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Spookiest experience of your life

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭filthymcnasty


    Piriz wrote: »
    Last pic is of the 4 way open roofed path..this is the last pic i took..when i took it i walked onto the path in the middle of the photo and headed towards the intersection (at the left).. i took the camera out but the zoom would just go back in and switch off i tried to get it working a few times but the battery was dead...5 seconds later...Bang!

    loud bang- tile falling off roof?? some of the slates used in these old houses are massive.
    still, spooky stuff


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I've had a fair few spooky stuff happen to me through the years but this was recent:

    I had a dream the other night that I was in the girlfriend's house and the movie Sexy Beast came on the TV, had no significance to the dream whatsoever. Just had the start of the movie with Ray Winstone sitting in his pool.

    I haven't seen this movie in about 2 years so it appearing in my dream made no sense and had no value to me.

    Until later that day when a mate called over for me to fix his machine and mentions "I watched this movie called Sexy Beast last night, you ever see it?"

    I honestly replied to him with: "Oh yea, that was on TV last night, wasn't it?"

    Him: "No, no. I downloaded it for the craìc when I was looking up gangster movies to watch."

    I don't believe in supernatural or dream-future-telling-stuff but I found that pretty funny and coincidental.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    It's not scary story, but once a frightened myself to death.

    Now all phones can use any songs or sounds as a ringtone. Remember when phones just started to have mp3 rIngtones? So I downloaded a ringtone which is prety mush an evil ghostly lough, but very good quality and very " believable ".

    Somebody called me in the middle of the night while I was sleeping.... I heard that lough I the middle of the dream, but when I woke it did not stoped!!! I almost **** myself. Only after good 10 seconds I realised it was my ringtone...

    Needles to say ringtone had to go...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭Feisar


    My Granny's house. When I stayed there as a child I always got the same freaky nightmares. And to this day I feel watched there and have a "hollow" feeling inside me while I'm there.
    And I'm not religious/superstitious and don't believe in the supernatural at all.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭Simon Adebisi


    Me and the brother were walking home after a severe session one saturday night. We live about 2 km out of town. Crossing the railway bridge and this big white thing flew up over the bridge and over our heads. We both roared and legged it the rest of the way home, absolutely shítting a brick.

    Next day i was walking into town and saw that it was a big fertiliser bag stuck in a tree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    bmcc10 wrote: »
    I got mam to drive down the road and turn then right past our house this huge huge man was walking down the middle of the road in the dirction of the car.Bearing in mind the fog that nightwe were absaloutly terriefied.
    You should stay away from Silent Hill.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    I did not directly experience this but sure anyways.

    About 30 odd years ago my oul lad was working in a rural pub, you know the place full of pragmatic, normal oul fellas in for the few pints and chatting about cattle and land and such night. There would be a very strong regular clientele, guys you could set the watch to.

    Anyways one night one oul lad, who used to always walk to the pub for his few pints at night comes him, looking very shook and agitated. My oul fella asks if he's okay and yer man won't say anything. At this stage there is just my oul fella and another regular in the pub, three of them. After a few minutes the guy comes round a bit and recounts his walk to the pub.

    The walk he would take would be about 3 1/2 miles and it would be on a regional road, so busy enough. Usually he'd get a lift off someone driving along it. That night he was walking along and it was quiet and he meets a young woman walking along towards him. He salutes her and she does likewise. Anyways he goes a couple of feet beyond her when she calls him, he turns around and she asks him does he know the man who gave him a lift home from the pub the previous night, he says he does well, then she says 'That was the man who murdered me'. Next thing she is gone from view.

    There was an unsolved murder in the locality dating back 30 years (60 years) prior to that incident.

    Make of that what you will. Personally I'm sceptical, my oul fella reckons whatever happened scared yer man real good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12


    that would freak me out. especially if she wailed like a banshee

    did you see her face?

    couldn't make it out when she turned around as she was a good 100 metres or so away and it was dark

    She was wearing a white night gown too, which was probably the creepiest thing


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Me and the brother were walking home after a severe session one saturday night. We live about 2 km out of town. Crossing the railway bridge and this big white thing flew up over the bridge and over our heads. We both roared and legged it the rest of the way home, absolutely shítting a brick.

    Next day i was walking into town and saw that it was a big fertiliser bag stuck in a tree.

    Very similar experience happened me:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,030 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    Very similar experience happened me:D

    Ah yes, the infamous Tramp **** experience


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    I get night terrors. Pretty scary stuff especially when you wake and find yourself paralysed and in a state of pure terror.

    This explains it better than I can; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    I remember when I was about 10 my brother and I went to stay with my grandmother, who lived in a very rural area in Mayo. I never really liked her home (now or then), it always made me feel a bit weird. Anyway, my brother and I always slept in the same room and one night after we went to bed I couldn't sleep and I was just lying there in the darkness. Next thing I hear this frantic rapping on the window beside me. I just lay there, absolutely stock still, pretty much frozen with terror. The knocking went on for a good few seconds and was quite loud until it eventually just stopped. After a minute or two I called over to my brother to see if he had been woken up by it, but he hadn't. I barely slept that night, and I remember being absolutely convinced that a ghost had been there. I mentioned it to my grandmother the next morning and she said that she couldn't definitively say what had happened, but that it may have been the son of the people living down the road who had quite severe paranoid schizophrenia and often went wandering at night. I remember being unconvinced and still thinking it was a ghost at the time, but in hindsight it probably was just her neighbours' mentally ill son. Still freaks me out to think of it though. Later that year he committed suicide after setting fire to his father's bog in the middle of the night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭Degringola


    Was in this small town in France and practically all the hotels were full for some reason. I ended up in this tall skinny hotel down a side street which this young couple had bought and were doing up. The bedrooms were clean but really decrepit, not shabby French chic, just shabby. Wallpaper peeling off the walls, loo down the corridor.

    The bed was in the middle of the room and had no headboard. At about 1 am I was propped up on my elbow, facing the old door which had big iron fixings, reading away and munching on the nougat I had bought to bring home to my son (as you do). Next thing the big old door handle started slowly turning downwards, got to the bottom and as the door was locked slowly returned to its original position. There was no sound of either approaching or retreating footsteps. It was so freaky, my stomach was churning.

    Slept only intermittedly for the rest of the night and got out of there like a bat out of hell next morning before 7.

    tl;dr Always lock your hotel room door.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    Caoimhín wrote: »
    I get night terrors. Pretty scary stuff especially when you wake and find yourself paralysed and in a state of pure terror.

    This explains it better than I can; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

    I get night terrors combined with sleepwalking, where I wake up convinced I'm warding off an attacker, or there's an alien under the bed, or a monster in the wardrobe...anything really.

    I'm convinced I'm fully awake and its actually happening. Its a horrible experience, especially when its some nightmare demon and you wake up in the living room with your heart exploding out your chest. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Squaredude


    While reading this,got a phone call.I forgot that i changed my ringtone to the theme song from halloween the movie,gave me a bit of fright.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭softmee


    I heard similar noises when I was on my own one night in summer house near big lake..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re9KZ4_wbP4 :(

    (the whole night sitting in one corner with knife in my hand -horror)

    Cats can make horrible sounds like not from this world. The one I heard was like some crazy person or a demon, I don't know.
    I was so scared I couldn't move!


  • Registered Users Posts: 211 ✭✭Johnny D. Mudd


    Well this particular story isn't a scratch on some of the other stories I've read and is a dream rather than any real world occurrence so I don't know how relevant it is, It's not very impressive but I'll tell it nonetheless.

    About a month ago, I awake in the early hours of the morning, my head deep under the covers. I can hear the thunder rolling outside and feel all snug and warm under the blanket. As we all do whenever the rain patters against the window pane or the lightning flashes across the sky, I press my weary head into the pillow and listen hypnotically to the heavy thunder. The thunder rumbles across the sky once. Then suddenly, before I know what's happened, my head buried deep under the sheets, I hear this ear-splitting BOOM, like a shot from a rifle, that shocks me to my very core, shaking my nerves and leaving me bewildered. This is then followed by an ear-shattering crash of the glass in my window being decimated by some unseen force. I then awake for real with the morning sun shining through the curtains and am thoroughly shaken.

    It's not that terrifying for those of you who are reading this but for a brief moment I was stunned and literally shaken to my core. It seemed so real and so terrifying and left me quite horrified for about an hour after.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    Ben Hadad wrote: »
    I arrived late at night at a beach place in India on my own after a long train journey. Was absolutely knackered and just wanted somewhere to kip, but it was pitch black on the beach and everything was closed.

    I saw a light on in one gaff on the beach and walked up hoping someone was up and could give me a place to crash. I knocked on the door, but got no answer so I slowly opened the door. The room was empty except for a long black item that was sitting on the table in the middle of the room. I couldn't really make out what it was so I stepped into the room to get a better look. Suddenly it dawned on my, it was an open coffin and I am staring at a dead body with a crucifix around his neck. I got the shock of my life and legged it out of there; not what I was expecting at all. I waited on the beach till dawn, sleep wasn't that important anymore.
    why dident ya dump the body and sleep in the coffin:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    Piriz wrote: »
    These are some of the best photos, this is as bright as it got with the flash..when the flash was gone it was pitch dark again as you can imagine:
    spookey place id love a wander around there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    two lads i know driving home along the big long road into kilternan(you know the 1 from shankill?) at about 1am in the morning, anyway so they're driving when what do they see but a giant women in all white just literally taking big strides down the road, the way they described it was as if the walk was a joke just over the top and exagerrated. none of them said anything then bout 2 mins later they both look at each other and were like 'did you see that ye' kept driving and that was that

    why do ghosts seem to come in oversized form?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    bmcc10 wrote: »
    A good 10 years ago or so me my mother,brother and sister were coming home from our aunties it was at least 2am and one of the foggiest nights i can remember.

    Anyway theres this spooky old farm house across the road from us with massive gates and a big drive-way.

    We were driving past it and i saw this massive old man standing facing the wall,he was wearing a farmers hat and it looked like he was holding a brown paper bag.I said it to them and they saw nothing.

    I got mam to drive down the road and turn then right past our house this huge huge man was walking down the middle of the road in the dirction of the car.Bearing in mind the fog that night we were absaloutly terriefied.

    So theres a guard that lives beside us so we went into him incase the man was in danger or drunk walking the roads.He was inside his house with another neighbour so they took a spin down the road and saw nothing.

    Still spooks me this and when i walk the road,it makes it even worse that its right outside our house..Also last two times i tried to post this it said i was logged out..:eek::eek:
    he's behind ya :eek::eek::eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 349 ✭✭talkinyite


    Me and a mate took his mas car out in the early morning a few years ago and went driving through the mountains. Seen a bunch of lights moving around the place, turned out to be a bunch of occultists doing some mad ritual. We shouted a bit of abuse at them for the laugh and ended up getting chased down the mountains.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 virtus1


    I read the thread title as "Snookiest experience" and had a great story lined up. But nah, no particularly spooky experiences :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,198 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    In my local, there used to be a barman (paddy) who refused to close up at night after being spooked. He was after closing up after a relatively quite night for a country pub, when a guy in his early 20s wearing a hoodie walks out from the toilets. He walks along the bar and out the front door without saying a word. Paddy didn't recognise the guy as having been there, but didn't take too much notice in case someone ran in the back door when he wasn't looking.
    So Paddy goes to re-lock the front door to find it still locked. He looked outside and couldn't see anyone.
    He mentions it to the other staff, as you would, and one of the older lads says that he's often seen the same thing, he just ignores it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    I dont believe in spooks and the paranormal etc - as far as Im concerned put some people in a room, turn off the lights and sooner or later someone will see 'something'! Ive done the tour of Bodmin Jail in the UK and the ghost walk in Edinburgh etc.

    However I was in my friends house one night and all the girlies were on the vino and talking about these 'paranormal' programmes on tv. I said the above and how it was all rubbish etc etc. Suddenly the bulb in the lamp blew and we were left in the dark!! My mates sister nearly passed out - they are coming to get me as far as she is concerned!! :eek::eek::D


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    was coming home one night from a house party in Blarney my friend was driving and I was **** faced drunk in the passanger seat. We were heading back to Cork using the dual carridgeway that comes up past the commons.

    It was about 3 in the morning and we were in an area of the dual carridge way where there were no light or cars or anything around us. Two of us were silent and next think a soccer ball hit the windscreen really hard and dead on coming from the direction of the centre of the road. Two of us got the fright of our lives and the friend nearly crashed the car, duno how it happened til this day!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭ch750536


    Fishooks12 wrote: »
    Was walking home alone from college in Limerick one night

    Made it more spooky for you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭LisaLee


    I used to work in an old Distillery Museum as a tour guide. I'd heard rumours that it was haunted as some workers had been killed there (drowning in brewing vats, fermentation vats, fires etc.) But I didn't believe in it.

    Each evening we had to lock up the distillery and it was my turn to lock up the Cooperage (where barrels are repaired), I had already locked up the rest of the buildings, closed the last door and I heard this weird noise.

    We had one of these (the large tool for boring holes, against the wall) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TghosdhQzdE/TgO97o0FvkI/AAAAAAAAANA/fwOosSR9--0/s1600/cooperage1.jpg hanging from a piece of wire to show tourists the old tools used. It was spinning, I mean properly whirling around at speed. I have never ran out of a room so quickly in my life.

    I had some friends who worked in the kitchen area and their stories gave me goosebumps. :(


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    I don't really have any!

    I was driving along in the summer at about 80kph on a nice sunny day when I hear this loud music. I look at the radio but it's off. I've no idea where the music is coming from and I'm going way too fast for it to be outside the car. So I'm starting to get fairly uneasy. Then I realised that my phone which I always keep on silent is ringing. I was expecting a call so turned it off silent and forgot about it. :o

    The family home was built about 1870 so is really old. My brother says he was watching TV by himself one night when he turned around to see an old lady behind him. He asked her who she was, she just looked at him and disappeared!

    We used to share a room up til when I finished college. When he moved out he told me that he used to hear someone walking around the room and/or banging on the door which he attributed to a ghost. Our bedroom would have been the bedroom of the lady who owned and lived in the house for years and years before we moved in. I think it was just me coming home pissed but he says it happened when I was away at college. His now wife and her family are kinda into stuff like this and they got a priest to bless the room. Seemingly he says there was never any problems after that. He wouldn't stay in the room though the last time he had to stay over.

    Actually I do have one strange phenomenon. When I was in New Zealand I went to Lake Tekapo, we where hoping to do the star gazing trip in the local observatory but it was cancelled. Anyway myself and a mate were down walking by the lake when we saw a late moving really fast and erratically in the mountains in the distance. It was at night and in Winter. The thing was the the light was moving as if it were being waved by someone only a few meters away from us but was coming from the mountains miles and miles away. So the distance and fluidity of the movement kinda freaked me out as it wasn't possible. We stood and watched it for a few mins and then just turned around and went home.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭vixdname


    Piriz wrote: »
    I’ve recently been on a clinical placement in a mental health hospital in Maryland in the US. The hospital dates back to the late 1800s it is made up of scores of buildings on a huge campus: twice to three times the size of St.Stephens Green. Many of the buildings are disused and dilapidated surrounded by overgrown grass, weeds, ivy, trees etc. The dilapidated buildings are very impressive red brick with great features and lower windows and doors are boarded up. The hospital once held 4000 mentally ill patients, now its about 600 after deinstitutionalisation etc.

    I was staying in the employees dorm on the campus and felt safe around the place. After a night out on the beer I went up to an area on my own where there is about 20 derelict buildings. Its pitch black but im not really a believer of the paranormal etc. and was quite drunk and considering the history of the place I thought it’d be fun and spooky. So I had a wander around right through for a while and really enjoyed it.

    The following weekend after the pub I decided I would do it again but this time borrowed a camera off my intern buddy to capture the spookiness. Again I was on my own, it was colder and darker and I was less drunk and a little bit more scared and cautious.

    It was about 2am & so dark i needed to stand so close to the buildings to get the flash to light up the picture.. anyway i was walking on a 4 direction open walled roofed path that linked 4 huge buildings.. I was nearing the intersection looking forward into the darkness. This is the best part of the whole place and my camera stopped working when I got onto the 4 way path. All of a sudden as im walking forward into the pitch darkness there is this loud bang sound; like if you pushed over a table, the sound came from straight ahead somewhere in the pitch black, i stopped dead in my tracks and starred forward with my heart beating... my bottle of beer became my weapon of defence as i switched the way i held it in my hand.. i waited to hear further sounds to get more information..i heard nothing and after about 15 seconds i decided to get the hell out of there... i turned and ran, turning to look back to see if i was being followed every few seconds... i got to a lit up part within 20 or 30 seconds and started walking again..i decided to give up..it was too freaky..and the camera i had borrowed had died..then all of a sudden..a flash came from the direction i had ran away from..it was ****in weird..i thought ‘was that a camera or what is going on, did someone just take a picture of me from the darkness?’.. im not entirely sure what happened up there that night but i didnt going up there again... i am trying to upload some of the pics i got


    Was this the Glen Dale hospital by any chance..if so, have a read of this:

    http://wikimapia.org/71960/Glenn-Dale-Hospital-abandoned


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭csi vegas


    smurgen wrote: »
    was coming home one night from a house party in Blarney my friend was driving and I was **** faced drunk in the passanger seat. We were heading back to Cork using the dual carridgeway that comes up past the commons.

    It was about 3 in the morning and we were in an area of the dual carridge way where there were no light or cars or anything around us. Two of us were silent and next think a soccer ball hit the windscreen really hard and dead on coming from the direction of the centre of the road. Two of us got the fright of our lives and the friend nearly crashed the car, duno how it happened til this day!

    That'll be the riff-raff from Onslow Gardens/Parklands again, 'batein de ball down off the height boi for an oul' laff!' :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭IcedOut


    smurgen wrote: »
    was coming home one night from a house party in Blarney my friend was driving and I was **** faced drunk in the passanger seat. We were heading back to Cork using the dual carridgeway that comes up past the commons.

    It was about 3 in the morning and we were in an area of the dual carridge way where there were no light or cars or anything around us. Two of us were silent and next think a soccer ball hit the windscreen really hard and dead on coming from the direction of the centre of the road. Two of us got the fright of our lives and the friend nearly crashed the car, duno how it happened til this day!

    A soccer ball hit your car from nowhere?

    Thats Cork football for ya


  • Registered Users Posts: 357 ✭✭MmmmmCheese


    Fishooks12 wrote: »
    Was walking home alone from college in Limerick one night after playing a late night poker game in red raisins. My home was a mile outside the college (Briarfield for Limerick peeps)

    It was about 4am and very foggy and cold

    I was going to take the usual short cut through Elm Park (housing estate across from UL) when I noticed a woman standing 100 yards ahead of me in a white dressing gown. Her back was to me and she was staring further up the estate to a group of hooded individuals all wearing black under a tree.

    She stood still for a second (I was rooted to the spot with fear at this stage) until she took off running toward the hooded group screaming.

    When she reached them one of the hooded men put his hands on her shoulder and she immeaditaly turned around to face down in my direction

    They all then started slowly marching down towards me in tandem

    Needless to say I ****ing bolted around by the lodge to get home

    Had to wake everyone up when I got home I was so frightened

    getting the creeps even typing this

    Weird. I used to live in Elm Park. What part of the estate is this? I've often heard rumours about Elm Park being haunted.

    I do have one slightly spooky story of my own. One time when I was about 10 years old I was cycling around my Granny's yard when I saw this man standing across the road wearing a wearing a top hat and a tailcoat. He was kind of standing in the ditch and looking over it into the field. Bear in mind this would only have been about 10 years ago and in the middle of the country so I don't know why he would have been so dressed up. Anyway something about him spooked me good because I dropped my bike and ran.

    The curiosity got the better of me though so I came back immediately to have another look but he was gone! :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭MadameGascar


    Last summer I was staying in a big old house, 300 years old it was, in the Tuscan countryside. We all lived in the upstairs part as the ground floor was half gutted and had trees growing in it anyway. One evening it was only my friend, her two babies and I at home when we decided we needed a pizza-I stayed home while she went out with the kids. After a while, I heard someone walking up the stairs, so obviously somebody, & went out to give her a hand to carry everything. There was nobody there, all the lights were still off like they had been except for our bedroom. Now, we did always leave the front door open, and it was, but no way was there anyone upstairs with me.

    A few nights later I was in the kitchen on my laptop when everyone was in bed, when the door creaked open, and footsteps started moving across the room. It was a huge Italian kitchen with stone floor and I could actually follow the sound going from one end to the other. This time I didn't freak out at all.

    I went for a bath a while later, had the window open and my back to it as I was lying there. Suddenly I felt electricity running over my back from my scalp to my shoulders, was more intense than I've ever felt electricity. I turned around and a full moon was just moving into the frame of the window. I do get more electric shocks in the paws around the full moon, could it have had something to do with it?...

    I've always been fascinated by the 'paranormal', though always skeptical. I didn't just want to believe something, I don't even like to think about what the **** happened those nights! :(:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    I was attacked by a chupacabra.. turns out it's just a ****ty ass dog. I kicked its ass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,491 ✭✭✭thebostoncrab


    The office I used to work in was in an old barracks. Lots of deaths on the grounds and in my building years ago. To this day I will gladly testify that the building was haunted and one would respond to calls if it started doing anything.

    Now I don't mean seeing a white figure, it would vary to small things like tapping on walls to small items going missing to windows opening themselves, large bits of furniture moving across rooms and very loud bangs across the whole building. There was always one who would move my chair around and would always stop if you told it to. I know it sounds like bs and to be honest I wouldn't have a problem with people saying so. But thankfully my fiancée was present one night and sure enough the chair moved and slammed against the wall. Rather than being scarred though I loved staying late in the building and would do so regularly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Went to a job interview for AIB in the Burlington Hotel one morning. The woman at reception said there were no interviews on and the Garda were doing some work upstairs. As I left some guy walked up to me and said don't mind what she said and he brought me upstairs. Went into the waiting room and there were about ten people sitting there. About one minute later a man entered and called my name. Thought it was strange that I got called first. Went into the interview and got asked really strange questions e.g. am I on medication? Was not asked anything about the AIB job. Left the interview and was given wrong directions to leave the hotel. Never heard anything back from that interview. To this day I don't know why the Garda were checking me out by pretending to interview me for a job in the AIB?


  • Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭B_Fanatic


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    When I died and went to hell on magic mushrooms.

    My experience was similar.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Kaneda_


    My life is so sad and pathetic that the closest thing i have had to a shocking experience was when i found out my goldfish,Goldie died,she was so bored with being my pet she jumped out of the bowl and killed herself.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    I remember something quite freaky from years ago. I was about three and playing in my sister's room when I stopped and glances out the window and what I can only describe as a fiery spider dangled and flopped against the window. It was about the size of an adult hand.

    At the time I didn't freak out or anything cause I was so small I didn't know that such a thing couldn't be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    My mum used to work in a nursing home. She told me stories of buzzers going off in locked, empty rooms. When the buzzer was pressed in a room a red light would flash at reception. She said it happened so often in locked rooms that she just ignored it after a while, as did all the other nurses.

    Also lots of stories of seeing shadows and stuff like that. It used to scare me but fascinate me at the same time.

    I was once in a swimming pool at school and was swimming along when I saw two white legs run in front of me. I immediately stood up and took my head out of the water and there was no-one there. No chance anyone could have run past me and got out of the pool in a split second. That terrified me for ages.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    I was pretty young, maybe 5-8 or thereabouts and I had just developed an intense fear of the dark so I slept with a torch in my hand. I was lying awake one night in the dark with my torch thinking about all the nasty things that can get a child in his bed and an image of dark hand popped into my head, I could see it rising up from underneath by bed towards that gap between the headboard and the mattress where my exposed neck was.

    I froze in terror and awaited the immanent moment when some demon would grab me and drag me off. Then I pictured it pointing out its long dirty fingernail at my neck and at the precise moment it hit me in the image in my head I felt a sharp pain on the back of my neck. Cant remember if I pissed myself or passed out but I remember afterwards there being a little scratch on my neck.

    Was spooky at the time but I've since grown up and realised it was just an insect bite or something and I must have scratched it myself by inspecting it a bit vigorously.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Piriz


    vixdname wrote: »
    Was this the Glen Dale hospital by any chance..if so, have a read of this:

    http://wikimapia.org/71960/Glenn-Dale-Hospital-abandoned

    No it is not, i dont wanna say the name of the hospital as i was not supposed to be taking photos of where i was and dont want to be found out... but my hospital does house the criminally insane or those who have been found not criminally responsible to be more politically correct.. Glen Dale Hospital sounds interesting..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,715 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    Fishooks12 wrote: »
    Her back was to me and she was staring further up the estate

    How did you know she was staring if you could only see her back ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,715 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    two lads i know driving home along the big long road into kilternan(you know the 1 from shankill?) at about 1am in the morning, anyway so they're driving when what do they see but a giant women in all white just literally taking big strides down the road, the way they described it was as if the walk was a joke just over the top and exagerrated. none of them said anything then bout 2 mins later they both look at each other and were like 'did you see that ye' kept driving and that was that

    why do ghosts seem to come in oversized form?

    I am from Shankill myself. That road gives me the creeps too


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭lanomist


    Was in a pub one Sunday evening after a football match when the door burst open and there was this mad looking one standing there. She pointed down the counter at me and shouted " where the **** were you, your were supposed to meet me an hour ago. As i had never seen her before i pointed at myself and mouthed. Me? She replied "Yes you ya b
    d." She picked up an empty bottle and started down the counter towards me. I tried to back out but there was a crowd behind me. When she got down the length of the counter she made a swing at the lad standing behind me. It turned out he was her boyfriend. I had already **** myself at that stage !!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    lanomist wrote: »
    Was in a pub one Sunday evening after a football match when the door burst open and there was this mad looking one standing there. She pointed down the counter at me and shouted " where the **** were you, your were supposed to meet me an hour ago. As i had never seen her before i pointed at myself and mouthed. Me? She replied "Yes you ya b
    d." She picked up an empty bottle and started down the counter towards me. I tried to back out but there was a crowd behind me. When she got down the length of the counter she made a swing at the lad standing behind me. It turned out he was her boyfriend. I had already **** myself at that stage !!!
    She sounds like a lovely person, he's lucky to have her .. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 302 ✭✭tannytantans


    Wish i could remember the exact details of this one but for the life of me can't!

    About 4 years ago I got a phonecall at around 4 in the morning on a worknight. Male voice saying my name, would laugh when I asked who it was. Then he started saying my boyfriend's (now husband) name and asking did I want him to help me. At first I assumed it was a friend taking the piss. Whoever it was started naming random people I know - my best friend from home, my cousin, boyfriends brother, a fella I worked with and 2 girls I had lived with in college. Even gave their surnames. Gave other details about my boyfriend too and kept asking me to guess who he was.

    No one apart from me would have known all these details (boyfriend probably wouldn't even have known surnames). I was kinda half asleep and didn't know what was going on. Hung up the phone and called boyfriend - his phone was off (he always switched it off at night) and left hom a voicemail f***ing him out of it for scaring me. Called two other suspects but both answered half asleep.

    Honestly didn't recognise the voice. Next morning checked my phone and had been in call for 7 minutes!!!Went through everyone I could think of and honestly no way anyone could have all that info about me!!!

    Wasn't even overly creeped out at the time but would sh*t myself if it happened now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,715 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    Wish i could remember the exact details of this one but for the life of me can't!

    About 4 years ago I got a phonecall at around 4 in the morning on a worknight. Male voice saying my name, would laugh when I asked who it was. Then he started saying my boyfriend's (now husband) name and asking did I want him to help me. At first I assumed it was a friend taking the piss. Whoever it was started naming random people I know - my best friend from home, my cousin, boyfriends brother, a fella I worked with and 2 girls I had lived with in college. Even gave their surnames. Gave other details about my boyfriend too and kept asking me to guess who he was.

    No one apart from me would have known all these details (boyfriend probably wouldn't even have known surnames). I was kinda half asleep and didn't know what was going on. Hung up the phone and called boyfriend - his phone was off (he always switched it off at night) and left hom a voicemail f***ing him out of it for scaring me. Called two other suspects but both answered half asleep.

    Honestly didn't recognise the voice. Next morning checked my phone and had been in call for 7 minutes!!!Went through everyone I could think of and honestly no way anyone could have all that info about me!!!

    Wasn't even overly creeped out at the time but would sh*t myself if it happened now!

    Don't worry. It's probably just a serial killer


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    The only thing that spooked me out majorly was when I used to go for walks up the country roads in the pitch black during winter as a younger teen. Good exercise, anyways. I didn't use a torch because your eyes usually adjust and you can see fine after a while. About 30 mins into my walk I heard the loudest, most high pitched scream I have ever heard, and it lasted for about 30 seconds. I was terrified and nearly shat myself. Turned out it was fox killing a rabbit :rolleyes: well used to the sound now.


    I have seen many many strange objects in the skies over the past years though, things that made me a little bit spooked but more interested than anything. Things that I cant identify.
    And before anybody says anything to me, I well know what a chinese lantern looks like. Im highly interested in aviation and can tell what a plane/helicopter looks like, I can name the model and type on a whim. Im also interested in Astronomy so I know what most of the things that we can see up there are. There is just no explaining what these things are, my friend has seen many of the same things as I and even more too. of course everyone is going to suggest the most simple things and doubt me though:rolleyes:

    One recent thing I saw that was weird was about March this year, driving home from town one evening with my dad and what appeared to be a bird on fire was flying over the road. :confused: It was only about 10-20 ft in the air and was flying the same speed/size of a bird in flapping pattern so not straight or anything. It came from an empty field area with no houses. Im just going to assume it was a large ember from a chimney fire that traveled a very far distance at fast speed lol.
    I wouldn't put that in the same category as the strange sky object Ive seen though.


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