Archive of unexplained cases

As a child, the narrator met an old woman in the forest who couldn't come out and promised they would meet again. Later, from the same forest, he observed green spheres and a figure in white vanishing on the hill.

Apparitions · Outdoors · Russia

A guy moved into a cheap rented apartment after the army and encountered a poltergeist: falling objects, a lock that blocks itself, nighttime awakenings. Neighbors said an old woman used to live here who didn't want new tenants, and recently someone photographed the author's girlfriend while she slept.

Presence · Home · Russia

GhostSpirit of the dead

The author shares four childhood memories: a constant feeling of being watched in his brother's house and a silhouette of his grandmother, a miraculous rescue from a lake, a falling TV, and red eyes in the window.

Apparitions · Home

Spirit of the dead

During a business trip to a village in Lipetsk Oblast, a woman stayed alone in a rented apartment where an old rotary phone began ringing, and then at night someone would knock on the door and rattle the handle, though no one was ever there. After a series of such events and a dream, she left.

Sounds · Home · Lipetsk Oblast, Russia

At night the narrator sees a female silhouette in front of the old washing machine, though his mother is asleep in another room. Later he hears scratching at the door, which stops after prayer, and the cat is found locked in the kitchen while the dog sleeps unusually soundly.

Apparitions · Home

A boy aged 8-10 hears his grandmother's voice from the kitchen offering to cook food, but the kitchen is empty; it later turns out she had been away from home for several hours.

Sounds · Home · Russia

A settlement resident hears a child's cough and footsteps behind a locked basement door that cannot be accessed from outside; he takes the bikes home with his kids.

Sounds · Home · Russia

The narrator and his father went hunting in Spirovo; at night the neighbor fired toward the livestock shed, from which something tall and pale ran off on two legs. In the morning they found a torn-up goat and boar, and soon sold the house.

Animals · Outdoors · Spirovo, Tver Oblast, Russia

Strange animal

A resident of a two-story, six-apartment building regularly hears someone sneaking up the stairs at night and dropping a bag of ball bearings, but finds no one when he goes to look. His dogs react to the sound of the bearings but not to the footsteps.

Sounds · Home

As a child spending summer at his grandparents' village, the narrator was walking home and saw a gypsy woman with six children and a baby in the garden of an abandoned plot; she smiled at him and threw her child on the ground. The locals had never seen these people before or after.

Apparitions · Outdoors · Russia

Creepy person

The narrator, as a teenager, spends the night at his sister's place in Moscow's Altufyevo district. At night the dog barks and runs off, after which the kitchen light turns on by itself and goes off a couple of minutes later with an audible switch click.

Lights & devices · Home · Altufyevo, Moscow, Russia

Two incidents from the author's life on the Azov Sea coast: alone at night in a transformer booth, he hears footsteps on shells but finds no one around the corner; later, in a dilapidated house, he hears running in a locked attic, where no signs of life are later found.

Sounds · Other · Dolzhanskaya, Azov Sea coast, Russia