Scary stories

Glitch in the Matrix (Part 3)

Years ago, I worked at a store, but my job was to stand outside with a billboard, trying to get attract customers. One day, when I was standing out on the sidewalk, I saw a van coming straight towards me. It suddenly jumped the curb and slammed into me. I felt it crush me against the electrical box of the traffic lights. I saw a quick flash as the traffic lights flickered off and then I blacked out.

I gasped and realized I was still on the corner, but none of that had happened. There was no van, no accident, no anything. I was so shaken by the experience that I decided to take a break and started walking back to the store. All of a sudden, I heard a huge crash behind me. I turned around and saw that a van had just jumped the curb and slammed into the traffic lights, crushing the electrical box. I saw a quick flash as the traffic lights flickered off. Needless to say, I took the rest of the day off.

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I was at work when my mom called to tell me some terrible news. My uncle had died. I was shocked and very sad. Hearing about the loss really affected me. A few weeks later, I was talking to my sister and she mentioned that my aunt and uncle were doing something. "But... He's dead," I said, puzzled. "No," my sister said, "he's not." I called my mom and she told me the same thing. He wasn't dead. To this day, I'm still not sure if I imagined it or if it really happened. It still freaks me out.

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This happened a few years ago. One morning, I woke up and my girlfriend and I had a conversation in French. I got out of bed and went to take a shower. Just as I was turning on the water, I realized something. Neither of us speak French. I went back to the bedroom and asked her about it. She remembered the conversation happening, but she was just as confused as I was. I can't even tell you what the conversation was about because I don't speak French.

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When I was 7 years old, my father got into a serious car accident. He was badly injured and he was in a coma for 2 weeks. During that time, I kept catching brief glimpses of him wandering around the house looking confused. Every time I saw him, I would tell my mom but she just dismissed it as my overactive imagination.

When my father finally recovered and came out of the coma, my mom told him about the sightings. My father listened quietly, then asked me to leave the room so he and my mother could talk. I had no idea what they were talking about.

Years later, when I was 18, my sat me down and finally revealed the secret he had been keeping from me. He said that at the time, he didn't want to scare me, but while he had been in the coma, he remembered wandering around our house, looking for everyone and trying to figure out why the house was empty. He said he would randomly catch brief glimpses of me standing there, staring at him. I still get goosebumps thinking about it.

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One day, I was walking to work when I had the sudden urge to take a different path than usual. I don't know why. It was just a strange, spur of the moment decision. I walked down a street I had never seen before and all of a sudden, something weird happened. It was like my mind just became scrambled. I felt like I was floating outside of my body... as if I was in some weird alternate dimension. I started seeing different colors and shapes and then I had a vision. I saw a group of strange-looking people. They looked like businessmen in suits. They looked startled when they realized I could see them. One of the people made a quick movement and suddenly everything turned to black. When I came back to normal, I was on a completely different street. It was the same street that I always use to walk to work. I felt sick, and severely disturbed. The weird thing is, when the glitch was correcting itself, I could see those strange people watching me like I was a caged animal and I had the feeling that I was being controlled somehow. It still bothers me.