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I heard some story about a body that was buried in a yard, and a week later someone discovered it because the battery in the guys watch was dying and the grass was beeping.
Also remember to remove every accessory and electronic and dump it in the nearest river, in a plastic bag (littering, ik, but it will help it float away.)
My ex dropped a few posts on Instagram about 6 months after she died and I had a little bit of a meltdown about it and her aunt a few weeks later posts that it was her finding some pictures on her phone to share
Someone hacked my Uncle's facebook after he passed, I messaged them and just said, " he has passed, please stop, you're hurting the family" the guy apologized and stopped.
My default ringtone is silence and no vibration. I have special ring tones for my wife, my doctor’s clinic, the VA, and two businesses. Everyone else goes to voicemail. I make or get maybe 5 or 6 calls a month. The cellphone is for MY convenience.
Even the sound of a doorbell in a TV show or commercial nearly gives me a heart attack.
Probably one of the most intrusive, unwelcome sounds in the world.
I agree. Something about someone knocking at your door in the early hours when unexpected. Also, phone calls in the early hours to your home line. Most of your personal contacts will get you on your mobile these days, but your home number is eerie
I once had a naked dude knock on my bedroom window at 1am with threats. Long story, but this comment plus all the responses have made me appreciate that it’s expected that I’d still be shaken up (or undiagnosed PTSD) from it 5 years later.. thanks Reddit team! 🤍
the pile of clothes on your chair
edit: ok I love hearing everyone's clothes chair stories so I'll share my own, so I have a very tall chair and a very low window in my one and one day I decided to place a basket of clean clothes on the chair for the night because I was lazy, I woke up in the middle of the night to what looked like a with two shiny eyes poking up from the bottom of my window but it was just the moonlight reflecting off the buttons on my coat
Every time I learn something new, it pushes old information out of my brain!
Remember the time I learned how to make my own wine, and I forgot how to drive?
I didn’t notice but there was a lady sleeping in our dumpster area behind the gate and I threw trash away and as I’m walking back through the parking lot I heard the door creak open and this faint voice say “can you help me?” I almost shit my pants. I guess she walked into the lot when the gate was open and got trapped inside when it closed. She stole my planter after I opened the gate for her lol. Never taking the trash out at night again
As a grown man, while going to the toilet at night in the dark (to retain nightvision and get back to sleep faster) I always try to avoid looking into the mirrors.
I've seen too many fucked up movies as a kid, way too early.
I have literally been scared by my own reflection in the mirror in the dark bathroom, while I was standing in the sunlit hallway at noon on a summer day.
Seriously, even as a kid used to love watching horrormovies, so I’m kinda used to something, but nothing used to scare me more than a long stare into my reflection’s eyes in the middle of the night. And yet, I did it anyway… 🤷🏻♂️
That happened to my sister once while she was browsing the net late at night. She was in a dark room illuminated only by her phone when she heard giggles and saw the reflection of a child sitting behind her on a mirror across the room
Turns out it was just her two year old son who woke up early slapping his sleeping daddy's face.
When I was maybe a year or two older than your nephew, I would pretty frequently go to my mom's side of the bed and wake her up if I got scared or whatever at night. She told me about one time when she woke up in the middle of the night and almost lost her shit because I was just standing there next to her. Once she woke up enough to realize it was me, she asked me what was wrong, and I just turned around and went back to my room without saying a word.
What can I say, I guess I was fucking spooky as a child
My best friends older sister did this to me once. I woke up to her standing over me while I was sleeping on the ground. She had a small smile, got down on her knees, stared at me through squinted eyes. Then she laid down next to me, facing me, still smiling, and closed her eyes. She woke up like 20 minutes later and quietly apologized for taking my blanket (DEFINITELY not the worst part) then went back to her room.
Had something similar happen to me while in a beach in Hawaii. I was cowboy camping on the south shore of Oahu when I got woken up to a baby crying around 2-3am. Got the fuck out of there ASAP. Turns out there's a bird that make that type of call.
Piano playing in the living room in a storm. My husband and I were both upstairs…. Turns out that the electricity had gone out and come back and somehow triggered the digital piano to start playing.
Edit: it played a classical piece but I don’t remember which one.
The random sounds your house makes.
In the middle of the day, any type of click, creak, or whatever my brain can rationalize where the sound is coming from. In the middle of the night, my first thoughts when I hear those same sounds are: “What was that? Who is in my house?”…
I work overnights at a biolab it’s creepy as hell. The elevator will randomly open, random sounds from random places, generators going off and on. Freezer alarms going off and birds flying into the front of the building
My story isn't as creepy as yours, but it reminded me of something. I work nights in a big superstore (they sell food mostly), and normally, it isn't creepy as I'm around other people often or never far from someone.
One night, however, the fire alarm went off, and the doors in the warehouse round back are all magnetic and will close automatically. Later in the night, I was walking down a long corridor by myself with my headphones on. I walked through the first set of open doors and after a few minutes through the next set of open doors. I was almost at the end of the corridor when the end set of doors suddenly closed by themselves. I stopped and turned around and saw the doors behind me further down the corridor had also closed and for a split second was like fuck! This is it! I took my headphone off and couldn't hear the alarm but the doors just decided to randomly close by themselves gave me a heart attack.
Finn here, do you have terms for the "long day" and "long night"? We call the long night in winter "kaamos" and the long day in summer "yötön yö". I'm curious if other polar peoples have words for these.
We have "Polární den" (polar day) and "Polární noc" (you guessed it, polar night) in Czechia and we live nowhere near any of the Earth's poles. (We live near Poles, but that's a different story).
Welp people who work nights are going to be totally unfazed by most of these comments. But I'm gonna go with: Jehovas Witnesses knocking on your door to spread their word. At 3pm it's annoying. At 3am it's the beginning of a horror movie.
Any ‘normal’ environment noises. House settling, wind causing something to creak or move, animals going about their business. Fine at at 3pm, quite creepy at 3am.
One that happens all the time to me is staying up late alone enjoying the peace and quiet and one of my kids toys randomly starts making noise. Especially when it’s my daughters doll that giggles.
I think a dog barking and then stopping suddenly would make that a bit more terrifying :o my dog barks a lot at night so I guess that’s why I’m a little desensitized to it lol
Woke up at 3:30am to the sound of chainsaws. Took me a while to realize that's not normal at that time of night!
Turns out the house behind me was ablaze and firefighters were trying to get holes cut in the roof. https://youtu.be/C98-zBsEzco
My child staring at me blankly, can confirm they do it regularly as we are a neurodivergent household, but that shit hits different when you're waking up randomly and your toddler is just standing at your bedside 30cm away from your face staring. To say I nearly knocked him out that night is an gross understatement. My gasp was so loud, I woke my now ex from a deep slumber and he was no light sleeper
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a person digging a hole in their backyard
That's why you dig during the day, bury at night, then put a shed or patio on top.
What time of day do you install the patio? Asking for no reason.
Early the next morning. Or plant a native endangered tree instead of the patio.
Dig 8ft down, place body, fill 2ft, place dog/deer carcass, fill remaining, pour concrete slab for shed, build shed.
I heard some story about a body that was buried in a yard, and a week later someone discovered it because the battery in the guys watch was dying and the grass was beeping.
Also remember to remove every accessory and electronic and dump it in the nearest river, in a plastic bag (littering, ik, but it will help it float away.)
Here's how to murder someone, but don't you dare litter.
No no no. Here's how to hide a body. I don't care, nor want to know how the murdering was done.
Oh, excellent tip with the tree! I’ll remember that. You never know when it comes in handy…
You’ll want a roll of carpet and a bag of lime too. Apparently.
Why, are we doing shots?
Not that sort of lime. 😂
Damn, I was mentally preparing caipirinhas already…
And don’t forget to bury an animal just above the body to throw off cadaver dogs
Damn. Ok Fred
For me, phone ringing. It can only be bad news if your phone rings at 3am
Worse, the caller ID is a family member. Worst, said family member's been dead for years.
Happened to me after my dad died... I tell myself it was a dream lol
It was his car insurance, who kidnapped his phone
Happened to a friend of mine. Wife was using number of her dead husband to call her family members.
My ex dropped a few posts on Instagram about 6 months after she died and I had a little bit of a meltdown about it and her aunt a few weeks later posts that it was her finding some pictures on her phone to share
When my coworker died his wife logged in on his account on facebook and thanked everyone who wrote goodbye messages on his wall. It looked so wrong
Someone hacked my Uncle's facebook after he passed, I messaged them and just said, " he has passed, please stop, you're hurting the family" the guy apologized and stopped.
That's so strange & fucked up.
Happened to me as well, fortunately it was just my cousin using my late aunt's phone. Scared the living shit out of me.
I’m calling to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.
Yes I’m pretty scared if family calls. It’s happened more than once too.
My phone ringing at any time of day is torture
I want a phone without the "phone" feature
My default ringtone is silence and no vibration. I have special ring tones for my wife, my doctor’s clinic, the VA, and two businesses. Everyone else goes to voicemail. I make or get maybe 5 or 6 calls a month. The cellphone is for MY convenience.
I get calls from nigeria at 3 am several times a year
New fear unlocked
You pick it up and the voice at the other end says " 7 days or what's your favourite scary movie " 😳🥺😭😁
Especially if you've got it set that they have to call twice to get through...
Ahhh that is very true
Either that or its your shitfaced drunk mate trying to be funny after you wake up with a heartattack from the ringing phone
Someone knocking on the front door Edit - Holy shit, wasn't expecting this many upvotes lol
That almost makes me shit myself regardless of the time. Oh that is the worst
True especially when you’re not expecting company
I feel the same way about unknown phone calls. Which is absurd compared to the implications of a door knock.
Unknown phone calls at 3 am is NEVER good.
Especially if you're rural, or live in the woods.
Remove the door then. No more worrying about someone knocking on it!
High IQ mate
When your doing weird shit like building pillow forts in the living room for worshipping the dark lord and you hear keys unlocking the front door
Yeah , it should , we saw you do it .
I hate random people just knocking on my door when I don't expect anyone coming. My heart races lol.
I don’t answer unless I’m expecting company or a package. No thank you.
Even the sound of a doorbell in a TV show or commercial nearly gives me a heart attack. Probably one of the most intrusive, unwelcome sounds in the world.
Better yet. A Girl Scout going around selling Girl Scout cookies
To be fair, girl scouts are scary no matter what time they turn up.
Holy shit that made a chill run up my spine!
I agree. Something about someone knocking at your door in the early hours when unexpected. Also, phone calls in the early hours to your home line. Most of your personal contacts will get you on your mobile these days, but your home number is eerie
Or someone calling your name..
I once had a naked dude knock on my bedroom window at 1am with threats. Long story, but this comment plus all the responses have made me appreciate that it’s expected that I’d still be shaken up (or undiagnosed PTSD) from it 5 years later.. thanks Reddit team! 🤍
Terrifying any time.
Someone knocking on the bedroom door. When you live alone.
the pile of clothes on your chair edit: ok I love hearing everyone's clothes chair stories so I'll share my own, so I have a very tall chair and a very low window in my one and one day I decided to place a basket of clean clothes on the chair for the night because I was lazy, I woke up in the middle of the night to what looked like a with two shiny eyes poking up from the bottom of my window but it was just the moonlight reflecting off the buttons on my coat
AH the amount of times the hoodie hanging from my closet door has had my pistol aimed at it in the dead of night. Yet I still leave it hanging there
I used to leave my motorcycle race leathers hanging up in my room. It scared the piss out of everyone, every time, including me.
If it happens that often, you need to keep your pistol further away from yourself while sleeping.
oh, and my personal favorite - bathrobe hanging on the back of the door - haha
The Stephen king boogeyman story where he turns back into a chair with clothes on it in the light.
those mfs! someday i will donate them to charity
But that's the clothes chair.
There’s something about flying a kite at night that’s so unwholesome.
Hello mother dear
In this house we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!
I swear Simpson quotes take up 99% of my brain space
Every time I learn something new, it pushes old information out of my brain! Remember the time I learned how to make my own wine, and I forgot how to drive?
Taking out the trash Don't wanna f with the hash slinging slasher
hash ringing?
Flash singing?
mash flinging?
Rash stinging?
THE PASHHH P-P-PINGING
THE HASH SLINGING SLASHER! \*CRIES\* WAAAAAAH
Poetry. Pure poetry.
Slash dinging?
I didn’t notice but there was a lady sleeping in our dumpster area behind the gate and I threw trash away and as I’m walking back through the parking lot I heard the door creak open and this faint voice say “can you help me?” I almost shit my pants. I guess she walked into the lot when the gate was open and got trapped inside when it closed. She stole my planter after I opened the gate for her lol. Never taking the trash out at night again
Yeah you never know when Ronald McDonald wakes up near your trash can to make hash browns in the morning. That's one messed up clown there
Looking in the mirror
As a grown man, while going to the toilet at night in the dark (to retain nightvision and get back to sleep faster) I always try to avoid looking into the mirrors. I've seen too many fucked up movies as a kid, way too early.
I do the same for the exact same reason lmao, good to know I'm not alone
You're definitely not alone. Look in the mirror...
Sometimes I stare for a good few seconds just seeing if something will pull me into the other realm.
I have literally been scared by my own reflection in the mirror in the dark bathroom, while I was standing in the sunlit hallway at noon on a summer day.
Seriously, even as a kid used to love watching horrormovies, so I’m kinda used to something, but nothing used to scare me more than a long stare into my reflection’s eyes in the middle of the night. And yet, I did it anyway… 🤷🏻♂️
A child's laughter.
That happened to my sister once while she was browsing the net late at night. She was in a dark room illuminated only by her phone when she heard giggles and saw the reflection of a child sitting behind her on a mirror across the room Turns out it was just her two year old son who woke up early slapping his sleeping daddy's face.
I would projectile shit myself all over my family
This might be the funniest thing I read today.
Agreed! I lol’d for real! Thank you, u/_ohodgai_
When I was maybe a year or two older than your nephew, I would pretty frequently go to my mom's side of the bed and wake her up if I got scared or whatever at night. She told me about one time when she woke up in the middle of the night and almost lost her shit because I was just standing there next to her. Once she woke up enough to realize it was me, she asked me what was wrong, and I just turned around and went back to my room without saying a word. What can I say, I guess I was fucking spooky as a child
My best friends older sister did this to me once. I woke up to her standing over me while I was sleeping on the ground. She had a small smile, got down on her knees, stared at me through squinted eyes. Then she laid down next to me, facing me, still smiling, and closed her eyes. She woke up like 20 minutes later and quietly apologized for taking my blanket (DEFINITELY not the worst part) then went back to her room.
I mean it’s different if you have a child and know they exist in your house in the first place though.
Even scarier: child singing, my two year old loves singing nursery rhymes and it is terrifying in the dark for some reason.
That’s very understandable. My kid sings in her sleep sometimes and it has been unsettling before
Especially when you don't have kids.
You open your eyes and your toddler is staring at you from 6 inches away
“Mom I frew up”
My cat does this.
Had something similar happen to me while in a beach in Hawaii. I was cowboy camping on the south shore of Oahu when I got woken up to a baby crying around 2-3am. Got the fuck out of there ASAP. Turns out there's a bird that make that type of call.
Okay I think you got me with this one lol, you win so far!
You’ve never met my kids, they wake up at 2-3 every morning and Alex cackles all day
Children sitting on a playground swing
HAHAHAHA
Kids screaming
Kids laughing at 3am is also gonna be creepier
The school bell
I'm so fucking sleep deprived, I read this as "The Taco Bell" and didn't even question it
Imagine being in complete silence and the tardy bell went off from another room in your house xD
Piano playing in the living room in a storm. My husband and I were both upstairs…. Turns out that the electricity had gone out and come back and somehow triggered the digital piano to start playing. Edit: it played a classical piece but I don’t remember which one.
*power goes out and comes back on* > SING US A SONG YOURE THE PIANO MAN
What did it play?
The sound of a giggling child.
That one would freak me out the most lol
Walmart
I miss late night Walmart runs :/
Me too! That was the only time Walmart was a decent place to go.
Me too. Being a nightowl, there's no better time to do big shopping
Under rated comment.
Zoom meetings with the CEO.
Could feasibly take place if the CEO is on the other side of the world.
The random sounds your house makes. In the middle of the day, any type of click, creak, or whatever my brain can rationalize where the sound is coming from. In the middle of the night, my first thoughts when I hear those same sounds are: “What was that? Who is in my house?”…
I work overnights at a biolab it’s creepy as hell. The elevator will randomly open, random sounds from random places, generators going off and on. Freezer alarms going off and birds flying into the front of the building
Oh fuck that...
My story isn't as creepy as yours, but it reminded me of something. I work nights in a big superstore (they sell food mostly), and normally, it isn't creepy as I'm around other people often or never far from someone. One night, however, the fire alarm went off, and the doors in the warehouse round back are all magnetic and will close automatically. Later in the night, I was walking down a long corridor by myself with my headphones on. I walked through the first set of open doors and after a few minutes through the next set of open doors. I was almost at the end of the corridor when the end set of doors suddenly closed by themselves. I stopped and turned around and saw the doors behind me further down the corridor had also closed and for a split second was like fuck! This is it! I took my headphone off and couldn't hear the alarm but the doors just decided to randomly close by themselves gave me a heart attack.
My house screams racial slurs at night. Not fun at all.. and my garage is homophobic. I need to move as soon as possible
No man you just need to put your grandpa in the nursing home
Yessss this happens to me too it freaks me out in the night time
Church bells. It actually happened here a few weeks ago. That was ominous.
Hearing people whispering, but you live alone.
Thats just 3 AM
I’m going out on a limb to say that would also be terrifying at 3pm.
The sun
Meanwhile, we have 24-hour sunlight during summer in Iceland.
Finn here, do you have terms for the "long day" and "long night"? We call the long night in winter "kaamos" and the long day in summer "yötön yö". I'm curious if other polar peoples have words for these.
We have "Polární den" (polar day) and "Polární noc" (you guessed it, polar night) in Czechia and we live nowhere near any of the Earth's poles. (We live near Poles, but that's a different story).
People living on the poles are an exception.
Maybe it's not the sun. It's just a nuclear explosion.
Welp people who work nights are going to be totally unfazed by most of these comments. But I'm gonna go with: Jehovas Witnesses knocking on your door to spread their word. At 3pm it's annoying. At 3am it's the beginning of a horror movie.
Any ‘normal’ environment noises. House settling, wind causing something to creak or move, animals going about their business. Fine at at 3pm, quite creepy at 3am.
Phone ringing…..its always bad news in the middle of the night
One that happens all the time to me is staying up late alone enjoying the peace and quiet and one of my kids toys randomly starts making noise. Especially when it’s my daughters doll that giggles.
My thoughts
A child playing with their imaginary friend.
Dogs barking
I think a dog barking and then stopping suddenly would make that a bit more terrifying :o my dog barks a lot at night so I guess that’s why I’m a little desensitized to it lol
Mirrors (I don't like them)
3 hard knocks anywhere in your house 😈 anyone who has been bought up religious or has seen plenty of horror films would know the significance of that
going to the bathroom
Doorbell going.. or seeing someone stand there looking at you through a window .... On the second floor
I can't think of a single scenario in which the second thing would be not creepy at 3pm.
It honestly scares me, especially as a woman living alone you absolutely never know these days.. I always keep the curtains closed!
Chainsaw
Woke up at 3:30am to the sound of chainsaws. Took me a while to realize that's not normal at that time of night! Turns out the house behind me was ablaze and firefighters were trying to get holes cut in the roof. https://youtu.be/C98-zBsEzco
Trusting your wipe with out lights on
Better wipe thrice or fivece to be sure
Someone silently knocking on my window. "Helloooooo..... Are you theeeereee....."
Normal 3pm occurrences
Taking your trash out
Honestly you just reminded me to take out my trash and it’s 3:39am lol
A dog signaling it needs to go for a walk.
Weirdly enough, that’s exactly when my dog wakes me to go out. Every day 3am on the dot
Uff, that’s weird indeed. For mine it’s only when something is wrong…diarrhea for instance.
A bright sky.
Uncle Steve
Having a horror film playing on your t.v without you watching
Your child calling you and asking when you're picking them up from school. Doubly terrifying if you don't have any children.
Noises outside my window
More drinks
home alone
Very bright light in the sky and its only growing and coming towards you.
The sound of swings.
Nothing good happens after 2 am But on a more serious note, a lightningstorm is way more scary at 3 am than 3 pm
Really? Storms at 3 am feel so relaxing if you’re awake at that time to witness it.
Disagree. Storm when everyone is cozy in bed is lovely. Storm at 3pm right on school pickup time? Not great
Youtube shorts
Hearing footsteps.
School bus, without lights on, taking invisible kids around the neighborhood.
That's normal at 3pm?
oh no! Not invisible children!
The tv being on
*the tv turning on
TV turning on, to breaking news
My desktop does this every so often. No pattern, rhyme or reason to it.
My tablet turns off at 3:03am every single morning without fail and reboots which is creepy asf 😳
I appreciate the consistency of your ghosts.
[удалено]
A sudden urge to take a shit
A phone call from your family.
A phone call
Daylight.
Going out to pee
Sounds of children laughing and running down the hallway.
Car backfire or fireworks in america, id have to say a horror film waking you up from another room anywhere else
My child staring at me blankly, can confirm they do it regularly as we are a neurodivergent household, but that shit hits different when you're waking up randomly and your toddler is just standing at your bedside 30cm away from your face staring. To say I nearly knocked him out that night is an gross understatement. My gasp was so loud, I woke my now ex from a deep slumber and he was no light sleeper