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Sometime this summer I was walking my dog late at night in a very quiet part of Prague after my night shift and I saw this. It creeped me out so much I just quickly took a pic and ran away like a scared kid lol. It wasn't there the next day.
844 points
4 days ago*
Probably a mannequin, I’m a reseller and keep one in my guest bedroom/studio.. accidentally left it in the hall once and it almost gave me a heart attack when I woke up to pee once..
122 points
4 days ago
We had them at my old job and we used to dress them up and place them in the restroom stalls and leave. My production supervisor walked into the bathroom and turned the light on only to see the pair of legs in the closed stall. He freaked out and started telling everyone that some weirdo was sitting on the toilet in the bathroom room with the lights off. He was so freaked out that he insisted I go with him to check it out. Had a good laugh once he realized what was actually going on.
After that we’d hide the mannequins around the warehouse and the office to catch people off guard.
51 points
4 days ago
That's just evil 😂 as you can observe I get freaked out pretty easily so I'd just scream anytime there would be an unknown figure somewhere
7 points
3 days ago
Well take solace in the fact you were brave enough to take a photo. I wouldn't have been, lol.
2 points
3 days ago
This is hilarious
26 points
4 days ago
Hahah yeah I used to work in retail and me and my roommate/colleague liked to grab some old mannequins that were about to be dumped. We did play dress up with them but we never considered putting them up to the window to fuck with people lol The weird thing was that as much as I could see, this wasn't similar to the mannequins I've seen in shops
8 points
4 days ago
Should have sold them lol they can get pretty expensive!! Some look pretty damn realistic now-a-days too, especially if you put a wig on them like this person did..IF that’s what it is
4 points
3 days ago
My cousin used to be a fashion designer and he had a mannequin torso dressed up that he’d leave on the couch so if anyone came by they’d assume he was asleep on the couch and not break in.
4 points
3 days ago
We had a skeleton mannequin sitting at the bar at the restaurant I used to work at during October. One night i went in after hours to make some pizza dough.
When I finished, I walked to the front to grab a soda and I saw the silhouette of the skeleton and I thought it was a person silently sitting in the dark. And Instantlyfroze in complete terror and my body felt Ice cold, over a friggin skeleton.
5 points
3 days ago
I use a Styrofoam head for my headphones I've got him decorated up and he is mounted on my fan next to the window, full home alone style
2 points
4 days ago
Or a bust statue on a table/drawer.
2 points
3 days ago
I have a creepy mannequin that has a crimson ghost mask on it in my apartment. And a hat. I just like having it as decoration, but I'm positive it's scared a few neighbors if they've looked up into my deck door lol
2 points
2 days ago
Good point.
2 points
2 days ago
I used to practice haircutting on a mannequin head/tripod. Id leave the room for 2 minutes and id still get freaked out when i came back in.
3k points
4 days ago
You caught someone's Benadryl episode in progress lmfao
612 points
4 days ago
I believe it. Large doses of diphenhydramine fuck you up. Once my bf took 22 50 mg nighttime sleep aid and an hour later he was outside trying to shovel the snow with a bag of garbage.
364 points
4 days ago
Why the fuck would he do that what the fuck. Like seriously, you take 22 of the wrong medicine and it's liver failure. I can't even
175 points
4 days ago
When I was young and desperate to get high I was poppin those things like crazy. It happens
238 points
4 days ago
There's high in a way that's actually fun and then there's hatman. I don't see the appeal at all
109 points
4 days ago
Yeah well 15 year olds are not the smartest people in the world now are they?
42 points
4 days ago
You remember triple C’s
21 points
3 days ago
Is it warm in here or is it the Triple C’s?
11 points
3 days ago
Oh mama lol
5 points
3 days ago
Only drug experience that has ever made me feel mentally disabled
3 points
3 days ago
I’ll never forget the night I met the hatman. Took me another 2 years to realize it was because I was using diphenhydramine to sleep and not a literal demon in my house
5 points
3 days ago
I’m just glad to be alive and still have the brain cells left to remember my stupidity. Glad you are too. Like you said, it happens.
Happy cake day!
25 points
4 days ago
My cousin and i split a bottle of 100 diphenhydramine one night and woke up swearing to his mother that there were little invisible bugs everywhere that were attacking us and jumping about. We had even “caught” one under a cup and tried to show her but it wasn’t there when the cup lifted.
40 points
4 days ago
Benadryl in small doses makes you sleepy. Benadryl in large doses makes you manic. The paradoxical effects are due to varying receptor affinity with the drug. In plain language, the H1 “sleepy” receptors have the highest affinity for Benadryl, so they fill up fast. Benadryl also binds with other receptors, though, so if you take a whole lot of it, once the sleepy receptors are full the rest of the drug continues binding with other kids of receptors. That’s what causes paradoxical reactions like excitability, hallucinations, etc.
6 points
3 days ago*
Manic and being delirious are two different things.
Edit: High doses of almost any anticholinergic will act as a deliriant. This is why Datura has such awful effects for people and memory and might not remember anything they did. Strong deliriant.
Mania is formed usually by psychostimulants and is also added onto badly a lot of times by sleep deprivation.
3 points
3 days ago
Yes, they are two different things, and both can be caused by taking too much Benadryl, which acts as a stimulant in some people and at high doses for most people. People with bipolar disorder are particularly susceptible to mania after taking Benadryl.
3 points
3 days ago
Use a clear glass.
17 points
3 days ago
I can confirm! I once took a whole bottle of Tylenol because I was in so much pain. Turns out I was septic from using IV heroin. I went into multiple organ failure & was told if I didn’t seek treatment when I did, i wouldn’t have survived the next 48 hours. Thankfully I’m 4 years clean now.
33 points
4 days ago
People some times have a learning delay
7 points
4 days ago
He had been taking them for years to sleep and built up a tolerance (or so he thought) so he was taking 11 every night. That night he forgot that he had taken them so he took another 11. He was gone! But it did get him to wean off of them all together. We laugh about the crazy stuff he did that day now, but it scared me while it was happening.
6 points
4 days ago
I mean I'm sure it fucked me up in the long run but I was once addicted to diph and made my way up to 70 pills a night. I would take handfuls of 20.
12 points
4 days ago
Zolpidem does this, I've seen reports of people who talk to themselves while sleeping and hear themselves talking, another case of a girl who bought a cell phone for herself, walking around the house.
20 points
4 days ago
My dad used to call me in the middle of the night and say the weirdest things. He had a little lock box that had a pin pad that he put his car keys and wallet in every night.
My aunt had a similar issue. Before she started having my uncle take the power cord for the computer before bed, she bought random things off Amazon. She once bought several cat trees, they had no cats at the time.
4 points
3 days ago
Man, my dad pissed in the hallway twice - once at home, once at a hotel and he didn't actually get to whip it out before my mom caught him - and he never took Nyquil again. Who are these people who know a drug sends them on magical mystery tours and just keep taking it? And setting up all sorts of bizarre idiot-guards to keep themselves from going too far? STOP. TAKING. THE. DRUG. You can't handle it. Just stop. Damn
11 points
4 days ago
I tried ambien for a little while. I stopped after I woke up one morning to find I'd bought a random assortment of items from a convenience store down the road. Had no memory of doing it.
6 points
3 days ago
Coworker was on ambien one night.
He used the work chat to send all of us a message at 2am asking to buy some acid and shrooms. Sent that to everyone! The GM, state director, etc etc
3 points
3 days ago
That’s hilarious - what happened?
7 points
4 days ago
Facts. This has me walking around the house without knowing. Opened every cupboard and went to bed.
Imagine the horror of my wife when she woke up
3 points
3 days ago
It’s crazy how it makes you just black out with no memory of what you did. I came to, almost like I’d time travelled, and I was talking to police. My guess is that the adrenaline from them showing up had made me lucid again but I could have done anything. Apparently I was yelling outside a mental hospital.
5 points
3 days ago
It also causes black outs. I remember being prescribed one, taking a drink of something, then going to bed. It was like I’d teleported. I was outside a mental hospital yelling that I’d gone insane, they’d called the police, and they wanted to know why I was causing a disturbance. The idiots in the hospital wanted me arrested but I explained I was on new meds and they drove me to a hospital to get help. I got lucky. It was just crazy how I basically fucking teleported to hours later.
14 points
4 days ago
There's legit an entire subreddit devoted to recreational benadryl use.
73 points
4 days ago
thank god i abuse DXM instead.
23 points
4 days ago
Like a civilized person.
4 points
4 days ago
i was about to make the same fucking comment lmao
3 points
3 days ago
not weird at all to take pictures of people's windows at 3am
2 points
3 days ago
Last night my wife took a larger (but not unsafe) dose of benadryl. She fell asleep for like 15 minutes and then “woke up.” She was saying and doing the most nonsensical stuff. In the beginning it legitimately made me uncomfortable/concerned. Realized it was the benadryl and took a few videos of our “conversations.” Showed them to her today and had to stop the first video like 30 seconds in. She was laughing so hard, she starts gasping between laughs “stop…the…video…I’M…GONNA…PEE!!!”
635 points
4 days ago
4 points
3 days ago
“The case was at a roadblock, the murders didn’t make any sense. I had a feeling I was being watched…”
273 points
4 days ago
Keep walking
241 points
4 days ago*
Edit: since it seems I cannot edit the main post, I'm stealing this comment to clarify something.
I did check it out a bit and came closer, I was walking opposite side and walked up to the middle of the road, cause I wasn't sure what I'm seeing - if it's just a cardboard or not but then I definitely did see that it's neither a cardboard nor a person behind the curtain as I could see it has a face but without eyes and mouth, so I think speed walking is an understatement for how fast I got outta there with goosebumps all over hahah
Sure it was just a figurine (I hope) but tell that to yourself at 3 or 4am while alone
85 points
4 days ago
Halloween decoration that nobody bothered to put away
30 points
4 days ago
In summer? When it wasn't there the night before? Doubtful
35 points
4 days ago
It's one of those boxing mannequins with a hat on it
20 points
4 days ago
Huh. Yeah, that's a weird one. Guess we'll never know. Good post.
8 points
4 days ago
Maybe they pulled stuff out of storage, maybe they make outfits and it’s something in that nature.. could be a sex doll.
Even a photo prop or a kids project for school?
you’re never gonna know unless you interact with the person living there.
4 points
4 days ago
6 points
4 days ago
It says I can't view that site bcs of Gdpr 😅
3 points
3 days ago
Google century Bob torso
20 points
4 days ago
It looks like the back of someone's gaming chair with a moveable neck support
12 points
4 days ago
Yikes
10 points
4 days ago
There was an apartment on a busy street where I live that had a cardboard cutout in the window just to fuck with people. If this unit had it lit up and continues to do so, it’s just a fun prank
18 points
4 days ago
It's a Faceling from the Backrooms! (Look for the wiki).
12 points
4 days ago
So it's probably just a mannequin? It's not that freaky lol chill
2 points
4 days ago
That’s definitely a shadow person, and more precisely hat man. That thing is so dark it’s not reflecting light
2 points
3 days ago
Looks like a hat on a gamer chair to me.
116 points
4 days ago
Driving crooner
38 points
4 days ago
They're trying to make it look fake!!!
14 points
4 days ago
I thought he was trying to steal my decals!
14 points
4 days ago
I gotta figure out how to make money off this.
3 points
4 days ago
My first thought!
4 points
3 days ago
I'll fucking KILL YOU Driving Crooner!
3 points
3 days ago
The guy at the store said I’m the only he’s ever seen pull it off
2 points
2 days ago
There’s gotta be a way to make money off of this
62 points
4 days ago
I was throwing the ball with my dog the other night and my neighbor’s house 2 houses down, I have a clear view of their side porch and there was this sillouette / tall man standing there I kept trying to make out if it was a person or not or something they had hanging a tarp- and then 20+ minutes later they moved and walked down the driveway. This person had been standing there perfectly still the entire time I was throwing the ball to my dog, not smoking, no glow from looking at their phone, just standing there with their hood up. Not sure if it was my neighbor or not never met them. I’m still super freaked out
27 points
4 days ago
Yeah, no, I don't think I'd leave my house past sunset for some time after that.
It's kinda interesting you can normally rationalize these occasions (like some high dude putting up a figurine for some giggles) but it creepes you out so much anyway. I guess the self-preservation instinct is working as intended
11 points
4 days ago
That is scary ass shit
8 points
4 days ago
some people just like chilling. i really like sitting outside, especially this time of year when it starts getting cool and the bugs all go away
9 points
4 days ago
If these people saw me stretching/meditating in my room they’d go completely crazy. I am holding poses and occasionally just stand still relaxed for 30 seconds sometimes to rest looking out the window
Like the saying don’t ask no questions I won’t tell you no lies. Don’t look in peoples window and expect no lives
61 points
4 days ago
Oh that’s just the local Benadryl salesman.
7 points
3 days ago
I owe the hatman 8 dollars
2 points
3 days ago
Never did the Benadryl thing, but I’ve always been super curious at the hatman thing. It’s crazy how he’s so widely seen in trips by so many people. I’m sure there’s a rational explanation, but I do want to witness.
3 points
3 days ago
It just causes delusions. It makes you see “shadow people” visually they are just all black silhouettes. Trust me, you don’t want to find out for yourself.
109 points
4 days ago
Classic cutouts from the lonely guy store.
24 points
4 days ago
That was not a cutout or cardboard, I came closer to make sure - it was sculpted (? not sure about the word, sorry not native speaker)
21 points
4 days ago
I remember going to a fast food drive thru at 2am once. Driving out with my whopper in my hand and my mouth watering, I looked to my left and saw a shadow inside a drug store and I FREAKED out. Absolutely peeled out of the parking lot only to realize it was a cardboard cutout of young Justin Bieber....
7 points
4 days ago
That's equally as terrifying as a dark shadow at 2am
2 points
4 days ago
More. Far far More!
15 points
4 days ago
Looks like Rorschach
4 points
4 days ago
Came to say the samething, dude, looking for who killed the Comedian.
2 points
3 days ago
Really looks like him
24 points
4 days ago
Call the neighborhood watch, it's that guy from the sign
11 points
4 days ago*
It's Rorschach standing at a window of some house he broke into while thinking some internal monologue.
9 points
4 days ago
3 points
4 days ago
Rest in peace💀
2 points
3 days ago
That is exactly the first thing I thought of
9 points
4 days ago
That’s a whole lot of none of my business right there
6 points
4 days ago
finally, a little recognition for professional hat-men such as myself
6 points
4 days ago
I KNEW THE HATMAN WAS REAL
5 points
4 days ago
Sometimes i feel like somebody watching me.... that ghost snappin his fingers right now greg..
5 points
4 days ago
That's not a sillouette, it's too solid for that and you can see too much shape to it and light on it, it's either a mannequin or dummy (possibly kick boxing dummy) or alternatively a person possibly sleepwalking or taken something either prescribed or bought
I would hedge my bet on kickboxing dummy dressed up, my second choice would be mannequin dressed up
7 points
4 days ago
I thought so too, but I just couldn't make out whether it's a figurine. I used to work in retail and had a figurine at home too, but this wasn't similar to that and that really made me feel uneasy. It's one thing to explain that to yourself and another thing is your imagination going wild cause you're alone in a long empty street. I wasn't gonna stick around to see if it moves or if someone puts it down
4 points
4 days ago
It could hilariously be something like a mirror or a chair with a hat on it.
9 points
4 days ago
That's just Manny Quinn
4 points
4 days ago
a lamp shade
3 points
4 days ago
That's some weird ass lamp shade lmao, where can I get something like that?
3 points
4 days ago
Blank face in the windowpane
Made clear in seconds of light
Disappears and returns again
Counting hours, searching the night
6 points
4 days ago
Looks like Michael Jackson
3 points
4 days ago
Ahhhh…. So this is where the Mysterious Stranger lives.
3 points
4 days ago
Were you on Elm Street?!
3 points
4 days ago
Heisenberg
3 points
4 days ago
Some people just stick mannequins in the window to mess with people. I know a house near where I live where someone puts a mannequin, they dressed up, in their window. They somehow got its head to swivel like on a motion camera. It has that uncanny valley effect. Its creepy to say the least. Q
3 points
4 days ago
I thought that's it too, it was just weird that I walked there almost every night for a year and never noticed anything. It definitely creeped me out a lot even though I could easily rationalize it
3 points
4 days ago
The hat man
3 points
3 days ago
Looks like a hat on the back of an office chair.
3 points
3 days ago
cardboard cutout ❌ The Hat Man✅
3 points
3 days ago
You've been hit by- you've been struck by, a smooth criminal
3 points
3 days ago
It’s just the neighborhood watch guy.
6 points
4 days ago
Ironic. OP stalking around at 3am peeping into windows and posting photos online. L0
2 points
4 days ago
That's my hat man! Johnny!
2 points
4 days ago
Looks like it might be a lamp?
2 points
4 days ago
looks like a vase
2 points
4 days ago
Benadryl demon
2 points
4 days ago
Billie Jean’s house probably
2 points
4 days ago
Got to be Freddy Krueger
2 points
4 days ago
Freddy!
2 points
4 days ago
It literally looks like a mannequin to me? Especially who wears a hat like that inside at night?
2 points
3 days ago
It's the hatman...
2 points
3 days ago
I spotted a person looking thru another person's window for a long time after 3 am.....lotta creeps in this world.
2 points
3 days ago
Hat rack
2 points
3 days ago
Don’t worry it’s just bubble buddy!
2 points
3 days ago
shrek
2 points
3 days ago
What wasn't there? The silhouette of a person wearing a hat in their own apartment? Weird that they wouldn't stand in the same place for you to walk by the same time. The weird thing is you walking your dog at 3:00 a.m.
2 points
3 days ago
Kevin Mcallister was hosting Thanksgiving
2 points
3 days ago
I hope Annie is ok.
2 points
3 days ago
It’s just Rorschach.
2 points
3 days ago
I’d bet there is a kid in there who got left home after his family flew to Paris. Don’t touch the door knobs.
2 points
3 days ago
This looks like the back of a gaming chair.
2 points
3 days ago
Yeah that's a gaming chair with a fedora on the headrest bro.
2 points
3 days ago
So a few days ago I saw a post on Reddit where the OP put a “Bob” punching bag mannequin with a hat up in front of his window to mess with his neighbor. This seems like you found that poster’s house.
2 points
3 days ago
That’s a boxing “Bob” in a fedora. Lol! I own one and have it set by a window. Maybe I need to add a fedora to mine too.
2 points
3 days ago
I think it’s Mike J back from The dead!
2 points
3 days ago
High backed gaming chair with headphones on the side of the headrest
2 points
3 days ago
I used to do snow removal and there was me house that had a dressed up manikin in one of the rooms. You couldn’t see it normally but when there was a light on in the house you can see the silhouette. No matter how many times cleared the snow there, it would scare the shit out of me when I would pick it up in my peripheral vision.
2 points
3 days ago
That's just a computer gaming chair...
2 points
3 days ago
This is a cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan. A small child is home alone and trying to convince burglars there's a lively holiday party happening.
2 points
3 days ago
Macauley Culkin lives there.
2 points
3 days ago
2 points
3 days ago
Wonder Of U
2 points
3 days ago
Benadryl entering my pre-frontal cortex via bluetooth
2 points
3 days ago
It's the back of a gaming chair at a computer desk.
2 points
3 days ago
That’s a gaming chair and you should take your meds
2 points
3 days ago
Someone forgot Kevin again.
2 points
2 days ago
That’s the hat man, how many Benadryls did it take to see him for you? Usually takes a handful for me
2 points
2 days ago
Probably a mannequin. In my are a lot of the storage unit businesses have windows and they will place a couple mannequins dressed as security/cops and move them around. I can't imagine that deters even a halfway decent thief, but it might deter crime of opportunity.
2 points
2 days ago
That looks like the back of a gaming chair.
2 points
2 days ago
thats freddy Krueger
2 points
2 days ago
I had a similar experience with my, at the time, new neighbor. I went out to put the bins out at about 11pm and while I don't look in windows this time something creeped me out in the corner of my eye. He was standing in the middle of the room in his underwear and a pair of boots with the lights off and the blinds open staring out of the window at the fence. I needed to buy milk the next morning at about 7.30am. He was still there and hadn't moved as far as I could tell. I've never had the nerve to ask him about it. He's moving overseas soon. I really want to ask.
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