26 Bizarre Encounters People Had With Mysterious Strangers

‘We’ll meet again’
26 Bizarre Encounters People Had With Mysterious Strangers

Every time you leave the house, there’s a possibility that you’ll have a totally unremarkable, run-of-the-mill interaction with a stranger. But other times, you can have rare encounters that feel like once-in-a-lifetime moments. For instance, one Redditor remembered the time he was passing by a church where a man was standing outside. When the man said hello, the Redditor nodded and waved. As he kept walking, the man yelled after him, “You’re going to have a bad day tomorrow!” Sure as literal shit, the Redditor’s basement apartment flooded the next day from a backed-up sewer line. 

Was that man psychic? And if so, were his visions strictly relegated to excrement-related disasters? We’ll never know. 

Other Redditors have shared the very bizarre, very mysterious encounters they’ve had with strangers over the years, and given some of these tales, it seems like being a hermit might be the best way to go after all.

Saranoucoucou 2mo ago An awkward attempt at engaging conversation from a guy in a subway station, handing me a newspaper and saying do you want to read? (I replied no thanks) and he kept following me in the escalator repeating the same sentence... Не did not look unstable, just looking desperately to draw my attention. People are strange. 8 Reply ...
SnooCats04 2mo ago I was changing the garbages at work, and a complete random dude walked up to me and asked me for the garbage bag. Не took it and walked away. 9 Reply ...
Glittering_Water6976 e 2mo ago e A man approached me at a bus stop and handed me a paper bag. Не said it was for me. Inside it was the most beautiful drawing and I still have it today. 10 Reply ...
Soft_Stage_446 o 2mo ago e On an overnight train, a man once told me he was going to the city to become a wizard. I had follow up questions and he explained how live chickens had been secured for the ritual. 10 Reply ...
Amandastarrrr 2mo ago I was walking to work one day and the sidewalk was below the houses if that makes sense. This Amazon driver is delivering a package to the house, sets it down, turns and walks down the walkway and does a front flip off their lawn onto the sidewalk and went and got into his truck. I still think about that pretty often lol I hope he got a raise. 13 Reply ...
hcn_asphyxia 2mo ago . I was once asked on a date by a guy walking down the street carrying a chainsaw that he just bought from a secondhand store. Hi. You're pretty. Wanna have dinner with me?, while wildly gesticulating with the chainsaw. Не was also high on I'm assuming heroin. That was...interesting... + 17 Reply ...
Less-Procedure-4104 2mo ago e Had a guy in Rome pull over and try to give me a leather coat that was extra from a fashion show. I just said I couldn't take such a nice coat and crossed the street. It felt like Roman scam. 16 Reply ...
cloudkite17 2mo ago was catching a very late bus in the outskirts of London one night and struck up a conversation with a couple of guys my age outside the stop while I was waiting. We were talking about music and all of a sudden one of the guys (probably a little drunk) reached out to poke my nipple through my shirt. Both paused to look at each other for a second and then went back to the conversation. It was bizarre because I didn't feel threatened, he almost seemed curious. I was wearing a thin white shirt without a
nehnehhaidou 2mo ago Standing at a bus stop aged 16, old couple in a car pulled up and recognised me as someone else, told me they'd give me a lift to where I was going. Kept asking me about my family in a vague way, dropped me off where I worked and never saw them again. 10 Reply ...
57BeatlesPhan 2mo ago I was with my mother and siblings at Walmart and a random guy came up to us while we were in the book aisle and asked if we wanted to see his finger. Before waiting for a response he showed us his partially mangled finger. Не then proceeded to go on a 10 minute rant about how he almost lost it, but God saved it and if God hadn't been there that day he would've lost his finger. Then he pointed to some of the religious books next to us and started recommending books for us to
KingOfTheFraggles 2mo ago This was back in San Diego (in '99) but one night, about 2 in the morning, I was sitting in the dark watching television when I heard someone walking slowly up the stairs to my apartment door. I waited for a knock but it did not come, though I could tell someone was standing there. After a few minutes, I approached the door and asked if someone was there and what they needed. The reply came in a female voice, Are you watching Spies Like Us, and can I come in and watch with you? I was
MIKBOO5 2mo ago I was walking the dog, and there's a footpath next to a field with very long grass/weeds in. I heard rustling in the long grass, and my dog barked. My dog never barks at anything, so it clearly freaked him out. Then this man in a 3 piece suit with a cane emerged, tipped his hat to us, and wandered off the opposite way down the footpath. This is in a nature reserve, and not exactly the place to be wearing a 3 piece suit. When I got home, I told my dad what had happened, thinking
 2mo ago I pulled into a parking spot in the mall. I look at the person in the car in front of me and think OMG it's my friend Katie! The girl makes eye contact with me and starts smiling and we're unbuckling our seatbelts and getting out of our cars smiling and then when we actually see each others faces she's like Oh I thought you were someone I knew I say Same. That's so weird and we just go about our lives. + 79 Reply ...
djinner_13 3y ago Edited 3y ago Was coming back on the plane from a very important job interview and I thought I blew it. I was spacing out during the entire flight and when the plane landed and I finally got up to grab my bags an older woman 3 aisles down from me looked straight at me and said don't worry, it'll be ok. You'll get it. I reflexively thanked her and ignored what she said but a few hours later I got a call that I got the job. Only then did I remember what she said. I
MultiverseM 4mo ago I was about 10 when my family was staying at a cabin in the mountains in the winter. It was a snowy night and my parents and aunt/uncle had all gone to their bedrooms to sleep. My siblings and cousins and I were all sleeping in the living room. At some point I was awakened by a chilly draft. When I opened my eyes I saw the front door was slightly cracked and there was a man making eye contact with me. In the middle of the night, in the freezing cold, on the deck of a
 3y ago One evening in winter I didn't leave work till almost 7pm, so I was walking home and thought fuck it I'll cut through the park to get home quicker, even though it's really poorly lit. A couple of minutes into the park I could hear a group of people behind me and in front of me and was thinking fuck I'm going to be jumped, up ahead there was a lamp post with a CCTV camera on it so I thought I'll stop there and at least I'll get jumped on camera. As I stood beneath this
KonnorT96 4y ago Once late in Chicago had a guy walk up to a friend and I saying WHAT YEAR. After he spoke some nonsense we just left confused to him screaming HUT ТО. HUT ТО. HUT TO. Over and over. Не was young, didn't appear to be on drugs or drunk. I still think about that guy. + 64 ...
RaptahJesus69 4y ago When I was a kid we were moving into the house next door. I remember my parents were in our old house and I was carrying some boxes to the new one, when I opened the door I saw what looked like a tall hairy man standing in my parents new bedroom. Не looked at me and I dropped the box and hauled ass to the old house. My dad came running to the new house but there was no one there. The houses were less than 20 feet away, we would've noticed someone coming in or
danezone 4mo ago E A man outside a bar one night approached my girlfriend and I. Не asked if we heard about the murders in New Brighton. We of course had not. Не went on to explain that his girlfriend had been killed. The next morning I saw that he was arrested for killing her. + 9.8K Reply ...
Aware-Nature4400 4mo ago e The creepiest encounter I had was when a stranger followed me for blocks, then suddenly stopped, smiled, and said, We'll meet again. It still gives me chills to think about it. 589 Reply ...
 4y ago Was in a bar once chatting to some randoms and a guy came over and said if you ever talk to these people again I will kill you. I just shrugged and said Yeah fair enough and wandered out to the smoker's area thinking well that was odd... Не wasn't a part of their group or anything. I think he was trying to start shit with me but I couldn't be fucked dealing with that these days. Не seemed confused by my response. + 87 ...
ethelraed 3y ago Not that exciting but..... I was walking in woods by the sea in southern England and I came across a rock formation that had a sign The Wishing Seat. It was rather like a giant throne, although obviously natural, not man-made. I sat on it, and, entirely frivously made a wish. As I was sitting on it, a young family passed along the path in front me; a man, woman, boy, and girl, all very ordinary in dress and appearance but strikingly beautiful. So the following year I was walking along the path again, but in a
takeuhomekathleen 3y ago Was in my 20's travelling through Italy. I was on a boat trip around Capri when an old guy starting chatting to me. Whatever the question was, I made some remark about backpacking and wanting to make my money stretch the length my travels and he responded that he would swap my age for all his money. Felt like the world had stopped, holding it's breath while I thought about my answer. It truly felt ominous and foreboding until I said no. I still remember that feeling 30years later. + 694 ...
TheBlueMocKingBird 4y ago Well, I was walking to my highschool and this old man came from nowhere with a box with some prank supplies like fireworks, stinky bombs, that kind of things. When I was younger I was a little prankster so this man gave me his box because I looked like him when he was younger and just dissapeared. I mean, I just gave a look at the box and poof, no oldman anymore Still confuses me, like, was that a prankster devil or what? lol + 132 ...
 3y ago Happened just under a decade ago. Was walking home at night. There was seemingly no one else around until I passed by a church and saw a black guy standing outside, apparently just hanging out. (This was in Bismarck, ND, where there are very few black people.) Не said hello and I nodded and waved. As I continued on my way, I heard him say You're gonna have a bad day tomorrow. The next day, my basement apartment was flooded with literal shit from a backed-up sewer line. + 1.3K ...
acexeris 3y ago Few years ago, I had family and schoolwork issues. Feeling shitty throughout the day. I was just chilling on a park on our college and there's this one guy that looks like an aged version of someone I knew but I can't recall who it was. Не just initiated our conversation and seemingly know what's bothering me then proceeded to give out advice. I had to leave after an hour since it was getting late but i was creeped out after that..thought is this someone from the future or something?! I never saw that guy on the

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