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Keanu Reeves Tells Jimmy Kimmel His Real-Life Ghost Story: Watch!

It’s not Halloween yet!

Keanu Reeves was given a quick-fire, random-question round during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, Oct. 22, and the Matrix star ended up telling show host Kimmel about a bizarre ghost encounter he had as a kid.

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Before the duo got on to all things paranormal, Kimmel threw a few random queries at his 50-year-old interviewee, including whether he’d ever met another person named Keanu.

Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves recalled a ghostly experience while talking to Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday evening

“Yes, I have a cousin,” the original Keanu replied. “There’s a cousin Keanu. I didn’t meet that guy until I was 8 or 9 so I’d never heard that name for another human until that time,” the actor said.

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After somewhat skirting the issue of nicknames, the John Wick star was suddenly extremely forthcoming when Kimmel asked him if he’d ever seen a ghost.

“Yes, when I was a kid,” Reeves replied. “I was in New York — I was probably like 6, 7 years old, new apartment, we’d come from Australia. Renata, our nanny, was in the bedroom, and there was a doorway and all of a sudden this jacket comes waving through the doorway, this empty jacket — there’s no body, there’s no legs,” recounted the actor.

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“Then it just disappears, and I was a little kid and I thought, ‘Okay, that’s interesting,’ and I looked over at the nanny and she’s like this [freak out face],” he said. “Is that a ghost?” he asked Kimmel. “Or just some weird floating jacket?”

Watch the video above to find out what other nuggets of info Reeves revealed during Kimmel’s high-intensity probing!

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