25 Unsolved Mysteries That Still Keep People Up At Night

Have you ever had the impression that someone or something is observing you even while you are alone? Alternatively, perhaps you’ve had an odd experience that, no matter how many times you play it back in your mind, just doesn’t make sense. Many people enjoy mysteries, but sometimes they become so engrossed in them that they can’t sleep at night.

These unsettling incidents often stay with you for a very long time and give you shivers whenever you think back on them. We have 33 eerie tales that show that, occasionally, the real world is indeed stranger than fiction.

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I had a whole day lost. Friday night I went to bed, and Sunday morning I woke up. There was no sign of any disturbance, no activity on my phone, and no proof that I had even existed the day before. It didn’t happen again, and I felt fantastic. After torturing my brain over this for ten years, I’m going to give up and assume it’s alien activity.

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Though I’m a strong sceptic, I used to participate in a “12 days of Christmas” tradition as a kid, where we would doorbell ditch neighbourhoods and leave themed gifts for the residents. This occurred in Arizona’s north. While turning into a neighbourhood at the edge of the desert, my buddies and I were in the truck’s bed when we noticed a man crouching just under the street light at the end of a dead end. I thought right away that he was homeless, but I didn’t understand why they were so far out of town. Then I saw that he was only a dark silhouette because he was crouching *directly* under the light.

Can you picture going to bed on a Friday night and then not remembering or seeing anything from the day that was missing when you wake up on Sunday? You seem to have disappeared for a full day. One netizen claims that’s exactly what happened to them, and it still chills them. Perhaps aliens? Whatever it was, we would be thrilled to see it as a movie.

Mysteries captivate people, and fortunately, there are many excellent ones available. These accounts, whether attributed to strange coincidences or some kind of ghostly appearance, often stay with the individuals who experience them for a very long time.

Similar to how a couple can’t seem to figure out why they spotted people dancing on the beach, just to have them vanish in an instant. Some doubters may argue that environmental elements like infrasound or even carbon monoxide poisoning, which can result in hallucinations, are to blame for these experiences. However, those beach dancers were as authentic as it got for our pair.

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In my dream, I was with two women in an Irish airport. Both were unique in ways that I had never seen, but neither was the other. One had shock blond hair and was extremely bird-like, while the other was heavy-set and had a bandana on her head. I recall questioning why I had been dreaming about it. Either way, I recorded it in my dream notebook. We had dinner at an Italian place with a neon sign that said “spaghetti and meatballs.”

After about five years, I’m dispatched on an emergency trip to address a problem at a site in Ireland when I’m not in school. It was entertaining even if the network was down and the HPux box wouldn’t boot up.

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I went to dinner with my closest friend and her partner. I had severe breathing difficulties, a rapid heartbeat, a cold sweat, and other symptoms all of a sudden, so they took me to the hospital. The symptoms disappeared as quickly as they had appeared after approximately one and a half hours, and the doctors were unable to uncover anything.

I stopped thinking about it until my uncle discovered my mother two days later. She had clearly been strangled while eating supper; we all assumed she had a lot on her plate because she hadn’t answered the phone in a few days. When she declined his invitation to spend New Year’s Eve with him, he made the decision to take care of her.

Since there wasn’t a “Natural Death” (I’m not sure if this is the appropriate term in English). A coroner had to examine her, which implies that there COULD have been other parties involved. He specified only “two days ago, somewhere between 7 and 11 p.m.” as the time of death.

You probably guessed that I visited the hospital at that period of time because my symptoms resembled hers quite a bit.

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This occurred in the early 2000s. Along with wine and munchies, my flatmate and I were watching TV. She stood up and went to get more food from the kitchen. We were having a party when she turned around, and I instantly looked around. There was an elaborate arrangement with tall tables below and a fully stocked bar, and a large number of individuals. All of a sudden, I was hosting guests and serving refreshments, and it was just like any other night. My roommate and I were watching TV in our sweatpants, enjoying wine and snacks in the living room.

But why do some people find riddles to be so fascinating? I suppose that’s just the way our minds operate. You see, the brain is wired to seek for patterns and answers, so when we encounter anything that defies simple classification, it throws us for a loop.

For the same reason that films on true crime and the paranormal are so well-liked these days. They protect us from the unknown while providing us with a small thrill and satisfying our need to investigate it. Some of these tales, however, go beyond mere curiosity and address more profound anxieties, such as what occurs after death or whether we are actually alone in the cosmos.

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My dad has had Parkinson’s disease for more than 20 years. Parkinson’s disease impairs your gait, which results in shuffling as you try to move, as seen in the opening scene of this video. Sadly, my dad was a very unyielding person, and he never paid attention to the advice the physicians gave him on how to walk correctly. He would attempt to walk (without the use of a walker), but his gait would always be a fast one. He would then lose balance and land hard on his knees. Then he would stand up, begin to shuffle once more, thud to his knees, and so on, until at last he began to walk.

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Down the street from us, my sister and I used to play with two neighbourhood siblings when I was around four or five years old. Before they moved out, we did this for around two years. To be honest, I was so young that I completely forgot about them.

When I was an older adolescent, maybe 12–14 years later, I was returning home from college and attending a small fair or carnival-style event. Suddenly, a thought crossed my mind, “I wonder what happened to my old friends down the street I used to play with.”

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My sister and I were in the kitchen together when we were in high school, and I believe I have shared this tale before. I took three eggs out of the fridge and set them on the counter since I was going to make a cake. I turned my back on the eggs so I could speak with my sister. The sound of the eggs falling down the counter and hitting the floor was audible to both of us. The eggs were back on the counter, just sitting there, even though both of us were shaking our heads at the same moment. The only paranormal event I have ever had. So little, yet so strange.

A recurring motif in these strange tales is the appearance of a shadowy or ghostly apparition. Can you picture being at home with someone staring at you and then realising that nobody is in the house with you? One Redditor described exactly what happened to them on a typical evening at home. I’m not sure about you, but that seems like a real-life horror film to us.

Approximately one-third of Americans, according to study, think that ghosts exist, and many of them claim to have had personal experiences with them. Despite scientific evidence suggesting that the brain misinterprets shadows in dim light, those who have seen similar phenomena are adamant that what they witnessed was genuine.

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I work in security. frequently regulating gate entry, frequently after dark.

For those of you who don’t know, a gated entry often consists of a modest concrete shack with numerous windows allowing you to observe the surrounding area.

I’m in a warehouse in the middle of nowhere one night. The warehouse employees had all left for the evening. There are no other people in miles. I’m lounging and watching films at the moment.

I look up and see someone passing by behind my shack in the mirror on the glass.

I turn and glance out the window. I see no one. Examine the views from each window. Get up, walk outside, and explore the area. Play back the video; it shows nothing and no one.

spoke with other guards who had been assigned to that location for the night. It had happened to everyone at some point.

I continued to work the site for two years, putting in a lot of overtime. There were occasional nighttime reflections of that ghost.

Our unofficial night shift motto, “If you see something strange, no you didn’t,” came up as a result.

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was employed in a restaurant serving a family (husband, wife, and daughter) on the Las Vegas Strip. I was reminded of my dad by something about the man’s mouth and goatee. I brought this up. In any case, my dad has five other siblings that he has never met and was adopted by his dad (who is not biological). I had no idea my uncle had even existed until I met him. The best thing I have ever experienced.

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Something that always seems so unlikely, but not terrifying or inexplicable. On my birthday, I took a leave of absence and went to the beach. Something shiny out on the sea drew my attention. It was literally driven to me, while I watched. Almost to my feet, a partially inflated mylar balloon washed up. I think I had to walk ten feet. “Happy Birthday,” it said. It was quite bizarre. Only two months had passed after my grandmother’s death. It was rather an odd coincidence.

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Many years ago, my parents and I were quietly watching TV in the living room when there was a loud crash coming from the kitchen.

We thought we would be rushing up the road after the idiot who had bricked our kitchen window when we dashed out there.

However, the window was still in place, and no heavy pan had fallen off the hooks or shelves or slipped off the burner.
Everything appeared precisely as it should have.

That is, until we opened a certain cabinet that had different stacks of plates, etc.

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My spouse and I once stayed at a seaside hotel with a view of the beach. We were sitting on the porch staring out at the ocean far into the night, maybe between two and four in the morning. Along the sand, something odd began to move. At first, it was hazy and transparent, making it difficult to see, but after a minute or two, it became clearly visible as two people dancing together.
A cloud of blue, bright, swirling vapour would appear, but it would dissipate and then reassemble into the dancing human forms.

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On New Year’s Eve, everyone—including the neighbours next door—was eating supper and reminiscing about loved ones who had passed away when all of a sudden, there was a lot of stomping and running up the stairs. The children began to wail as we all stopped and stared, so my mother ordered my uncle and I go up to see what was going on. Even though I couldn’t see anything, I had a terrible feeling of fear and shivers. We are all unable to explain it.

Then there are instances where individuals hear or experience unexplainable phenomena, such as ghostly footsteps or weird voices. Similar to how, even though they were alone at home, one netizen heard their late dad’s familiar footfall. When he was alive, they had heard this identical sound every day. I’m not sure what else could convince you to believe in the hereafter if that doesn’t already.

This is frequently attributed by paranormal researchers to residual energy left behind in specific locations—a theory made famous by documentaries and ghost-hunting shows. That doesn’t make it any less weird, whatever it is.

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My 2.5-year-old pug, Rex, became seriously ill in middle school from what we eventually discovered to be pug encephalitis. For several days, he had been in and out of the emergency veterinarian due to convulsions and lack of personality. But he was home with us when all of this was going on. I went to visit him at the veterinarian in a dream I experienced a few days after he fell ill. In my dream, after greeting me in the lobby, a technician led him into a room that was flooded with bright white light.

I woke up as soon as he disappeared from view, looked at the time, realised it was 2:37 am, and went back to sleep. My mom was standing by my bed when I woke up that morning, and I knew right away that Rex was gone.

After I went to bed, I learnt that he had been sent to the emergency veterinarian once more since he was experiencing worsening health and required an overnight stay. A few hours later, my mom received a call telling her to head to the hospital right once since her father was not getting better. He died immediately after she got there, at precisely 2:37 in the morning.

Even though Rex was in a hospital miles away, we later learnt from our neighbours that their dog, who was buddies with Rex, became quite restless and began wailing about the time he passed away.

Since I felt like I had one final chance to see him before dad died away, I want to believe that this dream was him saying goodbye to me. It really helped me through the grieving process. It’s more stranger because I have never had an encounter even similar to this one!

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This story may not be as bizarre as others, but it still happened. We hadn’t revealed the baby’s name to anyone, but our wife is expecting. We had recently chosen the name, which wasn’t very popular. Nobody had been informed.

We had a three-year-old named Tommy who we had a babysitter come watch for us on a date night. The babysitter was just chit-chatting and somehow predicted the name of our pregnant child. “When baby Abby comes, she will love to play with Tommy,” she remarked. She could not have known that the baby would be named Abby. I’m shivering! When I enquired how, she explained that sometimes she just knows things. Wild, psychic babysitter.

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Just spending a few days with my grandmother, I stayed with her. My fiancé and I were sharing her guest room. We continued to feel quite anxious and to have strange, frightening dreams. I used to have these nighttime dreams and glimpses of a malevolent guy and lady that seemed to be hiding in the shadows.

I remember being asleep one night when I suddenly felt like someone was choking me with a hand over my mouth and nose. I pinch the s**t out of my partner because, in my groggy condition, I believed he was being odd (he does crazy things while he sleeps, but suffocating is not one of them, lol). He yelled in anguish, causing us both to completely awaken.

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My mum would spend the weekdays with me and my dad the weekends when I was a child.

When I was maybe eleven or twelve years old, I once dreamed—while staying at my dad’s—that my mother’s house had been broken into and stolen.

I can very clearly recall seeing black trashbags on the windows where they smashed in during my dream.

There were black trash bags on the windows when my dad dropped me off at my mother’s house.

I had the creepiest feeling when I dreamed of the black trashbags—Mom locked herself out and had to break in. It wasn’t a robber.

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Texas, not far from Louisiana, is where I grew up. I was about eleven years old, playing in my grandmother’s driveway with my younger sister and cousin. A “bird” (or something similar) spanned the driveway, which could hold two automobiles, and its shadow extended several feet on either side in addition to the driveway’s entire width. I was being yelled at by my grandma to go get the infants. We all picked up a child and ran in. She looked pale and was trembling, so I asked her what was wrong. She stated that she had never seen anything and didn’t know. My grandmother is a very down-to-earth and pragmatic individual. What was flying over her driveway is still a mystery to me. I think about it for a moment.

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My companion and I made the decision to camp in a secluded section of the forest one summer. We both awoke on the second night to the sound of footsteps circling our tent. The steps were too heavy and deliberate for anything other than an animal, as we assumed. Abruptly, there was a loud knocking sound, as if someone was striking a nearby tree with a stick. When we called out, nobody answered. The noises stopped after a few tense minutes. We saw human footprints circling our campground the following morning, but they went nowhere. It still gives me the chills because we were never able to identify who or what was out there.

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I needed a team of experts to treat a major health issue that I was experiencing. My parents decided not to accompany me as I would spend most of the time consoling them because it was so horrible to hear the worst case possibilities.

A day after I turned down a hospital Chaplin counselling offer, My whole body started to feel really heated. It felt soothing, like a warm blanket and a voice in my head assuring me that everything will be alright. It wasn’t hot or uncomfortable. I had to close my eyes and hold my chest because I was so desperate to cry. I was the most serene and consoling thing I’ve ever seen.

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I owned this action figure of a paratrooper when I was younger. I noticed rumbling sounds coming from my desk one night. The thing was standing up, and even though it was dark, I could see it quickly turning its head to look at me.

I cowered down behind my covers in fear. I was unable to locate the action figure the following day. My folks even assisted me in my search for it. It was permanently lost.

People never trust me when I say it’s “Toy Story” or whatever, but this kind of sh*t scared me.

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I used to detest getting my hair cut, and when I was around 7 or 8 years old, my dad promised to do it the next day.
Time travel: I was resting on my stomach in bed at roughly nine o’clock at night. That being said, I had a plastic Darth Vader mask hanging on the head of my bed post. For some reason, as I was trying to fall asleep, I lifted my head and glanced at the back of the mask. There, I saw a reflection of a blacked-out masculine figure with long hair that reached its shoulders, standing at the foot of my bed with a pair of scissors that it was opening and shutting.

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It’s a lengthy story, and no matter how quickly I attempt to summarise it and pinpoint why it’s so strange, it only becomes longer.

Long tale short, that is… Once, after checking my phone and putting it in my pocket, I went through a door, over ten feet of deserted sidewalk, to a car, and then I lost my phone. I searched all over, but it’s gone. As I approach the end of my drive, two automobiles and one town later, it falls onto the seat from above the passenger seat headrest.