[MOTU] Your own inexplicable experiences

gizmorox · 02-01-2012 4:59pm

Rick Deckard wrote: »

I was in bed and felt the matress sag as if someone sat on the side of the bed.. i looked around expecting to tell my brother to fúck off, but no-one was there.. so i put it down to being half asleep and getting that "falling sensation, and you jump awake"..

That happened about approx 10 years ago. I've since moved out and the exact same thing happened the other night. I was listening to my ipod and the side of the matress sagged, as if someone sat on the side of the bed..
My wife was the only other person in the flat, but was watching telly at the time.

No drink/drugs involved.

get that all the time,think it's a nerve tremor or something.

gizmorox · 02-01-2012 5:02pm

gizmorox wrote: »

get that all the time,think it's a nerve tremor or something.

My mistake I think? you actually saw or felt the bed sag?

Rick Deckard · 02-01-2012 6:57pm

gizmorox wrote: »

get that all the time,think it's a nerve tremor or something.

gizmorox wrote: »

My mistake I think? you actually saw or felt the bed sag?

Felt the side of the mattress sink/sag as if someone had sat on the side of the bed, looked, no one there.

Took a long time to convince my self I was drifting off to sleep and just imagined it, but I'm sure i felt it both times.

Mikel91 · 04-01-2012 4:06am

When I was 6 I had a near fatal head injury.

At the same time my Dad and his friend were driving,and he had to pull over as he started to get an intense headache unlike anything he ever had. Apparently when they found out about it the two went pale.

I just found this part of the site and was about to go to bed..Now Im scared ****tless of a ghost appearing and m bed sagging hah!

Star Lord · 04-01-2012 4:01pm

Mikel91 wrote: »

I just found this part of the site and was about to go to bed..Now Im scared ****tless of a ghost appearing and m bed sagging hah!

Welcome aboard!

DubRos · 04-01-2012 7:09pm

Was nearly fourteen when my nan died. She had been hospitalised for a few days when I went on a birthday sleepover. Woke up in the early morning absolutely sure she was dead. Felt very calm, comforted almost. Parents came to collect me and I knew straight away. Never a believer in ghosts, apparitions, whatever's but am still convinced that she came to tell me she was gone. My birthday was four days later, on the day she was cremated. Birthday card with cash in was found in her handbag. She was great my nan.

face1990 · 06-01-2012 11:14pm

I had a little white Jack Russell for nearly 14 years. He had to be put down last February, but for months afterwards I kept seeing white dog-size objects, just in the corner of my eye! I'm sure it's just my imagination (I'm very much a skeptic with these things), because I was so accustomed to seeing him lying in the corner and the likes.

Also, he used to sleep in the kitchen/dining room, way over in the corner. Often when I'd arrive in after a night out at like 3am, when I'd pop into the kitchen I'd hear him turning over in his bed, or sighing.
The wierdest thing is that I still hear little sighs occasionally, which makes me think it might actually be a noise the fridge is making. :P
And there I was for years thinking "Ah, poor thing, I must have woken him!"

CDfm · 06-01-2012 11:16pm

face1990 wrote: »

The wierdest thing is that I still hear little sighs occasionally, which makes me think it might actually be a noise the fridge is making. :P
And there I was for years thinking "Ah, poor thing, I must have woken him!"

Or it could be guilt

Deki · 07-01-2012 5:32pm

I had a dog for 14 years too. She was a sweet thing used to like to sleep on one of the steps to the mud room in the sunny spot. Sometimes she would fall off. She had a collar with a little chain attached so you could lengthen it. When she passed I kept hearing her chain dangle as it hit the floor and I heard her fall off the step as she always had. I thought was in my head as I don't believe in ghosts. My mom was alive then and one day she said "I know you'll think I'm crazy but I still hear the dog"
Seems like everyone in the house had been hearing her. I whispered to her that she could go on and I would take care of them until we were all together. Sounds silly to me still but the sounds stopped and we all had heard them???

Rick Deckard · 07-01-2012 7:57pm

Sat on the sky remote yesterday, and it flicked on challenge tv. Blockbusters was on. Haven't seen it in years.
My wife is from "the country", she didn't have foreign channels as a kid.. so had never seen it.

We watched the whole show, yes even the gold run.

I read today that Bob died yesterday.
Weird.

Rip Bob.

coconut5 · 07-01-2012 8:21pm

Okay, recent one that is not really supernatural, but strange nonetheless. A few days before Christmas, I signed up to do this short story course online. You have to write a short story starting with the line, 'It was impossible for my father to...' So, I wrote,

'It was impossible for my father to sit down for more than five minutes. I don’t think he ever read a full book in his entire life. Once, I asked him to name out all the books he’d ever read, and all I got out of him was an autobiography of some jockey he liked..'

This isn't entirely true, but it was just a story. Anyway, on Christmas day, my dad opened a present my uncle got for him, and it was the autobiography of some famous jockey he likes! I thought it was weird anyway!!

My grandmother collapsed in our bathroom years ago, and she died in hospital soon after. She was a chain smoker, and my parents sometimes smelt cigarettes in the bathroom after that, which was crazy because neither of them smoke. My mum said she used to sense her following her down the hallway for a few months after she died.

That's it for now, but I've had loads of coincidental/strange things happen over the years.

metaoblivia · 16-01-2012 9:20pm

Had a weird experience once that I don't quite consider paranormal, so maybe this is the best forum to share it in.

I'm American, but I did some of my undergraduate studies in London. I lived in a uni flat with 5 roomies, boys and girls (2 to a room), and people from other flats would come up and hang out in our flat a lot because ours was the biggest.

So one day after class, a bunch of us are relaxing in the common room. I was reading a magazine & got caught up in this article about terrorism. The premise of the article was that the days of hijacking planes were in the past and for some reason this made me really upset. And even at the time, I didn't know why because I was only 20 and had never really thought about terrorism before. But I got mad and I told my flatmates about it and I said, "This is bullsh*t, you know? This is exactly why we won't see it coming. If the terrorists were smart, they'd hijack any domestic flight because you can just walk right on. And if they were really smart, they'd hit New York and D.C. at the same time."

I don't think I'd remember what I said verbatim had this conversation not happened on September 10, 2001. But it did and the next day was 9/11. And obviously we were all shocked when that happened, but remember, I said this in a room full of people. A few days later, I quietly brought it up with the roommate I was closest to, and said, "Hey, remember how I said..." And he replied, "Yeah and it's kind of be freaking me out, so let's not talk about it." And I never brought it up again.

I'm not saying I'm psychic because nothing on that level has ever happened since. It was probably just a really wicked coincidence. But weird, nonetheless.

admiralofthefleet · 18-01-2012 2:27am

doublejj wrote: »

i have dreamed about certain places that i have never been too,and when i ask people who have been to these places i can describe them down to a tee....i also dreamt before that trees and bushs at the front of a friends house had been cut down,when i passed the house a week later they were gone,when i asked him when were they cut he only cut them two days before...weird

same thing happened to me. i dreamt about a hotel and years later i went to cyprus on holiday.
straight away i just knew it was the hotel in the dream. i knew where things were and felt like id been there a good few times even though it was my first time on cyprus

shanered · 18-01-2012 4:33am

metaoblivia wrote: »

Had a weird experience once that I don't quite consider paranormal, so maybe this is the best forum to share it in.

I'm American, but I did some of my undergraduate studies in London. I lived in a uni flat with 5 roomies, boys and girls (2 to a room), and people from other flats would come up and hang out in our flat a lot because ours was the biggest.

So one day after class, a bunch of us are relaxing in the common room. I was reading a magazine & got caught up in this article about terrorism. The premise of the article was that the days of hijacking planes were in the past and for some reason this made me really upset. And even at the time, I didn't know why because I was only 20 and had never really thought about terrorism before. But I got mad and I told my flatmates about it and I said, "This is bullsh*t, you know? This is exactly why we won't see it coming. If the terrorists were smart, they'd hijack any domestic flight because you can just walk right on. And if they were really smart, they'd hit New York and D.C. at the same time."

I don't think I'd remember what I said verbatim had this conversation not happened on September 10, 2001. But it did and the next day was 9/11. And obviously we were all shocked when that happened, but remember, I said this in a room full of people. A few days later, I quietly brought it up with the roommate I was closest to, and said, "Hey, remember how I said..." And he replied, "Yeah and it's kind of be freaking me out, so let's not talk about it." And I never brought it up again.

I'm not saying I'm psychic because nothing on that level has ever happened since. It was probably just a really wicked coincidence. But weird, nonetheless.

TERRORIST!!!!!!

caitmb · 29-01-2012 11:36pm

Had a few dreams "come true" over the yrs but strangest/most disturbing was a couple of yrs ago.....I finished a night shift and fell into a coma when i got home.I woke with a start after dreaming I met my brothers friend, ' john' .His face was purple going blue and was having trouble breathing.He was mad to have a chat with me but I wouldn't stop.I told him to see a doctor and said good luck.

Fast forward few hours and I got a phone call from a mutual friend to tell me 'John' had passed away that morning from a massive heart attack,only 40 yrs old. Still not the better of it to this day when I think of him....

CDfm · 30-01-2012 12:32am

caitmb wrote: »

Fast forward few hours and I got a phone call from a mutual friend to tell me 'John' had passed away that morning from a massive heart attack,only 40 yrs old. Still not the better of it to this day when I think of him....

Can you explain it rationally.

Did he have health probs you might have been aware of ?

Deki · 30-01-2012 12:52am

:(Sometimes you just "know"
I remember being at a family reunion and going to greet one of my uncles and suddenly i could sort of see thru him. He just sort of went transparent. I had a hard time talking to him as I had to keep closing my eyes and looking away to make my vision come back. After a couple of minutes it did, but he was gone within the week. It's happened since and I don't like it.

johnnybmac · 30-01-2012 1:13am

auntyweeze wrote: »

im not sure if this would be an experience or a dream.
i am nearly positive i was awake when this happened the other night.
i was in bed it was very early in the morining maybe 2 or 3am and i woke up and couldnt move i was trying to get my phone from my bedside locker to see the time but couldnt move at all not even my arms only my eyes it felt like something was sitting on my chest i looked up and all i could see was black shadows so in my mind i started to tell this black thing to go away and leave me alone but it honeslty felt like something was pinning me down after what felt like ages but was probably only a minute or two the weight lifted off my chest and i started coughing. it was like i was after holding my breath for ages. this has happened me once or twice before but years ago but it kinda freaked me out but i put it down to a dream but i could have sworn i was awake

Only read this post, and I have to say, i've experienced this many times. As I now know, this is commonly known as sleep paralysis. In Enniscorthy, we call it "The Hag" (don't know if anywhere else calls it the same, and not sure where the name comes from...) Funny thing is, it has only happened to members of my family while sleeping in a certain room in our old house...

tac foley · 02-02-2012 7:05pm

For most of my life so far, way back as long as I can remember, as I settle down to go to sleep and just on the point of drifting off, I'm often awakened by a 'golden flash' somewhere off my line of sight. Needless to say, there is nothing there to make such a flash, and never has been.

I'm not frightened by it and it does not panic me or make me worried, but it IS rather odd.

Anyone else had this happen to them?

tac

BTW - I also have premonitions like many with Irish blood - nothing important, just that I'll tell herself about it, and then it happens - usually.

face1990 · 02-02-2012 7:29pm

tac foley wrote: »

For most of my life so far, way back as long as I can remember, as I settle down to go to sleep and just on the point of drifting off, I'm often awakened by a 'golden flash' somewhere off my line of sight. Needless to say, there is nothing there to make such a flash, and never has been.

I'm not frightened by it and it does not panic me or make me worried, but it IS rather odd.

Anyone else had this happen to them?
.

I get those a lot when I'm falling asleep. They're called phosphenes, and as far as I know are caused by nerves firing in the retina as the body relaxes (like the way muscles often twitch when you're falling asleep), or by mechanical stimulation of the retina (sometimes you might notice they co-incide with your pulse).

They're only to worry about if you see flashes during daytime, which can be a symptom of a detached retina!

Phosphene Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene

bilston · 02-02-2012 11:58pm

tommy21 wrote: »

Had a very lucid experience the other night (hoping its a nightmare but seemed so very real and so different I don't know) - woke up in the middle of the night and my deceased grandmother is sitting on the couch in my bedroom. She suffered from Parkinson's when she was alive and was exhibiting the same kind of hunched symptoms. So I get up and "walk" over to her, and ask her how she is. She shakes her head as if to indicate not well. I ask her is she in heaven, and she shakes no, then whispered "hell." Then her face began to melt away and I woke up (standing!) in my bed, shouting. Under a lot of stress at moment so presuming it was a nightmare, but very unsettling.

Well that's guarenteed me a nightmare tonight! I'm sleeping with the light on...

newmug · 03-02-2012 1:54am

jargon buster wrote: »

as a small child I had one sometimes two people stand at the door and look into my bedroom at night, they had no discernable faces as the only light was from the hall and in the darkness of the room they were just basically a shadow.
It happened most nights and to me seemed a long time. I just assumed it was my parents checking on me.
I mentioned it years later in conversation to them with regards to over protective and fretting parents, it turned out they hardly ever looked in on me and never came in together.

^^^^^ THIS! That always used to happen to me and my brother aswell! We used to call them "the shadows", or "Michael Jackson", cos one used to have what seemed like permed hair, like MJ in the video of Bad.

Other things used to happen around that age too, light switches would click, but the lights would stay on. We used to hear what sounded like the chairs scraping off the ground in the kitchen in the middle of the night. My Fathers friends's name would be just randomely called out, almost in a comical way! We also used to see this blur in the corner of our vision, we called him "the Karate kid", probably cos the film was out at the time. This blur was shaped like a child, sometimes black, sometimes white, and would always just disappear around a corner or out through a doorway just before you could make out what it was.

caitmb · 03-02-2012 5:43pm

CDfm wrote: »

Can you explain it rationally.

Did he have health probs you might have been aware of ?

Not health problems as such,nothing I was aware of....but still not outside the realm of possibilities I suppose. Even so,its still a big coincidence. Tried rationalising it big time myself but shure where would we be without a bit of the unexplained??!

sunflower27 · 28-02-2012 7:30pm

CJC999 wrote: »

I have had sleep paralysis several times, the first two or three times were terrifying, however the few times it happened afterwards i was aware that i was asleep and that i had nothing to worry about. The last time it happened i said to mself that all i had to do was go back to sleep and wake again, so i closed my eyes and opened them again and i was awake and able to move again. But it was still 'freaky'

My other inexplicable experience was when i used to live with my grandmother when i was at school (she lived on her own and so i stayed with her for company) Anyway she used to call me for school every morning at 8:20am. Her alarm would go off at 8:10 and she would get dressed and then come down the hall and knock on my door to get me up. I was generally awake and would wait till she knocked before i would get up. One morning, i was awake from about 8ish but lay there anyway waiting for her to come down the hall and knock on the door. By 8:25 there was no sign of her so i got up and got ready. I had breakfast and was figuring she slept it out and was going to head to school and leave her to sleep for another while but i decided i should let her know i was away as i was in after she went to bed the night before and i didnt want her worrying so i went and knocked on her door, no answer, so went in and she was lying in the bed with her eyes closed and looked like she was sleeping peacefully. I called her several times with no response. I knew something was wrong and went over to her and she was stone cold. My poor nana had died. Anyway the doc said she died in her sleep and would have had no pain and probably not even realised her heart had stopped. Once her remains were taken up to the front room for the wake, i went down to the room and had a look at her alarm clock which hadnt gone off. It was the old wind up bell type. The clock was wound and the alarm was set. So i moved on the hands to 8.05 o clock and waited and low and behold the alarm went off at 8:10 like normal yet it didnt go off that morning. Maybe there was a mechanical reason for that but i tend to believe it was more a spiritual thing...sorry for the long winded story.

That's a sad story. Something similar happened to me when I was about 13. One morning my mum said my nan had been taken to hospital. I was always a bit of a 'psychic' kid and I remember seeing her the previous Sunday and having a strange feeling I would never see her again.

That day she was taken to hospital she had a stroke and died.

That evening we all went up to stay with my grandfather and I noticed that the two clocks in the house had stopped... both of them at the same time, a little after 1pm, which is the moment she passed away. There was no explanation for it.

Later on that evening I was crying in one of the bedrooms on my own when I heard footsteps outside. The footseps sounded exactly like my nana when she walked as she had a bit of a shuffle. I ran to the window and there was no-one there or anyone near.

I told my mum the following day and she looked shocked and said both she and my sister had heard the same footsteps at different times.

MoodeRator · 29-02-2012 1:05pm

Deki wrote: »

:(Sometimes you just "know"
I remember being at a family reunion and going to greet one of my uncles and suddenly i could sort of see thru him. He just sort of went transparent. I had a hard time talking to him as I had to keep closing my eyes and looking away to make my vision come back. After a couple of minutes it did, but he was gone within the week. It's happened since and I don't like it.

I have never heard anything like this one before! Deki how many times has the happened to you? (will totally understand if you dont want to discuss)
Has anyone else ever heard of this "transparency" before?

squonk · 29-02-2012 5:34pm

I love this thread. Particularly love the lightheartedness and the willingness of posters to look at things rationally. Makes a nice change from the Paranormal thread where scepticism is tolerated rather than welcomed!

Star Lord · 29-02-2012 6:52pm

squonk wrote: »

I love this thread. Particularly love the lightheartedness and the willingness of posters to look at things rationally. Makes a nice change from the Paranormal thread where scepticism is tolerated rather than welcomed!

I think balance is required, and to be encouraged. So long as there is no abuse or insults from either side, and everyone behaves in a friendly manner then all's good!

Deki · 01-03-2012 5:03am

MoodeRator wrote: »

I have never heard anything like this one before! Deki how many times has the happened to you? (will totally understand if you dont want to discuss)
Has anyone else ever heard of this "transparency" before?

Three times with people I knew. Sort of scares me when it happens. Don't like to experience it.

CajunPenguin · 04-03-2012 9:48pm

When I was 11 or 12 I went on holiday to Wexford and I was walking home (alone) down a little bohreen and I checked behind me as I always have done when walking on my own and about 500 metres down the road (it was quite straight) there was what looked like an old fella, big coat, cap and all, waking really slow with his head down. I thought nothing of it. But about twenty seconds later I checked again and he had come up behind me fast, but he was still going reeeeaaalllllyyy slow. A short while later I looked again and he was getting close. Eventually, I start walking really fast and each time I looked he was closer an closer. He would have had to sprint to get that close in that time, and there was gravel so I would have heard him. Eventually when he would have been coming right up to within about speaking distance I turned to say something and he was gone. On one side of the road was a high wall and on the other was a thick hedge. There were no side alleys. I know since I travelled that road every day. He would have had to overtake me and run about 50 mtrs or turned around and run 600 metres to escape.
So weird.

ClickityClick · 04-03-2012 10:22pm

Some years ago I bought an antique ring, but every time I wore it, I was haunted by an old lady in black, and came to 'know' that the ring was given in love, but worn in hatred. 'Know' meaning that it became firm in my mind !!! The ring began to turn in on itself and dig into my finger. When I wore it very strange things happened, for instance one dark night, I had about three very narrow misses with other cars, enough so that my daughter who was in the back said "Mammy, I'm frightedned". Eventually I had a Mass said for the old woman, the ring stopped it's antics, and I returned it to the shop. Imagine my astonishment when the shopkeeper told me that this was the third time it had been returned, all because of "bad vibes"

Rasmus · 05-03-2012 12:49pm

newmug wrote: »

^^^^^ THIS! That always used to happen to me and my brother aswell! We used to call them "the shadows", or "Michael Jackson", cos one used to have what seemed like permed hair, like MJ in the video of Bad.

Other things used to happen around that age too, light switches would click, but the lights would stay on. We used to hear what sounded like the chairs scraping off the ground in the kitchen in the middle of the night. My Fathers friends's name would be just randomely called out, almost in a comical way! We also used to see this blur in the corner of our vision, we called him "the Karate kid", probably cos the film was out at the time. This blur was shaped like a child, sometimes black, sometimes white, and would always just disappear around a corner or out through a doorway just before you could make out what it was.

This happened to me as a kid too, although to a greater extent. I just got used to it. Researching this kind of thing later in life, it seems that many people see this phenomenon and the figures are known as 'Shadow People'. Who knows??

vixdname · 15-03-2012 8:29pm

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

When I was about 17 or 18 and still living at home with my parents I woke up in the middle of the night and there was someone in my room (had my own room, never shared it with anyone) I coudn't see anyone but could feel that someone was there (as in feel a presence not physically feel them). I wasn't in the least bit afraid though. I just felt really calm and as though I knew that whoever it was, was there to watch over me and mind me. I found old photos of my great grandad afterwards (who had died in 1936) and I don't know why, but I'm so sure that the person in my room was him. I keep one of those photos in my wallet now.
It was a really comforting feeling and unfortunately only happened once, but I'd really love to experience it again, and know that someone somewhere is looking after me.

I was really interested to read the story above.
I too have had two very similar experiences to this.
I was extremely close to my grandparents on my dads side of the family as I practically grew up in their house.
Both of them died a few years apart, my grand father first.
Anyway, I still think of them most days and still miss them incredibly even after all of these years.
I was asleep one night and in my "Dream" I found myself in my grandmothers kitchen again, my back was to where the sink used to be and I was facing the door way into the kitchen from the hall, there was a window facing me also to the left of the door.
I could make out the all too familiar figure of my grandfather standing between the door way and the window, he always had a walking stick with him and it was definitely him, there was a brilliant light shining in through the window, my grandmother was also there, I couldnt see her at all but just felt her presence all around me.
I was in every sense of the word "Awake" in my dream, as in I knew I was asleep but was conscious in my sleep and knew what was going on around me.
I felt just pure and utterly loved by them, I asked my grandmother what heaven was like and were they happy, she said they were happy.
I asked her if they were with me all of the time, and she replied that they were with me "Whenever I wanted them to be", which was a great answer.
I dont remember any more of the episode but the feeling of love I got from them was indescribable and when I woke up, I was after being crying, tears on my face and the pillow wet !
I think I was crying because I felt like I was just after saying goodbye to both of them again, but then I got a feeling of joy, in knowing that perhaps they are there whenever I want them, it was nice.

Second episode happened about 2 years ago, I was very down in the dumps and was really having a hard time in my personal life.
I went to bed feeling absolutely drained, I was lying in my bed when I felt a hand rubbing up and down my back through my t-shirt, and I distinctly heard my nannys voice saying "Hes having a good rest now God love him, leave him have a sleep". When I felt the hand rubbing my back I thought it was my wife but when I heard the voice I knew who it was.
I didnt wake and again just felt so looked after and being minded by nanny again, after all the years had passed.
I told my wife the following morning what happened and she said that that wasnt the first time I had said something like this had happened to me when I was going through a tough time.

It feels like that when I'm really down or something in life is putting me under pressure, my grandmother more so, comes to help me out and kind of make me know that shes there still loving me and looking after me.
I know it may be mad, but even writing this makes me feel sad as I miss them both still so much but do get some comfort in the two experiences I had.
Hope the storys werent too long.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 16-03-2012 6:16pm

I was having a stressful time last September with a nightmare work project, at a critical moment my laptop decided to stop working. Not knowing what the hell was wrong I banged away at it for hours charging it and restarting it to no avail. When I felt all was lost a random memory of my deceased Godmother popped into my head, as if on cue the laptop kicked back into life and become fully functional.

Now I'm not exactly tech savy and I'm sure there is multiple reasons for the laptop suddenly coming back to life but in my mind I think like to think she had something to do with it, we were very close and she died quite young in tragic circumstances.

Janedoe10 · 18-03-2012 9:49pm

My mother had a vivid dream of an old neighbour crying all the time . Her cousin rang the next day and mam told her about it straight away . The cousin laughed saying funny u said that cause the reason I rang was because xxxx's brother died last night in England of a brain haemorrhage .
Mam had not seen the guy in England in years but would meet the old neighbour from time to time in town .. Mam was a bit spooked by it .

Missmiddleton · 02-04-2012 8:42pm

On Christmas day a few years ago my whole extended family was in my nanny's sitting room when we all heard a key in the front door and heard it open and shut. All the people who have keys to the house were in the sitting room at the time and a couple of people went out to see who it was but there was no one there.

caitmb · 02-04-2012 9:13pm

Missmiddleton wrote: »

On Christmas day a few years ago my whole extended family was in my nanny's sitting room when we all heard a key in the front door and heard it open and shut. All the people who have keys to the house were in the sitting room at the time and a couple of people went out to see who it was but there was no one there.

Spooky.....thought this happened me once.In bed one night,was woken by someone letting themself in ( I live alone,assumed it was a family member coming for an emergency sleepover ie they were kicked out by their own family!) but lo and behold there was no one there when I went out to see!! Put it down to a vivid dream but who knows.....

EdenHazard · 09-04-2012 9:06pm

I'd be one of the scared ****less by paranormal but at same time not actually believe(or so i tell myself) but I have two experiences which are crazy

1. Me and my sister playing with toys in our upstairs room about 15 years ago now I'd say, anyway out of nowhere we heard a voice calling our name from our parents bedroom in the most stereotypical ghost voice imaginable, we looked at each other in sheer shock, we walked in to the hallway looked in to the dark bedroom and I can't remember if it said anything else but we glanced in looked at each other and legged it downstairs.
Our parents were in the house, and my dads a messer type but the voice was too lucid to be him from the sitting room downstairs. Logically it was him but ye you never know. I still look into that room, remember what I heard and expect to hear or see something, but nah nothing.

2. This is just absurd, again me and my sister had a tend set up in our parents room(the same room from the story before and we seen this white sheet walk by the tent, I **** you not, a white ****ing sheet!!! What kind of ghost was this? The sheet never ever ever ever came back around, we only left the tent when my dad came in to the room and well yeah the walking sheet was nowhere to be found.

Two very real experiences, I think I have explanation for the second story, but the first one is just creepy.

squonk · 10-04-2012 12:34pm

EdenHazard wrote: »

I'd be one of the scared ****less by paranormal but at same time not actually believe(or so i tell myself) but I have two experiences which are crazy

1. Me and my sister playing with toys in our upstairs room about 15 years ago now I'd say, anyway out of nowhere we heard a voice calling our name from our parents bedroom in the most stereotypical ghost voice imaginable, we looked at each other in sheer shock, we walked in to the hallway looked in to the dark bedroom and I can't remember if it said anything else but we glanced in looked at each other and legged it downstairs.
Our parents were in the house, and my dads a messer type but the voice was too lucid to be him from the sitting room downstairs. Logically it was him but ye you never know. I still look into that room, remember what I heard and expect to hear or see something, but nah nothing.

2. This is just absurd, again me and my sister had a tend set up in our parents room(the same room from the story before and we seen this white sheet walk by the tent, I **** you not, a white ****ing sheet!!! What kind of ghost was this? The sheet never ever ever ever came back around, we only left the tent when my dad came in to the room and well yeah the walking sheet was nowhere to be found.

Two very real experiences, I think I have explanation for the second story, but the first one is just creepy.

Your dad sounds like great craic! Are you sure he didn't engineer this sheet in some way. I haven't heard of any ghosts showing up as white sheets!

EdenHazard · 10-04-2012 1:52pm

Knowing him he prob walked around, then took the sheet off and crawled out of the room, thats what I think happened, but the first story wasn't him.

MrFlabr · 28-04-2012 1:19am

I have another one to add to the list of strange experiences that have occurred to me. So basically, earlier tonight I was walking home, departed from a friend at a roundabout and continued walking the half a kilometre or so journey to my house. About half way through my journey I looked back and acknowledged that a man, of medium build, bald, bright blue jacket was walking his small dog, which looked to be a Jack Russell with spots on its face were walking about a hundred metres behind me. I continued walking, and no more than 10 seconds after my initial look at the man, they had disappeared! The road was a straight path and I would have seen any diversion that this man took as it would have been in eyesight which leads me to believe that this was a strange occurrence!

cormacocomhrai · 16-05-2012 11:28pm

A couple of odd things have happened in my family. The strangest thing that happened to me personally was this:
My grandfather was an incredibly healthy man. He complained in the early 1990s that he had a cold. It was the first cold he'd had since 1928. I remember joking at the time once that his body was too afraid of him to get sick. In his 80s he was still incredibly fit and lean. I was very close to him but as he lived at the other end of the country didn't see him all that often.
Anyway I was about 17 he was about 90. I was in Galway coming home on the bus from a part time job. While on the bus I got an incredibly strong feeling to ring him. The second occasion was while putting my key into the door. I can still see my hand in suspended imagination. The third occasion was while sitting watching TV. Each time the feeling was to contact him not the house he lived in with my aunt. I hadn't see him in months. There was no reason to be concened but for the second time in my entire life I was going to ring his house. I rang. My aunt answered and I immediately said "Is Granda ok?"
He'd collapsed that day. He fell out of his standing when he was out walking. First sign of any health issues.

Another anecdote. That same aunt had a dream she was driving down Grafton Street with a friend. A horse stepped out onto the road. Me aunt swerved to avoid it and went past it. The friend immediately accused her of having hit the horse. My aunt was adamant that she hadn't. The argument escalated to the point where my aunt woke up in a temper thus remembering the dream. They were discussing her dream at work and laughing at how stupid dreams are when somebody pulled out the racing pages and picked a horse with an appropriate name. They decided to bet on it for a laugh. They rang my grandfather who agreed to place bets on the horse. He then went to the racing pages saw generous odds but looked at the form of the horse and decided that dreams aren't the way to pick winners. He never bothered to place the bet. The horse of course won @11/1.
The horse's name: You missed me.
Is mise
Cormac Ó Comhraí

bijapos · 07-06-2012 9:25pm

sunflower27 wrote: »

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That evening we all went up to stay with my grandfather and I noticed that the two clocks in the house had stopped... both of them at the same time, a little after 1pm, which is the moment she passed away. There was no explanation for it.

I know a couple of people have mentioned stopped clocks but it was a tradition in some parts of the country that you would stop the clock and put it back to the time the person died at. This way at wakes everybody would look at the clock to see what time the person died at.

Ozymandius2011 · 08-06-2012 8:06am

My paranormal experiences involve memories that don't seem to have happened but which seem totally real to me. A recent example is where I remember playing Alice: Madness Returns on my laptop but there is no trace of it now. Another paranormal matter is where I sometimes dream about something happening and then the next day it happens.

spiderman1885 · 13-06-2012 6:34pm

Knocked up to my uncle on Friday 13th April, noticed straight away he wasn't well so called another uncle - he was brought to hospital, and diagnosed with cancer then and there, and we were told he had hours to live rather than days, they had never seen anything like the aggresivesness(?) of this cancer. Anyway, he lasted an entire week. I checked his watch after a few days, the date was stuck on the 13th - that was the last day he was fully concious.

kevin65 · 15-06-2012 6:38am

Years ago I bought a replacement carpet for my old BMW, cleaned it, folded it and put it away on a high shelf in the garage. I never got round to fitting the carpet and sold the car. So I decided to get rid of the carpet, and when taking it down, a copy of a magazine from Medjugorje fell out of it. Myself or my wife have absolutely NO idea where it came from. It definitely wasn't there when the carpet was put away and nobody would ever be in the garage except me of my wife the odd time.

I put the magazine into the car that replaced the old BMW under the mat and it's stiil there every time I check...

Carverkid · 20-06-2012 8:49pm

I've had a number of severe deja vu experience, mostly thinking I had done the particular act in a dream so I began to keep a dream diary.

Anyway, I was sailing on the tall ships last year and I was talking to two girl up on the top deck, one of them said something, can't remember exactly and the other tossed her hair and smiled. Thats what set me off. I went below and got my dream diary and found the entry, I brought it back up to the two girls and showed them. I had gotten every detail spot on except for one girls name, I called her Elizabeth instead of Elaine. But other than that the scenery was the exact same, the comment passed, the mood at the time. I've yet to relate any more dreams to future events so explicitly but I'll keep you posted.

Northclare · 02-08-2012 9:01pm

My grandparents house was supposedly built on a leyline or fairy path.
Anyway when I was a kid I can remember I used to play in the field her house was built on.
Sometimes in one particular corner of the field I would come upon large animal bones I'd tell my dad we would go out together to see them the next thing we arrive and they're gone.
A month later I'd see them again and say nothing, for fear of dad laughing at me.

That whole area is strange I never felt at ease there.
I go down there fly fishing for seatrout during the summer,it's in North Kerry but at night I feel like I'm in an ancient land it's just a very ancient untouched land without any human intentional purpose.
John Moriarty often said when we walk into a field and feel sad or fearful,it's not the self thats feeling sad or fearful but it's in the land.

I live in the Burren now and there's a lot of wild places :S

marozz · 24-10-2012 12:58am

I am a sceptic when it comes to the paranormal, but I have had a few wierd expierences over the years. A good while back I went to visit my grandmother. She had been ill for a long time but on this day she was in great form and looked a lot better. I remarked on this and she told me about a dream she had the night before. She had a very vivid dream that she was on the back of my brothers motorbike. He was driving very fast down country roads and she could feel the wind in hair etc....The dream went on for ages and she woke up all exicted . About a month later she passed away. Early on the morning of the funeral my brother went off on his own. Later on I asked where he went and he told me he went for a drive on his bike to clear his head. He also had the strangest feeling that my grandmother was with him, felt her presence on the back of the bike. He found himself driving to the derilict cottage where she was born, on the outskirts of the city. Her took a clipping from the hedge in the garden and placed it on top of her coffin. As soon as he told me I remembered my grandmothers story. He was in shock when I told him about the vivid dream she had the month before. He had never heard the story until I told him.

Talib Fiasco · 12-12-2012 10:19pm

This is not my own, but a good friend told me of this story his father told him which he was present for....

This happened about 30 years ago when all these lads were in their early 20's. There were 5 lads who were mad keen on hurling and used always go to the trainings/matches together....anyway this one day 4 of the lads were in the car about to go to training when they pulled up at the final member of the groups house to collect him just like it always was. They beeped the horn and everything but nothing....it was very odd they said because he was always on time and was mad keen for sport....one of the lads goes into the house to see if someone was there but there was nobody there at all. the lads thought this was weird but decided to go on away because there was a good chance he got a spin to training himself or maybe drove himself as he had his own car.

Anyway the lads made their way along the road to the pitch and came across a stoppage....they could see a few garda cars/ambulance etc. The Gardai came down and said there was a bad accident and said the road would be closed for a good while. The lads then decided to abandon the car and make their way to the pitch through a couple of fields...as they were just heading out back onto the road they heard a roar "get back get out of the way" and just like that a bull went flying past them, barely missing them...when they looked around they saw that the call came from their friend who was absent until now. He seemed out of breath like he was after doing a sprint. The lads asked him where was he all along and he just said "I've got to go" and ran back again. The lads took little notice and just thought he was after a few drinks and went off and took part in training. The lads were still puzzled about what happened after training when they saw the same Garda car just by the dressing rooms. The Guard announced to them that their friend ____ (the lad who was missing from training) was in the same car accident that the lads came across and died a few hours ago. The lads said he must have made a mistake as they were talking to him after the accident. The Guard was certain it was their friend and he was right, he died at the scene and was for some time when the lads came across the crash on the road. So how do you explain the warning he gave them?

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Now lads honestly I found this hard enough to believe and anyone would be the same really but I've talked to my friends father about it and he's always swore he and the lads saw it and that spirit/presence saved their lives that day. That same man says he gets nightmares all the time of that scene and at one stage he couldn't cope at all....

Leadamp · 12-12-2012 10:24pm

raveni wrote: »

That sounds like sleep paralysis. I've never experienced it myself but I'd imagine it is pretty unsettling the first time you get it, especially if you haven't heard of it before.

Sleep Paralysis is terrifying. I've only had the one where you hallucinate once and that was scary but I've had the other one where you just can't move so many times before so I knew what was happening.:)

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