A Reddit user woke to discover two large, deeply embedded bare footprints in her bedroom carpet, positioned directly facing her bed where she sleeps with her newborn baby. The ghost footprints raised an immediate and disturbing question: how did they get there without leaving any trail?
Reddit user Fun-Bill7771 posted the unsettling photograph to r/Paranormal, showing her own foot next to the mysterious impressions for scale. “Upon waking I found two large footprints facing my bed,” she explained. “I sleep here with my new born baby. The foot prints are not mine.”
The Anomaly: No Path, Just Presence
What makes these footprints particularly strange isn’t just their size or placement—it’s the complete absence of any approaching or departing tracks. The two impressions stand alone, as if whatever created them had simply materialized in that exact spot.
Alien Materializes In Man’s Living Room
(Then Just Sits Down)
User Averythewinner noted the chilling implication: “The fact that those are the only prints they can see means the person was standing there for an extended period of time, too.”
For footprints to embed that deeply into carpet typically requires sustained pressure over time. Something heavy stood there long enough to compress the carpet fibers significantly. But how did it arrive at that precise location without leaving a single additional mark?
User Admirable-Rabbit-918 captured what many were thinking: “Standing for a long time, feet pressing into the carpet, staring at the bed.”
The Materialization Theory
The lack of any footprint trail suggests something appeared in that spot rather than walking there. In paranormal terminology, this would be consistent with manifestation or materialization—the sudden appearance of a physical presence without conventional movement through space.
User nicolebunnyxo shared a similar personal experience: “That’s happened to me before except it was a child spirit who touched me and then I saw a small footprint in my room.”
Another user, Iamjimmym, described watching phantom footprints appear in real-time in their parents’ plush carpet, with no visible entity creating them. “We watched as footsteps began appearing in their plush carpet, one at a time,” they wrote, describing how even their skeptical father couldn’t deny what they’d witnessed.
Could Fun-Bill7771’s footprints represent a similar phenomenon—a presence that manifested just long enough to leave physical evidence before vanishing?
The Mundane Explanations
Several commenters offered rational possibilities. The most common suggestion was sleepwalking—that Fun-Bill7771 herself had stood at the foot of her bed during the night, perhaps while in a fugue state or tending to her newborn.
User nothanks1312 explained: “Your feet get bigger when you are standing vs when you are sitting (or have your weight on your other foot), especially if you’re standing for a long time.”
User takeoutcoffees offered a poignant possibility: “I have definitely done this when I was sleep deprived with a newborn, literally standing in the same spot trying to get the baby to sleep for a very longgggg time.”
The footprints do appear close in size to the witness’s own feet, though perspective in the photograph makes exact comparison difficult.
The Darker Possibility
Many commenters urged Fun-Bill7771 to consider a more alarming explanation: an intruder. The term “phrogger” appeared repeatedly in the discussion—slang for someone who secretly lives in another person’s occupied home.
User FactoryKat issued a serious warning: “I would check for phroggers, OP. Legitimately. You need to make sure there is no one else in your home.”
The suggestion is terrifying but not unprecedented. Multiple commenters shared stories of people discovering uninvited guests living in their attics, basements, or crawl spaces. User -strawberrylizard- recounted a tragic case where what seemed like paranormal activity turned out to be a family member hiding in a shed, ultimately leading to violence.
However, the phrogger theory doesn’t explain the lack of additional footprints. If someone had walked to that spot, removed their shoes, and stood watching the bed, there would be some trace of their arrival and departure.
An Unresolved Mystery
Fun-Bill7771 never responded to the hundreds of comments on her post, leaving the community with unanswered questions. The one-day-old account raised some skepticism about the post’s authenticity, though the lack of response could equally suggest a frightened person who wasn’t prepared for the intensity of the feedback.
Whether paranormal manifestation, sleep-deprived night terrors, an optical illusion of perspective, or something more sinister, the image of those solitary footprints facing a bed continues to unsettle viewers.
User Ieatclowns perhaps said it best: “I mean…but how did they get to that spot? There’s no other prints to show them arriving or leaving….”
That remains the central mystery. Something stood there long enough to leave permanent impressions in the carpet. But it left no trace of how it arrived or where it went.
You can view the original photograph and full discussion on the original Reddit post.
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