" When I ’m alone and learn a unusual sound , I ’ll say , ' Do n’t bother me right on now . I ’m not rag you . ' I do it on the off prospect a ghost was obtain some ideas . "
Ghosts and supernatural events can be really fun to talk about. That’s probably why Reddit userFrancucasteddajuasked, “People who aren’t superstitious, what is something that still creeps you out or you won’t mess with?”
People had A LOT to say. The question received over 3,600 replies! Here are some of the best:
1.“I’m a 33-year-old woman, but whenever I turn the kitchen light out before bed, I still freak out and run to my room like a child. As if a ghost is going to jump out at me in the dark for those few seconds.”
2.“Any superstition that Native Americans have and are afraid of is something I just don’t mess with. I grew up close to two reservations and heard many stories about things that happen out there. I did a late-night drive across the reservation once to see a friend, and a giant white owl flew with my car for quite a while. When I told my friend, she woke up her grandma to say a prayer for me. That put the fear in me that night, and I haven’t driven across the reservation at night alone since then.”
" I ’m cynical and skeptical of many matter , but I take aboriginal American traditional knowledge at face economic value , believe it , and do not mess with it ever . "
— Pennymostdreadful
3.“Sleeping with the closet door open.”
— Bloodybaron46
4.“I remember hearing a story from a guy who was in a truck with his uncle and thought he saw red eyes in the dark forest by the truck. The eyes were keeping pace with the truck. He started to turn to get a better look, and his uncle just went, ‘Don’t look at it,’ without ever taking his eyes off the road. Still gives me the creeps.”
— cigarsandlegs
5.“Dangling a foot off the edge of the bed.”
6.“I don’t really believe in ghosts and can usually think of reasonable explanations for ‘supernatural’ events I read about on the internet. But as soon as there’s a sound in my own home and someone says ‘it’s a ghost,’ all of a sudden all logic goes out the window, and this ghost is gonna kill me.”
— StoptheBigFishMan
7.“I am nice to inanimate objects. Like ‘good car, you can do it, start for me please’ versus verbally abusing it. Maybe they’ll remember when the machines take over.”
8.“The basement when the lights are off.”
— rosekayleigh
" I bang for sure that no one is in my basement , but I ’m also 100 % positivist someone is in my cellar . "
— marxam0d
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9.“I don’t believe in anything paranormal, spiritual, religious, etc. But sometimes the dark makes me feel so uneasy and on edge, even if it’s a room I’ve just been in with the lights on. It’s like a primal fear kind of thing.”
10.“Skin walkers. I was roommates with a Navajo guy in college and spent some holidays with his family. They had so many stories, but when it came to skin walkers, they would clam up fast. And they would never talk about them after the sun went down. Maybe they were messing with me, but I’m still terrified of them.”
— SonicCephalopod
11.“If you ever find yourself alone in the woods in the US or Canada and hear your name being called, don’t acknowledge it. Don’t look in the direction of the voice. Just run. It isn’t a joke. Whether it’s other people or something else, our woods are not a nice place to be alone.”
12.“I’m a healthcare worker. You never, EVER say ‘it’s quiet today.’ You just don’t do it. If you say that, the rest of your shift is certainly not going to be quiet. Also, being on call overnight during a full moon is, for some reason, guaranteed to be your busiest call shift.”
— Therealyoungnurse
13.“My grandma was Irish, and she always told me that if you hear music at night, don’t follow it.”
14.“I won’t take the dare of staying overnight in an abandoned or ‘haunted’ house. First of all, it probably got the reputation because something is inherently wrong with the building. It was not up to code, or they left a gap that weather or animals could get in. Also, there’s probably mold, mildew, or nasty bugs calling the place home.”
" Plus , there ’s always the fortune that it really is haunted , and I might just have a spirit attack out of fright . "
— Enigma1959
15.“I’m not a superstitious person, but I still don’t declare victory before I’ve actually won. Tempting fate is just something I don’t want to mess with.”
16.“Most people around where I live in the American South paint the roofs over their porches a specific shade of blue to ward off bad spirits. I also turn my shoes in two different directions after I take them off by the door. This supposedly confuses the sinister beings so they won’t find you.”
" I do this amply recognizing how ridiculous it is . "
— noregreddits
17.“I’m in tech. NEVER mess with legacy code. That’s the code that existed before you, or from other people who worked on the program. Basically, it was built into the program, and touching it could be disastrous.”
18.“Looking at the mirror in the dark still gives me the creeps.”
— Anonymous
19.“I don’t mess around in graveyards. I don’t ever visit one unless I’m paying respects to family. It always strikes me as weird when people use them for stuff like photo shoots. It feels disrespectful for some reason, even though there’s not really anyone around to disrespect.”
20.“I walk around Manhattan a lot, and there’s always scaffolding with ladders attached. Every time I walk under one, I cross my fingers.”
— tonybotz
21.“I will not wish death upon anyone anymore, no matter how much I despise them. The two times I have, someone close to me died shortly after — my uncle and cousin. Maybe it was purely coincidental, maybe not. But I’ve looked at it as my karma for wishing harm upon someone.”
— lizaraye
22.“I grew up with stories of the Bell Witch. It was such a huge part of the culture I grew up with in Tennessee. We used to dare each other to call for her three times in front of a mirror in a dark room. My mom claimed she did it once and ended up with scratches down her face. To this day, I don’t have the balls to do it. I’m getting an eerie feeling just typing this out.”
23.“Whenever I’m alone and hear a strange sound or it gets really quiet, I’ll say, ‘Don’t bother me right now. I’m not bothering you.’ I do it on the off chance a ghost was getting some ideas.”
— LVII
24.And finally, this one’s for allThe West Wingfans out there: “You never want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing.”
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