When we want to tickle our nerves, we turn on a horror movie and enjoy watching it, huddled on the sofa in fear. However, we should not forget that creepy and mystical stories happen in real life as well. And truthfulness makes them even more interesting.

At night I woke up suddenly and saw a strange man standing over me and watching me sleep. I was very frightened and tried not to move, the man stood there for a while and left. I thought it was sleep paralysis, but in the morning I found a stranger’s knife in the kitchen. And then I found out it was a labourer hired to renovate my flat who was sacked.

My brother and I are twins. When I was very little, my father took me to get a haircut and left my brother at home with my mother. Apparently, sometime after we left the house, I kept pulling my dad’s hand and said, “Bob hurt” over and over.

My father thought it was weird, so he called home. Nobody answered, so he got a little suspicious and took me right home. Coming home to an empty house (in the days before cell phones), we just waited. Later, my mother came home with my brother, and we found out that he had fallen and had to get stitches.

When I was younger and visiting a theme park, I ran into a guy who looked just like me. He warned me that I would lose my money that day and told me to watch my pockets. Later that day, I noticed my money had fallen out of my pocket, but luckily it was on the ground nearby. I wouldn’t have noticed if that guy’s comment hadn’t stuck in my mind.When I was 9 years old, my older sister and I were drawing while nobody else was home, and suddenly we heard our piano keyboard playing upstairs. We listened and recognized the song—it was Fur Elise.

My sister and I slowly went up the stairs. When we were halfway up, the music stopped for about 2 seconds, then started again. Just as we were about to enter the room, it stopped completely.

There was nobody there. We looked around, and my sister noticed that the keyboard wasn’t even on—it had a physical switch.

My boyfriend told me that when he was a kid, he used to hear whispers and have conversations in one of the rooms at night. Intrigued, he entered the room out of curiosity, and someone tapped him on the back so hard that he fell unconscious. When he woke up, there was a big mark on his back, resembling a scratch from large paws, and it’s still there today. It’s really creepy

I remember one thing that genuinely freaked me out when I was 12. I had awoken and gone to the kitchen to fix myself some breakfast. When I got there, I heard my dad’s snoring coming from the couch in the living room.

I thought it was strange for him to be sleeping since it was 10 AM, and he typically woke up early. But I figured he was taking a nap. As I walked toward there, the snoring got louder and louder to the point where it sounded exaggerated.

Just as I popped my head over the couch to say hi, the sound just stopped. Nobody was on the couch. I called out to my family and nobody answered. They had gone out to get lunch.

I still can’t explain it to this day.
While I was sleeping in an old hotel in Spain, I felt someone tickling my ankles and heard a woman giggling. In my half-asleep state, I mewled and told them to stop. When I woke up in the morning, I realised that I was alone in a locked room.