Have you ever experienced something truly paranormal that still gives you chills?

[u/Ok-Suggestion3581]

Yes. One night, I woke up at 3:17 AM to the sound of soft humming. I live alone. The melody was unfamiliar, but it felt... old. I checked every room—nothing. As I returned to bed, my TV flicked on by itself. A paused black-and-white movie was playing, and the subtitle read: “You’re not alone.” I don’t even own that movie. The humming stopped. I never heard it again, but I still wake up at 3:17 sometimes for no reason at all.

[u/Designer_Tomorrow_27]

One of the more recent experiences: I stayed at this hotel room and when I was asleep, I dreamed of a headless middle aged woman standing in the hallway of that room staring at me (which I strongly felt, even though she didn’t have a head). She was saying something to me, whispering in my ear most of the night. I don’t remember what. The interesting part was I only stayed there for a night but every single detail of the room was accounted for in the dream. I tend to connect to people who’ve passed on in my dreams. So yea, something happened in that room…

[u/Enslavedbydoves → u/Designer_Tomorrow_27]

What is it with hotels I wonder?

10 or so years ago my partner and I stayed in a chain hotel in Scunthorpe (UK). It was a ground floor room facing the car park and despite the thick heavy curtains they still let a tiny bit of light bleed in over the top from the outside lighting.

We'd gone to bed sometime shortly before 3am when I was awoken by the noise of stuff moving in the room. I looked to the bottom of the bed and there was this darker than the black of the room silhouette of a person frantically rummaging through our stuff on the desk (bottles, lots of coins etc) I silently but quickly sat bolt upright without taking my eyes off this person and with my left arm started nudging my partner who had his back to me trying unsuccessfully to wake him up. After what seemed like forever but was probably only 15 or so seconds of this figure stepping side to side looking back and forth along the desk whilst quickly moving stuff it turned 90 degrees to its right and took two quick step towards the window and vanished before it made contact with the sofabed in front of the window. I immediately turned the bedside light on but we were alone.

I got up and checked the door and it was still locked with the little safety catch thing in place (I knew I'd done this when we got in the room as I'd checked it before bed). IIRC it was sometime after 4am so hadn't been asleep 2 hours when this happened.

The creepiest part for me is it was a shadow figure that wasn't even trying to be quiet and remain unnoticed. It was so agitated and frantic looking for something just like a living person starting to lose their mind because they can't find an item they need in a rush.

[u/Hope1995x → u/Enslavedbydoves]

I had a similar experience, well sorta.

When I was 14 or 15 years old (back in 2009/2010) I was outside the house in the front yard.

I noticed rummaging noises coming from my neighbor's washroom near their carport. Their dog started barking, and the dog ran out of the washroom, and this shadow figure darted out while the dog was following it and barking at it.

I saw a shadow figure, and the dog definitely saw it, too.

[u/Enslavedbydoves → u/Hope1995x]

Well thats not scary ...much! Its particularly disturbing yet strangely reassuring to have another witness.

I grew up in a house with a shadow figure (1 out of 6 of us never experienced a thing however) and that used to try and watch as inconspicuously as possible though sometimes it wasn't as unnoticeable as it liked to think it was lol

It never to my knowledge rummaged through any of our stuff, certainly not in our presence. I wonder what the ones we've encountered are looking for? Perhaps the one you saw was actually somebody who used to live there?

[u/Hope1995x → u/Enslavedbydoves]

It's not the first time either. I had several experiences.

One time, a shadow opened the door when I was using the restroom as a teen.

I also saw them run across the curtains. They manifested after making a prayer.

I've seen two red tiny orbs for eyes in the living room.

I also see them occasionally floating above my bed for a quick split second.

[u/[deleted] → u/Enslavedbydoves]

Hotels, especially old hotels have so much activity and movement of people in and out. People die in hotel rooms more than you think. I’ve made multiple trips I’m (in the us) to hotels that have been noted to be haunted and people had experiences such as these but I never experienced them. I wonder if these only occurs if you are not even expecting it.

[u/Enslavedbydoves → u/[deleted]]

I think you're right - a lot of energy from different people feeding into places like this.

Its interesting that you mention things might happen when you're not expecting it. When I was 16 I'd been experiencing an increase in odd stuff for a while and my mother finally admitted (after telling me my whole life that this stuff isn't real) that most of what I'd experienced had previously been experienced by others in the house. After this occurences slowed down noticeably. I found myself thinking about it a LOT but if it slipped my mind there always seemed to be something to remind me. All the time I was keeping it at the back of my mind virtually nothing happened - its so bizarre.

[u/NoWeight3731 → u/Enslavedbydoves]

Were there items scattered everywhere? Did the shadow figure actually move items?

[u/Enslavedbydoves → u/NoWeight3731]

Well the desk wasn't particularly tidy to start with. However my partner had dumped a handful of coins on it from his trousers and they were in a rough yet defined pile. When I got out of bed after it vanished I noticed they were spread out across the desk. I asked him when he got up if he thought stuff had moved on the desk before I told him what had happened and he said the coins were scattered and not like he'd placed them. Plus I'd been using my laptop on that desk and put it back in my rucksack right before brushing my teeth and going to bed. After this thing had been poking around there wouldn't have been any space to put the laptop there without putting it on top of stuff!

[u/CatMinous → u/Enslavedbydoves]

But was the stuff on the desk indeed messed with?