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31 Paranormal Encounters That Have Us Questioning Reality

February 11, 2024

Until today, we thought that supernatural meant “really natural.” Like, “Whoa, this organic strawberry is supernatural! You can’t get more ‘from nature’ than this!” You can imagine our shock (and horror) when we googled it, and all these ghosts and UFOs popped up! A little heads up next time would be nice! You’ll luckily get a disclaimer today. There are no organic strawberries on this list. Just a whole lotta freaky stuff!

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CRACKED GEORGE V Prince George V, then serving as a midshipman on the H.M.S. Bacchante, saw the legendary ghost ship the Flying Dutchman in Australian waters back in 1881. The Dutchman is a harbinger of doom but, as it happens, the prince survived. — Source

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CRACKED KURT RUSSELL Kurt Russell was the first person to tell the world about the Phoenix Lights UFO sighting in 1997 - - he saw the lights while he was flying his plane, and reported the sighting. It's now one of the most famous UFO stories ever. — Source

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CRACKED DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Daniel Day-Lewis said he literally saw his father's ghost when he was performing in Hamlet at the National Theatre in 1989 - though he later denied it in an interview with Time Magazine, and explained he meant it metaphorically. — Source

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CRACKED CARLOS SANTANA Santana has said he's been talking to an angel called Metatron since 1994 and has gotten spiritual messages from him. Не believes these messages have helped him make changes in his life that have led to his success. — Source

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Haunted White House

CRACKED ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, said she could sense Abraham Lincoln's spirit when she stayed up late working in his bedroom, which she had turned into her office. — Source

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jcwagner1001 . 2y I worked in skyscraper. Before I started working there, a teenage boy jumped off the building, he was distraught over his mother's death. It was very traumatic for the witnesses. I always parked on the top floor of the adjacent parking garage because it was less expensive. One morning I was waiting for the slow garage elevator and I was looking over the railing at the plaza seven floors below when I heard a voice say just jump! I started parking across the street in a paved lot the next day. ... 39 — Source

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dez132156 4y At my grandparents house for a family party; everyone was on the main floor. I went upstairs (alone) to use the bathroom. As I'm in there, I hear my sister SCREAMING in the linen closet just outside the bathroom HELP IM STUCK LET ME OUT GET ME OUT OF HERE so i hurry out and open the closet. The screaming immediately stopped as the door was open. I was so freaked out and thought she was pranking me somehow. I ran downstairs and she is completely passed out sleeping on the chair and everyone else just watching a — Source

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Unforgotabble 4y Went running with my dog and saw a white outline of a young woman running alongside me out of the corner of my eye. When I looked over, nothing. About 5 mins later I got a call that my great grandmother had passed, she was in hospice. Still think about that a lot. Edit: I think it runs in the family. My mom will straight up say I need to call X, I feel weird and sure as shit, there's a disease/illness going on. My great grandmother used to talk to dead people and my family thought she — Source

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Deleteuser 2y There is a haunted road near where I live. Numerous people have seen the ghost car. The first time I saw it I was driving and my mom was dosing off in the passenger seat. I see a cloud of dust and a large, old, black car speeding out of a road on my right. I just know he is going to exit that road at the same time I am passing by that road. We are going to collide. So I slam on the breaks. Don't even look in the rear view mirror first I just lock — Source

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SeparateOrange . 2y When I was little, my closet would shake. Literally, physically shake. Whenever I called my parents in, it would stop. When they left, it would start again. I remember it being more annoying than anything else, but looking back on it now, it was actually pretty creepy. ... 53 — Source

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CRACKED.COM This photo, taken in 1919, shows an extra ghostly face behind one of the airmen. The members of this squadron recognized him as Freddy Jackson, an air mechanic who had been killed a few days earlier and whose funeral took place on the day the photograph was shot. — Source

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The White Lady

CRACKED.COM THE WHITE LADY OF WORSTEAD CHURCH In 1975, Diane Berthelot's husband took a photo of her sitting in a pew at St. Mary's Church in Worstead, UK. When they developed the picture, they noticed a mysterious ghostly figure. Diane, now in her 80's, claims the White Lady healed her and has kept her healthy through the years. — Source

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In the background of this hiker's photo, a tall, thin figure with apparently no face can be seen standing on a slope too steep for a human and in an inaccessible spot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Becky В. says, The house I grew up in was built in 1860s. During the 80s when I was a young child, I swore I could hear babies crying and what sounded like a woman screaming at night. Learned in my teen years that the house was used as a birthing house in the 1880s. CRACKED.COM — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Trevor W. says, My mom, myself, and my girlfriend were sitting in the living room of our house. We were playing a game when my mom said 'knock on wood' and knocked on the coffee table. Right after that, someone slammed a fist against the wall between our living room and kitchen three times (enough to make the picture move). Checked the kitchen and, as expected, no one there. CRACKED.COM — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Jonathan S. says, I was in the kitchen making a grocery list, and an older style radio beside me turns on by itself. I had to turn the volume knob down for it to switch off. CRACKED.COM — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Gavin F. says, Lived in a house that I would often wake up at night to the smell of cigarette smoke. My wife couldn't smell it, thought I was nuts. Until our three-year-old said, 'Maybe it's the old man,' who he said he would see in the hallway. We didn't live there long. CRACKED.COM — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Laura В. shares, I was a projectionist for a seven house theatre. I was threading up #5 and felt a definite tap on my shoulder. I figured it was my boss messing with me (everyone loves to sneak up on the projectionist) Turned around, no one there. No one else was even in the booth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Rebecca N. shares, Growing up, l I would see a dark figure reflected in the TV. I hated having to get up after everyone went to bed. It was always there. Always watching. When I got older, it moved to the corner of my bedroom. When my friend saw it too, I knew I wasn't imagining it all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nick Jonas saw 3 UFOs while in his backyard in LA when he was 15. О A friend of his was there too, so Jonas turned to him and proceeded to ask him Are you seeing this or am I losing my mind? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Haunting Paranormal Encounters

Robbie Williams was so UFO-obsessed, he thought about becoming a ufologist. RW He's had plenty of what he claims are UFO experiences, including a particularly weird one when he played a song about alien contact. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Post Malone saw a UFO at 16, when he was staying with his aunt and uncle. MF onationa P It was in upstate NY, and he and his cousin looked out the window-and saw a light that just hung there before suddenly leaving. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Shirley Maclaine claims she saw a UFO back in 1952, in Arlington, VA. It sounds pretty epic, too. These are her words: I was there in Arlington, Virginia in 1952 when a whole UFO squadron buzzed the White House and the Capitol. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar didn't just see UFOs-he got abducted. That's what he claims, anyway - and he also says aliens were wirelessly plugged into him. It was a download situation, way before wireless, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock saw a UFO while on a plane. It was 1997, and it turns out what he saw were the Phoenix Lights - a V-shaped object in the sky with lights scattered all over it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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New Jersey Nets player Deron Williams saw a UFO during Hurricane Sandy. When the power went out, he was looking outside the window, and he saw a green flash crossing the sky - it looked like a UFO, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Shaquille O'Neal saw a UFO in Madera, California, way back in 1997. Не was with friends, and says he could swear there was a flying saucer coming to the ground with its lights on, then taking off again. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1969, Jimmy Carter saw a UFO while waiting for a Lion's Club meeting. Не called it the darndest thing I've ever seen, and he filed a full report about it to the International UFO Bureau years later in 1973. CRACKED.COM — Source

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