Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

HelgaWard · 20-07-2020 03:03PM

Very similar experience here. Was on holidays abroad and dreamt that my boyfriends friends father died. I had never met the man. Told my boyfriend at breakfast and when we got back up to our room he had a text to say his friends father had died. Can't explain it, I wasn't even aware if the man was ill or not.

the heathen · 20-07-2020 03:08PM

This is one that happened to someone I know (Claire).

Claire was enjoying a walk along a country road with her two children when she got an odd sensation as if she was being watched or similar. She thought nothing of it, shrugged it off and carried on on her walk.

A friend of hers drove past. She waved, her friend waved and both carried on their ways.

A few days later Claire met her friend, and her friend asked who was the man that had been walking with her and the two children.

She said there'd been no-one. It was just her and the kiddies but her friend was adamant that when she passed by there had been a man in a long blue coat walking alongside.

A few days later, when recounting the odd story to another friend, Claire was told that she wasn't the first person this had happened to in that area. A garda had been shot on the particular stretch of road many years previous and was said to be guarding it still and had been seen on occasion by a number of other walkers.

cazzer22 · 20-07-2020 04:24PM

melmoth77 wrote: »

One here that I'm sure has a scientific explanation as a freak weather phenomenon, but unnerved me all the same! Myself and my friend were around 11 or 12 in Wexford on a beach and we were exploring the side of the beach we didn't normally go. It was a lovely summer day, calm, sunny, blue skies. All of a sudden this almighty wind gusted out of nowhere - stronger than I've ever experienced, it nearly knocked us off our feet. We even ducked down behind a rock in fright hanging onto each other. And then like that - it was gone, back to a perfectly calm day. We ran back home but no one seemed to have experienced the same thing (I got the impression our parents didn't really believe us or thought we were exaggerating). We did mention it to one of our older neighbours, who just nodded and said "ah, that'd be the fairy wind".

That is so strange. This reminds me of a time I visited a funfair in West Cork with two friends. The funfair was always held in this car park right beside the harbour. We went and like that, calm evening and weather was fine. Out of nowhere, this freak wind happened and all the people operating the rides began closing them up as it was just too dangerous. It was also lashing rain. My friends ran to get shelter under a ride and I went to run out of the funfair and a piece of a ride flew off (metal part) and ended up cutting me. I obviously fell and blacked out for a few seconds. I looked up to see someone on the bungee ride and the guy got hurt as they couldn't get him down in time.
Noone believed us at the time as it seemed so far fetched, that is until, I met my fiancee and he starts telling me a story about how his good friend once fell from a bungee ride during this freak wind at the local funfair. We worked out dates and it turned out to be the exact night I was on about and his friend was the guy I saw on the bungee ride.
Noone else in the town had even noticed any wind. Have never been able to explain it.

XLR 8 · 20-07-2020 05:11PM

Lived beside a forest in rural Wicklow for years. Used to walk the dogs and the kids there and knew it like the back of my hand. We could walk to it from home. There was only one entrance always closed to cars and the like. When people visited they would park at this gate. The kids and I were walking our dog a Rottweiler and he was skittish which wasn't unusual. Had to keep him leashed other wise he would tear around chasing sheep or hare and it would take hours to get him back. As we approached a fork in the trail the dog stopped dead in his tracks and wouldn't budge. Kid's were getting tired so rather than go on I turned back. At that moment a woman dressed in what can only be described as full business attire high heels the lot strolled across the path in front of us heading deeper into the wood. It struck me as odd as fuk but I wasn't in a position to follow her or otherwise. When we got back to the gate there was no car which I assumed there would be given how she was dressed. Never found out who it was or why they would be dressed to the nines in a forest in winter.

Sephiroth_dude · 20-07-2020 09:58PM

XLR 8 wrote: »

Lived beside a forest in rural Wicklow for years. Used to walk the dogs and the kids there and knew it like the back of my hand. We could walk to it from home. There was only one entrance always closed to cars and the like. When people visited they would park at this gate. The kids and I were walking our dog a Rottweiler and he was skittish which wasn't unusual. Had to keep him leashed other wise he would tear around chasing sheep or hare and it would take hours to get him back. As we approached a fork in the trail the dog stopped dead in his tracks and wouldn't budge. Kid's were getting tired so rather than go on I turned back. At that moment a woman dressed in what can only be described as full business attire high heels the lot strolled across the path in front of us heading deeper into the wood. It struck me as odd as fuk but I wasn't in a position to follow her or otherwise. When we got back to the gate there was no car which I assumed there would be given how she was dressed. Never found out who it was or why they would be dressed to the nines in a forest in winter.

Did she see you ? any kind of salute or anything?

timthumbni · 20-07-2020 10:32PM

XLR 8 wrote: »

Lived beside a forest in rural Wicklow for years. Used to walk the dogs and the kids there and knew it like the back of my hand. We could walk to it from home. There was only one entrance always closed to cars and the like. When people visited they would park at this gate. The kids and I were walking our dog a Rottweiler and he was skittish which wasn't unusual. Had to keep him leashed other wise he would tear around chasing sheep or hare and it would take hours to get him back. As we approached a fork in the trail the dog stopped dead in his tracks and wouldn't budge. Kid's were getting tired so rather than go on I turned back. At that moment a woman dressed in what can only be described as full business attire high heels the lot strolled across the path in front of us heading deeper into the wood. It struck me as odd as fuk but I wasn't in a position to follow her or otherwise. When we got back to the gate there was no car which I assumed there would be given how she was dressed. Never found out who it was or why they would be dressed to the nines in a forest in winter.

I would assume she was meeting someone for a bit of hanky panky. Gay fellas meet in woodland quite often for a bit of hows your father. I assume lesbians and/or straight people do too.

the purple tin · 20-07-2020 10:58PM

timthumbni wrote: »

I would assume she was meeting someone for a bit of hanky panky. Gay fellas meet in woodland quite often for a bit of hows your father. I assume lesbians and/or straight people do too.

Women in fancy business suits go to a hotel to get jiggy.
If you invited a woman like that to traipse through the woods in Winter in her high heels for a knee trembler she would probably tell you to shove it up your arse.

New Home · 20-07-2020 11:01PM

How long ago was it? It wasn't one of the women who went missing was she? What did she look like?

fryup · 20-07-2020 11:03PM

the purple tin wrote: »

Women in fancy business suits go to a hotel to get jiggy.
If you invited a woman like that to traipse through the woods in Winter in her high heels for a knee trembler she would probably tell you to shove it up your arse.

hmmmmmmmm kinky

Gregor Samsa · 21-07-2020 12:42AM

Didn’t happen to me, but happened to my Dad. When he was 19 (late 50s) he got a job in the Pathology department of the College Of Surgeons. First day, the lads in the department brought him in a tour of the place. They ended up in the cellar, where there was a furnace that heated the building. They had the lights off, so there was just the glow of the furnace flames lighting the place. They sat down on some wooden boxes, and the lads told him a few stories about work and stuff.

After a while, one of them pointed at the box my Dad was sitting on and said “open it”. He stood up and lifted the lid. In the flickering glow of the flames, what he saw was the body of a young child floating face up in a tank of formaldehyde.

Although totally shocked, he managed to keep it together enough that when the lads stopped laughing, they slapped him on the back and said he’d do alright.

XLR 8 · 21-07-2020 08:18AM

New Home wrote: »

How long ago was it? It wasn't one of the women who went missing was she? What did she look like?

Must be 20 years ago. If she was meeting someone they also must have walked to this area. I never heard a report of anyone matching her description being reported missing. She was an attractive woman in her thirties I would guess. She didn't appear to be flustered in any way. She seemed normal just out of place.

XLR 8 · 21-07-2020 08:24AM

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Did she see you ? any kind of salute or anything?

No salute or eye contact. I'm sure she seen me and the kids and the dog.

Tig98 · 21-07-2020 08:40AM

One night me and a few friends tried to make an Ouija board, we just ripped a page out of a copy and wrote the alphabet in pen. It didn't work so two of us went out the back door to try and burn the page, didn't want the bad juju in the house etc. When we tried lighting it it started to hail huge hailstones the size of coins...

.. because they were coins, that a friend lobbed at us from an upstairs window ðŸ˜… we screamed and scattered, we had no clue what happened it was so dark.

For real though, my uncle is a priest and he has a few horror stories of trying to get spirits out of houses. One in particular, the family were woken up at all times of night with banging and rattling on the walls, things breaking in the middle of the night and even burn marks. The parents called him as a last resort not knowing what else to do, and he rightly accused their children of using an Ouija board. He said you could sense a terrible dark presence in the house and they were all terribly unhappy there

saabsaab · 21-07-2020 07:03PM

Tig98 wrote: »

One night me and a few friends tried to make an Ouija board, we just ripped a page out of a copy and wrote the alphabet in pen. It didn't work so two of us went out the back door to try and burn the page, didn't want the bad juju in the house etc. When we tried lighting it it started to hail huge hailstones the size of coins...

.. because they were coins, that a friend lobbed at us from an upstairs window &#55357;&#56837; we screamed and scattered, we had no clue what happened it was so dark.

For real though, my uncle is a priest and he has a few horror stories of trying to get spirits out of houses. One in particular, the family were woken up at all times of night with banging and rattling on the walls, things breaking in the middle of the night and even burn marks. The parents called him as a last resort not knowing what else to do, and he rightly accused their children of using an Ouija board. He said you could sense a terrible dark presence in the house and they were all terribly unhappy there

Was your Uncle a trained Exorcist? Only a few left I understand.

tamara25 · 21-07-2020 08:34PM

These ouija boards are very dangerous. I had a friend years ago who used it sometimes to try to contact a serial killer that had died. Don’t know if anything unusual happened when they were using it. They are easy to buy also if one wanted to....

Gregor Samsa · 21-07-2020 09:44PM

tamara25 wrote: »

These ouija boards are very dangerous. I had a friend years ago who used it sometimes to try to contact a serial killer that had died. Don’t know if anything unusual happened when they were using it. They are easy to buy also if one wanted to....

Pffff!!! Hasbro, the toy company, make ouija boards. They’re no more dangerous than any of their other products - like Hungry Hungry Hippos, Operation or Scrabble. How could a sheet of cardboard with the alphabet printed on it be dangerous? You’d be hard pressed to even get a paper cut off it.

EmmetSpiceland · 21-07-2020 10:16PM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Pffff!!! Hasbro, the toy company, make ouija boards. They’re no more dangerous than any of their other products - like Hungry Hungry Hippos, Operation or Scrabble. How could a sheet of cardboard with the alphabet printed on it be dangerous? You’d be hard pressed to even get a paper cut off it.

They do seem to have an “effect” on people. Whether it’s all in their head, or if it’s supernatural, is up for debate.

Tig98 · 22-07-2020 09:18AM

saabsaab wrote: »

Was your Uncle a trained Exorcist? Only a few left I understand.

Nah just a "regular" priest, although he's been called a few times in his life to try clear out bad spirits. He said it nearly always involves an Ouija board.

Banana Republic. · 22-07-2020 10:05AM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Didn’t happen to me, but happened to my Dad. When he was 19 (late 50s) he got a job in the Pathology department of the College Of Surgeons. First day, the lads in the department brought him in a tour of the place. They ended up in the cellar, where there was a furnace that heated the building. They had the lights off, so there was just the glow of the furnace flames lighting the place. They sat down on some wooden boxes, and the lads told him a few stories about work and stuff.

After a while, one of them pointed at the box my Dad was sitting on and said “open it”. He stood up and lifted the lid. In the flickering glow of the flames, what he saw was the body of a young child floating face up in a tank of formaldehyde.

Although totally shocked, he managed to keep it together enough that when the lads stopped laughing, they slapped him on the back and said he’d do alright.

Eh wow

Kingp35 · 22-07-2020 10:12AM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

They do seem to have an “effect” on people. Whether it’s all in their head, or if it’s supernatural, is up for debate.

There's no debate, it's entirely in their head. It's an interesting phenomenon all the same.

joeguevara · 22-07-2020 01:48PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

They do seem to have an “effect” on people. Whether it’s all in their head, or if it’s supernatural, is up for debate.

They seem to have an effect on 'friends of aunties' rather than anyone else though.

the purple tin · 22-07-2020 01:52PM

Kingp35 wrote: »

There's no debate, it's entirely in their head. It's an interesting phenomenon all the same.

Did you ever try using one before?

up for anything · 22-07-2020 05:26PM

XLR 8 wrote: »

No salute or eye contact. I'm sure she seen me and the kids and the dog.

Did your children mention seeing her?

talla10 · 23-07-2020 07:58AM

the purple tin wrote: »

Did you ever try using one before?

I did many times. Nothing remotely interesting ever happened just lads laughing and moving the glass ourselves

Kingp35 · 23-07-2020 09:46AM

the purple tin wrote: »

Did you ever try using one before?

A good few times. I'm into paranormal/mysteries type stuff even though I'm a complete non-believer. I find it fascinating as to why people believe certain things, that's why I love this thread despite not believing any of the paranormal stuff.

The planchette moved on a few different occasions for me. It never spelled out any words though, only when one of my mates was messing. As I posted before, the movement can be explained by the ideomotor effect where the brain subconsciously makes the hand move the planchette.

Also a lot of stories posted on this thread about friends having used a Ouija board. The first question you should always ask is if the incident being described ever happened in the first place, or as described, before you start looking for an explanation.

Ande1975 · 23-07-2020 05:47PM

Wouldn't classify this as strange or unnerving but got me thinking when I relayed this to a friend recently.

I don't visit my Dad's grave as much anymore as I find it hard but every now and then the guilt sets in and I take a trip out.

A few weeks ago, I went out in the afternoon. I spent a bit of time there trying to talk to him when I looked to my left and off in the distance I spotted a man who looked exactly like Dad. Dressed in the exact same clothes he would wear. It nearly took my breath away.

This happens quite a bit and anyone who goes through a bereavement can 'see' them regularly in crowds.

I turned back as I didn't want to be staring but I couldn't help myself. I looked again and there was no sign of him..... got a bit of a jolt but he was bent over working on the grave he was visiting. There was also a balloon attached to the grave.
I noticed he was looking in my direction as well so I stopped staring.

Eventually he left and I went to leave and I walked past the grave he was visiting. It was his daughter (or I assumed it was) . Her anniversary was the day before and there was a photo of her on the grave.

I told a friend this recently and she said he probably thought you were like his daughter from the distance. Same age, hair colour and I was wearing a light white wrap (which the girl was wearing in the photo).

Gregor Samsa · 24-07-2020 01:14AM

Ande1975 wrote: »

This happens quite a bit and anyone who goes through a bereavement can 'see' them regularly in crowds.

This just reminded me of something.

2 years ago, my dad got sick and ended up in Beaumont hospital. I travelled across the country to him as soon as I heard. He wasn’t himself, and was acting very weird - visibly ill, confused, but denying he was sick. The next morning, I back went up to see him, and he was gone from the ward. His coat and bag were there, but the nurses didn’t know where he was. He wasn’t answering his phone, and we were all very worried.

Security searched the hospital for him and I said I’d look outside. The amount of people that looked, walked, dressed and sounded exactly like my dad while I was frantically searching for him was unreal. He was wearing beige trousers, a light blue shirt, and this sleeveless kaki jacket he had - and I kept seeing the same clothes everywhere. At one point I just sat on the ground with my head in my hands, because I was just overwhelmed by the amount of false sightings I was having if him.

He eventually answered his phone. Turns out he took the bus into the city centre for lunch, we managed to get him into a cab back to the hospital - he was in terrible shape - and by the next morning he was in critical condition ICU, and so began a 7 month stay in hospital and then over a year in a nursing hone, and rapid descent into dementia that he never recovered from. He never made it back home and died this May.

A couple of weeks ago, I was showing my kids his house on Google Street View. I clicked a coupe of times to navigate down the road, when one of them shouts “there’s Grandad!”. I felt an actual shiver down my spine, but sad no, it couldn’t be. I clicked back, and there he was - pictured walking down his road in the Street View, wearing the exact same beige, blue and kaki clothes he was wearing the day he went missing from the hospital.

Immortalised walking fit and healthy outside his home.

24-07-2020 01:34AM

This didn't happen to me, but to a relative, or so she says. She was visiting a friend and they were having coffee out in the garden, and when her friend went in to grab something, a woman in full bridal gear walked down the avenue to the house, and around the back.

My relative thought this woman might be an actress, because it was just across the road from RTE. When her friend came out to the garden she inquired as to the woman in the wedding dress. Her friend told her that this woman had been seen before, that long ago a young woman had lived in the house who was engaged to be married. This lady ran off with another man on the day of her wedding, and when her father found out, he shot her and her lover stone dead.

I always wondered if the whole thing was made up. If anyone knows if a shooting like that ever happened on Nutley Road in Dublin, I'd be keen to know.

Might as well tell the other ones while I'm at it.

She went to see an acupuncturist in Galway, a Chinese doctor, for arthritis. For whatever reason he was showing her around his house, he had lots of Oriental artefacts. He showed her into a room and she got a cold chill and insisted there was something awful in that room. She didn't know what it was but said it smelt like human blood. He walked over and picked up a Japanese ornamental sword, one of the traditional varieties that was used to behead people. Probably just a coincidence but as far as she was concerned, that cemented her status as a certified (or certifiable) psychic.

When she was a child, she looked into a thistle-knot (magic) and had a vision of their house burned to its core, and near the end of her life, the house was gutted in a fire.

These are all superstitions, there are plenty of claims of this kind, but I used to like hearing them as a kid.

Ande1975 · 24-07-2020 09:19AM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

This just reminded me of something.

A couple of weeks ago, I was showing my kids his house on Google Street View. I clicked a coupe of times to navigate down the road, when one of them shouts “there’s Grandad!”. I felt an actual shiver down my spine, but sad no, it couldn’t be. I clicked back, and there he was - pictured walking down his road in the Street View, wearing the exact same beige, blue and kaki clothes he was wearing the day he went missing from the hospital.

Immortalised walking fit and healthy outside his home.

That's a thing https://time.com/5762743/google-maps-deceased-family-photos/
Sorry to hear about your Dad. Save that off in case google decide to update again.

Recliner · 24-07-2020 12:41PM

A few years ago I was in the back seat of my sisters car, her husband was driving. We were stopped at a roundabout and my sister said only for she knew I was behind her she would have sworn I was in the back seat of the car in front. The person turned around again and I swear it was like looking in a mirror. She was identical to me.

A sister in law of mine apparently had a full blown conversation with me in Limerick. Except it wasn't me. She's convinced to this day that it was.

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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