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Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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  • #4262
    wrmwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭wrmwit


    My grandad died about 15 years ago and it was tough on the whole family because he suffered on his death bed.

    A few months after he passed, my granny's mood changed to being more positive and very happy and all of the family were talking about it. She used to tell us that grandad started visiting her and they used to talk. We all smiled at the idea because the love between the two of them was very strong.
    I was home from college one weekend and I had an urge to visit her. She was in flying form. We had a great chat and it was the only long conversation I had with her alone. We decided to visit more family that were living across the road. We all had a great evening catching up over tea and biscuits. She left to go home and she refused anyone walking her home. We let her off and I stayed with the cousins for another hour or so before I headed home.

    I decided to call into granny to kiss her goodnight before I hit the road. I got to the rear door that has a glass panel in it and that leads straight into the living room. Before I opened the door, I saw her in her armchair, arms waving around having a conversation with someone. She didn't notice me look in. When I scanned the room to see who she was talking to, there was no one there. Now I don't believe in ghosts but I decided to leave her be and not disturb her. She was in a happy place.

    That day a week later my dear granny passed away. My aunt went to check in on her and found her in her armchair with a smile on her face and her arms open. She had died so peacefully compared to how grandad passed.
    As strange as it sounds it's something that will always stay with me and I always smile to myself when I think of it.

    She died happy and grandad didn't want her to go like he did.


  • #4263
    Firblog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Firblog


    Sister tells this one.

    She was at home one day, just herself and two youngfellas, one 3 other 6mths. She's in the kitchen with the youngest, when the other boy comes in, he'd been down playing in his room. He tells her that 'there's a bad man in his room'; now she knows that the front door is locked and that to get into the house someone would have had to come in the back door and past her, so she tells him not to be silly and to go back to his room to play. Off he went but came back in a couple of mins with a toy saying he didn't want to play there with the bad man. Just to prove to him that there's no one there she takes him by the hand down to the room, goes in and sees no one; says to him, see no one here, no bad man... he says yes there is.. and points up to a corner of at the ceiling, 'there he is'..
    She grabbed him, ran to the kitchen grabbed the younger fella, into the car and into the town; didn't go back until priest came to bless the house that evening.

    Bad man never seen again.


  • #4264
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Firblog wrote: »
    Just to prove to him that there's no one there she takes him by the hand down to the room, goes in and sees no one; says to him, see no one here, no bad man... he says yes there is.. and points up to a corner of at the ceiling, 'there he is'..
    She grabbed him, ran to the kitchen grabbed the younger fella, into the car and into the town; didn't go back until priest came to bless the house that evening.

    Bad man never seen again.

    Does she say why she suddenly believed him when there was nothing to see?


  • #4265
    Surreptitious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


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

    That was woeful writing!


  • #4266
    Firblog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Firblog


    up for anything wrote: »
    Does she say why she suddenly believed him when there was to see?

    I think it's because she had heard that very young kids / toddlers are supposed to be able to see spirits/ghosts/apparitions much more easily than adults as related here; and that she got a huge dose of the heebie geebies along with hair on back of neck standing up the minute he pointed to the ceiling :eek:


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  • #4267
    Bambi985
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Bambi985


    Firblog wrote: »
    I think it's because she had heard that very young kids / toddlers are supposed to be able to see spirits/ghosts/apparitions much more easily than adults as related here; and that she got a huge dose of the heebie geebies along with hair on back of neck standing up the minute he pointed to the ceiling :eek:

    honestly i think kids that young have over-active imaginations and no significant developmental function to know the difference between real and non-real, rather than them having any special sixth sense.


  • #4268
    ardinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,250 ✭✭✭ardinn


    Surreptitious wrote: »
    That was woeful writing!

    That "woeful writing" is one of the best threads you will ever read in your life and any insults or negativity will result in you being skinned alive and perma banned from all boards activities!

    Dont mess with Trent!



    Ever!
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    http://slaneyfishing.com




  • #4269
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    My grandmother, mother and my sister have this big thing about paranormal stuff. I'm skeptical myself but some of the stories I do hear from my grandmother do tend to amaze me. She has stories about ghosts, meeting strange people, seeing things, and unusual things happening in her house like light switches being turned on and off in her house despite being the only one living there.

    One story she told me. A man who lived across the road from her died one day. It was a pretty bad death from what I hear. He wasn't found for weeks and was decomposing by the time they found him. Apparently it was so bad they couldn't keep his coffin in the church because of the smell and I think there was talk of insects coming out of it too. Anyway I've been told that the house he lives in was/is haunted. A family moved in to it and claim strange things have happened in the house. Doors banging, windows being knocked on, and loud noises being heard in the house. Dark shadows of a man have been spotted there too. Some pretty creepy stuff anyway. I'm not sure what the situation is with the house nowadays though because I haven't heard anything since but always sticks in my mind when I see threads like these.

    From what I hear the guy who lived in the house wasn't a very pleasant man. But i'm not sure if that has any relevance or not.

    My mother also claims to have seen things herself in our house. Usually seeing people around the house. People standing over us and beside us, or at the end of our beds. Shadows of people too.


  • #4270
    Getaway Driver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭Getaway Driver


    TEMPLAR KNIGHT wrote: »
    Don't read the crutch story, I had to sleep with my headphones on last night!

    That's even scarier. The crutch creature could have been there all along, quivering and looking at you with longing, venomous eyes, and you wouldn't have heard a thing...


  • #4271
    Getaway Driver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭Getaway Driver


    Ihatecuddles-old wrote: »
    Now I have to read it! I'll check it out tomorrow when I'm on a computer.

    Already thinking how bad can it be??

    In a word:
















    Very.


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  • #4272
    Getaway Driver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭Getaway Driver


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    I have to admit I was once walking after a girl in suburbia at night. Once she realised I was following her (not intentionally I must add :P ) I sped up as well until I had to take a turn. I got a giggle out of it but not really a nice thing to do...

    Not nice at all Canis. I bet you're a big hit with the ladies...


  • #4273
    Getaway Driver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭Getaway Driver


    Zillah wrote: »
    You took pleasure in making a woman feel afraid of you, alone at night, and behaved threateningly to increase her fear.

    You're creepy, congratulations. The fact that you didn't attack her doesn't change that.

    My sentiments exactly. Nothing to be proud of Canis, I wouldn't boast about it if I were you. Get your "giggles" elsewhere.


  • #4274
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    ^^ You're replying to comments from 2012:confused:


  • #4275
    Getaway Driver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭Getaway Driver


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    She sped up, I sped up. I don't look even a little rapey!

    You do in your profile picture.


  • #4276
    Getaway Driver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭Getaway Driver


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    ^^ You're replying to comments from 2012:confused:

    Is that an issue?


  • #4277
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,774 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Getaway Driver wrote: »
    Is that an issue?

    It's 5 years ago. He could've died from old age in the mean time/


  • #4278
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Getaway Driver wrote: »
    Is that an issue?

    Well two of the posters you replied to have closed their accounts!


  • #4279
    Getaway Driver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭Getaway Driver


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Well two of the posters you replied to have closed their accounts!

    I wasn't aware. Sorry about that.


  • #4280
    Getaway Driver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭Getaway Driver


    Quazzie wrote: »
    It's 5 years ago. He could've died from old age in the mean time/

    Canis Lupus is alive and well.


  • #4281
    Getaway Driver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭Getaway Driver


    face1990 wrote: »
    Yep, I did once.
    (Posted the story previously here)

    Basically, myself & a friend got attacked by a big group of ruffians, during broad daylight, out on Dollymount beach.
    They were chasing us for a while and we had the option of trying to run the entire length of the wooden bridge to some shops, or run to one of the couple of houses on the island.

    We ran to a house, the scumbags walked on, although kept looking back, probably to see if anyone had answered the door.
    A lovely couple brought us in, let us use their phone (scumbags had knocked my mobile out of my hand) gave us tea & biscuits and we watched a documentary about polar bears!

    We came back a few hours later with two bottles of wine for them to thank them for helping us.

    Proper order, and fair play to that couple.


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  • #4282
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Not creepy, but had a bit of a weird incident this morning. Getting ready to leave for work and couldn't find my house keys, searched and searched and pushed for time eventually said i'll just have to leave the door open. Went out, got in the car and there in the centre console are my house keys - but I would have needed to use them to get in the previous evening and I didn't go back out!
    I'm baffled:confused:


  • #4283
    Fuzzytrooper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Fuzzytrooper


    Bambi985 wrote: »
    honestly i think kids that young have over-active imaginations and no significant developmental function to know the difference between real and non-real, rather than them having any special sixth sense.

    What, didn't you see that documentary with Bruce Willis and that young lad?


  • #4284
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Not creepy, but had a bit of a weird incident this morning. Getting ready to leave for work and couldn't find my house keys, searched and searched and pushed for time eventually said i'll just have to leave the door open. Went out, got in the car and there in the centre console are my house keys - but I would have needed to use them to get in the previous evening and I didn't go back out!
    I'm baffled:confused:

    That actually brings back a memory.

    I lost my school locker keys and couldn't find them anywhere, but remember using them to get PE gear the morning before. It was my turn to go to my nanny's house to bring in coal and take out the rubbish, the family took turns, Thursdays were my days. While filling the coal scuttle I saw my lost keys on a shelf in the coal house, I hadn't been there since the week before.


  • #4285
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Well two of the posters you replied to have closed their accounts!



    It would really help the thread if they answered anyway


  • #4286
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Fuzzytrooper wrote: »
    What, didn't you see that documentary with Bruce Willis and that young lad?

    Mercury Rising? What's that got to do with anything?


  • #4287
    Glenster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Mercury Rising? What's that got to do with anything?

    He obviously meant The Kid

    serious movie BTW


  • #4288
    DanMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    One day my watch fell off my wrist because the little bar holding the strap fell out. Couldn't find it anywhere.
    I tried every Jewelers in town but couldn't get one to fit.
    I liked that watch, so I carried it about in my pocket for about a year and no luck finding a 'holding bar' for it, even when in London.
    One day I got a flat tire on the car and when the garage-man had it fixed I asked what punctured it...a nail perhaps?
    No, he said, just this little silver thingy...and he handed over my little watch-bar.
    There and then I popped it back on the watch, none the worse for the wear !

    Not creepy, but a great co-incidence really.


  • #4289
    PaddyWilliams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭PaddyWilliams


    Was thinking of a story my mother told me a while back.
    She heard my younger brother, who was 3 at the time, having a conversation out in the back yard with someone. She popped the head out the door to see who it was, but there was no one else in the yard. She asked my brother who he was speaking to and he replied that it was our brother, Thomas.
    Thomas had died 25 years earlier, at 5 months of age and there was no way my younger brother could have known about him at that age.


  • #4290
    Cunning Stunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭Cunning Stunt


    PaddyWilliams wrote: »
    Was thinking of a story my mother told me a while back.
    She heard my younger brother, who was 3 at the time, having a conversation out in the back yard with someone. She popped the head out the door to see who it was, but there was no one else in the yard. She asked my brother who he was speaking to and he replied that it was our brother, Thomas.
    Thomas had died 25 years earlier, at 5 months of age and there was no way my younger brother could have known about him at that age.
    I love stories like this one - gives me faith that there is something after we leave this world. I lost a baby at birth and have had 2 children since and if one of them ever told me that they saw her, I would be so, so happy.


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  • #4291
    topmanamillion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭topmanamillion


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Not creepy, but had a bit of a weird incident this morning. Getting ready to leave for work and couldn't find my house keys, searched and searched and pushed for time eventually said i'll just have to leave the door open. Went out, got in the car and there in the centre console are my house keys - but I would have needed to use them to get in the previous evening and I didn't go back out!
    I'm baffled:confused:

    Based on the previous few pages, the only logical explanation is a dead loved one has returned from beyond the grave to do light house work.

    Seriously though, is it possible someone fished the keys out your front door or got them out of the house, got into your car but realised they were your house keys and gave up. Or a similar scenario.


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