Rat chews on boy's face while he sleeps
[ranking: 12]
"Woke up to a rat eating my cousins eyebrows, while sharing a a bed."
Man checks on car on the side of the road; finds dead man "sleeping" inside
[ranking: 5]
"I drove past a car on my way to class (in college). I always took the back roads to avoid traffic, so it was a bit odd to have a car parked on the side of the road. When I came back from class it was still there. I drove by a bit more slowly and saw what I thought was someone sleeping in there. I thought that was odder still, but maybe someone was traveling and decided to pull off to take a rest and just fell asleep longer than they planned? Nope, next morning I read in the paper a wife killed her husband and dumped his body and the car on that back road."
Man wakes up with mysterious handprint on his chest
[ranking: 6]
"I once woke up with the outline of a hand print on my chest. I measured it and it was too small for my hand and too large for my wife's hand."
While family watches "The Birds" actual bird triggers potentially fatal gas leak
[ranking: 17]
"Years ago, around Halloween, my family had gathered to watch scary movies. My mom loved these shows. My dad didn't care much for them, so he would get up every few minutes to work on some thing or other.
We had started watching Hitchcock's The Birds, and it was getting late, probably close to midnight... and it was getting cold. Not just the late October chill of the foothills we lived it, the house was getting cold.
At first my mom just asked my dad to turn up the thermostat, but after couple minutes of the furnace running and the house not warming up, he realized he'd need to go check the furnace.
He grabbed a lighter and headed downstairs. A minute later, we hear him shout for us.
'You have to come see this!' He says with something that sounds part excitement, part nervousness in his voice.
We get down there to see him shining a flashlight into the furnace. Peering in, first we just noticed the pilot light was indeed out. Then we saw the reason. A dead bird. Something about the size of the palm of my hand, maybe a sparrow, had flown into the furnace from outside and put the flame out."
Alarms go off and phones ring simultaneously in the middle of the night
[ranking: 9]
"All of the alarms in my house went off at exactly midnight, then later in the night, all of the phones in my house rung at exactly 3 AM. I watched The Babadook the day before with my girlfriend, and needless to say I was terrified."
Man goes out for pizza; narrowly avoids cougar attack
[ranking: 8]
"I was out in the middle of nowhere at a musical conference my wife was presenting held at an old church retreat camp. One of her presentations ran way over so the lodge's cafeteria was closed. With no car, no phone (this area was so remote there was no coverage for mobile), and no vending machines, the only resort was to walk into the nearest town and get food. I grabbed a coat and flashlight and had no issue on the trip down and snagged a pizza from a spot along the highway around midnight.
On the way back it was a different story. I got a severe feeling of discomfort, I could feel eyes on me. This was out in the middle of the woods, so my first instinct is there is an animal following me. Knowing most predators like to hit from either above or behind I turned on my phone light and kept it pointed behind me and swept my flashlight up and down as I walk. The whole walk back I heard rustlings, first along one side, then following behind. I kept a steady pace and acted cool... even though I was terrified.
Shortly before I was back on site, the feeling left, no more sounds. My wife and I enjoyed pizza and slept in. Two days later we got a shock from the news. A homeless woman was found less than 1500 yards from our site that had been mauled and partially consumed in what appeared to be a cougar attack. Estimates of the time of death were the same night I went out for pizza."
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