Something similar happened to me when I was about 4 or 5. We lived on a lake and our boat was docked in the boat slip. My dad was cleaning the inside of the boat, when he heard a plop in the water. He went about what he was doing for another 2 or 3 minutes, but couldn’t shake the sound of the plop. He got out of the…

This happened once my husband’s family house and it can happen... no less creepy though- a landline with no phone plugged in wasn’t randomly dialing numbers. The weird part was it happened 3 times before they figured this out and it always dialed 9-1-1 at the same time.

Birds are the worst. You feed one and they go and tell all their friends and then you have a gaggle of birds at your house looking for a meal until the end of time. I fed a duck a bit of leftover danish once at a motel when I was walking into my room. I come out the next morning and there are four ducks outside my…

Yo, anyone else notice how this year, almost all of the most terrifying stories don’t have anything to do with the supernatural, and are all just horror stories of living men who terrorize women?

After about 8 months of hating the touchbar and not finding a good solution I finally found one that works a couple days ago: rubber electrical tape. It requires me to press firmly when i need the escape key, but otherwise I no longer accidentally hit anything. This solution is quite cheaper than $4.99. I think I may…

A squirrel ran up and bit a jogger out of the blue in Prospect Park a few months ago, and attacked a few other people, including a child. I am now terrified of squirrels. http://nypost.com/2017/07/21/crazed-squirrel-goes-on-biting-rampage-in-prospect-park/

I had so much harassment like that on the LIRR and NJ Transit when I was in college. But the scariest thing ever was when I was in DC - I was 24 and working downtown.

WHAT

All I hear is “dial-up Internet” “7-8 year old me” and then I weep at my oldness.

Our dial-up internet used to call the police. Like, a lot, and the cops always tried to pin it on little 7-8 year old me and I got several stern talking-tos about not calling 911 unless in an emergency. I swore up, down and sideways that it wasn’t me, and it happened like 10 times. When they finally discovered that it…

And then harvest their poo and look for coffee beans :)

I had a very similar experience at my uncle’s wake. A family friend who was a legendary drunk showed up and although quiet and polite, was noticibly tipsy. It’s a wake after all, he wasn’t the only one who may have taken a drink before showing up. At one point he emerged from the restroom and I noticed as he ambled…

Oh, fucking hell. Absolutely terrifying. (I say from my small New England town.)

Your mom was born in the late 70s? How old are you?! I’m 28 and my mom was born in 1956. I’m not judging, BTW - I just spent a lot of time doing the math and feeling old.

Former dispatcher here, and yes, it does sometimes happen. Phone lines can get weird glitches.

Shivers... This sounds so much like the town I live in that I pictured our library (which has a duck pond and a similar parking lot arrangement) the whole time I was reading it and now I’ve thoroughly terrified myself and probably won’t be able to sleep tonight. Well done. (And I agree: the living monsters are the…

Jesus H that is TOO DAMN WEIRD.

This is creepy as hell. You ever read the Glitch in the Matrix subreddit? Reminds me of that.

I would really love one thread where people can say “Waiting for this,” or “My favorite from last year,” or “Current topic political joke.” The post on this thread get harder to get to every one and all the nonsense and crap just make it more difficult. Yes we’re all happy it’s here, and there is a link at the bottom…

For next year I foresee ghost stories about people being haunted by zygotes.