Was she real? A ghost? A spirit? A witch?

its kind of a long story so you have to stick with me, i just want outsider input i don't know i'm going crazy or if i did truly encounter something deeper.

My friend and I were out in a city we aren't too familiar with, it was extremely busy we walked past thousands of people and probably made eye contact with thousands too. We were walking past a cafe kind of establishment with seats and tables outside, we walk past and there is a woman sat at a table alone facing passersby unlike the other tables.

For some reason my friend and I got the weirdest most uncomfortable feeling from just making eye contact with her. We both stopped our conversation and looked at each-other and were just like ' did you notice that too?'

She looked normal visually, blonde hair,blue eyes, quite pretty actually, but for some reason she felt so extremely out of place, we both got such a weird feeling like everyone around her disappeared when we saw her. It was like she had a glow about her but not a good one, she just didnt even feel real it was insane. She had a slight smile on her face too but this was only the beginning.

My friend and I were extremely uncomfortable and thrown off but we dealt with it through jokes, probably ignorant jokes. We were joking about her as if she was a psychic as she had that kind of vibe at first, we were joking in a made up voice about how certain things would happen that day etc. It was all fun and jokes until they did. Not only did these random events happen but they happened so unnaturally i cant quite explain it. It was almost as if we were in a movie and someone edited those clips in without caring for context and continuity, they were out of place and for all those events to just be a coincidence after we encountered something like that for the first time- would have to be a miracle.

We thought that was the end of it, until a week passed and we couldn't shake the feeling. We put off talking about it for a whole week. And then we decided to post on reddit about it as we aren't well versed in spirituality and the occult etc. One person replied, and gave us a random phrase that was supposedly in a ' forbidden tongue ' that we were meant to say so she would 'obey us' which freaked us out whether it was true or not because when we googled that phrase the google ai overview assumed we were speaking of something else and started explaining something completely random, the first 10 words of the overview included MY NAME. that did it for me. Ive genuinely been going crazy feeling like everything is going wrong, we didnt mean to mock her or anything. Is this all connected or are my friend and I overthinking it?

Posted Oct 10, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

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