Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

Anyone ever feel their dreams are prophetic?
Maybe not predictions of major global events but my dreams keep giving me insight into my own life and what is happening with loved ones. 6 months or so into the future is about average.


Perhaps not as spooky but more unnerving, I also keep dreaming about someone I recently briefly went out with. Always bad dreams that leave me feeling grimy and shaky. He wasn't terrible at all, mix of good and bad like most human beings, and nothing happened to cause or explain the dreams. Maybe more psychological than supernatural, I don't know.

Anyone ever feel their dreams are prophetic?
Maybe not predictions of major global events but my dreams keep giving me insight into my own life and what is happening with loved ones. 6 months or so into the future is about average.


Perhaps not as spooky but more unnerving, I also keep dreaming about someone I recently briefly went out with. Always bad dreams that leave me feeling grimy and shaky. He wasn't terrible at all, mix of good and bad like most human beings, and nothing happened to cause or explain the dreams. Maybe more psychological than supernatural, I don't know.

*deja vu*

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I've had far too many things happen to me, this is the most recent.

I woke at 4.20am to the sound of someone very clearly saying my name. I hadn't been dreaming either.
There was nobody else at home except me.
I had a feeling something was going to happen or had happened, so switched the phone from silent to on.

Later that morning, my dad rang to tell me his brother had died, at 4am. It was unexpected.

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This is a strange one and I feel uncomfortable even writing it.

About a year ago, a friend told me the following story about her dad.

He was in his bedroom alone the previous night watching TV, when he realised there was a dark figure- like a man wearing all black- standing beside the door.

He started screaming and his 2 adult children ran into the room.
He started pointing at the figure which he could still see, and told them to look at it.
But neither of them could see anything.
He was still seeing it and pointing at it, but they could see nothing.
He was very distressed and slowly, thankfully, the figure disappeared.

He said afterwards that he'd not found it in any way threatening, just scary because he didn't know what it was.

When his daughter, my friend, told me this story, I asked whether her dad was on any specific medication etc...and I also said that if it was me or one of my family, I'd probably go to my GP for a full check up, just in case.

To be honest, I totally forgot about all that until
last autumn. He was diagnosed with cancer and as I write, he's terminally ill.
Not so sure whether there's any significance to the dark figure and his diagnosis, but it made me uneasy.

As a follow on from the above, this gentleman passed away from his illness last summer, about a year later.

On 2 occasions in the house since, I've had weird experiences.
The 1st was the night he died, I was minding the young grandson while the family were organising the funeral.
The strongest smell of a newly lit cigarette in the child's bedroom, despite nobody ever smoking in the house, let alone his room.
When I mentioned it, some weeks later, my friend said her dad had been a heavy smoker, many years before.
And she felt, he might have been there in spirit, playing a joke on me!

And more recently. All of this on the same date.
It was his grandson's birthday and only myself and the child were there,(he was in a deep sleep).

Firstly, the sound of something heavy falling in the bedroom and when I checked, I found nothing.
About an hour later, the very distinct sound of a coin being spun in the same room, yet when I followed the sound, nothing.
And finally, that same strong smell of a recently lit cigarette.
It takes a lot to spook me, (scary films only make me roll my eyes), but this gave me goosebumps.

I dreamt of a guy I knew crashing his car into a tree at a local shopping center car park, a few days later he did exactly this. Needed a new bumper and a bonnet. It could be a mad coincidence but it is difficult to argue it. I thought it was insane when he told me.

This is about a person i "knew" from Twitter and FB.We where both part of the same group.She lived thousands of miles away.I never met her in the flesh.

I had a dream about her,she was popping in to say hello.She died about 2 days later.Quite unexpectedly.

I never dreamed about her before or since.Quite weird.

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I dreamt of a guy I knew crashing his car into a tree at a local shopping center car park, a few days later he did exactly this. Needed a new bumper and a bonnet. It could be a mad coincidence but it is difficult to argue it. I thought it was insane when he told me.

Years ago I had a dream a security guard in our place was in a fight...nice guy no rambo bs that you sometimes get....anyway the night of my dream he was hopped on!!! Life is weird!

I've a bit of a weird one.
In the "Interview the person below you" thread, I recently asked the following. If you could change your first name tomorrow what would you choose?
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=111399268&postcount=3399
My own answer, Evelyn or Vivienne. I always thought both names were elegant, and not common or overused.

The next day, I was in a shop I'd rarely if ever be in, in a town I seldom visit.
2 of the staff standing side by side, nametags loud and clear >
Evelyn and Vivienne.

Goosebumps.

Yep. Blanket lightening as you call it. Our name for it was 'Sheet lightening'