Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

retro:electro · 21-02-2019 11:40AM

The talk of premonitions is interesting. People used to say my granny had a knack for it, it was even mentioned in the eulogy at her funeral. It kind of happened to me once. Around ten years ago me and Mam were in Dunnes and she spotted a rug that she liked. For some strange reason that I can never understand, and it has never happened since, I just got this wave of dread and told her i didn’t like the rug and she shouldn’t buy it. I just had this feeling deep down inside that it was wrong and when she pushed me on it I said I felt our dog was going to die on it. She kind of laughed and told me to shut up and bought it anyway. That night, the dog puked on it :pac: and about a year later when we came home from a funeral we found the poor thing lying dead on it.
It was such a strange feeling and when I tell people the story they laugh. I can’t explain the feeling that came over me when I first laid eyes on it, it was just an all encompassing feeling that this rug is going to make you really sad one day. I couldn’t explain it.. and still can’t explain it in a way that does justice to the accuracy of how I felt. very strange.

maccored · 21-02-2019 11:53AM

i was reading a book in the kitchen at home around 12.30/1am a few years ago. small cottage in the country nearest house is next door, but a few mins walk away.

Anyway, reading the book, wife and kids fast asleep and I hear this very loud smashing sound - almost like the kind of sound a chandelier would make if it fell off the ceiling (well I imagine it would be the same kind of sound as it sounded like a lot of glass hitting a floor.)

Searched the place inside out as I thought one of the kids may have hurt themselves or something but everyone was still asleep and there wasn't glass broken anywhere in the house.

tamara25 · 21-02-2019 03:23PM

I absolutely love reading all these stories, very interesting/unusual. I read a book a while back by Colm Keane called ‘forewarned extraordinary Irish stories of premonition & death’. Really enjoyed it.

OMM 0000 · 21-02-2019 03:43PM

Came out of the elevator and my apartment door was ajar. I walked in, said HELLO, looked around and didn't notice anything strange or missing. Sat on the couch for a second trying to figure out what's going on. Was it the landlord? Was I robbed? Walked towards my bedroom and saw a woman's face staring at me, expressionless, from under my bed.

jiltloop · 21-02-2019 04:03PM

OMM 0000 wrote: »

Came out of the elevator and my apartment door was ajar. I walked in, said HELLO, looked around and didn't notice anything strange or missing. Sat on the couch for a second trying to figure out what's going on. Was it the landlord? Was I robbed? Walked towards my bedroom and saw a woman's face staring at me, expressionless, from under my bed.

And you're just leaving that there???

iamwhoiam · 21-02-2019 04:11PM

I was parked in a shopping centre and got into my car . Before I had the key in the ignition my passenger door opened and a woman of about 25 sat in beside me . I said politely that it was the wrong car but realised quickly the girl had special needs and was by now frightened . Trying to calm her I asked her name etc . No one was looking for her or calling her
Long story short I could get no information not could I get her out of the car . It really rattled me and was in the days before mobile phones . My only option was to tell her I was taking her home and drove to the nearest Garda Station .
Till this day I have no idea who she was or where she came from . She seemed to arrive from nowhere and I hadn't seen her as I approached my car

artvanderlay · 21-02-2019 04:13PM

OMM 0000 wrote: »

Came out of the elevator and my apartment door was ajar. I walked in, said HELLO, looked around and didn't notice anything strange or missing. Sat on the couch for a second trying to figure out what's going on. Was it the landlord? Was I robbed? Walked towards my bedroom and saw a woman's face staring at me, expressionless, from under my bed.

Was it a woman's mag left under your bed, and you were looking at the cover?

Deebles McBeebles · 21-02-2019 04:14PM

artvanderlay wrote: »

Was it a woman's mag left under your bed, and you were looking at the cover?

That or he forgot about the hooker he murdered the previous night.

Ninthlife · 21-02-2019 04:18PM

OMM 0000 wrote: »

Came out of the elevator and my apartment door was ajar. I walked in, said HELLO, looked around and didn't notice anything strange or missing. Sat on the couch for a second trying to figure out what's going on. Was it the landlord? Was I robbed? Walked towards my bedroom and saw a woman's face staring at me, expressionless, from under my bed.

Was the OP attacked by the under the bed woman before he could finish his post

cnoc · 21-02-2019 04:50PM

About 2 years ago I was tidying my room and came across a Catholic Bible, coffee table size, which I got from my aunt. My aunt had been given it by a priest who was leaving the church. I left it in the garage overnight, with the intention of putting it in the recycle bin. Later that night I was fast asleep in bed and suddenly I was floating above the bed. I remember putting my arm down in the bed and lowering myself back in to bed. Next morning I brought the Bible back in to the house, where it has since remained.

branie2 · 21-02-2019 05:24PM

artvanderlay wrote: »

Was it a woman's mag left under your bed, and you were looking at the cover?

Or an old Family Album catalogue?

Day Lewin · 21-02-2019 05:41PM

tamara25 wrote: »

I absolutely love reading all these stories, very interesting/unusual. I read a book a while back by Colm Keane called ‘forewarned extraordinary Irish stories of premonition & death’. Really enjoyed it.

Yes!
It's nowhere near Hallowe'en, but suddenly there is this great wave of creepy and spooky stories, on a thread that was very quiet for ages. I'm loving them all.

Poor Uncle Tom · 21-02-2019 06:50PM

cnoc wrote: »

a Catholic Bible, coffee table size,

Wow! that's a big bible.....

punisher5112 · 21-02-2019 06:58PM

Alexa started laughing at me the other night.....

Wanna know the weirdest part she wasn't even plugged in.....

oceanman · 21-02-2019 07:11PM

cnoc wrote: »

About 2 years ago I was tidying my room and came across a Catholic Bible, coffee table size, which I got from my aunt. My aunt had been given it by a priest who was leaving the church. I left it in the garage overnight, with the intention of putting it in the recycle bin. Later that night I was fast asleep in bed and suddenly I was floating above the bed. I remember putting my arm down in the bed and lowering myself back in to bed. Next morning I brought the Bible back in to the house, where it has since remained.

you were probably just having an out of body experience in your sleep, maybe noting at all to do the bible but best to err on the side of caution.

cnoc · 21-02-2019 07:22PM

oceanman wrote: »

you were probably just having an out of body experience in your sleep, maybe nothing at all to do the bible but best to err on the side of caution.

Nothing ever like that happened to me in the past. Is it unusual to have an out of body experience when one has their full health?

oceanman · 21-02-2019 07:51PM

cnoc wrote: »

Nothing ever like that happened to me in the past. Is it unusual to have an out of body experience when one has their full health?

I think a lot of people have them at random regardless of the state of there health.

katiek102010 · 21-02-2019 08:28PM

Roisy7 wrote: »

Have heard of this happening in my own locality. (Co limerick). A man was walking in his own field and got lost for hours. it was very recent as well...

You would have to wonder how a person could get that disoriented in a familiar place...

Happens a lot from where I am too, also Co. Limerick

M.T. Cranium · 21-02-2019 09:33PM

Yes, I emigrated to Canada.

jimbobaloobob · 22-02-2019 01:13AM

emilymemily wrote: »

So im down stairs, my bedroom is right above the sitting room, everyone else is in bed asleep and suddenly I hear my bedroom door open, like someone has pushed it very hard, I ignore it thinking its someone awake going into my room, I then hear the door violently shut, again I ignore it. A few minutes later I hear it open again, at this point im thinking who is in my room but I ignore it, door slams again, , It happens a third time so I go upstairs to check who keeps going into my room, my bedroom door is wide open and the light is on, I check to see if my parents are awake and ask them if they where in my room - no response, theyre both asleep so I check my brothers room - hes also alseep. I turn off the light and close the door, go back down stairs.
A couple of minutes later the door is banged open again, then slammed shut, it then happens again, and a third time. I thought its my brother being a d!ck so I ignore it but I am starting to feel that something isnt right, I would have heard someone walking around and my brothers room is the other end of the house, door opens again, I run upstairs, no sign of anyone but my bedroom light is on and my door is wide open again. I go back down stairs, this happens a third time, everyone in the house was asleep, it eventually stops. The next day I asked my family if they heard the banging the night before but none of them heard it, it was so loud, the ceiling was shaking but no one else heard it. I never figured out what it was but it still freaks me out when I think about it.

This has the hairs standing on my neck. I'm in my room now and can hear creaks and bangs. Home alone and just hoping it's the wind that's here tonight.

Purple Mountain · 22-02-2019 01:22AM

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

This has the hairs standing on my neck. I'm in my room now and can hear creaks and bangs. Home alone and just hoping it's the wind that's here tonight.

Wwooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

jimbobaloobob · 22-02-2019 01:30AM

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Wwooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

I will survive. Pretty sure the odd banging noise is the attic door. The draught runs down the hall or so I tell myself now.

emilymemily · 22-02-2019 01:39AM

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

This has the hairs standing on my neck. I'm in my room now and can hear creaks and bangs. Home alone and just hoping it's the wind that's here tonight.

It was really strange, for years we kept hearing strange noises in the house like footsteps down stairs at night, footsteps walking up the stairs, one time I was in the house alone and in my room, I heard something run past my door, it rubbed off my door as it went past and I heard it rub past the radiator that's on the landing, it really freaked me out as I knew the cat was outside and the cat was the only rational explanation I could come up with, I opened the door, there was nothing there, looked around the house to see if the cat got in - he didnt.

Years ago my mother heard something in a box of old toys, sounded like a bird was trapped, she could hear the flutter of wings, she opened the box and there was nothing in it but some toy blocks and plastic figurines.

Another time in the bathroom, shortly after we moved into the house, as it's an old house we only had a bath - no shower, so I was getting ready to have a bath when I heard a distant female voice distressingly shouting stop - It was distant but coming from the room if that makes sense, it was faint but clearly someone shouting and loud enough to hear it, like it was coming from a tunnel.
I always felt a presence in the house, especially in certain rooms, like feeling watched by someone. I never liked being home alone but a couple of years ago the noises stopped, no ones heard anything since.

bb12 · 22-02-2019 01:49AM

so my family home is a hundreds of years old rural house that lots of my ancestors have lived in. on the wall in the living room we have 2 pictures of my great aunts who lived there a hundred years ago. i was home one evening with my brother and a friend visiting from the uk. we were just chatting and the conversation turned to the pics of the aunts on the wall and as we were talking about them the whole house suddenly went dark...bit spooku but no biggie, just a fuse gone or something right? but when my brother checked the fuse box nothing was wrong. he pulled down the trip switch and put it up again and lights came back. when i went to bed later that night i realised that my alarm clock on my bedside table which has no backup batteries in it didn't need to be reset and was still showing the correct time after the outtage. this clock always had to be reset following the fainest flicker of the electricity.

jimbobaloobob · 22-02-2019 09:40AM

emilymemily wrote: »

It was really strange, for years we kept hearing strange noises in the house like footsteps down stairs at night, footsteps walking up the stairs, one time I was in the house alone and in my room, I heard something run past my door, it rubbed off my door as it went past and I heard it rub past the radiator that's on the landing, it really freaked me out as I knew the cat was outside and the cat was the only rational explanation I could come up with, I opened the door, there was nothing there, looked around the house to see if the cat got in - he didnt.

Years ago my mother heard something in a box of old toys, sounded like a bird was trapped, she could hear the flutter of wings, she opened the box and there was nothing in it but some toy blocks and plastic figurines.

Another time in the bathroom, shortly after we moved into the house, as it's an old house we only had a bath - no shower, so I was getting ready to have a bath when I heard a distant female voice distressingly shouting stop - It was distant but coming from the room if that makes sense, it was faint but clearly someone shouting and loud enough to hear it, like it was coming from a tunnel.
I always felt a presence in the house, especially in certain rooms, like feeling watched by someone. I never liked being home alone but a couple of years ago the noises stopped, no ones heard anything since.

I'm sure it would be beneficial if someone knew the local history and history of the house.

oceanman · 22-02-2019 10:21PM

katiek102010 wrote: »

Happens a lot from where I am too, also Co. Limerick

happened to an uncle of mine in co clare, around 81-82 on his own land, he is passed now but swore he could not get out for hours yet he knew the land like the back of his hand.

Airyfairy12 · 23-02-2019 01:09AM

A couple of years ago I was travelling from Cork to Dublin on one of those Euroline buses, at the very back of the bus there where 3 seat's and a toilet, I sat at the very back in one of these seats at the window. The bus was practically empty for the whole journey, there was only a handful of passengers, we made a stop down the country somewhere when this weirdo couple got on the bus.
They could have sat anywhere as there where loads of empty seats but they decided to sit right beside me in the two empty seats at the back of the bus. It was a tight fit as the toilet was directly across from us, the back seats where very small so the guy that sat beside me was squeezed up against me and his partner on the other side for the whole journey, I tried to get up to move to another seat at one stage but they wouldnt move to let me out.
Neither of them really spoke to one another, they didnt have a book or a phone or anything, they just stared straight ahead in near total silence for the entire time.
When the bus got to Dublin, the final stop, they just sat there, I tried getting passed them but they wouldnt move, I asked them would they mind letting me out, they moved their legs slightly to the side where I had to awkwardly squeeze past the both of them. They continued to sit there as everyone else got off the bus.

jimbobaloobob · 23-02-2019 01:45AM

Almost 20 years ago I worked as a tour guide. I had many experiences of people experiencing a presence on tours.
Part of the work involved visiting the old lighthouse in the centre of Inismór on the Aran Islands and Eochaill ringfort. In the centre of the ringfort is a circular mound of stones. It's not known if they had a purpose or were the collection of stones from the fort walls as they fell over the centuries. Children often left the centre of the fort crying and when asked why they would explain that they had been playing with other children there. I remember in particular two Belgian children explaining the huge crowd of children they played with and the way they were dressed (not from this era). They said the children were crying and didn't want to be left alone again. It would unnerve me as I often spent time there alone in the mist and fog.
One foggy misty evening when I was getting ready to leave I was walking back from the fort to the main road and the sound of horses galloping came roaring towards me and then stopped. I thought there must have been one or two at least by the sounds and that they knew my whereabouts and were just curious. The following day was crystal clear and when I was up there again I thought about the horses. I was up on top of the old lighthouse looking about and realised there were no horses to be seen in any of the fields I'd been walking through.
Often a tourist would ask who owned the horses that heard and saw around the ringfort. I had never seen one there to be able to give them an answer.
The old lighthouse has a circular staircase installed when it would be quiet I'd often go up and have my lunch or relax at the top. The door was big and heavy and held back with a cavity block. I often heard the door creak as if closing yet when I'd look it hadn't been moved.
I always felt coming down the stairs a sense or presence that I could be pushed or was being encouraged to leave. When I'd lock the door a sense of calm would descend like someone was glad I'd left and was frustrated with all the visitors. I never found out if anything had happened there.

sweetie · 23-02-2019 01:32PM

oceanman wrote: »

katiek102010 wrote: »

Happens a lot from where I am too, also Co. Limerick

happened to an uncle of mine in co clare, around 81-82 on his own land, he is passed now but swore he could not get out for hours yet he knew the land like the back of his hand.

https://youtu.be/Q5cz6MtwnCM

23-02-2019 05:39PM

emilymemily wrote: »

It was really strange, for years we kept hearing strange noises in the house like footsteps down stairs at night, footsteps walking up the stairs, one time I was in the house alone and in my room, I heard something run past my door, it rubbed off my door as it went past and I heard it rub past the radiator that's on the landing, it really freaked me out as I knew the cat was outside and the cat was the only rational explanation I could come up with, I opened the door, there was nothing there, looked around the house to see if the cat got in - he didnt.

Years ago my mother heard something in a box of old toys, sounded like a bird was trapped, she could hear the flutter of wings, she opened the box and there was nothing in it but some toy blocks and plastic figurines.

Another time in the bathroom, shortly after we moved into the house, as it's an old house we only had a bath - no shower, so I was getting ready to have a bath when I heard a distant female voice distressingly shouting stop - It was distant but coming from the room if that makes sense, it was faint but clearly someone shouting and loud enough to hear it, like it was coming from a tunnel.
I always felt a presence in the house, especially in certain rooms, like feeling watched by someone. I never liked being home alone but a couple of years ago the noises stopped, no ones heard anything since.

Being an old farmhouse it would very likely have plenty of bats, I’d say there’s a good roost in the attic. But would only account for some bits of noise and movements etc.

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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