Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

razorblunt · 14-11-2019 10:13AM

saabsaab wrote: »

Gone quiet here.

A bit early but has anyone got any Christmas related weird stories?

Can't recall how I was told this, possibly a friend talking about his neighbour.
He heard noise downstairs on Xmas morning just before 4am. He thought it was the kids sneaking down to the toys early.

Went out and saw his son on the landing saying "Santa is here". Knew something was up so ran down to the room to be confronted by a guy helping himself to the presents. They had a bit of a fight where the guy broke free and tried to run out the front door. The fella tackled him in the garden and beat the absolute shíte out of him.
Gardaí were called, turns out it was the 3rd house he'd hit in the estate, van was loaded with stuff and tvs from the houses too.

blinding · 14-11-2019 11:01AM

razorblunt wrote: »

Can't recall how I was told this, possibly a friend talking about his neighbour.
He heard noise downstairs on Xmas morning just before 4am. He thought it was the kids sneaking down to the toys early.

Went out and saw his son on the landing saying "Santa is here". Knew something was up so ran down to the room to be confronted by a guy helping himself to the presents. They had a bit of a fight where the guy broke free and tried to run out the front door. The fella tackled him in the garden and beat the absolute shíte out of him.
Gardaí were called, turns out it was the 3rd house he'd hit in the estate, van was loaded with stuff and tvs from the houses too.

Bad Santa .

Dow99 · 14-11-2019 11:27AM

I've just come across this thread and thought I'd share my story. Not Christmas related but here it is anyway!

In 2005 I was 26 & took a year out to go traveling for a year,. doing the usual route at the time, started off in California, went west to the Cook Islands and Fiji, 6 weeks in NZ.

I settled in Sydney / Australia for about 9 months.

It was at the time that most of my friends who I had grown up with were doing the same thing.

The night before I left Ireland I can remember it vividly. It was a Friday and I went to see U2 in Croke Park. I was planning an all nighter as my flight was early the next morning.
After Croke Park I went to my local night club and had a good night with my mates before I set off for my travels.

One of my friends who had a full time job and girlfriend plus didn't have the urge to travel stayed at home in Ireland. In the night club he was so clingy ,,, He was constantly saying "Dont forget me,, will you" "Look at me" putting his arm around me hugging ect. I remember saying "Jezz man, I'm not emigrating I'll be back in a few months".

Over the year away I'd mention it to my friends who were traveling with me, that it was really strange behavior as he was never that person who'd be overly affectionate as mates.

Anyway - fast forward nearly a year later. I was on my return leg of the trip and in Thailand. It was before smart phones and I came back from day way and there was a text from my Dad to say the same friend who was clingy in the niteclub, "Was in a car crash, he's in hospital, but all is okay!"

I cant remember if I rang home then but I was reassured that there was nothing too serious.

A night or so later, I had a dream, the same friend was in it, but it wasn't how I remembered him, he seemed a bit fatter. In the dream we were standing at a corner of our national school. The same corner that when we were 12, we both collided while running around opposite sides. He broke his nose off my cheek bone, that left him with a prominent crooked nose. So this was a significant spot for the two of us, that literary marked him for life.

In the dream, he had a big smile on his face and was telling me, & reassuring me that everything is fine, he's happy, and everything will be okay. We had a conversation, I remember saying to him "Wow, you gave me a big scare with the accident. I can remember him laughing & saying, yes, but he's fine now!

The next morning, I woke up a bit freaked that the dream had been so vivid, but thought obviously the accident was playing on my mind.
I went straight to the hostel / hotel reception and rang home,,,, it would have been early in Thailand so it must have in the middle of the night back home. My father answered the phone, and said "Son, I've bad news, xxxx has passed away"" .

Obviously I was devastated - balling my eyes out in the hotel reception. Cant remember time lines exactly, but started to try and arrange traveling home for the funeral.

I arrived back in the evening of the funeral. So missed the burial, wake ect. That night in the pub, people who were at the funeral were still there. I was upset and said that I really wanted to get back in time to see him. When I said this, the person. said, "Na, you wouldnt have recognised him, he was bloated from the drugs in the hospital". It was strange that when he appeared in my dream he was "fatter" than I had remembered.

The clingy ness of my last time with him & the apparition the night he died was a bit much for coincidence.

Anyway there it is!!

Graces7 · 14-11-2019 12:00PM

Ann22 wrote: »

Jesus! That's terrible! You poor thing! My friend's son was killed after sneaking out one night to meet his mates and her daughter saw him leave and was in two minds to tell him to come back but she didn't. Her mother never blamed her. The poor girl felt bad enough.

It was even odder. I those far off days, boys rarely if ever showed any concern or affection for little sisters.

The evening before the accident we had been out rowing on the lake and the boatman had trusted us with the boat after he had gone home.

By the time we moored it and were heading for the hotel, it was dark and we were running along a path.
Suddenly my brother ,turned to me, took my hand ( a first) and said so kindly, " Don't be afraid.!" Never ever spoken to me like that,

Less than 24 hours later he was dead,

There is no explanation for these things.

Loughc · 18-11-2019 02:05PM

Leg End Reject wrote: »

When I was younger my parents told me a fat man in a red suit used to watch me all the time. They swore he could tell if I was naughty or nice, and that he would sneak into the house to check if I was asleep.

Bishop Casey was a terrible man alright. :pac:

cj maxx · 18-11-2019 03:54PM

Graces7 wrote: »

Premonitions .. The week before we went on holiday where my brother died in an accident I was terrified that something terrible was going to happen. And again the morning he drowned.

When I finally told my mother I got blamed for his death but as I know, no-one would have heeded me.

The night before a friend killed himself I had an awful night. Couldn't sleep and awake all night. My brother said later that he had a premonition of him in a coffin laid out in the sitting room.

optogirl · 18-11-2019 04:12PM

When my Dad was dying and a bit away with the fairies he said he was dreaming that he was in a coffin and all his relatives were around him!

sunbeam · 18-11-2019 05:49PM

In my early twenties I had recurring dreams of coffins appearing in the house for about a year. There was someone laid out in them, but I was always too scared to look. When I told my dad he was very freaked out and said that as a young man he had the exact same dreams, down to very specific details.

The dreams stopped immediately after my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. We waked him in the house.

During the same year, I also had recurring dreams that my dad was being taken way from us by a group of unknown assailants. I guess at some subconscious level I knew he was sick.

At the time I was in college and seeing the student counsellor for an unrelated very stressful matter. Shortly before he was diagnosed I remember blurting out to her how hard I was finding things now that my dad was so gravely ill. But none of us knew that then, we thought he just had a mild chest infection. I was actually very confused about why I had said it.

My dad died from lung cancer. He had given up smoking two decades before, but occasionally had a rare cigarette, if offered. When I would see him doing this in the years before his diagnosis, my blood would run cold. I've never experienced a feeling like it before that or since.

Airyfairy12 · 19-11-2019 11:16PM

sunbeam wrote: »

In my early twenties I had recurring dreams of coffins appearing in the house for about a year. There was someone laid out in them, but I was always too scared to look. When I told my dad he was very freaked out and said that as a young man he had the exact same dreams, down to very specific details.

The dreams stopped immediately after my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. We waked him in the house.

During the same year, I also had recurring dreams that my dad was being taken way from us by a group of unknown assailants. I guess at some subconscious level I knew he was sick.

At the time I was in college and seeing the student counsellor for an unrelated very stressful matter. Shortly before he was diagnosed I remember blurting out to her how hard I was finding things now that my dad was so gravely ill. But none of us knew that then, we thought he just had a mild chest infection. I was actually very confused about why I had said it.

My dad died from lung cancer. He had given up smoking two decades before, but occasionally had a rare cigarette, if offered. When I would see him doing this in the years before his diagnosis, my blood would run cold. I've never experienced a feeling like it before that or since.

Its so weird, I know that feeling, you just know an event or particular situation is about to happen, its happened to me a few times and every time its been spot on and I wasn't surprised because I knew like it was a fact that it was going to happen.

Widdershins · 19-11-2019 11:45PM

I don't usually know What, I just know something has happened or is happening. Felt something thats hard to describe when someone close to me had a seizure. I was queueing at the post office and suddenly she came to the forefront of my mind and I willed her strength. I had no idea what was happening though as we were miles apart at the time. That was her first seizure. I can't say I always or often feel/know things like that. One other time springs to mind. I was out walking on the local hills. Just out of the car and I couldn't explain why but I felt I urgently must get straight back to my house. I knew it would seem ridiculous to insist we turn around get back in the car and go, but I faked a bad earache and dizziness. I would never have cut the day short if that was actually true. Oddly enough my boyfriend didn't seem the least bit confused and seemed to feel we should do that despite him being mad for that walk. When we got back there was someone there waiting for me, she had left her partner after a bad row and had been sitting around the back waiting for me. I don't know if she had tried calling me as I never look at my phone when I'm out or she hadn't brought her own phone.

Andreas77 · 20-11-2019 04:46PM

Last night, I had a dream that a thick and pale member, with bulging blue veins, was risen high into the sky, perfectly straight like a mast, breaking the clouds at about 250ft, or the point at which the the hood was retracted. As I have observed this stubborn piece of trunk can move very slightly with the tensing of my pelvic muscles, I’ve realised this member is my own. Weather was clear, blue sky, about 60 °F. Then I’ve noticed an unexpected phenomenon, many tiny women working their way up the body of the stalk, clutching onto veins and knots, some using pockets of dust, taking their time (this was not a race I don’t think), working methodically to ascend the penile, and all I can do is watch. I cannot shake them off, and even if I could, I’m not sure I would want to. When they disappear above the cloud cover I can no longer see what they are doing on my glans heads,. Are they salivating that? or interfering with my chute, or, actually this thought occurred to me during the dream, that since there was no sensation, that they were boarding some sort of craft, which would escort them from this world to another. Now is when it gets very weird, as I have noticed then for the first time, hundreds of other stalks, smaller penises, distributed all over the terrain, coalescing more or less around my own, but there were some outliers, but none even half as big as my own. I’ll admit it is a strange. It’s been on my mind all day .

jiltloop · 20-11-2019 04:52PM

Andreas77 wrote: »

Last night, I had a dream that a thick and pale member, with bulging blue veins, was risen high into the sky, perfectly straight like a mast, breaking the clouds at about 250ft, or the point at which the the hood was retracted. As I have observed this stubborn piece of trunk can move very slightly with the tensing of my pelvic muscles, I’ve realised this member is my own. Weather was clear, blue sky, about 60 °F. Then I’ve noticed an unexpected phenomenon, many tiny women working their way up the body of the stalk, clutching onto veins and knots, some using pockets of dust, taking their time (this was not a race I don’t think), working methodically to ascend the penile, and all I can do is watch. I cannot shake them off, and even if I could, I’m not sure I would want to. When they disappear above the cloud cover I can no longer see what they are doing on my glans heads,. Are they salivating that? or interfering with my chute, or, actually this thought occurred to me during the dream, that since there was no sensation, that they were boarding some sort of craft, which would escort them from this world to another. Now is when it gets very weird, as I have noticed then for the first time, hundreds of other stalks, smaller penises, distributed all over the terrain, coalescing more or less around my own, but there were some outliers, but none even half as big as my own. I’ll admit it is a strange. It’s been on my mind all day .

Are you sure that's the point where it got very weird?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 20-11-2019 05:13PM

A couple of years ago I had a dream. You know those ones that go on for what seems like all night, dip in and out of different little mini incidents and stuff, maybe into moments of nightmare but basically one long continuous dream that keeps going back to the same thing?

So in this dream I was part of a big huge group of people moving across this great plain, we were all spread out and split up into smaller groups. I had two children with me, a boy who was about four and a baby girl. It was all pleasant enough.

Suddenly the dream changes tone and really comes into focus, there are men coming to attack, we're out in the open, we have to hide, it's panic, everyone runs, I've nobody to help me with the children. I have no children, but I remember all these emotions in the dream so clearly.

There was a little rocky outcrop and I ran to it, crouched underneath and told the children to be quiet. But the baby girl was too small, she didn't understand, she started to cry. I was trying to shush her when I heard noise overhead, I looked up and there was a bearded man peering over the outcrop. When he saw me look up he started to smile, argh I can remember his face so clearly. He jumped down and pulled a knife.

I started to plead and even as I was doing it I was thinking why am I doing this it's not going to work, fight, run, but I just couldn't, I was frozen. He grabbed me and raised the knife, I was twisting and struggling and just trying to keep my body away from the blade, I knew I was going to die, I knew the children were going to die. I felt, really ****ing felt the knife go in between two of my ribs and at that point I woke up.

At this point it would have been a dream that stuck with me anyway, it was just really different in content from my usual dreams (and I've good recall of them) and so, so, so vivid.

Anyways, had to wake my OH up to tell him about it, got to the being stabbed bit and I said like "oh i could feel it, it was right here" and pulled up my tshirt and put my finger on the spot.

Lads. I've got a fcuking birthmark right exactly on that spot.

I'm sure there is an explanation that's not me getting murdered in front of my children in a past life but Jesus, still freaks me out.

Andreas77 · 20-11-2019 05:19PM

Was this after eleven of September 2001?

cj maxx · 20-11-2019 07:06PM

Not really creepy, but on the theme of premonition. I was convinced I was going to win something. It was the weekend Dolores Keane won the euromillions and i already was spending it in my head.then a I got a call to say I'd won an all expenses trip to china. I was the most ungrateful bestard ever ,!

saabsaab · 20-11-2019 07:30PM

Andreas77 wrote: »

Last night, I had a dream that a thick and pale member, with bulging blue veins, was risen high into the sky, perfectly straight like a mast, breaking the clouds at about 250ft, or the point at which the the hood was retracted. As I have observed this stubborn piece of trunk can move very slightly with the tensing of my pelvic muscles, I’ve realised this member is my own. Weather was clear, blue sky, about 60 °F. Then I’ve noticed an unexpected phenomenon, many tiny women working their way up the body of the stalk, clutching onto veins and knots, some using pockets of dust, taking their time (this was not a race I don’t think), working methodically to ascend the penile, and all I can do is watch. I cannot shake them off, and even if I could, I’m not sure I would want to. When they disappear above the cloud cover I can no longer see what they are doing on my glans heads,. Are they salivating that? or interfering with my chute, or, actually this thought occurred to me during the dream, that since there was no sensation, that they were boarding some sort of craft, which would escort them from this world to another. Now is when it gets very weird, as I have noticed then for the first time, hundreds of other stalks, smaller penises, distributed all over the terrain, coalescing more or less around my own, but there were some outliers, but none even half as big as my own. I’ll admit it is a strange. It’s been on my mind all day .

Good God, Freud would have been all over this. It is said that the penis when larger shows you feel more powerful that others around you. The little women might represent women in your life trying to control you.

debok · 20-11-2019 10:12PM

Andreas77 wrote: »

Last night, I had a dream that a thick and pale member, with bulging blue veins, was risen high into the sky, perfectly straight like a mast, breaking the clouds at about 250ft, or the point at which the the hood was retracted. As I have observed this stubborn piece of trunk can move very slightly with the tensing of my pelvic muscles, I’ve realised this member is my own. Weather was clear, blue sky, about 60 °F. Then I’ve noticed an unexpected phenomenon, many tiny women working their way up the body of the stalk, clutching onto veins and knots, some using pockets of dust, taking their time (this was not a race I don’t think), working methodically to ascend the penile, and all I can do is watch. I cannot shake them off, and even if I could, I’m not sure I would want to. When they disappear above the cloud cover I can no longer see what they are doing on my glans heads,. Are they salivating that? or interfering with my chute, or, actually this thought occurred to me during the dream, that since there was no sensation, that they were boarding some sort of craft, which would escort them from this world to another. Now is when it gets very weird, as I have noticed then for the first time, hundreds of other stalks, smaller penises, distributed all over the terrain, coalescing more or less around my own, but there were some outliers, but none even half as big as my own. I’ll admit it is a strange. It’s been on my mind all day .

Think you need a tom hank

What Username Guidelines · 20-11-2019 11:27PM

cjmc wrote: »

Not really creepy, but on the theme of premonition. I was convinced I was going to win something. It was the weekend Dolores Keane won the euromillions and i already was spending it in my head.then a I got a call to say I'd won an all expenses trip to china. I was the most ungrateful bestard ever ,!

OT, Did the euromillions online a few years back. About midnight I get the email “you’ve won a prize” and opened the app to login. I remembered reading that “larger” wins aren’t paid into your account balance. App balance shows €0. I nearly shat myself. Woke my wife up and all as I tried to find the ticket in the app.

Can you imagine winning €2k and the initial feeling is a slight disappointment?! God I felt like a dick. But I had the whole jackpot spent in my head in the space of 45 seconds.

Went on a lovely holiday in the end

Sorry about that · 20-11-2019 11:51PM

Andreas77 wrote: »

Last night, I had a dream that a thick and pale member, with bulging blue veins, was risen high into the sky, perfectly straight like a mast, breaking the clouds at about 250ft, or the point at which the the hood was retracted. As I have observed this stubborn piece of trunk can move very slightly with the tensing of my pelvic muscles, I’ve realised this member is my own. Weather was clear, blue sky, about 60 °F. Then I’ve noticed an unexpected phenomenon, many tiny women working their way up the body of the stalk, clutching onto veins and knots, some using pockets of dust, taking their time (this was not a race I don’t think), working methodically to ascend the penile, and all I can do is watch. I cannot shake them off, and even if I could, I’m not sure I would want to. When they disappear above the cloud cover I can no longer see what they are doing on my glans heads,. Are they salivating that? or interfering with my chute, or, actually this thought occurred to me during the dream, that since there was no sensation, that they were boarding some sort of craft, which would escort them from this world to another. Now is when it gets very weird, as I have noticed then for the first time, hundreds of other stalks, smaller penises, distributed all over the terrain, coalescing more or less around my own, but there were some outliers, but none even half as big as my own. I’ll admit it is a strange. It’s been on my mind all day .

I heard a dream analyst on the radio a couple of years ago, and he said that the focus your dream reflects how you feel about yourself.

I'm not suggesting for a moment that deep down you see yourself as an absolutely massive d**k. Like massive.

dubstarr · 22-11-2019 01:07AM

Lately in my house,i have been noticing shadows.Coming down the stairs tonight,coming in to the sitting room,there was like someone walking past.I thought it was my partner,walked in.Nobody here.And the door i used is the only one coming in and out.

Yesterday sitting here,the hall was very shadowy,like bulky.Thought it was a coat,went out and there was nothing hanging.But it was like a solid shape.

Ficheall · 22-11-2019 01:39AM

dubstarr wrote: »

Lately in my house,i have been noticing shadows.Coming down the stairs tonight,coming in to the sitting room,there was like someone walking past.I thought it was my partner,walked in.Nobody here.And the door i used is the only one coming in and out.

Yesterday sitting here,the hall was very shadowy,like bulky.Thought it was a coat,went out and there was nothing hanging.But it was like a solid shape.

Try turning off the lights.

randomspud · 22-11-2019 02:20AM

I occasionally get these random dreams of snippets of fairly ordinary day to day stuff happening to me, usually just as I'm waking up.

Without fail these things will happen to me in real life a few weeks later, exactly as they played out in my dream.

I know it's happening as it's happening but I can never change what I do/say in these situations. It happened recently with a friend of mine and he said that I looked terrified for no reason for a brief few seconds when we were talking about something utterly trivial.

I explained to him that I'd dreamt these few seconds weeks ago and he just looked at me funny.

Widdershins · 22-11-2019 03:14AM

This ^^^. I know it well.

dubstarr · 22-11-2019 08:32AM

Ficheall wrote: »

Try turning off the lights.

Wow,what a helpful post.Thanks

ardinn · 22-11-2019 04:42PM

I think I "inceptioned" last night - I was dreaming about something that didnt make sense, then I woke up and was like, ye that was odd, knew it was a dream, then I went on about my day and woke up again - im fully expecting to wake up and have not written this post in reality!

They were both really interesting dreams too, pity i cant flippin remember them!

idnkph · 22-11-2019 06:45PM

A few premonition type things popping up so here's mine.
Had a dream a few years back. A friend I used to work with was in it being his usual happy go lucky self and kept coming into the room I was in to tell and reassure me that's he is doing great and really happy.
I hadn't seen him in a few years because I moved to a different part of the country and we were both getting on with our lives and lost touch. I had deleted my Facebook account for obvious reasons ( it's sh1te) a couple of years before this dream too.
Any way when I woke I went downstairs and the OH was there.
We were general chit chatting and I told her about my dream that it was weird but really vivid. She never met this friend but I had told her a couple of anicdotes involving him.
She asked was he on FB and I said he was when I was and she says she would stalk him and see... Maybe send him a message with me number and meet up.
She was typing away on her phone and I could see the change in her look.
Of course it wasn't good news. His final post was a picture of him and his family and him saying support SOSAD.
I hit me like a train. I found out where he was buried and that weekend jumped into the car and went to visit his grave. Left some flowers and had a can of beer for each of us while I thought about the good times we had and how guilty I was feeling that I lost touch and maybe could have helped him.
Later that week I popped into a casino/slot machine place to pick up another mate. I never used the poker machines before and always took the piss or of my old friend for going on them anytime we were in the pub after work ( fun times).
Popped in 2 quid and first turn of the cards I got 4aces and a joker. I had won just over 500 quid on a bonus jackpot thingy.

22-11-2019 06:54PM

dubstarr wrote: »

Lately in my house,i have been noticing shadows.Coming down the stairs tonight,coming in to the sitting room,there was like someone walking past.I thought it was my partner,walked in.Nobody here.And the door i used is the only one coming in and out.

Yesterday sitting here,the hall was very shadowy,like bulky.Thought it was a coat,went out and there was nothing hanging.But it was like a solid shape.

Take a close look at the light bulb(s) if there is any coating/dust/flaw on them, web with moving spider etc. Check if other places seem to have shadows and if so get eyes checked in case of an impending retinal tear or other ocular issue.

Gael23 · 23-11-2019 08:34PM

I was chatting to a woman on Facebook last night and she dropped stone dead an hour later

23-11-2019 09:38PM

Gael23 wrote: »

I was chatting to a woman on Facebook last night and she dropped stone dead an hour later

Anything to do with what you said?

Which reminds me of a time I was admitted to a private hospital following a relatively rare form of heart attack. I had pain in my chest and felt nauseous and weak, guessed it might be cardiac so decided to present myself at the hospital where I had other stuff done. Living alone, I really didn’t have much time and no help to put stuff together so arrived with very little, and since these days a heart attack (once you survive it) is usually no more than a two night admission I didn’t trouble my relatives to get my stuff.

I was sharing a room with a very interesting and forthright Dublin Liberties lady, and I wasn’t worried about being in a frequent state of undress in the room as she knew the score and didn’t worry. I was relying totally on hospital gown. That first night, after all our visitors had gone, an elderly gentleman was pacing up and down the corridor to give himself exercise, turning just at the point of our room which was the end one. As he turned his gaze hit me, stark naked and non too pretty a sight. My room mate said “Jaysuuus, he paused quite long there, did you see his eyes just staaarin atcha”. We were in hysterics as he retreated to the room next door.

This was about 10pm. 15 minutes later an alarm sounded and the crash team arrived next door. After about 30 minutes a relative was standing outside our room sobbing into the phone (I’ve changed bane here) “Uncle Peter’s dead...can’t believe it...he was perfectly ok...don’t know what happened,..know they said there’s the risk it could happen...” More relatives arrived, undertakers called. My room mate said “Oh goodnigh-aaat, we may as well stay awake and listen, not gonna get any sleep, are we?”

I had killed him!

Actually, as the cardiologist explained, he had a silent immense lethal clot that was inevitably going to kill him, it happens in a small percentage of cases where stents are placed and they would equally have died without intervention.

Strumms · 23-11-2019 10:20PM

When I was 9 my grandmother who I was very close to was admitted to hospital in quite a bad way, dying. My mother was at the hospital with her this night and no other females in the house. I remember at some point in the early hours of the morning just as it was getting light I woke. I was the soundest sleeper ever so for this to happen was unusual. I looked at the door of my room, it was open, I NEVER left it open, my grandmother was stood there...looking well and happy, she said “hi, //// everything is going to be alright”. She disappeared... my mother came back at about 10 am and told us that granny had passed away...

Anyone who knows me would tell you that I’m one of the most skeptical people when it comes to stuff like this, hugely so, the paranormal, religion, whatever, but nothing like this every happened to me before or since... I just can’t explain it... not creepy maybe but strange in a peaceful kind of way, reassuring.

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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