Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

blinding · 17-05-2020 11:51AM

Das Reich wrote: »

Few times last months happened that I was thinking about some musics from my childhood that I had absolutely forgotten, maybe didn't listen in the last 30 years, it just come to my mind during the day, and when opening youtube later the day it was there on the first recommended video. Didn't know the title or the name of artist. Happened quite few times.

Big Brother and 5G reading your mind !

I am joking or I hope I am joking anyway :eek::D

fryup · 17-05-2020 11:53AM

^^^ yes, i've heard of google tracking your browsing history...but your dreams?? now that brings it to a new level altogether

LittleSiog · 17-05-2020 03:34PM

saabsaab wrote: »

Stayed in this hotel in Cork once but didn't experience anything weird. It is said that guests have reported seeing the ghost of a woman who is believed to have died while giving birth back when the hotel was an infirmary, while broken mirrors and equipment have terrified guests and staff alike. Rumour has it that in between rooms 318 and 319 there is a closed off room, 325, which cannot be accessed on its own!

I've stayed in the room 319 I think it was. We knew the second we entered the hotel that something was weird, and at that point we didn't know it had been an infirmary. The view from the window was a graveyard funny enough. Already creeped out we went on with our day; a shopping trip followed by dinner at the hotel and a ballet show. However it was once we were in the dining area I started to notice the structure of the hotel was a little weird, exactly like a ward. Then we were seated and the framed picture beside us was of the hospital right before it was closed down with a quote saying everyone watched as the lights were switched off from top to bottom.

It was unnerving but we were more or less unbothered. However, upon returning to the hotel room after the show we felt a little creeped out, particularly by the bathroom in the room for some reason. We were freezing cold so we called the reception to ask them to turn on the heating but they said it was on. We guess they knew that room is prone to weird things. The sleep was very creepy, a constant feeling of being watched, and most annoyingly a persistant baby crying all night.

It wasn't until the next day when I decided to google the hotel's history that I saw other people's reports of hearing a baby crying. Supposedly a woman had died giving birth in one of the nearby rooms but I don't know how true that is.

Probably won't return, interesting stay all the same.

jimbobaloobob · 17-05-2020 03:48PM

What’s the name of the hotel?

LittleSiog · 17-05-2020 04:02PM

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

What’s the name of the hotel?

It's the Maldron, the one in Shandon in Cork

Stratvs · 17-05-2020 04:09PM

LittleSiog wrote: »

It's the Maldron, the one in Shandon in Cork

Was the North Infirmary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_North_Infirmary

LittleSiog · 17-05-2020 04:14PM

I have another one.

A couple of years ago my sister and I both returned home from college for the weekend to our parent's house. We're very rarely altogether in that house. The first night sleeping, I woke up in the night and could hear a woman, my mother I assumed, laughing and walking around. (It's a very small house, you generally know where everyone is). I thought it was weird, but figured maybe she had stayed up late with my dad and they were having a laugh (it was around 3/4am).

The next day I couldn't shake the feeling there was "something" in the house. This is like a code word for us, we're a family who don't feel weird talking about "spirits" or anything weird. I asked my dad, who is a self-professed atheist, if there was "something in the house" at that moment. He immediately laughed, shrugged and said "oh yeah, definitely". I told him about hearing laughing the night before and he just nodded, as if it was becoming a regular thing for him.

Then I went into my sister and before I could open my mouth she said "I heard a woman whispering in my ear last night". The hairs on my body stood up and I told her what I had heard. Upon relaying it all to my mother she confirmed that for the last few weeks she had been hearing a woman and footsteps at night.

We headed back to college the next day. Our mother text us to tell us she could hear the woman "crying" all night. The following week she got a priest in to perform an exorcism... or I guess more accurately a blessing of the home.

A few months later my sister and I had gone for pints and were reminiscing about that event. I told her that I had had an image of the woman in my head, though none of us "saw" her. I began to describe her as "victorian", a woman with dark hair in a bun... and my sister began to finish my sentences with "in a purple dress with a collar".. "tall and thin". It was a surreal moment. Just looked at each other, took another sip of our pints and carried on.

Airyfairy12 · 17-05-2020 07:46PM

Whehey! wrote: »

Sometime during that night I woke abruptly again, I was startled for some reason. I had been asleep on my side towards my bedroom window, I turned around towards my partner and there was a man standing over him on the right side of the bed. He was leaning over my partner, like bending over the bed towards me. He was wearing black clothes with a top hat, turn of the century style of clothes and he was so angry looking. He just looked I wouldn't say evil, but like he was upset and angry about something and he was just staring at me with no movement.

I never in my life have gotten such a fright as that night. I nearly died myself! I was so scared I could barely talk, I literally threw the covers over my head and didn't move for a solid hour after it. I woke my partner but he hadn't a clue what had happened he was completely none the wiser!

Yeah that's my claim to fame with a ghost I think!

This is terrifying. What did you do? How did you not scream the house down? Why would you stay in the room?

Whehey! · 17-05-2020 07:56PM

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

This is terrifying. What did you do? How did you not scream the house down? Why would you stay in the room?

I literally was so afraid, I couldn't function! The only thing I could do was put the cover over my head and stay still for ages trying even not to breath or move. I can't even explain how scared I was! I stayed under the covers till morning, and we did swop rooms after that. That room became the spare room then.

NIMAN · 17-05-2020 08:38PM

LittleSiog wrote: »

I've stayed in the room 319 I think it was. We knew the second we entered the hotel that something was weird, and at that point we didn't know it had been an infirmary. The view from the window was a graveyard funny enough. Already creeped out we went on with our day; a shopping trip followed by dinner at the hotel and a ballet show. However it was once we were in the dining area I started to notice the structure of the hotel was a little weird, exactly like a ward. Then we were seated and the framed picture beside us was of the hospital right before it was closed down with a quote saying everyone watched as the lights were switched off from top to bottom.

It was unnerving but we were more or less unbothered. However, upon returning to the hotel room after the show we felt a little creeped out, particularly by the bathroom in the room for some reason. We were freezing cold so we called the reception to ask them to turn on the heating but they said it was on. We guess they knew that room is prone to weird things. The sleep was very creepy, a constant feeling of being watched, and most annoyingly a persistant baby crying all night.

It wasn't until the next day when I decided to google the hotel's history that I saw other people's reports of hearing a baby crying. Supposedly a woman had died giving birth in one of the nearby rooms but I don't know how true that is.

Probably won't return, interesting stay all the same.

I'm a non-believer in all this, but surely this is a perfect case to either prove or disprove ghosts or spirits?

If this has happened to many people, why doesn't a scientific study be set up in this room and find out why people are hearing a baby cry, why the room is cold when heating is on etc?

LeYouth · 17-05-2020 09:16PM

Anyone have any (don't laugh) alien encounters ?

branie2 · 17-05-2020 11:11PM

No

Banana Republic. · 17-05-2020 11:13PM

LeYouth wrote: »

Anyone have any (don't laugh) alien encounters ?

I’ve seen weird things in the Sky that I can’t explain but nothing that I can recall in detail. Don’t think I’ve had anyone in my life whose had any Alien experience.

saabsaab · 18-05-2020 12:46AM

LeYouth wrote: »

Anyone have any (don't laugh) alien encounters ?

Not sure if this qualifies. It was late summer in the late seventies and a fine clear evening. Our extended family cousins etc. were at a pub overlooking a bay in connemara. A few of us went outside the pub and over a nearby hill (about a mile away 250 to 1000 ft, no sound):we saw, what I can best describe as a row of bright glowing orbs. These were moving very slowly. We wondered what they were so we called out people in the pub to have a look. Many came out and eventually went back in with nobody having an explanation.

ILoveYourVibes · 18-05-2020 02:51AM

LeYouth wrote: »

Anyone have any (don't laugh) alien encounters ?

I wouldn't laugh at that but no.

I have had experiences of 'other worldly beings'. But not in the UFO narrative way. Or i wouldn't recognize them in that way.

oceanman · 18-05-2020 06:18AM

NIMAN wrote: »

I'm a non-believer in all this, but surely this is a perfect case to either prove or disprove ghosts or spirits?

If this has happened to many people, why doesn't a scientific study be set up in this room and find out why people are hearing a baby cry, why the room is cold when heating is on etc?

maybe because science cant explain everything...

NIMAN · 18-05-2020 06:24AM

oceanman wrote: »

maybe because science cant explain everything...

I think perhaps technology and science might be able to pick up a baby crying, or the actual temp in a room?

fitzparker · 18-05-2020 08:44AM

LittleSiog wrote: »

It's the Maldron, the one in Shandon in Cork

Coincidence maybe I don't know but last night I was looking to book a break for the August bank holiday for the family (something to look forward too if all goes to plan)

filtered the whole of Ireland most places came in at the usual scandalous Irish prices, except one hotel, Maldron in Cork was showing up an super price, so I booked it.

First thing this morning I read this thread and the fist post I see is about the "hotel in cork", I said to myself its going to be the Maldron, continue reading....sure enough it is.

(goes back to booking, Special request: NOT THE THIRD FLOOR)

blinding · 18-05-2020 08:56AM

fitzparker wrote: »

Coincidence maybe I don't know but last night I was looking to book a break for the August bank holiday for the family (something to look forward too if all goes to plan)

filtered the whole of Ireland most places came in at the usual scandalous Irish prices, except one hotel, Maldron in Cork was showing up an super price, so I booked it.

First thing this morning I read this thread and the fist post I see is about the "hotel in cork", I said to myself its going to be the Maldron, continue reading....sure enough it is.

(goes back to booking, Special request: NOT THE THIRD FLOOR)

They should charge Premium for the 3rd Floor. You know how some people like to go Premium

:D

ILoveYourVibes · 18-05-2020 09:10AM

The more I experience of ghosts and the supernatural the less it unnerves me.

LeYouth · 18-05-2020 09:44AM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

The more I experience of ghosts and the supernatural the less it unnerves me.

Have you done a lockdown in a haunted house at all ?

ILoveYourVibes · 18-05-2020 09:49AM

LeYouth wrote: »

Have you done a lockdown in a haunted house at all ?

Several. Nothing ever happened.

My exes house was supposedly haunted. I never experienced anything but strange dreams.

If i feel something is there ..i just talk to it in my mind. It seems to calm things.

TBH though if you were dead. And you could prank people by turning off the lights etc...wouldn't you not be able to stop yourself??

I mean....it would be so tempting!

I don't think ghosts every do anything but be playful.

fryup · 18-05-2020 10:45AM

Don't know about the Maldron in cork but did stay two nights at the Maldron in smithsfield dublin...and was woken two nights running with what sounded like someone in the floor above me slamming the door constantly for a period of about ten minutes, mentioned it at reception and no one knew anything about it??

gerrybbadd · 18-05-2020 10:50AM

saabsaab wrote: »

Not sure if this qualifies. It was late summer in the late seventies and a fine clear evening. Our extended family cousins etc. were at a pub overlooking a bay in connemara. A few of us went outside the pub and over a nearby hill (about a mile away 250 to 1000 ft, no sound):we saw, what I can best describe as a row of bright glowing orbs. These were moving very slowly. We wondered what they were so we called out people in the pub to have a look. Many came out and eventually went back in with nobody having an explanation.

Ball lightning perhaps?

LeYouth · 18-05-2020 11:21AM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Several. Nothing ever happened.

My exes house was supposedly haunted. I never experienced anything but strange dreams.

If i feel something is there ..i just talk to it in my mind. It seems to calm things.

TBH though if you were dead. And you could prank people by turning off the lights etc...wouldn't you not be able to stop yourself??

I mean....it would be so tempting!

I don't think ghosts every do anything but be playful.

I'd be like that guy on the train in the movie Ghost.

ILoveYourVibes · 18-05-2020 12:09PM

LeYouth wrote: »

I'd be like that guy on the train in the movie Ghost.

All ghosts are jokers!

Weller81 · 18-05-2020 12:28PM

fitzparker wrote: »

Coincidence maybe I don't know but last night I was looking to book a break for the August bank holiday for the family (something to look forward too if all goes to plan)

filtered the whole of Ireland most places came in at the usual scandalous Irish prices, except one hotel, Maldron in Cork was showing up an super price, so I booked it.

First thing this morning I read this thread and the fist post I see is about the "hotel in cork", I said to myself its going to be the Maldron, continue reading....sure enough it is.

(goes back to booking, Special request: NOT THE THIRD FLOOR)

My teenage daughter is autistic. She often feels and hears thing that we cannot. We've become accustomed to it over the years. She wont go in to Churches for example as the "feel" heavy.

The worst night we had with her in a very long time was just over 2 years ago. We were staying in Cork over the February midterm and she literally cried, stimmed, had tics and begged us to make the whispering stop for the whole night. She had military issued pelters on (ear defenders). We couldn't calm her down using any of the usual interventions and couldn't hear the noise that was distressing her so much.

Yes, it was that Maldron hotel but I cant remember the room number and I never knew the stories about it until this morning.

LittleSiog · 18-05-2020 01:31PM

Has anyone been to Loftus Hall?

Or better yet, done the overnight in Loftus Hall?

Aisling(",) · 18-05-2020 02:30PM

LittleSiog wrote: »

Has anyone been to Loftus Hall?

Or better yet, done the overnight in Loftus Hall?

I went in 2017 and did the tour.I thought it was interesting and fun but I didn't notice anything amiss. There is one room that is notedly cooler than the other rooms, they say its where the house owners daughter was kept after she went insane from seeing the devil's feet while he was disguised as a handsome stranger.

I love spooky and creepy things but as a skeptic I've yet to have anything happen to me.

saabsaab · 18-05-2020 04:29PM

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Ball lightning perhaps?

Perhaps except there was no thunder. The orbs were very bright and large, judging by the distance away were 20 to 30 foot across!

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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