The following written confession was submitted via email: …We had moved our stuff in and after that and my first night there I stayed alone. I was big into video games at the time and on my first night there I hooked up my game system made myself comfortable started playing. Well as I was sitting there for about 30 minutes I had the feeling that someone was standing by my left shoulder…

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The following written confession was submitted via email: …I walked out the front door and noticed to my right a deep black smoky snake looking thing and it was sitting/arching upright on the right side of the window and looked like it was looking into the kitchen window. It was less than 10 feet away from me…

The following written confession was shared by username1987: This is the story of our 'rainbow people.' I was woken up at about 3 a.m. to the sound of footsteps in our bedroom. They were heavy, shuffling footsteps. I opened my eyes, expecting to see my husband returning from the bathroom, but there was someone else there instead….

The following written confession was submitted online anonymously: This is my husband's story, but he won't speak of it anymore. He wants to forget it completely. So I'll tell the story. My husband and two of his cousins were driving late at night, coming back from the city. All of a sudden, their car broke down in farmland just before the dirt road that brings them home to the reserve. One of his cousins stood dead still, looking into the field, and asked them to come look….

The following written confession was shared via Thought Catalog: My little brother had a psychotic episode after taking acid and staying up for multiple days. He ended up being admitted to a mental institution for a week or so and it was really traumatic for my mom but I believed he would make it out the other side okay. We went to pick him up, took him home, my mom went to bed but he was still acting very ‘off’…

The following written confession was shared via Reddit: Let me preface this by saying I don't hallucinate, nor am I psychotic. This has been bothering me since it happened a couple years ago. Before this incident, I used to leave the door to my room open, which has a full-length mirror fastened to it….

The following written confession was shared via Reddit: Around 2005, right after college, I moved back to my home town San Diego. A lot of my friends still lived there so it was a super easy transitions. It was also super easy to find friends to go ghost hunting as we all loved to get creeped out. I am from Chula Vista so the legend of the Proctor Valley Monster was nothing new. It’s a folkloric story about a few different tropes….

The following written confession was submitted via email: I was listening to 507, I believe it was. Where you started off talking to a mans son who saw what he called the hat man. I also had a similar experience when I was like 8 years old. It was the silhouette of a man, no detail just black, side view silhouette of a man. Wearing like an overcoat with a gangster hat or Fedora…

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The following written confession was shared via Reddit: …I had my back to the door and was just reading a children's bedtime story to my almost asleep son, when I heard from behind me, my Dad's voice calling my name. It startled me, as we were home alone. I turned around quickly to see my Dad just rounding the corner heading down the stairs…

The following written confession was shared via Reddit: …When I was a kid about 11 or 12 I used to walk to and from school and I would always take a shortcut through the local cemetery. One day after school I was talking my shortcut through the cemetery as usual and I tripped and fell. As I went to get up I saw bare feet in front of me and I immediately felt very uneasy…

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The following written confession and video were submitted via email: Over the years I’ve seen things in the sky since I was a wee boy and this is the latest one. The first one was in the late ‘70’s when I saw a disc shaped object fly low and slowly over the street were we used to live. It was dark like the night sky but I could make out the outline of whatever it was. It past over then looked like it was going down but disappeared….

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