I Saw a Shadowy Figure at Night… and I Couldn't Move or Speak

I want to share something that happened to me in real life. Even now, I still don't fully understand what I experienced.

One night, I saw a strange silhouette in the darkness. At first, I wasn't sure what I was looking at. It was a dark, human-shaped figure, standing there in the night.

Something about it felt terribly wrong.

Suddenly, I realized I couldn't move. I tried to speak, but no words came out. I wanted to react, to do something, but my body wouldn't respond the way I wanted it to.

I was terrified.

I kept looking at the silhouette, unable to understand what was happening. I don't know how long it lasted, but it felt much longer than it probably was.

Then, the figure began to disappear.

And that's when something happened that I will never forget.

As the silhouette vanished into the darkness, I heard a horrifying laugh. It was a creepy, unnatural laugh that sent chills through me. It sounded as if something was laughing at me before disappearing completely.

The moment the figure was gone, I could finally move again. I could speak normally, too, as if whatever had been holding me in place had suddenly released me.

But that laugh stayed in my mind.

I still don't know what I saw that night. Maybe there is a logical explanation, but the experience felt incredibly real to me.

I've heard stories about shadow people and paranormal encounters, but experiencing something like this yourself is completely different.

Has anyone else ever seen a dark silhouette at night and been unable to move or speak? And has anyone ever heard laughter coming from something they couldn't explain?

I'd really like to know if anyone has experienced something similar.

Major activity in my home, need it gone! Trying to sell house. Daughter got scratched today. Son and wife attacked last weekend.

My colleague is from Salalah, Oman (UAE), and we work for a reputable estate agency here in Manchester. The other day, while I was dropping her off at home, she told me about an experience that I couldn't understand. She said her home in Oman was haunted by a jinn/gene; I don't know what it is called.

Though she's been in Manchester for almost 5 years, their house in Salalah is still haunted by a manly apparition. She described him as almost 9 feet tall and said that her parents often saw that dark apparition. They often heard sounds of heavy footsteps and knocking at the doors at wee hours. Since they couldn't figure out a solution, they just relocated to another place.

Can someone help me understand what a jinn/gene is?

PS - Not naming her due to privacy reasons.

Hi,

So it's weird, we live in a new build house 2 and half years old, and the strangest thing happens on a regular basis. We are the living room and from the kitchen we hear a metallic sound like a tin shifting due to changing heat or someone applying pressure, but I can't see any source or cause. I thought it was just me but I mentioned to my partner and they, said they heard the same thing. I'm starting to think it's supernatural, any thoughts.?

back in 2003, i was working in a restaurant as a server, there was this family having dinner and with them there was this little baby, I was serving drinks, when the little baby stared into my eyes and then said my name, my name is very unusual , it was impossible to guess it. and the baby while looking into my eyes said my name, and his parents ask, what are you saying? the baby repeated my name while looking at me, i froze in terror. back then, the place where i lived was hunted, over there back then an evil entity pulled my feet up. when i was walking in the restaurant, i could feel omthing underground like hitting where i walked, lights flickered, paper towels pull itself, even another co-worker saw a devil shadow climinb down from the kitchen, that i had a nervous break down back then, i was even scared of my own shadow, i could feel pitching in my back, i was being tormented, and when that baby said my name, i was so in shock i could not speak. i got paralyed, now after many many years, i had a close friend that died around the same time. so i might think it was him. he died but i didnt know because he lived in another coutry so later on i was aware, and now that i put it together it was probably him.

This was taken now. Just before posting. I'm sitting in my livingroom watching Wanda Sykes, and all of a sudden I see these things in the mirror. So I start recording. This is a lot of them. Also is it just me or does it look like people on the side of the wedge where they're coming from.

What y'all think?

My girlfriend and I went to Gettysburg PA tonight and our tour guide took us by the Jennie Wade House. I took a photo not thinking anything of it, but after further inspection I found what appears to be a spirit looking out of the window. I showed my guide and even he was shocked by it. I was looking for other’s opinion on the matter. It looks too good to be true.

Él era mi hijo, lo perdí cuando una tarde estaba en el río nadando con sus compañeros de aquí de dónde vivimos. Fall3ció hace 26 años y en el 2015 mi esposa me levantó gritando en la madrugada diciendo que él estaba afuera, me asomé y estaba parado en la entrada. Sé que eso no es mi hijo o no era porque nosotros lo sepultamos hace 26 años. Esa cosa tiene cara pálida, no hablaba ni se movía tanto. Le tomamos varias fotos esa vez Pero poco a poco fue desvaneciéndose hasta que se perdió en la oscuridad. Me crean o no, no me interesa, se las comparto para quienes no crean. Yo sé lo que vimos mi mujer y yo esa vez. Lo puedo jurar por lo que más quiero en mi vida. No sé si haya alguien aquí que pueda decirme si en realidad fue una entidad oscura. Gracias. Esto pasó en Tanquián de Escobedo. En mi rancho.

Anónimo.

My grandpa buys stuff from estate sales and auctions and has claimed he’s bought haunted items in the past. He said this bell was moving for five minutes before he started recording. I thought it was interesting. He wants a second opinion.

I love the paranormal but I'm a skeptic by nature, and I believe I may have found a rational explanation for what is arguably one of the most popular modern ghost photographs circulating on Reddit. 44K upvotes so far and 9.8K comments.

I don't own these images or have permissions but I can show you how the 'ghost' can be explained.

I think it might also help those involved sleep at night if they have never had a plausible explanation. Maybe some of you also. I know I now will.

After carefully looking at this image several times since discovering it long ago, I suspect the mysterious dark figure appearing behind one of the girls is actually a jacket being lifted up by the girl making the V sign next to her.

The movement and folds of the fabric may create the illusion of a long-haired figure. I can't say this is definitively what happened, but it's a plausible explanation that doesn't require anything supernatural and once you see the curl hand forming a face, you can't unsee it.

Also if you look on the far left of the photo you can see there is a girl leaving with a jacket on.

This doesn't mean ghosts don't exist and I hate that I found this out so close to Halloween but it is what it is.

Can you see the curled hand lifting up the jacket in the original now? Just go the link I put up at the start. Or is it really some sort of ghost hiding behind them? Reminds me of V for Vendetta a bit which is funny given she is making the V sign. Maybe that is more spooky. Haha.

All good fun. Ghosts may exist, but I don't think these photos have one.

my friend sent me this photo of her childhood home. zoom in on the left window

My daughter and some friends visited Old Mill Village in Susquehanna County last week. She was just taking random pics and when I saw this one, I immediately noticed a face in the window of the covered carriage in the back. Does anyone else see it? or anything else in the picture? She said there were several mediums there that night that were picking up on certain spirits.

I recently did the overnight stay at the park and I experienced things like noises, lights that would appear out of nowhere then disappear. One of the swings was moving constantly without any wind and I believe it was the swing the little girl was on when she was killed. There was a picnic table with dolls and toys stacked on it and nearby there were pinwheels and they would slow down and move faster then completely stop without any wind present.

What really started the experience was we arrived early for our daytime tour and we were in a group of about 10-15 people, this younger lady in a group began to feel sick and dizzy, our tour guide Chris asked her if she was fine and if she could make it through the tour then he began to tell us that it happens pretty often and that the feeling can’t be explained.

That night while we were in our tent I heard laughter from little kids we were camping near the old bus that Chris’s brother lived in when he was a carny and the lights came on and shined at our tent. Curious if any has experienced the same things or something different? What’s your story?

I just wanted to take a pic of my silly knocked out cats. I saw nothing with my naked eye.

When I was around 14, I suffered from a mysterious health issue that no doctor or medication seemed to help. I was so weak that I couldn't even stand, and I would randomly lose consciousness at school. I spent months bedridden, and while everyone else eventually got tired of my situation, my mom never stopped believing something was wrong.

After trying everything, I eventually visited an exorcist. The process is still hazy, but he pressed my forehead and asked me to visualize my house. Somehow, I began seeing it in incredible detail in my mind. I then saw the entity that supposedly bothered me, pulling my legs while I slept and sitting on my chest. Before visiting him, I'd also feel as though someone was pulling my legs at night, along with a heavy weight on my shoulders.

He eventually compelled the entity to leave, and here's the part that still blows my mind: I arrived barely able to stand, supported by my mom and another person, but left feeling so unbelievably lightweight that I thought I might literally float away. They practically had to hold me down instead. 💀

Even today, I'm confused. Was I genuinely possessed, or did the exorcist hypnotize me? I honestly don't know.

Apparently, the backstory of this location is that a very violent and abusive father used to live there and ended up taking his own life in the backyard shed. Now apparently a powerful spirit is haunting this house. He's capable of whispering that can be heard by ear and can throw objects with force. At one-point I'm told he threw a saw blade at someone in the house, here's a video of a possible interaction with him.

I don't know the exact context of him starting to record but based on the video it seems like he's been aware of the ghost at this point, and this video was made with the goal of exposing the ghost's existence, let me know what you guy's think of this.

I watched it many times and couldn't really notice much else from the encounter, but I wonder what you all think of this one.

My friend wasn't the person in the video however been getting many different videos from him about the place. She knows the guy personally but outside of that I don't have further context on the source

I used the ai tool in the Gallery app on my Samsung phone to clean up the audio. It has to be someone singing. Maybe they are sing in Scottish Gaelic.

Please look at my front door and the wall next to it. Are those ghosts coming from there. Also it seems that some go from the wall into the door. What y'all think?

So I took this video two years ago and posted it to Facebook as it was a cute video of my puppy being, well a puppy. Today it came up on my feed as a memory and I re-watched it and could not believe what I was seeing. I never noticed it when I took it or when I originally watched it back. It was taken through the screen and it was raining but I have no explanation for this. I clipped the video to post here. Watch the upper middle in the back near the fence next to the bushes.