Going to sleep is one of the best things ever. Being woken up by something frightening? Not so much.
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A recent AskReddit thread asked people to share tales of the scariest things they’ve woken up to in the middle of the night.
You might want to read these in broad daylight, merely FYI.
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Went to bed at midnight. Woke up in sizzle ache at 2 AM, such grave pain that I thought my appendix had exploded.
Flipped on the lightings to take a Tylenol only to find I had rolled over on a black widow spider that had bitten me . –freeyourtea
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In college, I woke up to my glass closet doors violently shaking in my apartment. I 100 percent thought someone was IN the closet.
My roommate was working a night shift on campus and wasn’t there, so I was alone.
I basically sat in silent terror for an hour until I got enough courage to get up and go check.
Nothing was there, and I persuaded myself that I had a weird nightmare .
That morning, I get up and was reading the news and find that there was an earthquake.
I realized that is what I heard and it constructed much more sense. I went to college on the east coast of the US, so it was really strange to have an earthquake . –arcant1 2
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I’m sure there were worse things. But one time when I was a kid, my parents placed a full-body shaped Elmo balloon in my room while I was sleeping . Ever woken up to a drifting body ? –lightknight7 777
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My dingus neighbor was drunk and supposed my apartment was his.
He broke the lock on my doorway. He then opened up the door to my bedroom and scared the crap out of me at 1 am.
I screamed, and he apologized profusely and asked if I wanted to drinking Modelo with him and his wife at their home.
There had been a baptism, so everyone was partying it up across the way. I went because they’re nice, and they had tamales . –IFudgedTheMath
This next story is seriously terrifying.
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Daughter had this Minnie Mouse baby doll that crawled on all fours when you touched a button on its back.
Wife and I woke up at 2 am to the sound of the dolls creepy laugh. Went out to the living room and the doll was strolling straight into the corner.
Each day it stopped, it would just start right over again. The button wasn’t transgressed or anything, so I’m not sure what happened.
Donated it.
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I used to live a few minutes away from Buncefield petroleum storage facility; it was the fifth largest oil depot in the U.K.
On the morning of 11th December 2005, it exploded!
The explosion threw me out of my bed, and the doors of our home burst open .
I seemed outside my bedroom window, and the sky was engulfed by a giant fireball! 11 -year-old me genuinely thought it was the end of the world.
It still mystifies me as to how no one died during that incident . –notJeffbutGeoff
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Sleeping at home, alone, I woke up one night when I rolled over, and someone else’s limp arm flopped across my chest.
I freaked out, grabbed the limb, flung it away, and tried to scramble out of bed before realizing that it was my own arm.
It had completely lost all feeling up to the shoulder . –95percentconfident
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“OPEN UP! POLICE! WE HAVE A SEARCH WARRANT! ”
It was about 6 am, accompanied by banging that was loud as sh* t.
Turns out it was for the apartment beneath my bedroom window but I sat straight up, and my first thought was, “Oh no, they got me! ” despite being one of the least shady people alive . –elguapo5 1
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My housemate came home drunk after midnight from a Halloween party dressed as Jason from Friday the 13 th . He strolled into my room by mistake in his full Voorhees costume and simply stood in the middle of the room looking around trying to work out where he was . Woke me up as my doorway opened and I was frozen frightened for a good 30 seconds. Bought a lock for my doorway the following week . –newo_ikkin_
This next story is equal components scary and adorable.
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I lived with my oldest sister& her two daughters. Her youngest( 3 years old) was a sleepwalker.
She was tiny, white-blonde& liked to wear a white nightgown that was too big for her . Yeah, wake up to the sound of thumb-sucking right next to my head, roll over& see the world’s shortest ghost . –janefromvegas
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We had a rooster who was pretty aggressive, but he watched the rest of the chickens . He was so aggressive though that only certain people could go near him otherwise he’d assault and spur .
One night we woke up to what sounded like a young girl screaming at the top of their lungs.
We operated outside to see what it was, and old Bach Bach( his name) was walking around decapitated.
He’d picked a fight with a raccoon and lost, but that audio he made that night still haunts my dreams sometimes . –WorkRelatedIllness
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The loud voiced of breach glass from downstairs. Husband armed himself and snuck downstairs . No interloper. One of the cats knocked over a centerpiece that exploded all over the floor . –flyerflew
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The clear and obvious audios of live animals in the bedroom. We had no pets .
I’m in the U.K. so my sleepy brain at first thought it was a rat, or several rats fighting for their lives.
After some minor panicking it turned out to be a pigeon trapped behind the boarded up hearth. Slept on the sofa that night . –Georgeisthecoolest
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My daughter had a Ring Around the Rosie doll when she was little. You put the doll’s hands together, and it would sing the song.
Anyway, she left it out outside one night apparently, and the dew in the grass shorted it out. I woke up in the middle of the night to this faint Ring Around the Rosie song playing over and over . It was creepy, and we didn’t have an outdoor sunlight in the backyard, so I had to go by myself with a flashlight and search the yard for this creepy doll . –stacybobacy
This next one starts out scary but has a very happy objective!
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I awake up to the audio of scampering raccoon-like creature inside my room zooming about the night before Christmass.
It then ricochetted on my bed jumped off and ran out . I followed it, and it was laying on the couch and barked at me adorably . Apparently, my mothers got my sister a puppy, and it had escaped during the night because it was lonely. They had it in an uncovered puppy kennel in the living room, and he climbed out . –Bertensgrad
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We have a window AC unit basically right above our bed.
One night, ice must have gotten built up inside, and it fell onto the fan that blows the air out.
I remember hearing a loud bang and then being sprayed in the face by liquid .
My first thought was that someone broke in and shot my spouse and I got covered in blood. F-king terrifying. –RyFromTheChi
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My ceiling fan pulling off my ceiling and hanging a few inches from my face .
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Fell asleep on the couch. Woke up around 3 am to my cat clawing my face .
Every day I tried to go back to sleep, he started again. Eventually, I get pissed off and decided to put him in another room.
As soon as I stood up, I reeked natural gas. The pilot light on my stove used to go out. Little guy saved my life . –Thesecondcomingof
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I have an electronic door lock. Late one night, I hear the beeps from the lock over and over and over. 4 beeps every time.
I grabbed my phone and checked ring.com. No one there. I went out on my balcony, and the beeping continued.
I ultimately pinpointed it. Effing mockingbird learned my lock tones and scared the crap out of me . –dtspmuggle
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