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Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    This was just weird but when I was around 13, every Friday after school for a while, my friend and I would get the bus and go to her sisters. We always sat upstairs at the long back seat and left the space between us so that each of us sat beside a window. The time we got the bus meant that it wasn't that busy so rarely any passengers came upstairs.

    This day, a couple of stops later a man got on. He was very skinny, gaunt and he looked like he hadn't slept for years. His eyes were spaced but I didn't think he was on drugs or anything and he stared straight at you. It was like he didn't blink when he looked at you or something and he looked twitchy, agitated. Of all the empty seats upstairs, he chose to sit in the backseat right inbetween my friend and I. I just got a weird feeling and I looked over across him to my friend and she looked at me worried. He saw this. He turned his head and looked at my friend, then at me and then down at his crotch and he jumped up out of the seat and moved to a seat in front of us but kept turning around. My friend and I just sat and said nothing for the whole journey but we were ****ting ourselfs. I can't remember if our stop was before his or any of the rest of what happened that time.

    Anyway when I was around 16, I was getting the bus home after some shopping. Sat upstairs in the back seat. Saw a lad from school who was about 2 years younger than me. He sat near my seat but I didn't know him to talk to. That was grand until that bloke ended up getting on the bus again and I recognized him straight away. He sat about two seats in front of me but he kept turning around and blatantly staring at me. I just had a really bad feeling. I decided to make conversation with the lad from school and when the bloke wasn't looking, I gestured to the school lad like "watch your man, wtf?" We just kept talking about school and stayed calm.

    When the man went to get off at his stop, he had to face us when going down the stairs on the bus and he glared with this intense but emotionless expression right at me the whole time until his head disappeared from our view. He didn't even
    look down at the steps which you would naturally do going down a winding stairs on a moving bus. The lad and I gave a sigh of relief when he went and I said something like "you saw that too right?'

    When the bus stopped, the school fella and I looked out the window to make sure the guy got off the bus. As the bus was moving away, we saw him walking on the path and he stared up at us with that same look and never took his eyes away until the bus went on.

    I'm not sure if I'm explaining it as scary as it was but it was strange. I don't know if there was something wrong or what but he scared the life out of me and Id never forget his face!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    This was just weird but when I was around 13, every Friday after school for a while, my friend and I would get the bus and go to her sisters. We always sat upstairs at the long back seat and left the space between us so that each of us sat beside a window. The time we got the bus meant that it wasn't that busy so rarely any passengers came upstairs.

    This day, a couple of stops later a man got on. He was very skinny, gaunt and he looked like he hadn't slept for years. His eyes were spaced but I didn't think he was on drugs or anything and he stared straight at you. It was like he didn't blink when he looked at you or something and he looked twitchy, agitated. Of all the empty seats upstairs, he chose to sit in the backseat right inbetween my friend and I. I just got a weird feeling and I looked over across him to my friend and she looked at me worried. He saw this. He turned his head and looked at my friend, then at me and then down at his crotch and he jumped up out of the seat and moved to a seat in front of us but kept turning around. My friend and I just sat and said nothing for the whole journey but we were ****ting ourselfs. I can't remember if our stop was before his or any of the rest of what happened that time.

    Anyway when I was around 16, I was getting the bus home after some shopping. Sat upstairs in the back seat. Saw a lad from school who was about 2 years younger than me. He sat near my seat but I didn't know him to talk to. That was grand until that bloke ended up getting on the bus again and I recognized him straight away. He sat about two seats in front of me but he kept turning around and blatantly staring at me. I just had a really bad feeling. I decided to make conversation with the lad from school and when the bloke wasn't looking, I gestured to the school lad like "watch your man, wtf?" We just kept talking about school and stayed calm.

    When the man went to get off at his stop, he had to face us when going down the stairs on the bus and he glared with this intense but emotionless expression right at me the whole time until his head disappeared from our view. He didn't even
    look down at the steps which you would naturally do going down a winding stairs on a moving bus. The lad and I gave a sigh of relief when he went and I said something like "you saw that too right?'

    When the bus stopped, the school fella and I looked out the window to make sure the guy got off the bus. As the bus was moving away, we saw him walking on the path and he stared up at us with that same look and never took his eyes away until the bus went on.

    I'm not sure if I'm explaining it as scary as it was but it was strange. I don't know if there was something wrong or what but he scared the life out of me and Id never forget his face!

    If you ever get a chance check out on you tube the tales of the unexpected. Search for the fly trap. Yours sounds very much like that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    timthumbni wrote: »
    If you ever get a chance check out on you tube the tales of the unexpected. Search for the fly trap. Yours sounds very much like that.

    No I will not be looking up that!! :/:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Talk about a thread taking a nose dive

    I took my last few posts off as the "mockers" started in on them.. I have them stored but very reluctant to post here again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Graces7 wrote: »
    I took my last few posts off as the "mockers" started in on them.. I have them stored but very reluctant to post here again.

    Did you mean to post the cat one in a different thread?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    This was just weird but when I was around 13

    Guy sounds like a pedo junkie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Did you mean to post the cat one in a different thread?

    ah you saw it! No I copied it to email... do you think t fits here though? When we speak of the supernatural why do we confine it to the scary and dark? What I wrote in that post was supernatural but LIGHT..

    and I have others like that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    Isn't this thread more about creepy and unnerving than supernatural though?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    jiltloop wrote: »
    Isn't this thread more about creepy and unnerving than supernatural though?

    can you separate the 2 elements? creepy and unnerving is in the eye and mind of the beholder. creepy and unnerving IS supernatural. beyond the natural. what scares some is fine for others.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,205 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    jiltloop wrote: »
    Isn't this thread more about creepy and unnerving than supernatural though?

    I welcome the supernatural posts.


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,634 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    "Creepy and unnerving" is "dark", both supernatural and not. There's nothing "light" about "creepy and unnerving".


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 26,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    jiltloop wrote: »
    Isn't this thread more about creepy and unnerving than supernatural though?

    I think it can cover both. What some one considers supernatural would be creepy and what someone considers to be creepy someone could interpret it as supernatural.

    The lifeboat has set sail



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Loughc wrote: »
    I think it can cover both. What some one considers supernatural would be creepy and what someone considers to be creepy someone could interpret it as supernatural.

    well expressed. and we are each different. Like where we live.. many would be freaked out living on a tiny island, whereas it is the dimension I am happy and at ease in.

    Many of the posts I have put on have depended on the reader for their effect . some see them as dark others love them.

    they are all supernatural in the sense that they are beyond the norm we see as natural.

    small example. a true one.

    I hired a water diviner years ago ( he taught me how to do it and with a wire coat hanger)

    He told me he used to be a terrible drinker; his father worrried himself sick about that
    One night he was driving and suddenly in the road in front of him saw his own tombstone.
    Never drank again.

    is that creepy, dark? Certainly supernatural

    there will be as many answers to that as there are folk reading this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    Fair enough, personally I think the thread has somewhat lost it's appeal with the move away from creepy and unnerving but obviously that's the way it is developing organically and so is the will of other people who have been enjoying the thread.

    I'm happy for the thread to go whatever direction the general consensus dictates, just wanted to contribute my opinion for what it's worth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    jiltloop wrote: »
    Fair enough, personally I think the thread has somewhat lost it's appeal with the move away from creepy and unnerving but obviously that's the way it is developing organically and so is the will of other people who have been enjoying the thread.

    I'm happy for the thread to go whatever direction the general consensus dictates, just wanted to contribute my opinion for what it's worth.

    ah you want to be SCARED :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    Graces7 wrote: »
    can you separate the 2 elements? creepy and unnerving is in the eye and mind of the beholder. creepy and unnerving IS supernatural. beyond the natural. what scares some is fine for others.

    I was more referring to your "supernatural but LIGHT" comment. I think the presence of the word light in the context of supernatural means that this does not fit in with the original "creepy and unnerving" which was the initial point of the thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    Graces7 wrote: »
    ah you want to be SCARED :rolleyes:

    Or unnerved, intrigued etc but yes that was the original draw for me. However as I said, I'm only one person.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,893 ✭✭✭Cheerful Spring


    This is creepy I **** myself if something like this was real, imagine driving down a dark country road and you see this thing on the road. The sound is muffled because I think he's wearing a bike helmet?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    jiltloop wrote: »
    I was more referring to your "supernatural but LIGHT" comment. I think the presence of the word light in the context of supernatural means that this does not fit in with the original "creepy and unnerving" which was the initial point of the thread.

    ah I meant spiritual LIGHT no tlight as in trivial. sorry.

    there is huge depth in the supernatural

    creepy is in the beholder.. nothing I have posted actually fits then. I am never creeped out or unnerved. OK I withdraw then? I do not belive in creepy or unnerving as such as they are of darkness but in the supernatural, that third dimension.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭oceanman


    This is creepy I **** myself if something like this was real, imagine driving down a dark country road and you see this thing on the road. The sound is muffled because I think he's wearing a bike helmet?

    looks just like some mad deranged guy on a walking stick to me....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Arbie


    Supernatural stories are interesting/scary to some but to me they are like reading fairy tales and fantasies.

    I get a shiver down my spine when I hear the stories that have happened someone or could actually happen. I find that much more intriguing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    re: the video at the top of the page..

    looks like yer one from the horror movie the ring


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Graces7 wrote: »
    ah you want to be SCARED :rolleyes:

    See you were going alright until you had to throw in the condescending :rolleyes: thing.

    There's plenty of room for a different thread on what you're talking about anyway if you so wished to start one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭Testament1


    Graces7 wrote: »
    I do not belive in creepy or unnerving as such as they are of darkness but in the supernatural, that third dimension.

    Ehhmm, we exist in the third dimension......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    Funny creepy kid moment.

    3yr old "perched" on the back of the couch yesterday.

    "mammy look, im a bird. I'm blackbird singing to the dead"

    "Oh cute. You mean blackbird singing in the dead of night?" (A song he's very familiar with.)

    "No. Just singing to the dead"

    "....o....kay......"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^^^

    "and they're right beside me mammy" :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,913 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    I was on the Luas a few years back and this grotesque woman got on with her equally haggard friend. The 2 of them were speaking to each other in what sounded like a long lost dialect of Irish. The smell coming from the first woman was enough to wake the dead. I had to get off the Luas early as the stench was overwhelming.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 229 ✭✭LouD2016


    I have FINALLY made it to the end of this thread :D

    I grew up in an old house (maybe 200 years old) for as long as I remember I always had that feeling at night that there was someone watching me, to the extent that I would be in bed with the covers over my head terrified to move. When I was little I had the downstairs bedroom, I must have been about 5 or 6 , I woke one night and seen a person standing in the doorway with a rain jacket on with the hood up. I didn't feel scared at the time, just looked at it and went back to sleep.

    When I was a teenager I moved to the upstairs bedroom. This is where I really used to get that horrible feeling of a presence always being there. One night I woke up and seen a little girl standing at the end of my bed. I sh*t myself and turned on the lamp - obviously no one was there.

    Another time I was lying on the couch watching TV with my mam (during the day) and I glanced over to the window and seen a boy peering in the window. Shouted to my mam and she went out to see who it was. No one was there and there was no where on the road that someone could have hidden.

    Parents went away one weekend and I got my now husband to come and stay with me. (I've never stayed a night on my own in that house!) I had told him all my stories but he didn't believe in any of it. Anyway went to bed. He woke me in middle of night saying there was someone in the doorway. My first thought was someone had broken in. He just kept saying theres a man standing there looking at us.
    The lightswitch was across the room so I jumped up and turned on the light no one there. Now he isn't easily spooked but he was so scared that he made us get in his car and drive back to his house in the middle of the night. No way would he stay there.

    I moved out when I was twenty and have lived in 3 different houses since. Not once have I gotten that feeling of being watched since. My husband's grandparents are from the area and were talking about where I grew up etc and I told them the house I lived in and they said that they had heard stories years ago about it being haunted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,671 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    LouD2016 wrote: »
    I have FINALLY made it to the end of this thread :D

    I grew up in an old house (maybe 200 years old) for as long as I remember I always had that feeling at night that there was someone watching me, to the extent that I would be in bed with the covers over my head terrified to move. When I was little I had the downstairs bedroom, I must have been about 5 or 6 , I woke one night and seen a person standing in the doorway with a rain jacket on with the hood up. I didn't feel scared at the time, just looked at it and went back to sleep.

    When I was a teenager I moved to the upstairs bedroom. This is where I really used to get that horrible feeling of a presence always being there. One night I woke up and seen a little girl standing at the end of my bed. I sh*t myself and turned on the lamp - obviously no one was there.

    Another time I was lying on the couch watching TV with my mam (during the day) and I glanced over to the window and seen a boy peering in the window. Shouted to my mam and she went out to see who it was. No one was there and there was no where on the road that someone could have hidden.

    Parents went away one weekend and I got my now husband to come and stay with me. (I've never stayed a night on my own in that house!) I had told him all my stories but he didn't believe in any of it. Anyway went to bed. He woke me in middle of night saying there was someone in the doorway. My first thought was someone had broken in. He just kept saying theres a man standing there looking at us.
    The lightswitch was across the room so I jumped up and turned on the light no one there. Now he isn't easily spooked but he was so scared that he made us get in his car and drive back to his house in the middle of the night. No way would he stay there.

    I moved out when I was twenty and have lived in 3 different houses since. Not once have I gotten that feeling of being watched since. My husband's grandparents are from the area and were talking about where I grew up etc and I told them the house I lived in and they said that they had heard stories years ago about it being haunted.
    scare-gif-10.gif


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,205 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Was having a nap and just as I woke I heard a female voice whisper my name clear as day.


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