Redditors who spend a lot of time in seclusion (at sea, in the air or out in the wilderness) what's the creepiest or most mysterious thing you've seen, found or experienced?

In my early 20's, I became convinced that I was being haunted.

Weird shit would happen all the time.

I worked nights, so I'd be driving home around 2AM and as a streetlight slid across my backseat maybe I'd glance in the rear-view mirror and see a human figure in the back seat. Turn and look, and nothing there. Check the mirror, still nothing. 5 minutes down the road, I glance in the mirror, and there's the figure again. Didn't happen every day, but happened at least once a week for several years. It terrified me.

I also started seeing human silhouettes in the trees in front of and behind the house I grew up in. I wasn't the first person to notice this, actually, an ex saw it before I did, but after that for years I wouldn't even look out the windows at night lest I see a human shadow among the branches.

One particular occasion, I have the figure show up in my back seat a few times, and when I park in front of my house, I can feel this... force. This heavy, energetic, angry, malevolence, surrounding the car. I couldn't make myself get out of the car. I was convinced I would be harmed if I tried to leave the car, and had to call a friend and talk to him while I got out and got to my house, and when I got inside I turned on all my lights and pushed shit in front of the doors.

Later, after moving out, I'd hear whispering in the walls. Initially I had thought it was my neighbors and they hated me, because the whispers were always super hateful toward me, critical and kind of aggressive. Then one day I heard the whispers talking about something it would be impossible for anyone but me and my then-wife to know about. When I realized nobody could actually know what I was hearing, it scared the shit out of me.

It was later that year I learned that hallucinations are one of the less common symptoms of bipolar disorder. Been medicated for about 3 years now and haven't had any spooky shit since then.

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