The Writing Inertia

Reddit user stone_huntsman works as a cave guide, leading tours for spelunking (or caving). After taking a group down one day, everyone stopped to take a break near a section where you can hear the underground streams flowing through the cave system. While there, they had everyone turn off their headlight, so that they could experience the total darkness.

A friend of mine and her mother had recently moved into a new home when the pair had a ghostly encounter. Since they’d just moved, the mother and writer slept in the same room on the floor. In the middle of the night, they woke up to see the door opening and an old woman creeping by. They hid under the covers and turned away, thinking it was a nightmare.

While serving as a caretaker of a small uninhabited island off the Maine coast, Robert and his girlfriend began having what he describes as “synchronized nightmares.” While they had never previously discussed the things they were dreaming before dreaming them, they discovered they were sharing these rather involved, highly specific dreams for a month.

While serving as a nanny for a wealthy family, Mary had an intense experience with spirits. Around the time the young woman started working for the family, the matriarch had several close relatives die in close succession. Understandably, she began counseling sessions to help her deal with her emotions and grief.

In a story told by Redditor EpicTacoTruck’s uncle, one fight between a police officer and his wife led to a terrifying demon-dog encounter. One evening after a K-9 unit officer took home his dog, the couple began to argue.

A year and a half after ChristineNoelle’s father passed away, her family decided to go on a trip to Maui. Not only was her father someone who loved to travel (despite the family not getting to do it much when the father was alive), but this specific Hawaiian island was a favorite of her father.