Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

Poor Uncle Tom · 01-06-2020 08:03AM

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)

Overfilled glass recovery truck, coming to a stop, truck slows, load shifts, glass spills, be interesting to see if it's all the one colour?

incidentally, all the recycling banks are filled into the one truck body, no segregation there. most that I know of are then crushed and used for fill, so no recycling there either.

Banana Republic. · 01-06-2020 08:29AM

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Overfilled glass recovery truck, coming to a stop, truck slows, load shifts, glass spills, be interesting to see if it's all the one colour?

incidentally, all the recycling banks are filled into the one truck body, no segregation there. most that I know of are then crushed and used for fill, so no recycling there either.

All the same coloured glass the standard see through stuff. Such a dangerous place in the road, the one was weird but then to see it again in a completely different part of the city, it’s a mad one.

Banana Republic. · 01-06-2020 08:33AM

Smart Bug wrote: »

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.

I have definitely heard of that before from like a time travellers thread or a Dopplegänger (an apparition or double of a living person) with the fuzzy faint feeling could well be you meeting yourself in a different space in time. I’m not averse to these kind of things happening as your spirit is a very powerful thing. It’s definitely a wiped out scenario. How many times have you seen this “person” ?

Nicetrustedcup · 01-06-2020 10:42AM

I have a 2nd story,

A few years back my father and I where travelling home
From work at night,

We just passed the outside of a village I look to side there was this old man standing behind a wall with long grey hair, a straw hat and a walking stick he was just looking at me and I was looking at him, like this would have maybe been 1 in the morning and I turned to the father going did you see him ? He went seen what he went no, so anyway I asked him to turn around and when we went back less then a min later and the person was no where to be seen and we even pulled in to where I seen the person,

I even asked people who I know from that village and they had no clue of the person I was talking about

The village in question is Freshford where St Nicholas is post to he barried the st who Santa is based on and I wonder could it been the ghost of this st I seen as what I seen was basically someone who looked like Santa

ldy4mxonucwsq6 · 01-06-2020 03:28PM

Way back when I was a student I used to work in a local pub.

This involved me walking home pretty late at night after closing time (I wouldn't do it today!).

I was working there a while when the phone calls started, every night I'd come home and open the front door of my house, within a minute or two of me getting in the door the house phone would ring.

To start with the calls were pretty inane conversation hello, how are you, what are you doing with me asking who is this etc (at 2am it was quite strange).

This kept happening every night like clockwork, I asked them to stop calling and to leave me alone, I was getting freaked out and it was clear someone knew exactly when I was getting home.

I lost it one night and basically told them to f*** off, the calls continued but no more chat just silent lines and hang ups. The calls stopped eventually or they got bored but it did have me looking over my shoulder for a while.

Nothing paranormal, probably some weirdo neighbour but it was very unsettling and made my nightly walks home very scary for a while.

blinding · 01-06-2020 03:56PM

Nicetrustedcup wrote: »

I have a 2nd story,

A few years back my father and I where travelling home
From work at night,

We just passed the outside of a village I look to side there was this old man standing behind a wall with long grey hair, a straw hat and a walking stick he was just looking at me and I was looking at him, like this would have maybe been 1 in the morning and I turned to the father going did you see him ? He went seen what he went no, so anyway I asked him to turn around and when we went back less then a min later and the person was no where to be seen and we even pulled in to where I seen the person,

I even asked people who I know from that village and they had no clue of the person I was talking about

The village in question is Freshford where St Nicholas is post to he barried the st who Santa is based on and I wonder could it been the ghost of this st I seen as what I seen was basically someone who looked like Santa

Was it the 24th/25th of December ?

Day Lewin · 01-06-2020 10:42PM

Daniel Freezing Saturn wrote: »

Way back when I was a student I used to work in a local pub.

This involved me walking home pretty late at night after closing time (I wouldn't do it today!).

I was working there a while when the phone calls started, every night I'd come home and open the front door of my house, within a minute or two of me getting in the door the house phone would ring.

To start with the calls were pretty inane conversation hello, how are you, what are you doing with me asking who is this etc (at 2am it was quite strange).

This kept happening every night like clockwork, I asked them to stop calling and to leave me alone, I was getting freaked out and it was clear someone knew exactly when I was getting home.

I lost it one night and basically told them to f*** off, the calls continued but no more chat just silent lines and hang ups. The calls stopped eventually or they got bored but it did have me looking over my shoulder for a while.

Nothing paranormal, probably some weirdo neighbour but it was very unsettling and made my nightly walks home very scary for a while.

This must have been very unsettling indeed - I salute your courage, your sang-froid!

Distinctly un-nerving.

PS The times I've received nuisance phone calls, I always turn the radio on to a really bad music station and leave the phone beside it, and walk away.

s1ippy · 01-06-2020 10:48PM

Coming home from the pub in Limerick in 2009 I saw what looked like a big sub roll wrapped in tin foil on the ground with coins stuck into it like a stegasaurous' back and it was spray painted gold. I have the photo I took on my potato phone I had at the time, if I find it I'll repost. I got such a sense of paranoia, chills ran through my body when I saw it. A lot of people who know me say I've never been the same since. I've had professional help to try and overcome my shock but nothing has worked.

saabsaab · 01-06-2020 11:05PM

s1ippy wrote: »

Coming home from the pub in Limerick in 2009 I saw what looked like a big sub roll wrapped in tin foil on the ground with coins stuck into it like a stegasaurous' back and it was spray painted gold. I have the photo I took on my potato phone I had at the time, if I find it I'll repost. I got such a sense of paranoia, chills ran through my body when I saw it. A lot of people who know me say I've never been the same since. I've had professional help to try and overcome my shock but nothing has worked.

Discarded or lost art project?

s1ippy · 01-06-2020 11:08PM

Yeah the art college was just around the corner so that actually explains it. Thank you for helping me get over this confusing and traumatic episode.

Leg End Reject · 01-06-2020 11:11PM

s1ippy wrote: »

Yeah the art college was just around the corner so that actually explains it. Thank you for helping me get over this confusing and traumatic episode.

Why was that traumatic? Am I missing something? Like sarcasm maybe?

EmmetSpiceland · 01-06-2020 11:17PM

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Why was that traumatic? Am I missing something? Like sarcasm maybe?

Could have been a turd inside it. You can “dress it up” but it’s still gonna be shíte.

Blondini · 01-06-2020 11:18PM

Daniel Freezing Saturn wrote: »

Way back when I was a student I used to work in a local pub.

This involved me walking home pretty late at night after closing time (I wouldn't do it today!).

I was working there a while when the phone calls started, every night I'd come home and open the front door of my house, within a minute or two of me getting in the door the house phone would ring.

To start with the calls were pretty inane conversation hello, how are you, what are you doing with me asking who is this etc (at 2am it was quite strange).

This kept happening every night like clockwork, I asked them to stop calling and to leave me alone, I was getting freaked out and it was clear someone knew exactly when I was getting home.

I lost it one night and basically told them to f*** off, the calls continued but no more chat just silent lines and hang ups. The calls stopped eventually or they got bored but it did have me looking over my shoulder for a while.

Nothing paranormal, probably some weirdo neighbour but it was very unsettling and made my nightly walks home very scary for a while.

Definitely an angry time-travelling teacher from 2020 who has read your posts.

Leg End Reject · 01-06-2020 11:23PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Could have been a turd inside it. You can “dress it up” but it’s still gonna be shíte.

You're the expert in that department, Emmet.

EmmetSpiceland · 01-06-2020 11:29PM

Leg End Reject wrote: »

You're the expert in that department, Emmet.

Oh please, I would never leave an improvised faeco-terrorist “device” like that for a civilian to, just, “happen” upon.

Leg End Reject · 01-06-2020 11:31PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Oh please, I would never leave an improvised faeco-terrorist “device” like that for a civilian to, just, “happen” upon.

Very considerate of you, if you don't mind me saying.

up for anything · 02-06-2020 01:44AM

Hammer89 wrote: »

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

I remember that when it happened. It was so funny. I always got the feeling that the poster was leading you up the garden path.

Nicetrustedcup wrote: »

I have a 2nd story,

The village in question is Freshford where St Nicholas is post to he barried the st who Santa is based on and I wonder could it been the ghost of this st I seen as what I seen was basically someone who looked like Santa

Gettaway out of that! Since when was St Nicholas buried in Freshford? He is supposed to be buried in Jerpoint.

blinding · 02-06-2020 04:29AM

up for anything wrote: »

I remember that when it happened. It was so funny. I always got the feeling that the poster was leading you up the garden path.

Gettaway out of that! Since when was St Nicholas buried in Freshford? He is supposed to be buried in Jerpoint.

He gets around !

Bandana boy · 02-06-2020 11:52AM

fryup wrote: »

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??

Probably a headboard !

Banana Republic. · 02-06-2020 12:24PM

Bandana boy wrote: »

Probably a headboard !

Hahaha Fact That can be unnerving lol

saabsaab · 02-06-2020 08:17PM

Bandana boy wrote: »

Probably a headboard !

Yep, Cork ghosts can be quite boisterous at night!

Chancer3001 · 02-06-2020 08:52PM

They say you can't die in your dreams. But i had a dream where i died one night. Very creepy.

Everyone was on top of a building and had to jump off it. There were crash mats in certain places but you didnt know til you jumped.

Anyways i jumped and hit the ground. Died. Instant infinite blackness in all directions but my mind was left active as it is now.

It was horrible. A mad panic hoping for some kindof light for me to walk into. Then a mad panic looking for company to talk to, a la other ghosts.

Then a realisation that i was trapped in blackness for eternity with just my own thoughts until i would go insane.

Then i woke up. Thank god!

saabsaab · 03-06-2020 01:36PM

Chancer3001 wrote: »

They say you can't die in your dreams. But i had a dream where i died one night. Very creepy.

Everyone was on top of a building and had to jump off it. There were crash mats in certain places but you didnt know til you jumped.

Anyways i jumped and hit the ground. Died. Instant infinite blackness in all directions but my mind was left active as it is now.

It was horrible. A mad panic hoping for some kindof light for me to walk into. Then a mad panic looking for company to talk to, a la other ghosts.

Then a realisation that i was trapped in blackness for eternity with just my own thoughts until i would go insane.

Then i woke up. Thank god!

Strangely enough a priest said that 'hell' was not pitchforks and fire but similar to what you describe, an infinite nothingness.

Chancer3001 · 03-06-2020 03:40PM

I would agree with that priest's idea.

There was also bitter regret that i didn't peek over the edge first before i jumped to see the crash mat.

So it would have been infinity cursing my own stupidity and foolhardiness.

I also had a dream as a kid where i went to hell but i won't be describing that lol. Wasn't a nice place.

80j2lc5y7u6qs9 · 03-06-2020 05:31PM

Chancer3001 wrote: »

They say you can't die in your dreams. But i had a dream where i died one night. Very creepy.

Everyone was on top of a building and had to jump off it. There were crash mats in certain places but you didnt know til you jumped.

Anyways i jumped and hit the ground. Died. Instant infinite blackness in all directions but my mind was left active as it is now.

It was horrible. A mad panic hoping for some kindof light for me to walk into. Then a mad panic looking for company to talk to, a la other ghosts.

Then a realisation that i was trapped in blackness for eternity with just my own thoughts until i would go insane.

Then i woke up. Thank god!

A couple of nights ago I dreamed i was shot three of four blasts of a shotgun.They did not all hit me. As my life was ebbing a dog came and started siniffing as though going to eat me when I died.I recall thinking i am dying then woke up

New Home · 03-06-2020 06:57PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Your phone your choice. You’re paying for it so it’s for your convenience.

Wrong thread, maybe? Or am I missing something?

MonkieSocks · 03-06-2020 07:20PM

New Home wrote: »

Wrong thread, maybe? Or am I missing something?

It’s like when your phone rings in the middle of the night while you are asleep.

The ringing wakes you up and you answer it.

You say “Hello” and you get No response.

You say “hello” a few more times but again No response.

You carefully listen for any reply but none is forthcoming but you can sense and feel something.

.Something in the silence…………Something alive..............and......................hateful.

You eventually hang up and try to forget about it.

You are drifting off to sleep, and then the phone rings again.

Canard · 03-06-2020 07:30PM

have y'all never heard of silent mode

New Home · 03-06-2020 07:32PM

Or airplane mode. Or unplugging the landline. Or keeping the phone off the hook. Or using a whistle.

03-06-2020 07:35PM

New Home wrote: »

Wrong thread, maybe? Or am I missing something?

Yeah, **** sorry. Too many tabs

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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