r/strange • • 1d ago

Strange catch while fishing

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I was out fishing at a local spot to me and managed to catch my self a bag full of iphones and some taped together 🤔 its a very secluded out of the way spot with no roads or anything near by, i handed the find into my local police station and they called within the hour to ask how to get to the exact spot and could I show them as its a poorly mapped area, 3 iPhone 17 pros and a couple older ones, some fell out the bag so there is more in there 🤣 what could be hidden in these phones?


r/strange • • 1h ago

Does my dryer have some type vortex in it or is something messing with me?

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Ok so the first 2 times I went to look inside the dryer and didn’t see the rug, I thought to myself “I should take a picture because this is crazy” but I didn’t.

This happened last week, I like to clean my bathroom sometimes before I shower, so I wiped everything down and while cleaning up I put my 2 bathroom floor rugs in the washer. When there done in the wash I put them in the dryer. One is a fluffy purple rug and the other is a medium towel I put down over the purple rug to step on when I get out.

I hear the dryer timer go off and when I went to get the rugs out, it was only the green one. I’m like wtf. My brother was there so I thought well maybe he’s gonna take a shower and took the rug out for himself. So I ask him “ hey did you take out the purple rug” he says no. So I go back in the basement, open the dryer damn near stick my head inside the dryer and put my arm in to feel around, atp I’m thinking maybe it got stuck at the top or something. BUT NO! THATS when I thought to myself i should take a pic of the inside of the dryer because this is crazy wtf. But I don’t. I go look alll around the house thinking maybe I put it down somewhere ( I knew I didn’t but I had to look everywhere for the sake of my mental and you know where the heck did it go). Now my brothers helping me look but only place he didn’t look was the dryer ( just for context)

I checked that dryer atleast 7 times. About 20 min later I’m going up and down looking everywhere, I look in the dryer and the door is wide open with the purple rug just sitting right there in the flipping dryer 😳. No one was playing a trick on me and my brother had been upstairs the entire time. I get really emotional when I think about now because wtf, first thing I thought was does my dryer have a vortex inside of it or is something messing with me. Because I KNOW THAT PURPLE RUG WAS NOT IN THAT DRYER FOR ABOUT 20-30 min and then it just popped back in there. Idk but yea I can’t stop thinking about and I’m someone that does a load of laundry atleast once every two days I can’t stop thinking about it.

Has anyone ever had this happen before?


r/strange • • 3h ago

Some Odd Things I've Seen The Military Do In My Area

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I keep seeing people that are from the nearby military base do some strange things, and I really want to mention it to someone.

They use the main self-storage facility in town (that civilians use) to store weapons, and other odd things. Dude- they don't have storage at the base? Especially for... weapons? It's just so odd, but I've seen them delivering weapons there a lot. They also use the library an awful lot, especially the public computers. Dude- you don't have a laptop, like, they don't provide them over there? Just saying, I don't know why it's a thing.


r/strange • • 14h ago

Do you see this? Watch closely

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The notifications are moving around while I was screen recording.


r/strange • • 1d ago

The same voicemail almost everyday this week.

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I keep getting these strange voicemails. It’s not a person, it’s definitely a prerecorded message. It’s the same voicemail every single time. Same prerecorded message, every day, at almost 10am for the past week. It’s strange! & I wonder what anyone thinks I should do or if it’s some sort of scam lol.
link to voicemail


r/strange • • 1d ago

Now this is strange.

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273 Upvotes

After I saw this woman I could not stop thinking about Mars Attacks.


r/strange • • 1d ago

I got a strange phone call years ago and still don’t understand what happened. Can Reddit help me figure out what it was?

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So back in 2012-2013 I was a 17 year old girl unfortunately dating a 25 year old man. I didn’t understand that he was a drug addict because i didn’t use drugs or know much as a naive teenager. The man worked as a piercer for a sketchy tattoo shop that was involved in selling drugs. I’d see him go through opioid withdrawal but he told me he was sick due to back pain. Again, didn’t know anybody better. Right before my 18th birthday he died from what I can assumed was an overdose. I was the last person to speak with him the night before on the phone. The morning he died, I didn’t know he was dead but was getting texts from his mom and sister asking if I had seen him. I told them no, but starting reaching out to mutuals asking if they had heard from him. Here’s where the strange call comes into play. I get a phone call and it comes up in my phone as his phone number. The caller had their voice disguised with some sort of electric voice. They said if I cared about him to bring a couple thousand dollars to a spot in the city he worked in. At first I thought holy shit is he being held ransom?? Then I thought maybe a prank with him and another friend. So I called that friend and he said he had nothing to do with the call. Literally maybe 15 minutes later I get a call from his mom again and it’s a detective on the phone. He’s asking me questions about his last known whereabouts ect. I told him about the phone call, but he didn’t care. He then put the phone back to his mom and that’s when they told me he had been found dead in his bed early that morning, cold probably died around 3-4 am I can’t remember all the details. Thing is there’s no way anybody else would have used his phone. It was a weird set up where he had a broken phone he’d plug his phone’s battery into to charge, then would put the charged battery into his working phone. It was held together with rubber bands and was very particular to work. Only he would have known how to do that. The detective wanted to interview me the next day but then I told him not without a lawyer (his friends advised me since I was young and vulnerable that the detective could exploit me) the detective then flipped out on me and told my mom personal details he had found out from my text messages with my then boyfriend. His grandmother, mother and friends all swore up and down the detective didn’t make that phone call to me, but that’s my best bet. Anybody have any ideas what the hell could have happened and if the cops would do something like that for details or something from me?


r/strange • • 1d ago

Has anyone else had this happen to them?

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So last night was really weird. I stayed up playing my PC relatively late, at 2AM I realized the time and put away my PC to go to sleep. After getting settled, I kept hearing a tapping noise. Even with my cat curled up to me, purring loudly into my ear, I still heard it. This isn’t the weird part yet. No matter what I tried to do to prevent this tapping, I didn’t know where it was coming from. And I still don’t know where it could've been coming from. It sounded like something next to my bed, but there is nothing there that could possibly make a tapping noise. Anyways, eventually I couldn’t take it anymore because it was now 3AM, so I got up and went to go sleep on my couch, but as I was walking out of my room, I smelled cigarette smoke in my doorway. Right off the bat, that might not seem too odd, but it was ONLY in my doorway. There was no smell in my room or in the hallway outside my room, the smell was only in the doorway. No one in my house smokes and there are no windows near my doorway where smoke could seep in, even so, no one in my house opens the windows or doors often and we definitely don’t leave them open, because we have cats. And this house is brand new- so there’s no way that a past owner could have smoked here and for some reason the bedroom door just took in the smell of the smoke- so I don’t know what it could’ve been. And if you're thinking that it could’ve been the PC, that could be true, but then wouldn't my whole room smell like smoke? And either way, when I went to get my roommate to come smell in my doorway, by the time we got back over there, it was gone. As soon as I went to sleep on the couch, I fell asleep almost immediately as my cat followed me and curled up with me in my living room. Anyways, I just felt like sharing this weird story- has anyone else had a similar thing happen?


r/strange • • 1d ago

My last birthday ?

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My birthday was yesterday and I just turned 22, but I have a strange feeling it’s my last. I was talking to my mom and she said “oh, on your next birthday hopefully we’ll be doing something more exciting,”. But I had a sinking feeling I wasn’t going to be there. No I’m not planning on anything and yes I do have health issues, but none that would warrant that feeling. I just don’t think I’ll be here. It’s weird
It’s not very scary either, it just feels matter of fact. I don’t know


r/strange • • 2d ago

Why this balloon shrink when I touch it

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r/strange • • 21h ago

I think the Mandela effect is real

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Well this is something I have been wondering for quiet a long time. I think something did change in the world after 2012 and the changes probably started appearing slowly. And they became prominent after the 2020 pandemic.

So I have seen many changes in my life concerning past events and even my own capabilities. You see before 2012 I used to be this really bright student and nerd. And after that year things went horribly downhill for me and I almost quitted school. And then after the pandemic I started noticing some things which probably were there but maybe I didn't notice. For example, I have been seeing birds all around my house become awfully quiet (I'm not from the USA btw). Before 2012 and the pandemic I used to hear birds chirping or making weird noises like crows for example and used to wake up early in the morning just by hearing their noises. But now I don't hear birds making sounds or singing at all.

Even other animals like street cats and dogs have become quiet too. I also noticed people having different recollections of the past. Like for example, I remember our school having a winter vacation of one month but a friend of mine remembering the vacation to be shorter. There are many other such weird things that I noticed which makes me feel as if someone deliberately changed the past and only I have the original memories still intact.

And let's just not mention how awful people have become online and also in real life which wasn't something I remember before 2012 or the pandemic. I seriously feel something is off with our timeline. Maybe our timeline is wrong and everything in each of our lives were supposed to happen in a different way. But here we are living lives that we weren't supposed to live.


r/strange • • 2d ago

Please explain what I saw

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I don’t even know if anyone’s going to read this but this is the weirdest thing that’s ever happened to me and I’ve been through some crazy stuff and I still can’t explain it. this happened around 6 years ago, I would’ve been around 13/14 at the time. I was with a few of my childhood friends (still till this day we are still friends and none of us can explain what happened we just genuinely ignore it). We were “playing out” or whatever in a park/ field around 15 mins from our houses- no word of a lie we looked over and inbetween 2 bushes that were seperating both fields stood my friend Sophie. Her exact figure her exact face her exact clothes, we all knew it was her because she was a dancer and she had this certain posture lol. She also used to have a massive iPhone that she used to hold in a specific way that you would just recognise if you knew her. She lived close to us at the time and we were all in the same friendship group so we just started calling her name- she didn’t move or react so we called out a few times again until she turned around and ran into the bushes behind her. I know it sounds like one of those typical horror movies but this genuinely happened and it gets worse. We obviously think she’s taking the mick so we follow her and actually begin to get worried because we can’t find her (of course) I kid you not this part still baffles me to this day, we are in the little block of woods where she ran and we are calling out her name again and again and again until we hear her shout “IM HERE” in her EXACT voice I know it sounds crazy but she has a very specific voice, same tone and everything. Of course we can’t find her after that so we call her a few minutes later and she picks up very confused obviously, us still thinking it’s a joke she tells us she’s at her aunties house which is the OTHER side of town. A 20 minute drive away. But she was just here. She genuinely was at her aunties house that day and till this day I still ask her to tell me if she’s been keeping a running prank on us but she genuinely isn’t. I just would like some sort of explanation I guess I was watching Reddit stories on YouTube and I just thought I’d tell my weird encounter
I know some stories can seem a little made up sometimes but genuinely this is completely true- all 3 of us say the exact same thing about that day start to finish so I know I’m not crazy lol


r/strange • • 1d ago

Ребят расскажите случай из жизни, который не поддаётся объяснению

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Я расскажу свой случай с колонкой, которая нам досталась от родственников. Как то в один вечер Я сидела в тик токе, как из колонки начали издаваться странные звуки. Я подумала что это с улицы, но потом поняла что с колонки. Она была включена в розетку, но сама не была включена по блютузу (эта колонка где то с 2009-х годов, точно не помню. Она может играть как и по блютузу, так и через касету и диск) Я испугалась, думала что колонка подключилась к моему телефону, но самое страшное было то, что у меня не был включен блютуз. Рядом со мной была сестра, и у неё так же не был включен блютуз. Больше никого не было дома. Я успела только немного заснять звук, так как когда я начала снимать видео, оно резко перестало издавать звуки. Так же очень странно было то, что когда я снимала, телефон начал лагать и делать помехи, я думаю они на видео вам слышны. Я незнаю что это было,


r/strange • • 2d ago

Strange phone calls

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Over the past two days, I’ve been getting repeated calls from the same unknown phone number.
Yesterday, the number called me twice at night. The first time, I answered, but the caller hung up almost immediately. I could hear a bit of rustling before the call ended. Later, the same number called again, and the exact same thing happened.
I looked the number up online and found a comment from 2024 describing it as an annoying caller.
Today, the number called again, so I decided to call back. An older man answered. He seemed rather strange and said he was looking for an assistance service. I told him he had the wrong number. He started asking me who I was and what I did. I asked him why it mattered, since I wasn’t the service he was looking for.
Then he went quiet for a long time. Eventually, he said something about having a piano lesson and wanting to call me later. I found the whole conversation really odd, so I hung up.
Since then, he has tried calling again.
I have no idea whether this man is simply confused, has the wrong number, or whether something else is going on. I know I might be overthinking it, but the repeated calls and the strange conversation have made me uneasy.


r/strange • • 2d ago

Please explain what I saw

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I don’t even know if anyone’s going to read this but this is the weirdest thing that’s ever happened to me and I’ve been through some crazy stuff and I still can’t explain it. this happened around 6 years ago, I would’ve been around 13/14 at the time. I was with a few of my childhood friends (still till this day we are still friends and none of us can explain what happened we just genuinely ignore it). We were “playing out” or whatever in a park/ field around 15 mins from our houses- no word of a lie we looked over and inbetween 2 bushes that were seperating both fields stood my friend Sophie. Her exact figure her exact face her exact clothes, we all knew it was her because she was a dancer and she had this certain posture lol. She also used to have a massive iPhone that she used to hold in a specific way that you would just recognise if you knew her. She lived close to us at the time and we were all in the same friendship group so we just started calling her name- she didn’t move or react so we called out a few times again until she turned around and ran into the bushes behind her. I know it sounds like one of those typical horror movies but this genuinely happened and it gets worse. We obviously think she’s taking the mick so we follow her and actually begin to get worried because we can’t find her (of course) I kid you not this part still baffles me to this day, we are in the little block of woods where she ran and we are calling out her name again and again and again until we hear her shout “IM HERE” in her EXACT voice I know it sounds crazy but she has a very specific voice, same tone and everything. Of course we can’t find her after that so we call her a few minutes later and she picks up very confused obviously, us still thinking it’s a joke she tells us she’s at her aunties house which is the OTHER side of town. A 20 minute drive away. But she was just here. She genuinely was at her aunties house that day and till this day I still ask her to tell me if she’s been keeping a running prank on us but she genuinely isn’t. I just would like some sort of explanation I guess I was watching Reddit stories on YouTube and I just thought I’d tell my weird encounter
I know some stories can seem a little made up sometimes but genuinely this is completely true- all 3 of us say the exact same thing about that day start to finish so I know I’m not crazy lol


r/strange • • 3d ago

I have weird, scary experiences and I’m not sure how to classify them. I’ve never heard anyone relate to this, its extremely difficult to explain.

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extra info just in case: I’m a 16 year old girl in high school. I have anxiety and im medicated for it. depression runs in my family and I’m almost positive I have adhd, I just finished testing and Im waiting for a verdict.

Ever since I was little I’ve had this strange occurrence where I’ll see a place, ex: my neighborhood, my horse-riding barn, my house. And I’ll see it, but the I can switch it in my mind. It looks almost the exact same but slightly different, and it feels unfamiliar and dreamlike. It’s extremely hard to explain because of how similar it looks.

For example, when I was little, I had a dream/memory (I really can’t remember) where I was in my house, but it was different. I had an entirely different way of seeing the layout and even though the layout is the same, it was unfamiliar and dreamlike. My best effort at describing it is when you see a place for the first time.

when you see a place for the first tine, the layout is unfamiliar and looks different from when you actually know it like the back of your hand. over t8me you get used to seeing it and mapping it as a familiar place.

I’ve never had the issue where I’ve gotten stuck here except one time, where I was at my horse riding barn. Back when I used to ride horses, i was at a lesson one day. My dad pulled into the driveway of the barn and the entire thing looked the same, but unfamiliar. and I usually can switch it at will*, but this time I could not switch it back no matter how hard I tried *(Switching at will is difficult, like when you try to stop backflipping in a dream but you can’t control it easily)*. I was completely petrified and I had a panic attack, because I’m usually able to switch out of it. I was never able to switch out of it ever again, and now I see the barn in my memory as the dream like one. I will only occasionally switch back to the original, normal one.

Im not extremely worried about this in particular, but I have absolutely no idea what it is. I’ve never heard anyone else experience this and everything I search up doesnt line up with what I’m experiencing. id like to know what’s happening to me, because it’s really scary when it happens. sometimes when I switch it’s harder for me to switch back and it makes me freak out, kinda like when coraline got stuck in the other mothers house. it’s really scary.


r/strange • • 2d ago

Strange Trending search suggestion?

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What on earth could the prevention hotline be trending for? Is there a mass event I am not aware of? lol


r/strange • • 2d ago

notes from my friends ex boyfriend

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they've been broken up for 5 months haven't talked since and he's blocked on every platform. blurred name is mine, this guy is crazy asl


r/strange • • 3d ago

Is my phone listening or somehow reading my mind?

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Okay I know its going to soundcrazy or people are gonna think I'm lying but I swear to everything this thing happened today that I can't stop thinking about. So starting off with some back story today for dinner my wife wanted to cook some chicken breast outside on a blackstone griddle I have ( I obviously offered to cook it but she said she wanted to try as she has never cooked on one before) so I uncovered the black protector bag thing it comes with (I've had this griddle for a couple months). And I noticed that it had some rust on it which made sense since it had been raining all last week. I say out loud "damn it has some rust" all I said. I think in my head I'm just going to search up on YouTube If there's a way to get the rust off. I open up YouTube on my phone which had been in my pocket turned off and | literally just type in "how to get rust" and immediately YouTube suggested as the first suggestion "how to get rust off blackstone griddle" litterly the first suggestion. I froze for a second, Like there's is no way YouTube knew exactly what I was going to search, like there are a million things I could think off people search up how to get rust off of and by chance it knew exactly what I wanted to know down to the brand and everything after only having typed 4 words. Idk I feel like im going crazy and I have never ever searched up anything remotely close to that on YouTube.
Please someone tell me I'm not the only one that has had something similar like this happen.


r/strange • • 4d ago

Does anyone else find their resemblance strange?

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r/strange • • 4d ago

I like doing logic puzzles. My coworker thinks I’m psychic

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So yeah, this… this is strange, right?

A couple of months ago, I started a part-time job to supplement my income thanks to a series of major repairs to my home. It’s just three nights a week for 4 hours each.

The staff there skew younger, think college-aged and young adult. They all talk with each other and generally don’t pay me any mind. I haven’t had any problems and it’s been a good job.

I take my breaks in the break room and usually just pass the time doing logic puzzles on my phone. One of my coworkers, I’ll call her Charlie, caught sight of one of my more colorful games and asked what it was. I showed her, gave her a sense of the play. She decided to download it and was trying it as I left to resume my shift.

Charlie and I typically only work one or two days together each week so I didn’t see her again until the following week. She mentioned she couldn’t figure out how the game worked and asked if I could show her again.

So on my break, I walked her through how I know where the queens are. She looked confused and said to me, “But how do you know they’re there before you tap it?” I tried to explain again, then she tried on her phone.

She showed me what she was doing and said, “See? I guessed wrong again. How are you always guessing right?”

I didn’t really know what to say to that and needed to get back to work, so I mumbled “I don’t know” and went on my way.

When I go back five days later, another coworker, Raul, asked if I was “really” psychic because he didn’t really believe in that stuff.

I said No, of course not and gave him my best quizzical look. But then at my next shift with Charlie, she called to me as I arrived. I went over and she said, “It’s psychic! She guesses right every single time, which is impossible! Show them, Blu!”

I tried to say again that it’s a logic puzzle, not being psychic, but Charlie seemed convinced. I didn’t really see any point in arguing anymore and ignored her stares the rest of my shift.


r/strange • • 4d ago

Been hearing something following me in the woods lately. My friend jokingly suggested it was faefolk. Today I found this waiting for me.

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For context, they live nowhere near me and I haven't told anyone here about what they said. Still have no idea whats following me, I've changed up my route a few times and it's still happening for miles.


r/strange • • 3d ago

Weird text message mixup?

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I was texting with my sister today when she got this message on her phone. What's so weird? That is MY name and MY TOWN blanked out there. Not hers, as the person owning the phone it was sent to, but mine, on the other side of the country. No idea who "Alex" is, I don't recognize the (445) number he was texting from & it doesn't come up anything when I search it.

I know this is a scam, I would never say yes to a rando offering roofing, but why was it addressed to me but sent to her while we were texting? It's freaking us out a little.

EDIT: Yes, I get that this is a spam text and they happen all the time, that doesn't really need to be pointed out to me. The creepy part is that it was a text addressed to me, sent to my sister, as we were texting.


r/strange • • 4d ago

Random hearing aid found in my car on drivers side floor

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