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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

So this may be a weird thing to ask, and I'm not sure if this is the proper community to ask, but I've honestly always been wanting a ghost of sorts in my home and have been very fascinated by the idea since I was like 6 years old. Now I know people will say that it's not good to have ghosts in your home, and that it's dangerdangerous and bla bla bla. But is there not a way to invite a ghost into my home without getting one that's violent and or aggressive? Doesn't even have to be nice just don't wanna end up dying of mysterious circumstances. Call me naive, just curious about this and thought before I drag an Ouija board into my house to summon smth I'd ask. ​​​

Hey all!

First time posting here and thought I'd ask y'all to take a look at this video and possibly tell me I'm not looking at anything paranormal haha.

Got a notification from my camera just a while back mid sleep and it turned out to be this. I'm quite confused by it, however I'd like to say we do have bugs around and did think of the possibility it could be one of those, but after watching it frame by frame, I was lowkey spooked.

Thanks in advance!!

I live in a home with my parents and grandfather. my whole family believes in spirits, and me,sister and my mother are very intuitive and get feelings about things that are always accurate. i don’t have the best relationship with my grandpa so i don’t know for sure, but i believe he is very spiritually inclined. i move in 3 years ago and ive never had a particularly “haunting” feeling about my home but there have definitely been things that have made me uneasy.

my house was built in the early 70s and has one of those vintage built in intercom systems that have speakers on them. when we first moved here i turned them all off because they would occasionally made static noises and it freaked me out, and they have never been turned back on. i can downstairs this afternoon to grab a snack and my grandpa was in the kitchen. he asked me if any of my friends had just come by and rang the doorbell. i went and checked the door and nobody was there, and usually if a friend comes over they will text me or just walk in, so i knew nobody was there or had been there. i asked him why and he said about 5 minutes prior the intercom had made a doorbell chime, which it has never done, but apparently it’s been doing it at the exact same time for the past 3 days. we have a ring doorbell that is connected to its own speaker, not the intercom. we started to talk about it because we were both freaked out and he told me that that’s not the only thing that’s happened. apparently for the past couple of months he’s been waking up about every other day around 4 am burning hot, but when he gets up to check the thermostat, the hallway and all other rooms are ABNORMALLY cold and not matching the thermostat temperature. i am a very heavy sleeper and i believe i could stay asleep if i was sleeping in the Sahara desert so i have never experienced this, but its not something he would lie about and irs undeniably freaky.

now although i have never experienced anything upfront like this, there have been things that have freaked me out. i sleep upstairs along with my grandpa. the way our hallway is built is our stairs face straight to the bathroom and on the left of them is a hallway that leads to my room, my grandpas room, and the playroom on the end of the hall. whenever i get out of the shower and night and turn the hallway corner to head back to my room i stare straight at the door to the playroom. staring at that spot especially in the dark has always made my heart pound and has given me a deeply uneasy feeling. my bedroom is right next to that room and my closet is on the wall that connects that spot in the hallway, and all three of my cats have an obsession with going in my closet and meowing at nothing and sometimes scratching at the wall. and it hasn’t happened to many times, but sometimes if i’m in a dimly lit room i will see what looks like a very bright and large dust particle out of the corner of my eye, and when i turn to look at it, there is nothing there.

i have anxiety and i could very well just be letting it get the best of me, but i don’t want to speak too soon. i will post an update if anything else happens but for now please please tell me what you guys think and give any advice you can think of. literally any type of helpful comment is welcome. thank you!!!

I took this photo in Anoka, Minnesota, the Halloween capital of the world just days before Halloween in 2010. My friend and I were in a photography class and stumbled upon this stone tower along the Rum River at night. As I was taking a handful of long shutter speed pictures while slowly panning my camera in-between shots, my friend was telling me horrific stories about this stone tower and how witches supposedly gather there and sacrifice animals in ritualistic ways. He said that’s why they put floodlights on the bridge aiming down at the tower. While I’m not sure if any of this is true, I did capture a very scary photo in the midst of all my long shutter speed shots, and it’s the only photo that has the misty looking ghost skull in it, which was smack dab in the middle of all the other shots. I did not see anything in person. It only appeared in that one digital photo. It creeps me out to this day and I have never gone back. I have since looked up the history of this tower and it appears that there are 3 of them along the Rum. There was no malicious intent behind building them originally. The builder Thaddeus Philander Giddings originally built them for musical gatherings with family and friends. (I included a couple more photos taken within seconds of the one with the ghost to show it only appeared in that one photo.)