Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

New Home · 31-05-2020 05:27AM

talla10 wrote: »

In my teens my friends and I regularly created Ouija boards. We spent ages sitting around asking questions and always ended with lads moving the glass but pretending they didn't. Nothing bad ever came out of it.

I'm very cynical about Ouija boards, supernatural occurances, ghosts etc. I've ran around the Hellfire club counter clockwise 10 times to see the devil and stuff like that but never saw anything.

I love this thread but I haven't go any story of my own!:eek:

Be careful what you wish for.

31-05-2020 06:47AM

More coincidence but still freaked me. Was cycling a few miles from my house in the country side last Sunday when I noticed a woman walking the road ahead of me who looked very like my next door neighbour. Cycled past and looked back to say hello but it wasn't her, just a woman who looked and dressed very like her. Anyway, my neighbour would have no reason at all to be on that road so just dismissed it but I got a very strong feeling that I was going to see my neighbour anyway.

A few hundred metres up the road, coming against me on the country road, I notice another woman who looks exactly like my neighbour. I get closer and it's her. I find this very weird as I have never seen her in any other context other than in her home or garden.

A few days later I met her and she told me that was the first time she had ever walked that road and she just got a notion to walk it that morning.

Pure coincidence but as I was cycling that road I just got this overwhelming sense that I was going to see that woman, and I did.

Nicetrustedcup · 31-05-2020 07:24AM

For me it would be the 1st house I grow up in,

It was in the middle of a town over the family’s shop and it probably was about 200 plus years old,

Over the years it was a barber, a regular shop, restaurant and something else I think,

So anyway everyone in my family seen something in the building,

Myself in my bedroom one night I was going to turn off the light in the bedroom and I seen a girl in a dress just standing there by the light, or where my bed was when I used to enter the room there was always a shadow over it,

Then my oldest sisters room was one of the worst she woke up one night to see a man with like a paddy cap at the end of her bed, she also had the covers pulled off her, one night she was in the shop part of the business and she had someone go jeses chirst into her ear,

My mother then seen the same man multiable times in the shop part sitting in a corner on a table with his paddy cap,

We also had one spot that we could never get warm you could put a heater there and it would do Notting at all, it was just a ice cold spot,

There is countless more storeys but I think this is all I can remember of the place as I was young,

However just after we sold the building I got a temp teacher in school who grow up in the same building and she old me story’s about the building to and what she seen over the years,

Then 2 years later the house part was turned into apartments and one of my oldest sisters firends was renting a room in the place and she asked my sister had she ever seen anything strange in her bedroom and her friend told her what she seen and it was the man with the hat again, he used to repeatly pull the covers off her bed, my sister also stayed with her one night after a night out and they both seen the man at the end of the bed,

My sisters friend ended up moveing out of the house over it and others moved out over it to,

There has been a crazy amount of people come and go from that building since and they could not even sell it,

So more or less there has been countless people to see this man in the place and we think it’s the guy who used to own the barbers and does not won’t anyone in his building

SEPT 23 1989 · 31-05-2020 10:10AM

Nicetrustedcup wrote: »

For me it would be the 1st house I grow up in,

It was in the middle of a town over the family’s shop and it probably was about 200 plus years old,

Over the years it was a barber, a regular shop, restaurant and something else I think,

So anyway everyone in my family seen something in the building,

Myself in my bedroom one night I was going to turn off the light in the bedroom and I seen a girl in a dress just standing there by the light, or where my bed was when I used to enter the room there was always a shadow over it,

Then my oldest sisters room was one of the worst she woke up one night to see a man with like a paddy cap at the end of her bed, she also had the covers pulled off her, one night she was in the shop part of the business and she had someone go jeses chirst into her ear,

My mother then seen the same man multiable times in the shop part sitting in a corner on a table with his paddy cap,

We also had one spot that we could never get warm you could put a heater there and it would do Notting at all, it was just a ice cold spot,

There is countless more storeys but I think this is all I can remember of the place as I was young,

However just after we sold the building I got a temp teacher in school who grow up in the same building and she old me story’s about the building to and what she seen over the years,

Then 2 years later the house part was turned into apartments and one of my oldest sisters firends was renting a room in the place and she asked my sister had she ever seen anything strange in her bedroom and her friend told her what she seen and it was the man with the hat again, he used to repeatly pull the covers off her bed, my sister also stayed with her one night after a night out and they both seen the man at the end of the bed,

My sisters friend ended up moveing out of the house over it and others moved out over it to,

There has been a crazy amount of people come and go from that building since and they could not even sell it,

So more or less there has been countless people to see this man in the place and we think it’s the guy who used to own the barbers and does not won’t anyone in his building

It would be interesting to find out the history of who lived there

cazzer22 · 31-05-2020 03:45PM

talla10 wrote: »

In my teens my friends and I regularly created Ouija boards. We spent ages sitting around asking questions and always ended with lads moving the glass but pretending they didn't. Nothing bad ever came out of it.

I'm very cynical about Ouija boards, supernatural occurances, ghosts etc. I've ran around the Hellfire club counter clockwise 10 times to see the devil and stuff like that but never saw anything.

I love this thread but I haven't go any story of my own!:eek:

I actually was invited to do it a few times as a teen and have friends that did. My Dad, who is normally very calm and doesn't lose his temper, lost it when he thought I might do one as well. I never went near one after what he said.

Let's just say, in his profession, he has experience of it going very wrong for people and it affecting them and their lives horribly so I just didn't want to gamble with it.

up for anything · 31-05-2020 04:38PM

Nicetrustedcup wrote: »

For me it would be the 1st house I grow up in,

It was in the middle of a town over the family’s shop and it probably was about 200 plus years old

I can't stand this. What's the town and where is the building? Google map reference please.

cazzer22 wrote: »

Let's just say, in his profession, he has experience of it going very wrong for people and it affecting them and their lives horribly

Likewise this will keep me awake at nights. What is his profession?

cnoc · 31-05-2020 04:43PM

saabsaab wrote: »

Story on RTE radio earlier about an encounter with a giant shadow figure in Clare one night sounded like this description.

'The Hat Man appears as a completely dark figure like other Shadow People. The obvious difference is that Hat Man wears a hat which has appeared as a top hat in some sightings and a fedora in others. While many people are unable to make out what he is wearing, some report seeing old-fashioned clothing, a long trench coat or a cape, and he always appears at least six feet tall. The Hat Man's face is also usually indistinguishable but many who he has visited have claimed he has glowing red eyes,'

Where in Clare were the reported sightings?

Nicetrustedcup · 31-05-2020 05:34PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

It would be interesting to find out the history of who lived there

up for anything wrote: »

I can't stand this. What's the town and where is the building? Google map reference please.

Likewise this will keep me awake at nights. What is his profession?

I would love to try and find out the full ownership history of this building, to make you laugh my father was offered the building back for 25% of what he sold it for and he still would not take it back !!!

Now that would give away my name and who I am on boards if I told you that one

sunshinew · 31-05-2020 05:58PM

Argh, mention of Ouija board has brought back a memory I like to keep squished down as it makes me question everything.

I'd see myself as a fairly cynical person, not religious, base opinion in science, though I believe we've a lot left to learn about the world so I'm somewhat open to some of the stuff that cannot be explained.

As a teenager, the trend of Ouija boards ran around my school for a couple of months. One night, my best friend at the time was staying over in my house and we thought we'd give it a try. We wrote out a home made Ouija board, I found a ring and we set up in my bedroom just the two of us.

For the first while I think we both thought it was a bit of fun and we kept questioning each other, thinking the other person was pushing it around. A "spirit" named Ben started talking to us,. He said he had died of TB. Thinking it was my friend messing with me, I asked questions she wouldn't know the answer to. I asked where things were hidden in my room and "he" answered correctly. This happened a few times and while freaked out it was a friendly enough "conversation". A friend of mine had recently been killed in a car crash and I asked how she was. He said, "she's not here, she was good."
He then said he'd been joined by a 7 year old boy named Tim but he was scared to say hello. The conversation suddenly went much darker. It spelled out Dont leave, we asked why. It replied He wants to meet you, he is coming, we asked who, and then.... It spelled out... Satan is here...

I know, I know, I can sense the eye rolls coming from you reading this. Obviously, we freaked out, and it spelled don't leave again. We said we are leaving, we want to leave and what should we do. It spelled out, Be Good.

Obviously the rational explanation is my friend was joking with me. If that's the case, she deserves an Oscar. We both were significantly freaked out for weeks after. I, a teenager obsessed with trying to be cool, wore a religious medal my granny gave me around my neck for at least a year. I hated being left alone. I felt a presence around me for months.

Anyway, time goes by, memories fade, my friend drifted away from me in college as she kinda reinvented herself. Years later I was telling this story to another friend. I hadn't had any contact with my school friend in years. I texted, remember that night with Ben and the board, please tell me, did that actually happen... And she just wrote back yes.

I'm not religious, certainly not organised religion. I would say I don't believe in heaven or hell or even any type of an after life... until I remember that story and then I think oh ****... Maybe I've got it all wrong. I want to believe it was my friend, but knowing her as well as I did and the aftermath of how we both reacted, the other option is actually more believable. I've only really spoken about it 2 or 3 times since as I know people would perceive me as a headcase talking about a teenage ouija experience! But well 20 odd years later and I've just freaked myself out again. Time to dig out some holy water...

sunshinew · 31-05-2020 06:03PM

cazzer22 wrote: »

I actually was invited to do it a few times as a teen and have friends that did. My Dad, who is normally very calm and doesn't lose his temper, lost it when he thought I might do one as well. I never went near one after what he said.

Let's just say, in his profession, he has experience of it going very wrong for people and it affecting them and their lives horribly so I just didn't want to gamble with it.

Given my post above, I'd love to know what profession your father is in... And if I've eternally damned myself....

EmmetSpiceland · 31-05-2020 06:07PM

sunshinew wrote: »

Given my post above, I'd love to know what profession your father is in... And if I've eternally damned myself....

I’d be more interested in what the 7 year old did to deserve to be there and not with the “good” people.

upupup · 31-05-2020 06:15PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I’d be more interested in what the 7 year old did to deserve to be there and not with the “good” people.

God and the Devil often play poker with the souls of the dead:eek:

sunshinew · 31-05-2020 06:16PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I’d be more interested in what the 7 year old did to deserve to be there and not with the “good” people.

I know, we talked about this and came to the conclusion that "Ben" was lying and was saying things to keep us talking to him. He said he was 18.. perfect age for teenage girls. It was a friendly and fun conversation... Until it suddenly wasn't....

Duckworth_Luas · 31-05-2020 06:18PM

saabsaab wrote: »

Story on RTE radio earlier about an encounter with a giant shadow figure in Clare one night sounded like this description.

'The Hat Man appears as a completely dark figure like other Shadow People. The obvious difference is that Hat Man wears a hat which has appeared as a top hat in some sightings and a fedora in others. While many people are unable to make out what he is wearing, some report seeing old-fashioned clothing, a long trench coat or a cape, and he always appears at least six feet tall. The Hat Man's face is also usually indistinguishable but many who he has visited have claimed he has glowing red eyes,'

This was a common sighting in rural Ireland in the past.

The shadowy figure in the top hat.

I remember my own parents recounting stories of people who claimed to have seen him.

People only ever saw him at night, where he stood behind an entrance into a field.

The explanation is that it was a horse's face they mistook for a man in such a hat.

Horses are much less common now and nobody ever sees him anymore.

Timberrrrrrrr · 31-05-2020 06:25PM

Reading this thread and reminds me of something that happened to me in England circa 1979/1980.

Myself and 4 friends had been at a local park and were heading home, one of us asked a man passing by the time and realising he was going to be late home my friend suggested we run the rest of the way (basically 10 minutes, nothing to a bunch of preteens) after a couple of minutes running/jogging I got this crazy sensation that time had slowed down, my mind was still functioning at a normal pace but everything (birds, cars, people) had all slowed to a crawl.

This lasted for what felt like 10 to 15 seconds and then everything just kinda "jerked" back into normal. All of us immediately stopped running, one of my friends asked was it just him or did that happen to us all. We all agreed the same thing happened.

Went home and when we mentioned it to parents/siblings they all said we were crazy/imagining it but all 5 of us had witnessed the strange phenomenon.

Think we only ever mentioned it once or twice after that and I moved to Ireland the following year so never seen them again. Never thought of it since until.i read this thread.

NSAman · 31-05-2020 06:30PM

Following on from my previous posts about the house I live in... something else that I have noticed.

I lock every door before leaving except the front door...(zero crime here)

On occasion though, I have noticed that one of the door locks is always unlocked when I come home. So I decided to lock ALL doors before leaving for work.

Low and behold that same door lock was open when I came home.

Security cameras prove no one came in or was around the house that day....

nothing menacing about it... nothing moved or taken... just the same door unlocked and it cannot unlock by itself....strange.

Hammer89 · 31-05-2020 07:56PM

Hammer89 wrote: »

I used to work for that old Lucozade factory in Artane. I was drafted in by the fat cats to investigate why it's impossible to keep a bottle of red Lucozade fizzy after it's been opened a couple of times. Anyways, I turned up to the factory early one morning, before anybody else, and saw an old man wearing a wedding dress.

I'd already seen weirder things, and weirder people, in Artane that morning so I wrote it off. "Probably a stag gone awry. I've gone to more extreme lengths to get a Lucozade in a hungover state," I think to myself. But the bossman is due in soon so I need to clear this yokal off. "Hey, you there," I shout at him. "This is no place for you. Be gone at once." He turns around, slowly, and I see it's not any old man, but my f*cking great grandad on my mother's side. "Leave me be you fat knacker," he says to me and continues on his way. To this day nobody believes this happened.

I know what you're thinking. "Did I ever figure out a way to make a Lucozade red bottle retain its fizz?" and the answer, if you've drank the f*cking thing once in the last 10 years, you'll know is no.

GerryDerpy wrote: »

What does the 89 mean in your username?

Hammer89 wrote: »

Not important.

GerryDerpy wrote: »

Well I think it is because I doubt the fat cats hired in an 18 year old whizz kid (or is that fizz kid)?

Hammer89 wrote: »

It's genuinely creepy that that's the part of my post which you doubt

GerryDerpy wrote: »

Yep. Just calling out the BS is all.

Plus if I knock out the foundation of the story then the rest falls quite easily.

Hammer89 wrote: »

You're calling BS in a post where I claim to have seen the ghost of my great grandad wearing a wedding dress, in a Lucozade factory in Artane, where I was assigned a job of keeping the fizz in a bottle of red Lucozade?

GerryDerpy wrote: »

Nice try.

The most amazing exchange I've ever had on Boards.

blinding · 31-05-2020 08:47PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Reading this thread and reminds me of something that happened to me in England circa 1979/1980.

Myself and 4 friends had been at a local park and were heading home, one of us asked a man passing by the time and realising he was going to be late home my friend suggested we run the rest of the way (basically 10 minutes, nothing to a bunch of preteens) after a couple of minutes running/jogging I got this crazy sensation that time had slowed down, my mind was still functioning at a normal pace but everything (birds, cars, people) had all slowed to a crawl.

This lasted for what felt like 10 to 15 seconds and then everything just kinda "jerked" back into normal. All of us immediately stopped running, one of my friends asked was it just him or did that happen to us all. We all agreed the same thing happened.

Went home and when we mentioned it to parents/siblings they all said we were crazy/imagining it but all 5 of us had witnessed the strange phenomenon.

Think we only ever mentioned it once or twice after that and I moved to Ireland the following year so never seen them again. Never thought of it since until.i read this thread.

Famous Five get done in an Alien Abduction !

Timberrrrrrrr · 31-05-2020 09:04PM

blinding wrote: »

Famous Five get done in an Alien Abduction !

No Timmy the dog :pac:

ckeego · 31-05-2020 09:10PM

Absolutely brilliant thread that I dip in and out of every few months.

Several times in the last 20 pages I’ve had the spine shivers...

Maybe one for a mod or other, but maybe someone could post the top 10 unnerving stories from here...

Certainly the one of the lady and her dogs in the forest makes it into the Top 3...

Lady Haywire · 31-05-2020 10:01PM

ckeego wrote: »

Absolutely brilliant thread that I dip in and out of every few months.

Several times in the last 20 pages I’ve had the spine shivers...

Maybe one for a mod or other, but maybe someone could post the top 10 unnerving stories from here...

Certainly the one of the lady and her dogs in the forest makes it into the Top 3...

This link should give you the most thanked posts in descending order.

Banana Republic. · 31-05-2020 10:41PM

sunshinew wrote: »

A friend of mine had recently been killed in a car crash and I asked how she was. He said, "she's not here, she was good."
He then said he'd been joined by a 7 year old boy named Tim but he was scared to say hello. The conversation suddenly went much darker. It spelled out Dont leave, we asked why. It replied He wants to meet you, he is coming, we asked who, and then.... It spelled out... Satan is here... quote]

That officially gave me goosebumps. Freaked me out.

Banana Republic. · 31-05-2020 11:07PM

Dunno if this counts but I’ll post it anyway

Seen such a weird thing twice today.
There was a huge amount of broken glass (a huge amount you’d noticed if it smashed on the road by A Roundabout no crash had happened or nobody was attending it , just lying there on the road it was very dangerous. So about half hour later I was out by the local airport and there was another huge amount of glass on the road unattended and no signs of a crash or anything. Kinda weirded me out at the time and more I’m thinking of it. Looked up what does broken glass mean and it’s supposed to be good luck is coming after a bad or tough time recently. Mad one (well in my head anyway lol)

blinding · 31-05-2020 11:09PM

Banana Republic. wrote: »

Dunno if this counts but I’ll post it anyway

Seen such a weird thing twice today.
There was a huge amount of broken glass (a huge amount you’d noticed if it smashed on the road by A Roundabout no crash had happened or nobody was attending it , just lying there on the road it was very dangerous. So about half hour later I was out by the local airport and there was another huge amount of glass on the road unattended and no signs of a crash or anything. Kinda weirded me out at the time and more I’m thinking of it. Looked up what does broken glass mean and it’s supposed to be good luck is coming after a bad or tough time recently. Mad one (well in my head anyway lol)

Any Chicago Gangsters from the 1920’s about !

Banana Republic. · 31-05-2020 11:27PM

blinding wrote: »

Any Chicago Gangsters from the 1920’s about !

I don’t get your reference, care to elaborate?

Smart Bug · 01-06-2020 02:10AM

NSAman wrote: »

Following on from my previous posts about the house I live in... something else that I have noticed.

I lock every door before leaving except the front door...(zero crime here)

On occasion though, I have noticed that one of the door locks is always unlocked when I come home. So I decided to lock ALL doors before leaving for work.

Low and behold that same door lock was open when I came home.

Security cameras prove no one came in or was around the house that day....

nothing menacing about it... nothing moved or taken... just the same door unlocked and it cannot unlock by itself....strange.

Can you focus the cctv on it?

Smart Bug · 01-06-2020 02:29AM

Couple of weird things have happened to me over the years.

Reading the BMP posts and it somehow made me think of a guy I kept encountering on the way to work every morning in 2002/3.

I’d just moved to Dublin, cut my hair, got a job. Walked across the (new) millennium bridge, north to south, and at around the same point of the bridge I’d come face to face with this guy who looked exactly the same as me - tall, dark hair, smig, scowl (because it’s morning) except with long hair. The exact same. Made me feel dizzy to look at him; one morning I nearly fell over. And I swear he was thinking the same. Or else thought I fancied the cut of his jib.

I’m underselling the strangeness which permeated me and spike of adrenaline I experienced when I encountered him. Never laid eyes on him anywhere but on that bridge; haven’t seen him since.

Smart Bug · 01-06-2020 02:44AM

blinding wrote: »

Covid-19 looking for an invite !

...too soon man, too soon.

starrygleam11 · 01-06-2020 04:31AM

Im not sure if its weird but
I was 16 skateboarding in a few story parking lot i was at the very top as there was barley any cars there.
There was an elevator to get up there too.
Rarley anyone came through that elevator.
As i was skating i Heard the elevator open some Dude in his mid 30s came up he looked around at me and said hi i said hi back and focused on skating as soon as i turned around trying to ride in the other direction i Heard him running towards me i grabbed my board ran for my life and never skated in that park again.

blinding · 01-06-2020 07:33AM

Banana Republic. wrote: »

I don’t get your reference, care to elaborate?

Hooch ; Broken Bottles in the Shenanigans that surround such Activity.

Al Capone went in to the Milk business to wash some of the dodgy money. Also Glass Bottles. He supposedly once said after making so much money selling Milk ; We have been in the Wrong Racket All Along !

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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