Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

The Highwayman · 14-07-2017 08:38PM

I hope I don't get in trouble for this. Reddit had a thread like this a few days ago. It took me 2 nights to read most of it. Some of the stories had every one of my hairs standing on end.

www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6mma2o?sort=new

I'm never going camping in the US

Simon_Luttrell · 30-07-2017 06:48PM

A few years ago I was renting a small cottage. One night I was asleep and woke up for no reason at all and saw my friend Mark, standing at the end of my bed. I must have looked around dazed but when I turned back, Mark was gone. I lay awake for a while with the light on but eventually put it down to my eyes playing tricks on me and went back to sleep. The following day I found out that Mark had taken his own life the night before. I was completely shocked as he had everything going for him.
A few months later, one night whilst getting ready to go to bed, I felt someone push me but I did not move. All I felt was an icy feeling against my arm and out of the corner of my eye I saw a dark shadow. I would have dismissed this had it not been for my dog who sprung up and stared just over my shoulder, and began snarling. He did not move though, just snarled louder and harder showing all his teeth. Never had I seen him like this. He was frightened and his gaze never moved. Suffice to say, I moved out soon after that.

tracey turnblad · 30-07-2017 08:59PM

I normally get up for work at 6.30. I'm on flexi time so it's no biggie if I'm late... but my husband isn't he's due in at 8 and his boss is an asshole . I usually get up then wake my husband up, alarm is in my side of the bed. On Thursday I was awoken by my phone ringing... I didn't recognise the number so I didn't answer. I looked at my phone and it was 7.30 I must have slept through my alarm... although I have an iPhone and it goes off until I knock it off( unless I dismissed it in my sleep) I woke my dh up and he ran to get dressed and out the door... he arrived on time. I googled the number and it's a random hotel I've never stayed in. Later I though about it and only for the hotel ringing me by accident my husband would have been late and his pig of a boss would have been making his life a misery...

noodler · 30-07-2017 09:20PM

Simon_Luttrell wrote: »

A few years ago I was renting a small cottage. One night I was asleep and woke up for no reason at all and saw my friend Mark, standing at the end of my bed. I must have looked around dazed but when I turned back, Mark was gone. I lay awake for a while with the light on but eventually put it down to my eyes playing tricks on me and went back to sleep. The following day I found out that Mark had taken his own life the night before. I was completely shocked as he had everything going for him.
A few months later, one night whilst getting ready to go to bed, I felt someone push me but I did not move. All I felt was an icy feeling against my arm and out of the corner of my eye I saw a dark shadow. I would have dismissed this had it not been for my dog who sprung up and stared just over my shoulder, and began snarling. He did not move though, just snarled louder and harder showing all his teeth. Never had I seen him like this. He was frightened and his gaze never moved. Suffice to say, I moved out soon after that.

Horrible question, but you feel the two incidents are related?

branie2 · 30-07-2017 10:19PM

Have you ever heard the Banshee cry? Never happened to me, though

Noo · 31-07-2017 02:01AM

branie2 wrote: »

Have you ever heard the Banshee cry? Never happened to me, though

I think this thread has very much concluded that the aul banshee cry is nothing more than a fox or maybe cat.

Mountainsandh · 31-07-2017 02:59AM

This is going to sound crazy but I was once woken up in the middle of the night by my phone playing the Rocky (I think?) Tune. The one that starts with chords on wind instruments, like trumpets. I don't have that tune in my phone, know no one who'd use that tune (husband...), and I rarely use the internet on my phone so it's usually disconnected from network. I checked if games installed for kids might play that, nothing.
I googled in case it might be a virus, no luck.
Let me know if anyone has a possible explanation

Iseedeadpixels · 31-07-2017 08:22AM

Noo wrote: »

I think this thread has very much concluded that the aul banshee cry is nothing more than a fox or maybe cat.

I have 5 Banshee's can confirm this is true.

cazzer22 · 31-07-2017 07:37PM

Hi all,
Really enjoying the stories lately. I have one of my own. So I live in a house share with another couple and my boyfriend. It's a three bed so, our room and theirs is beside each other and then a small single room on the right of our bedroom. The house has never been majorly creepy, but there have been a few things that don't appear to have a rational explanation.

I bought my boyfriend a picture frame a few years back with lots of nice photos and in a previous apartment we lived in, we kept in on the door of our room. It never fell off, was fairly sturdy. In this house, we did the same. We put it on the door, always seemed relatively fine. Twice, in the middle of the night, it has fallen off the door and made a horribly loud sound. We have since moved it from the door and have placed it on top of a chest of drawers. It has fallen over repeatedly, despite nothing touching off it or a breeze or anything. So strange.

My housemate also said when she was working from home one day, she heard and saw some odd things. We have a small table beside the front door where we keep car keys, letters etc. There has been a helmet on the table for probably a year now and it's at the back of the table (against the wall) and for some unknown reason, it flew off the table onto the ground. There was a kit for recharging batteries also on the table, beside the helmet, which fell off too. Neither were near the edge and nothing knocked off them.

There was also a strange knocking on the wall in the kitchen (it is a semi- d, but the wall in question leads onto nothing). This happened a few times when we were having dinner and we really couldn't explain the sounds. So yeah, that's it for now, stay tuned! :-/

skylight1987 · 31-07-2017 07:59PM

I was just this very minute reheating my dinner that I cooked yesterday put it on full for five min and when I went to take it out a huge earwig was walking around the inside of the microwave .how he got in there I have no idea. how he survived five minutes of intense heat I don't know .I got him out with a tissue but worried his insides were cooking and he might be suffering I killed him ..... the poor little thing

Stigura · 31-07-2017 08:43PM

Bon appetit!

Dtp1979 · 31-07-2017 08:55PM

skylight1987 wrote: »

I was just this very minute reheating my dinner that I cooked yesterday put it on full for five min and when I went to take it out a huge earwig was walking around the inside of the microwave .how he got in there I have no idea. how he survived five minutes of intense heat I don't know .I got him out with a tissue but worried his insides were cooking and he might be suffering I killed him ..... the poor little thing

I'm more shocked that it takes 5 minutes in a microwave to reheat a dinner.

ardinn · 31-07-2017 09:02PM

Dtp1979 wrote: »

I'm more shocked that it takes 5 minutes in a microwave to reheat a dinner.

im guessing they havnt read the manual, 3mins max and most meals turn to lava!

Chancer3001 · 31-07-2017 11:03PM

ants can survive easily in microwaves. theycan find the cool spots even when its on full power.

maybe its the same for theearwig

garyskeepers · 31-07-2017 11:40PM

Dtp1979 wrote: »

I'm more shocked that it takes 5 minutes in a microwave to reheat a dinner.

and he has a microwave,, THATS scary

Widdershins · 01-08-2017 04:42AM

branie2 wrote: »

Have you ever heard the Banshee cry? Never happened to me, though

You're not meant to tell anyone if you did, I think. I know someone who said her family used to hear it and she'd know the difference between a fox barking or a cat making noise. Most country people would recognise either noise. I'd say it's one of those things you'd have to experience to understand.

On a similar note lots of people have heard a mysterious humming noise in different parts of England. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/whats-that-terrible-noise-all-over-the-country-people-are-plagued-by-a-strange-hum-are-their-ears-1424317.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/have-you-heard-the-hum-mystery-of-earths-low-droning-noise-could-now-be-solved-10182111.html

razorblunt · 01-08-2017 08:35AM

Widdershins wrote: »

You're not meant to tell anyone if you did, I think. I know someone who said her family used to hear it and she'd know the difference between a fox barking or a cat making noise. Most country people would recognise either noise. I'd say it's one of those things you'd have to experience to understand.

On a similar note lots of people have heard a mysterious humming noise in different parts of England. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/whats-that-terrible-noise-all-over-the-country-people-are-plagued-by-a-strange-hum-are-their-ears-1424317.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/have-you-heard-the-hum-mystery-of-earths-low-droning-noise-could-now-be-solved-10182111.html

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skylight1987 · 01-08-2017 09:58AM

Dtp1979 wrote: »

I'm more shocked that it takes 5 minutes in a microwave to reheat a dinner.

my microwave is over 15years old so yes it takes 5 minutes to reheat anything from the fridge .my toaster is 19 years old and my hairdryer 22 years old I wont get rid of an appliance unless its broken hence all the old appliances .:)

Shpudnik · 01-08-2017 03:40PM

skylight1987 wrote: »

my microwave is over 15years old so yes it takes 5 minutes to reheat anything from the fridge .my toaster is 19 years old and my hairdryer 22 years old I wont get rid of an appliance unless its broken hence all the old appliances .:)

That sounds like a fire hazard.

New Home · 01-08-2017 05:59PM

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, Shpud. At least back then planned obsolescence wasn't as big a problem as it is now. Unless you were talking about their dinner, in which case it'll depend on what it was.

Los Lobos · 01-08-2017 08:02PM

My wife told me this story years ago, she was working in a creche, these places have cameras in every room recording all the time.
One of the girls working in a room with three or four year olds called reception to let them know that the camera was facing the wall, not the room.
They tracked back the camera to the point where it was still focused on the room, and played it from there.
My wife said that when they speeded up the footage it took about an hour for the camera to end up in the corner.
They ended up getting a priest to come in and bless the place

Kamili · 01-08-2017 09:10PM

Los Lobos wrote: »

My wife told me this story years ago, she was working in a creche, these places have cameras in every room recording all the time.
One of the girls working in a room with three or four year olds called reception to let them know that the camera was facing the wall, not the room.
They tracked back the camera to the point where it was still focused on the room, and played it from there.
My wife said that when they speeded up the footage it took about an hour for the camera to end up in the corner.
They ended up getting a priest to come in and bless the place

Am I the only one wondering what they aactually saw?

Shpudnik · 01-08-2017 09:14PM

Kamili wrote: »

Am I the only one wondering what they aactually saw?

I took it that the camera was moved slowly by something they couldn't see i.e. a ghost.

greenflash · 01-08-2017 09:21PM

Los Lobos wrote: »

They ended up getting a priest to come in and bless the place

That's the most unnerving part of the story.

Quazzie · 01-08-2017 09:27PM

I took it that it was the priest who turned the camera in a quest to get some alone time with the kids :eek:

Los Lobos · 01-08-2017 09:47PM

Sorry ,I'm not great at the auld writing /explaining

The camera slowly moved over the course of the hour, until it was facing the wall.

Kamili · 01-08-2017 09:51PM

Could have been a loose connection on the mount in that case and it just slowly slid to the side or something. I don't get the need for a priest..

Dampsquid · 01-08-2017 09:59PM

I went to a grave yeard recently to visit a grave of a young friend who died a few years ago, but lived far away, and i had lost contact with many years ago.

I got to the grave yard, and it was huge, i really thought i would not find the grave.

Soon after arriving, i was walking through a part of the grave yard which was relatively modern, this person dies several years ago. i turned to walk down a line of headstones, then i turned back, i'll walk down the next path.

I then felt a force - seriously, pushed me to walk down the path i tried to exit. i turned back thinking, was it a sign - knowing i would probably be walking around the graveyard for another hour at least. just then i seen the grave i had come to visit, a very unusual feeling came over me.

Not religious at all, a non believer. but it certainly had an affect on me.

BUBBLES1978 · 02-08-2017 11:23AM

long time stalker of this thread, not unnerving but to some it might have been. my cousin passed away tragically a few years ago through suicide. I would often go visit his grave when i'm feeling a bit low for an aul chat. About a year after he died i went up to talk to him and was quite upset. I guess i was feeling angry and was asking him why did he have to go etc. It wasn't the nicest of days but i sat on the edge of the grave and just chatted away to him. A butterfly came out of the sky and sat at the ledge too. my granny had always told me butterfly's were a symbol of someone being around you, another one came down and perched the other side then two more, at this stage the strangest feeling came over me like a sense of calm and the anger i had been feeling was gone. two more flew down and perched the side of the grave....6 little butterfly's just hovering around me..i left there feeling so emotional yet in a calm space like i could let go of the anger i had inside me

check_six · 02-08-2017 11:52AM

Kamili wrote: »

Could have been a loose connection on the mount in that case and it just slowly slid to the side or something. I don't get the need for a priest..

Maybe the priest was doing some electrician gigs as a nixer? The donation baskets don't bring in what they used to you know!

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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