Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

Well I hesitate to post here about it but I thought why not. When I lived in Ireland I regularly frequented the more scenic parts of Dublin and Wicklow. I vised a lake neat glencree for years without seeing anything out of the ordinary.

One day we took a walk to one of the twin lakes in the region and seen something strange.
My friend and I were walking on the ridge between both lakes and noticed a large shape rise to the top of the water, not quite breaking through but close enough to see its shape. It was large (5-8 feet across, although measurements at this distance aren't accurate), round, grey and had controlled propulsion. It rose to the top slowly, then moved forward towards the shoreline and back towards the middle of the lake. Then it dived considerably faster than it rose. When I first seen the object (Animal) rise towards the surface it brought up mud or peat with it, staining the waters around it. I knew it wasn't vegetation as the contrast between the colours of the peat around the creature contrasted with the shiny body of the animal. It was a bright summer's day and I can be clear of what I saw.

I didn't mention this story to anyone but my closest friends, to a comical reaction usually. I was a student in UCD at the time and mentioned it to some scientists in the zoology department only to be told it was otters. It was a solid, heavy mass with a completely different mode of propulsion to otters. My friend that day said "it was some sort of mammal" but left it there.

Years ago my mother in law was reading "The Exorcist",

she said it was the most evil book she ever read, so evil in fact she couldn't finish it, so she took it down to the beach and threw it into the ocean.

I bought another copy, ran some water over in it in the sink, and left it in her bedside table drawer.

My father in law said that night was the first time ever she screamed and fainted.

I'm going to hell, but I'll go laughing.

New Home wrote: »

1998 wants its joke back. :pac::P

blinding wrote: »

Funnily enough it keeps coming back :P

steddyeddy wrote: »

Well I hesitate to post here about it but I thought why not. When I lived in Ireland I regularly frequented the more scenic parts of Dublin and Wicklow. I vised a lake neat glencree for years without seeing anything out of the ordinary.

One day we took a walk to one of the twin lakes in the region and seen something strange.
My friend and I were walking on the ridge between both lakes and noticed a large shape rise to the top of the water, not quite breaking through but close enough to see its shape. It was large (5-8 feet across, although measurements at this distance aren't accurate), round, grey and had controlled propulsion. It rose to the top slowly, then moved forward towards the shoreline and back towards the middle of the lake. Then it dived considerably faster than it rose. When I first seen the object (Animal) rise towards the surface it brought up mud or peat with it, staining the waters around it. I knew it wasn't vegetation as the contrast between the colours of the peat around the creature contrasted with the shiny body of the animal. It was a bright summer's day and I can be clear of what I saw.

I didn't mention this story to anyone but my closest friends, to a comical reaction usually. I was a student in UCD at the time and mentioned it to some scientists in the zoology department only to be told it was otters. It was a solid, heavy mass with a completely different mode of propulsion to otters. My friend that day said "it was some sort of mammal" but left it there.

Could someone have released one of these into the lake? Or a large air pocket of decaying matter rising to the surface and then sinking?


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/g/giant-freshwater-stingray/

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?

ILYV could spend the night in room 319 when it reopens.

They could film any strange activity and post it on here for us.

Met someone I'd often dreamed about.

New Home wrote: »

Matt Damon? I bet it was Matt Damon.

No. Sexier than him.

Kinda like the love child of David O'Hara and Liam Neeson. Hot suff. Weird experience though. He gave me flashbacks when he said certain phrases.

Rubberlegs wrote: »

I went to a lockdown in Loftus Hall last year. I had been there in the day as a child in the 80s, my Dad knew the man that owned it at the time being from the area himself. I did the daytime tour with the family a few years ago too, absolutely brilliant. The lockdown was very strange, we were split into groups and visited different rooms in the house. I held dowsing rods in one room and they were crossing and uncrossing when I asked questions. In the room where the devil went through the roof the backs of my legs were absolutely frozen.
I had a funny feeling in the days before going there, I kept thinking to myself what if the car broke down on the way home. When we left Loftus Hall at about 2am I got as far as Ramsgrange and the power steering went on the car. With great difficulty I managed to drive on a bit and get the car parked safely across the road from the graveyard where my Dad, grandparents and various other relatives are buried and sat there in the pitch dark for a couple of hours before being picked up to go home. Certainly a night to remember

A story that must have made you think! Lockdown ahead of anyone too.

maccored wrote: »

if the study of the paranormal was a financially grantable pursuit, Im sure science would study it

They have.


https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/there-is-a-paranormal-activity-lab-at-the-university-of-virginia/283584/