Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

dubstarr · 11-03-2019 09:04AM

Got up during the night to go the loo.We sleep downstairs.Only put the landing light on and seen a black shadow fly across the wall.Gave me the heebie jeebies.

Day Lewin · 11-03-2019 10:09AM

dubstarr wrote: »

Got up during the night to go the loo.We sleep downstairs.Only put the landing light on and seen a black shadow fly across the wall.Gave me the heebie jeebies.

A bat flying past the window, cast the shadow from the landing light?
(Its really too cold still for bats to wake up but if it is hibernating in your house then it may have warmed up enough.)

Or a bird outdoors, disturbed from its sleep by a hunting cat.

completedit · 11-03-2019 11:20AM

Playing toys with my sister one night, hear an echoey voice call out from my mum and dads room, it was coming from the top right of the room as if in the attic. My sister and me just looked at each other in shock and got up slowly ready to leg it down the stairs. As we passed the room, the voice, whatever the hell it was called out again. Christ we ran like the clappers. No idea what it was but the voice was coming from an uninhabited(attic was dark and unconverted at this stage) part of the house. There could have been someone up there who broke in living unknown to us I guess which is the only alternative

For the record it must have been my dad but it wasn’t my dad, the trajectory of the voice was unmistakable. If someone asks me do zi believe in ghosts, I’d say no, but I heard what I heard. I’ll probably only know the day I draw my last breath.

dubstarr · 11-03-2019 11:26AM

Day Lewin wrote: »

A bat flying past the window, cast the shadow from the landing light?
(Its really too cold still for bats to wake up but if it is hibernating in your house then it may have warmed up enough.)

Or a bird outdoors, disturbed from its sleep by a hunting cat.

No bats and its quite an enclosed place.It just shook me up.Cause we used to have some **** happen here.But has been quiet for the last few years

Chancer3001 · 11-03-2019 12:15PM

dubstarr wrote: »

No bats and its quite an enclosed place.It just shook me up.Cause we used to have some **** happen here.But has been quiet for the last few years

Obvious follow up question...

What kind of ****

dubstarr · 11-03-2019 12:33PM

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Obvious follow up question...

What kind of ****

Seeing dark shadows,noises,

I was in the back bedroom feeding my youngest son.My middle son comes out of the toilet.In to his bedroom he goes.Literally 2 seconds later the same son comes up the stairs.

Beds being moved around upstairs.Footsteps and smells.

But its been quiet here for a few years.

smartyfarts · 11-03-2019 01:13PM

a guy stood in the middle of the road last night outside a pub trying to wave me down. I slowed down so he thought I was stopping. then when he started to walk to my window, I sped off. I also nearly ran over a cat before this happened. I was on my way to Tesco to buy a king size duvet at 9:30pm.

Deebles McBeebles · 11-03-2019 01:22PM

dubstarr wrote: »

But its been quiet here for a few years.

That's what The Beast wants you to think.

dubstarr · 11-03-2019 01:58PM

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

That's what The Beast wants you to think.

Feck off:D:D

JaCrispy · 11-03-2019 02:09PM

Working a late shift in Dell years ago (when they were based in Bray). Not too many people were knocking around, opened the door to a dimly lit corridor leading to the main canteen and a canteen tray trolley was making it's way towards me along the corridor.

I could see through the trolley and that nobody was pushing it from the other side. The trays on the trolley were bouncing up and down.

It's the only time I've fully been freaked out by something and still have no explanation as to what was propelling the trolley.

up for anything · 11-03-2019 10:07PM

dubstarr wrote: »

I was in the back bedroom feeding my youngest son.My middle son comes out of the toilet.In to his bedroom he goes.Literally 2 seconds later the same son comes up the stairs.

Did you not jump up and follow him into his room to see the two of them? Which one wasn't the real middle son?

Purple Mountain · 11-03-2019 10:40PM

JaCrispy wrote: »

Working a late shift in Dell years ago (when they were based in Bray). Not too many people were knocking around, opened the door to a dimly lit corridor leading to the main canteen and a canteen tray trolley was making it's way towards me along the corridor.

I could see through the trolley and that nobody was pushing it from the other side. The trays on the trolley were bouncing up and down.

It's the only time I've fully been freaked out by something and still have no explanation as to what was propelling the trolley.

How close did you get to the trolley?

JaCrispy · 12-03-2019 09:23AM

Purple Mountain wrote: »

How close did you get to the trolley?

When I opened the door to the corridor the trolley was maybe 10 feet from me. It was coming in my direction, slightly faster than walking pace. It got to within maybe 5 foot of me before I quickly turned around and returned to my office.

Day Lewin · 12-03-2019 10:09AM

JaCrispy wrote: »

When I opened the door to the corridor the trolley was maybe 10 feet from me. It was coming in my direction, slightly faster than walking pace. It got to within maybe 5 foot of me before I quickly turned around and returned to my office.

Maybe the corridor was slightly sloping: someone at the other end had pushed the trolley and it just rolled?

Would there have been an almighty crash behind you when it hit the door?

dubstarr · 12-03-2019 10:20AM

up for anything wrote: »

Did you not jump up and follow him into his room to see the two of them? Which one wasn't the real middle son?

I did but there was only one of him in there.And him and my eldest look nothing alike.So it wasnt him either.

oceanman · 12-03-2019 12:45PM

smartyfarts wrote: »

a guy stood in the middle of the road last night outside a pub trying to wave me down. I slowed down so he thought I was stopping. then when he started to walk to my window, I sped off. I also nearly ran over a cat before this happened. I was on my way to Tesco to buy a king size duvet at 9:30pm.

think you might be in the wrong forum.

Rubberlegs · 12-03-2019 02:04PM

dubstarr wrote: »

I did but there was only one of him in there.And him and my eldest look nothing alike.So it wasnt him either.

That reminds me of a similarly weird situation with my youngest, I'm sure I posted it before but not tech enough to find it. She ran down a path past my car in front of me, I was calling her back but she kept going with me running after her. The path turned at a right angle and as I ran around after her she was gone. I looked all around, was calling her in a panic, I actually thought she had hidden on me. There was no sign of her. I turned and went back the way I came and there she was standing back at the car. She 100% had not passed me on her way back to the car and the path was the only route to take. She told me she had not seen me either on her way back. I still can't figure it out till this day.

Airyfairy12 · 13-03-2019 05:47PM

Not really creepy or unnerving, more of a coincidence but strange all the same. About 2 weeks after my granddad died I went to a new restaurant in town with some friends. The restaurant menus where inside the covers of old childrens books - like hard back Beano book covers with the menu attached inside, the book covers where recycled as they had childrens scribbles and drawings on them. So I opened my menu only to find my granddads full name signed in on the inside cover.

fryup · 13-03-2019 05:49PM

^^^^^^^^^^^

did you find out if your grandad owned it?

Airyfairy12 · 13-03-2019 05:52PM

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^

did you find out if your grandad owned it?

No, I suppose there was no way of finding that out but the surname isnt that common so its possible he did.

fryup · 13-03-2019 05:54PM

aren't you curious? go back to that restaurant and find out...i'm sure your granny or parents would know

branie2 · 13-03-2019 06:00PM

Not quite creepy either, but near the end of mass on Ash Wednesday, I was thinking about the hymn Tantum ergo, and the priest started singing it!

Airyfairy12 · 13-03-2019 06:00PM

fryup wrote: »

aren't you curious? go back to that restaurant and find out...i'm sure your granny or parents would know

It was a few years ago, the restaurant isn't there anymore but I regret not asking the staff if I could keep the book cover. My grandparents are all dead now but I said it to my mother at the time. They would have had beano books in the house so its possible but could also just be coincidence.

tamara25 · 13-03-2019 08:27PM

Lovely story airyfairy, that was definitely your grandad saying hello from the spirit world

Widdershins · 14-03-2019 11:31AM

branie2 wrote: »

Not quite creepy either, but near the end of mass on Ash Wednesday, I was thinking about the hymn Tantum ergo, and the priest started singing it!

I love synchronicity like that. Life is full of it when you're paying attention

dubstarr · 14-03-2019 02:27PM

Sleep Paralysis.Do you think its linked as to whether you can see ghosts

Lizheen · 14-03-2019 11:45PM

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Not really creepy or unnerving, more of a coincidence but strange all the same. About 2 weeks after my granddad died I went to a new restaurant in town with some friends. The restaurant menus where inside the covers of old childrens books - like hard back Beano book covers with the menu attached inside, the book covers where recycled as they had childrens scribbles and drawings on them. So I opened my menu only to find my granddads full name signed in on the inside cover.

Not dissimilar and also not creepy – just a happy coincidence – but when I was a kid, we had a set of encyclopaedia (not very well known, Newnes Pictoral Knowledge Encyclopaedia and Atlas) – but it was missing Vol 2, which really irked me.

As a student, I passed the Mansion House one day, and they had an antique book fair on, so being a bit of a booklover and never having been at a book fair before, I wandered in for a gander. Wasn’t there long; randomly wandered; and I remember rooting casually through a box at one stall – and to my amazement, the box had Vol 2 of the encyclopaedia set we had.

I am convinced it was the actual original from our set as otherwise, why would the seller have had just that one? Our set belonged to my grandparents and I guess when they moved to Westmeath, somehow that volume got forgotten and wound up in the hands of a bookseller.

New Home · 15-03-2019 05:04AM

Please tell me you bought it!!!

Day Lewin · 15-03-2019 07:15AM

I remember Newnes Pictorial Knowledge!

A childrens' encyclopaedia.

10 Volumes, illustrated mainly with black-and-white photographs. I think Volume 9 had the Greek myths and folklore legends in it: And the last Vol was an Atlas.

I learnt a lot of my early education from them!

Thanks for the memory, @Lizheen!

AngryHippie · 19-03-2019 09:16PM

look out....its about to get all poop fetish hereabouts :eek:

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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