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94 Weird Encounters People Kept Secret Because They Knew How Ridiculous They Sounded

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Life is full of experiences. Some are good, some are bad, and others turn into stories we love telling people. But then there are those strange moments that are so hard to explain; we often keep them to ourselves. After all, who would believe something that sounds completely made up?
Today, we came across an interesting online thread asking people, “What’s the weirdest thing you’ve experienced that you rarely tell people because you know how it sounds?” The answers were quite something. We've picked out some of the most unusual ones for you. Keep scrolling to read these strange experiences and see if you've ever had any. 

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#61

My uncle passed away while I was at a sleepover. I distinctly remember waking up in the middle of the night seeing him standing in the closet (no door) with light at his back. I knew something was wrong. Years later he came to see me in a dream, much happier.
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#62

I have deja vu fairly often. I'll dream something months before it happens. My grandma did too.
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#63

When my Gma transitioned I was living hours away. Afterwards I would go walking to this certain park and always in this same spot I could smell her perfume. No one would be there but me. One day my mom visited and I took her to the park.. the exact spot and she told me she could feel her presence there.
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#64

I walked out of my apartment,& saw my doppelgänger get into a taxi.
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#65

After I watched my granny pass at home after that anytime I was in the kitchen I’d feel a gust of air behind me or feel as if someone was standing behind me. I believe it was her. It only happened in the kitchen.
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#66

12 minute commute- 9 on a good day- straight shot, no traffic, after a night shift. Literally only one left turn off the main road to get to my neighborhood. Rare night we left on time around 10:30. I was kind of tired, a little zoned out. The trees were almost hypnotically identical. Then, I saw the same barn i thought id made note of already- the five minutes from home mark. As soon as I clocked it, it was like everything was jolted back into focus. I looked at the clock and it was 11:45pm.
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#67

After my mom passed away, I was driving and listening to the radio. I was missing her fiercely. Her very favorite band was "Hall and Oates". I was crying and I said, "I'm going to change the radio station. If you're here with me, prove it by playing Hall and Oates". I changed the station and the first one I landed on was smack in the middle of a H&O song. I can't tell you how much comfort that gave me.
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#68

A side profile of a woman at night with city lights, representing weird things people experienced alone in the dark.
So many things but the most recent is I was at an outdoor music venue, and I was admiring the night sky while listening to the music, completely sober. I looked up and in my head asked if there was anyone/thing out there to make themselves known.
In about two seconds an orb appeared way up and then disappeared. It was not a cloudy day, it was not an airplane. It was in fact, something making themselves know. No fear.
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#69

My brother passed away in May 2022. His first grandchild, a girl, was due to be born in September. In early September, I found two lonely monarch butterfly caterpillars. I brought them inside & they made their chrysalis' within a day or two. The day before my grandniece was born, a male monarch eclosed (came out of chrysalis). I placed him on a bush outside & wished him safe travels. The next day, a female monarch eclosed.
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#70

I used to say I had really bad Deja Vu because I can see moments that have yet to happen & have been able to since I was a little girl. I have no idea when it’s supposed to happen but like clockwork, when it does, I’m just “ohhhh right, okay.”

And I’ve had my great-granny (nana) & two of my Grandaddy’s yell at me about something that my mama wasn’t doing. NONE of them ever yelled at me while they were alive. Having ppl in the other realm yell at you is WILD. Happened day before my 33rd (I’m 34).
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#71

My roommates and I all have encounters with the same friendly spirit that lived in our dorm room. She’d gently tuck in the blankets around me/us at night. On each of our birthdays, my roommate’s stereo (not turned on) would play “Happy Birthday” (piano instrumental) in the morning. She’d use the same method to greet us Merry Christmas by playing carols.
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#72

I didn’t know astral projection was uncommon til my friends in elementary school looked at me like an alien when I asked why they don’t just go somewhere else when they have a bad dream I can still vividly remember the entire aerial view of my childhood neighborhood.
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#73

I dreamt about the private jet that just crashed a few days before it happened. I woke up and told my husband very vivid details about what I saw. I told him it crashed in the middle of the street & I even heard the screaming. I got chills when the news broke about the crash bc it was exactly what I dreamt.
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#74

I have very prophetic dreams. I don’t dream often, but when I do, they’re almost always very strange. Events don’t translate literally, but many times something related to the dream will unfold within a few days.
Biggest example in the next thread:.
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#75

My late dad communicates through songs and it’s often HYSTERICAL His sense of humor and irony is not lost in other world!
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#76

I experienced a Kundalini awakening in the summer of 2021, right at my 50th birthday and lasted almost a full month. My life has never been the same since!
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#77

I seen my passed away father figure clear as day sitting in my living room not long after he had passed.
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#78

Having conversations with late loved ones when I’m in a visitation state of consciousness.
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#79

I’d be here ALL day lol

Since I was a child I saw spirits. People visit me before they pass (hate this btw). When my grandmother passed, I experienced the same weird dreams I did when I was pregnant. It was like a reverse birth (hard to explain) but she’s definitely with me. Everything that happened in those dreams, played out during the days leading up to her funeral.

I know when a woman will miscarry. HATE this too btw, but I’ll never tell them, I don’t have the heart.
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#80

My grandfather passed in a shadey way, he was afraid to go, he thought he would go to hell for being gay, I knew this wasn’t true but long story short I was arrested the day of his funeral and was grieving so heavily in jail and one of the girls one day just asked me to “tell me about him” trying to cheer me up and that night I was led into a weird hospital room with BRIGHT light coming through behind him and he was TALL and STRONG like i remembered him to be and he embraced me.
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