12 Real Stories So Weird, They Deserve Their Own Netflix Series

Some life scenarios are so bizarre, they sound like fever dreams scribbled at 3 a.m. From chance encounters that rewrite lives to twists you’d never dare invent, these real-life tales blur the line between absurdity and destiny. Buckle up, because reality just outdid fiction.

• Had my laptop in my bed just before going to sleep (not plugged in, on battery). Made an offhand comment on some website about how I wasn’t scared of ghosts and didn’t believe in them. Then I turned it off and went to sleep with the laptop beside me in my bed.
  The next morning, when I try to power it on, nothing happens. But the laptop feels unusually light. That’s when I realized the battery had been physically removed and placed in the kitchen. I was alone in my apartment and do not have a history of sleepwalking at all. © NEETscape_Navigator / Reddit

• My friends and I got a cheap set of walkie-talkies from Walmart and were playing around with them in the middle of the day. There’s a bit of silence as we’re trying to figure out the volume and out of nowhere there’s a male voice saying “mayday mayday mayday” that comes through all of our walkie-talkies, and it definitely sounds like it from one of those aircraft headsets. We try to answer back, but there’s no response.
  I called non-emergency, but they said there weren’t any reports of distressed aircraft or ships and even if there were, they couldn’t do anything about it. © delalilama / Reddit

• Growing up, I had a friend named Adam. He was never able to come out during the day, only right before all of us kids had to go home for the evening. Adam lived a few houses over, in a house with an overgrown yard.
  I met his parents once. They were very strange, didn’t smile, and obviously didn’t want me there. I remember Adam telling me that he was sick, that’s why he couldn’t play that much. He was a small boy, pale with dark hair.
  Eventually, Adam stopped showing up all together. And I eventually moved on, though I do remember going to his house a couple times to see if he could come play, and his dad just gave me this look before closing the door in my face.
  Later in life, I asked my sister if she remembered him. She doesn’t, and according to my parents — that house was empty the entire time we lived there.
  I don’t know who Adam was, I don’t know why I so vividly remember him and his parents. As far as I can tell, he wasn’t real — and yet I have perfect memories of him and his parents. © Rosewhisper / Reddit

• Not quite sure how young I was at the time, but it was probably between 5-8. I was in my babysitter bed at the time in her trailer park. It was 3:00am, I had woken up because I had to pee.
  When I woke up, I looked down the hallway to see my babysitter leaning against the wall like one of the stereotypical cool guys do in movies. And I made eye contact and I felt my body go cold because she was still sound asleep next to me in bed.
  I went under the blankets trying to hide and when I looked back she was gone. I didn’t want to sound crazy, so I’ve never told anyone. I just sat in her bed watching infomercials until 6:00am, when she woke up. Never even thought about sleeping there again.
  I honestly forget how much this affected me until I started writing this. Really freaked me out, man. © joejimhoe / Reddit

• When I was 7 or 8, I would have a reoccurring nightmare that one of my dolls came to life, played with me, and then would try to pull me into my closet with her. I’d follow her into the closet at first, but then she’d show me this little door at the back of the closet, and my heart would start to race.
  I don’t know what it was about that door, but I knew something bad would happen if I went through it. I’d start to struggle and try to pull away, but the doll was too strong and would start pulling me through the door.
  At this point in the dream, I’d always wake up screaming. The worst part was I had night terrors, so sometimes I’d wake up standing next to my closet. Every night before bed, I’d make my parents make sure there wasn’t a little door at the back of my closet. There never was.
  Anyway, I was talking to my mom the other day and this dream came up. I’m laughing about it and how ridiculously paranoid I was about dolls and that closet, but my mom gets really quiet. She tells me the creepy part of that dream wasn’t the doll.
  It was the fact that there used to be a little door at the back of the closet, but when I was one year old, they remodeled the house and put a wall where the door used to be. There’s no way I could have remembered that door, but years later, I kept dreaming about it. © plutoaintnodwarf / Reddit

• I grew up on a 2-acre home with plenty of trees and room for an 8 yr old to run around. Our house also was heated in winter by a wood fireplace, so we would periodically cut down one of our own trees to save money.
  Well for about 2 years, there was a stump less than a foot tall near the house, and at least once a day, without fail, I would see someone standing on the stump. Usually it was out of the corner of my eye, but once or twice I looked directly at him.
  I always looked away quickly, cuz it startled me, and he was gone, but my sister says she experienced the same thing. Nothing ever came of it, tho. © Unknown author / Reddit

• My husband (then bf) and I were laying on his trampoline one night looking up at the stars and stuff when all of a sudden a chunk of the sky starts moving/billowing. It looked like a green screen shifting, and had to be a few miles wide. We both saw it and still have no idea what it could have been. © taylorthecreator_ / Reddit

• Every morning, I need to wake up at 5 am to get the 5:30 bus to the train station to go to university. I had to be there by 8 am, but I like to get there half an hour early. To get to the bus stop, I have to walk down this bike path and under this bridge to get to this quiet backstreet road.
  There is all light on the bike path. This street is dead quiet. The right side of the road is a continuation of the bike path, and the left is a normal footpath with a long green hedge.
  One morning, I was standing there waiting for a bus and this old woman comes walking out from under the bridge. I didn’t see her at first because as I said it was pitch black on the bike path. She crosses the road and walks up to me. She asked me if I knew where X road was.
  I turned to point in the direction of the road she was looking for. I turned back and she was gone. This old woman who was walking at a snail’s pace disappeared within 3 seconds. © Vioventy / Reddit

• My neighbor was dying of a heart condition about 6 years ago. He knew he was, so he was giving away his valuables to people he trusted with them.
  The neighbor gave me his tackle box. He loved to fish. I would see him come home from fishing every day, and he’d just sit on his porch and skin fish. I just put the tackle box in my closet and didn’t really do anything with it, since I don’t fish.
  Anyways, soon after, he passed away in his home. Exactly a week after that, I woke up to the tackle box at the foot of my bed. Weird, but my stepdad likes to mess around, figured it was him, so I put it back.
  The next morning, I wake up, it’s at the foot of my bed again. So, I ask my stepdad what the deal was, and he had no idea what I was talking about.
  To test this, I put the tackle box in a spot that he wouldn’t find, nor would he attempt to get it. Under my bed, all the way in the back against the wall, and I put stuff in front of it to conceal it. Next morning, nothing. Okay, I guess it was him. Didn’t give it much thought after that.
  3 days pass, I wake up one morning and there it is, at the foot of my bed. Now I’m starting to freak out. So I did what any rational person would and I went fishing with it. After I went fishing, I put the tackle box away, and it hasn’t moved since then. It’s still there. © Unknown author / Reddit

• Just after high school, I was a van driver who drove the meals for Meals on Wheels to the place where they get packaged up and taken for home delivery.
  Anyway, the delivery van only had AM/FM radio, and I was listening to 92.5 FM, when all of a sudden the station cuts out and a transmition that I can only describe as an American version of a numbers station began playing. It was seemingly random numbers followed by a long period of the same phrase repeated over and over again.
  The phrase was “they took the crosstown bus,” over and over again. None of the other drivers heard it, but man was it creepy to hear. Eventually the regular radio station came back on and they never mentioned anything about it. © bobswowaccount / Reddit

• The scariest thing I saw was at the age of 16, I woke up early in the morning (4:30-5-ish AM). Me and some friends were supposed to go on a road trip for the weekend (we had a long af ride to one of the stops we wanted to visit, and didn’t wanna be there too late). I look out my window, and it’s still a kinda dark outside, I walk downstairs and see wet footprints all over the house, and suddenly a big man (Like 6’7’’, I was around 6’1’’ at the time) just bolt past me and out the front door. © V*******l / Reddit

• So, me and my girlfriend just moved into this new Airbnb. The place was fine, nothing fancy, but on like the third night we noticed this little blinking thing above the curtain rod.
  At first, I thought it was just some old smoke detector or whatever, but when I climbed up, it looked way too much like a tiny camera with a mic hole. We freaked out. Took it down right away and shoved it in a drawer because, y’know, no, thanks to being spied on in our own place.
  Next day my phone rings. It’s the landlord. First thing he asks is: “Why did the device in your unit stop sending a signal? I can’t track it anymore.” My stomach dropped. I told him we found it and removed it.
  He goes silent for a second and then says, super annoyed, “That was stupid. It’s not a camera. It’s a device for catching flies. The climate there is bad, the bugs get inside, it keeps them down. Now you’ll regret taking it off.” He hung up after that.
  We decided to move out after all, because even if it was an anti-bug device, why would the landlord keep track of it? We just didn’t feel safe in that apartment anymore.

These 11 real-life tales prove that the most unsettling things don’t come from movies, they come from everyday homes, quiet streets, and seemingly innocent children. Reality can be far scarier than fiction. Check the bonus section, where Reddit users solved some really creepy mystery.