were past it because looking out the passengers window things seemed to just pop and vanish.

She curled up in her seat and passed out. There was a sharp 90 degree turn ahead with a huge, deep gully just past it and there was no way we could make it at our speed. I don’t know why but when I saw the lights beside me I slammed on the brakes as hard as I could. The lights zipped past us and vanished, the stars were back and somehow sitting there I just knew it was over

I woke her up, and she just kind of oozed into her seat and quietly asked me to take her home. We didn’t talk about it at all, she just got out and ran inside. I sat in her driveway and trembled for 10 minutes. I was terrified of going home the way we had come so I numbly drove 20 minutes in the wrong direction and slept in the parking lot of a truck stop because there were people around 24 hours a day.

My girlfriend would not return my phone calls for two days, I finally got her by calling her mom (who was as nice as ever). Told my girlfriend I really wanted to talk about what had happened, she said “it never happened.” In the driest, most emotionless voice that I can still hear 30 years later.

We NEVER discussed it and three troubled months later broke up (never discussed that either, just quit talking). I have never heard of anyone else seeing odd lights and I’ve never seen them again but SOMETHING was out there with us that night.”

6. The stair case.

“We lived in a house that had wooden stair case going from the first floor to the second floor.

I noticed that anytime we went up the stairs when we got to the fifth and sixth step we would stumble going up in the same spot. So it became habit to move to the left as if someone was blocking the way and we needed to get out of the way. We didn’t think about it. We would just move out of the way.

Crazy thing is the cats would do the same thing in the same area. None of us realized we were doing it. This was back in the day when we had 33mm film cameras. I had taken a few picture of my daughters one evening with the stairs in the back ground. Weeks later I had the film developed .

In every picture I took with the stairs in it there were two orbs floating over the exact spot on the stairs were we would trip.”

7. Freaked out.

“Woke up one morning and heard a full conversation going on downstairs. It wasn’t uncommon for the neighbors to be over and talking to my mom that early so I thought nothing of it and went to the kitchen for a drink.

Walked past my mom‘s room and noticed she was sound asleep and there was no one in the front of the house. Didn’t see anything but I was genuinely freaked.”

8. Skyscraper.

“I worked in skyscraper. Before I started working there, a teenage boy jumped off the building, he was distraught over his mother’s death.

It was very traumatic for the witnesses. I always parked on the top floor of the adjacent parking garage because it was less expensive. One morning I was waiting for the slow garage elevator and I was looking over the railing at the plaza seven floors below when I heard a voice say “just jump!”

I started parking across the street in a paved lot the next day.”

9. Man in the store.

“I went to Kroger late one night, since I was on a graveyard shift schedule, so this was about 1 AM.

I’m at the back end of an aisle where this was this poorly dressed man, looked about mid-40’s/early 50’s with a walking staff. As I stood near him for a few seconds to find my items, he started talking to me about religion. I initially thought it was just the usual crazy person, ranting about God or whatever popped into their head. However, after 10-12 seconds, he stopped and said “Son, you seem like you are carrying a burden”.

Over the next 10 full minutes, I had this very open conversation with this complete stranger about the world and spiritualism. It was the first real therapeutic moment since my mom had d**d and I couldn’t believe the setting of it.

After a little bit longer, he said he didn’t want to hold me up and to have a good night before he turned back around and started grabbing an item off the shelf. Since I was at the end of the aisle, it took me only a few steps to get into the back portion of the store where there was a Kroger employee stocking shelves.

He saw me and instantly asked “Hey man, who were you talking to? I was right here for a bit and only ask because you don’t have any headphones in and your phone wasn’t out”. I told him it was with that older guy in the aisle and the employee replied with “dude, nobody else was there”.

I instantly turned, took a few steps back to the aisle, and saw a completely empty aisle. I figured he probably just walked away right as I did, so I quickly jogged to the front of the store and looked around. This guy was nowhere to be seen.

With the condition this man appeared to be, there was no d**n way he hobbled to the front, checked out, and was gone within the 8-10 seconds it took for me to interact with that store employee. I even asked the security guard if he had seen that man within the last minute and he told me that nobody had come in or out since I walked into the store.”

10. Cursed key.

“I was on a long trip from Michigan to California.

I drove for 16 hours straight to eastern Colorado, where it started to snow pretty hard. I decided it would be a good time to pull over for the night and pulled over at a rest stop in Sterling, a small town in the middle of the Colorado plains. My first weird experience in this town was a random stranger pulling into the rest stop and asking me how to get to Denver.

I thought nothing of it and found the nearest motel. It had this old-west saloon theme and was completely empty, my car and the owner’s were the only cars in the lot. The snow started to come down pretty hard so I decided to stay there. When I checked in, the owner gave me this key with a keychain that had my room number.

I got my bag out of my car and put it in the room, and as I went back outside in the snow to get something else from my car, I noticed I lost the key and was locked out. I looked everywhere for it, and even took out everything in my trunk. As I was searching my car for the key, the snow started to pick up a little more.

I gave up and eventually went back to the owner for a new one, and went to sleep for the night. I couldn’t really sleep that whole night, and the room was eerily drafty. Flash forward two years, and I eventually forgot about the key with the red keychain. Until it magically re-appeared in my trunk in some random place I remember already looking in. I swear this key is some kind of cursed object.”

11. Hearing jazz.

“My husband and I had the “hang out house” of the cul-de-sac.

Everyone hung out in our garage. We had a friend “Tony” who would stop by after work, take a nap on my couch, and then hang out every night playing pool or just shooting the s**t before going home. Sadly, he was ki**ed in a vehicle accident. For nearly a year after that, we would wake up to the stereo in the garage turning on and playing the jazz radio station.

Tony was the only one who liked jazz – and our garage radio was never tuned to that station. Even if it was turning on due to some strange power surge, it would have turned on to the station we kept it set to, not the jazz station!”

12. Won’t stay there anymore.

“I won’t sleep in my nana’s house anymore now. Even though I basically grew up in that house as a kid with zero problems. I didn’t even believe in anything beforehand but this had me proper shook.

I was in my 20s and hadn’t been back for ages since I had moved away. But me and my mam stayed over one night visiting. I slept upstairs in the front bedroom (two single beds). Mam slept in the smaller “box room” that was a narrower room to the left of it. I can’t remember why it was that arrangement. Nana and grandad were in the back bedroom.

I woke up randomly in the middle of the night, wide awake. Went to the bathroom, checked my phone. Saw it was after 4am-ish. Tried to lie down and go to sleep and I suddenly felt really really awful. I can’t describe it. I felt sick, sad and terrified all at the same time for no reason. As if you were hiding somewhere from somebody and your heart is going crazy as they walk past looking for you.

I tried to close my eyes and nod off. Couldn’t really get to sleep. To the left of me the bed started dipping as if someone was trying to stand on the mattress and walk across it. Two more dips one after the other to where my legs were. The mattress was actually making noise under the weight. But there was nothing there I couldn’t see anything? It stopped as it got to the end of the bed. Then I kid you not the hand I had out over my blanket was touched and I thought I was going to cry or wretch (or both). I felt so sad and confused.

When the terror subsided enough for me to move I burst out crying and ran into my mam. Trying to tell her what happened through the gasps. She was already awake. She said a spider was crawling across her arm and it woke her up. Said she heard me come back from the bathroom.

She left me in her bed and got up to check the front bedroom. She told me that when she went in she felt sick and angry. The hairs on her arms were sticking up but she couldn’t see anything. She came back and told me not to go in there.

Of course then nana and grandad woke up to me crying and grandad dismissed it saying I was dreaming. I was awake and was on my d**n phone! My nana wasn’t too bothered and said something like “ah yeah I’ve felt and heard strange stuff for years but nothing dangerous”. Couldn’t believe she was only saying that now.

I didn’t stay over again after that. I dunno whether I got more sensitive to stuff that was already going on or that something awful started hanging around.

Mam and nana didn’t tell grandad and called a priest to come to the house (we’re Catholic). He was told everything and checked the house. He took some photos in that front room. He took a few photos of the wall over the beds and there was this blurry area in the middle over the headboards. He said that apparently from what he’s seen before it was a sort of gate where things can get in and out. So they were obviously coming out, landing on the bed and continuing through the house.

The housing estate itself is next to the biggest children’s hospital in the country and he thought maybe there were a lot of confused “entities” passing through that didn’t know where to go. So that explains what my nana says. But also older, meaner things were coming in and out and that could’ve only been happening recently.

My uncle told me afterwards that he stopped house sitting for them years ago because he could hear running across the house upstairs and couldn’t take it anymore.

Mam had to stay there a few more times for work and she said the night disturbances were getting more and more aggressive. More grabbing, things moving. My nana told me she locked up the house but when she came back and unlocked the front room the iron was plugged in and red hot. The house could’ve burnt down.

Grandad still denies everything but won’t sleep without a tv or radio on (so he’s afraid but won’t admit it). Currently waiting for them to move houses.”

Have you ever had any paranormal experiences?

If so, tell us about them in the comments.

Let’s get weird!

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What’s Weird Things Did You Find When You Cleaned Out a Person’s Belongings? Here’s What Folks Had to Say.

It’s never easy to clean out the belongings of a person who has passed on to the other side.

And it’s REALLY not easy when you find things you didn’t want to find.

But hey, we’re all weird in our own way and we all have our secrets…so let’s try not to be too judgmental, okay?

People on AskReddit shared stories about the things they found when they cleaned out the home of a person who passed away.

Let’s take a look.

1. There they are!

“A box labeled, “pens that don’t work”, full of pens that didn’t work.

I guess if Pop Pop ever needed a pen that didn’t work- he would know right where to find one.”

2. Jackpot.

“A friend of mine (47 when he passed) had every closet in his house filled with vintage clothing because he was planning on opening a used clothing store.

He had over four thousand items that were sorted by style, size, color, etc.

Nobody had a clue he had been procuring clothing for what must’ve been years.”

3. Family secret.

“My dad d**d suddenly and my mum and I were going through his old pictures when we stumbled upon an old photo (from like the early 80s) of a woman holding a little boy smiling.

My mum and I didn’t know who they were so we called my big sister (my dad’s daughter from his first marriage) and she said “oh that’s Brian. The son dad gave up for adoption when he was a teenager.”

Turns out my dad had (maybe) gotten his girlfriend pregnant when he was 16/17 and they gave him up for adoption. In the 20 years my folks were together Dad never told Mum (or me) about Brian because he wasn’t sure if Brian was actually his in the first place.”

4. That’s odd.

“We cleaned my grandpa’s house . You know what we found all over the place?

ONIONS.

Raw onions everywhere.

In the bathroom,
upstairs, next to the cleaning supplies. Their layers were poppin off, dry all over the place.

No, my grandpa was not Shrek.”

5. Go ahead and keep it.

“My dad and my uncle were tasked with cleaning out my great-grandma’s house when she moved into an assisted living facility (and the story of her d**th is…morbidly funny but also sad).

They found some typed recollections of a roadtrip through Scotland she and her sister took, where she got waited on in a cafe by a ‘very nice young man’, which we think was her way of saying he was gay. Then my uncle gestured to me and said ‘[MightyMeerkat97], I know you’re interested in family history, so I was thinking you’d like this!’ and handed me an old bottle.

Inside is what looks like a small grey pebble that has partially dissolved into dust. It is labelled ‘John’s Appendix. 1907’. It turns out my great-granddad was one of the first British recipients of an appendectomy when he was young, and they let him keep the appendix.”

6. Hit list?

“He had a list of 100 names, 87 of which were crossed off with red ink.

To this day, we don’t know how he was connected to them or what it meant.”

7. Grandpa!

“Found my grandpa’s stash box with a setup for her**n, and an antique vibrator (like made of brass, wish I had a pic).

I mean, I knew grandpa used to party, but d**n.”

8. Money everywhere.

“My grandma was a child of the depression, and as such didn’t trust banks. She lived alone for years and towards the end started developing dementia. When she had to be moved for care we found ziploc baggies with thousands of dollars hidden all over the house. In the deep freeze, taped the back of furniture and underneath tables, in the backs of the toilet, etc.

Her house was sold to placate medicaid and the people who bought it were her long-term neighbors who loved her very much. They called another 5 or so times when they found even more money in the floor, the cellar, the shed. I believe there is probably still money hidden that we’ll never know about.

She spent her last years on social security, budgeting every dime and all the while was sitting on a small fortune. Thankfully medicaid didn’t know about her stash, so the family got to keep it all.”

9. Awesome.

“We found out my grandfather was a ambulance driver/medic in Bastogne during the Battle if the Bulge.

We found his dog tags, orders, pictures and everything. He had always claimed he was in the army but stayed in California.

He never talked to anyone about it, not his wife, his brothers, his children. When he passed away in 1992 two old vets showed up and talked about him saving their life.”

10. Pretty sad.

“Grandma had a bunch of burnt pots and pans in her closet.

She was trying to hide the fact she was going senile and didn’t know if it was okay to just throw them in the trash.”

11. Historical record.

“My Grandmother.

Growing up on a North Carolina farm, she was able to take French in high school because my great grandparents insisted on it being available in the local school.

She had a pen pal in France who was about the same age.

She had a series of letters from her pen pal, with the very last one saying “they say that the N**is are almost here”.”

12. Creepy.

“My mom and Dad and I were clearing out my grandad’s place when I found his collection of shrunken heads he had acquired when he was in the Merchant Navy in an old box under his bed.”

How about you?

Have you ever found any weird stuff while cleaning out a place after someone passed away?

Tell us your stories in the comments! Thanks!

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People Talk About the Weird and Interesting Things They Found When They Cleaned Out the Belongings of Someone Who Passed Away

Maybe it’s better to leave the cleaning in these kinds of situations to people you dont’ know…you know, just in case something embarrassing or humiliating is found in their belongings.

That way, family members and friends won’t get too embarrassed and won’t potentially have their opinions of their loved ones changed too much.

But these kinds of things sure seem to happen a lot…

Have you ever found anything weird when cleaning out the home of a person who passed away?

These people did and they shared their stories on AskReddit.

1. A weird family.

“When my grandma passed away, we found some craaaaazy things including her gallstones, a chicken bone with a note that explained how it had ki**ed her dog (at LEAST 30 years ago), a box of mincemeat from the 1960’s, iguana food (she was terrified of reptiles), and an unbelievable amount of stuff all fit into a small mobile home.

We knew she was a pack rat but never to the extent that we discovered.

When my family was cleaning out the home, everyone was hiding all of the weird stuff in other peoples vehicles and bags without their knowledge. I personally stuck a terribly made stuffed squirrel (we named it “zombie squirrel”) in my parents’ breadbox to scare the hell out of them upon their return from snowbirding. It worked. I wish I could have seen it happen but hearing my mom describe it a few weeks after they returned was good enough.

Funny thing is, my family plays Christmas Bingo with cheap and funny gifts every year and these “antiques” have now ended up in the rotation, ending up in someone’s possession every year until they can pawn it off on another relative.

I currently have the mincemeat after discovering it on New Year’s Eve in a box of beer that I was gifted. It’s hard as a rock but still sealed in the original packaging, so I bought some epoxy resin and am going to cast it inside and make a trophy out of it so this insanity can continue.

We’re a weird family but fun AF.”

2. Grossed out.

“My Grandma had been a school nurse but had been retired for about 10 years or so at the time of her d**th.

As we were clearing out her old office we found index cards with d**d lice on them and labeled as to which kind they were.

We were all so grossed out.”

3. A really nice guy.

“My mother had a coworker who was the friendliest guy ever.

He was about 70, extremely nice, loved the beach, was openly gay, but didn’t date much in his later years. He passed away from a heart attack and had no living family. They went to his home, found care for his dog, then attended the funeral a few days later.

In his will he asked several close friends and old coworkers to take what they wanted of his things as the bank would foreclose on the home. He only moved in like 3 years prior. There were a few things specifically listed to go to certain people. Everything else was up for grabs.

It was all going fine. They opened drawers in the bathroom and found weed. The group of 5 or so people giggled. Then they went into the bedroom… They opened his nightstand drawer.

Viagra. Tons of it. C**k rings, 2 dildos, anal beads, “a little metal stick thing” (was too embarrassing to tell my sister what it was for), old por**graphic Polaroids, ball gag, a few phone numbers written on paper.

Oh yeah, and more c**k rings. I think there were close to like 10. Dude was apparently a s** fanatic even at 70.

He definitely left one big last impression on those that were close to him.”

4. Hmmm…

“When my best friend and her boyfriend d**d in a hydroplaning accident, I went to clear out her house since her family was out of state.

They should be grateful- I disposed of literally dozens of s** toys and a bunch of lingerie. I knew what I was going in there for, but I was still surprised by the overall size of the strap-on that was prominently displayed in their room.

Her boyfriend was a preacher’s son, so I also took all the drug paraphernalia out of their room so that his parents wouldn’t have to face harsh disillusionment with their son’s piety less than a week after his d**th.

He only smoked weed but that would have been scandalous enough to taint their memory of him.”

5. Didn’t need to see that.

“Found my grandfather’s “ pocket p**sy” from I assume the 80’s or 90’s based on packaging.

What made it worse was that I was supposed to sort through/ throw out his things, so I had to discreetly alert my grandmother ( I was not touching it) while keeping my mom in the dark.

My nana just cackled, went “ well he never through anything out!” And chucked it in the bin in her bathroom.”

6. Score!

“Crazy aunt who was a hoarder d**d.

Her house was cluttered but relatively clean. We were clearing out the house and throwing out used stuff and keeping or giving away new unused things. She used coffee cans to store receipts so we just started tossing them right in the garbage.

I dropped one after lunch and out popped about $2,000 in cash.

Went back and opened all the cans. About $12k and some very nice gold jewelry in all. Thanks Aunt Edna.

Oh, and two walk in closets full of unused yarn that filled up my Suburban. Twice!”

7. That’s a surprise.

“That my grandfather had a complete family (wife, 4 kids) he abandoned when he knocked up my grandmother.

All the family knew about it but he threatened d**th on anyone who told my mom. They believed him. Only found out after going through his desk.”

8. Oh my!

“Notes on how to summon demons, some sinister books about satanic rituals and a collection of weird s**t (daggers, chunks of hair, some vials with powder).

My grandparents were incredibly devout Christians, so it was a pretty creepy find. My aunt ended up throwing it all out.”

9. Packrat.

“Found 40 cans of shaving cream in my brother’s linen closet. That must have been one hell of a sale.

Oh, and over 300 video cassettes. This was back in the VCR days and he recorded every show that he watched.

He wasn’t a hoarder, but a bit eccentric.”

10. I’ll take that.

“When my dad d**d, my sister and I went to his apartment with my grandmother. While I was flipping through records and such, grandma came out of the bedroom with what was very clearly a pot plant.

She said she didn’t know what it was and asked if I wanted it. When I eagerly accepted, her suspicions were confirmed and she disposed of it.”

11. Sorry…

“Pictures……of my mum…….in a compromising position with two other gentlemen…….and someone else to take the picture….. 0/10, do not recommend.”

12. Time capsule.

“Back in the days when I was in Seminary, I was called by a family to help catalogue her things because this elderly woman passed away (she d**d at 103ish in 2008).

Her mother was 14 when Abraham Lincoln was a**assinated. She was pretty old. She refused to go to a nursing home so family agreed she can still stay in her home with an occasional visit from a medical helper and church volunteers.

I unlocked her apartment and I swear I thought I stepped through a time machine. It was such a shock, I had to sit down for twenty minutes and let it all sink in.

EVERYTHING in her house was straight from the 40s when her and her husband first moved in. It wasn’t even in bad condition….it literally felt like I was transported back in time to 1940 because nothing looked old and worn out.

The cabinets, the flooring, hell, even the appliances and little things like salt shakers and paper towel holders were straight from 1940. The wall paint wasn’t as old as the 1940s but she repainted it the same color over and over. The kitchen was robin egg blue, bathroom same color. The living room was wood, and the bedroom was white.

I walked though the entire apartment and everything was surreal. In the living room, she had a living room set from 1940 too. She only had two things in her living not from 1940. A 1850 Victorian piano and a 1970 Cabinet tv. Even her paintings on the wall was straight from the 40s.

The only other thing that was not from the 40s was her mattress. That’s it. Even her phone was a 1940 phone with her old phone number on it….”Ellicott City 4592”

She still had family albums on her nightstand (which I assumed she looked at all the time). It was pretty sobering because when I really thought about it, EVERYONE she knew in the prime of her life was d**d. All her friends, her husband, her brothers and sisters.

Everyone but her family 3 generations younger (she had no children). I flipped through the album looking at these pictures. Her husband served in World War 1 and assisted in World War 2. He d**d in the 60s. She even had an old church directory from the early 80s where she looked like a senior citizen….and she managed to live 25 years beyond that.

The landlord didn’t want to touch the interior at all, joking with me saying her entire apartment should be in a museum but the Complex Corporate owners ordered everything stripped down and updated to conform with the rest of the complex.

I don’t know if anyone here ever watched “Somewhere in Time” with Christopher Reeve but those were the vibes I was getting the entire time I was in there. Another interesting thing…all of her pictures that were set up on the walls and tables were of her and her husband from 60-70 years ago…like a couple of young newlyweds lived there and decided to make all their pics black and white and went with the retro vibe. Her more “current” pics were all stashed away in shoe boxes under the bed.”

13. That’s really cool.

“My husband’s first wife d**d of cancer a few years before we started dating.

When she d**d, he didn’t have the time or energy to deal with alot of her things so he basically just packed everything up into boxes and stuck them in the basement.

Years and years later, we were engaged and about to move so we decided to go through the boxes together.

We knew she was big into snow boarding, but we didn’t know how much until then. We found various pictures of her out on the slopes with Jake Burton (founder of Burton Snowboards), Mike Olson (founder of Lib Technologies which produces Roxy Snowboards and a few other brands) and David Kemper (founder of Kemper Snowboards).

Apparently she was tight with the pioneers of snowboarding.”

Have you ever found any weird items when you cleaned out a person’s house after they passed?

Tell us your stories in the comments.

Thanks in advance!

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What Should Everyone Experience in Life At Least Once? People Shared Their Thoughts.

Life can be a series of peaks and valleys, ups and downs.

And, believe it or not, it really does go by pretty fast.

So it’s important to try to enjoy our time here as much as possible!

People on AskReddit offered their opinions about what everyone should experience in life.

Take a look and see what they had to say.

1. Up in the sky.

“Stargazing out in the countryside where there’s no light pollution.

On a clear night, it’s beautiful.

2. Makes the world go ’round.

“Everyone should feel love.

Genuine, undying, unconditional love from the same person you love the same way. Its the most amazing thing in the world.

I truly feel like a lot of the world’s problems stem from people not being loved.”

3. Solitary.

“Being alone for at least 3 days straight.

It lets you indulge in your hobbies.”

4. Lesson learned.

“Hunger.

It’s too easy to dismiss hunger in others if you’ve not experienced it yourself.”

5. A new world.

“Realizing that you were wrong about some deeply held belief.

I’ve learned to love when that happens. A whole new world opens up when you let go of a belief system that’s no longer working. You learn so much and develop yourself.

Listen to your conscience. Deep down you always know when you’re full of s**t.

I’ve heard Jordan Peterson say things like “always be stepping away from your previous self”, “don’t become a parody of yourself”.

I think it’s good to go through phases and cycles in your life. Explore the extremes of one set of beliefs for a while, then when you’ve exhausted that, explore the opposite belief system. Explore some hardcore David Goggins belief system, then by next year be on to reflecting on the traumas of your past and developing more compassion for yourself. You need both the yin and the yang, or your personality becomes stale or directionless.

You don’t need to identify with a set of beliefs to explore them. A belief system will never be able to represent the complexities of a human’s personality, but you can explore them to develop different aspects of your personality.”

6. Important.

“Everyone should work a customer service job for other humans for at least 6 months.

This will teach some people how to be good customers.”

7. See the world.

“Traveling to a different country.

Get a different perspective on life from people who aren’t raised the way you were. The hive mind mentality of small towns in my country are what keep social progress from being made.

I know a guy who lives across the street from the house he grew up in (parents still live there) and never plans to leave the neighborhood. He’s missing so much.”

8. No more ego.

“Ego d**th.

From my experience, the ego is the collection of what our mind thinks It is, both conscious and unconscious. “A mother”, “a weak man”, “a respectable church member”, “a s**t”, “a piece of s**t”, “a loser”, “the best human being ever”, etc. These ideas set a blueprint of how we act, feel and think. We act accordingly to what we think we are.

An ego d**th is the abandonment of those restraints, realizing we are or could be so much more. It’s a very freeing experience. The ego reforms, but in a much healthier and deliberate form.”

9. The high seas.

“Scuba diving in the middle of the sea.

The minute you dive in you feel like grain of sand.

You can really feel how tiny your existence is.”

10. True friends.

“Having a non-romantic friend that you can absolutely rely on and be yourself with. One that has your back, can call you out and always only wants the best for you.

True friends like that are actually hard to come by and are worth their weight in gold.”

11. Love it!

“The love of a dog.

Because a dog is one of the few things in life that is exactly what it seems.”

12. Hit the road.

“A long road trip with friends.

It’s a bonding experience being in a little metal box with a group of friends for hours at a time trying to get somewhere together.

You’ll drive each other crazy, you’ll make each other laugh, it’s truly a wonderful experience that I think everyone should have.”

13. Out on your own.

“Living alone.

When no one is there to support you or help you, I think it can unlock most of your potential.

You can also learn best survival methods in this society.”

14. Have some fun!

“Dancing, with zero inhibitions.

Sometimes its the perfect amount of alcohol/drugs to get you in that space, or being alone, or finding that magical dance partner who makes everyone else disappear, or just the perfect song that drowns everything else out.

A good cathartic dance can cure a lot.”

Now we want to hear from you.

What do you think everyone should experience in their lives?

Talk to us in the comments and let us know!

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People Discuss What Their TED Talks Would Be About

This is a tough one…

I think if I had to deliver an impromptu lecture on something, it would either be about hockey or maybe about the history of horror movies.

But since I’m terrified of public speaking, I still think I’d have a hard time, even though I know both of those subjects pretty well.

If you got thrown out on a stage, what would your TED Talk be about?

AskReddit users spoke up.

1. Sounds interesting.

“I would explain how we live in a system that normalizes hard work ethic to the lower and middle class with stringent monochronic focus, low end wage values, and rigorously enforced penal systems focused for blue collar crimes while advocating the opposite for those in higher income classes.

We teach our children that working nonstop everyday is a sign of success. Thinking, discussing, researching, or any other human effort is useless if it doesnt result in a diploma, money, or se**. In essence, the lower end of the economic scale raise wage slaves.”

2. You already lost me.

“The fascinating physics of DNA molecules.

The structural properties of DNA have some neat consequences for biology.”

3. Wow!

“Hey! A hot dog is a taco not a sandwich.

Sandwich has starch on 2 sides, a taco has starch on 3 sides.

A hotdog bun covers 3 sides of a hotdog therefore a hotdog is a taco.”

4. Ramble on.

“Budgeting, flipping houses, long term investments, Jane Austen, travel.

It says more about my ability to ramble on, than any special qualification.”

5. You know what you’re talking about.

“How our society (US) treats d**th.

End of life care, physician assisted s**cide, and breaking the stigma of talking about d**th.

All from a paramedic with over a decade of service.”

6. Let’s hear it!

“Oh, I’m a nerd about a lot of stuff.

How BCI innovations are a game changer and how we will achieve cyberpunk cyborg enhancements sooner than later.

Why we need to start building large scale space habs now. What technical hurdles are still in the way, etc.

Why we need to go all in on carbon sequestration right now amd we need to work towards a path of carbon negative.”

7. Smarty-pants.

“I would explain how beer is brewed, focusing on the science behind it & how that dictates that flavor profile, alcohol content, etc.

I could also discuss, in detail how a high-bypass aircraft jet engine works. Specifically how an aircraft engine is assembled.”

8. A big fan.

“Parrots.

If I only touched on one minute of each year of life I’ve spent with them I’d be over schedule.

Feathered a**holes hold a place in my heart.”

9. A horrible day.

“Why the Capitol Insurrection was so scary and so incredibly close to succeeding.

Literally all 45 had to do is go on the air during his 2 minute address and instead of saying “we love you but go home” he could have said “give your lives for the cause push thru the security and hang the cowards who would deny you your voice” and we’d be in a very different, absolutely terrible 2021.”

10. I’m ready for it.

“‘Hypothetical Mechanics of Time Travel Assuming the Existence of a Fifth Dimension, Henceforth Referred To As ‘Metatime’.’

…Roughly three percent of it will be in any way scientifically accurate, but I’m a writer, not a quantum physicist.”

11. Going green.

“How to be an environmentalist without the Jesus complex or screaming Teenagers or Al Gore.

Electric cars are the way of the future. But until they can out range, out rely, basically all out superiority themselves. We should hold off on forcing them on our society.

Bicyclist are bad for the environment because they hold up traffic.

Nuclear energy is much cleaner and safer than any current energy source and we need to invest in that.

Way to sell environmentalism is by showing it does actually save money opposed to lying and feel good strategy.”

12. Multi-talented.

“Raising dairy goats

Cheese making

Food preservation (could be broken down into several talks)

Eating cheaply and nutritiously

Foraging wild edibles in the Pacific Northwest

The history and geography of Middle Earth.”

13. Get that bread.

“Sourdough. Became obsessed in 2017.

Eventually quit design in 2018 and became a baker for over a year.

Back doing design now but love to talk about bread.”

14. Cool!

“Collodion wet plate process. Doing a portrait right with 150 year old photography gear in mostly the first exposure.

I capture one plate per hour and produce all my chemicals by myself. Totally different approach to work with people compared to digital/film photography.”

What would your TED Talk be about?

Talk to us in the comments!

We look forward to hearing from you!

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A Man Told His Fiancée He Didn’t Like Her Wedding Dress. Is He a Jerk?

I don’t know if it’s EVER a good idea to tell a woman you don’t like something she’s wearing…

And if it’s the wedding dress they picked out? Forget about it! Here come the fireworks!

Take a look at this story from Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole?” page and keep reading to see how readers reacted.

AITA for telling my Fiancee I don’t like her wedding dress?

“So my fiancee and I are getting married in 9 months.

She’s been dress shopping with her girls for months now. She found the dress she loved and bought it, and was too excited to keep it a secret. She showed me pics of the bridesmaids dresses and I told her they were pretty, they match my groomsmen suits really well.

Anyway, she brought her dress out and asked what I thought. I specifically asked her if she wants the God’s honest truth and wants me to critique the dress or if she knows she loves it and just wants to show me. She said she wanted my opinion.

She put the dress on and came out of the bathroom and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little disappointed. She’s a beautiful woman and looks incredible in anything of course, but the dress completely dwarfed her and didn’t really fit the wedding theme she has worked so hard for.

She wanted a foresty, magical and whimsical, type theme. Flower crowns on the bridesmaids etc. But she chose a super sparkly dress with a HUGE skirt, which looked nothing like the simply, body hugging sexy dresses she had been repeatedly showing me. She picked basically a huge Disney princess dress and I just didn’t like how it looked at all.

I was honest when I told her I didn’t like it and I was surprised she picked it because it just doesn’t seem to match her and I just thought it was too much poof and sparkle. She got really quiet and stormed back upstairs, and then stormed out of the house and went to her Moms.

Texted me saying she couldn’t believe I would say I didn’t like it and what a d**khead I am and has blocked number. This is our first major fight and I’m just so annoyed because I ASKED if she wanted a real opinion and she said yes.

AITA for telling her I don’t like the dress?”

Now let’s see how readers reacted to this story…

This person said that the guy is not an a**hole…but he’s an idiot. Ouch. That hurts.

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Another reader came up with a whole plan on how to dissolve the situation.

Let’s hope that maybe this works…

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But this Reddit user said that he shouldn’t lie and that he needs to put in a little bit of legwork to try to let her down easy…but no lies!

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And this person also thinks that the man shouldn’t lie but that he needs to find something specific about what he likes about the dress to make her feel a little bit better.

And if she still wants to wear it, just live with it! Happy Wife = Happy Life!

Photo Credit: Reddit

What do you think about this guy’s actions?

Was he rude or just speaking his mind?

Sound off in the comments! Thanks in advance!

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What Would Be the Subject of Your TED Talk? Here’s What People Had to Say.

Imagine this: you suddenly find yourself on stage in front of a large crowd and you’re ordered to give a talk about something that you’re quite knowledgeable about.

So what would you do? And remember, this has to be off the cuff with no preparation and no notes…

I’m getting nervous just thinking about it.

AskReddit users shared what their TED Talks would about.

Check out what they had to say.

1. The expert.

“Gluten intolerance via celiac disease.

Can’t just worry about it being in food, I have to avoid gluten in makeup, toothpaste, lotion, shampoo, in the air near bakeries, and essentially avoid nearly all restaurants.

And any accidental microscopic dose from it will leave me running to the restroom with bleeding diarrhea and stomach cramps, as well as feeling anxious, hungry, and even horny all at the same time.”

2. Intense!

“Cheddar vs Monterey Jack

To all those who demand answers, I shall go up to the top of the mountain and ponder.

When I return, your wait shall end.”

3. An art form.

“Why Professional Wrestling is actually a form of Performing Arts.

8 year old me: wrestling is so cool! Go John Cena!

12 old me: pro wrestling is stupid, it’s all fake

24 year old me: pro wrestling is a very well choreographed act that involves incredible physical stunts and is much more complex than it appears.”

4. A huge impact.

“Alco**lism and its multigenerational impacts on a family.

I talk about addiction basically all day.

18 minutes probably isn’t enough time to cover a topic well enough, but that’s a good start.”

5. Snooze fest.

“Retired engineering professor here.

I can go for hours – with equations – and most of you will be asleep within minutes.”

6. Get ready!

“You’re all about to get schooled in New Jersey land use law and how to properly process a variance application.

Hope you are hanging onto your seat!”

7. I’m listening…

“Bananas.

Honestly, wild.

You think you know about bananas then you look into it and find out you don’t know anything about bananas.”

8. Hmmmm…

“The movie Planes, starring Dane Cook was an expansion on the Cars Cinematic Universe involves a character who was a Naval fighter plane during WWII, which means that there was a WWII in the Cars universe.

This, of course, brings up a lot of questions. Was there a Cars Hitler? A Cars Holocaust? A Cars Hiroshima? Are there tanks in the Cars Universe? Are the tanks sentient too, or are they piloted by other cars?”

9. Nerd alert!

““Why Darth Maul is the best character is Star Wars”.

Basically going from he was a menacing looking villian with a cool theme song, to a rage filled monster who took over the galaxy.”

10. Here we go.

“My favorite shows and movies, and why I like them so much.

Actually, I could also rant about how awesome NCIS used to be and how absolutely HORRIBLE it is now for more than just 18 minutes.”

11. Good advice.

“Been happily married awhile now, and we’ve figured that the trick to our particular long term relationship is a pretty simple three step system.

1. Life is an obstacle course we tackle together.

Groceries? Do it together. Budget? Do it together. Cleaning? Do it together. Walking the dog? Do it together. Dealing with mental illness? Together. Getting the mail? Together.

If it’s a chore, errand, or just something that’s not leisure time fun, it’s time to come together. Split the load 50/50. Battle to do 51!

Neither of us get railroaded into feeling the other is just along for the ride, or not pulling weight.

And if you do it together, you might just find some fun in it!

Spend at least an hour alone for yourself, every day.

Hobby time is important. Alone time is important. Individual friend time is important.

We are here for each other, but we’re not each others entire universes. Game with the boys. Go for drinks with the girls. Get away from each other after all that work, at least for a little bit every day.

We’re still our own people with our own interests that may not interest the other, and we need time to pursue that without feeling bad about it. Have fun with activities you enjoy together, but remember that you’re individuals too!

Accept the olive branch when it’s offered.

We rarely disagree enough to fight anymore, but when we were younger, dumber, and poorer, we definitely did.

Sometimes a foot goes in the mouth. Whether either of us is ready to apologize, if one of us offers that olive branch, we take it.

A simple one second hand on a knee. A glass of water brought over in silence. Dinner put on the table. Yelling from the kitchen if the other wants a soda.

Take it. Accept it. Even if you dont want a soda. Accept the signal. Doesn’t mean the issue is resolved, but it does remind you both that you’re still there for each other. And, at least for us when we did bicker, that little reminder was exactly what we needed to get our jets cooled.”

12. The joys of birding.

“Birds. The joys of birding. Why we need birds. Their migration. Their adaptations. Their songs.

OK, there’s 5 minutes gone by. Binoculars, which ones to buy. eBird, citizen science. 6 minutes. Uh. Funny birding stories no one laughs at.

Why birds have names with innuendos: Dickcissels, Bushtit, Hairy Woodpeckers, Woodcocks. 10 minutes.

Chiggers, ticks, poison ivy, snakes and things to avoid whilst birding

The farthest I’ve ever driven to see a bird.

Yeah. ok. enough. I’m sitting down now.”

13. History buff.

“The Battle of Hastings, 1066. I can recite the major events leading up to, during, and after the battle form memory.

I could also do WWII and Hitler’s rise to power; I can recite a lot of that from memory too.”

Now it’s your turn.

In the comments, please tell us what you think your TED Talk would be about.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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What’s a Ridiculous Lie Your Parents Told You? Here’s What People Had to Say.

Parents gotta do what they gotta do…

They’re in charge of making sure their kids survive and thrive, so sometimes they gotta lie to make things run a little bit smoother.

But then there are some parents who really go over the edge with the whole lying thing…

AskReddit users went on the record and talked about the most ridiculous lies their parents told them.

Take a look!

1. He did the right thing.

“My dad got fed up of watching Barney the dinosaur when I was a kid, and one day when I asked to watch it, he said:

“You can’t”

“Why?”

“Because Barney died”

I never did watch Barney again.”

2. Now I’m scared.

“When I was little, my mom told me if I didn’t finish my dinner my stomach would get very hungry and come up and eat my brain.

A few nights later I woke her up at midnight crying because my stomach growled and I needed a second dinner or it would eat my brain.”

3. Poor Alice.

“That my siblings and I had a sister named Alice.

Apparently she wouldn’t stop talking in the car so they dropped her off on the side of the road…never spoke on road trips ever again.”

4. Joke’s on you.

“When I was a kid my father told me about “the can”.

He said it contained a family secret of incredible value, and that when I turned 18 I could see it. On my 18th birthday I asked my father about the can, he said “what the f**k is the can?” and after I reminded him of it, he burst out laughing, saying that he was f**king with me.

For almost a decade I believed that I would be privy to some cosmic secret on my 18th birthday, turns out I’m just very impressionable.”

5. Sad.

“My dad d**d in a car accident a few years ago. And till this day my mom says that he is still on vacation.

I don’t know if it is a coping method for her but i haven’t said anything about it.”

6. Beware…

“That if I didn’t brush my teeth, tiny teeth goblins would sneak into my room at night and pull out my teeth while I slept.

I was genuinely afraid of the teeth goblins.”

7. In denial.

“I lived with my grandma until I was 16.

My mom is currently telling me that never happened and she never left me with grandma. I guess I imagined my entire childhood

‘Lived with’ doesn’t do it justice. Grandma raised me. I alternated weekends between my mom and dad but I’m sure her 4 days a month are made up too.”

8. They really like me!

“My birthday is the 11th of July.

The gas station 7/11 gives away free slushies on 7/11. At 7, 8, & 9 years old my parents just told me that the 7/11 wanted to celebrate my birthday by giving me free slushies and I did not question it.

I thought the gas station just really liked me.”

9. Weird.

“If I acted up my mom would say she was sending me to the hospital to be put down.

It really really f**ked me up.

She even drove a sobbing puking me to the hospital to be put down one day, she said she would give me a second chance and didn’t take me in.”

10. Hungry?

“When I was younger i learned that mushrooms were a fungus and refused to eat them.

My dad made me some soup with mushrooms in it and i threw a fit about eating it, so he inspected the bowl and told me they were whale toes.

Apparently i was old enough to know that mushrooms were a fungus but not old enough to know that whales didn’t have feet.”

11. It’s in there somewhere.

“When my dad wanted me to stop bothering him he would send me on aimless errands.

“Go to the shed and get me the chain stretcher”.

I’d be looking for hours.”

12. Lame.

“Parents always claimed we were a poor family growing up so didn’t have money for sport clubs/hobbies or expensive school trips.

Got older and realized it was due to the amount of money they would spend on weed.

They still don’t see it as an issue to this day.”

13. Better watch your step.

“They told me kids came from a government agency called the CAA (Child Assignment Agency) and that they could exchange me when ever they want if I ever misbehaved.

They told me they were eyeing a “well behaved little girl” but hadn’t decided yet.

They used it against me for years.”

Did your parents ever tell you any outrageous lies?

If so, please share them with us in the comments.

Thanks a lot!

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People Tell Stories About the Weirdest Black Markets at Their Schools

Do you remember in your high school how there was always one student whose locker was full of contraband?

He (or she) had stuff to smoke, stuff to drink, and weird stuff to look at. And it was all for sale!

You know you did! Because every school has a kid like that!

Folks on AskReddit talked about the weirdest black markets they had at their schools. Let’s take a look.

1. The Godfather.

“I was friends with a kid in middle school that had a descrambler. Dude would buy up blank VHS tapes and record like 10 minutes of p**n off the Spice channel and sell for like 10 bucks a tape. Gave 2 dollars for tape returns for new content.

He was a Greek kid, and with a bunch of other Greek kids in the school, formed a Greek mafia with him as the Godfather. Being a big kid that played football, I was one of the Greek mafia’s ‘associates’, but alas, I could never become a ‘Made Man’.

He made so much money off selling VHS p**n tapes, when we hit 16, he was able to buy himself a pretty sweet Camaro. Once the internet came about in 1998 is when his business ran dry. By that time he was into other s**t.”

2. Nice!

“A girl set up a little business out of a box of stationary, writing forged letters from parents. She had all different paper, pens and pencils of every kind, and could write in convincingly accurate tone for the content of the notes depending on which kid they were for.

She used different styles of handwriting and different styles of punctuation and language too. She’d even fudge the spelling if she thought the kid’s parents weren’t great at it. She grew up to be incredibly educated. I look back and see that as her first moment of evil genius. It definitely suggested she would go on to brilliance one day and she did.”

3. Replicas.

“I organized the black market. My school banned Pokemon Cards, so I made a new game with paper cards.

I was drawing pretty well, so I folded an paper in 9, it made pieces approximately the size of a Pokémon Vard, and created a whole new game out of this. Sold boosters for 10 cents. Spend all my afternoons drawing cards for the school. Teachers eventually heard of it and couldn’t ban it because it was still officially still me distributing drawings. And then I started to do replicas of Pokémon Cards.

Like people had to show me the proof after school that they owned the card, I made a replica, and then the whole Pokemon Card trading continued with paper replicas. Then after school people made the real exchanges based on what replicas they exchanged during school.”

4. Zero tolerance.

“There was a pretty big market in my elementary school for Atomic Fireball Candies.

I remember being out for a couple days, but coming back with a big handful of the fireballs in my backpack… only to find the teachers had implemented a zero tolerance fireball policy.”

5. Scammer.

“Remember Columbia House? Where you could get 10 VHS movies for like $0.99? But then you had to buy like 5 more at regular price?

So I did the math and figured out what the actual price per videotape was after all commitments to the “club” were made, and it was like $5.

So I took orders from classmates, bought movies for them, and then sold it them at a slight markup. Basically, I was undercutting Suncoast.”

6. Smugglers.

“Probably the jocks who smuggled in food for the diabetic and hypoglycemic kids.

School has seriously strict policies and wouldn’t budge for medical problems. These kids were in some serious danger and administration would confiscate their food all the time.

Most of the kids playing on the sports teams were placed on pedestals and protected by the administrators. They could do just about anything they wanted and they’d get away with it because they were athletes.

So a lot of them would smuggle in extra food in their backpacks and pass it out to the kids who needed it.”

7. Not cool.

“Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos.

This one kid would buy every single bag out of the vending machines and sell them for like double the cost.”

8. Old school.

“Sharpened sticks

When we learnt about caveman we decided that it would have been a great idea to create our own prehistoric clan, so we smashed rocks and used them to sharpen tree branches.

Some of us where particularly keen on sharpening that started to use walls as grindstones, they were able to sharpen about 6 sticks in half an hour and started exchanging them for berries during recess.”

9. CRAVE.

“We used to mix koolaid packets with sugar in a ziploc and then you dip your finger in and eat it or just pour it in your mouth.

We called it Crave. It eventually got banned so kids would eat it in secret and sell it to other kids.

So basically we were just eating tons of sugar all day.”

10. You’re covered.

“I sold “protection” when kids wanted to ditch.

When the school announced openings in the attendance office, I had a half dozen of my friends rush over and sign up immediately. By the end of the day, we owned it.

I charged $10 – $20 to ignore each truancy. Each morning, if we had clients, I’d hand a list and half of the cash to whomever was working that day. Word got around fast, but we were never caught.”

11. A legend.

“The dude who sold our fake IDs was really committed to his work. He made state and college licenses.

Carried around two metal rings with samples of all the stuff he could make using Britney Spears shot from the Hit Me Baby One More Time album as the photo. He would also give you the ID in a white envelope. I had a rush order once and he had a standard rate for that – ended up picking it up from him at home in the other side of the city.

Dude was on point. I think he ended up being an interior decorator.”

12. Quite a story.

“Let me tell you the story of The Great Bead Wars.

7th Grade. A kid in my class went on vacation to New Orleans, and came back with a cr**py little plastic bead necklace for every kid in the class. It was cute. Until some kid was fiddling with his necklace, and broke it, spilling beads all over the floor, interrupting the lesson. Most of the beads got picked up and thrown out.

Most.

It wasn’t long after the lesson started up again, that some kid had taken an errant bead and chucked it across the room while the teacher’s back was turned, pelting his friend in the side of the head. The bead bounced off out of reach. But he needed to retaliate. Luckily, he had his own necklace, with several dozen beads of his own. He quietly broke the necklace, grabbed a fistful of beads, and hurled them back at his attacker, catching many a civilian in the crossfire.

Needless to say, the war escalated.

And war is cruel.

Every time the teacher’s back was turned, volleys of beads flew across the classroom. No one was safe. If you were too focused on the lesson and forgot to raise your binder as a shield while the teacher was writing on the chalkboard, it wouldn’t be long before you felt the sting of a bead striking your temple.

Alliances were made. Factions developed. The bead economy was formed. At lunch, valuable food items were bartered for bead supply. A full necklace? Intact? That would set you back at least a twinkie and can of soda.

Betrayal and espionage were rampant. Best friends became sworn enemies. Technology thrived: bead catapults were made from rulers. Slingshots were made from elastic bands, pencils, and binder clips. One student managed to engineer a stapler into a spring-charged, loadable bead shotgun.

A direct hit to exposed skin from 3 desks away from that bad boy would leave a mark. You didn’t cry out though – You clenched your teeth and fought back the tears; There are rules to war. We knew that it was a matter of time before the teacher caught on, and if she found out then it was all over.

Well, that day eventually came. We came in from recess, and written on the chalkboard was the following:

I’m not blind or deaf. I know about the bead wars. All beads and bead-launching devices have been confiscated from your desks. If I find any more beads being thrown, the whole class will be in detention for the rest of the month.

Some resisted. We knew she couldn’t have possibly got all the beads. Some still surfaced on the black market. But it wasn’t the same. We knew it was over. There is a time to know when to keep fighting to your dying breath, but there’s also a time to know when to surrender.

I’m a grown man now. I have a wife, and a job. I get out of bed every morning and go about my day, as if The Great Bead Wars never happened. People smile at me and shake my hand. They don’t know what I’ve been through. They couldn’t possibly imagine the burden I carry. The invisible scars that will never heal.The fact that most nights, when it’s silent, I still hear the “tic. tic. tic-tic-tic” of a bead bouncing on my 7th grade classroom tile.

But I persist. I have to. If not for me, then for those classmates so many years ago. Those whose names I’ve forgotten, but whose terrified faces are burned into my mind’s eye. I don’t know where they are now; if they’re alive or dead. I don’t know if I want to know. All I know is that I will share this unspoken bond with them for the rest of my days.”

Now it’s your turn!

In the comments, tell us about the weird black markets that you had in your school.

We’d love to hear from you!

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