Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

genie_us · 18-06-2020 12:21PM

fryup wrote: »

@ genis_us - was he a security/night watchman perhaps??

Definitely not, he wasn't dressed as if he was working... I've also never seen security people standing outside a block of flats but I guess that's not to say they don't do it. Whatever he was, he was weird and very creepy.

ldy4mxonucwsq6 · 24-06-2020 02:02PM

genie_us wrote: »

Definitely not, he wasn't dressed as if he was working... I've also never seen security people standing outside a block of flats but I guess that's not to say they don't do it. Whatever he was, he was weird and very creepy.

I thought it was good the way you told it, could sense the panic you must have felt. Scared me anyway!

Your gut told you there was something off about him so I'd well believe it.

saabsaab · 26-06-2020 09:04PM

Anyone have experience of precognitive dreams? I have had a few over my life but they mostly were not of something involving life changing events but mundane and yet not predictable.

Lady Haywire · 26-06-2020 09:27PM

saabsaab wrote: »

Anyone have experience of precognitive dreams? I have had a few over my life but they mostly were not of something involving life changing events but mundane and yet not predictable.

I've had a few small sorts of things. This one below remains my best one, so far anyway! That was the only race he ever won too.

Kovu wrote: »

Not really creepy or unnerving but a bit odd so thought it'd fit into this thread.
I had a dream last night where I was riding a big dark horse in a race and it won, I couldn't remember the full name of it but the second word was 'Hell'
Follow a bit of racing so today for the craic I looked through all the races and horses today and found one called 'Blue Hell'. Threw a tenner on it at 6-1 and thought nothing more of it- I normally bet everything each way so was odd for me to just do a straight bet.

Anyway, the fecker won! It's surely just coincidence but there were 44 races on today between UK & Ire, just found it very strange to search for and pick a winner based on a dreamed name. Now if only I can dream of the lotto numbers...:pac:

ger vallely · 27-06-2020 11:03AM

saabsaab wrote: »

Anyone have experience of precognitive dreams? I have had a few over my life but they mostly were not of something involving life changing events but mundane and yet not predictable.

The first one was way back in my younger days. I dreamt that 2 guys I kinda new called over with a friend, to visit my flat. While there, there was a loud banging on the door. I went to answer and it was a drug squad raid. I woke up and thought no more about it. That evening, a friend actually called in and he had two distant aquaintances with him. In the course of the evening I told the of the dream and we laughed it off. As we were doing so, there was a loud banging on the door. I went to answer it and sure enough, of all the things it was the drug squad!! They were looking for a lad that shared the flat, I didn't know him too well. But, during their searching and questioning, one of the visitors that I didn't know too well, looked at me, such a look of shock and disbelief on his face!
Another was many years later. My sister was staying over with me. We stayed up late, drinking and chatting. Eventually, very late, went to bed. I had disturbed sleep. I woke up at one point, very distressed. In my dream I was an Indian man, scrambling through sliding mud, looking frantically for my family. I was hysterical in the dream, totally as if my world was ending. The next morning when I actually did get up, the radio was on and the big news story of the day was of a terrible mud slide in an Indian village where many families were killed. It sounded horrific. R.I.P.
That's my main two. Pretty sure I've had others. Such a peculiar feeling when it happens. I understand though that it's likely just probability or something, not supernatural.

Banana Republic. · 27-06-2020 11:18AM

ger vallely wrote: »

The first one was way back in my younger days. I dreamt that 2 guys I kinda new called over with a friend, to visit my flat. While there, there was a loud banging on the door. I went to answer and it was a drug squad raid. I woke up and thought no more about it. That evening, a friend actually called in and he had two distant aquaintances with him. In the course of the evening I told the of the dream and we laughed it off. As we were doing so, there was a loud banging on the door. I went to answer it and sure enough, of all the things it was the drug squad!! They were looking for a lad that shared the flat, I didn't know him too well. But, during their searching and questioning, one of the visitors that I didn't know too well, looked at me, such a look of shock and disbelief on his face!
Another was many years later. My sister was staying over with me. We stayed up late, drinking and chatting. Eventually, very late, went to bed. I had disturbed sleep. I woke up at one point, very distressed. In my dream I was an Indian man, scrambling through sliding mud, looking frantically for my family. I was hysterical in the dream, totally as if my world was ending. The next morning when I actually did get up, the radio was on and the big news story of the day was of a terrible mud slide in an Indian village where many families were killed. It sounded horrific. R.I.P.
That's my main two. Pretty sure I've had others. Such a peculiar feeling when it happens. I understand though that it's likely just probability or something, not supernatural.

That’s crazy our dreams definitely have that real feeling and it’s the brain in our heads that they say we only use something like 5% of the power it has so you can just imagine what the brain is capable of and setting the future is one of those that I believe we can do. I have it alot throughout life but it’s hard to explain you just see it happening.

Rick_ · 27-06-2020 01:08PM

That whole "we only use a small percentage of our brain" has been proven to be a load of sh1te that people said and ran with over the decades. We use 100% of our brain (well, most of us do!) and anyone that says otherwise clearly doesn't use all of theirs!

Airyfairy12 · 27-06-2020 01:28PM

saabsaab wrote: »

Anyone have experience of precognitive dreams? I have had a few over my life but they mostly were not of something involving life changing events but mundane and yet not predictable.

I often dream of death in the days/weeks before a relative dies. Last time it happened was when my uncle passed unexpectedly. A few nights before I had a dream of seeing a man who looked just like my dad in a coffin. Him and his brother looked identical.
All day at work I had a knot in my stomach as the dream felt very real and the feeling from the dream stayed with me throughout the day and weekend. On the Monday we got a phonecall about my uncle.
At his wake, I was sitting down beside the coffin and caught an angle of my uncle that made him look identical to my dad, it could easily have been him. That was the image id seen in my dream.

It also happens when I have appointments that end up not going ahead.
Think I posted about these before but two that stick out as I cant explain them with coincidences, I had an appointment that id made months previously, I was on a waiting list so had cleared the date, booked the day off work, was really looking forward to this appointment which was in the afternoon. The morning of the appointment I woke up early and dozed off back to sleep, during this nap I had a dream that the woman cancelled the appointment, I was chasing her trying to get a new appointment but she wouldnt answer me and I couldnt catch up with her to make a new appointment. I woke up from the dream just before 9am, a few minutes later I got a text to say the appointment was cancelled and I would be contacted with a new appointment. After a couple of weeks of not being contacted I rang the number but it had been disconnected.

Happened another time with a hair appointment, dreamt something had happened and I couldnt go, dreamed of texting the hairdresser to tell her I was sorry to cancel last minute. That morning I had a family emergency and had to text to cancel last minute, 2 hours before my appointment.

Maybe its just coincidence but it happens often enough.

Airyfairy12 · 27-06-2020 01:38PM

Speaking of dreams, Maybe not a premonition dream but when I was a child my grandad died, after he passed I had this recurring dream of him walking down the aisle of the church towards the alter. We were all sitting in the church benches and I was watching him walk down the church.
Years later, in my 20's, my grandmother passed away. After she died I had a dream of her walking down the same aisle of the church like id dreamed my grandad did, only this time, she came back up the aisle walking with my grandad, arms linked and walking out of the church together.
It was like he was waiting for her all those years.

27-06-2020 05:30PM

ger vallely wrote: »

The first one was way back in my younger days. I dreamt that 2 guys I kinda new called over with a friend, to visit my flat. While there, there was a loud banging on the door. I went to answer and it was a drug squad raid. I woke up and thought no more about it. That evening, a friend actually called in and he had two distant aquaintances with him. In the course of the evening I told the of the dream and we laughed it off. As we were doing so, there was a loud banging on the door. I went to answer it and sure enough, of all the things it was the drug squad!! They were looking for a lad that shared the flat, I didn't know him too well. But, during their searching and questioning, one of the visitors that I didn't know too well, looked at me, such a look of shock and disbelief on his face!
Another was many years later. My sister was staying over with me. We stayed up late, drinking and chatting. Eventually, very late, went to bed. I had disturbed sleep. I woke up at one point, very distressed. In my dream I was an Indian man, scrambling through sliding mud, looking frantically for my family. I was hysterical in the dream, totally as if my world was ending. The next morning when I actually did get up, the radio was on and the big news story of the day was of a terrible mud slide in an Indian village where many families were killed. It sounded horrific. R.I.P.
That's my main two. Pretty sure I've had others. Such a peculiar feeling when it happens. I understand though that it's likely just probability or something, not supernatural.

With regard to the second dream, had you had the radio on low whilst you were sleeping? I like to drift off to sleep with the radio turned on low, a habit of mine. However it has resulted occasionally in me dreaming what’s been spoken about, eg in news bulletins. Can be quite distressing when it happens. I try to keep it on too low to actually make out what’s being said, but the low sound somehow helps me to drift off to sleep.

ger vallely · 27-06-2020 05:51PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

With regard to the second dream, had you had the radio on low whilst you were sleeping? I like to drift off to sleep with the radio turned on low, a habit of mine. However it has resulted occasionally in me dreaming what’s been spoken about, eg in news bulletins. Can be quite distressing when it happens. I try to keep it on too low to actually make out what’s being said, but the low sound somehow helps me to drift off to sleep.

No, I definitely did not. The radio I had was in the kitchen. I never had one in my bedroom. But, I do believe there is a reasonable reason, though that's not it.

ger vallely · 27-06-2020 05:51PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

With regard to the second dream, had you had the radio on low whilst you were sleeping? I like to drift off to sleep with the radio turned on low, a habit of mine. However it has resulted occasionally in me dreaming what’s been spoken about, eg in news bulletins. Can be quite distressing when it happens. I try to keep it on too low to actually make out what’s being said, but the low sound somehow helps me to drift off to sleep.

No, I definitely did not. The radio I had was in the kitchen. I never had one in my bedroom. But, I do believe there is a reasonable reason, though that's not it.

Banana Republic. · 27-06-2020 06:27PM

PFMC84 wrote: »

That whole "we only use a small percentage of our brain" has been proven to be a load of sh1te that people said and ran with over the decades. We use 100% of our brain (well, most of us do!) and anyone that says otherwise clearly doesn't use all of theirs!

Go back to bed and get up on the right side. Who pee’d in your cornflakes ffs

JoChervil · 27-06-2020 06:36PM

Ages ago my two sisters were on vacation together. They brought their only kids with them. My niece was 8 years old and my nephew was 4. One evening they decided to go to a concert with them. A concert finished at 9pm. The shortest way back, where they stayed was through a kind of a park. There were no lanterns there, but kids were sleepy, so they decided to take this route. In the middle of this park was a small river, which they had to cross through the bridge. When they were approaching this bridge they noticed a tip of a cigarette burning there. It was a complete darkness and only that red dot becoming brighter indicating someone was inhaling a smoke. My sisters got scared and were afraid to go through it. So they slowed down. And suddenly from nowhere a german shepherd appeared next to them. It seemed very friendly. So encouraged with its presence they crossed the bridge and passed by a guy standing there. Dog walked by their side from the side of the guy, like separating them from him. Didn’t seem to know him. It just passed him indifferently. When they all got safely to the other side of the park, the dog just run away.

joeguevara · 27-06-2020 06:44PM

PFMC84 wrote: »

That whole "we only use a small percentage of our brain" has been proven to be a load of sh1te that people said and ran with over the decades. We use 100% of our brain (well, most of us do!) and anyone that says otherwise clearly doesn't use all of theirs!

Not as clear cut as that. While you are right that all parts of the brain are used, we don’t know the function of glial cells which make up 90% of the brain. So, we only know how 10% of the brain functions, therefore we don’t know if we could use moee, so maybe shouldn’t call people out on the ‘load of ****e’ as you called it.

Truckermal · 27-06-2020 06:58PM

Most unnerving thing happening just now watching Mehall Martin on TV...:(

the purple tin · 27-06-2020 07:00PM

Truckermal wrote: »

Most unnerving thing happening just now watching Mehall Martin on TV...:(

His hair you mean? since he started to comb it forward.

27-06-2020 07:38PM

Truckermal wrote: »

Most unnerving thing happening just now watching Mehall Martin on TV...:(

His name is the Irish spelling and pronunciation.

the14thwarrior · 27-06-2020 10:21PM

i call him mehole martin.
and he un nerves me
but i digress.
thats not the real point of this thread

joeguevara · 28-06-2020 12:26AM

Deleted User wrote: »

With regard to the second dream, had you had the radio on low whilst you were sleeping? I like to drift off to sleep with the radio turned on low, a habit of mine. However it has resulted occasionally in me dreaming what’s been spoken about, eg in news bulletins. Can be quite distressing when it happens. I try to keep it on too low to actually make out what’s being said, but the low sound somehow helps me to drift off to sleep.

This happens to me often when crash on the couch with Netflix on. I tell you there is nothing more unnerving when it happens with Always Sunny in Philadelphia is on in the background. Freakiest dreams ever,

ILoveYourVibes · 28-06-2020 12:31AM

i just saw a spider

saabsaab · 29-06-2020 09:24PM

Some believe that what you eat before you go to bed affects your dreams. Other have claimed that cheese causes nightmares.

Rick_ · 30-06-2020 08:24AM

When we were young the only other TV in the house was in our parents bedroom so we would be in there a lot watching something after school or in the early evenings if we didn't want to watch what was on in the living room. In my parents bedroom you always heard this grandfather clock chime on the hour every hour coming through the wall, as the neighbours bedroom was on the other side of the wall. We always heard it, and this went on for many years. Then all of a sudden it stopped. We thought nothing more of it and assumed they got rid of it or it was broken.

One day my mum was chatting to our neighbour and she enquired about the clock, only to be told there was no clock and certainly not one they would want in the bedroom that chimed on the hour that loudly it could be heard in the next property. We checked with other people that lived close and none of them had a clock that chimed like the one we heard, so where the hell was that sound coming from?!

punchdrunk · 30-06-2020 08:47PM

I worked for many years in a photo lab, right through the analog (film) age into the digital era. Now in the film era we looked at EVERYTHING, we had to as the automation of the tech was a bit basic and would always make mistakes- so we had to do quality control by eye, so we seen the lot, swingers parties, affairs, exhibitionists, cross dressers- every part of the anatomy you can imagine would flash across ours screens but it was mostly harmless stuff (often hilarious!)

but in the digital era we no longer needed to watch what was printing, the systems worked better and instead of people printing 36 shots on a roll at a time, they were now printing hundreds of photos at a time so we couldn't possibly watch it all.

One woman still stands out and gives me the chills, she started coming in regularly with her daughter (who visibly had a mild disability of some sort). she would guard the screen with her arm and be looking over her shoulder in a very suspicious way and she'd always insist on using the instant printer under the kiosk instead of the photo lab- this cost way more, was way slower and wasn't as good quality (hey, it's her money right?)

one day the instant printer jammed while printing her order and while I tried to fix it she was super agitated and stressed about it (disproportionately so) I was now getting a bad bad vibe- very suspicious... when she left I went into the computers HD and accessed the files...

what I found was disturbing, her daughter (at a guess around 12/13?) posing in almost see through bra and knickers, others that were clothed but very suggestively posed; spreadeagled on the bonnet of a car or standing legs apart in the window of a hotel room, caked in makeup, hair done, wearing little black dresses etc just in total contrast to the disney jumpers, pigtails and girly pink type of clothes that she'd usually be in when they would come in.

There was also some really creepy ones of her sitting on a couch with an elderly man (the vibe was very much NOT of a loving grandad and grandaughter!) there was nothing that you could specifically call porn but the whole feeling and sense of the photos was way off- it's hard to describe but they just came across as uncomfortable, seedy.

I handed the photos over to my cousin who's a detective Garda and never heard anymore about it, I guess they weren't 100% explicit so maybe they'd no grounds to pursue it or maybe they never identified the woman??

Either way she never returned to the shop.
it still creeps me out

thefasteriwalk · 30-06-2020 09:01PM

punchdrunk wrote: »

I worked for many years in a photo lab, right through the analog (film) age into the digital era. Now in the film era we looked at EVERYTHING, we had to as the automation of the tech was a bit basic and would always make mistakes- so we had to do quality control by eye, so we seen the lot, swingers parties, affairs, exebitionists, cross dressers- every part of the anatomy you can imagine would flash across ours screens but it was mostly harmless stuff (often hilarious!)

but in the digital era we no longer needed to watch what was printing, the systems worked better and instead of people printing 36 shots on a roll at a time they were now printings hundreds of photos at a time so we couldn't possibly watch it all.

One woman still stands out and gives me the chills, she started coming in regularly with her daughter (who visibly had a mild disability of some sort). she would guard the screen with her arm and be looking over her shoulder in a very suspicious way and she'd always insist on using the instant printer under the kiosk instead of the photo lab- this cost way more, was way slower and wasn't as good quality (hey, it's her money right?)

one day the instant printer jammed while printing her order and while I tried to fix it she was super agitated and stressed about it (disproportionately so) I was now getting a bad bad vibe- very suspicious... when she left I went into the computers HD and accessed the files...

what I found was disturbing, her daughter (at a guess around 12/13?) posing in almost see through bra and knickers, others that were clothed but very suggestively posed; spreadeagled on the bonnet of a car or standing legs apart in the window of a hotel room, caked in makeup, hair done, wearing little black dresses etc just in total contrast to the disney jumpers, pigtails and girly pink type of clothes that she'd usually be in when they would come in.

There was also some really creepy ones of her sitting on a couch with an elderly man (the vibe was very much NOT of a loving grandad and grandaughter!) there was nothing that you could specifically call porn but the whole feelling and sense of the photos was way off- it's hard to describe but they just came across as uncomfortable, seedy.

I handed the photos over to my cousin who's a detective Garda and never heard anymore about it, I guess they weren't 100% explicit so maybe they'd no grounds to pursue it or maybe they never identified the woman??

Either way she never returned to the shop.
it still creeps me out

I really wish I hadn't read this.

Rockbeast2 · 30-06-2020 09:11PM

thefasteriwalk wrote: »

I really wish I hadn't read this.

Yes, I agree. Maybe not quite the "creepy or unnerving" I was hoping to read.

punchdrunk · 30-06-2020 09:39PM

thefasteriwalk wrote: »

I really wish I hadn't read this.

yeah it freaked me out at the time and I really wished that I was just mistaken somehow!

fryup · 30-06-2020 10:53PM

kinda reminds of that movie - one hour photo

Rockbeast2 · 30-06-2020 11:01PM

punchdrunk wrote: »

yeah it freaked me out at the time and I really wished that I was just mistaken somehow!

Hey PD, it was a well written and built up post. It was just towards the end I was going :eek::eek::mad:

I hope that it was dealt with by authorities and am sorry you had to witness it.

punchdrunk · 30-06-2020 11:12PM

fryup wrote: »

kinda reminds of that movie - one hour photo

would you believe in all my years working in a photo shop i never seen it :pac:

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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