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Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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  • #5582
    [Deleted User]
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    Years ago when Gaybo was hosting the Late Late Show and myself and my mother went around for the evening to her cousin’s huge old Victorian house on the road behind us, Uri Geller was one of the guests on and he began with his usual fork-bending tricks, of which I was skeptical although I think Gaybo vouched that they were regular forks from the RTE canteen. He suggested that anyone watching, who had an old broken wind-up clock that hadn’t worked in years, to wind the clock up now, but that it wouldn’t start to tick until he worked his spell later on the show. My mother’s cousin had an old broken clock, same vintage as the house and the rest of the furniture in it. She asked me to take it down from mantelpiece and wind it up for the fun. Of course it didn’t start working, at least then. Uri came back on (can’t recall if there was another guest between) and said “right, everybody at home look at your broken clock, I will count down 60 seconds (or whatever it was) and your clock will start ticking. Well we nearly jumped out of our skin when that old clock began ticking at that precise moment! Alas it stopped ticking after about a minute or two, but that was one moment that sort-of proved to me that Uri Geller was no fake.


  • #5583
    DeepBlue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DeepBlue


    sweetie wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/Q5cz6MtwnCM
    Have to admit I was expecting poor Ned to get stabbed there. :pac:


  • #5584
    emilymemily
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭emilymemily


    Deleted User wrote: »
    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.

    Theres definitely no bats in the house, The roof is relatively new, it had to be fixed up when we moved in for insulation, the only entrance to the attic is from one of the bedrooms, theres a scuttle hole. There are no other holes in the ceiling for anything to get in or out in any part of the house, also the water tank is in the attic and it regularly breaks down and leaks so there's always someone going up to fix it.
    I dont really believe in ghosts and im sure theres a rational explanation for the noises, I just havnt figured out one that's plausible.


  • #5585
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭ofcork


    oceanman wrote: »
    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.

    Happened to my father years ago working in a field for a farmer had been there loads of times got dark as he was working and could not find his way out for hours.


  • #5586
    Stovepipe
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    I was at the wake of a friend of my wife's and the house was full and as we waited to take our chance to go over to the coffin, someone touched my lower back (poked it with a finger). Now the room was crowded so I assumed it was just an accidental bump. A moment or two later, same again, quite deliberate, so I look around and see that the nearest individual that could have touched me is a man in a suit, who is looking away.Everyone else has tea in their hands so it had to be him. I change places so that I am in the queue for tea, well out of his reach. I get a cup of tea and move a few steps away and within seconds, I get touched again. Suit man has stepped close enough to touch me and when I turn and look at him, he simply changes direction and takes up a cup from further along. I move around and place myself as near to the coffin as I can get.About a minute later, touched again. In the second it takes me to turn, suit man has stepped out a side door and is last seen walking briskly away. Needless to say, it unnerves me but I dont see the guy again for the rest of the time we spent there. I didn't tell me wife about it then or since.


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  • #5587
    fryup
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    ^^^^^^^^^^^^

    its a good thing you didn't bend over


  • #5588
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    Back in late noughties my mother and I attended her elder sister’s funeral. A lady in her late 80s, she and my mother used to be in touch by phone every couple of weeks and she lived in the home of a daughter in reasonably good health. A few weeks passed and my mother, always a bit reticent about disturbing family in her neice’s rather large house that spread over three floors, said she’d leave calling for a bit as it always involved a young more remote member of family shouting up or down the stairs etc in days before widespread mobile phones.

    Anyway the lady in question died quite suddenly at home, of a stroke. My mother felt she should maybe have made ammore of an effort to contact the elder sister again, but didn’t dwell on this too much and attended the funeral in good spirits nonetheless, with my aunt’s family focussing on the positivity of her life well lived. My mother, being a bit disabled and not young herself, was allowed front seat in funeral car, and in to view her sister laid out in funeral home. My aunt looked lovely and always with a good peachy complexion in life, had an unusually lifelike appearance in death (as my mother subsequently had some years later!).

    My mother (whom I had to support by hand as her balance was very poor) pulled me close up to the open coffin and said >Her name< how are you? I meant to phone you, but didn’t manage to do that so that’s why I’m asking. I nearly dropped dead myself at what happened next. My aunt’s lips started to move, her eyes opened slightly but very distinctly and her blue eyes gazed gently in our direction. My mother exclaimed “ Yes you hear me! You are responding! I love you, my sweet sister”

    And then she moved back contentedly to let other family members hopefully enjoy similar goodbye. Her younger sister was rather hurt she didn’t get same experience, and said “that’s always been my story, ignored as the youngest”.

    My deceased aunt’s children declared immediate skepticism and denial that anything could have happened, as their family motto, including my late aunt’s was always logic and rationality first and always. About two years ago one of her daughters very reluctantly admitted she saw the same thing but insists it was down to my mother pressing down on her body and making her move. My poor mother was rather too fragile to be pressing down on her sister’s body, and indeed i was rather firmly holding her upright at rather a little remove from the coffin.

    It really freaked me out, but comforted my mother enormously, who was further reassured of a positive afterlife. I said to Mum that if you freak me out like that when you’re dead I’ll kill you and she assured me of no such shenanigans. Indeed when she was laid out she looked extremely glamorous and well at 89, and with s very young grand-nephew having a knock on her iced body and asking “Is Aunt >her name< just out of the freezer?”


  • #5589
    fryup
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    ^^^^^^^^^

    paragraphs please


  • #5590
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Driving home tonight I was driving into the setting sun. As darkness fell I had full beams on when necessary. I came over the brow of a hill where you can see ahead for a fair stretch. I could see a person on the side of the road walking as I got closer I could see they were walking in the direction I was driving but with their thumb out hitching a lift. I slowed to size them up see what they were carrying etc. Appeared to be a young man by the pace of walk and tall enough. Long coat and hood up.
    I didn't stop as it just didn't feel right so carried on.
    Not long after passing them a car passed me going the opposite direction. As the car passed it put on its full beams again, I looked in my rear view mirror but there was no sight of the hitchhiker. I couldn't have been more than 10 seconds since I passed them. This stretch of road has no houses or turn offs.
    Not sure am I creeped or puzzled.


  • #5591
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Driving home tonight I was driving into the setting sun. As darkness fell I had full beams on when necessary. I came over the brow of a hill where you can see ahead for a fair stretch. I could see a person on the side of the road walking as I got closer I could see they were walking in the direction I was driving but with their thumb out hitching a lift. I slowed to size them up see what they were carrying etc. Appeared to be a young man by the pace of walk and tall enough. Long coat and hood up.
    I didn't stop as it just didn't feel right so carried on.
    Not long after passing them a car passed me going the opposite direction. As the car passed it put on its full beams again, I looked in my rear view mirror but there was no sight of the hitchhiker. I couldn't have been more than 10 seconds since I passed them. This stretch of road has no houses or turn offs.
    Not sure am I creeped or puzzled.

    They were lying on the roof of your car clinging on with their fingertips. You slowed down for too long. :eek:


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  • #5592
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Tell me how wrote: »
    They were lying on the roof of your car clinging on with their fingertips. You slowed down for too long. :eek:

    Stop that's the last thing I want to be thinking about. I did check all around my car last night and this morning before driving. Even checked the backseat.


  • #5593
    check_six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭check_six


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Stop that's the last thing I want to be thinking about. I did check all around my car last night and this morning before driving. Even checked the backseat.

    Oh my god! Not in your car? That means they're already in your wardrobe/under your bed waiting to grab your ankle!


  • #5594
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    check_six wrote: »
    Oh my god! Not in your car? That means they're already in your wardrobe/under your bed waiting to grab your ankle!

    Give over. I'd nearly call ye all something and take a ban for it.


  • #5595
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    I looked in my rear view mirror but there was no sight of the hitchhiker. .

    Was this them ;)

    M3Ut8sG.gif

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #5596
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    Another thing that came to mind. About three years after my father’s death from a very long illness where he spent much of his time in the sunny rear bedroom of our old semi-d, my mother and I sold up to move into a modern apartment as befitted her reduced mobility. In the meantime I had moved into that lovely rear bedroom which overlooked the garden with mature trees at the end an a great big old Victorian house behind. On the last night, a quiet one weather-wise, I heard a clink in the fireplace at 1am exactly as I had been excited and awake looking at the clock, with the prospect of the house move ahead. Curious, I got up, and looked in the hearth to see a shiny gold medal. It was a Child of Prague medal. I showed it to my mother who wondered whether a prospective buyer had placed it up there, likely, or had a crow dropped it down the chimney, but we had a crow protector on chimney pots so highly unlikely. I dashed down to switch on the computer, and though it was very early google days I came up with some connection with the medal being associated with moving house.


  • #5597
    yourdeadwright
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Another thing that came to mind. About three years after my father’s death from a very long illness where he spent much of his time in the sunny rear bedroom of our old semi-d, my mother and I sold up to move into a modern apartment as befitted her reduced mobility. In the meantime I had moved into that lovely rear bedroom which overlooked the garden with mature trees at the end an a great big old Victorian house behind. On the last night, a quiet one weather-wise, I heard a clink in the fireplace at 1am exactly as I had been excited and awake looking at the clock, with the prospect of the house move ahead. Curious, I got up, and looked in the hearth to see a shiny gold medal. It was a Child of Prague medal. I showed it to my mother who wondered whether a prospective buyer had placed it up there, likely, or had a crow dropped it down the chimney, but we had a crow protector on chimney pots so highly unlikely. I dashed down to switch on the computer, and though it was very early google days I came up with some connection with the medal being associated with moving house.

    I have a question about stories like this,

    Do you think the medal appeared out of now where at some point , like just materialised where you found it ,

    Or did the ghost have to take it there from some where so you could see it floating up the street or from wherever the ghost came from ? that's assuming the a ghost put it there ,

    Again im not joking just wondering how people think things get there,


  • #5598
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    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    I have a question about stories like this,

    Do you think the medal appeared out of now where at some point , like just materialised where you found it ,

    Or did the ghost have to take it there from some where so you could see it floating up the street or from wherever the ghost came from ? that's assuming the a ghost put it there ,

    Again im not joking just wondering how people think things get there,

    As my mother said “it was probably the buyer who put it up there in the hope of making the successful bid for the house, but wasn’t it fortuitous that it dropped down just now and when you were awake to hear it!” The successful bidder was a traditional churchgoing Catholic family, one of the two other auction bidders was Protestant. I checked and could feel a ledge where it would have been placed. My mother reckoned it was my late father who gave it the nudge as his way of showing a thumbs up and wishing us luck with the move!


  • #5599
    yourdeadwright
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    As my mother said “it was probably the buyer who put it up there in the hope of making the successful bid for the house, but wasn’t it fortuitous that it dropped down just now and when you were awake to hear it!” The successful bidder was a traditional churchgoing Catholic family, one of the two other auction bidders was Protestant. I checked and could feel a ledge where it would have been placed. My mother reckoned it was my late father who gave it the nudge as his way of showing a thumbs up and wishing us luck with the move!

    I mean in general when people think a relative has left something somewhere for them to see,

    Just interested to see do people think it materialise or is it taken there


  • #5600
    Day Lewin
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    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    I mean in general when people think a relative has left something somewhere for them to see,

    Just interested to see do people think it materialise or is it taken there

    My theory is that the "thing" was always there, and only now - at some special moment - does the person become able or ready to see it. And then they see it.


  • #5601
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    Day Lewin wrote: »
    My theory is that the "thing" was always there, and only now - at some special moment - does the person become able or ready to see it. And then they see it.

    My father, a very quiet, and so often depressed man in life, seemed always to have given us small but amazing little signs in death.


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  • #5602
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    Has anybody stayed in a repudetdly haunted hotel and experienced things that went bump in the night? Would love some day to stay in tbe Hastings hotel up in Glenarm, but it’s expensive and the haunted tower rooms especially so. Also I tend to travel solo and might get a bit too scared up there in the tower! There are several other hotels reputed to be haunted, eg Bushmills Inn, Renvyle House, Dobbin’s in Carrickfergus.


  • #5603
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Has anybody stayed in a repudetdly haunted hotel and experienced things that went bump in the night? Would love some day to stay in tbe Hastings hotel up in Glenarm, but it’s expensive and the haunted tower rooms especially so. Also I tend to travel solo and might get a bit too scared up there in the tower! There are several other hotels reputed to be haunted, eg Bushmills Inn, Renvyle House, Dobbin’s in Carrickfergus.

    I mentioned here before in a post that I stayed above the Algiers pub in Baltimore west cork when I worked as a guide. The pub at the time was closed but the rooms upstairs were made available for tour guides in my case. Every time I stayed I was woken by tugging of the bed sheets between 3-4 am it was a very disturbing feeling in that place. I think stupidity had me return each time I did a tour down there.
    In the end one night I was too creeped out and so I slept in the back of my van.
    I've written a post about it 2-3 years or so ago. I can't find the link right now.


  • #5604
    New Home
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    *Searches posts by poster and keyword*

    Is this it? https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=106271046

    :)


  • #5605
    buried
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Has anybody stayed in a repudetdly haunted hotel and experienced things that went bump in the night? Would love some day to stay in tbe Hastings hotel up in Glenarm, but it’s expensive and the haunted tower rooms especially so. Also I tend to travel solo and might get a bit too scared up there in the tower! There are several other hotels reputed to be haunted, eg Bushmills Inn, Renvyle House, Dobbin’s in Carrickfergus.

    Shelbourne Hotel, one of the floors is supposedly haunted by a young waneen

    Renvyle House Hotel, Co Galway is supposedly haunted by W.B. Yeats, one particular room.

    Going to try stay in both these places some stage this year

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #5606
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    buried wrote: »
    Shelbourne Hotel, one of the floors is supposedly haunted by a young waneen

    Renvyle House Hotel, Co Galway is supposedly haunted by W.B. Yeats, one particular room.

    Going to try stay in both these places some stage this year

    https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/shelbourne-hotel-haunted-spooked-staff-6940121


  • #5607
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    https://www.hastingshotels.com/ballygally-castle/ghost-room.html

    https://www.spookyisles.com/2015/04/irelands-10-most-haunted-hotels/


  • #5608
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,261 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Stayed in renvyle and it was amazingly peaceful and rejuvanative.

    Heard nothing about a haunted room while there


  • #5609
    buried
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Stayed in renvyle and it was amazingly peaceful and rejuvanative.

    Heard nothing about a haunted room while there

    There was a documentary years ago about 'Haunted Ireland' places and all that, this thing was made in the 70's or that, that's where I first heard about it, that doc said it was him. Just googled there and this came up

    https://www.dailyedge.ie/most-haunted-places-ireland-1577445-Jul2014/

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #5610
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    That Renvyle place does look class too. Bit of a 'Overlook Hotel' vibe from it, but by a nice lake

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



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  • #5611
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    This is the documentary I was on about. So cool. Why they can't make programmes like this no more, feic knows. Done in a few parts here uploaded to youtubez.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



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