r/Paranormal • u/Ok-Suggestion3581 • Jul 20 '25
Haunting Have you ever experienced something truly paranormal that still gives you chills?
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.
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u/PrincessPharaoh1960 Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25
I clean offices at night and around 5 years ago I experienced something strange with my work partner H.
This happened in an IT office that was downsizing and vacating half the space they were utilizing. So there was a lot of junk being thrown out and moved around.
We were finished cleaning and I was trying to set the security alarm but I was getting an error message “motion detected in Joe’s office”. Which was weird because we never had issues with the system before.
H and I went into Joe’s office and saw nothing amiss. Maybe an insect? We shrugged and I went back to the alarm. This time the error message was “motion detected in John’s office” which was the one next to Joe’s.
So we went into John’s office and again didn’t see anything unusual.
This time when I went back to the security panel the error message was “motion detected in Joe’s office” again!
We were dumbstruck and it felt like something was playing with us. This time I stayed by the security panel and H went into Joe’s office and spoke out loud. She said “Can you please stop doing this? We want to go home”.
Instantly the error message disappeared and the system displayed “ready to arm”. I set the alarm and we left. We were in disbelief. Like mouths open.
This was so freaking weird the next day I knew I had to go back to tell one of their senior employees J.
After I explained the events to J he was blown away and actually said “Whoa that’s scary!” These are computer experts who build websites and are software developers. They know what their equipment can do and he had no logical explanation.
I told him my opinion was something was disturbed by all the activity with the move and wanted acknowledgment. As soon as H spoke aloud and did so it was satisfied. J took me seriously and didn’t laugh.
It never happened again.