Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

Rubberlegs

My youngest daughter, about 4 at the time, told us her Grandad had told her my sister was having a baby girl and was going to call her K. My sister hadn't disclosed the sex of her baby to any of us or the name she had picked. My Dad died 14 months before my daughter was born.

Dtp1979

Rubberlegs wrote: »

My youngest daughter, about 4 at the time, told us her Grandad had told her my sister was having a baby girl and was going to call her K. My sister hadn't disclosed the sex of her baby to any of us or the name she had picked. My Dad died 14 months before my daughter was born.

Aaannnnndddd???

Rubberlegs

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Aaannnnndddd???

Oh yes, she had a girl and called her that very name!

Sephiroth_dude

The Real Ramona wrote: »

Ok, a bit creeper out by this tonight. In the last couple of weeks my toddler has casually mentioned to me the "fire in our house". A house fire that supposedly took place some time. I thought it odd but it was always just a quick comment.

Tonight we were chatting and he got really choked up and asked me if I remembered when our house went on fire. He said it was all black and burned and that he was hiding behind the couch from it (there's a small space behind our couch).

3 times he brought it up tonight, among other innocent topics and each time he got really emotional and choked up and struggled to get his words out, eyes watering etc. He kept talking about hiding from the fire and then was so happy when the Fireman found him.

I'm quite freaked out about it. This kid doesn't watch Fireman Sam,or anything like it, so I don't know how he would have seen anything that he is copying or imagining as real.

He recently told me what it was like in the womb. How it felt (quiet, warm, wet, just him in there...) and of the voices in our family that he would hear from in there, like that he could always hear me singing. That freaked me out too.

Is the house new ? if not could you find out if there was a fire inside previously before ye moved in ?

Hal3000

_Godot_ wrote: »

Are you adopted?

Nope. This woman didn't resemble me in the slightest. Plus I'm a ringer for my mother.

Widdershins

Hal3000 wrote: »

I had a funny one once. A middle age woman was staring at me before on public transport. She walked over and swore she knew me or met me before. She was very very agitated and was convinced she knew me and had a very close connection to me. When I got off the bus she followed me and kept asking me to stay with her and that she missed me. She looked perfectly normal which made this even creepier. I had to ask another woman to tell her to leave me alone. After a few minutes the other woman came over and said she was totally devestated that I didn't remember her. She said she loved me and how could I not remember her. She was at least 30 years older than me. She even asked if she could hold my hand for just a second. I said OK, the look in her eyes when she looked at me... Very creepy. Eventually I left and as I turned back to look she said my name. No lie. I had never met or heard of her before this. Such a bizzare incident.

I've had a few things like this . Not creepy at all, but I totally misunderstood what was going on. It's a horrible feeling not knowing and not being able to ask.

Pintman Paddy Losty

Hal3000 wrote: »

Nope. This woman didn't resemble me in the slightest. Plus I'm a ringer for my mother.

Do any relations like your father or uncles have the same name as you? Would any of them have looked like you when they were younger?

Maybe the woman had alzheimers/dementia and was mistaking you for one of your relations with the same name?

Barney224

Love this thread! This happened to me recently and up until it happened, I've never once experienced any weird things occurring around me.

Recently my mother in law moved into a nursing home. My father in law passed a long time ago and the the family has been around to the house regularly to tidy up and clear out some old junk, mow the lawn, etc. My sister in law was there a few weeks ago on her own and felt very uneasy while cleaning up. She went up to the spare room in the attic and closed the door, went back downstairs and heard the door opening up. She went back up to close it again, went down and waited....after a few seconds it opened again. She freaked out and left the house.

Last week I was in the house and went to the toilet, when I came out I looked in one of the bedrooms (it has a glass door) and saw a toy that used to belong to my son. I opened the door to retrieve it and as I opened it I felt this pressure against the door as if there was wind pushing on it. When it was fully open I again felt a gush of freezing cold wind. There were no windows open and the room was freezing cold....so cold I had to leave. This was late May, and it was warm outside. I felt totally unnerved and left very quickly.

up for anything

The Real Ramona wrote: »

3 times he brought it up tonight, among other innocent topics and each time he got really emotional and choked up and struggled to get his words out, eyes watering etc. He kept talking about hiding from the fire and then was so happy when the Fireman found him.

Maybe he's having a premonition. It doesn't sound like a past life thing.

milehip

Barney224 wrote: »

Love this thread! This happened to me recently and up until it happened, I've never once experienced any weird things occurring around me.

Recently my mother in law moved into a nursing home. My father in law passed a long time ago and the the family has been around to the house regularly to tidy up and clear out some old junk, mow the lawn, etc. My sister in law was there a few weeks ago on her own and felt very uneasy while cleaning up. She went up to the spare room in the attic and closed the door, went back downstairs and heard the door opening up. She went back up to close it again, went down and waited....after a few seconds it opened again. She freaked out and left the house.

Last week I was in the house and went to the toilet, when I came out I looked in one of the bedrooms (it has a glass door) and saw a toy that used to belong to my son. I opened the door to retrieve it and as I opened it I felt this pressure against the door as if there was wind pushing on it. When it was fully open I again felt a gush of freezing cold wind. There were no windows open and the room was freezing cold....so cold I had to leave. This was late May, and it was warm outside. I felt totally unnerved and left very quickly.

That is super creepy,



who puts a glass door in a bedroom?

jimbobaloobob

Barney224 wrote: »

Last week I was in the house and went to the toilet, when I came out I looked in one of the bedrooms (it has a glass door) and saw a toy that used to belong to my son. I opened the door to retrieve it and as I opened it I felt this pressure against the door as if there was wind pushing on it. When it was fully open I again felt a gush of freezing cold wind. There were no windows open and the room was freezing cold....so cold I had to leave. This was late May, and it was warm outside. I felt totally unnerved and left very quickly.

Your account gives me chills but leaves me wanting to hear more experiences, do you think its a place you will visit again alone? Any history or thoughts behind the experiences?

SirChenjin

The Real Ramona wrote: »

He recently told me what it was like in the womb. How it felt (quiet, warm, wet, just him in there...) and of the voices in our family that he would hear from in there, like that he could always hear me singing. That freaked me out too.

That's amazing that a toddler could articulate that. What age is the toddler?

Deebles McBeebles

SirChenjin wrote: »

That's amazing that a toddler could articulate that. What age is the toddler?

He's 25, just acts like a toddler. Now that's creepy.

Barney224

milehip wrote: »

That is super creepy,



who puts a glass door in a bedroom?

It was put it after everyone moved out....to add some light into the dark hall.

Barney224

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

Your account gives me chills but leaves me wanting to hear more experiences, do you think its a place you will visit again alone? Any history or thoughts behind the experiences?

There's no history of any other supernatural stuff as far as I'm aware and the house was built in the early 70s. I'd have no problem going back, in fact I'm curious to see if any other weird stuff happens. Not sure I'd like to be on my own though! :eek:

The Real Ramona

SirChenjin wrote: »

That's amazing that a toddler could articulate that. What age is the toddler?

2.5!

Comhrá

I once dreamed of a famous musician walking by me and smiling, a few days before I learned of his death. I hadn't known him or even met him previously either.

This was back in 2001. Never had anything similar happen to me before or since.

cazzer22

Can anyone recommend a Podcast about paranormal or unnerving experiences? Also, a new story would be brilliant :-)

optogirl

cazzer22 wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a Podcast about paranormal or unnerving experiences? Also, a new story would be brilliant :-)

Let's Not Meet (narration of Reddit thread similar to this. Hit & miss but usually pretty good)

Loughc

cazzer22 wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a Podcast about paranormal or unnerving experiences? Also, a new story would be brilliant :-)

Spooked and Anything Ghost Shows are two very good ones, again they are all listener e-mails narrated.

Some very good and creepy stories in them.

maccored

A few years back I was camping in a forest area, on the side of a mountain. It was dark, and lights started appearing through the trees so after about half an hour and after trying to take some photos (which all came out completely black - well you could see the trees at the side etc but the lights themselves were coming out black), i went to have a look. Ends up the trees were only three of four deep until you got to the side of the mountain itself, and the mountain (obviously) keep going up as far as I could see. the lights stopped before i got there. i was probably less than 20 feet away. i assumed it was someone taking the piss.

I went back again about a year later in daylight as it (still) cant figure it out and realised that where I seen the lights was pretty inaccessible and even if someone was there, the only way out was to go past me. nevermind it was in the middle of nowhere on top of a rural mountain. The only thing I can think of is light coming from the soil of the mountain

Dtp1979

Or somebody out hunting

thesiegeof

I had a quick read, very interesting and scary thread.

I don't have many scary tales really but when I was younger, maybe around 10, I was going to bed. I closed my door and got into bed. There was no one in my room, I'm 100% sure of this. But after a few minutes under the covers, I got a full force slap on my arse. I don't know how it happened as I was under my duvet but I was frozen solid, I couldn't move, I didn't want to turn around to see who or what was there. I stayed still for what felt like forever but it must have been an hour or two. I then got out the other side of the bed and ran to my parent's room. I remember being frustrated because they were just brushing off what I was saying. I didn't go back into my room for a while and I didn't sleep well for a bit after this but nothing like it ever happened again.

maccored

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Or somebody out hunting

if only. there were a lot of lights. plus, i would have seen them as there just wasnt the room

cj maxx

I woke up in the middle of the night, and realised who I had married. Creeped me right out.

Dramatik

This didn't exactly happen to me but it was something I observed, which really creeped me out. One day I was walking to college, there was a lot of building going on at the time in the area where my college was. As I'm walking I'm kind of in my own world, headphones on hood up. I happen to glance over towards the entrance of a building site on the other side of the road, I notice an ambulance and at the exact same time two paramedics appear into my field of vision, they are pushing a patient presumably a worker on the site towards the open back door of the ambulance. The guy on the stretcher, his face was a grayish pale colour but it looked like he was still somewhat conscious, and then it hit me, stomach nearly did a 180 degrees, the dude was missing half of his leg!

heldel00

So I haven't told anyone else this and it upset me hugely so I probably should have told someone.
I had a night terror a few nights ago and it ended with me screaming for help looking at my toddler hanging off my wardrobe door.
Upsetting even typing this. I have had night terrors a few times in the past but this was absolutely horrific.

Comhrá

heldel00 wrote: »

So I haven't told anyone else this and it upset me hugely so I probably should have told someone.
I had a night terror a few nights ago and it ended with me screaming for help looking at my toddler hanging off my wardrobe door.
Upsetting even typing this. I have had night terrors a few times in the past but this was absolutely horrific.

That was a really traumatic experience to have. Those nightmares can be really upsetting. Only thing though, you'll probably put it out of your conscious mind in a day or two, at least that's what I've noticed on the odd occasion I've woken up after a horrible nightmare like that. Even sharing it here will help you put it behind you. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy though.

Sinus pain

heldel00 wrote: »

So I haven't told anyone else this and it upset me hugely so I probably should have told someone.
I had a night terror a few nights ago and it ended with me screaming for help looking at my toddler hanging off my wardrobe door.
Upsetting even typing this. I have had night terrors a few times in the past but this was absolutely horrific.

So sorry to hear this - I had a very vivid dream one time my son was face down in the sea and I was screaming for help but no one would help. I was traumatized when I woke up. It did ease off in a day or two and I spoiled my little guy for a while which made both of us feel good. Hope you can shake this soon.

heldel00

Thank you for the reassurance. Don't know why I haven't told anyone. I suppose maybe my subconscious is telling me that if I say it then that makes it real...or something as equally ludicrous.
Good to hear that others have had similar and I'm not a weirdo!

razorblunt

Similar to above, I’ve not had any but we have a 5 month old and my wife has had two relating to him. So more than likely a lot more common that you’d never imagine, hopefully you feel better having said it.

igCorcaigh

A bit OT, but when I was maybe 10 I was taking a bath upstairs. I pretended to play a game.

And it was just a game, in my head, there was no malice intended. I shouted for my dad to help me. When he came into the bathroom, I played dead under the water, as if I had drowned.

When he caught me, I laughed, as it was just a joke. I still remember the terror on his face, but I didn't understand it then.

I was living with my parents for a time in my late twenties, out of work, and while I was in my bedroom, I could hear my parents. My dad was retelling his experience of that moment to my mum. He was on the verge of tears.

We have never talked about it.

shamrock55

I had a night terror experience when I was around 7/8 yrs old that I can still remember vividly to this day, I'm 42 now, in my mind I was asleep in bed and was woken suddenly by really loud banging on the front door, my parents were asleep in the nxt room, even though subconsciously I knew I was asleep this banging woke me from my dream, I waited for one of my parents to go down and investigate but they never did, so I very nervously went down stairs to open the door.
When I did this man with a huge axe burst past me ran up the stairs and into my parents room, I ran up after him screaming and balling only to see him butchering my parents in front of me.
My parents obviously heard me in distress and came in to wake me even though I was 100% convinced I was already awake and this actually happened, crazy stuff tbh how real it seemed to me, it wasn't your standard nightmare that we all had hundreds of when young, it's something on a different level and something I never experienced since thankfully, we'll not if you don't count sleep paralysis which is every bit as bad but not the same thing

Dr. Bre

thesiegeof wrote: »

I had a quick read, very interesting and scary thread.

I don't have many scary tales really but when I was younger, maybe around 10, I was going to bed. I closed my door and got into bed. There was no one in my room, I'm 100% sure of this. But after a few minutes under the covers, I got a full force slap on my arse. I don't know how it happened as I was under my duvet but I was frozen solid, I couldn't move, I didn't want to turn around to see who or what was there. I stayed still for what felt like forever but it must have been an hour or two. I then got out the other side of the bed and ran to my parent's room. I remember being frustrated because they were just brushing off what I was saying. I didn't go back into my room for a while and I didn't sleep well for a bit after this but nothing like it ever happened again.

A slap on the arse ! Brilliant

ldy4mxonucwsq6

cazzer22 wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a Podcast about paranormal or unnerving experiences? Also, a new story would be brilliant :-)

The No Sleep Podcast or Monsters Among Us are two I enjoy (with the lights on)

igCorcaigh

cazzer22 wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a Podcast about paranormal or unnerving experiences? Also, a new story would be brilliant :-)

Dark Histories.

It's really good.

voldejoie

Night terrors are absolutely petrifying, I suffered a lot with them when I was a child and wouldn't wish it on anyone. It feels so real and it's incredibly hard to shake off even for days after. Now that I'm older I feel horrible thinking about how much it must have affected my parents to see me in such distress!

Dr. Bre

Sleep paralysis is terrifying- you are awake but you can’t move your body and you can hear sounds - I use to get it especially after heavy weekends drinking

voldejoie

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Sleep paralysis is terrifying- you are awake but you can’t move your body and you can hear sounds - I use to get it especially after heavy weekends drinking

Jetlag is a big trigger for me, I can go months and months without experiencing sleep paralysis and then travel across a few timezones and BAM! Thank god it's been on the lower end of the scale recently.

I've had the sleep paralysis vision of the demonic woman a few times, including once as a teenager when I was sharing a room with my little sister. Was so shaken after it I stayed up crying most of the night

igCorcaigh

Hypnogogia.... I think its a word.

I remember waking up and seeing a ghostly figure. Completely real, but a part of my dream.

That in between state of sleep and awake.

ewc78

This probably doesn't count as nothing really happend to me or I didn't see anything as in there was no strange lights or sounds or anything like that, it was just a strange feeling I got.
Anyway, I was working in an old house (I'm a Electrician) and I was on my own working away as I had been for a few days before that in the same house. The house had just been taken over by a nephew of a man who had left it to him in his will, he had only died a few weeks before. It was an old estate house probably 200 years old.

There was no one else in the house and it was in an isolated enough location so I would have seen someone coming up the driveway or whatever. Anyway I was working on the fuseboard in the hall, when I just got this feeling I was being watched, I turned around but there was no one there, which I knew there wouldn't be as I was the only person working there anyway.

I really dunno what came over me,but I couldn't shake this feeling someone was there watching me. It really freaked me out to the point I packed up my tools and left as quick as I could.
Now I'm not one to get freaked that easily but this has stuck with me and its probably about 10 years ago it happened. I've never had the same sort of feeling again and I hope I never do as honestly it really did freak me out.

I did have to go back to finish off the job the next day but there was 3 or 4 different tradesmen working there that day so I felt a bit more at ease.

368100

igCorcaigh wrote: »

A bit OT, but when I was maybe 10 I was taking a bath upstairs. I pretended to play a game.

And it was just a game, in my head, there was no malice intended. I shouted for my dad to help me. When he came into the bathroom, I played dead under the water, as if I had drowned.

When he caught me, I laughed, as it was just a joke. I still remember the terror on his face, but I didn't understand it then.

I was living with my parents for a time in my late twenties, out of work, and while I was in my bedroom, I could hear my parents. My dad was retelling his experience of that moment to my mum. He was on the verge of tears.

We have never talked about it.

Wow.....must have really affected him to bring it up so much time later.

I remember once my little sister who would have been about 6 at the time taking my dad's razor and shaving like she had watched him do it just before we were to mass.
She badly cut her lips, I can still see the blood dripping down from her mouth....needless to say there was no mass that night!

Another time my brother was in a motorbike accident, inexplicably he walked home...which was about 20 mins....but I still remember him walking in through the door, blood all over his face and clothes.....and my mam and aunt cleaning him up.
Was freaky to a child...

We stayed in the clarion hotel in Sligo last year.
Went in..a big room..5 of us..
The room was so cold and we had heard of the stories from there.
While we were giving out that it was so cold
A knock comes to the door...a girl, staff, with a heater says " ye rang down for a heater"
It was so weird in that moment, no one had rang down.
Next day taking a video of one of the kids going down the hall and looking back on it you could hear someone shout in the video.
Wouldn't stay there again!

shamrock55

During one of my sleep paralysis episodes years ago I floated up to the ceiling of my room and was being dragged or pulled out towards the bedroom door all while looking down on myself in the bed, took everything I had to stop myself/wake myself from being dragged out.
I'm actually laughing at what I just wrote but it certainly wasn't funny at the time let me tell you

igCorcaigh

shamrock55 wrote: »

During one of my sleep paralysis episodes years ago I floated up to the ceiling of my room and was being dragged or pulled out towards the bedroom door all while looking down on myself in the bed, took everything I had to stop myself/wake myself from being dragged out.
I'm actually laughing at what I just wrote but it certainly wasn't funny at the time let me tell you

That's like an OBE?

igCorcaigh

I've had a few very realistic lucid dreaming experiences. So real.
Can't reproduce them though.

igCorcaigh

A third hand experience, someone who is not prone to exaggeration. Witnessed seeing a woman walking a few feet off the floor.

This was in Sri Lanka, where he lived

igCorcaigh

My boss, who I used to work for. Stayed in a hotel in England.

Woken up by someone who grabbed his hand. Cold.

Told us this story. And was told later about similar experiences.

Weird. Don't know what to make of it.

Airyfairy12

I posted a thread about this when it happened but its one of the creepiest things thats happened to me.
A few years ago I was living in my parents house who were living out the country side in an isolated location, there were a few houses dotted around but they were mostly middle aged neighbours who kept to themselves.
One morning at about 4 am I couldnt sleep and went down stairs, went to the back of the house when I suddenly hear someone run down the path that went between the back of the house and the back garden and stretched around to the side onto the patio, they ran past the gate, pushed it open and stopped outside the window of the room that I was standing in, I could hear them walking around a bit but I stood back from the window so they couldnt see me, I could hear my heart pounding. I had to get out of the room and the only way to do so was to open the door of the room I was in, the door was pretty loud and knew it would be heard from outside the window.
Up until this I had been hearing noises outside at night for years, like someone hanging around the house at night, id hear footsteps, things being moved and I always felt that I was being watched at night in certain rooms with windows that faced the front and back of the house.
I said it to my parents for years that someone is hanging around outside at night but they never took me seriously and I was beginning to think I was paranoid.
Ever since that night I didnt hear anyone outside again, I suppose they knew they were caught as they would have heard me open the door form outside the window. Maybe they were a little more discreet about it after that but the noises mostly stopped.
I never found out who it was but it still freaks me out when I think about it, all those nights of being down stairs in the kitchen feeling I was being watched but trying to convince myself I was just being paranoid when there likely was someone creeping around outside in the dark.

jimbobaloobob

maccored wrote: »

A few years back I was camping in a forest area, on the side of a mountain. It was dark, and lights started appearing through the trees so after about half an hour and after trying to take some photos (which all came out completely black - well you could see the trees at the side etc but the lights themselves were coming out black), i went to have a look. Ends up the trees were only three of four deep until you got to the side of the mountain itself, and the mountain (obviously) keep going up as far as I could see. the lights stopped before i got there. i was probably less than 20 feet away. i assumed it was someone taking the piss.

I went back again about a year later in daylight as it (still) cant figure it out and realised that where I seen the lights was pretty inaccessible and even if someone was there, the only way out was to go past me. nevermind it was in the middle of nowhere on top of a rural mountain. The only thing I can think of is light coming from the soil of the mountain

Like methane release?
Could have been animal eyes ?