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THE CLOCKS

About four years ago, I woke up one late morning on a day off at 10:21. You'll learn why I remember this four years later in a second. I got out of bed, used the restroom, got dressed, etc. I went back into my room and picked up my phone to check for messages, and the clock in the phone said 10:25. I was surprised, because I know that it did not take me only four minutes to dress - I'd lingered in the warm bathroom quite a while and brushed my teeth too, etc. I looked at my bedroom alarm clock to confirm, since that was the clock I'd looked at when I woke up. It also said 10:25. I shrugged it off and figured in my sleepy, just-woke-up state, I'd misread the original 10:21.

I went downstairs, turned on the PC, turned on the news on the TV to listen to, and started cooking breakfast. I wanted microwave up some rice leftovers from last night, so I went to pop them in the microwave - the time on the microwave was...10:25. I whipped out my phone to check the time - it still said 10:25. There was no way. There was no way that I check the clock upstairs, walked downstairs, turned on the PC and the tv, got a glass of water, and started cooking eggs in the matter of less than a minute. I decided to stand there and watch the microwave clock while counting to sixty - I figured if it didn't turn to 10:26 in 60 seconds of less, clearly it was malfunctioning. It turned to 10:26 about 20 seconds into my count, which made sense - it'd been 10:25 for a while before I looked. I finished making my breakfast, plated it up, and took it over to the PC like the lonely slob I am.

The time on the PC said 10:20. I pulled out my phone. My phone also said 10:20. That's when I started writing all this shit down. I pulled up the little clock toolbar and watched the secondhand go around. While I watched it, time seemed to pass normally - it ticked to 10:21 and 10:22 as I watched the secondhand go around.

Over the next what felt like an hour or so, maybe hour and a half, all the clocks in my house (as well as internet ones) seemed to pass time normally while I observed them. But if I looked away for a while (at least two minutes or so) they'd make no sense. At one point about 15 minutes after these events, the cellphone and PC read 10:14. Then later, 10:13. Then back into the 10:20's.

After the hour/hour and a half, they normalized and I've never experienced it since.

THE WHISTLIG

When I was in highschool i had a class in what was known as the "orange hall" Everyday in that class I would annoying here someone whistling the song pop 'goes the weasel', but really slowly. Two years later when I had a class in the same hall I heard it again, nearly everyday.

Now my sister is in highschool and her friend said something about someone whistling the song. I found this strange because my sister is so much younger than me there is no way the same annoying student was still there doing this everyday.

She said she asked her teacher about it and the teacher said that happens everyday around the same time. It's been happening for 10 years and they've never been able to find anyone whistling in the halls.

THE SILHOUETTE

This isn't my story, but a former teacher told it to me and swears it is true. She said that when she was a child, she shared a room with her younger sister. One night, she was in her bed and her sister told her to look toward the door. She looked up and saw the silhouette of a man standing in the doorway. She had a light switch right next to her bed so she turned it on and there was nobody in the doorway.

They called for their dad and he came in asking them what was wrong. They told him what they had seen and he said it was probably just their eyes playing tricks on them. The next day, my teacher went downstairs and saw her father sitting at the kitchen table just staring. She asked him what was wrong and he said, "was the man you saw a tall man?"

She claims that each member of the family saw the silhouette a number of times over the years, and each time it was the same thing, they would turn on a light and there would be nobody there.

GRANDPA

This actually happened to my Mother. At the time she was living in Texas with her boyfriend. ( I was in Florida. ) Anyway, she is home alone at about 8 or 9 PM and her boyfriend is out with friends. An elderly man comes and knocks on the door and asks for her boyfriend Mike. She says Mike isn't home and asks who this guy is. He responds "I'm his grandfather". Now my mom knew Mike's parents and siblings but had never met his grandparents, so she invites him in , but he declines and says to just tell Mike that he stopped by to see him.

She says okay, and watches him walk down the stairs before closes the door and goes back to doing whatever she was doing.

Later on Mike comes home and my mom tells him that his grandfather stopped by. She said that he turned very serious and says "that isn't funny, he died years ago." So now my mom is kind of freaked out thinking it was some weirdo, but Mike showed her a picture of his grandfather and she swears it was the same man in the photo who she spoke with at the door. .