Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

New Home

There's a programme I saw recently enough on the RTÉ Player, it's called "Into the Mystic" - https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/into-the-mystic/116449320226 If I'm not mistaken in one of the episodes they were talking about a book, that could possibly be it.

Gremlinertia

Fryup, no need for that

ozzers1989

New Home wrote: »

There's a programme I saw recently enough on the RTÉ Player, it's called "Into the Mystic" - https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/into-the-mystic/116449320226 If I'm not mistaken in one of the episodes they were talking about a book, that could possibly be it.

Either way, the programme looks great thank you x

ozzers1989

ozzers1989 wrote: »

Hey all.

I didn't really know where to post this so please remove if it's inappropriate.

In the late 90s/early 00s I read a book that contained stories about the Banshee and fairies.

- the book was first person accounts compiled by a male author

- it had lots of people's stories about Banshee experiences and fairy experiences

- it was and A5 book and there were no illustrations

- the author began the book by saying something like "what surprised me about collecting these stories was how normal all of the people were"

- it was NOT a book of myths and legends it was a collection of first person experiences

- it was not the St John Seymour book

- I don't believe it was an Eddie Lenihan book

- there was a story about a truck driver witnessing a fairy funeral procession

- there was a Banshee story about a person hearing the screams of the Banshee and being physically unable to leave the house to check like there was a forcefield stopping them

If there is a more appropriate place for this question, please let me know. If you know what I'm rambling about I would be forever in your debt.

The book is Paranormal Ireland: A journey into the other side of Irish Life by Dara DeFaoite if anyone's interested!

New Home

How did you find it?

tamara25

Thanks a mil for putting up the name of that book, just after downloading it on my kindle

ozzers1989

New Home wrote: »

How did you find it?

I posted on my Instagram story looking for it and someone responded with it! Happy days!

passatman86

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.

fryup

^^^^^^^^

he bleached his hair?

Quazzie

That last story sounds real Slim Shady

fryup

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.

and where in South Dublin is it? is it a well known haunting locally?

Cunning Stunt

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.

..so what genuinely creepy or unnerving thing has ever happened to you?

passatman86

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.

Turned his hair Snow White? I dread to think what he did to the 7 dwarves. Dirty fecker.

Leg End Reject

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Turned his hair Snow White? I dread to think what he did to the 7 dwarves. Dirty fecker.

Spooky!

passatman86

I was told the story about 20 years ago and the person has passed away who told me. As best i can remember it was near Newlands cross going back a good while now.
And yes i have had a genuinely creepy and unnerving experience - a family member passed away and i felt it before i received the news

fryup

for me i might think of a relative or acquaintance for a fleeting moment...and a few days later i hear that they've died:o

I just went outside for a smoke and there was a continuous line of small 'stars' travelling in a straight line from west to east, loads of them, never seen anything like it before, am I drunk or did anyone else see them?

byte

Deleted User wrote: »

I just went outside for a smoke and there was a continuous line of small 'stars' travelling in a straight line from west to east, loads of them, never seen anything like it before, am I drunk or did anyone else see them?

Possibly was Starlink chain of satellites for broadband purposes.

Tyrone212

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.

He went down to the sitting room in the middle of the night. When he opened the door he heard "Tea Father" and Ms Doyle was standing there.

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