I just went out to buy a sweet potato for dinner, and the store I elected to go to is about a 3.5 block walk from where I live, in a major US city. It's dark out now (just got back), and as I was walking home with Reginald (the potato, it was a big one so I named it), I crossed an intersection that was the midway point in my return walk.

Out of nowhere, I heard about 30 seconds of VERY clear, in tempo, church bells ringing, coming from down the street on my left side.

I've lived here 4 years now and there are no churches that way.

:scared

  • kingspooky [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I have a kinda spooky one, (probably unsurprisingly). My first year out of college, I worked as a groundskeeper in the ruin of a supposedly haunted civil war era girl's boarding school. The county parks department owned the place, and since I've always been pretty outdoorsy they were kind of my backup in case I couldn't get anything in my field after graduating. My boss was this incredibly superstitious guy who must've subsisted almost entirely off of red bull and cigarettes. He and I were the only people on site that day, and the whole place is surrounded by a wrought iron fence so sneaking in is really hard.

    So we had to get some shit out of the storage room (which was always at 100% humidity even if it was dry outside, although that part I figured was less anything supernatural and more incredibly shitty building design). And I swear to God both of us heard someone scream, like almost yelling "HEY" as if trying to catch someone's attention. Sounded like it was right outside the building. So of course, we both ran outside, and there was no one there. Front gate was still padlocked shut, with the lock on the inside. No one for half a mile in any direction.

    All I've got as far as an explanation was that maybe the place being on a hilltop does weird shit with acoustics from the town below? But I worked there for 9 months or so and only ever heard anything like it the one time, so idk.