Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

2 Wheels Good

Hand in Your Pants wrote: »

Hi. Shame you feel the need to deride my creepy and unnerving event with Bluetooth but my experience was absolutely as described. I'm still not sure what caused it, but if life has taught me anything it is that we are constantly in the midst of malevolent and wretched entities (demons) who live in extra-dimensional space and time. I believe my bluetooth signal provided a window into one of those worlds.

Only reading this now, was it by any chance an Apple device? I've heard a very strange track which they've played if they were offline.

bottlebrush

passatman86 wrote: »

A story i heard from someone
Apparently a house in south Dublin had some strange goings on. Not 100% on the details but was meant to be haunted. The family reached out for help and the local priest offered to stay alone the night at the house to see whats happening. Next morning the priest came out from the house and his hair had turned snow white - he refused to discuss with anyone what happened.

I heard this story years ago when I was a child and that it happened somewhere in Kildare.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^

i bet everyone heard their own county version of that tale

castletownman

Was listening to an episode of the Tommy Tiernan podcast early in the week where they were discussing older people that lived alone in your community when your were growing up. They would generally be from a rural area, still living in an old-fashioned house, would have a distinctive smell and lead a very hermetic life.

It immediately sprang to mind a fella just like that who used to work for my late grandfather and later became great friends. They even ended up in the same nursing home, and were as thick as thieves right up until my grandfather passed away.

I hadn't thought about this elderly bachelor for a long time. Earlier today then, my dad said he was going to stand outside a church for a funeral out west tomorrow morning- the same fella had died on the same day I randomly remembered him. My dad also was called to mind about him too during the week.

Strange coincidence.

john123470

I was living in Osaka when my father died in Ireland. I was doing heavy physical work at the time for a Korean company based in Kyoto.
I used to hit the sack exhausted every evening.

One night - i was woken by 3 tremenduous knocks on the bedroom door. I lived alone in a 3 storey bldg. There was just the Korean Company office mid floor and another empty aprmnt on the ground floor.
So, i woke up terrified.
I wrenched open the door .. nobody there.

Next evening, when i returned from work, the Korean secretary roared upstairs from the office beneath -
"John-san, your father is dead.." She had received a phone call from my family earlier to inform me

I checked the times later and the time of Dad's passing and the knocking were in sync.

It could of course be coincidence but I have heard about souls passing and 'knocking' somewhere previously

Janedoe10

john123470 wrote: »

I was living in Osaka when my father died in Ireland. I was doing heavy physical work at the time for a Korean company based in Kyoto.
I used to hit the sack exhausted every evening.

One night - i was woken by 3 tremenduous knocks on the bedroom door. I lived alone in a 3 storey bldg. There was just the Korean Company office mid floor and another empty aprmnt on the ground floor.
So, i woke up terrified.
I wrenched open the door .. nobody there.

Next evening, when i returned from work, the Korean secretary roared upstairs from the office beneath -
"John-san, your father is dead.." She had received a phone call from my family earlier to inform me

I checked the times later and the time of Dad's passing and the knocking were in sync.

It could of course be coincidence but I have heard about souls passing and 'knocking' somewhere previously

Thank you for sharing this . I believe it’s called a death knock .

Great resource in folklore about this is to be found here
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4498605/4385166/4509519

john123470

Janedoe10 wrote: »

Thank you for sharing this . I believe it’s called a death knock .

Great resource in folklore about this is to be found here
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4498605/4385166/4509519

Thanks for the heads up

I remember that the knocks were very insistent and aggressive and wondered why I could not have had a gentler farewell .. if thats what it was ..

No accounting for the psyche

saabsaab

john123470 wrote: »

Thanks for the heads up

I remember that the knocks were very insistent and aggressive and wondered why I could not have had a gentler farewell .. if thats what it was ..

No accounting for the psyche

The earlier 'gentle' knocks went unheeded!

john123470

saabsaab wrote: »

The earlier 'gentle' knocks went unheeded!

Just as well I didn't leave the door open !
Whoever was knockin meant business

up for anything

john123470 wrote: »

Next evening, when i returned from work, the Korean secretary roared upstairs from the office beneath -
"John-san, your father is dead.." She had received a phone call from my family earlier to inform me

Sorry about your father. That was more than a little shitty of her. She didn't have much empathy. That must have felt very harsh on your own so far away.

john123470

up for anything wrote: »

Sorry about your father. That was more than a little shitty of her. She didn't have much empathy. That must have felt very harsh on your own so far away.

Thank you.

A very different culture. I guess she felt awkward

joeguevara

Was watching a movie on Netflix. All of a sudden, for absolutely no reason it crossed my mind whether if any hurling was on TV today. Literally, and I mean literally 5 seconds later I got the following email pushed through. And I know how advertising works, no search, no messaging and no emails.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^

you've got cookies in your head?

joeguevara

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^

you've got cookies in your head?

If I did, it would have advertised Tipp not Limerick. That’s the unnerving thing.

Ubbquittious

While boards was down a lad called to the house and I decided to go on a political rant. Usually boards is my outlet for those rants but it was down so I had to subject someone in real life to one out of dire necessity.

I said something to the effect of "The Chinese only buy the good stuff from us - houses, factories, stuff that doesn't perish and we continually buy cheap sh1te from them that we have to re-buy in a few years time after it stops working"

The second I uttered that sentence I saw a message arrive on whats app from a +86 number that said "Hello, Mr. Thomas. My aunt asked me to add you and said you found a house I like."

Ash.J.Williams

I was staying in my mothers last year (father died 2017) and i was after having a sneaky spliff and got into bed, next thing i swear i heard me da's voice and felt a dead arm!

Now in the time between wake and sleep these hallucinations can happen and that's fine! but next day my mother was asking me was i banging on her bedroom door looking to get in!!

I obviously wasnt

weird!

handlemaster

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117615384#Comment_117615384

I bet you were 😉

Rosie Rant

Something unnerving I have noticed is that more than a couple of times I have found a perfectly healed scar on one of my hands and I don't remember ever having cut myself. I have a scar on my middle finger today that wasn't there when I was painting my nails a couple of days ago. But the scar looks months old. Weird.

passatman86

Got my covid vaccine this week. No idea why but found the whole process unnerving

cazzer22

This just happened and I'm still so confused and unnerved.

Sitting on the couch about to have dinner and my husband is sitting beside me. I suddenly feel someone reach across me as if getting a cushion or remote and blow full force into my ear (sort of like an exhale if you're fed up/sigh). I glanced straight at my husband and said "what are you blowing in my ear for?" And he was dumbfounded. It was so strong that it couldn't have been a draught.

We have a door that connects to a downstairs room just off the attic and everytime I wake up in the morning it's open. I attributed this to my husband leaving it open from the night before, but when I mentioned this to him, he says he didn't leave it open. I'm usually last to bed and first up, so it isn't really possible for him to leave it open as he doesn't get up at night. The last week or so, I've been closing the door and putting my weight up against it, making sure it's closed and again I'll come down some mornings and it's either fully or slightly open. Starting to get a bit freaked 😳

happyoutscan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118171364#Comment_118171364

I'd check the attic if I was you.

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118310751#Comment_118310751

Definitely and wear a red Star Trek shirt , they're the ones you get killed in.

Rubberlegs

I had a vivid dream about an old boyfriend from many years ago. He was a lovely fella and broke my teenage heart at the time. In the dream he was sitting at a bar and he was trying to get my attention, trying to talk to me. I caved in and spoke to him, then I woke up. I instantly felt that he was dead. I went about my day and was driving past one of the big graveyards in town that afternoon and remembered the dream again. When I got home I googled his name and it came up on RIP.ie, he has been dead since 2018. Also he is buried in the graveyard I had driven past earlier. I’d no reason to think he would be dead, a man in his mid 40s and would not have even thought about him in years. Absolutely freaked me out , I’m still not the better of it a few months later.

Janedoe10

This happened in the 90’s

We were students looking for place to rent and just doing viewings in shared accommodation . One of the viewings was in a large house in the city Center in Cork.

large house surprisingly spacious once you stepped in. Met most of the people who were living there were in the kitchen/living room lovely friendly bunch and a nice vibe. Promising so far.

landlord brought us up to see the bed rooms. This is where I got a horrible feeling or vibe or atmosphere, can’t explain it but I IDID not feel we should be here in one particular bedroom.

not sure why I did this ,asked “did someone die in here?”

landlord didn’t flinch or react ,said no no one died here and quickly changed subject.

we were in house about another 10 min and thanked everyone. Could not rest about the feeling I had.

sad story but someone had died in one of the rooms , and was there for a number of days before found. That’s the story.

landlord just didn’t want to disclose it , but thinking back on their calm unflinching reaction to my out of nowhere question showed how well rehearsed they were.perhaps not the 1st time they were asked it.

fryup

^^^^

or maybe you are 'gifted'?

Janedoe10

Hardly gifted . But was unnerving nonetheless. Older buildings all have hidden histories . Must be a landlords night mare . I do always think I always look for the “vibe” in a place above any recommendations I get. I don’t think I could settle in a place if I ignored my first impressions like above .

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118555760#Comment_118555760

True enough. You get a feeling when you first enter a room. Like going into a 'new' pub where you won't be welcome for some reason.

Mecanudo

Background. Growing up I always thought I was somehow the odd one out amongst my numerous siblings. I don't know why. I guess I just felt that way.

I know that the year I was born my mother kept a personal diary A large red diary with one day to a page and the year marked out in large gold print. I found that diary many years after my mother died.

The diary had all kinds of entries about things that happened, places visited and things done. That diary covered the entire year. Almost. One page was missing. Torn out. A ragged margin the only reminder that one whole day was no longer there. The detail gone forever. That day? The day I was born. No mention of me at all. And after that year there were no more diaries. I never did find out why the day of my birth warranted such obliteration.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^

is your name Damien?

gussieg

This place is full of spooks though, enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

Having lost someone to suicide during the lockdown, there is definitely a presence, but maybe that was there before, who knows. Light bulbs bursting suddenly in two different flats at about the same time, when we checked they had been clearing the last of the person's things from the flat, and they were strangers doing it, as opposed to family members of the deceased. It is a little bit of a twilight zone , but tbh, we love it. We loved that person too, if only we could have communicated it enough that they might have wanted to stay a bit than this side of the veil.

laoisgem

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118645280#Comment_118645280

I wish boards had laughing button instead of just a thanks one, nearly choked on my coffee 😊

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118644334#Comment_118644334

Was there any clue in the diary in lead up to your birth? Any odd entries 9 months earlier?

fryup

he was born 6th of the 6th in 66 - he's Beelzebub i tell you!

Mecanudo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118646976#Comment_118646976

Nothing at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

saabsaab

A few years back I was painting my front door, Red. Bright red. As I was finishing up I stumbled over the paint can spilling it in the hallway and tripping over. I steadied myself and stood but in the process left a few hand prints in the hallway. I cleaned up the paint on the floor mostly but left the prints for another day. Got a few funny looks when people came over before I repainted the hallway.

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118647467#Comment_118647467

It doesn't necessarily mean that it was your mother who ripped the page.

laoisgem

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118649202#Comment_118649202

Where's the holy water when you need it! 😲

dublinman1990

I was playing a game of bowling on my phone last night. I was in a multiplayer ten pin tournament which lasted for 3 full rounds. I thought I did a good job after I got scores of over 200 points in each round. After I finished playing it; my overall score from the 3 rounds added up to 666. It left me a bit spooked tbh as I didn't expect it.

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118665452#Comment_118665452

One hell of a score!

Kaybaykwah

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118665452#Comment_118665452

If you had told me twenty years ago that you had been playing a game of bowling on your phone, I would have found you creepy.

This wasn't unnerving but happened years ago when myself and my younger brother lived at home.

I was in bed one night reading with my bedside lamp on. Decided it was time to sleep so turned off the lamp and turned onto my left hand side to sleep facing the wall. I then felt the duvet tighten, you know like if someone sits on your bed and makes the duvet tighten. That's what it felt like and it was coming from the bottom right hand corner of the bed. I kind of looked back over my shoulder into the dark and saw nothing so stayed lying on my left hand side. I was stoned at the time so thought maybe you're just baked and imagining it or maybe it's some kind of weird atmospheric pressure or something. It did genuinely feel like the duvet was tightened like I said but thought look there's some logical explanation so didn't get freaked out and fell asleep pretty quickly.

The next day I had kind of forgotten about it and had no intention of saying it to anyone but I was in the kitchen making some food when my younger brother came in after sleeping in really late and started making his breakfast and goes to me, something really weird happened last night, it felt like someone was sitting on the end of my bed in the middle of the night. I then was like no way and told him I had the exact same experience and the duvet feeling tightened and that.

Like I said, not mad unnerving or creepy but weird all the same how we both felt it.

Phil.x

Years ago, It was just me and my dad at home one night, I said I'm off to bed and went up to my room and switched on the light then went into the bathroom, when I came back into my room the light was off and I thought ah the bulb is wasted, when I checked there was no fing bulb!! I nearly crapped myself and ran downstairs and got the old man to go up and check with me, I found it under the bed. Still spooked by it.

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118670574#Comment_118670574

Sometimes the receiver end is damaged and the bulb is loose. Could it have fallen out and rolled under the bed?

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

it is known for lightbulbs to pop out if they're not fitted properly in the first place

saabsaab

Story from the radio today. This man had an elderly neighbour who hoarded newspapers and as a consequence they piled up in the house over 30 years. He used to help her with chores and when his neighbour passed away was asked to help move contents and the newspapers out. He was near the end of the clear out when he thought about having a read of one of the older newspapers in a pile. He tried to pull one out of the bottom of the stack but the weight was too great and pulled one out from the middle. The date was after his father' death and looking at the death notices read his fathers death notice from 30 years ago!

vriesmays

Bought a blood pressure monitor and the first reading was so high it advised to go to hospital.

branie2

One of my former teachers appeared in my dream early yesterday morning, and hours later, I found out online that he had passed away!

Liberty_Bear

Years ago walking along James Joyce St. It was raining and I wandered under the canopy at a few shops across the road to avoid the rain but just as I was walking across I mysteriously walked back into the rain and low and behold a pane of glass fell three stories up where I would have been. I think the mind has the ability to process dangers subconsciously , maybe from our evolutionary days whence we had to be aware of dangers around us!

NedsNotDead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118813941#Comment_118813941

Or maybe just plan luck

Liberty_Bear

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118813986#Comment_118813986

That could be it as well...ill never know!