Some people don’t need to watch horror movies to feel scared—they’ve lived through chilling moments themselves. While some strange events have clear explanations, others leave you questioning what really happened. The true stories we’ve collected today will stay on your mind long after you finish reading.
The Story:
I woke up at 3 a.m. to get some water. I heard my son’s voice coming from his room, saying, “Mom, can you turn off the light?” Without thinking, I switched it off. As I got back to bed, I realized… my son wasn’thome; he was on a camping trip. I rushed to his room and froze—it was empty. I was sure I had heard his voice, or at least someone speaking in a sleepy tone. When I told my husband, he just laughed and said it was probably all in my head, but I know what I heard. That moment still freaks me out.
The Enfield Monster
In 1973, a man in Enfield, Illinois told reporters that he saw a weird little creature lurking in his yard. Per the Mt. Vernon Register-News, resident Henry McDaniel stated:
It had three legs on it, a short body, two little short arms, and two pink eyes as big as flashlights.
The police later found scratches on the door screen and footprints that looked like a dogs but with six toes. “If they do find it,” McDaniel said in the newspaper, “they will find more than one and they won’t be from this planet, I can tell you that.” To this day, no explanation has ever been found.
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The Suicide Hotel
In Colombia, the Hotel Del Salto has more stories as one of the most haunted places on Earth more than it does actual tenants. Turned into a museum, the hotel was designed by designed by architect Carlos Arturo Tapias back in 1923, overlooking the Tequendama Falls. The views were said to be spectacular, but guests kept getting a little too close to the falls. Translated to “Hotel of the Leap,” the Hotel Del Salto is full of stories of people leaping to their deaths. According to local legend, the Indigenous Muisca tribe escaped from Spanish colonizers by leaping off the cliffs some centuries before.
