It's October, so let's have a spooky thread! Have heyurizens ever encountered the paranormal? Stories of ghosts, demons, UFOs, cryptids or anything of that sort are of course welcome, but also feel free to share tales of phenomena that might be explicable, but simply strange or rare.

I myself have encountered a couple of strange phenomena, though they have naturalistic explanations. The first was that one night I fell asleep with my lamp on. I awoke in the middle of the night to see a shadow person next to my bed. It appeared as the silhouette of a woman with dishevelled hair. I acknowledged her and though her appearance was creepy, I didn't feel any fear whatsoever. I seemed to be in a trance state and I didn't feel there was anything abnormal about her presence. I simply turned off the light and went back to sleep. This was likely just a hypnopompic hallucination, although I guess you could say it was a ghost.

The second was that once during a major thunderstorm I encountered ball lightning. Rain was pouring heavily and lightning had just struck near my apartment building, being so loud that it shook my windows. Then, I began to hear a faint ringing sound located above and behind where I was seated before I heard a loud pop accompanied by a flash of white light from within my apartment. Ball lightning was once considered paranormal but has since been confirmed to exist as a natural, though rare and unexplained phenomenon.