Some pretty scary stories are going viral on Reddit.
As the loyal readers know, I am a big fan of diving down deep Reddit rabbit holes for one very simple reason:
You never know what kind of chaos, information or situation you might find unraveling.
It’s truly one of the last remaining places on the internet that is the wild west, and that includes a crazy thread going viral.
While doing some Big J journalism on Monday morning, I stumbled across a thread titled, “What’s the scariest/creepiest thing that has happened to you?”
You’re not going to need to convince me of much to smash click on a thread with that title.
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Check out some of the answers below, and then we’ll dive in:
Certainly a handful of terrifying stories. There are two for me that have always stood out in my mind, and I believe I’ve shared them publicly before. The first involved a walkie-talkie I had in my bedroom as a kid living in rural Wisconsin. One random night, it got active with some chatter and the chatter was a blood-curdling scream that was unlike anything I’d ever heard before. It was absolutely terrifying, and decades later, I have never been able to figure out what happened or who was on the other end of the two-way radio. It sounded like something demonic mixed with pure death.
The second – equally scary for different reasons – involved another late night in rural Wisconsin. Without getting into details of the layout of the house, I was downstairs when I started hearing movement outside a window. Everything suddenly went dead silent. So quiet that it was a little bit unsettling. That changed in an instant. There was a massive bang on the exterior of the house. I bolted up the stairs and saw my dad already in the hallway. He’d heard the same sound and was up to figure out what was going on.
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The weirdest thing about the situation is that upon investigating, there was literally no signs of anything. Nothing. Not an ounce of evidence that anything was out of place, no damage to the house, no clear signs of anyone there and nothing else to suggest there was a clear answer for what had happened. I still think about that event from time to time. Beyond weird and creepy.
Do you have a crazy story that was creepy or scary? Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.