Reality can be more disturbing than any fiction ever depicted. This collection shows together real-life stories that can make you surprising.
What may seem like basic occurrences at first quickly unravel into something far more creepy. From puzzling encounters to haunting turns of fate, these tales challenge everything we think we know.
Story 1:
For a while, I had a string of weird wrong-number calls. The most memorable was a call I got at about 11 p.m. I was asleep, so I answered it and couldn’t figure out what was going on. It was loud, but it sounded like several people were making noise.
When I woke up enough to hear for real, it sounded like a very mournful barbershop quartet singing—no words, just a long “oooooooh” going up and down the scale in a minor key. It was super depressing and weird, and I hung up.
I can still remember the part of the tune I heard. It was weird, and the number was restricted when I went back to look at it.
I lost two hours of my day once. I was getting ready for college, and my dad was going to drop me off, so he was there too.
We were watching the news, and it froze. We turned the TV off and on to get it working again, and in that time, two hours had passed.
So either we both slept without realizing it, or something weird happened. I think we crossed into another dimension, personally.
My 5-year-old stepson likes to tell me about his other life when he had a different name and didn’t live with us. He will randomly share bits of information about this past life, and I’m always unsettled by it—especially because the names of places or people are ones we’ve never talked about or used around him.
He’s told me he lived in California, in a city that had a T at the beginning and an A at the end (I looked it up; there are like two). He’s mentioned several times that he misses driving his red sports car on the beach. We live on the East Coast and have never been to California or taken him to a beach.
He’s also talked about coming home to find his new kitten had escaped from his apartment. He described her, told me her name, and talked about how sad it still makes him sometimes.
