"It was the creepiest thing that's ever happened to me."

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"I checked all the rooms and all the closets and checked outside, but literally nobody was there. When my family got back from the mall, I asked if they had come home and then left again, and I just didn't notice. My sister said no, they had been at the mall for the whole two hours. My name also isn't a basic name that can be confused for any other sound, so I know I heard my name loud and clear."

"When I was 16 and living with my grandparents, I was awoken in the middle of the night by a bright light coming in my second-story windows. There was no noise or wind, and I remember thinking that it didn't make sense for a light to be there because of how close the trees behind us were, and why would a helicopter be shining in my window? I lay there for a few moments, then saw a dark figure in the corner of my room. It was dark, medium height, with a large head and thin limbs. I studied the figure for a moment, it moved, and then I jumped out of bed and ran through my bathroom that connected to the laundry room and down the hallway into my grandparents' bedroom. I slept on their floor for maybe two weeks."

"I feel oddly compelled to mention there was another incident where I heard a woman screaming at the top of her lungs in the basement. That time, I had a friend with me. We were doing our makeup in the bathroom. She screamed her head off, so I know she heard it too, and we both heard footsteps coming up the stairs. She locked us in the bathroom and refused to open the door until my mother got home. Apparently, telling her not to worry because stuff like that happened all the time wasn't very reassuring."

"I eventually went into the room, assuming some dickhead was inside that wasn't supposed to be there, and nobody was there. I left the rest of my stuff in the storage room, took my dog, and left. Sent the landlord an apology text and said the keys were in the mailbox."

"The call lights in the assisted living facility I worked in used to go off in empty rooms sometimes. They were the old-fashioned kind with a string that had to be physically pulled to activate. Then, they had to be flipped up by one of us to turn them back off. It was especially fun on the second floor, which was only used for storage, because you'd be going into a dark room full of covered furniture and other odd shapes to flip the switch.

Also, once I was sitting at home playing a game on my PC while waiting for the time to get my husband from work. We were newlyweds with one car, and he worked second shift. My cat was lying on the desk, suddenly fuzzed up, and ran off as something spooked him right about the time I got the feeling someone was staring intently over my shoulder. It was so eerie that I got up and left the house way too early. Whatever it was, it definitely was not friendly."

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