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Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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  • #4232
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I'm not sure if I told this story before, and I don't believe in hocus pocus so I don't think it was a ghost or anything, but it was something odd that happened right when I needed something.


    I was extremely close to my father, he was my best friend, and I didn't deal with his illness or his dying very well at all. I was never lonely until he died, but since then I feel lonely a lot. Even surrounded by lots of other people, I am still lonely.
    Anyway, before Christmas, approaching his anniversary I was very very sad, tearful, very down and not like myself.

    A few days previously, I had been to the local petrol station and picked up two chocolate bars. Had one straight away and was going to bring the other home and keep it for the next day. I got home, looked in the car but couldn't find the bar. The next morning I searched my car, but I couldn't find it. I assumed I left it on the counter in the shop. Was a bit annoyed but thought no more on it.

    So, I bought it Friday night, looked for it Saturday, drove my car on Saturday and Sunday, and on Monday morning I had to go to the dr. I was very upset all weekend for various reasons, and felt so defeated and run down that Monday morning from all the tears. I got back into my car after leaving the doctor, to find the bar of chocolate sitting on my seat. There's no way it was there the entire time - I saw it as soon as I opened the car door.

    Now, I'm sure it came from somewhere easily explained, there's always a rational explanation, but in that moment I took comfort from the fact if he could see me, he knew how distressed I was and gave me back my bar of chocolate. Something he would have done if he was still here, and I didn't feel so alone.

    So, I guess a weird coincidence pulled me out of a particular low point


  • #4233
    justsaynokids
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭justsaynokids


    maryishere wrote:
    If your post is genuine...you say you do not get along with or like your family....you only have one mother and one family so I would urge you to give your mother a big hug. I obviously do not know the whole story but if she was sitting on the bed crying saying how sorry she was at the way things have gotten at home and how she wished they could get better, I would suggest trying to go the extra mile to patch things up with your mother. She is allowing you stay in the granny flat. Her tears are probably a sign of her love for you. Appreciate her while you have her. Life goes quickly and is precious.


    See the thing is this was 2007 , my mother died in 2001.


  • #4234
    justsaynokids
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭justsaynokids


    maryishere wrote:
    If your post is genuine...you say you do not get along with or like your family....you only have one mother and one family so I would urge you to give your mother a big hug. I obviously do not know the whole story but if she was sitting on the bed crying saying how sorry she was at the way things have gotten at home and how she wished they could get better, I would suggest trying to go the extra mile to patch things up with your mother. She is allowing you stay in the granny flat. Her tears are probably a sign of her love for you. Appreciate her while you have her. Life goes quickly and is precious.


    See the thing is this was 2007 , my mother died in 2001.


  • #4235
    dubstarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    D Trent wrote: »
    ..

    She looks like Alma out of Coronation Street.


  • #4236
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    justsaynokids wrote: »
    See the thing is this was 2007 , my mother died in 2001.

    Ha ha, we have a new skeleton driving the car!


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  • #4237
    justsaynokids
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭justsaynokids


    razorblunt wrote:
    Ha ha, we have a new skeleton driving the car!
    I don't expect people to believe me , I always thought I imagined it all I still think I did , I never drank or did drugs though so can't blame it on that.


  • #4238
    check_six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭check_six


    justsaynokids wrote: »
    I don't expect people to believe me , I always thought I imagined it all I still think I did , I never drank or did drugs though so can't blame it on that.

    If there are any other salient facts, why not throw them in the ring now. It's getting a bit like 'Making a Murderer': "...and here's another bit of really important information we never mentioned before. I can't believe you thought this was going in a different direction previously!"


  • #4239
    fando
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭fando


    I woke up in Ireland today.


  • #4240
    justsaynokids
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭justsaynokids


    check_six wrote:
    If there are any other salient facts, why not throw them in the ring now. It's getting a bit like 'Making a Murderer': "...and here's another bit of really important information we never mentioned before. I can't believe you thought this was going in a different direction previously!"


    Huh ? What's making a murderer I didn't murder my mother she died of cancer


  • #4241
    check_six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭check_six


    justsaynokids wrote: »
    Huh ? What's making a murderer I didn't murder my mother she died of cancer

    It's a serialised documentary investigating a murder in America. Characterised by really significant information being omitted early on in the series only to sideswipe you with it later on to keep tension high. Very popular on Netflix last year.


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  • #4242
    Missymoohaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,737 ✭✭✭Missymoohaa


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Ha ha, we have a new skeleton driving the car!

    I think you've mixed up the posters :rolleyes:


  • #4243
    justsaynokids
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭justsaynokids


    check_six wrote:
    It's a serialised documentary investigating a murder in America. Characterised by really significant information being omitted early on in the series only to sideswipe you with it later on to keep tension high. Very popular on Netflix last year.

    Oh right , sounds muck.


  • #4244
    justsaynokids
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭justsaynokids


    check_six wrote:
    It's a serialised documentary investigating a murder in America. Characterised by really significant information being omitted early on in the series only to sideswipe you with it later on to keep tension high. Very popular on Netflix last year.

    Oh right , sounds muck.


  • #4245
    Dieric_Bouts
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1 ✭Dieric_Bouts


    I've been reading this thread with great interest for the past few days. A lot of people's experiences have sent a shiver down my spine. My partner and I have not told anyone about this for fear of being thought of as crazy or being laughed at behind our backs.

    My best friend,''Brian'', died in a car crash 16 years ago. He was only 29. I was devastated, it took me months to accept that he was gone. I couldn't have asked for a better friend and it was my privilege to have known him and been a part of his life. I still think about him a lot, where would he be now in life, would he have a family... what would he think of me now..

    My partner gave birth to our first child last year. One night I told her that I'd do the feeding to give her the night off. I feel asleep in the chair after putting the baby in her Moses basket. A short few hours must have passed when I was awoken by my partner's screaming. She was screaming hysterical, saying that there was a man in the room. She'd awoken our daughter too, who was screaming and crying. I leapt up expecting to confront an intruder but there was nobody there. I spent the next 20 minutes searching the house high and low but there was no sign of an intruder and no sign of a break in. My partner was in a terrible state and swore that there was a man standing at the end of our bed, staring at her. I calmed her down and we eventually just put it down to her having a lack of sleep with the baby and her mind playing tricks on her.

    About a week later we were in my family home. My sister lives there now with her family and she'd recently had the attic converted. She'd taken down some old photo albums and was showing them to my partner and I. There were so many, from when I was a little snot nose, right up until I was a grown man. My partner is flicking through them and suddenly stops at one and asks ''who's that?'' I tell her that's my friend, ''Brian''. My partner, white as a sheet, tells me that this was the man who was standing at the end of our bed that night.

    My partner had never met ''Brian'', she'd never even seen a picture of him before that. My partner is also around the same age ''Brian'' was when he died. I hadn't even spoken about him much to her. She's the love of my life and the mother of my child, she would never lie to me.

    I do taxi work and I've seen quite a few things over the years. A few times, I've been up around the Dublin mountains after dropping off a fair at night and I've seen shadows standing there but when I glance back, whatever was there is gone.


  • #4246
    sheepy01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭sheepy01


    How about that feeling that something is watching you while you sleep and you know it is there just staring at you


  • #4247
    McDermotX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,122 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    sheepy01 wrote: »
    How about that feeling that something is watching you while you sleep and you know it is there just staring at you

    And on that note.......Goodnight everybody !


  • #4248
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    sheepy01 wrote: »
    How about that feeling that something is watching you while you sleep and you know it is there just staring at you

    Sleep paralysis? Or a nightmare?


  • #4249
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Dieric_Bouts wrote: »
    My best friend,''Brian''..........

    Yep. That one did it ....! :eek: FRRrrrrrrrrrrrppp!!!!!


  • #4250
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,073 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    sheepy01 wrote: »
    How about that feeling that something is watching you while you sleep and you know it is there just staring at you
    Widdershins wrote: »
    Sleep paralysis? Or a nightmare?

    Sleep paralysis for me.

    I can never see the fecker but feels like they are right up behind me.


  • #4251
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,215 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    experienced sleep paralysis a few weeks ago. I was awake and willing myself to move and couldn't. I could feel what I was convinced were maggots snails and insects crawling on my face. it was terrifying. sometimes I experience sleep paralysis while I'm sleeping on my side and I experience what I think is somebody behind me with their knees stuck in my back! ! other times I'm frozen to the spot and the duvet is moving up and down. truly terrifying.


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  • #4252
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Dieric_Bouts wrote: »
    I've been reading this thread with great interest for the past few days. A lot of people's experiences have sent a shiver down my spine. My partner and I have not told anyone about this for fear of being thought of as crazy or being laughed at behind our backs.

    My best friend,''Brian'', died in a car crash 16 years ago. He was only 29. I was devastated, it took me months to accept that he was gone. I couldn't have asked for a better friend and it was my privilege to have known him and been a part of his life. I still think about him a lot, where would he be now in life, would he have a family... what would he think of me now..

    My partner gave birth to our first child last year. One night I told her that I'd do the feeding to give her the night off. I feel asleep in the chair after putting the baby in her Moses basket. A short few hours must have passed when I was awoken by my partner's screaming. She was screaming hysterical, saying that there was a man in the room. She'd awoken our daughter too, who was screaming and crying. I leapt up expecting to confront an intruder but there was nobody there. I spent the next 20 minutes searching the house high and low but there was no sign of an intruder and no sign of a break in. My partner was in a terrible state and swore that there was a man standing at the end of our bed, staring at her. I calmed her down and we eventually just put it down to her having a lack of sleep with the baby and her mind playing tricks on her.

    About a week later we were in my family home. My sister lives there now with her family and she'd recently had the attic converted. She'd taken down some old photo albums and was showing them to my partner and I. There were so many, from when I was a little snot nose, right up until I was a grown man. My partner is flicking through them and suddenly stops at one and asks ''who's that?'' I tell her that's my friend, ''Brian''. My partner, white as a sheet, tells me that this was the man who was standing at the end of our bed that night.

    My partner had never met ''Brian'', she'd never even seen a picture of him before that. My partner is also around the same age ''Brian'' was when he died. I hadn't even spoken about him much to her. She's the love of my life and the mother of my child, she would never lie to me.

    I do taxi work and I've seen quite a few things over the years. A few times, I've been up around the Dublin mountains after dropping off a fair at night and I've seen shadows standing there but when I glance back, whatever was there is gone.

    But why would his ghost appear to her and not you? Also why would he appear only after 16 years? Very strange.


  • #4253
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,158 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    Dieric_Bouts wrote: »
    I've been reading this thread with great interest for the past few days. A lot of people's experiences have sent a shiver down my spine. My partner and I have not told anyone about this for fear of being thought of as crazy or being laughed at behind our backs.

    My best friend,''Brian'', died in a car crash 16 years ago. He was only 29. I was devastated, it took me months to accept that he was gone. I couldn't have asked for a better friend and it was my privilege to have known him and been a part of his life. I still think about him a lot, where would he be now in life, would he have a family... what would he think of me now..

    My partner gave birth to our first child last year. One night I told her that I'd do the feeding to give her the night off. I feel asleep in the chair after putting the baby in her Moses basket. A short few hours must have passed when I was awoken by my partner's screaming. She was screaming hysterical, saying that there was a man in the room. She'd awoken our daughter too, who was screaming and crying. I leapt up expecting to confront an intruder but there was nobody there. I spent the next 20 minutes searching the house high and low but there was no sign of an intruder and no sign of a break in. My partner was in a terrible state and swore that there was a man standing at the end of our bed, staring at her. I calmed her down and we eventually just put it down to her having a lack of sleep with the baby and her mind playing tricks on her.

    About a week later we were in my family home. My sister lives there now with her family and she'd recently had the attic converted. She'd taken down some old photo albums and was showing them to my partner and I. There were so many, from when I was a little snot nose, right up until I was a grown man. My partner is flicking through them and suddenly stops at one and asks ''who's that?'' I tell her that's my friend, ''Brian''. My partner, white as a sheet, tells me that this was the man who was standing at the end of our bed that night.

    My partner had never met ''Brian'', she'd never even seen a picture of him before that. My partner is also around the same age ''Brian'' was when he died. I hadn't even spoken about him much to her. She's the love of my life and the mother of my child, she would never lie to me.

    I do taxi work and I've seen quite a few things over the years. A few times, I've been up around the Dublin mountains after dropping off a fair at night and I've seen shadows standing there but when I glance back, whatever was there is gone.

    If NOTHING ELSE, YOU SHOULD WIN A PRIZE FOR BEST EVER DEBUT POST


  • #4254
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    sheepy01 wrote: »
    How about that feeling that something is watching you while you sleep and you know it is there just staring at you

    Sleep paralysis.


  • #4255
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,073 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    bottlebrush wrote: »
    experienced sleep paralysis a few weeks ago. I was awake and willing myself to move and couldn't. I could feel what I was convinced were maggots snails and insects crawling on my face. it was terrifying. sometimes I experience sleep paralysis while I'm sleeping on my side and I experience what I think is somebody behind me with their knees stuck in my back! ! other times I'm frozen to the spot and the duvet is moving up and down. truly terrifying.

    Excellent description.

    Duvet lifting off me and a breeze from a window that isn't even open.


  • #4256
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »
    If NOTHING ELSE, YOU SHOULD WIN A PRIZE FOR BEST EVER DEBUT POST

    You ain't seen nothing. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=62633983


  • #4257
    Noddyholder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Noddyholder


    Dieric_Bouts wrote: »
    I've been reading this thread with great interest for the past few days. A lot of people's experiences have sent a shiver down my spine. My partner and I have not told anyone about this for fear of being thought of as crazy or being laughed at behind our backs.

    My best friend,''Brian'', died in a car crash 16 years ago. He was only 29. I was devastated, it took me months to accept that he was gone. I couldn't have asked for a better friend and it was my privilege to have known him and been a part of his life. I still think about him a lot, where would he be now in life, would he have a family... what would he think of me now..

    My partner gave birth to our first child last year. One night I told her that I'd do the feeding to give her the night off. I feel asleep in the chair after putting the baby in her Moses basket. A short few hours must have passed when I was awoken by my partner's screaming. She was screaming hysterical, saying that there was a man in the room. She'd awoken our daughter too, who was screaming and crying. I leapt up expecting to confront an intruder but there was nobody there. I spent the next 20 minutes searching the house high and low but there was no sign of an intruder and no sign of a break in. My partner was in a terrible state and swore that there was a man standing at the end of our bed, staring at her. I calmed her down and we eventually just put it down to her having a lack of sleep with the baby and her mind playing tricks on her.

    About a week later we were in my family home. My sister lives there now with her family and she'd recently had the attic converted. She'd taken down some old photo albums and was showing them to my partner and I. There were so many, from when I was a little snot nose, right up until I was a grown man. My partner is flicking through them and suddenly stops at one and asks ''who's that?'' I tell her that's my friend, ''Brian''. My partner, white as a sheet, tells me that this was the man who was standing at the end of our bed that night.

    My partner had never met ''Brian'', she'd never even seen a picture of him before that. My partner is also around the same age ''Brian'' was when he died. I hadn't even spoken about him much to her. She's the love of my life and the mother of my child, she would never lie to me.

    I do taxi work and I've seen quite a few things over the years. A few times, I've been up around the Dublin mountains after dropping off a fair at night and I've seen shadows standing there but when I glance back, whatever was there is gone.

    :eek: I got a shiver reading that :eek:


  • #4258
    spookmaster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 190 ✭✭spookmaster


    face1990 wrote: »
    A few years ago, I was on a beach in wexford with three of my cousins. We'd been out for a while, and it was getting quite dark and very foggy. You could see the beams of light swinging through the sky from a couple of lighthouses along the coast. It was beautiful!

    So we were walking for a while but couldn't find the pathway over the dunes to the car park, so I said I'd run up to the top of one of the dunes to take a look around and try to figure out where we were. The other three waited at the bottom.
    I saw the lights of the car park dead ahead, grand, headed back down to tell them.

    As I was coming down the dune, I saw, in the dim light, the three of them sitting on one of the little dunes, facing the sea. I said "Hey" or something like that. They didn't turn around, so I walked further towards them, until I was right beside them, and again I said "Hey. I'm back, the carpark's just over there" when I suddenly saw who I was talking to!
    It was a middle aged woman. She just stared at me, no expression, just a blank stare.

    I was about to apologise for disturbing her, but I looked over at the other two people sitting beside her and saw that the one on the far end wasn't a person, but just a tuft of grass that my eyes had turned into the outline of a person in the dim light! Then realised that middle one wasn't a person either.

    I looked back at her and still saw a clear face of a woman looking at me, but as I moved back, her face just dissolved into grass and sand. I ran down the dune so fast! The other guys were only a few feet away from where I had been standing talking to the grass.

    I saw her face so clearly. I mean, if she walked past me on the street, I think i'd recognise her.

    What beach in Wexford was this?


  • #4259
    spookmaster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 190 ✭✭spookmaster


    Mellio wrote: »
    I good few years ago I was living in this rented house on the north circular road and it was a sunday afternoon, no one was around and I was bored.

    I was given a coupel of horror books, one being the exorcist and the other one was the omen.

    I read the Exorcist from start to finish from 4pm to 7pm or so, cant remember exactly.

    Anyway I decided to go to bed for a sleep, it was in the winter time so it was dark at this stage.

    Whilst lying in my bed a felt this cool breeze over my head towards my feet so I was semi-awake then I felt the quilt being pulled away from me chest towards my feet also but I was holding the top of the quilt with both hands pulling the quilt back uyp towards me and at this point I felt it was a wierd sensation that this was happening because I could feel what was going on while half asleep, definitely wasnt a dream.

    Then cos I got freaked out with what was happening I woke up suddenly and it stopped but just as it stopped I heard was seemed like a groan, a voice go Urghhh!

    That was it but the freakiest thing that as ever happened to me, and on my kids life no BS.

    To say the least I have never read a horror book since.

    Sounds like something that happened to me years ago after watching The Amityville Horror. I dozed off after watching it and when I woke I heard a deep voice shouting "Get Out". I was frozen and couldn't move. I've heard a lot of people suffer from sleep paralysis and lots of the older generation call it "The Old Hag". Thank God it's the only time I've ever experienced it.


  • #4260
    tracey turnblad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭tracey turnblad


    noodler wrote: »
    bottlebrush wrote: »
    experienced sleep paralysis a few weeks ago. I was awake and willing myself to move and couldn't. I could feel what I was convinced were maggots snails and insects crawling on my face. it was terrifying. sometimes I experience sleep paralysis while I'm sleeping on my side and I experience what I think is somebody behind me with their knees stuck in my back! ! other times I'm frozen to the spot and the duvet is moving up and down. truly terrifying.

    Excellent description.

    Duvet lifting off me and a breeze from a window that isn't even open.

    Mine used to always start with the duvet being pulled off me... truly terrifying and I get it mostly when I'm really tired. When I'm really tired I won't sleep unless my husband is home even though I try to call out but can't but just knowing he's home makes me feel better before going asleep


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  • #4261
    Yester
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭Yester


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    You ain't seen nothing. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=62633983

    Thanks for that.


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