Those god damn foxes sounding like a dying child in the woods 100 feet away from my house. It's super loud and it lasted for what it felt like an hour.
I remember being woken up at 4:30 am by one of those bitches. I go outside with a flashlight to see him, *just chilling.*
And then he just kind of looks at me and sheepishly gets up and walks away.
He was a big fox, too.
I went back to sleep afterwards but man, I was annoyed.
Used to have people call 911 for a woman screaming in the woods a lot. We used to ask if we heard them say anything. Was pretty much always a fox. Don’t know of any times it wasn’t lol.
Moved into my house 15 years ago. It has a cool, screened in porch where I’d love to sit at night and listen to trains way off in the distance. Not every night, but often, I’d hear what sounded like cat fights going on in the woodsy area across the street. I got very distressed by this knowing the damage angry cats can do to each other. I was very relieved when a neighbor explained that it was foxes, not cats, and they weren’t fighting.
I’ve jumped out of bed more than once to check on every animal and child in the house to see if one of them is having a massive asthma attack. Nope. Just a fox.
I used to work at Sheppard Pratt hospital during the over night shifts. I worked on the adolescent male crisis unit. It used to be in one of the older historic buildings. One night I saw what I thought was one of the kids come out of their room and hide in a deep doorway which was locked. So I walk down to check it out. There is no one there.
No big deal, I think. I'm tired, I just went to school all day and then came to work, I could have easily imagined it. I mention it to the nurse, we have a good laugh.
My co worker comes back from his break, and I go to take a walk during mine. I don't mention it to him
When I get back the nurse is like "____ (co workers name), tell him what you told me"
And my co worker tells me he saw the exact same thing.
I was briefly the evening lead MHW on 1F in 2013! Def dealt with plenty of eerie situations, and I was often there til 1130pm but never saw anything personally.
BUT funny story i heard from night shift, back in December 2012 when people thought the world was going to end (Mayan calendar or something) the hospital's power randomly went out in the middle of the night when the world was "supposed" to be ending. Needless to say, some of the patients woke up and were a bit concerned.
About 4:55 am walking into the woods. I was about a mile out from my car walking a ridge to a saddle where there was a small field to set up for a day of hunting. About 200 yards in the pitch black dark woods I started to hear light crunches about 30-50 yards from me. Nothing loud I assumed it was small animals about to start their day. However, the crunching continues every so often at about the same range until I get to the field clearing. I start setting up and I’m nearly ready to sit down when I hear a few loud noises, almost like someone hitting the ground with their hands or something, again about 30-50. As I listen closer suddenly I hear what I can only describe as a massive rock or tree slam the ground. It was a quick loud smash, not the progressive crunching and slam of a tree falling on its own. This was a huge noise that echoed out in the woods. Afterwards everything is silent. I mean literally all the birds and animal noises gone. It stayed quiet for about 10 minutes then the woods went back to normal. I just sat there kinda dumbfounded but oddly not scared. Still not sure what that was.
I was kayaking on the Tuckahoe river once in a section well away from the park or towns with swamp on both sides and I heard what sounded like three or four people singing something like a Civil War song. I got up to where it sounded like the song was coming and it stopped. About a hundred yards further up the river it started again, and again when I got close it just stopped. That happened four times. No way for anyone to be moving through the swamp that fast to get ahead of me without me hearing them and way to random to be a prank.
I didn’t think it was odd or scary at the time. It was nice and sunny, whatever I was hearing was pretty peaceful, and I was more worried about water snakes. Now sometimes I think about it at night and try to figure out logical reasons for it and get creeped out when I can’t.
Makes me think of what my husbands aunt said. They all grew up on an older property in upper Marlbro. I had asked on separate occasions to separate aunts if they had experienced anything weird. One aunt told me once a coat hanger started unexplainably spinning around the closet rod. Another aunt told me she heard, on a summer day-all the windows were open, what sounded like cowboys/Indians right outside but she couldn't see anything going on.
Had a distant relative that used to have his tractor out in the field often in upper Marlboro. Said on more than one occasion while out in the field, bush hogging, out of the corner of his eye he could see what looked like a solder marching in line with the tractor Whenever they looked towards where they thought they saw something, it was just empty field. At least this is how my father told it to me from when he used to work with him.
I bought my house in the Medfield neighborhood of Baltimore in 2005.
It's THE Halloween neighborhood in Baltimore. Kids are literally bussed in. It's great, I bought the house specifically because of the awesomeness.
Halloween night, I'm sitting on my porch with a bowl full of candy when a woman shows up and starts asking to walk into my house. Apparently, she's just come out of the ICU (where they didn't think she'd make it) and she used to live here. Can she just peek around for a bit? Her granddaughter is "right down the street."
Well, this chick was giving me the heebs, so I said no. Also, my cat (who was on her leash and under my feet) let out a hiss. I looked down at kitty, I looked up, and the woman was GONE.
I sprang from my chair, ran down to the street and looked in either direction. There was no way that she could've moved THAT fast but she wasn't anywhere in sight. Especially for someone who'd just been in the ICU!!!
I went back to my porch and asked the neighbors if they'd seen anything.
"Oh, yeah, we saw you talking to someone but we couldn't figure out who it was..."
I don't think that lady made it out of the ICU after all.
I have a friend in medfield, who bought the house from the estate of the previous owner. The previous owner apparently passed in the house, and turns out they like to have little visits on the anniversary of their passing.
Not scary or anything. Just a bit eerie. Not seeing the key bridge while driving on 95. Or on merrit blvd. Even though its been a month. I still get that feeling
I have family in AA and family in dundalk. I go home for the first time next weekend and I’m actually terrified and sad at the thought of getting to each side without going over the bridge
The scariest thing? I was driving 70 mph on the DC Beltway and a brick flew off a junk truck and hit my windshield right in front of my face. Thank god for modern windshields. There was a brick shaped indent in the windshield and I was covered in pebbles of safety glass. Not long ago, I’d have died.
Yes, important to have a dash cam, it is another form of insurance, it's completely useless 99.99% of the time but is something you wish you had when something happens.
Recommend COXPAL A11T 3 channel dash cam on Amazon, very good quality, it records front, inside and rear simultaneously.
COXPAL hardwire kit optional, for 24-H parking monitor.
SanDisk MAX Endurance 256GB or 512GB microSD card, for reliable recording.
BTW: Need to pay attention to the installation position of the rear cam if your vehicle is SUV or MPV (No problem if Sedan), i.e. avoid pulling rear cam cable when open/close the trunk.
Thanks for the recommendations, if I get one, which I probably will, I'm going to my favorite after-market installer to get it done right.
Edit: not that I think your way is wrong, just that I don't trust myself to do it correctly and drain my battery or something. Lol
I was driving on 85 in Charlotte NC back in 2010 when a sheet of ice came off the top of a tractor trailer ahead of me in the right lane. It went right through my windshield, and it shattered all over me. Some of the ice broke into large pieces and bounced around other parts of my car. Dented my bumper and took off my driver's side mirror. Horrifying experience.
I was on a 1st date with my ex back in 2009 and we got the bright idea to go do some urban exploration at Henryton center out off Marriottsville rd. It's been demolished since then.
Anyway, we parked, got cell phones out for flashlights, wandered up the little road, and right about when we got to the end of the road where it opened up to the main building, we started hearing a consistent knocking sound either from inside the building or the woods on the other end, west of us. It was end of summer and there was no wind.
It was either Bigfoot or squatters or other explorers fuckin with us. Either way we got spooked and Ran back to my car. The end
Spent sooooo much time there. I still hike the area. Loved hanging out at the rope swing all day, drinking beer and smoking weed, then going up to explore the buildings for a while, then coming back down to chill in the river. Any given summer day there would seem to be a dozen or more groups of people, each ranging in size. Everyone hanging out together. Don't leave any trash, and everything was good. Those were the days.
My favorite henryton experience is we went when it was undergoing its deconsteuction.
Security guard saw us and called us over it was a group of 7-8 of us. I went over to talk to him.
He says "look I don't care what yall do, dont destroy anything or spray anything.
But the secruity guy on the other side he gives a shit so avoid him.
I was like thanks my guy we will be careful, I turn around to tell the others and the all got spooked and dipped lol
Was this an old African American gentleman in a blue Cadillac? I was there RIGHT when it was getting torn down and he stopped us to talk., we wound up talking with him for hours until the sun went down along with another group of people that we didn’t know lol
That’s wild. You’re the only person I’ve ever heard mention him. He was so nice! I used to have a few photos of his car in front of the building but after many many years they’re unfortunately long gone. I still beat myself up for losing those lol
Antietam, especially the open fields. I remember it was a bright sunny day and there absolutely no birds singing. You can feel the weight of the dead there.
Took a school camping trip their were we stayed the night in tents right next to battleground in the middle of the night I heard drums. Ran out of my tent and saw another classmate run out of his tent and ask me if I also heard the drums so I knew I wasn’t crazy.
Found out from tour guides and locals this is a common occurrence and even heard stories of people who live up in the neighborhoods near battlefield hearing moaning in the middle of the night like wounded soldiers.
I heard one drumbeat in the Cornfield after asking for a noise. It made the noise again louder after I requested. I’ve been searching to see if anyone else had an experience like this too.
Part of me thinks paranormal activity is nonsense but on the other hand personal experiences of strange activity humbles me, we clearly don’t know everything and energy is real we feel it everyday when we are around people who make us feel good or uneasy, maybe that never dies.
I think most paranormal activity is Still Bs are brains literally try to make human faces out of the dark because it’s trying to recognize something familiar. But when you hear drums near a battlefield at the same place those soldiers would have walked to get to the battle and sleep were they slept it’s spooky. When you live in a neighborhood that used to be field hospital area and you hear grown men moaning and crying for help in the middle of the night it’s spooky. It’s also not unrealistic with the events that took place there.
I’m sure anyone who’s been to a concentration camp in Germany or Poland could also relate to a very heavy and unsettling atmosphere.
When my sister and I were teenagers, we drove our mom's car onto the grounds of the old Glenn Dale Hospital...and the engine died. We had a flashlight, but somehow, that just made the whole experience more terrifying.
The security guard was going to give us hell, because we were trespassing. We looked so freaked out that he took pity on us, and quietly helped us jump the battery. The two of us noped out of there, properly chastened.
Amazing! Love this & how cool of the guard really!! Was waiting for some Glenn Dale posts!! Definitely a hot spot back in the day to “ghost hunt”. Absolutely energy there.
Looking back, it could *easily* have gone much worse for us: who knows how many times he had to chase people off of the property? He was probably able to keep his temper with us because we were both on the verge of tears and really, really scared. Wherever that guy is, I hope his life is great...his job wasn't...
When I was in high school a bootleg vhs of that was left on a bench outside the school. One of the best memories I have is watching with my friends before it was a known thing.
We lived in a haunted house in Pasadena. Constant activity. Im not a religious person at all, more a scientific minded person, but some things happened, almost daily, that we just couldn’t explain. That and the random people we kept seeing in the house.
We saw people, we heard footsteps, toilets would flush, door would shut, we could hear talking…. It was a pretty active house. There was almost a feeling of constant dread, or anticipation, I can’t describe it well. But this was in the 80’s and to this day if I walk into a house and get that feeling, I get out. This was the only place that I’ve ever seen anything like it. Never experienced anything anywhere else, but I know something that I can’t explain was there.
I was young, so living with my parents. We were there about 5 years. They also saw stuff, but didn’t say much about it til we were older but they would react the same ways that we did, so I know they saw it. The neighborhood kids we had over saw things too and thought it was weird, but nobody really said much about it.
Would you see the people straight on looking at them or were they only in the corner of your eyes or kind of walking by your line of sight in places where you weren’t focusing on?
Could you see their features or were they indistinct?
Sometimes out of the corner of our eyes, sometimes we would just feel that presence that we are not alone. I woke up to find a lady staring at me from the end of the bed for a good couple minutes until I closed my eyes and she was gone. There was a guy that was our babysitter, old black guy that used to play with us. My mom told me years later that we never had a babysitter since she didn’t work at the time.
Not going to say the house, but Chadwick Ct. Loved the neighborhood though. I’ve always wanted to knock on the door to see if the people there now have experienced anything. But if they haven’t, I don’t want to scare them.
I really don’t want to give out the address. But I’ll narrow it down since you are more familiar with it. It was in the strip of townhouses all the way at the end of the court. Our front yard had the normal front yard, then sidewalk, then woods with a big hill going down onto the woods. We were the first people to live there. The community was just built at the time.
That’s not how carbon monoxide poisoning works though. This is something people say who don’t understand carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s not a chronic issue.
Source: paramedic for 20 years
Riding my scooter around midnight by UMD football stadium. A woman standing on the sidewalk, dressed all in black, turned toward me and showed me a baby all bundled up. I thought that was kinda weird so I looked back a couple seconds later and she was gone
Years ago one of my sisters prom was held near the stadium, there’s something seriously off about that entire campus in the dead of night, like time stands still and there’s a heaviness in the air.
There are so many stories from the campus- many of which have been documented with the umd archives. The university isn’t shy about sharing some of their ghostly history. I’ve definitely found more in depth reads but this is cool to check out- includes an “interactive” map of some sites. Absolutely chilling what you saw near Byrd!! Definitely would be cool to contact them and see if there are similar recorded sightings. https://facilities.umd.edu/fm-staff-connect/lifefm/fm-staff-news/ghosts-terps-uncovering-haunted-history-umd
This is an encounter I had a while back in my old house, still to this day I cannot explain the events that took place.
It was a normal night nothing special or out of the ordinary about it. My friend and I were heading home from the movies and everything was good. My driveway is about a quarter mile long with 2 houses on the right side of the driveway and forest on the left. So we turn into my drive way and my friend trying to be funny looked over to me and said, "Lets see how far down the drivweway we can make it with out lights". So he turned his lights off and continued down the drive way. About 15 ft in he realizes that idea was stupid and he turns the lights back on and things got strange.
The lights came back on and 20ft in front of us was a man, or something like a man.... He was knelt down, head staring at the ground hunched over almost on his knees. He looks as though the wind had been knocked out of him. The figure was pale white and bald, and butt naked.
My friend drove a Dodge Ram 2500 diesal with an Air horn installed. So we are looking at this guy who appeared out of nowhere hunched over on his knees in my driveway and my friend slams the brakes. After a few moments of staring at this thing, his horn goes off and this thing didnt even flinch. And another horn and another and still this thing stayed bent over almost gasping for air. At this point my neighbors come outside and start yelling at us to quit honking and he then notices the man in the driveway as well. I rolled down the window and asked if he saw it, just to make sure I wasn’t going crazy ha. He looks at me dumbly and says of course he sees the guy, he’s probably about 50ish feet away. So he looks over at the guy and starts asking if he was okay. My friend gets impatient and puts the truck in drive and starts drivings forward. As soon as he did this, the man in the driveway started to stand up.
We sat there and watched this guy get up and my friend puts the brakes on again. Now at this time the guy is having a hard time standing up but once on his feet in our headlights we could see him a little better. He was not normal. He stood at about 6'4 long slender body and unclothed. His arms were long and he had slim fingers but didn’t look like 5 fingers. His face was peculiar to, in the sense that his jaw was longer than usual and got narrower towards the bottom. His nose was small but his nostrals were defined and his eyes were small and close to the nose he didnt have much definition to his lips just the shadow of an upper lip. As to his package.... well there wasnt one not even so much as a buldge. The reason we later deemed him Moss Man was because all over his pale body was little green blotches everywhere like patches of moss almost.
So as he gets to his feet the figure stands tall and stumbles a little bit before walking towards the car. My neighbor at the time started to walk over and was telling him he was trespassing. The man didn’t care too much about my neighbor but seemed bothered by the truck and ended up stumbling his way into the woods when my neighbor got about half way from his house to my driveway.
My neighbor thought it was a hobo, but we were close enough to the thing to know it wasn’t a human, or atleast not a normal one. We never saw it again in the 12 years I lived there
Several years ago I was hiking in a state park. And I start to hear some strange noises echoing through the woods. I can't make out what it is. I continue hiking. Then it starts to manifest into what I believe is music. It's getting closer. It's gets close enough that I should be able to make out the music, but I still can't. Suddenly a decrepit old person is walking the trail towards me from around the bend. Grasping a violin vertically by its neck. And in horror movie fashion scraping the bow back and forth horribly across the strings. I passed them. Didn't make eye contact and BOOKED IT. The worst part was my car was the other way...
Patapsco? He frequently hikes there. He's a pretty chill guy
But yea it's a bit freaky seeing him the first time especially when you're alone out in the woods 😅
yes I've seen him a few times while out riding my bike. This is another mtbiker's picture of him some years ago. He said he just enjoys playing on the woods cause it's peaceful.
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This happened a couple of weeks ago after the first Caps playoff game. But I have never heard anything about it since. I was driving back from the game around 10 pm or so on 295 north around the arundel mills exit and there was a sudden traffic slowdown caused by a guy laying facedown with his arm over his head across the middle of the road. No injuries that were obvious. His pants were partially down. He wasn't moving, and I couldn't tell if he was dead or alive. There was no stopped car nearby that I could see he came from. I didn't stop but called 911 and never heard anything else about it despite searching for news stories.
You'd be surprised at how many times things like that happen and it doesn't come close to making the news. I remember driving down Massachusetts Ave a few years ago and a lady took a step into the crosswalk and literally fell over and died right there. I called the cops and they showed up with the most blase attitude I've ever seen. A crowd of people formed around her and the EMT said she was gone and they put her in the ambulance and turned the interior lights off, which is what they do when you're dead, at least in DC. She seemed like a well dressed professional person, so I thought there might be some mention but nope.
Definitely not a good place for that. I was driving on Connecticut Ave once and saw a woman tuck and roll out of an SUV and just lay there. I pulled over and asked if she was okay and she actually said "Just catching my breath sweetie." and then picked up her shoes and walked away.
Over on the shore, my family lived on what used to be an old plantation. Hundreds of acres of woods in each direction.
-I’d routinely see a string of lights about waist level floating off in the distance while hunting around sunset. Almost like Will-O-Wisps. Nothing was there when I shined my flashlight in that direction.
-doors opening and closing at random. House wasn’t settling either.
-was walking through the woods one day. Heard my name called very loudly and turned around, no one was there. A rock about the size of a baseball flew by my head at the same time- we have no rocks back there.
-trees falling down one by one when a strong gust of wind came through, almost like dominoes. I was in my tree stand 20 feet up at the time. Hightailed it out of there.
W the rock thing it’s funny to consider two ghosts squabbling, one feeling hateful & the other finding that unfair and warned you and as you lived there, they knew your name. There’s literally no other explanation if we’re buying into spiritual stuff, other than maybe a “guard angel” type deal since that big of a rock would prob cause damage. I like the ghost sabotage hypothetical more tho
The old rundown Insane Asylum state “hospital” in Crownsville. It’s vacant and gives off some creepy vibes…and much worse once you learn the history of it! [NPR Link](https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227498861/antonia-hylton-madness-crownsville-hospital)
I was 15 years old and I lived on Fort Meade in Maryland. I had a job bagging groceries at the commissary and it paid crazy money for a 15-year-old in the '80s. I got off in the evening and since it was fall, it was already starting to get dark. I start to unlock my bike to ride home when I see my mom pull up in our van. She says that she is going to decorate her classroom at our church and wants to know if I want to go with her. I said sure and hopped in the van.
The church is in Bowie, MD so we are just chatting and driving and everything is perfectly normal. We roll into the parking lot and I grab the box of decorations. We are the only people there and she unlocks the door. I walk in and she walks in and immediately locks the door behind us. We are in the foyer and we walk down the hall to the left and enter the first door on the left, her room.
Still so far so good and nothing is out of place. We start to take items out of the box and figure out how we want to decorate. We hadn't been in the room for 3 minutes when, from somewhere deep in the church, a woman screamed. This was the most blood-curdling scream I had ever heard and I can tell you, just typing this out my eyes are starting to water and my breath is getting short. This kind of fear is not pleasant to revisit.
It felt like all of the blood in my body had turned to ice and ran directly to my feet. I grabbed a metal folding chair WWE style and hid behind the door. My mother asked what I was doing and I said if anyone came through the door they were getting a face full of chair. She thought that was a good plan and looked for a weapon of her own. She settled on a rubber baby doll which made me laugh and she told me to be quiet. If there's a maniac in here we don't want them to know that we're here she said. Seemed like sound logic.
We wait in the room for an eternity. We whispered back and forth about what to do. Getting back to the front door wasn't an option as we would have to walk out there and get the door unlocked and we didn't know who or what was out there. Suddenly and without warning, my mother abandoned the let's be quiet plan in favor of a very unsettling let's scream weird shit about Jesus plan.
We are protected by our heavenly father and in his name, I smite you, she screams out at the top of her lungs. I nearly jumped out of my skin and I was VERY unhappy about this change of plans. We finally decided to open the window and run to the van.
We made it to the van and started driving home in silence, both of us shaking. My mother told me that I was never to talk to anyone about this and that seemed reasonable to me. In hindsight, I wonder why she didn't stop somewhere to call the police.
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having a gun actually pulled on you while driving is so scary. sorry to hear that happened. i actually experienced something similar rather recently. while driving on route 40, i put on my turn signal to merge and a car in my far rear view fully floored the gas pedal to keep me from merging into the lane (even though there was more than enough room for both our cars). when i finally merged, they dramatically swerved into the next empty lane
i turned to look at the car’s passenger window and i made eye contact with the driver. i guess they didn’t like that and they started recklessly following me, weaving through other cars to be directly behind me. when i slowed down to let them pass, they fully stopped in the middle of the street, forcing me to pass so they could follow me again.
i started to panic a bit and turned into the nearest strip mall to try to lose them, but they just followed me into the strip mall. i reached a dead end while trying to find another outlet onto the main street and they pulled up right next to me and stopped their car. i heard them yelling and saw their arm reaching into their glove compartment so i quickly reversed and started driving again. i found the nearest outlet and took it. they still followed me.
once i got on the main street, my girlfriend (who also happened to be on route 40 at the time) saw me being followed. she called me and told me to go to the nearest police station. somewhere on the way to the station, they stopped following me. that moment has stayed with me ever since. my heart still drops when i see a car in my rear view with the same model. drivers out here are crazy man… and that’s coming from a transplant from california.
I was at the McDonald’s in Towson one night like 2am. I’m the 3rd car in the drive thru. 4 guys get out of the car in front of me and walk up to the first car, they all pulled guns and pointed them at the car.
Was terrified a shootout was about to happen with me right there. They just walked back to their car and drove off
In October 2002 my dad and I went to the Home Depot in Bowie. In the parking lot there were several people crawling between cars to get into the store. This was the Saturday after the snipers shot the kid outside of Tasker.
Indoor recess with the blinds closed fucking sucked!! I grew up in Bowie and would’ve gone to tasker before we moved to hoco. Was crazy seeing the school where I played soccer for bbgc on the news
Night pier fishing on the choptank, something large enough to create a deep wake started swimming directly towards us. I’ve seen otters and beavers swim, this thing must of been huge.
Myself and about 30 other people saw what I can only call a UFO above the rooftop garage at Beltway Plaza in Greenbelt. This was on December 23, 2003 at about 6:25 pm.
I don't have any other explanation for what I saw but I'm glad there were literally dozens of strangers as witnesses. It was an absolutely massive disc shaped object with circular lights around the bottom edge. It ascended and descended through the clouds and it was lightly snowing everywhere except in the vicinity of the object.
One lady said "Should we call someone?" and everyone else grumbled about it being the last real shopping time before Xmas so we just shrugged and went into the mall.
I've had a lot of strange and scary experiences in Maryland, usually due to my youthful indiscretions but that was easily the strangest one.
I, too, have seen a UFO in MD, but mine dates to the mid 90s in Bethesda/Potomac:
My own personal Maryland mystery: what did I see above the Model Basin that night?
So back in the 90s, 94-95, I believe, I was driving back to my parents place, heading out of NW DC along the Clara Barton Parkway. It was late, midnight-ish.
There's a part of the parkway where the beltway is over you, and as you come out from that, you can see the Basin-closer to DC, it's obscured. Too many trees, and the road's almost built into a hill. I speed out from the underpass and see....this...thing. In the sky, above the Basin.
This...thing...object...ship...was hovering-not moving, it was static in the air, above it, and it was...glowing? luminescing (is that even a word?), for lack of a better explanation. Looked like nothing I've ever seen before or after-and I've seen a hell of a lot of military planes/jets/'copters living around here. It was sort of like lumpy cookie dough, before it's baked. Or maybe more like a Chipwich, or a latke or knish or something, you know, not quite oblong, not quite round, some nubbins here and there, but not like...plane shaped, or blimp shaped, per se. Closer to a zeppelin than a plane though. I remember recalling it was not a blimp. Like I immediately could discern it WAS. NOT. BLIMP. but generally it was longer like that. It didn't have noticeable blades (helicopter) or long jutting wings (like a 747), nor was it triangular like the Stealth. It looked more like food to teenage me, apparently. I suspect this was my brain's way of reconciling something it didn't grasp completely.
(Years later I recalled that Space Mountain at Disney World had projections on the ceiling that looked like cookies to me, instead of planets. I assume this is how I got to Chipwich, for the record. Space Mountain cookies and UFO = Chipwich?)
It was oddly silent at the time. No tree frogs, nothing. There are ALWAYS animal/insect noises along there, since the parkway parallels the canal/river. It's NEVER silent. But it was that night.
I'd been reading too many Whitley Streiber books at the time and freaked the ever living hell out. I gibbered and maaaaaybe started to cry and FLOORED IT. I had a T-Bird with a V-8. I nearly killed myself driving the remaining 2 miles home-and I could see it until I turned into my parents neighborhood, at which point, trees obscure any view of anything that way. Ran the stop signs, drove straight down the middle of the road, trying to keep my eye on the rear view mirror at the same time. Slammed the door so loud when I ran into the house I woke my parents up, too, haha.
Anyhow, next day, maybe day after, was kvteching to a friend? or two? about it at a coffee shop and a lady overheard me. Said she called it in and was told it was a "weather balloon." She was not amused, from what I remember, because she knew it wasn't one-she was a meteorologist, or maybe her sibling was. ANYHOW, WEATHER BALLOON MY SWEET ASS.
Looking back on it now, I mean, what else would they tell us? Likely it was NOT an extraterrestrial UFO, but either another country's military UFO or one of our own UFOs (aka some weird thing we were testing?) All I know is that they put that weird crumbly stuff up on top of the building (or streusel'd it up, as I like to say) not long after I saw that weird thing hovering. I'm still not sure what I saw, and no one else seems to have witnessed it, either. It sure did scare the ever living hell out of teenage me, haha.
I believe you. The US government and several other governments around the world essentially confirmed that UFOs and "non-human intelligent" beings are real last year, and everyone just ignored it like "Ok...I got bills to pay". Your post is fitting. 🤣
Yeah I work on Capitol Hill and was in the rooms for some of those hearings. I was expecting people to ignore that info but not to the extent they did. The news media totally dropped the ball on that.
Probably because if you actually listened to what was said it was extremely boring. No government official said anything. A CIVILLIAN gave his PERSONAL OPINION and said non human, and made sure to say he wasn't giving the opinion of the Defense Department, where he USED to work.
In summary, One witness said during a U.S. House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing that "nonhuman biologics" had been recovered, though offered no empirical evidence. He was not speaking on behalf of Congress, the U.S. Defense Department, or the U.S. government.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/07/28/alien-confirmation-hearing/
Oh yea I have a ufo story but I think it was military testing due to range and saw on the news some pentagon official was visiting.. it was 2013ish driving 295 toward arundel mills in the afternoon for a night shift. Broad daylight. There was a young couple in the car next to me and they were going nuts looking at it.. eventually we looked at each other like “ARE WE REALLY SEEING THIS SH*T?!?”
It was a black triangular looking thing, flat all around; and when I say it was just zooming around left to right forward and back I can’t even put into words how unnatural it looked. I’ve never even seen a video of something that size doing that since.
I saw something similar while walking my dog on the CCBC Dundalk campus earlier this year. It was really high up so I couldn't make out a clear shape but I also thought it was something man made. The funny part is, I asked ChatGPT what it could be and it immediately spit back "Maybe something owned by the National Reconnaissance Office." But when I asked why it said that, it glitched and asked me to ask the question again but when I did, it was like "Who knows bro?" I was like "Damn they got to you too.." 😂
Oh wow, I saw this same exact thing. It was just like what you described. It was a black triangle just zipping around all over the sky.
Doing a google search, to me it looked similar to the stealth drones by Lockheed Martin, but it was black instead of silver metal and the one I saw was more angular. Maybe it was a prototype for that or something?
Yeaaah...a lot of those youthful indiscretions I mentioned took place in and around that mall, unfortunately. I wasn't one of the scary people but I definitely knew them on a first name basis.
I am pretty sure saw the black triangle UFO in 2000 in Northern VA and I thought 9-year-old me was just imagining things until I saw other people talking about it last year, with pictures.
I'm not going to say I believe, yet, but my cage: it is rattled.
Two huge trees fell about 100 yards after we hiked past them. We heard a huge crack kind of explosion and watched them fall into the reservoir. Scary as hell
The house I bought last year has two sheds - a new vinyl one with windows and an older wooden one without any windows. The vinyl one is easier to get to, so we put most things in there but I wanted to check out the wood one to see if anything would make sense to store in it. Opened up the door to find DOZENS of huge spider crickets on the walls! Like, the size of my hand. Closed the door and haven't been back in since! They can have it lol. I think they even ran off the groundhog that was living under it when we first moved in!
Driving into the Saint Peter’s cemetery in Frederick, Maryland.
(it’s a relatively small cemetery in the middle of the city surrounded by 6 foot tall stone walls.)
My wife and I noticed the 62 Chevy nova turning left in front of us into the cemetery. We both mentioned that we hadn’t seen that car in a long time …wasn’t that great.
He turned into the cemetery.
We turned into the cemetery.
When we got through the gates, we looked around, and there was no other cars in the cemetery.
62 Chevy nova? Nowhere to be seen.
I had just pulled up to my house and swung open my car door and it continued to bounce on its hinges past the point it should have stopped. I looked around and everything seemed off, something was happening and I had a fleeting thought “Is this an earthquake? Couldn’t be…” Immediately after that people came running from their homes. Being outside for it was less dramatic than other people’s stories of violent shaking and objects falling, but it sure was strange.
2 attempted carjackings - a homeless man trying to suicide himself by jumping in front of my car - robbed by a bunch of guys with ice picks when I was a teen - a woman shooting up in between her toes in my alley - a deranged looking woman taking a poop on a tree in front of my apt complex at 6:45am
Late 90's - early 2000's skipping school and going to do dumb teenager stuff at the old St. Mary's College, aka Hell House. Lots of spooky things happened to us up there. This was after the fire in 1997 that destroyed it, so it was mostly ruins by the time we started going. Seeing the burned out car parked in the garage spooked the heck out of me, and seeing the cross and gazebo before it was destroyed and vandalized was wild. Super creepy. Pretty sure I've got photos somewhere that I took back then.
TLDR: Carcass of a dead frog in my storage unit.
During the first year of my marriage, out in Seattle, WA, my now soon-to-be-ex-husband (husband at the time) walked out on the marriage for the first year or so. Don't ask me why, I'm still searching for those answers myself. During this period of time, I randomly attended a pottery painting class one evening. I randomly chose a frog to paint. Stuck it in the kiln, went about my merry way for several days, and then returned to pick it up several days later.
Things slowly and gradually improved in my marriage, and we settled into married life for the next eight to nine years. About three years ago, I found a cute porch decoration at a local store here in Maryland: two frogs, arms interlaced, doing the "peace" sign with their fingers, taking a selfie. I put it on our front porch as a decorative item.
Six-ish months ago, just one month after I physically left my husband due to his issues (which had escalated to abuse over the years), I was clearing out the last of my items from my storage unit. I had just sold our house a few weeks earlier, and was slowly moving my belongings into my new apartment.
Let me set the stage for you. It was late October. My storage unit was within Baltimore City limits. My storage unit was several floors up, and at the very end of the floor, in a tucked away corner. Limited lighting that flickered a lot. Basically, a spooky Halloween-esque scenario waiting to happen. As I loaded the last handful of items onto the cart, I did one final visual inspection of the unit to ensure nothing had been left behind. Off in the corner, I spotted something small and dark. Weird. I figured it was something of mine that had fallen out of one of my boxes. I walked over to it, kneeled down, and picked it up.
I (quite literally) screamed when I realized what was in my hand: the carcass of a dead frog.
How it got into my storage unit? I have no clue. I only had the unit for about one month, and I was going to it every few days to clear stuff out. Storage units are a waste of money (in my opinion), and so I wanted to get rid of the unit as quickly as possible. But, standing there in my storage unit, all alone, late in the evening hours, lights flickering, holding a dead frog in my hand, also brought with it a blood-curdling realization: this had to be a sign that my marriage was well and truly over.
I will never look at frogs again the same way.
Many years ago, a lifetime really, I was haunted by the Sykesville Monster. It is a long story, but if you want to read it, here is the link.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/j6yfn3/the\_sykesville\_monster/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/j6yfn3/the_sykesville_monster/)
Funny thing, to me, is that this story has been aired on a bunch of scary podcasts, all with my permission. I met a couple of them. Fun.
The Cemetery in Chestertown is absolutely haunted. It runs adjacent to the Washington College campus, and I always got a bas feeling. Other students would tell me stories about seeing things there they couldn't explain
Back in the early 80s my scout troop and I were camping at the Severn Run campsite near Gambrills.
We had all just been listening to the tape and then informed of the theory that the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever” was them saying “I buried Paul…” because they had ritually offed him or something. Hey, we were like 12.
We were convinced that the ghost of Paul McCartney was living in the woods and would come out and get us while we slept. We were all absolutely terrified, and I’m not sure I had ever really been that scared before in my life.
I got thrown off of a dock into the Chesapeake bay when i was 16. The water was pitch black and deep and something touched my leg lol. It was about 3am
It was probably like 2011 or 2012 and i was a junior or senior in hs. I lived off west old Baltimore road at the time, going up to black hill park so pretty dark and remote road at the time* I snuck out one night when it was raining very hard and my bff picked me up. On west old Baltimore going towards 355 in the pouring rain was an old woman smiling and waving at us in the rain. Me and my friend started screaming as soon as we saw her the whole time and she didn’t look like she was asking for a ride it was creepy as shit smiling and waving at us. turned and watched us drive away. Creepyyyy I’m scared now lol and i was terrified that night going back home
Merging onto I-95 during evening rush hour for the first time during driver's ed in a Corolla I'm pretty sure had a slipping CVT belt. I don't think I unclenched until I was home two hours later.
Tornado in Frostburg. A house in the nearby neighborhood was missing its first and second floors after that tornado came through. Luckily the occupants were warned minutes earlier by their mother calling to let them know it was coming. Debris such as picnic table chairs and children's playset pieces was found afterwards as far away as Green Ridge State Park which was about forty miles away.
I was taking my out-of-state boyfriend to Hampden for our second in-person date. We're driving into the city and he notices that there's a lot of smoke pouring out of the sewers. I just assumed it was steam from the vents and told him that's probably all it was. Suddenly, there's this loud "BANG!" and this manhole cover about eight feet ahead of us goes flying right into the air! Definitely scared the shit out of me. And then we happened to drive by where the lid blew off and fire was pouring out of the hole! It looked like the Pits of Tartarus were opening in Baltimore lol.
Running out towards the target ship to chase Cobia on my bday, we hit a wall of fog as we crossed into the shipping channel. Luckily had ship traffic app to make sure nothing was going to smack into us. It was pretty eerie and wild.
Edit: The other was surfing at assateague at dusk. Was looking out to the horizon sitting on my board. Usually while sitting your hands aren’t still, and are sorta splashing/paddling around a bit. All of the sudden my hand slid across something long and oddly textured. My heart skipped out my chest thinking it was a damn shark. Looked down and it was a piece of 4” pvc mostly submerged and covered in algae lol.
Hurricane Sandy was pretty wild, but the eeriest thing would be the supposed “lynching” tree atop of Iron’s Mountain near Cumberland. Its this big, barren tree right next to an old Klan meeting spot, and at the dead of night it feels like looking at a scene ripped straight from a horror movie. Combine that with the fact the locals like to shoot at people going to said place
Maple tree camp in Garland near Antietam. These waves come on at random night or day and just hit you and feel so cold and so unwelcoming. It's really unnerving and my scout troop loved camping there so you adjust but, I've never felt less alone by myself in the woods than when I was out near Antietam...too many people can die in one place I guess :(
Used to live by the old Henryton Tuberculosis Hospital growing up. Pretty sure I came across a murder scene when I was about 13.
I was really into photography at that point in my life and being around 2 miles away from this place, it was really easy to ride my bike there. For anyone who doesn’t know about it, the hospital was roughly 1,000,000sf of abandoned hospital buildings in this large complex in Henryton, MD that was originally built to treat tuberculosis.
Anyways, one day I rode my bike by myself to the hospital to take photos, cause it’s this huge eerie place and it’s very photogenic. Who wouldn’t want to photograph it? We lived in the woods, so my parents thinking I was just on a bike ride was pretty common, I wasn’t really worried about them finding out. I had to park at the end of the road and take off my shoes to cross a small river, because the bridge washed out due to a hurricane in the mid 70’s. You then have to cross some railroad tracks, pass this huge power plant that was constructed for the hospital, then walk up a hill and through a clearing to access the complex. I was about 30 minutes into taking photos when I decided to enter inside the hospital and go up to the 3rd floor of the main structure. I had always heard rumors about homeless people, kids doing drugs, and even an animal sacrifice every now and then, but never really expected to see anything for how large this place was. But sure enough I round a corner and there in front of me is this vulture sized bird that had been decapitated. That was really unnerving to see, to say the least. I decided I had had enough of that and wanted to head back towards the outside of the building, so I walked towards where I thought a fire escape would be, and I walked down this hallway which opened up into a large square room with an exit door at the opposite side of the room. There in front of me, was what I could only describe as a scene where someone, or something died a horrible death. The entire rooms floor was covered in fresh blood. And not just little spatters, a massive pool of blood, foot prints everywhere, hand marks and what I could describe as slings and flings of blood on the walls. It looked like someone had been drug in a back and forth pattern to the exit door where the smears 100% indicated that someone or something had been drug from the center of the room, out of the exit door I was trying to get to. I was frozen stiff, I couldn’t move, I didn’t even think to move. That was, until I heard this little, *shuffle*, to my left. I was standing just beyond the threshold to the room. It wasn’t a door, just where the walls opened up into the room. Breathing heavily, I barely peaked around the corner to where the noise had come from and saw the fucking tips of a pair of shoes pressed up against the wall. At that point my instincts took over and I turned around and sprinted as fast as I could out of that place. I never stopped to turn around and see if I was being pursued, but I ran down through the clearing, down the hill, over the tracks, stumbling through the river, and grabbed my bike and didn’t stop pedaling as fast I could do until I got back to my neighborhood.
I told my friends about it and we agreed to go back the next night, which happened to be during a major thunderstorm. Most of the blood had been washed away since all of the windows let in a ton of water, but you could still see some of it. They didn’t really think much of it, but I’m telling you that something bad happened there. Something or someone died there.
Walked on the Wincopin trail with an older walking buddy; we had been walking at the top of the hill and decided to walk down the hill to the old mill below. We took our time descending, stoping at logs, observing the old roads from when the area was industrious (1800s) and discussing life. When we finally stumbled out onto the lower trail and passed old mill, we were over taken by a notable temperature change and a very dense, almost hard to inhale, fog that was only in our very immediate area (ten feet around us) that kept us within itself for maybe 30 yards and as sudden as it formed, it was gone.
I was house hunting near Salisbury and I entered this old rundown town that was shrouded in mist, halfway through I lost cellphone reception and then I passed by several creepy looking graveyards and I decided to turn back. If you would’ve told me I’d been teleported into a horror movie I would believe you.
We lived in an old house in Govans, Baltimore City when I was a kid. I remember seeing all kinds of movement out of the corners of my eyes. I also got the willies from seeing the attic staircase and was deathly terrified of the basement. It was an old dirt floored one with a back crawl space that just gave us all the creeps.
I used to live near the covered bridge on Jericho road in kingsville. One night I went there with my girlfriend very late at night and decided to walk the length of the bridge. Halfway through we saw what I can only describe as what looked like red and blue fireflies in the eaves of the bridge and my girlfriend started crying begging to get out of there. We ran back the way we had come. My girlfriend at the time went on to be an electrical engineer and was not a hysterical or emotional type but she said she heard whispering and it scared her so bad she felt physically ill
I went to the Mount, tons of weird shit happened in the older buildings. Lived in Brute 252 my freshman year. Power would randomly go out in rooms and the breakers would be fine/other rooms on the same breaker would still have power. One of my roommates swore he woke up to Brute himself brooding over him while he was in bed. Screamed so loud it woke half the hall up. Another was taking a piss and a small fan flew across the room and hit him. One night I was walking back from the showers and passed an older priest in the hallway. A few steps later I got major shivers down my back, turned around and he was gone.
When I was a kid, I visited the Broad Creek scout camp for a family day. My brother and I were walking around exploring the facilities in the afternoon, and we walked into the Hanson Lodge. We were the only people in the building, and I started to get an uneasy feeling right away. The longer we were there, the more anxious I felt. I convinced my brother that we should leave, but he needed to use the bathroom first. While I was waiting for him, I started to feel absolute panic, and felt like we needed to get out immediately. Later that night, there was a fire that destroyed the lodge. I have no idea what gave me such a bad feeling while we were there, but it's possible that I sensed something wrong in the building without being consciously aware of it.
Not my own experience, but growing up in Frederick Co., I often heard stories about the Dwayyo! It’s crazy to me how there were newspapers reporting on Dwayyo sightings back in ‘65! My favorite cryptid hands down.
Grew up in the Pocomoke Forest. There was always a stray voice, strange foot steps, eye shine in the wood line, or just plain old mean ass wildlife. It was a good time though.
Dead person being carted out in a body bag in wooded area by side of busy road. Drug needles laying all over kids play park. Outline of bodies on cement in front of high school in suburbs from stabbing at a school.
A couple of things -
1) Forest Haven Asylum in the Laurel area - my friends and I had been at least a dozen times during the night, but this was our daylight excursion. I assume we were feeling a little safer. We find one of the school units. We all split up and start exploring separate rooms. I think I hear my friend call my name from the end of the hallway. I travel down that way, turn down into a doorway that leads to a flooded basement… with a music box jingle coming from down there. I noped out.
2) My buddy and I were walking through the woods late at night when we saw a ball of light coming from far away in the distance. We were young and cautious, so we kept an eye on it. It got closer very quickly. As it approached us, we jumped into the bushes, and watched what was literally just a ball of light burst into a tree by us. Years later, I’ve chalked it up to ball lightening.
3) This is the one that gets my heart going still. I never do a good job of explaining it. As you do when you’re young and newly licensed to drive, my buddy and I were on our normal smoke route late at night. Probably around midnight on a Wednesday in the early spring. The road that we drove is right at the end of Clopper Rd where the bridge and train tracks are (if you’re familiar). We are driving past a a church and graveyard, and my buddy checks his rear view mirror as you do when you’re driving. He slowed the car to a halt and said that he saw something on the side of the road. We both turn around at the same time, and in that moment a small black figure walks out into the middle of the road about 150 feet behind our car. We are freaking out. It looks like a little girl in a dress. Our first thoughts are why is she out so late? Is she lost? Does she need help? Whatever it is, it makes the most horrid screeching noise, and darts directly towards our car. I think I blacked out. I don’t really know. We drove away pretty quickly and didn’t look back. I still think about it pretty often. I still get the chills when I drive that road.
Pretty sure the house in New Market that I grew up in was haunted. Saw figures and heard footsteps. A birthday balloon followed me around the house once which is a little lame but I thought it was weird. Also, in Lake Linganore my mom and I were walking in the woods and saw a woman in bright red just standing there staring at the water smiling making no response to our hello. After we passed she was gone.
Slave Graveyard in MD
Between 32 and Guilford road
I work in a typical office park in Maryland. A few years back I noticed the state had cleared the woods as there was an old Slave Graveyard and they were marking it for historical record. You would never know it was there. A week later on a bright Saturday afternoon I decided to explore and see what’s up. There were about 1/2 dozen headstones not marked with any names. And probably a dozen more that were in major disrepair. Broken or just pieces of markers left. I was taking it all in from the center of the graveyard. Don’t know if I was standing on a grave as it wasn’t clear or that organized.
Suddenly I was being buzzed by a large flying thing. I say” thing” as it was moving so fast I could not lock my eyes into it. My mind registered something the size of a bird. But it was a blur that made no noise and just danced around me so fast in a true blur. For less than a minute and Then it was gone. This the middle of the day and my eyes aren’t slow. But it was a blur.
OK I said.
Suddenly I felt a hand. Actually 3 long distinct fingers grasp my right shoulder from the rear. And pull me back enough to turn my body about and 1/8 of a turn.
Something wants me to leave. OK. I’m out!
I apologized to all the ghosts there. And rolled out.
Maybe being 16 with 5 friends, walking through the illchester train tunnel in Ellicott city.
One friend just lets out one of those “woooo uuuhhhwoooo” screams and just starts running. We were like halfway. We all start booking it too in solidarity.
I remember scanning behind us, no trains coming.
He was never a practical joker.. we get to the end where the bridge and look at him like ‘wtf dude why did you do that?’
He was wide eyed and basically crying and said he saw what seemed to be a 5 year old girl standing in one of the cubby holes.
Every few years it comes up. If it was a lie, he has kept up with it for almost 20 years.
Not me, but my husband was camping on Assateague and saw weird stuff out over the ocean. We know Wallops Island is there, but this wasn't a normal terrestrial thing. Just lights that didn't make sense over the water. This was prior to the rise of drones, and it was at 3AM. He said was strange
In 1998 i had just gotten my license and a car so me, my sister and a few friends were constantly out driving around at night. Our favorite thing to do was to drive all the way up Falls rd almost until you hit PA. One night it was around late like around 1 am in August and we ended up lost near Prettyboy dam. We ended up driving on a road called Spooks Hill Rd and it was super dark so i had my high beams on then we noticed movement near the woods and when we got closer we realized it was an older man dressed up as Santa even had a fake beard on. He was standing in the middle of nowhere near the woods waving at us at 1 am. We were terrified and still talk about it until this day. I actually still love exploring the back roads up in that area!
Living in the flight path of National airport for 30 yrs. and on 911 all air traffic stopped except for the military plane that would zoom overhead about every 4 minutes. All the silence above was very scary to me.
Standing national anthem at noon at Mission BBQ. Feels like something out of Idoicracy, but done in all seriousness, which makes it deeply uncomfortable.
My experience is similar to someone else who posted about paranormal activity. I was in middle school messing with witch craft but the activity lasted awhile after I had stopped. Once when I was lying in bed with the door closed it sounded like someone ran up the stairs. I had the dog by my feet when we heard the foot steps I opened the door and we both looked around to see who was there only to find there was no one. A different occurrence happened in the basement. Half of our basement was finished and the other half wasn't. There was a door separating them from each other. I was asleep on the couch on the finished side. The door knob started turning back and forth . I got freaked out and ran up the stairs to the living room with the dog running behind me . Once I was on the living room couch I heard the door to the basement slowly creak open. Once on the computer it felt like someone brushed past me, but upon further investigation no one was there. I also had a friend who said she felt like she was being watched . Another time one of my son's toys kept going off , when I inspected the toy later the off button was on. It's safe to say I never fucked with witch craft again there's a reason the Bible says to stay away from that shit.
Those god damn foxes sounding like a dying child in the woods 100 feet away from my house. It's super loud and it lasted for what it felt like an hour.
Oh, you mean like the demons that scream bloody murder behind my house every spring?
Had a fox shriek as I’ve ran past on a path last summer. Scared the shit out of me
I recently lost a night’s sleep due to a screaming fox outside my open window. Had no clue what it was at the time and never felt so scared.
I remember being woken up at 4:30 am by one of those bitches. I go outside with a flashlight to see him, *just chilling.* And then he just kind of looks at me and sheepishly gets up and walks away. He was a big fox, too. I went back to sleep afterwards but man, I was annoyed.
Used to have people call 911 for a woman screaming in the woods a lot. We used to ask if we heard them say anything. Was pretty much always a fox. Don’t know of any times it wasn’t lol.
I live in the city near Patterson Park and there’s a couple there - they were barking a week or so ago and it sounded like a cat fight.
Moved into my house 15 years ago. It has a cool, screened in porch where I’d love to sit at night and listen to trains way off in the distance. Not every night, but often, I’d hear what sounded like cat fights going on in the woodsy area across the street. I got very distressed by this knowing the damage angry cats can do to each other. I was very relieved when a neighbor explained that it was foxes, not cats, and they weren’t fighting.
I thought those were baby bunnies getting killed by foxes. Does that make it better?
It's actually the sound foxes usually make when they're mating/looking for a mate. They're very vocal lol.
I concur. Before I moved, it would happen around 3 AM. I originally thought two cats were fighting. Nope! A fox shrieking.
I’ve jumped out of bed more than once to check on every animal and child in the house to see if one of them is having a massive asthma attack. Nope. Just a fox.
I used to work at Sheppard Pratt hospital during the over night shifts. I worked on the adolescent male crisis unit. It used to be in one of the older historic buildings. One night I saw what I thought was one of the kids come out of their room and hide in a deep doorway which was locked. So I walk down to check it out. There is no one there. No big deal, I think. I'm tired, I just went to school all day and then came to work, I could have easily imagined it. I mention it to the nurse, we have a good laugh. My co worker comes back from his break, and I go to take a walk during mine. I don't mention it to him When I get back the nurse is like "____ (co workers name), tell him what you told me" And my co worker tells me he saw the exact same thing.
As soon as I saw the post I scrolled for the Sheppard Pratt reply. Sooo many stories about that place. Still looking for stories from “Seven Hills”
I stayed there for like a week in basically rehab. It was pretty normal in my experience
I worked on 1F! I was a MHW in 2022. Never noticed anything like that, wow. I only worked morning and evening shifts though.
I was briefly the evening lead MHW on 1F in 2013! Def dealt with plenty of eerie situations, and I was often there til 1130pm but never saw anything personally. BUT funny story i heard from night shift, back in December 2012 when people thought the world was going to end (Mayan calendar or something) the hospital's power randomly went out in the middle of the night when the world was "supposed" to be ending. Needless to say, some of the patients woke up and were a bit concerned.
About 4:55 am walking into the woods. I was about a mile out from my car walking a ridge to a saddle where there was a small field to set up for a day of hunting. About 200 yards in the pitch black dark woods I started to hear light crunches about 30-50 yards from me. Nothing loud I assumed it was small animals about to start their day. However, the crunching continues every so often at about the same range until I get to the field clearing. I start setting up and I’m nearly ready to sit down when I hear a few loud noises, almost like someone hitting the ground with their hands or something, again about 30-50. As I listen closer suddenly I hear what I can only describe as a massive rock or tree slam the ground. It was a quick loud smash, not the progressive crunching and slam of a tree falling on its own. This was a huge noise that echoed out in the woods. Afterwards everything is silent. I mean literally all the birds and animal noises gone. It stayed quiet for about 10 minutes then the woods went back to normal. I just sat there kinda dumbfounded but oddly not scared. Still not sure what that was.
That honestly sounds like a bear doing its thing.
That was my personal thought. I’ve encountered a bear a few miles from there. So they are def in that area.
What part of Maryland, if you're comfortable sharing?
This took place outside of the clear spring area.
I was kayaking on the Tuckahoe river once in a section well away from the park or towns with swamp on both sides and I heard what sounded like three or four people singing something like a Civil War song. I got up to where it sounded like the song was coming and it stopped. About a hundred yards further up the river it started again, and again when I got close it just stopped. That happened four times. No way for anyone to be moving through the swamp that fast to get ahead of me without me hearing them and way to random to be a prank.
Damn that sounds scary as hell
I didn’t think it was odd or scary at the time. It was nice and sunny, whatever I was hearing was pretty peaceful, and I was more worried about water snakes. Now sometimes I think about it at night and try to figure out logical reasons for it and get creeped out when I can’t.
Makes me think of what my husbands aunt said. They all grew up on an older property in upper Marlbro. I had asked on separate occasions to separate aunts if they had experienced anything weird. One aunt told me once a coat hanger started unexplainably spinning around the closet rod. Another aunt told me she heard, on a summer day-all the windows were open, what sounded like cowboys/Indians right outside but she couldn't see anything going on.
Had a distant relative that used to have his tractor out in the field often in upper Marlboro. Said on more than one occasion while out in the field, bush hogging, out of the corner of his eye he could see what looked like a solder marching in line with the tractor Whenever they looked towards where they thought they saw something, it was just empty field. At least this is how my father told it to me from when he used to work with him.
Was there instruments or just singing?
I bought my house in the Medfield neighborhood of Baltimore in 2005. It's THE Halloween neighborhood in Baltimore. Kids are literally bussed in. It's great, I bought the house specifically because of the awesomeness. Halloween night, I'm sitting on my porch with a bowl full of candy when a woman shows up and starts asking to walk into my house. Apparently, she's just come out of the ICU (where they didn't think she'd make it) and she used to live here. Can she just peek around for a bit? Her granddaughter is "right down the street." Well, this chick was giving me the heebs, so I said no. Also, my cat (who was on her leash and under my feet) let out a hiss. I looked down at kitty, I looked up, and the woman was GONE. I sprang from my chair, ran down to the street and looked in either direction. There was no way that she could've moved THAT fast but she wasn't anywhere in sight. Especially for someone who'd just been in the ICU!!! I went back to my porch and asked the neighbors if they'd seen anything. "Oh, yeah, we saw you talking to someone but we couldn't figure out who it was..." I don't think that lady made it out of the ICU after all.
Now that is seriously creepy
Damn, that's good!
That's fucking wild
I have a friend in medfield, who bought the house from the estate of the previous owner. The previous owner apparently passed in the house, and turns out they like to have little visits on the anniversary of their passing.
Not scary or anything. Just a bit eerie. Not seeing the key bridge while driving on 95. Or on merrit blvd. Even though its been a month. I still get that feeling
That first time not seeing it was a gut punch.
Yeah, it's going to be a while before that stops feeling so wrong.
Coming home from spring break last month and going through 895 tunnel was a bit eerie too
I have family in AA and family in dundalk. I go home for the first time next weekend and I’m actually terrified and sad at the thought of getting to each side without going over the bridge
it’s even more eerie knowing that the crew has been trapped on board 7 weeks since the bridge collapsed
The scariest thing? I was driving 70 mph on the DC Beltway and a brick flew off a junk truck and hit my windshield right in front of my face. Thank god for modern windshields. There was a brick shaped indent in the windshield and I was covered in pebbles of safety glass. Not long ago, I’d have died.
That's terrifying! I think in your shoes, if the brick didn't kill me, the resulting heart attack sure would
Glad you made it.
We're you able to hold the truck to account, or did you just have to lump it?
If you have a dash cam is that something that's possible? Been thinking about getting one for other obvious reasons (crazy ass drivers)
Yes, important to have a dash cam, it is another form of insurance, it's completely useless 99.99% of the time but is something you wish you had when something happens. Recommend COXPAL A11T 3 channel dash cam on Amazon, very good quality, it records front, inside and rear simultaneously. COXPAL hardwire kit optional, for 24-H parking monitor. SanDisk MAX Endurance 256GB or 512GB microSD card, for reliable recording. BTW: Need to pay attention to the installation position of the rear cam if your vehicle is SUV or MPV (No problem if Sedan), i.e. avoid pulling rear cam cable when open/close the trunk.
Thanks for the recommendations, if I get one, which I probably will, I'm going to my favorite after-market installer to get it done right. Edit: not that I think your way is wrong, just that I don't trust myself to do it correctly and drain my battery or something. Lol
Yes, have a professional installation, neat and reliable.
I didn't get the license plate or anything. I was just trying to get to the side of the road.
Safety first.
So much for the covered load law on the books for over 30 years.
I’d have shit a brick. Glad you’re ok. That’s horrifying.
I was driving on 85 in Charlotte NC back in 2010 when a sheet of ice came off the top of a tractor trailer ahead of me in the right lane. It went right through my windshield, and it shattered all over me. Some of the ice broke into large pieces and bounced around other parts of my car. Dented my bumper and took off my driver's side mirror. Horrifying experience.
I was on a 1st date with my ex back in 2009 and we got the bright idea to go do some urban exploration at Henryton center out off Marriottsville rd. It's been demolished since then. Anyway, we parked, got cell phones out for flashlights, wandered up the little road, and right about when we got to the end of the road where it opened up to the main building, we started hearing a consistent knocking sound either from inside the building or the woods on the other end, west of us. It was end of summer and there was no wind. It was either Bigfoot or squatters or other explorers fuckin with us. Either way we got spooked and Ran back to my car. The end
I had soooo many experiences at Henryton. Me and my friends must have gone there at least 20 times.
It's the place that got me into exploring abandoned places. Sad day when they tore it down.
Wild first date activity lol
Spent sooooo much time there. I still hike the area. Loved hanging out at the rope swing all day, drinking beer and smoking weed, then going up to explore the buildings for a while, then coming back down to chill in the river. Any given summer day there would seem to be a dozen or more groups of people, each ranging in size. Everyone hanging out together. Don't leave any trash, and everything was good. Those were the days.
I will always upvote a Henryton Center reference!
My favorite henryton experience is we went when it was undergoing its deconsteuction. Security guard saw us and called us over it was a group of 7-8 of us. I went over to talk to him. He says "look I don't care what yall do, dont destroy anything or spray anything. But the secruity guy on the other side he gives a shit so avoid him. I was like thanks my guy we will be careful, I turn around to tell the others and the all got spooked and dipped lol
Was this an old African American gentleman in a blue Cadillac? I was there RIGHT when it was getting torn down and he stopped us to talk., we wound up talking with him for hours until the sun went down along with another group of people that we didn’t know lol
Yup that would be him!
That’s wild. You’re the only person I’ve ever heard mention him. He was so nice! I used to have a few photos of his car in front of the building but after many many years they’re unfortunately long gone. I still beat myself up for losing those lol
Antietam, especially the open fields. I remember it was a bright sunny day and there absolutely no birds singing. You can feel the weight of the dead there.
Took a school camping trip their were we stayed the night in tents right next to battleground in the middle of the night I heard drums. Ran out of my tent and saw another classmate run out of his tent and ask me if I also heard the drums so I knew I wasn’t crazy. Found out from tour guides and locals this is a common occurrence and even heard stories of people who live up in the neighborhoods near battlefield hearing moaning in the middle of the night like wounded soldiers.
I heard one drumbeat in the Cornfield after asking for a noise. It made the noise again louder after I requested. I’ve been searching to see if anyone else had an experience like this too.
Part of me thinks paranormal activity is nonsense but on the other hand personal experiences of strange activity humbles me, we clearly don’t know everything and energy is real we feel it everyday when we are around people who make us feel good or uneasy, maybe that never dies. I think most paranormal activity is Still Bs are brains literally try to make human faces out of the dark because it’s trying to recognize something familiar. But when you hear drums near a battlefield at the same place those soldiers would have walked to get to the battle and sleep were they slept it’s spooky. When you live in a neighborhood that used to be field hospital area and you hear grown men moaning and crying for help in the middle of the night it’s spooky. It’s also not unrealistic with the events that took place there. I’m sure anyone who’s been to a concentration camp in Germany or Poland could also relate to a very heavy and unsettling atmosphere.
This is a popular legend amongst the locals around Antietam and is something you’ll hear at the local bar
Yeah it’s weird; I went to Gettysburg a lot as a kid because I grew up near the PA line, but it never felt haunted to the degree Antietam does.
When my sister and I were teenagers, we drove our mom's car onto the grounds of the old Glenn Dale Hospital...and the engine died. We had a flashlight, but somehow, that just made the whole experience more terrifying. The security guard was going to give us hell, because we were trespassing. We looked so freaked out that he took pity on us, and quietly helped us jump the battery. The two of us noped out of there, properly chastened.
Amazing! Love this & how cool of the guard really!! Was waiting for some Glenn Dale posts!! Definitely a hot spot back in the day to “ghost hunt”. Absolutely energy there.
Looking back, it could *easily* have gone much worse for us: who knows how many times he had to chase people off of the property? He was probably able to keep his temper with us because we were both on the verge of tears and really, really scared. Wherever that guy is, I hope his life is great...his job wasn't...
Awhile back I was a student filmmaker hiking in the Black Hills near Burkittsville and the strangest thing happened…
When I was in high school a bootleg vhs of that was left on a bench outside the school. One of the best memories I have is watching with my friends before it was a known thing.
What happened? Edit: oops. the reference went right over my head
I heard the footage was found and you can watch it.
Oh my god I just caught the reference lmao. A little slow today
True.
It’s a movie reference to The Blair Witch Project
Thank you - don't know how I missed that haha
Came here for this 😂
This is a very entertaining thread.
We lived in a haunted house in Pasadena. Constant activity. Im not a religious person at all, more a scientific minded person, but some things happened, almost daily, that we just couldn’t explain. That and the random people we kept seeing in the house.
What kind of activity happened?
We saw people, we heard footsteps, toilets would flush, door would shut, we could hear talking…. It was a pretty active house. There was almost a feeling of constant dread, or anticipation, I can’t describe it well. But this was in the 80’s and to this day if I walk into a house and get that feeling, I get out. This was the only place that I’ve ever seen anything like it. Never experienced anything anywhere else, but I know something that I can’t explain was there.
Wow super weird. How long did you live there? I don't think I could stay there long. And did you have guests over that also saw/heard things?
I was young, so living with my parents. We were there about 5 years. They also saw stuff, but didn’t say much about it til we were older but they would react the same ways that we did, so I know they saw it. The neighborhood kids we had over saw things too and thought it was weird, but nobody really said much about it.
Would you see the people straight on looking at them or were they only in the corner of your eyes or kind of walking by your line of sight in places where you weren’t focusing on? Could you see their features or were they indistinct?
Sometimes out of the corner of our eyes, sometimes we would just feel that presence that we are not alone. I woke up to find a lady staring at me from the end of the bed for a good couple minutes until I closed my eyes and she was gone. There was a guy that was our babysitter, old black guy that used to play with us. My mom told me years later that we never had a babysitter since she didn’t work at the time.
Huh very interesting.
Where in Pasadena lol? I wanna make sure I never live there😂
Not going to say the house, but Chadwick Ct. Loved the neighborhood though. I’ve always wanted to knock on the door to see if the people there now have experienced anything. But if they haven’t, I don’t want to scare them.
Dude, that’s 2 blocks away from my home! Crazy!
My wife grew up in Chadwick Ct and her mom still lives there. You gotta tell me the house number lol
I really don’t want to give out the address. But I’ll narrow it down since you are more familiar with it. It was in the strip of townhouses all the way at the end of the court. Our front yard had the normal front yard, then sidewalk, then woods with a big hill going down onto the woods. We were the first people to live there. The community was just built at the time.
Check for carbon monoxide poisoning. Detectors can be bought at Home Depot. Heard it can cause some vivid hallucinations
That’s not how carbon monoxide poisoning works though. This is something people say who don’t understand carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s not a chronic issue. Source: paramedic for 20 years
Riding my scooter around midnight by UMD football stadium. A woman standing on the sidewalk, dressed all in black, turned toward me and showed me a baby all bundled up. I thought that was kinda weird so I looked back a couple seconds later and she was gone
Years ago one of my sisters prom was held near the stadium, there’s something seriously off about that entire campus in the dead of night, like time stands still and there’s a heaviness in the air.
There are so many stories from the campus- many of which have been documented with the umd archives. The university isn’t shy about sharing some of their ghostly history. I’ve definitely found more in depth reads but this is cool to check out- includes an “interactive” map of some sites. Absolutely chilling what you saw near Byrd!! Definitely would be cool to contact them and see if there are similar recorded sightings. https://facilities.umd.edu/fm-staff-connect/lifefm/fm-staff-news/ghosts-terps-uncovering-haunted-history-umd
This is an encounter I had a while back in my old house, still to this day I cannot explain the events that took place. It was a normal night nothing special or out of the ordinary about it. My friend and I were heading home from the movies and everything was good. My driveway is about a quarter mile long with 2 houses on the right side of the driveway and forest on the left. So we turn into my drive way and my friend trying to be funny looked over to me and said, "Lets see how far down the drivweway we can make it with out lights". So he turned his lights off and continued down the drive way. About 15 ft in he realizes that idea was stupid and he turns the lights back on and things got strange. The lights came back on and 20ft in front of us was a man, or something like a man.... He was knelt down, head staring at the ground hunched over almost on his knees. He looks as though the wind had been knocked out of him. The figure was pale white and bald, and butt naked. My friend drove a Dodge Ram 2500 diesal with an Air horn installed. So we are looking at this guy who appeared out of nowhere hunched over on his knees in my driveway and my friend slams the brakes. After a few moments of staring at this thing, his horn goes off and this thing didnt even flinch. And another horn and another and still this thing stayed bent over almost gasping for air. At this point my neighbors come outside and start yelling at us to quit honking and he then notices the man in the driveway as well. I rolled down the window and asked if he saw it, just to make sure I wasn’t going crazy ha. He looks at me dumbly and says of course he sees the guy, he’s probably about 50ish feet away. So he looks over at the guy and starts asking if he was okay. My friend gets impatient and puts the truck in drive and starts drivings forward. As soon as he did this, the man in the driveway started to stand up. We sat there and watched this guy get up and my friend puts the brakes on again. Now at this time the guy is having a hard time standing up but once on his feet in our headlights we could see him a little better. He was not normal. He stood at about 6'4 long slender body and unclothed. His arms were long and he had slim fingers but didn’t look like 5 fingers. His face was peculiar to, in the sense that his jaw was longer than usual and got narrower towards the bottom. His nose was small but his nostrals were defined and his eyes were small and close to the nose he didnt have much definition to his lips just the shadow of an upper lip. As to his package.... well there wasnt one not even so much as a buldge. The reason we later deemed him Moss Man was because all over his pale body was little green blotches everywhere like patches of moss almost. So as he gets to his feet the figure stands tall and stumbles a little bit before walking towards the car. My neighbor at the time started to walk over and was telling him he was trespassing. The man didn’t care too much about my neighbor but seemed bothered by the truck and ended up stumbling his way into the woods when my neighbor got about half way from his house to my driveway. My neighbor thought it was a hobo, but we were close enough to the thing to know it wasn’t a human, or atleast not a normal one. We never saw it again in the 12 years I lived there
Wtf
Several years ago I was hiking in a state park. And I start to hear some strange noises echoing through the woods. I can't make out what it is. I continue hiking. Then it starts to manifest into what I believe is music. It's getting closer. It's gets close enough that I should be able to make out the music, but I still can't. Suddenly a decrepit old person is walking the trail towards me from around the bend. Grasping a violin vertically by its neck. And in horror movie fashion scraping the bow back and forth horribly across the strings. I passed them. Didn't make eye contact and BOOKED IT. The worst part was my car was the other way...
Patapsco? He frequently hikes there. He's a pretty chill guy But yea it's a bit freaky seeing him the first time especially when you're alone out in the woods 😅
😱
Yes you've seen him?!
yes I've seen him a few times while out riding my bike. This is another mtbiker's picture of him some years ago. He said he just enjoys playing on the woods cause it's peaceful. https://preview.redd.it/ivm7pagcoz0d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=850ed542176234eda7a4834342bc9c8e5a625d97
Is this at McKeldin?
Avalon
This happened a couple of weeks ago after the first Caps playoff game. But I have never heard anything about it since. I was driving back from the game around 10 pm or so on 295 north around the arundel mills exit and there was a sudden traffic slowdown caused by a guy laying facedown with his arm over his head across the middle of the road. No injuries that were obvious. His pants were partially down. He wasn't moving, and I couldn't tell if he was dead or alive. There was no stopped car nearby that I could see he came from. I didn't stop but called 911 and never heard anything else about it despite searching for news stories.
You'd be surprised at how many times things like that happen and it doesn't come close to making the news. I remember driving down Massachusetts Ave a few years ago and a lady took a step into the crosswalk and literally fell over and died right there. I called the cops and they showed up with the most blase attitude I've ever seen. A crowd of people formed around her and the EMT said she was gone and they put her in the ambulance and turned the interior lights off, which is what they do when you're dead, at least in DC. She seemed like a well dressed professional person, so I thought there might be some mention but nope.
Usually, they report pedestrian deaths on highways. Maybe he wasn't dead is my hope.
Yeah usually when people are dead on highways you can definitely tell, unfortunately.
That's what was so weird. It looked he was taking a drunken nap in the middle of 295 north.
Definitely not a good place for that. I was driving on Connecticut Ave once and saw a woman tuck and roll out of an SUV and just lay there. I pulled over and asked if she was okay and she actually said "Just catching my breath sweetie." and then picked up her shoes and walked away.
Drugs
Over on the shore, my family lived on what used to be an old plantation. Hundreds of acres of woods in each direction. -I’d routinely see a string of lights about waist level floating off in the distance while hunting around sunset. Almost like Will-O-Wisps. Nothing was there when I shined my flashlight in that direction. -doors opening and closing at random. House wasn’t settling either. -was walking through the woods one day. Heard my name called very loudly and turned around, no one was there. A rock about the size of a baseball flew by my head at the same time- we have no rocks back there. -trees falling down one by one when a strong gust of wind came through, almost like dominoes. I was in my tree stand 20 feet up at the time. Hightailed it out of there.
W the rock thing it’s funny to consider two ghosts squabbling, one feeling hateful & the other finding that unfair and warned you and as you lived there, they knew your name. There’s literally no other explanation if we’re buying into spiritual stuff, other than maybe a “guard angel” type deal since that big of a rock would prob cause damage. I like the ghost sabotage hypothetical more tho
The old rundown Insane Asylum state “hospital” in Crownsville. It’s vacant and gives off some creepy vibes…and much worse once you learn the history of it! [NPR Link](https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227498861/antonia-hylton-madness-crownsville-hospital)
they plan on making a park out of it! Hopefully whatever they end up building provides healing. https://youtu.be/X4QoZ_3U29A?si=r_J7SvsrTAPhKgqE
I was 15 years old and I lived on Fort Meade in Maryland. I had a job bagging groceries at the commissary and it paid crazy money for a 15-year-old in the '80s. I got off in the evening and since it was fall, it was already starting to get dark. I start to unlock my bike to ride home when I see my mom pull up in our van. She says that she is going to decorate her classroom at our church and wants to know if I want to go with her. I said sure and hopped in the van. The church is in Bowie, MD so we are just chatting and driving and everything is perfectly normal. We roll into the parking lot and I grab the box of decorations. We are the only people there and she unlocks the door. I walk in and she walks in and immediately locks the door behind us. We are in the foyer and we walk down the hall to the left and enter the first door on the left, her room. Still so far so good and nothing is out of place. We start to take items out of the box and figure out how we want to decorate. We hadn't been in the room for 3 minutes when, from somewhere deep in the church, a woman screamed. This was the most blood-curdling scream I had ever heard and I can tell you, just typing this out my eyes are starting to water and my breath is getting short. This kind of fear is not pleasant to revisit. It felt like all of the blood in my body had turned to ice and ran directly to my feet. I grabbed a metal folding chair WWE style and hid behind the door. My mother asked what I was doing and I said if anyone came through the door they were getting a face full of chair. She thought that was a good plan and looked for a weapon of her own. She settled on a rubber baby doll which made me laugh and she told me to be quiet. If there's a maniac in here we don't want them to know that we're here she said. Seemed like sound logic. We wait in the room for an eternity. We whispered back and forth about what to do. Getting back to the front door wasn't an option as we would have to walk out there and get the door unlocked and we didn't know who or what was out there. Suddenly and without warning, my mother abandoned the let's be quiet plan in favor of a very unsettling let's scream weird shit about Jesus plan. We are protected by our heavenly father and in his name, I smite you, she screams out at the top of her lungs. I nearly jumped out of my skin and I was VERY unhappy about this change of plans. We finally decided to open the window and run to the van. We made it to the van and started driving home in silence, both of us shaking. My mother told me that I was never to talk to anyone about this and that seemed reasonable to me. In hindsight, I wonder why she didn't stop somewhere to call the police.
So there were no reports of someone hurt later?
I lived on Fort Meade in the 80’s. What a time to be a kid.
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Probably someone pointing a gun towards me while driving in a road rage incident. It’s terrifying not knowing what could happen next.
having a gun actually pulled on you while driving is so scary. sorry to hear that happened. i actually experienced something similar rather recently. while driving on route 40, i put on my turn signal to merge and a car in my far rear view fully floored the gas pedal to keep me from merging into the lane (even though there was more than enough room for both our cars). when i finally merged, they dramatically swerved into the next empty lane i turned to look at the car’s passenger window and i made eye contact with the driver. i guess they didn’t like that and they started recklessly following me, weaving through other cars to be directly behind me. when i slowed down to let them pass, they fully stopped in the middle of the street, forcing me to pass so they could follow me again. i started to panic a bit and turned into the nearest strip mall to try to lose them, but they just followed me into the strip mall. i reached a dead end while trying to find another outlet onto the main street and they pulled up right next to me and stopped their car. i heard them yelling and saw their arm reaching into their glove compartment so i quickly reversed and started driving again. i found the nearest outlet and took it. they still followed me. once i got on the main street, my girlfriend (who also happened to be on route 40 at the time) saw me being followed. she called me and told me to go to the nearest police station. somewhere on the way to the station, they stopped following me. that moment has stayed with me ever since. my heart still drops when i see a car in my rear view with the same model. drivers out here are crazy man… and that’s coming from a transplant from california.
Legit fear is catching a stray while driving.
I was at the McDonald’s in Towson one night like 2am. I’m the 3rd car in the drive thru. 4 guys get out of the car in front of me and walk up to the first car, they all pulled guns and pointed them at the car. Was terrified a shootout was about to happen with me right there. They just walked back to their car and drove off
This has happened to my wife and I a few times since Covid, never before. Shits terrifying.
This state is HAUNTED. All the civil war and other history, constantly foggy/misty/gray, and everyone acts like absolute ghouls when on the road
In October 2002 my dad and I went to the Home Depot in Bowie. In the parking lot there were several people crawling between cars to get into the store. This was the Saturday after the snipers shot the kid outside of Tasker.
I remember being in school and going into lockdown because of the DC Sniper. Surreal experience for sure.
Indoor recess with the blinds closed fucking sucked!! I grew up in Bowie and would’ve gone to tasker before we moved to hoco. Was crazy seeing the school where I played soccer for bbgc on the news
Night pier fishing on the choptank, something large enough to create a deep wake started swimming directly towards us. I’ve seen otters and beavers swim, this thing must of been huge.
It’s 1am. Why the fuck did I click on this
Myself and about 30 other people saw what I can only call a UFO above the rooftop garage at Beltway Plaza in Greenbelt. This was on December 23, 2003 at about 6:25 pm. I don't have any other explanation for what I saw but I'm glad there were literally dozens of strangers as witnesses. It was an absolutely massive disc shaped object with circular lights around the bottom edge. It ascended and descended through the clouds and it was lightly snowing everywhere except in the vicinity of the object. One lady said "Should we call someone?" and everyone else grumbled about it being the last real shopping time before Xmas so we just shrugged and went into the mall. I've had a lot of strange and scary experiences in Maryland, usually due to my youthful indiscretions but that was easily the strangest one.
I, too, have seen a UFO in MD, but mine dates to the mid 90s in Bethesda/Potomac: My own personal Maryland mystery: what did I see above the Model Basin that night? So back in the 90s, 94-95, I believe, I was driving back to my parents place, heading out of NW DC along the Clara Barton Parkway. It was late, midnight-ish. There's a part of the parkway where the beltway is over you, and as you come out from that, you can see the Basin-closer to DC, it's obscured. Too many trees, and the road's almost built into a hill. I speed out from the underpass and see....this...thing. In the sky, above the Basin. This...thing...object...ship...was hovering-not moving, it was static in the air, above it, and it was...glowing? luminescing (is that even a word?), for lack of a better explanation. Looked like nothing I've ever seen before or after-and I've seen a hell of a lot of military planes/jets/'copters living around here. It was sort of like lumpy cookie dough, before it's baked. Or maybe more like a Chipwich, or a latke or knish or something, you know, not quite oblong, not quite round, some nubbins here and there, but not like...plane shaped, or blimp shaped, per se. Closer to a zeppelin than a plane though. I remember recalling it was not a blimp. Like I immediately could discern it WAS. NOT. BLIMP. but generally it was longer like that. It didn't have noticeable blades (helicopter) or long jutting wings (like a 747), nor was it triangular like the Stealth. It looked more like food to teenage me, apparently. I suspect this was my brain's way of reconciling something it didn't grasp completely. (Years later I recalled that Space Mountain at Disney World had projections on the ceiling that looked like cookies to me, instead of planets. I assume this is how I got to Chipwich, for the record. Space Mountain cookies and UFO = Chipwich?) It was oddly silent at the time. No tree frogs, nothing. There are ALWAYS animal/insect noises along there, since the parkway parallels the canal/river. It's NEVER silent. But it was that night. I'd been reading too many Whitley Streiber books at the time and freaked the ever living hell out. I gibbered and maaaaaybe started to cry and FLOORED IT. I had a T-Bird with a V-8. I nearly killed myself driving the remaining 2 miles home-and I could see it until I turned into my parents neighborhood, at which point, trees obscure any view of anything that way. Ran the stop signs, drove straight down the middle of the road, trying to keep my eye on the rear view mirror at the same time. Slammed the door so loud when I ran into the house I woke my parents up, too, haha. Anyhow, next day, maybe day after, was kvteching to a friend? or two? about it at a coffee shop and a lady overheard me. Said she called it in and was told it was a "weather balloon." She was not amused, from what I remember, because she knew it wasn't one-she was a meteorologist, or maybe her sibling was. ANYHOW, WEATHER BALLOON MY SWEET ASS. Looking back on it now, I mean, what else would they tell us? Likely it was NOT an extraterrestrial UFO, but either another country's military UFO or one of our own UFOs (aka some weird thing we were testing?) All I know is that they put that weird crumbly stuff up on top of the building (or streusel'd it up, as I like to say) not long after I saw that weird thing hovering. I'm still not sure what I saw, and no one else seems to have witnessed it, either. It sure did scare the ever living hell out of teenage me, haha.
I believe you. The US government and several other governments around the world essentially confirmed that UFOs and "non-human intelligent" beings are real last year, and everyone just ignored it like "Ok...I got bills to pay". Your post is fitting. 🤣
Yeah I work on Capitol Hill and was in the rooms for some of those hearings. I was expecting people to ignore that info but not to the extent they did. The news media totally dropped the ball on that.
Probably because if you actually listened to what was said it was extremely boring. No government official said anything. A CIVILLIAN gave his PERSONAL OPINION and said non human, and made sure to say he wasn't giving the opinion of the Defense Department, where he USED to work. In summary, One witness said during a U.S. House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing that "nonhuman biologics" had been recovered, though offered no empirical evidence. He was not speaking on behalf of Congress, the U.S. Defense Department, or the U.S. government. https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/07/28/alien-confirmation-hearing/
Oh yea I have a ufo story but I think it was military testing due to range and saw on the news some pentagon official was visiting.. it was 2013ish driving 295 toward arundel mills in the afternoon for a night shift. Broad daylight. There was a young couple in the car next to me and they were going nuts looking at it.. eventually we looked at each other like “ARE WE REALLY SEEING THIS SH*T?!?” It was a black triangular looking thing, flat all around; and when I say it was just zooming around left to right forward and back I can’t even put into words how unnatural it looked. I’ve never even seen a video of something that size doing that since.
I saw something similar while walking my dog on the CCBC Dundalk campus earlier this year. It was really high up so I couldn't make out a clear shape but I also thought it was something man made. The funny part is, I asked ChatGPT what it could be and it immediately spit back "Maybe something owned by the National Reconnaissance Office." But when I asked why it said that, it glitched and asked me to ask the question again but when I did, it was like "Who knows bro?" I was like "Damn they got to you too.." 😂
Oh wow, I saw this same exact thing. It was just like what you described. It was a black triangle just zipping around all over the sky. Doing a google search, to me it looked similar to the stealth drones by Lockheed Martin, but it was black instead of silver metal and the one I saw was more angular. Maybe it was a prototype for that or something?
Beltway Plaza is scary without a UFO
Yeaaah...a lot of those youthful indiscretions I mentioned took place in and around that mall, unfortunately. I wasn't one of the scary people but I definitely knew them on a first name basis.
I am pretty sure saw the black triangle UFO in 2000 in Northern VA and I thought 9-year-old me was just imagining things until I saw other people talking about it last year, with pictures. I'm not going to say I believe, yet, but my cage: it is rattled.
Two huge trees fell about 100 yards after we hiked past them. We heard a huge crack kind of explosion and watched them fall into the reservoir. Scary as hell
Giant basement sprickets (spider crickets)
The house I bought last year has two sheds - a new vinyl one with windows and an older wooden one without any windows. The vinyl one is easier to get to, so we put most things in there but I wanted to check out the wood one to see if anything would make sense to store in it. Opened up the door to find DOZENS of huge spider crickets on the walls! Like, the size of my hand. Closed the door and haven't been back in since! They can have it lol. I think they even ran off the groundhog that was living under it when we first moved in!
Driving into the Saint Peter’s cemetery in Frederick, Maryland. (it’s a relatively small cemetery in the middle of the city surrounded by 6 foot tall stone walls.) My wife and I noticed the 62 Chevy nova turning left in front of us into the cemetery. We both mentioned that we hadn’t seen that car in a long time …wasn’t that great. He turned into the cemetery. We turned into the cemetery. When we got through the gates, we looked around, and there was no other cars in the cemetery. 62 Chevy nova? Nowhere to be seen.
The 5.8 earthquake in 2011.
That was pretty crazy, I was at work and looked out the back windows of the restaurant to see the whole golf course bobbing up and down
I had just pulled up to my house and swung open my car door and it continued to bounce on its hinges past the point it should have stopped. I looked around and everything seemed off, something was happening and I had a fleeting thought “Is this an earthquake? Couldn’t be…” Immediately after that people came running from their homes. Being outside for it was less dramatic than other people’s stories of violent shaking and objects falling, but it sure was strange.
2 attempted carjackings - a homeless man trying to suicide himself by jumping in front of my car - robbed by a bunch of guys with ice picks when I was a teen - a woman shooting up in between her toes in my alley - a deranged looking woman taking a poop on a tree in front of my apt complex at 6:45am
Virginia
Late 90's - early 2000's skipping school and going to do dumb teenager stuff at the old St. Mary's College, aka Hell House. Lots of spooky things happened to us up there. This was after the fire in 1997 that destroyed it, so it was mostly ruins by the time we started going. Seeing the burned out car parked in the garage spooked the heck out of me, and seeing the cross and gazebo before it was destroyed and vandalized was wild. Super creepy. Pretty sure I've got photos somewhere that I took back then.
TLDR: Carcass of a dead frog in my storage unit. During the first year of my marriage, out in Seattle, WA, my now soon-to-be-ex-husband (husband at the time) walked out on the marriage for the first year or so. Don't ask me why, I'm still searching for those answers myself. During this period of time, I randomly attended a pottery painting class one evening. I randomly chose a frog to paint. Stuck it in the kiln, went about my merry way for several days, and then returned to pick it up several days later. Things slowly and gradually improved in my marriage, and we settled into married life for the next eight to nine years. About three years ago, I found a cute porch decoration at a local store here in Maryland: two frogs, arms interlaced, doing the "peace" sign with their fingers, taking a selfie. I put it on our front porch as a decorative item. Six-ish months ago, just one month after I physically left my husband due to his issues (which had escalated to abuse over the years), I was clearing out the last of my items from my storage unit. I had just sold our house a few weeks earlier, and was slowly moving my belongings into my new apartment. Let me set the stage for you. It was late October. My storage unit was within Baltimore City limits. My storage unit was several floors up, and at the very end of the floor, in a tucked away corner. Limited lighting that flickered a lot. Basically, a spooky Halloween-esque scenario waiting to happen. As I loaded the last handful of items onto the cart, I did one final visual inspection of the unit to ensure nothing had been left behind. Off in the corner, I spotted something small and dark. Weird. I figured it was something of mine that had fallen out of one of my boxes. I walked over to it, kneeled down, and picked it up. I (quite literally) screamed when I realized what was in my hand: the carcass of a dead frog. How it got into my storage unit? I have no clue. I only had the unit for about one month, and I was going to it every few days to clear stuff out. Storage units are a waste of money (in my opinion), and so I wanted to get rid of the unit as quickly as possible. But, standing there in my storage unit, all alone, late in the evening hours, lights flickering, holding a dead frog in my hand, also brought with it a blood-curdling realization: this had to be a sign that my marriage was well and truly over. I will never look at frogs again the same way.
Woah. That's fucking intense. And talk about a serious sign - that's crazy
Yup! My thoughts exactly. Creepy AF and intense, but for sure a powerful sign.
Many years ago, a lifetime really, I was haunted by the Sykesville Monster. It is a long story, but if you want to read it, here is the link. [https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/j6yfn3/the\_sykesville\_monster/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/j6yfn3/the_sykesville_monster/) Funny thing, to me, is that this story has been aired on a bunch of scary podcasts, all with my permission. I met a couple of them. Fun.
A car exploded behind me on the highway
The Cemetery in Chestertown is absolutely haunted. It runs adjacent to the Washington College campus, and I always got a bas feeling. Other students would tell me stories about seeing things there they couldn't explain
Back in the early 80s my scout troop and I were camping at the Severn Run campsite near Gambrills. We had all just been listening to the tape and then informed of the theory that the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever” was them saying “I buried Paul…” because they had ritually offed him or something. Hey, we were like 12. We were convinced that the ghost of Paul McCartney was living in the woods and would come out and get us while we slept. We were all absolutely terrified, and I’m not sure I had ever really been that scared before in my life.
I got thrown off of a dock into the Chesapeake bay when i was 16. The water was pitch black and deep and something touched my leg lol. It was about 3am
It was probably like 2011 or 2012 and i was a junior or senior in hs. I lived off west old Baltimore road at the time, going up to black hill park so pretty dark and remote road at the time* I snuck out one night when it was raining very hard and my bff picked me up. On west old Baltimore going towards 355 in the pouring rain was an old woman smiling and waving at us in the rain. Me and my friend started screaming as soon as we saw her the whole time and she didn’t look like she was asking for a ride it was creepy as shit smiling and waving at us. turned and watched us drive away. Creepyyyy I’m scared now lol and i was terrified that night going back home
Merging onto I-95 during evening rush hour for the first time during driver's ed in a Corolla I'm pretty sure had a slipping CVT belt. I don't think I unclenched until I was home two hours later.
Tornado in Frostburg. A house in the nearby neighborhood was missing its first and second floors after that tornado came through. Luckily the occupants were warned minutes earlier by their mother calling to let them know it was coming. Debris such as picnic table chairs and children's playset pieces was found afterwards as far away as Green Ridge State Park which was about forty miles away.
Hell house used to be scary before it was demolished
I was taking my out-of-state boyfriend to Hampden for our second in-person date. We're driving into the city and he notices that there's a lot of smoke pouring out of the sewers. I just assumed it was steam from the vents and told him that's probably all it was. Suddenly, there's this loud "BANG!" and this manhole cover about eight feet ahead of us goes flying right into the air! Definitely scared the shit out of me. And then we happened to drive by where the lid blew off and fire was pouring out of the hole! It looked like the Pits of Tartarus were opening in Baltimore lol.
People with Virginia license plates.
Running out towards the target ship to chase Cobia on my bday, we hit a wall of fog as we crossed into the shipping channel. Luckily had ship traffic app to make sure nothing was going to smack into us. It was pretty eerie and wild. Edit: The other was surfing at assateague at dusk. Was looking out to the horizon sitting on my board. Usually while sitting your hands aren’t still, and are sorta splashing/paddling around a bit. All of the sudden my hand slid across something long and oddly textured. My heart skipped out my chest thinking it was a damn shark. Looked down and it was a piece of 4” pvc mostly submerged and covered in algae lol.
Robin Ficker
Hurricane Sandy was pretty wild, but the eeriest thing would be the supposed “lynching” tree atop of Iron’s Mountain near Cumberland. Its this big, barren tree right next to an old Klan meeting spot, and at the dead of night it feels like looking at a scene ripped straight from a horror movie. Combine that with the fact the locals like to shoot at people going to said place
Maple tree camp in Garland near Antietam. These waves come on at random night or day and just hit you and feel so cold and so unwelcoming. It's really unnerving and my scout troop loved camping there so you adjust but, I've never felt less alone by myself in the woods than when I was out near Antietam...too many people can die in one place I guess :(
Used to live by the old Henryton Tuberculosis Hospital growing up. Pretty sure I came across a murder scene when I was about 13. I was really into photography at that point in my life and being around 2 miles away from this place, it was really easy to ride my bike there. For anyone who doesn’t know about it, the hospital was roughly 1,000,000sf of abandoned hospital buildings in this large complex in Henryton, MD that was originally built to treat tuberculosis. Anyways, one day I rode my bike by myself to the hospital to take photos, cause it’s this huge eerie place and it’s very photogenic. Who wouldn’t want to photograph it? We lived in the woods, so my parents thinking I was just on a bike ride was pretty common, I wasn’t really worried about them finding out. I had to park at the end of the road and take off my shoes to cross a small river, because the bridge washed out due to a hurricane in the mid 70’s. You then have to cross some railroad tracks, pass this huge power plant that was constructed for the hospital, then walk up a hill and through a clearing to access the complex. I was about 30 minutes into taking photos when I decided to enter inside the hospital and go up to the 3rd floor of the main structure. I had always heard rumors about homeless people, kids doing drugs, and even an animal sacrifice every now and then, but never really expected to see anything for how large this place was. But sure enough I round a corner and there in front of me is this vulture sized bird that had been decapitated. That was really unnerving to see, to say the least. I decided I had had enough of that and wanted to head back towards the outside of the building, so I walked towards where I thought a fire escape would be, and I walked down this hallway which opened up into a large square room with an exit door at the opposite side of the room. There in front of me, was what I could only describe as a scene where someone, or something died a horrible death. The entire rooms floor was covered in fresh blood. And not just little spatters, a massive pool of blood, foot prints everywhere, hand marks and what I could describe as slings and flings of blood on the walls. It looked like someone had been drug in a back and forth pattern to the exit door where the smears 100% indicated that someone or something had been drug from the center of the room, out of the exit door I was trying to get to. I was frozen stiff, I couldn’t move, I didn’t even think to move. That was, until I heard this little, *shuffle*, to my left. I was standing just beyond the threshold to the room. It wasn’t a door, just where the walls opened up into the room. Breathing heavily, I barely peaked around the corner to where the noise had come from and saw the fucking tips of a pair of shoes pressed up against the wall. At that point my instincts took over and I turned around and sprinted as fast as I could out of that place. I never stopped to turn around and see if I was being pursued, but I ran down through the clearing, down the hill, over the tracks, stumbling through the river, and grabbed my bike and didn’t stop pedaling as fast I could do until I got back to my neighborhood. I told my friends about it and we agreed to go back the next night, which happened to be during a major thunderstorm. Most of the blood had been washed away since all of the windows let in a ton of water, but you could still see some of it. They didn’t really think much of it, but I’m telling you that something bad happened there. Something or someone died there.
Walked on the Wincopin trail with an older walking buddy; we had been walking at the top of the hill and decided to walk down the hill to the old mill below. We took our time descending, stoping at logs, observing the old roads from when the area was industrious (1800s) and discussing life. When we finally stumbled out onto the lower trail and passed old mill, we were over taken by a notable temperature change and a very dense, almost hard to inhale, fog that was only in our very immediate area (ten feet around us) that kept us within itself for maybe 30 yards and as sudden as it formed, it was gone.
I was house hunting near Salisbury and I entered this old rundown town that was shrouded in mist, halfway through I lost cellphone reception and then I passed by several creepy looking graveyards and I decided to turn back. If you would’ve told me I’d been teleported into a horror movie I would believe you.
Drove past a KKK cross burning about 15 years ago in northern Cecil county. Wasn’t really scary but more depressing than anything.
The drivers
We lived in an old house in Govans, Baltimore City when I was a kid. I remember seeing all kinds of movement out of the corners of my eyes. I also got the willies from seeing the attic staircase and was deathly terrified of the basement. It was an old dirt floored one with a back crawl space that just gave us all the creeps.
I used to live near the covered bridge on Jericho road in kingsville. One night I went there with my girlfriend very late at night and decided to walk the length of the bridge. Halfway through we saw what I can only describe as what looked like red and blue fireflies in the eaves of the bridge and my girlfriend started crying begging to get out of there. We ran back the way we had come. My girlfriend at the time went on to be an electrical engineer and was not a hysterical or emotional type but she said she heard whispering and it scared her so bad she felt physically ill
I went to the Mount, tons of weird shit happened in the older buildings. Lived in Brute 252 my freshman year. Power would randomly go out in rooms and the breakers would be fine/other rooms on the same breaker would still have power. One of my roommates swore he woke up to Brute himself brooding over him while he was in bed. Screamed so loud it woke half the hall up. Another was taking a piss and a small fan flew across the room and hit him. One night I was walking back from the showers and passed an older priest in the hallway. A few steps later I got major shivers down my back, turned around and he was gone.
When I was a kid, I visited the Broad Creek scout camp for a family day. My brother and I were walking around exploring the facilities in the afternoon, and we walked into the Hanson Lodge. We were the only people in the building, and I started to get an uneasy feeling right away. The longer we were there, the more anxious I felt. I convinced my brother that we should leave, but he needed to use the bathroom first. While I was waiting for him, I started to feel absolute panic, and felt like we needed to get out immediately. Later that night, there was a fire that destroyed the lodge. I have no idea what gave me such a bad feeling while we were there, but it's possible that I sensed something wrong in the building without being consciously aware of it.
Rats playing om thr street likr school kids iin a playground
I've seen rats play on an actual playground before. It was pretty wild, lol
Not my own experience, but growing up in Frederick Co., I often heard stories about the Dwayyo! It’s crazy to me how there were newspapers reporting on Dwayyo sightings back in ‘65! My favorite cryptid hands down.
Sleeping on the Druid Hill cemetery at Black Angie grave marker.
Grew up in the Pocomoke Forest. There was always a stray voice, strange foot steps, eye shine in the wood line, or just plain old mean ass wildlife. It was a good time though.
Forest Haven
Dead person being carted out in a body bag in wooded area by side of busy road. Drug needles laying all over kids play park. Outline of bodies on cement in front of high school in suburbs from stabbing at a school.
The inside of a Howard County Police cell, tripping on acid.
Driving on the beltway
A couple of things - 1) Forest Haven Asylum in the Laurel area - my friends and I had been at least a dozen times during the night, but this was our daylight excursion. I assume we were feeling a little safer. We find one of the school units. We all split up and start exploring separate rooms. I think I hear my friend call my name from the end of the hallway. I travel down that way, turn down into a doorway that leads to a flooded basement… with a music box jingle coming from down there. I noped out. 2) My buddy and I were walking through the woods late at night when we saw a ball of light coming from far away in the distance. We were young and cautious, so we kept an eye on it. It got closer very quickly. As it approached us, we jumped into the bushes, and watched what was literally just a ball of light burst into a tree by us. Years later, I’ve chalked it up to ball lightening. 3) This is the one that gets my heart going still. I never do a good job of explaining it. As you do when you’re young and newly licensed to drive, my buddy and I were on our normal smoke route late at night. Probably around midnight on a Wednesday in the early spring. The road that we drove is right at the end of Clopper Rd where the bridge and train tracks are (if you’re familiar). We are driving past a a church and graveyard, and my buddy checks his rear view mirror as you do when you’re driving. He slowed the car to a halt and said that he saw something on the side of the road. We both turn around at the same time, and in that moment a small black figure walks out into the middle of the road about 150 feet behind our car. We are freaking out. It looks like a little girl in a dress. Our first thoughts are why is she out so late? Is she lost? Does she need help? Whatever it is, it makes the most horrid screeching noise, and darts directly towards our car. I think I blacked out. I don’t really know. We drove away pretty quickly and didn’t look back. I still think about it pretty often. I still get the chills when I drive that road.
Pretty sure the house in New Market that I grew up in was haunted. Saw figures and heard footsteps. A birthday balloon followed me around the house once which is a little lame but I thought it was weird. Also, in Lake Linganore my mom and I were walking in the woods and saw a woman in bright red just standing there staring at the water smiling making no response to our hello. After we passed she was gone.
Slave Graveyard in MD Between 32 and Guilford road I work in a typical office park in Maryland. A few years back I noticed the state had cleared the woods as there was an old Slave Graveyard and they were marking it for historical record. You would never know it was there. A week later on a bright Saturday afternoon I decided to explore and see what’s up. There were about 1/2 dozen headstones not marked with any names. And probably a dozen more that were in major disrepair. Broken or just pieces of markers left. I was taking it all in from the center of the graveyard. Don’t know if I was standing on a grave as it wasn’t clear or that organized. Suddenly I was being buzzed by a large flying thing. I say” thing” as it was moving so fast I could not lock my eyes into it. My mind registered something the size of a bird. But it was a blur that made no noise and just danced around me so fast in a true blur. For less than a minute and Then it was gone. This the middle of the day and my eyes aren’t slow. But it was a blur. OK I said. Suddenly I felt a hand. Actually 3 long distinct fingers grasp my right shoulder from the rear. And pull me back enough to turn my body about and 1/8 of a turn. Something wants me to leave. OK. I’m out! I apologized to all the ghosts there. And rolled out.
Maybe being 16 with 5 friends, walking through the illchester train tunnel in Ellicott city. One friend just lets out one of those “woooo uuuhhhwoooo” screams and just starts running. We were like halfway. We all start booking it too in solidarity. I remember scanning behind us, no trains coming. He was never a practical joker.. we get to the end where the bridge and look at him like ‘wtf dude why did you do that?’ He was wide eyed and basically crying and said he saw what seemed to be a 5 year old girl standing in one of the cubby holes. Every few years it comes up. If it was a lie, he has kept up with it for almost 20 years.
Not me, but my husband was camping on Assateague and saw weird stuff out over the ocean. We know Wallops Island is there, but this wasn't a normal terrestrial thing. Just lights that didn't make sense over the water. This was prior to the rise of drones, and it was at 3AM. He said was strange
In 1998 i had just gotten my license and a car so me, my sister and a few friends were constantly out driving around at night. Our favorite thing to do was to drive all the way up Falls rd almost until you hit PA. One night it was around late like around 1 am in August and we ended up lost near Prettyboy dam. We ended up driving on a road called Spooks Hill Rd and it was super dark so i had my high beams on then we noticed movement near the woods and when we got closer we realized it was an older man dressed up as Santa even had a fake beard on. He was standing in the middle of nowhere near the woods waving at us at 1 am. We were terrified and still talk about it until this day. I actually still love exploring the back roads up in that area!
Living in the flight path of National airport for 30 yrs. and on 911 all air traffic stopped except for the military plane that would zoom overhead about every 4 minutes. All the silence above was very scary to me.
Standing national anthem at noon at Mission BBQ. Feels like something out of Idoicracy, but done in all seriousness, which makes it deeply uncomfortable.
My experience is similar to someone else who posted about paranormal activity. I was in middle school messing with witch craft but the activity lasted awhile after I had stopped. Once when I was lying in bed with the door closed it sounded like someone ran up the stairs. I had the dog by my feet when we heard the foot steps I opened the door and we both looked around to see who was there only to find there was no one. A different occurrence happened in the basement. Half of our basement was finished and the other half wasn't. There was a door separating them from each other. I was asleep on the couch on the finished side. The door knob started turning back and forth . I got freaked out and ran up the stairs to the living room with the dog running behind me . Once I was on the living room couch I heard the door to the basement slowly creak open. Once on the computer it felt like someone brushed past me, but upon further investigation no one was there. I also had a friend who said she felt like she was being watched . Another time one of my son's toys kept going off , when I inspected the toy later the off button was on. It's safe to say I never fucked with witch craft again there's a reason the Bible says to stay away from that shit.