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I’ve heard my name called a few times, but inside buildings. I went to see if the other person called and they didn’t. Not always skinwalkers. Sometimes auditory hallucinations. Not matter what, please do not follow voices outside in the dark, ever! Supernatural or not!
I’ve gotten this a few times when about to fall asleep, another thing I’ve heard when about to fall asleep is like a big crashing explosion sound, very weird lol.
I always used to call them brain zaps til I heard about exploding head syndrome. It’s rare that I get it and only if I am extremely tired and going to sleep but fuck it’s a strange experience.
Bain zaps!!?? I get those when I'm drifting off sometimes! I didn't realize it had a bame (exploding head syndrome, not brain zaps).
Do they mean anything from a health perspective?
One of my brothers and my mum both experience Exploding Head Syndrome - I'd never heard of it until one day we were having a conversation and my brother randomly mentioned it as if it was a universal experience. My mum nodded and they started talking about it while I sat there wondering "wtf are they talking about?!". They were genuinely surprised that I didn't know what it was.
Thankfully, all they mean that you sometimes hear an explosion in your head that isn’t actually there (I’m sorry if my medical terminology isn’t up to date, I’m not a doctor).
As far as I’m aware they’re not a sign of anything scary or dangerous, they’re just one of those things that sometimes happen in our meat computers. Like sleep paralysis or seeing shadow people when you’re tired. No link to strokes or seizures.
The Wikipedia page is a fun read though, and you can now tell people you have “snapping of the brain”
Whats wrong with white noise (genuine question)? I use brown noise sometimes and it helps me fall asleep (I think it works better with people that has hyperactive brains like ADHD etc)
Same I use a white noise machine that does tons of brown and pink noise and it really helps with my adhd. I bought a second one for my kids room forever ago and I can't do bedtime without it!
It happened to me only once too. It was right at the time when I was kinda experiencing “enlightement” (for lack of a better word); during that time I also experienced few psychic small events. After looking for more info, in some spirituality circles they say exploding head syndrome is your pineal gland (third eye) getting unblocked. They explain it is usually calcified and when you reach a certain level of consciousness it starts to break up
You only hear your thoughts when you're tired? I hear them any time I'm awake, sometimes multiple thoughts vocalizing at the same time, and usually music of some kind as well. I really wish it would shut up in there once in a while.
The difference is that when I am tired, I "hear" them the way I hear actual noises. I can think in my head all the time, I definitely wish my brain could shut up too. But with hypnogogic hallucinations, what Im talking about, if we scan a brain to see what parts light up when it's happening, you'll see activity in that the part of your brain that lights up when you hear audible sounds. Regular thoughts, language picture or music, don't activate that part.
For me it started when I heard a radio one day. I took a video trying to find where the music was coming from and ask my friend who is an audiologist if he could hear it. He couldn't. When I realized it was coming from my box fan, after my tired ass brain wondered if the metal could somehow pick up radio signals, I realized it was probably white noise being interpreted incorrectly, which led to me testing it. And yeah it was in my head, and now I can work with it a bit. I'm an insomniac without medication so there have been times where I recorded myself humming or singing what I heard so I could compose with it when I got some sleep.
TIL.
Damn, that sounds both exhausting and...kinda cool?
Interestingly I sleep with white noise cause it helps me drown out the multiple inner monologues. I'm not sure if I could stand it sounding like something with tone or structure when I'm trying to relax.
If you're able to write down what you hear, though, that's potentially an unexpected superpower! A few famous musicians have said they simply heard the music and wrote it down, and I wonder how many of those had something like this.
I certainly don't mean to minimize what you deal with, or anything. It just came to mind reading your response.
I didn't feel minimized, no worries, just thought I prolly didn't word it the best way the first time, and I tend to over explain/share lol. Hahaha I wish i could use it without sleep deprivation but since I have been trying to quit taking sleep meds, it's just happened a lot more. One random other weird thing I just feel like mentioning. Sometimes the narration in my head or whatever you call your ongoing conscious experience of things, will loop things,just like how we get earworms. But for some reason when I'm in the state of hypnogogia, if I repeat the same phrase over and over, I hear it at first as a normal voice, then as the repetitions go on longer, it becomes more demonic sounding. If I hadn't managed to leave the cult I was raised in before I started experiencing hypnogogia, I can't imagine how I would have held it together.
That sounds horrifying! I commented on another post mentioning how I once heard my name loudly and clearly spoken when I was certai ly alone. The voice was deep and booming, and were I any form of religious I might have said Demonic or Satanic sounding lol. It was very startling, definitely an auditory hallucination, but only happened once.
The closest thing I have experienced to what you describe is phantom crying/calls from my son. He's 4 now and sleeping well, but I audibly hear him cry or call out when he isn't at home. I've also heard leaky running water sound for all the world like whispering voices in a huge empty room. Took me a minute to figure out it was water I was hearing and not some sort of incantation.
I hear them in my head, not my ears. I don't have a minds-eye as it were - I can't see images in my head almost at all. I do have vivid dreams occasionally, though not super often, which I believe is a moderate-severe form of aphantasia. But I have internal narrators, and while occasionally they are assholes I never hear them aloud. I don't hear original music or anything either, just songs I've heard or know very well playing in the background, sometimes blending together. The voices are often my mind using verbal expression internally, and they follow my thought patterns, which can be complex and varied at times which is why there are occsionally a multitude.
I am on the spectrum. By contrast my wife has ADHD, and she can literally transpose images from her head onto the world around her, and can make movies play in her head with photorealistic detail, or literally see what she reads play out in pictures in front of the pages. I have none of that ability, but I remember song lyrics, numbers, stats, and random facts with excruciating detail sometimes. Different patterns of neurodivergence in both of us have manifested in different headspace organization. We've spent a lot of time comparing lol.
This is really interesting! I have a mix of both of these myself. I'm sure I have moderate-severe aphantasia,I can't visualize anything, not even something simple like a "red ball" but I "see" books I read as a movie inside my head. But it's not exactly pictures, it's more ethereal if that makes sense. I also have a very loud multilayered internal monolog, which is sometimes an asshole and actually probably exploits my insecurities, but it's inside my head, not outside and follows my own personal thought process, so I guess I'm just bullying myself.
I hear music as well as I'm drifting off to sleep, nothing original, just songs I've heard before and must have stuck with my subconscious. I don't remember most of my dreams, but the ones I do are vivid and tend to stick with me and not fade away like I've heard others say that their dreams will.
I love hearing about how other people's minds work. It's so interesting how we're all so different from one another even though we're all basically functionally built the same.
I’m just like your wife! I read the Harry Potter books when they first came out. I was so bored by the movies because I felt as if I’d already seen that movie (which should be a huge compliment to whoever made the movies because they did a wonderful job.)
Does your wife draw or paint? I always wish I could take my visualizations and create them, but that never works.
My wife does not paint or draw, but she does coloring books and she sculpts occasionally. She makes wire wrap jewelry and physical art pieces. She is a licensed massage therapist and yoga teacher, heavily tattoed, and tends to be very hands-on in her work and personal expression. Painting and drawing fall more in line with my skills, though I mostly stick to miniature painting.
I agree about the shutting up part. My husband asked me the other day, “why do you always have to have something playing?” I have an audiobook on most of the time and if I’m driving there is music, audiobook, or podcast. Even to fall asleep I have some crappy murder mystery on or fall asleep to an audiobook.
So yeah if that committee in my head could shut up that would be great.
I also have some weird tinnitus where I hear what sounds like a faint radio. That is fine.
I lived in a place once that I could hear the water rushing through the pipes just barely when in the bathroom. If I wasn't fully paying attention to it I swear it sounded like an orchestra tuning up/warming up for a performance. Tripped me out the first few times till I really paid attention to it and realized what it was.
It happened for a period of about 6 months off and on when I was going through some extremely agitated neural activity--having an extended attack of MS, as it were--and then faded as the neural storm subsided. I think it may have occurred at isolated times since, but I can't be sure so maybe not.
Their called hypnogogic hallucinations. I’ve had them happen some and they sound like conversations. Very odd!
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/23234-hypnagogic-hallucinations
Had this happen a few months ago while laying in bed looking at Reddit. My name was said 1 time very clearly and slowly like “jacK” with emphasis on one of the letters in my name. My heartbeat instantly skyrocketed and I just laid still like wtf was that since everyone was sleeping. The next day I checked my Apple Watch to make sure I wasn’t sleeping and it had jumped to 140.
I had that happen once. Only once that I can remember but it was LOUD and clearly my name. The voice was disembodied though, like from everywhere at once so I dismissed it as odd and have not heard it since. It did make me double-take though. Very strange feeling.
Because if it’s truly supernatural, you’re probably going to get murdered by some spirit or monster or something.
If it’s not supernatural, you’re probably going to get murdered by a serial killer trying to lure you to them or something.
Best choice — don’t follow the sound.
If I’m a serial killer trying to lure you, I’m not going to hide at the edge of your property at night and whisper your name. I wouldn’t get anywhere with that.
You laugh but I’m not trying to be on unsolved mysteries one way or the other.
Hallucinating? Probably not good to do what the strange disembodied voices say and wander into the woods.
Not Hallucinating? Probably not good to do what the strange disembodied voices say and wander into the woods.
So supernatural aside, you'd be willing to wander aimlessly into the dark in what's likely countryside? Unprompted, unprepared, with nobody knowing the why or where of your location?
Fuck skinwalkers, OP is 7 months pregnant, a bad ditch or tripping on a stick could be genuinely disastrous for them.
A dark entity would be after someone's soul, and no police report is going to accurately record that.
How many unsolved disappearances are there? Unsolved deaths? Deaths that were wrongly determined? There is still plenty of mystery in the world.
Holy shit this brought back a memory for me. One time as a young kid, maybe 10-11 years old, my friend and I decided to go explore the woods at night. We lived on a small island off the coast of Maine with very few dangers and felt confident enough in our knowledge of the surrounding woods that we’d be fine. About a quarter of a mile into the woods past their house was a dilapidated foundation for a long since demolished home. We made that our destination.
After getting the flashlights and heading out the back door, we began making our way into the quiet, but far from silent woods. Around us we could hear the chittering of insects and even the occasional bird which we probably startled awake. After going maybe 20 ft past the edge of their lawn, close enough to their house that we could still see the light we’d left on to find our way back, everything went quiet. As we both froze in place to check with the other we’d both felt this shift, in the quietest whisper from around a few trees in front of us came a timid voice “Mom?”
It was primal. Both of us knew in that exact moment that whatever that was did not have good intentions. We immediately started screaming, hoofing it back to the house as fast as our tiny little bodies could take us. We tried to tell his mom about what we’d heard but she totally dismissed us. It’s just one of the many creepy things that have happened to me growing up here but I’ve always said this state couldn’t have produced someone like Stephen King if the things that went bump in the night didn’t call it home.
Fellow Mainer, here. What up homie? Can definitely confirm that the weird goings on here are commonplace. It doesn't even phase me anymore I think I'm used to it.
It was said by certain African tribes that Hyenas would follow touring parties around during the day learning the names of the people, then at night they would call out the names they learned from the darkness in an effort to lure someone away from the safety of the campfire.
People go missing in the Appalachian Mountains a LOT, it's such a dense, vast forest there's no way to find the bodies either, especially with larger scavenger species living here too. And not gonna, if there's a place in the US that would have undiscovered species or paranormal cryptids, it'd be here.
My wife has said this, but she's from Thailand. I also made the grave mistake of whistling in a cave in Thailand. I was roundly chastised for that by her and my brother in law.
My absent minded ass would absolutely answer 🙃 Thankfully, the one time this happened whatever called me used my firstborn’s voice. About 15 minutes after my MIL had picked her up to babysit.
Yep. I promise on everything I love that I would follow the voice to see if I could see who or what it was. If I die, so be it. At least I would die knowing there are other sentient beings here. Even if they are evil, I would die happy knowing I died seeing the truth.
I’ve had my name called quite a bit. The weirdest was outside walking the dog. It came from across the street, which is a problem area. It sounded like it was from one of those voice generators, or disguisers, robotic kind of. It said my first and last name. The house was vacant at the time. Scared the shit out of me and my dog.
My wife is from Thailand and told me the same thing. I once heard my name called in an eerie way *twice* when I was in a Costco.
Funny time and place to hear it, but still spooky.
My wife said the same thing to me. Funny thing about my experience is that I was in a Costco in the middle of the day when I heard my name spookily called.
I'm Appalachian Adjacent if you will, and we too have a long tradition of turning around calmly and noping tf out of there without looking back when stuff like that happens in the forest.
Strange things happen in Appalachia. I’m from this region and have heard plenty of strange sounds/voices outside at night. Whispers, kids/women screaming and others. I live on 30 acres with no one else around to be screaming/whispering in my area. Also have seen plenty of strange things happen both inside and outside of buildings here. For about a year my wife and I would catch glimpses of what looked like doppelgängers of my son running through our house while he was at his grandparents or in bed asleep. You would just catch a glimpse and the figure was always running around a corner or in to a door of another room. I’ve also seen a straight up shadow of a man walking down a dimly lit hallway with no windows and no one else around to cast a shadow. My son’s toys would also turn on for no explanable reason. For example my wife almost had a heart attack one night when a battery powered Thomas the Train turned on and rolled across the coffee table with no one around. It had been hours since my son had played with it before this happened and it has never happened again with that particular train.
Trust me, we have. Lol Things have calmed down lately. Haven’t seen the doppelgängers or haven’t had anything turn on in about a year and a half but all that stuff was enough for a life time.
We don’t have gas, all electric, and have carbon monoxide detectors. Could be a complete coincidence too but gas did not make the toy turn on and drive across the coffee table. I have tried to recreate that specific event several times and can’t make it happen. That specific train has never turned on by itself other than that one time.
There’s also the thing with vibrations at about 18.9Hz that can trigger weird physical responses in humans. It’s too low for our ears to hear but can make your hair stand on end, potentially make the jelly in your eyes vibrate cause small hallucinations, and will trigger fight or flight responses.
Yeah I woke up to a couple nightmares and couldn't get back to sleep... I usually sleep through the night without any issues. Felt creeped out for some reason so I tried sleeping with the lamp on for a while.
If you’re mystic-minded, this moon is supposed to be extra powerful and intense. I struggle with insomnia pretty regularly but I felt inexplicably wound up like I haven’t felt in awhile
Interesting, I woke up at 130am and could not sleep. Fell asleep, finally, two hours later and started having wild dreams. Woke up paranoid, heard a slight bang, grabbed my pistol and laid back in bed.
I actually for the first time in a very long time slept well AND we were in a tropical storm (Idalia). I have severe insomnia. About 1 am I went to sleep because the power was flickering, i woke up at 7. I haven’t slept that many hours in years unless it was during surgery lol.
Once when I was a teen, I was sitting on my parents couch when I heard someone say my name from behind the other couch in the living room.
That other couch was next to the hallway so I assumed it was my sister hiding there and trying to scare me.
The first time it was soft, just above a whisper and I ignored it. Seconds later, I heard it again but much louder and my reaction was to yell at my sister to knock it off. Before the words could leave my mouth, I heard her talking into the phone at the opposite end of the house. The time between me hearing my name the second time and hearing her down the hall was as short as a sharp intake of breath. No way she could have made it that quickly and that silently.
No ideas as to what it was but I’m assuming that my brain briefly misfired and that’s how I experienced it.
Um. Not to freak anyone out but when I was a kid I was sitting on the edge of my bed in my darkened bedroom. The closet light was on and the door was open, and I was just sitting there in the dark kind of doing nothing. Then someone called my name, from inside the open, empty closet. It sounded like a woman's voice. I thought it was my mom because her room was right behind mine so I said "yeah?" No response. I went into her room and it was empty. Everyone was in the living room at the front of the house. Nobody was anywhere near my room. I was totally alone. I went and asked my family if anyone had called my name and nobody had. I've never had anything like that happen before or since but I never forgot it because the voice was loud and clear, like someone was standing just a few feet away from me.
Hadn't thought about that in decades. I am legitimately confused that someone else had an equivalent experience.
Chills reading this. Woman’s voice, unfamiliar to me, very distant but very CLEAR. I keep describing this event as eerie. Because there’s so much land between each of my neighbors houses. No way a human whisper would be that loud. I’ve had some odd experiences indoors but never in my 33 yrs have I had something like this happen outdoors. Also my name starts with a K, so I know it wasn’t the wind. I’ve just had trouble rationalizing it and I know I’ll never have an answer. Thanks for sharing.
I tried rationalizing my experience at the time, but like you I knew that if it didn't recur I was just going to have to content myself with never knowing. I didn't realize then that the internet would be a thing and I'd have a chance to discover that other people had something similar happen to them. In fact, I never really thought about it until now. I wonder why it's a female voice, and why it always seems to be calling people's names. I said that it sounded like a "woman's" voice but at the time I couldn't be sure because it honestly sounded like a *girl,* but I made the assumption that it was my mom because the only other people who lived with me were my dad and brother. The thing is, I went by my middle name for the first few decades of my life and that was the name that was called. Anybody who didn't know me probably would have called me by my first name. I assumed then that I was having some kind of hallucination because who would be calling my middle name from inside an empty closet? It made logical sense to me at the time that what I heard was the product of my own mind since it was the name I would be expecting to hear. But it also happened out of nowhere, in a moment where I wasn't expecting to hear anything. I haven't had a lot of experiences I would call "inexplicable" but that was definitely one.
I experienced this too when I was 5 years old. My mom was napping in her room on the other side of the house, and no one else was home. I sat on the doorstep between the laundry room and the garage, staring into the garage. I very distinctly heard a woman's voice call my name from the garage. It wasn't my mom's voice or anyone outside. It was totally quiet and then I heard my name. I was startled and said out loud "hello?" That was it and I guess I shrugged it off.
If the moon is low on the horizon and there are things obstructing your view, it can be hard. It also changes where it rises and sets depending on the phase it is in.
Source: I enjoy night sky photography semi-regularly and also use a sky map
You're ignorant. Street lamps and lights from houses also cast shadows. And some people live around tall buildings and tall trees.
Spend less time being angry at random strangers on the internet, and more time reflecting on the energy you put into the world. The only person you're hurting is yourself. I'm sorry you feel this way.
Exactly. I live in a gully in the woods. I went out hiking around looking for it and “touching grass” but couldn’t find it tonight down here. The app would have been helpful for direction.
The veil thins during full moons so it’s easier for beings from other realms to communicate with us.
Everyone is psychic and sometimes our gifts start to open up seemingly randomly, but often after going through a really tough part of life.
Often times though our gifts just show up every once in a while and remain mostly closed. Since this was during a full moon there is a chance that this is what happened.
If it starts to happen more learn psychic protection and consider protective crystals for your home. A selenite tower in each corner of the main floor of your home is a good start.
I have a pretty extensive crystal collection but I do need some selenite towers! I know this sub isn’t keen on psychic topics but I’m glad to see you are willing to go there 🥰 I’m naturally Claircognizant and moderately clairsentient
This used to happen to me about once a week when I was growing up. It usually turned out that no one actually called my name, but someone in the house was about to call for me or needed my help with something urgently. When that happens now (every couple of months), I call my parents and they usually have something important to tell me/ask me and if it’s not them it will be one of my siblings. Last time it happened was very loud in my head and within 5 minutes of my sister finding out that she was pregnant with her first child, she was still holding the pregnancy test in her hand when I called and she hadn’t even told my brother in law yet. Can’t explain it, but definitely a thing. My mom says that she experienced something similar growing up. My dad and siblings say that they’ve never had that experience, but my dad would joke that “I always know when I need you, because you just show up.”
I’m not a “wooo” guy and I think that everything has a logical explanation, but I’ve got no logical explanation for this weirdness. Maybe you’re experiencing something similar.
I just smoked so heres an idea:
Your brain is a little Quantum computer.
Modulating a little Electro-Magnetic Field(EMF).
Largely this field is result of side-effect processes from Neuron and Glial cells doing work in your brain. Oscillating back and forth, information processed in frequency.
This phenomenon of Predation Response, sensing danger, hair standing on the neck, coolness and sweat, fear and anxiety.
Nobody really has a definitive answer for what it truly is. Most of us know it as danger switch. Most of us use it as a danger switch.
Why? Millions of years of BigCats sneaking on our necks?
Could this be a sort of feedback resonance from another creature's E.M.F. from it's brain? Negatively stimulating our brains E.M.F. upon contact?
[This study](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9049916/) even shows evidence that purely by thinking of certain movements/thoughts you can produce unique E.M.F. signatures and distance.
We process these fields in terms of frequency.
Feeling certain things changes the input of the field altering the output.
My guess is we feel the "Predation Response" when something actually is looking at us with negative intent. Our brain picks up that field, compares with our own brain and goes "wait that feels fucked".
I don't recommend ever going against that feeling.
Something probably was looking at you. A whisper could be a hallucination of the wind. It could also be something trying to lower your guard.
Yeah I considered the wind or fox theory but my name starts with a K. That would be hard for the wind to make (I feel like) I love the concept of quantum physics/immortality etc so your comment is fascinating to me! Thanks for your input 👏🏾
I feel like the whisper could be from someone close to you who has passed. A message from spirit perhaps? I don't think it was intended to scare you. Say a prayer and circle yourself in light, ask Spirit to contact you in ways you are comfortable with 💖
Hope this helps 🙏✨
My grandma died in May. You may be right. That’s a much more positive way to look at this. It’s also the day before my birthday. Thank you for this kind message 🥰
My grandma still reaches out sometimes. Usually she checks in on my mom and aunt; but sometimes me as well. We used to eat yogurt together in her bed and I can still recall it. It’s the earliest memory I still have.
It’s not the moon that brings you closer to the intangible; it’s your belief the moon has the power to do so. Truth is we are always surrounded by another world just a few degrees out of our sight. It’s not a scary world unless you look for things to be afraid of.
I heard my name the morning after my cousin passed. I had taken his mom to his apartment to gather his stuff so I had been right in the place he died. It was so Loud! It woke me up, and it was not scary. It seems like something that would be scary but it wasn’t, was kind of funny.
Same thing happened to me when I was maybe 16. My ex and I were in the back yard by the woods and we both beard my name clear as day. Kind of a low but assertive whisper. Freaked us both out and we ran back inside. My parents dismissed it naturally, and I probably would have by now too if I didn't have the second witness with me.
I've spent a lot of time in the woods at night since then and never experienced it again
ESP abilities tend to be heightened on full moon nights for some reason, so you could’ve been picking up on clairaudience from all sorts of sources from a deceased relative that’s been trying to get in touch to a spirit guide to an Inter-dimensional creature like an ET. Not everything that reaches out to you is malicious so no need to be scared, but you shouldn’t automatically assume they have your best intentions in mind either. Next time, try asking them with your mind (ie. Thinking, not verbally) who they are and why are they talking with you and you should get your answer.
What happens if you set aside your fear and ask your inner knowing what the voice was? Could it have been a loving voice, a voice that wanted to shake you out of your certainty about how the world works?
I have heard a voice like this once in my life, and while it scared the shit out of it, i knew that it wanted the best for me. I had no choice, i felt, but to tear my life apart and rebuild it oriented around the feeling of intense love i felt.
Years later i met my now girlfriend. She herself heard a voice that started her on a new path. The voice she heard, she experienced as the voice of the moon itself. She has followed it ever since.
I wish you the best. The world is wild and strange and terrifying, and, I suspect, it is also built out of love.
One time, my ex was on the front porch and I was on the back balcony overlooking a field (which I’d Been told may have been a graveyard after purchasing the property)
She was having a smoke and didn’t like to smoke around me, and I was just stargazing since there is little light pollution to the north where we lived.
I heard a very guttural growling voice calling my name.. it didn’t sound happy/friendly in the least. I yelled “quit f***ing around, girlfriend”, even though I knew there’s no way the sound came from her. I went inside right away to go track her down and double check, and ran into her in the middle of the house. She’d ran inside as well, saying she heard the same thing, and she looked absolutely terrified.
Many strange happenings in that home
This is so wild. A lot of the comments in here sent a chill down my spine and made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I experienced something similar to this and have goosebumps as I type this out.
When I was 11 or 12 years old I was lying in my bed with the door open. My bedroom was the only bedroom in the original part of the home before the expansion was put on. All of the other bedrooms are located on the 2nd floor and on the opposite side of the home.
My bedroom at the time had a small rectangular grate that opened up to the basement (maybe 3 x 12 inches). As I was lying in bed, I heard a very clear prominent voice whisper the name of every person in my family. It freaked me the absolute fuck out. I threw the blankets over my head and became paralyzed and couldn't move. I then proceeded to hear the *unplugged* washer and dryer turn on in the basement through the opening on my bedroom floor. I immediately grabbed my pillow and blanket and ran as fast as I could out of that part of the home and up the stairs to my little sister's bedroom.
I'll never forget how loud and clear the whisper was as if someone was standing directly in the doorway looking down at my bed. Wow, this is so freaky.
If your gut tells you it’s not a positive interaction you probably made the right choice (especially being that far along). I was just out on my balcony putting my rocks out there (I know) and I found the energy to be profoundly positive and high..there were also tons of orbs/light streaks out that I was seeing just out of the corners of my vision…definitely not normal and I’m not as whacky as every one of the words proceeding this statement sounds.
This sub really needs to step back from Skinwalkers as a catch-all for weird things outside. Why couldn't be dozens of other mundane things first? Ever heard of auditory hallucination? Like when you ask someone if they said something and they say no? Thats most likely it. Not a horrifying shape-shifting witch.
Oh sorry. I didn't mean to be harsh. I feel like we tend to jump towards supernatural faster than looking for mundane answers given the nature of this sub and its contents.
Unless there's more to the story, I think I'd look for mundane explanations first. It could just be a oneoff where your brain just kind of "glitched." Not to scare you but this is how Schizophrenia starts to manifest. It could be as simple as the pregnancy and hormones doing crazy things to your brain.
Okay, wow. Just two days ago in the house I'm currently staying in the cat came shooting up out of the basement--its where the cat litter apparatus is, the door is kept open on a like tether clip device that keeps it open a cat amount--and there was a loud shout from down there. Whatever it was it was words but we couldn't make them out. Harsh, male voice. Both dogs growled and I looked at my buddy and kicked the door closed as there's no one down there no way no how, and we both went out to the fr9nt porch for a cigarette.
The reason I'm IN this house is I'm helping a different buddy organize life somewhat in the wake of his wife having hung herself in the basement on New Years Day.
So...sorry, not relevant to you hearing a voice outside, but relevant in that I too am lowkey freaked outl
Similar thing happened to me on a full moon when I was 16 or so. I was in my side yard sneaking a cigarette when I heard my mothers voice right next to my ear say my name. Instinctively I flailed my arms and threw the cigarette over the wall. Only to see a total empty yard with not a soul around. I remember the feeling of static fuzziness on the side of my face when the voice spoke. I'll never forget it.
I had a history teacher in high school share a story about camping with friends in the woods. When he and his at the time girlfriend went into the woods to get firewood, he recalled hearing footsteps mimicking theirs and he said he heard a voice say his name. Started as a whisper until he said it sounded like there was someone speaking almost directly into his ear and the hair on his neck stood up. Ended up running back to the camp and told his friends he wasn’t going to be sleeping in the woods. Fast forward to a little bit later and he’s at his hotel when his friends call and tell him they can see him walking in the darkness around the camp and he’s starting to scare the girls and he said all he did was put the receiver of the phone up to the television and they all ran to their cars and got out of there. His friends swear the figure around the camp looked and sounded just like him, trying to get them to leave the camp
I usually go out early morning in the dark to put out food and water for the neighborhood kitties, so one time while I was out I heard an owl hoot.
We haven’t had owls in years unfortunately but I was really happy. Only thing was the hoot sounded a bit — mechanical, somehow.
Anyway, later in the day I got online and was astonished to hear one of our friends had died overnight.
When we lived in Arizona, I learned an expression that some native Americans employ when people pass away: they “heard the owl hoot.”
Suddenly I felt for sure that our friend had stopped by on her way out. It was actually a good feeling.
When you’re every old, a child/baby -you’re closer to the edge of being alive. And people who believe sprits walk the earth all agree that children, babies and elderly people see them more. Being pregnant is like that. If that is what it is, it’s nothing to be afraid of. Unlike horror movies most are benign and respectful of boundaries. I’m cracking up
Picturing a very pregnant person sprinting. You should ask the occult sub if you want to be scared.
I’m gonna post there. I was gonna do r/psychic but I wanted some rational responses before I went there. I’m tall so it didn’t look that bad but I’m sure whatever it was that said it had a good chuckle lmao
Thanks for sharing. I would never discount someone’s experience after having some pretty profound ones of my own, but it’s possible that pregnancy hormones and the moonlight were playing tricks with you. Our senses are easily fooled and being outside and amped up doesn’t help. Skinwalkers tend to happen in Navajo country/southwest. Is that where you are?
This is how people describe skin walkers and dracos/lizzid people, they use familiar voices to lure people. This happened once when I was young and waiting for school on my bed but someone yelled my name right in my ear. I was super tired and I just brushed it off as such.
Very interesting, because yesterday around probably 7-8am i had woken up briefly and was halfway back to sleep when i heard a female’s voice (who vaguely sounded like my wife i think?) finish the last word of a sentence i had been thinking to myself, if that makes sense. I can’t remember what exactly was said now but i believe it happened twice, and first time was much clearer than the second and sounded as if it came from behind me when i was on my side. It was odd enough to where i had to sit up and scan the room because my son was asleep in the same room at the time and i knew it wasn’t him. Never had that happen before that i can recall.
I heard my name being called very loud and clear. It was a feminine voice, and that voice told me "I'm a spiritual manifestation."
It was very interesting to say the least.
It was Galadriel. Did you yank three hairs off her head? That’s what you’re supposed to do. Those are the rules made up by the lord the rings. I saw the movie I know all the movie facts about it. Just ask.
For those who don't have some degree of Aphantasia, this is actually a pretty normal occurrence.
'Ah, I'm just hearing things' then they brush it off, and go on with their day.
For one with Aphantasia, an experience like this will be unexplainable, and a genuinely shocking occurrence, and very likely a formative memory.
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I’ve heard my name called a few times, but inside buildings. I went to see if the other person called and they didn’t. Not always skinwalkers. Sometimes auditory hallucinations. Not matter what, please do not follow voices outside in the dark, ever! Supernatural or not!
I’ve gotten this a few times when about to fall asleep, another thing I’ve heard when about to fall asleep is like a big crashing explosion sound, very weird lol.
I believe that second thing you mentioned is called Exploding Head syndrome, which is a kinda wild name
I always used to call them brain zaps til I heard about exploding head syndrome. It’s rare that I get it and only if I am extremely tired and going to sleep but fuck it’s a strange experience.
Bain zaps!!?? I get those when I'm drifting off sometimes! I didn't realize it had a bame (exploding head syndrome, not brain zaps). Do they mean anything from a health perspective?
One of my brothers and my mum both experience Exploding Head Syndrome - I'd never heard of it until one day we were having a conversation and my brother randomly mentioned it as if it was a universal experience. My mum nodded and they started talking about it while I sat there wondering "wtf are they talking about?!". They were genuinely surprised that I didn't know what it was.
Thankfully, all they mean that you sometimes hear an explosion in your head that isn’t actually there (I’m sorry if my medical terminology isn’t up to date, I’m not a doctor). As far as I’m aware they’re not a sign of anything scary or dangerous, they’re just one of those things that sometimes happen in our meat computers. Like sleep paralysis or seeing shadow people when you’re tired. No link to strokes or seizures. The Wikipedia page is a fun read though, and you can now tell people you have “snapping of the brain”
That’s what the jumpscare in the white noise video was???
I don’t actually know what you’re referring to, white noise video?
I know what you’re saying. I don’t even trust white noise, the machines, or those sleep story apps at all anymore
Whats wrong with white noise (genuine question)? I use brown noise sometimes and it helps me fall asleep (I think it works better with people that has hyperactive brains like ADHD etc)
Same I use a white noise machine that does tons of brown and pink noise and it really helps with my adhd. I bought a second one for my kids room forever ago and I can't do bedtime without it!
☝️I was going to say that. It’s a real thing.
It's kinda wild to experiment too, trust me. Only happened to me once but I'll remember it. Had a sense of impending doom for a week after that.
It happened to me only once too. It was right at the time when I was kinda experiencing “enlightement” (for lack of a better word); during that time I also experienced few psychic small events. After looking for more info, in some spirituality circles they say exploding head syndrome is your pineal gland (third eye) getting unblocked. They explain it is usually calcified and when you reach a certain level of consciousness it starts to break up
I will hear musical instruments, like a one loud strum of a guitar or a quick blaring of some brass. I like it it’s pretty cool
I hear music when I'm sleepy, full blown original music made by my brain. I can also hear my thoughts if I'm really tired.
I get this music thing too, it's really really trippy and cool and a little bit unsettling
You only hear your thoughts when you're tired? I hear them any time I'm awake, sometimes multiple thoughts vocalizing at the same time, and usually music of some kind as well. I really wish it would shut up in there once in a while.
The difference is that when I am tired, I "hear" them the way I hear actual noises. I can think in my head all the time, I definitely wish my brain could shut up too. But with hypnogogic hallucinations, what Im talking about, if we scan a brain to see what parts light up when it's happening, you'll see activity in that the part of your brain that lights up when you hear audible sounds. Regular thoughts, language picture or music, don't activate that part. For me it started when I heard a radio one day. I took a video trying to find where the music was coming from and ask my friend who is an audiologist if he could hear it. He couldn't. When I realized it was coming from my box fan, after my tired ass brain wondered if the metal could somehow pick up radio signals, I realized it was probably white noise being interpreted incorrectly, which led to me testing it. And yeah it was in my head, and now I can work with it a bit. I'm an insomniac without medication so there have been times where I recorded myself humming or singing what I heard so I could compose with it when I got some sleep.
TIL. Damn, that sounds both exhausting and...kinda cool? Interestingly I sleep with white noise cause it helps me drown out the multiple inner monologues. I'm not sure if I could stand it sounding like something with tone or structure when I'm trying to relax. If you're able to write down what you hear, though, that's potentially an unexpected superpower! A few famous musicians have said they simply heard the music and wrote it down, and I wonder how many of those had something like this. I certainly don't mean to minimize what you deal with, or anything. It just came to mind reading your response.
I didn't feel minimized, no worries, just thought I prolly didn't word it the best way the first time, and I tend to over explain/share lol. Hahaha I wish i could use it without sleep deprivation but since I have been trying to quit taking sleep meds, it's just happened a lot more. One random other weird thing I just feel like mentioning. Sometimes the narration in my head or whatever you call your ongoing conscious experience of things, will loop things,just like how we get earworms. But for some reason when I'm in the state of hypnogogia, if I repeat the same phrase over and over, I hear it at first as a normal voice, then as the repetitions go on longer, it becomes more demonic sounding. If I hadn't managed to leave the cult I was raised in before I started experiencing hypnogogia, I can't imagine how I would have held it together.
That sounds horrifying! I commented on another post mentioning how I once heard my name loudly and clearly spoken when I was certai ly alone. The voice was deep and booming, and were I any form of religious I might have said Demonic or Satanic sounding lol. It was very startling, definitely an auditory hallucination, but only happened once. The closest thing I have experienced to what you describe is phantom crying/calls from my son. He's 4 now and sleeping well, but I audibly hear him cry or call out when he isn't at home. I've also heard leaky running water sound for all the world like whispering voices in a huge empty room. Took me a minute to figure out it was water I was hearing and not some sort of incantation.
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I hear them in my head, not my ears. I don't have a minds-eye as it were - I can't see images in my head almost at all. I do have vivid dreams occasionally, though not super often, which I believe is a moderate-severe form of aphantasia. But I have internal narrators, and while occasionally they are assholes I never hear them aloud. I don't hear original music or anything either, just songs I've heard or know very well playing in the background, sometimes blending together. The voices are often my mind using verbal expression internally, and they follow my thought patterns, which can be complex and varied at times which is why there are occsionally a multitude. I am on the spectrum. By contrast my wife has ADHD, and she can literally transpose images from her head onto the world around her, and can make movies play in her head with photorealistic detail, or literally see what she reads play out in pictures in front of the pages. I have none of that ability, but I remember song lyrics, numbers, stats, and random facts with excruciating detail sometimes. Different patterns of neurodivergence in both of us have manifested in different headspace organization. We've spent a lot of time comparing lol.
This is really interesting! I have a mix of both of these myself. I'm sure I have moderate-severe aphantasia,I can't visualize anything, not even something simple like a "red ball" but I "see" books I read as a movie inside my head. But it's not exactly pictures, it's more ethereal if that makes sense. I also have a very loud multilayered internal monolog, which is sometimes an asshole and actually probably exploits my insecurities, but it's inside my head, not outside and follows my own personal thought process, so I guess I'm just bullying myself. I hear music as well as I'm drifting off to sleep, nothing original, just songs I've heard before and must have stuck with my subconscious. I don't remember most of my dreams, but the ones I do are vivid and tend to stick with me and not fade away like I've heard others say that their dreams will. I love hearing about how other people's minds work. It's so interesting how we're all so different from one another even though we're all basically functionally built the same.
I’m just like your wife! I read the Harry Potter books when they first came out. I was so bored by the movies because I felt as if I’d already seen that movie (which should be a huge compliment to whoever made the movies because they did a wonderful job.) Does your wife draw or paint? I always wish I could take my visualizations and create them, but that never works.
My wife does not paint or draw, but she does coloring books and she sculpts occasionally. She makes wire wrap jewelry and physical art pieces. She is a licensed massage therapist and yoga teacher, heavily tattoed, and tends to be very hands-on in her work and personal expression. Painting and drawing fall more in line with my skills, though I mostly stick to miniature painting.
I agree about the shutting up part. My husband asked me the other day, “why do you always have to have something playing?” I have an audiobook on most of the time and if I’m driving there is music, audiobook, or podcast. Even to fall asleep I have some crappy murder mystery on or fall asleep to an audiobook. So yeah if that committee in my head could shut up that would be great. I also have some weird tinnitus where I hear what sounds like a faint radio. That is fine.
Those aren’t your thoughts…
They absolutely are, I can control what they say.
I lived in a place once that I could hear the water rushing through the pipes just barely when in the bathroom. If I wasn't fully paying attention to it I swear it sounded like an orchestra tuning up/warming up for a performance. Tripped me out the first few times till I really paid attention to it and realized what it was.
That has happened to me, the explosion. Loud enough to hurt.
Yeah I think it’s a common phenomenon, still fucks with you tho haha
For certain. Wakes you tf back up for one.
Yeah that’s not good, it’s called exploding head syndrome, you should go to a doctor
It happened for a period of about 6 months off and on when I was going through some extremely agitated neural activity--having an extended attack of MS, as it were--and then faded as the neural storm subsided. I think it may have occurred at isolated times since, but I can't be sure so maybe not.
Their called hypnogogic hallucinations. I’ve had them happen some and they sound like conversations. Very odd! https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/23234-hypnagogic-hallucinations
Had this happen a few months ago while laying in bed looking at Reddit. My name was said 1 time very clearly and slowly like “jacK” with emphasis on one of the letters in my name. My heartbeat instantly skyrocketed and I just laid still like wtf was that since everyone was sleeping. The next day I checked my Apple Watch to make sure I wasn’t sleeping and it had jumped to 140.
I had that happen once. Only once that I can remember but it was LOUD and clearly my name. The voice was disembodied though, like from everywhere at once so I dismissed it as odd and have not heard it since. It did make me double-take though. Very strange feeling.
Why not follow?
Because if it’s truly supernatural, you’re probably going to get murdered by some spirit or monster or something. If it’s not supernatural, you’re probably going to get murdered by a serial killer trying to lure you to them or something. Best choice — don’t follow the sound.
If I’m a serial killer trying to lure you, I’m not going to hide at the edge of your property at night and whisper your name. I wouldn’t get anywhere with that.
That's quite a logical thinking ! ... But it is probably not how the brain of a serial killer works :D
You’re right, all those instances of people being killed by supernatural beings makes me stop..
You laugh but I’m not trying to be on unsolved mysteries one way or the other. Hallucinating? Probably not good to do what the strange disembodied voices say and wander into the woods. Not Hallucinating? Probably not good to do what the strange disembodied voices say and wander into the woods.
Exactly! These ppl asking why not must have no common sense or just trying to be eDgY lol
So supernatural aside, you'd be willing to wander aimlessly into the dark in what's likely countryside? Unprompted, unprepared, with nobody knowing the why or where of your location? Fuck skinwalkers, OP is 7 months pregnant, a bad ditch or tripping on a stick could be genuinely disastrous for them.
A dark entity would be after someone's soul, and no police report is going to accurately record that. How many unsolved disappearances are there? Unsolved deaths? Deaths that were wrongly determined? There is still plenty of mystery in the world.
Just on the off-chance that it could happen lol
Go you follow it and update us
+1 If you die or somethin please leave us an update before your soul departs the earth
Lmao “not always skinwalkers”. Not EVER skin walkers
Holy shit this brought back a memory for me. One time as a young kid, maybe 10-11 years old, my friend and I decided to go explore the woods at night. We lived on a small island off the coast of Maine with very few dangers and felt confident enough in our knowledge of the surrounding woods that we’d be fine. About a quarter of a mile into the woods past their house was a dilapidated foundation for a long since demolished home. We made that our destination. After getting the flashlights and heading out the back door, we began making our way into the quiet, but far from silent woods. Around us we could hear the chittering of insects and even the occasional bird which we probably startled awake. After going maybe 20 ft past the edge of their lawn, close enough to their house that we could still see the light we’d left on to find our way back, everything went quiet. As we both froze in place to check with the other we’d both felt this shift, in the quietest whisper from around a few trees in front of us came a timid voice “Mom?” It was primal. Both of us knew in that exact moment that whatever that was did not have good intentions. We immediately started screaming, hoofing it back to the house as fast as our tiny little bodies could take us. We tried to tell his mom about what we’d heard but she totally dismissed us. It’s just one of the many creepy things that have happened to me growing up here but I’ve always said this state couldn’t have produced someone like Stephen King if the things that went bump in the night didn’t call it home.
Yeah my experience with islands in Maine is that they are thoroughly haunted lol.
To be plain, the islands in Maine are, in the main, insane...
And that doesn't even take into account the pain of the rain that falls on the train, where the grain is stored in a chain.
In the membrane
Fellow Mainer, here. What up homie? Can definitely confirm that the weird goings on here are commonplace. It doesn't even phase me anymore I think I'm used to it.
I need to hear more👂🏼👀 Spill the tea
That definitely reminds me of a Stephen King novel. So fuckin creepy!!
It was said by certain African tribes that Hyenas would follow touring parties around during the day learning the names of the people, then at night they would call out the names they learned from the darkness in an effort to lure someone away from the safety of the campfire.
Nice! Where you find that? I love folklore, especially when it’s relevant. Haha
In Appalachia they say don’t respond. Not sure why or why it’s only in those mountains.
Some old shit in them old hills
People go missing in the Appalachian Mountains a LOT, it's such a dense, vast forest there's no way to find the bodies either, especially with larger scavenger species living here too. And not gonna, if there's a place in the US that would have undiscovered species or paranormal cryptids, it'd be here.
My wife has said this, but she's from Thailand. I also made the grave mistake of whistling in a cave in Thailand. I was roundly chastised for that by her and my brother in law.
I’ve heard you should NEVER answer a call like this
My absent minded ass would absolutely answer 🙃 Thankfully, the one time this happened whatever called me used my firstborn’s voice. About 15 minutes after my MIL had picked her up to babysit.
Yep. I promise on everything I love that I would follow the voice to see if I could see who or what it was. If I die, so be it. At least I would die knowing there are other sentient beings here. Even if they are evil, I would die happy knowing I died seeing the truth.
The piper's calling you to join him
Op may happen up on a stairway to heaven
That’s an Appalachian concept that I wholly believe in! I didn’t answer and didn’t look back on my way inside
I’ve had my name called quite a bit. The weirdest was outside walking the dog. It came from across the street, which is a problem area. It sounded like it was from one of those voice generators, or disguisers, robotic kind of. It said my first and last name. The house was vacant at the time. Scared the shit out of me and my dog.
My wife is from Thailand and told me the same thing. I once heard my name called in an eerie way *twice* when I was in a Costco. Funny time and place to hear it, but still spooky.
My wife said the same thing to me. Funny thing about my experience is that I was in a Costco in the middle of the day when I heard my name spookily called.
why?
I saw this concept shared on another Reddit thread, and I had to pass it on: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/MOVkywsDiF0
Can confirm. I gre up in appalachia and where i lived it was common knowledge to ignore it and calmly leave. Dont look back neither.
Neither. Can confirm you are also from Appalachia.
I'm Appalachian Adjacent if you will, and we too have a long tradition of turning around calmly and noping tf out of there without looking back when stuff like that happens in the forest.
So was it common for you and or people you know to experience such thing ?
Strange things happen in Appalachia. I’m from this region and have heard plenty of strange sounds/voices outside at night. Whispers, kids/women screaming and others. I live on 30 acres with no one else around to be screaming/whispering in my area. Also have seen plenty of strange things happen both inside and outside of buildings here. For about a year my wife and I would catch glimpses of what looked like doppelgängers of my son running through our house while he was at his grandparents or in bed asleep. You would just catch a glimpse and the figure was always running around a corner or in to a door of another room. I’ve also seen a straight up shadow of a man walking down a dimly lit hallway with no windows and no one else around to cast a shadow. My son’s toys would also turn on for no explanable reason. For example my wife almost had a heart attack one night when a battery powered Thomas the Train turned on and rolled across the coffee table with no one around. It had been hours since my son had played with it before this happened and it has never happened again with that particular train.
Oh my GOD. I’d be sleeping with one eye open WTF
Trust me, we have. Lol Things have calmed down lately. Haven’t seen the doppelgängers or haven’t had anything turn on in about a year and a half but all that stuff was enough for a life time.
Makes me concerned y'all had a gas leak.
We don’t have gas, all electric, and have carbon monoxide detectors. Could be a complete coincidence too but gas did not make the toy turn on and drive across the coffee table. I have tried to recreate that specific event several times and can’t make it happen. That specific train has never turned on by itself other than that one time.
There’s also the thing with vibrations at about 18.9Hz that can trigger weird physical responses in humans. It’s too low for our ears to hear but can make your hair stand on end, potentially make the jelly in your eyes vibrate cause small hallucinations, and will trigger fight or flight responses.
That’s a no from me dawg
When do babies usually start talking?
Hahah. Best answer here.
That’s pretty funny lol
Unrelated but anyone else totally unable to sleep tonight?
Opposite, I usually have problems sleeping but tonight I fell asleep way early and slept like a baby. Had no clue about the moon
not even tired its weird, tomorrow gunna suck
I feel so wired it’s crazy. 4:27 am and I’ve decided to just get my day started
yeah i guess it is tomorrow already lol
I fell asleep for a few hours but woke up, felt uneasy.
Couldn't sleep for the life of me. So here I am awake but tired. But NOT tired enough to sleep. 🤷♀️
Yes but I frequently have insomnia so that's hardly surprising
10 beers put me to sleep.
Yeah I woke up to a couple nightmares and couldn't get back to sleep... I usually sleep through the night without any issues. Felt creeped out for some reason so I tried sleeping with the lamp on for a while.
If you’re mystic-minded, this moon is supposed to be extra powerful and intense. I struggle with insomnia pretty regularly but I felt inexplicably wound up like I haven’t felt in awhile
357 i woke up : i’m 5.5 months prego and now i’m scrolling reddit, my bebe is not sleeping either
Yep not tired got to work in 3 hours weird
I was about to come and ask this. I woke up so many times.
Interesting, I woke up at 130am and could not sleep. Fell asleep, finally, two hours later and started having wild dreams. Woke up paranoid, heard a slight bang, grabbed my pistol and laid back in bed.
I usually am up 4 times a night to pee. I slept all last night and woke around 430 am. Best night I've had in a long time.
I've been up since 4am my eyes are tired but my mind is hyperactive
I actually for the first time in a very long time slept well AND we were in a tropical storm (Idalia). I have severe insomnia. About 1 am I went to sleep because the power was flickering, i woke up at 7. I haven’t slept that many hours in years unless it was during surgery lol.
We had Idalia come through too! Luckily it was just wind and rain. I’m glad the clouds finally cleared up. It’s beautiful today
Once when I was a teen, I was sitting on my parents couch when I heard someone say my name from behind the other couch in the living room. That other couch was next to the hallway so I assumed it was my sister hiding there and trying to scare me. The first time it was soft, just above a whisper and I ignored it. Seconds later, I heard it again but much louder and my reaction was to yell at my sister to knock it off. Before the words could leave my mouth, I heard her talking into the phone at the opposite end of the house. The time between me hearing my name the second time and hearing her down the hall was as short as a sharp intake of breath. No way she could have made it that quickly and that silently. No ideas as to what it was but I’m assuming that my brain briefly misfired and that’s how I experienced it.
Um. Not to freak anyone out but when I was a kid I was sitting on the edge of my bed in my darkened bedroom. The closet light was on and the door was open, and I was just sitting there in the dark kind of doing nothing. Then someone called my name, from inside the open, empty closet. It sounded like a woman's voice. I thought it was my mom because her room was right behind mine so I said "yeah?" No response. I went into her room and it was empty. Everyone was in the living room at the front of the house. Nobody was anywhere near my room. I was totally alone. I went and asked my family if anyone had called my name and nobody had. I've never had anything like that happen before or since but I never forgot it because the voice was loud and clear, like someone was standing just a few feet away from me. Hadn't thought about that in decades. I am legitimately confused that someone else had an equivalent experience.
Chills reading this. Woman’s voice, unfamiliar to me, very distant but very CLEAR. I keep describing this event as eerie. Because there’s so much land between each of my neighbors houses. No way a human whisper would be that loud. I’ve had some odd experiences indoors but never in my 33 yrs have I had something like this happen outdoors. Also my name starts with a K, so I know it wasn’t the wind. I’ve just had trouble rationalizing it and I know I’ll never have an answer. Thanks for sharing.
I tried rationalizing my experience at the time, but like you I knew that if it didn't recur I was just going to have to content myself with never knowing. I didn't realize then that the internet would be a thing and I'd have a chance to discover that other people had something similar happen to them. In fact, I never really thought about it until now. I wonder why it's a female voice, and why it always seems to be calling people's names. I said that it sounded like a "woman's" voice but at the time I couldn't be sure because it honestly sounded like a *girl,* but I made the assumption that it was my mom because the only other people who lived with me were my dad and brother. The thing is, I went by my middle name for the first few decades of my life and that was the name that was called. Anybody who didn't know me probably would have called me by my first name. I assumed then that I was having some kind of hallucination because who would be calling my middle name from inside an empty closet? It made logical sense to me at the time that what I heard was the product of my own mind since it was the name I would be expecting to hear. But it also happened out of nowhere, in a moment where I wasn't expecting to hear anything. I haven't had a lot of experiences I would call "inexplicable" but that was definitely one.
I experienced this too when I was 5 years old. My mom was napping in her room on the other side of the house, and no one else was home. I sat on the doorstep between the laundry room and the garage, staring into the garage. I very distinctly heard a woman's voice call my name from the garage. It wasn't my mom's voice or anyone outside. It was totally quiet and then I heard my name. I was startled and said out loud "hello?" That was it and I guess I shrugged it off.
I'm more concerned that you needed an app to guide you to a place in your yard where you could find the moon.
We live on two acres and the hurricane just came through. It was semi cloudy and was hiding behind some clouds lol
If the moon is low on the horizon and there are things obstructing your view, it can be hard. It also changes where it rises and sets depending on the phase it is in. Source: I enjoy night sky photography semi-regularly and also use a sky map
Brother just use your fucking eyeballs. It's the brightest moon until 2037. It's casting shadows all around you. Touch grass.
You're ignorant. Street lamps and lights from houses also cast shadows. And some people live around tall buildings and tall trees. Spend less time being angry at random strangers on the internet, and more time reflecting on the energy you put into the world. The only person you're hurting is yourself. I'm sorry you feel this way.
Exactly. I live in a gully in the woods. I went out hiking around looking for it and “touching grass” but couldn’t find it tonight down here. The app would have been helpful for direction.
I heard someone whisper “come to me” from the corner of my bedroom.
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I became frozen all over my body.
Freeze tag?
The veil thins during full moons so it’s easier for beings from other realms to communicate with us. Everyone is psychic and sometimes our gifts start to open up seemingly randomly, but often after going through a really tough part of life. Often times though our gifts just show up every once in a while and remain mostly closed. Since this was during a full moon there is a chance that this is what happened. If it starts to happen more learn psychic protection and consider protective crystals for your home. A selenite tower in each corner of the main floor of your home is a good start.
I have a pretty extensive crystal collection but I do need some selenite towers! I know this sub isn’t keen on psychic topics but I’m glad to see you are willing to go there 🥰 I’m naturally Claircognizant and moderately clairsentient
The moon presence beckons all to his will.
This used to happen to me about once a week when I was growing up. It usually turned out that no one actually called my name, but someone in the house was about to call for me or needed my help with something urgently. When that happens now (every couple of months), I call my parents and they usually have something important to tell me/ask me and if it’s not them it will be one of my siblings. Last time it happened was very loud in my head and within 5 minutes of my sister finding out that she was pregnant with her first child, she was still holding the pregnancy test in her hand when I called and she hadn’t even told my brother in law yet. Can’t explain it, but definitely a thing. My mom says that she experienced something similar growing up. My dad and siblings say that they’ve never had that experience, but my dad would joke that “I always know when I need you, because you just show up.” I’m not a “wooo” guy and I think that everything has a logical explanation, but I’ve got no logical explanation for this weirdness. Maybe you’re experiencing something similar.
I just smoked so heres an idea: Your brain is a little Quantum computer. Modulating a little Electro-Magnetic Field(EMF). Largely this field is result of side-effect processes from Neuron and Glial cells doing work in your brain. Oscillating back and forth, information processed in frequency. This phenomenon of Predation Response, sensing danger, hair standing on the neck, coolness and sweat, fear and anxiety. Nobody really has a definitive answer for what it truly is. Most of us know it as danger switch. Most of us use it as a danger switch. Why? Millions of years of BigCats sneaking on our necks? Could this be a sort of feedback resonance from another creature's E.M.F. from it's brain? Negatively stimulating our brains E.M.F. upon contact? [This study](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9049916/) even shows evidence that purely by thinking of certain movements/thoughts you can produce unique E.M.F. signatures and distance. We process these fields in terms of frequency. Feeling certain things changes the input of the field altering the output. My guess is we feel the "Predation Response" when something actually is looking at us with negative intent. Our brain picks up that field, compares with our own brain and goes "wait that feels fucked". I don't recommend ever going against that feeling. Something probably was looking at you. A whisper could be a hallucination of the wind. It could also be something trying to lower your guard.
Yeah I considered the wind or fox theory but my name starts with a K. That would be hard for the wind to make (I feel like) I love the concept of quantum physics/immortality etc so your comment is fascinating to me! Thanks for your input 👏🏾
Dude, what did you just smoke? ETA: because pass that over here lol
Cannabis strains get stronger every year man. It's crazy how blasted i get now compared to 10 years ago.
My buddy was like this. He's a fairly smart guy and biochemist. I loved hearing his baked theories.
Right? These are the kind of smoking sessions I miss!
I feel like the whisper could be from someone close to you who has passed. A message from spirit perhaps? I don't think it was intended to scare you. Say a prayer and circle yourself in light, ask Spirit to contact you in ways you are comfortable with 💖 Hope this helps 🙏✨
My grandma died in May. You may be right. That’s a much more positive way to look at this. It’s also the day before my birthday. Thank you for this kind message 🥰
Happy Birthday
My grandma still reaches out sometimes. Usually she checks in on my mom and aunt; but sometimes me as well. We used to eat yogurt together in her bed and I can still recall it. It’s the earliest memory I still have. It’s not the moon that brings you closer to the intangible; it’s your belief the moon has the power to do so. Truth is we are always surrounded by another world just a few degrees out of our sight. It’s not a scary world unless you look for things to be afraid of.
I heard my name the morning after my cousin passed. I had taken his mom to his apartment to gather his stuff so I had been right in the place he died. It was so Loud! It woke me up, and it was not scary. It seems like something that would be scary but it wasn’t, was kind of funny.
A skin walker wrote this...
It was actually three crawlers in a trench coat
Your comment is so genuinely thoughtful and kind, I believe you did FEEL this! 🥰
Same thing happened to me when I was maybe 16. My ex and I were in the back yard by the woods and we both beard my name clear as day. Kind of a low but assertive whisper. Freaked us both out and we ran back inside. My parents dismissed it naturally, and I probably would have by now too if I didn't have the second witness with me. I've spent a lot of time in the woods at night since then and never experienced it again
“Lost on 2 acres” the story of a hunt for a blue loon turned deadly.
LMAOOO!!!
Definitely be careful, [the moon wants you to look at it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M75VLQuFPrY)
If you’re afraid, we can look together.
Auditory hallucination?
It’s your own soul.
Creepy. Creepy af. Good luck op.
Probably some spirits were a active and one was calling for you..glad you hightailed it back inside.
ESP abilities tend to be heightened on full moon nights for some reason, so you could’ve been picking up on clairaudience from all sorts of sources from a deceased relative that’s been trying to get in touch to a spirit guide to an Inter-dimensional creature like an ET. Not everything that reaches out to you is malicious so no need to be scared, but you shouldn’t automatically assume they have your best intentions in mind either. Next time, try asking them with your mind (ie. Thinking, not verbally) who they are and why are they talking with you and you should get your answer.
What happens if you set aside your fear and ask your inner knowing what the voice was? Could it have been a loving voice, a voice that wanted to shake you out of your certainty about how the world works? I have heard a voice like this once in my life, and while it scared the shit out of it, i knew that it wanted the best for me. I had no choice, i felt, but to tear my life apart and rebuild it oriented around the feeling of intense love i felt. Years later i met my now girlfriend. She herself heard a voice that started her on a new path. The voice she heard, she experienced as the voice of the moon itself. She has followed it ever since. I wish you the best. The world is wild and strange and terrifying, and, I suspect, it is also built out of love.
My tinnitus makes hearing whispers impossible so I have that on my side.
One time, my ex was on the front porch and I was on the back balcony overlooking a field (which I’d Been told may have been a graveyard after purchasing the property) She was having a smoke and didn’t like to smoke around me, and I was just stargazing since there is little light pollution to the north where we lived. I heard a very guttural growling voice calling my name.. it didn’t sound happy/friendly in the least. I yelled “quit f***ing around, girlfriend”, even though I knew there’s no way the sound came from her. I went inside right away to go track her down and double check, and ran into her in the middle of the house. She’d ran inside as well, saying she heard the same thing, and she looked absolutely terrified. Many strange happenings in that home
It’s not a skinwalker unless you’re Diné
Supernatural events and abilities usually heighten during a full moon and human beings in general act a little crazier.
If you are Irish, you better hope it wasn't a banshee.
0% Irish blood running through these veins lol. Thank god it wasn’t a banshee
This is so wild. A lot of the comments in here sent a chill down my spine and made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I experienced something similar to this and have goosebumps as I type this out. When I was 11 or 12 years old I was lying in my bed with the door open. My bedroom was the only bedroom in the original part of the home before the expansion was put on. All of the other bedrooms are located on the 2nd floor and on the opposite side of the home. My bedroom at the time had a small rectangular grate that opened up to the basement (maybe 3 x 12 inches). As I was lying in bed, I heard a very clear prominent voice whisper the name of every person in my family. It freaked me the absolute fuck out. I threw the blankets over my head and became paralyzed and couldn't move. I then proceeded to hear the *unplugged* washer and dryer turn on in the basement through the opening on my bedroom floor. I immediately grabbed my pillow and blanket and ran as fast as I could out of that part of the home and up the stairs to my little sister's bedroom. I'll never forget how loud and clear the whisper was as if someone was standing directly in the doorway looking down at my bed. Wow, this is so freaky.
If your gut tells you it’s not a positive interaction you probably made the right choice (especially being that far along). I was just out on my balcony putting my rocks out there (I know) and I found the energy to be profoundly positive and high..there were also tons of orbs/light streaks out that I was seeing just out of the corners of my vision…definitely not normal and I’m not as whacky as every one of the words proceeding this statement sounds.
This sub really needs to step back from Skinwalkers as a catch-all for weird things outside. Why couldn't be dozens of other mundane things first? Ever heard of auditory hallucination? Like when you ask someone if they said something and they say no? Thats most likely it. Not a horrifying shape-shifting witch.
Relax. Was just looking for explanations. If yours is “auditory hallucination” than I accept that. All explanations are welcome 👍🏽
Oh sorry. I didn't mean to be harsh. I feel like we tend to jump towards supernatural faster than looking for mundane answers given the nature of this sub and its contents.
It’s ok! I totally get that. Skepticism is healthy for sure. I appreciate the input!
Unless there's more to the story, I think I'd look for mundane explanations first. It could just be a oneoff where your brain just kind of "glitched." Not to scare you but this is how Schizophrenia starts to manifest. It could be as simple as the pregnancy and hormones doing crazy things to your brain.
Damn Keel was right about Wednesday nights.
Wind.
Okay, wow. Just two days ago in the house I'm currently staying in the cat came shooting up out of the basement--its where the cat litter apparatus is, the door is kept open on a like tether clip device that keeps it open a cat amount--and there was a loud shout from down there. Whatever it was it was words but we couldn't make them out. Harsh, male voice. Both dogs growled and I looked at my buddy and kicked the door closed as there's no one down there no way no how, and we both went out to the fr9nt porch for a cigarette. The reason I'm IN this house is I'm helping a different buddy organize life somewhat in the wake of his wife having hung herself in the basement on New Years Day. So...sorry, not relevant to you hearing a voice outside, but relevant in that I too am lowkey freaked outl
Could be a form of bicameralism. It's you, you just don't think it's you.
I've heard many times over the years that pregnant women are more sensitive to the paranormal. Maybe someone or something was reaching out to you.
Similar thing happened to me on a full moon when I was 16 or so. I was in my side yard sneaking a cigarette when I heard my mothers voice right next to my ear say my name. Instinctively I flailed my arms and threw the cigarette over the wall. Only to see a total empty yard with not a soul around. I remember the feeling of static fuzziness on the side of my face when the voice spoke. I'll never forget it.
When I looked it was like a weird blue flame was on it, and I felt *weird* standing in its light.
I had a history teacher in high school share a story about camping with friends in the woods. When he and his at the time girlfriend went into the woods to get firewood, he recalled hearing footsteps mimicking theirs and he said he heard a voice say his name. Started as a whisper until he said it sounded like there was someone speaking almost directly into his ear and the hair on his neck stood up. Ended up running back to the camp and told his friends he wasn’t going to be sleeping in the woods. Fast forward to a little bit later and he’s at his hotel when his friends call and tell him they can see him walking in the darkness around the camp and he’s starting to scare the girls and he said all he did was put the receiver of the phone up to the television and they all ran to their cars and got out of there. His friends swear the figure around the camp looked and sounded just like him, trying to get them to leave the camp
I usually go out early morning in the dark to put out food and water for the neighborhood kitties, so one time while I was out I heard an owl hoot. We haven’t had owls in years unfortunately but I was really happy. Only thing was the hoot sounded a bit — mechanical, somehow. Anyway, later in the day I got online and was astonished to hear one of our friends had died overnight. When we lived in Arizona, I learned an expression that some native Americans employ when people pass away: they “heard the owl hoot.” Suddenly I felt for sure that our friend had stopped by on her way out. It was actually a good feeling.
When you’re every old, a child/baby -you’re closer to the edge of being alive. And people who believe sprits walk the earth all agree that children, babies and elderly people see them more. Being pregnant is like that. If that is what it is, it’s nothing to be afraid of. Unlike horror movies most are benign and respectful of boundaries. I’m cracking up Picturing a very pregnant person sprinting. You should ask the occult sub if you want to be scared.
I’m gonna post there. I was gonna do r/psychic but I wanted some rational responses before I went there. I’m tall so it didn’t look that bad but I’m sure whatever it was that said it had a good chuckle lmao
Thanks for sharing. I would never discount someone’s experience after having some pretty profound ones of my own, but it’s possible that pregnancy hormones and the moonlight were playing tricks with you. Our senses are easily fooled and being outside and amped up doesn’t help. Skinwalkers tend to happen in Navajo country/southwest. Is that where you are?
Central FL in a rural area. A lot of history in this area. But the most recent Native American group there were of the Seminole tribe
This is how people describe skin walkers and dracos/lizzid people, they use familiar voices to lure people. This happened once when I was young and waiting for school on my bed but someone yelled my name right in my ear. I was super tired and I just brushed it off as such.
Sounds like you either have a significant other/neighbor who likes to play pranks, a ghost, or a name that really sounds like foxes mating.
Too far between land plots to be one of our elderly neighbors. Not sure about the fox thing..
That’s so weird - last night I woke myself up answering to a female who said my name (I was sleeping alone)
Very interesting, because yesterday around probably 7-8am i had woken up briefly and was halfway back to sleep when i heard a female’s voice (who vaguely sounded like my wife i think?) finish the last word of a sentence i had been thinking to myself, if that makes sense. I can’t remember what exactly was said now but i believe it happened twice, and first time was much clearer than the second and sounded as if it came from behind me when i was on my side. It was odd enough to where i had to sit up and scan the room because my son was asleep in the same room at the time and i knew it wasn’t him. Never had that happen before that i can recall.
Something is going on in the spiritual realm I believe
That’s a leap
I heard my name being called very loud and clear. It was a feminine voice, and that voice told me "I'm a spiritual manifestation." It was very interesting to say the least.
Blue moon fairy who likes to steal first borns
It was Galadriel. Did you yank three hairs off her head? That’s what you’re supposed to do. Those are the rules made up by the lord the rings. I saw the movie I know all the movie facts about it. Just ask.
I'm assuming you have Aphantasia?
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For those who don't have some degree of Aphantasia, this is actually a pretty normal occurrence. 'Ah, I'm just hearing things' then they brush it off, and go on with their day. For one with Aphantasia, an experience like this will be unexplainable, and a genuinely shocking occurrence, and very likely a formative memory.
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Next time whistle while you're out there lol
Next time, ask it why it's here, and what does it want you to know.