The following written confession was submitted via email: So when I was 12 my grandma on my moms side passed away and I was really upset I didn’t get to say my goodbyes because she got lung cancer from smoking that hit really hard and fast and was not really conscious in the hospital. When I was about 24 one night I had a dream I was in my grandparents old house where we always went for holidays….

The following written confession was submitted via email: …I walked out the front door and noticed to my right a deep black smoky snake looking thing and it was sitting/arching upright on the right side of the window and looked like it was looking into the kitchen window. It was less than 10 feet away from me…

The following written confession was originally shared via Reddit: I was staying in the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas (oldest property on the strip with a sordid mob history). In the middle of the night, I woke and saw a dark figure moving around the foot of my bed and coming up the gap between the twin beds….

The following written confession was submitted online anonymously: This is my husband's story, but he won't speak of it anymore. He wants to forget it completely. So I'll tell the story. My husband and two of his cousins were driving late at night, coming back from the city. All of a sudden, their car broke down in farmland just before the dirt road that brings them home to the reserve. One of his cousins stood dead still, looking into the field, and asked them to come look….

The following written confession was submitted via email: I was listening to your Tin Foil Hat episode yesterday with my husband and I felt compelled to reach out to you, as my husband had a very bizarre experience camping in Joshua Tree about 20 years ago…

The following written confession was originally shared by Thought Catalog: This happened maybe 2 years ago. It was Fourth of July night, my fiancé and I had gone out with some friends to a small country town for their fireworks show. On the way back home, we were driving down country roads. It was dark and a little creepy being surrounded by cornfields…

The following written confession was shared via Reddit by DiastrousTop3081: …One day my son (age 8 at the time) was riding his scooter up and down the road (something he wasn't allowed to do for safety reasons.) So this country road has woods on both sides, but they aren't particularly dense on either side, and fields and a utility crossing splits the roadside woods from the bigger sections of forest. He suddenly comes running up the hill, white as a ghost, teary-eyed, and says he saw something scary in the woods…

The following written confession was shared via Thought Catalog: My little brother had a psychotic episode after taking acid and staying up for multiple days. He ended up being admitted to a mental institution for a week or so and it was really traumatic for my mom but I believed he would make it out the other side okay. We went to pick him up, took him home, my mom went to bed but he was still acting very ‘off’…

The woods are spooky, dark, and deep, so keep a wary eye out for the creepy, unexpected things you may perchance to stumble across during your explorations! Will you encounter a terrifying monster? Step into a forgotten graveyard? Uncover a bone altar? The weird possibilities are pretty endless in the vast wilderness, and you never know just what you may find (…or what may find you). Check out 16 MORE Scary Things People Experienced in the Woods and tread carefully.

The following written confession was submitted via email: I had an experience a few years ago that I still can't get over. First, let me tell you I am an 20+year attorney and was a former law enforcement officer. Anyway, 4 years ago in December I was driving to my house in Maine after a long work day and got to the Palmyra Maine area around 2:30 AM. In the left lane there was a grey bus, I immediately thought it was a Navy bus and saw it had a GOV plate….

The following written confession was shared via Reddit and recently emailed to us by a listener following Episode 512 - Desert Portal Death Cult: Monday night, me and my girlfriend were camping in Hidden Valley Campground. It was around 8 pm, and pitch black when we heard rhythmic chanting in some language we had never heard before. There was a leader who would yell a sentence in that language or tongue, and what a group of people would repeat the sentence…

The following written confession was shared via Reddit: Let me preface this by saying I don't hallucinate, nor am I psychotic. This has been bothering me since it happened a couple years ago. Before this incident, I used to leave the door to my room open, which has a full-length mirror fastened to it….

The following written confession was shared via Reddit: Around 2005, right after college, I moved back to my home town San Diego. A lot of my friends still lived there so it was a super easy transitions. It was also super easy to find friends to go ghost hunting as we all loved to get creeped out. I am from Chula Vista so the legend of the Proctor Valley Monster was nothing new. It’s a folkloric story about a few different tropes….

The following written confession was submitted via email: I was listening to 507, I believe it was. Where you started off talking to a mans son who saw what he called the hat man. I also had a similar experience when I was like 8 years old. It was the silhouette of a man, no detail just black, side view silhouette of a man. Wearing like an overcoat with a gangster hat or Fedora…

The following written confession was submitted via email: . . . Now every time something happened she’d make sure it wasn’t one of her kids and most of the time it wasn’t because if they weren’t with her talking to me they were playing in front of her as she was renovating at the time. So fast forward to 2021 and one night she rang me early completely puzzled. She was doing laundry and came back I think to the office and there was an old child’s tooth . . .