Scary stories

Glitch in the Matrix (Part 1)

My friend and I were in New York and he lost his wallet. He had to go through the process of getting a new ID card, driver's licence, debit card, credit card, etc. Everything had to be replaced.

Six months later, my friend and I were stationed in Connecticut. One night, we decided to explore an abandoned insane asylum that was nearby. It was called Norwich State Hospital and it was about 10 miles up the road from our base. By the time we got there, it was after 9 PM.

It was an old abandoned mental hospital that looks as creepy and unsettling as any old abandoned mental hospitals you can imagine. On the walls inside the cells, there were scratches and desperate pleas for help written by former patients. The place is creepy enough in the daytime and everyone knowa not to go there at night because that's when the ghosts come out.

While we were exploring, I needed to go to the toilet. I couldn't hold it in any longer, so I went into the forest and took a pee. When I walked back to rejoin my friend, I saw something lying on the ground. I picked it up and shined my flashlight on it. I was my friend's ID.

"Why did you bring your ID?" I asked him.

"I didn't," he replied. "It's in the car."

I handed the ID to him and he took a look at it. When he realized what he was holding in his hands, his face went pale. It was the ID that he had lost six months before in New York.

We ran out of there so fast! I've never run like that before in my life. We got back to the car and drove off. We were so freaked out that we decided to go a local diner, get some food and calm ourselves down. We thought it was around 11 PM. When we got to the diner it was closed. We looked at our watches. It was 4 AM. Somehow 5 whole hours had gone by without us noticing.

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When I was 9 years old, my dad took me to the museum. We were walking around looking at the Dinosaur exhibition, when I suddenly needed to go to the bathroom really bad. I told my dad, "I'm just going to the toilet! Back in a minute!" and I rushed off. I went into the bathroom. It was empty. I did my business, washed my hands and walked out the door. However, when I walked out the door, I found myself at the Space exhibition, not the Dinosaur one. I thought maybe I had come out the wrong door, so I ran back into the bathroom and looked around. There was no other door, just the urinals and the toilet cubicles. That was when I started to freak out. I started pushing on the walls randomly, hoping for some kind of door. There was only one way in and one way out. I decided to try and find someone to help me. I walked out the door and BOOM... I found myself back in the Dinosaur exhibition. My dad was standing there, waiting for me. "What took you so long?" he asked. I don't know what happened that day, but could it have been... a glitch in the matrix?

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One night, I was sleeping at my cousin's house. We were sharing the basement. I woke up around 3 AM and it was pitch dark. I remember looking around the room as my eyes adjusted to the darkness and thinking to myself, "I wonder if anyone else is awake..." Just then, my cousin who was fast asleep said, "Yes, I am."

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There were four trees in the yard beside my house. For as long as I can remember, there were always four trees. One day, I came home from work and there were three. There was no sign of a tree being uprooted and there was no stump. The spot where the tree should have been was grown over with grass as if nothing had ever been there.
This has been bugging me for months now. I went through old pictures we took of the house, but despite taking hundreds of pictures, there are none of that side of the house. Maybe I'm just crazy.

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I was driving home from work one night when I saw lights in my rearview mirror. For some reason I felt like the car behind me was following me, and I began to feel anxious. The entrance to my neighborhood has two directions once you turn in. I lived to the right, but I decided that I was going to turn left instead, to see if the car behind me would follow. They also turned left. Getting more worried, I decided to take random turns down a number of side streets in the neighborhood. Each time, the car behind took the same turns. I was convinced they were following me. Finally, I turned onto a dead end street and there was nowhere else to go. I pull over at a random house and turned my lights off. As I watched, the car behind me turned into the driveway of that very same house. The car doors opened and a family got out. They walked up to the house, unlocked the front door and went inside. Somehow, I had randomly pulled over at the house where they lived. To this day, I have no idea how that happened.