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Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?
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Have to laugh at the people who fob off their experiences as sleep paralysis.
Yes it is sleep paralysis but what is that? How do you know it's not caused by the malevolent figure that most of you experience?my brother gets that a lot of the time. My dad used to wake up with a woman with a knife standing over him, thought it was my mam for a long time! Haha
Another story my dad tells me, and bear in mind he's the biggest cynic you'll get.
He was driving home from work as a chef through the back roads around Clondalkin in the late 70's or early 80's. Around a bend he sees a farmer walking across the road with a metal bucket. He jammed on the brakes but it was too late, he hit him, heard the bucket getting run over and the guy hitting the floor pan with a series of dull thuds and everything. He screeched to a halt and just sat there frozen with panic for a moment. Terrified he'd killed the man he finally plucked up the courage to look behind him, the man was gone. He reversed a bit and even got out to double check, not a sign.
He drove home in a cold sweat, eventually he asked around and found out that some auld lad that lived there had been run over about four years previously while milking the cows early in the morning.
An uncle of mine built his own house in 1982 on his dads land. Every now and then he might get up in the middle of the night to take a piss or get a drink, he'll see maybe three to six people walking down his hall at an angle, through walls as if they are following an old path that didn't line up with his hall. They are again, carrying buckets! They are dressed in very old, scraggy attire looking malnourished, their feet are only visible in some parts of the hall as if they are walking on an undulating track that again doesn't comply with the hall floor. As it happens there is an old water pump opposite the house in the line of these peoples path, that is on a well that even predates the pump significantly. My uncle never feels threatened by the walkers, just stands aside until they pass and goes about his business.
Nothing ghostly has ever happened to me thank god, I'd sheeite a pallet of breeze blocks but apparently the old part of my house is haunted.and I just moved rooms to it
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About the knocking on the window, it's very often a bird, they see the reflection of the moon or other light on a window pane and start to peck at it trying to pick it up, used to freak me out until my grandad showed me one night what was happening. A strong beaked bird like a crow can hit a pane with a lot of force, louder than someone knocking on it. (Hope this helps!)
My granny lived back near Kilmallock. I was staying there years ago and was woken by a violent banging on the window really early in the morning. It scared me so much! Turned out it was an eejit of a crow who would come along every morning to admire himself in the window
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Put this up in a similar thread.
I used to work in an old Distillery Museum as a tour guide. I'd heard rumours that it was haunted as some workers had been killed there (drowning in brewing vats, fermentation vats, fires etc.) But I didn't believe in it.
Each evening we had to lock up the distillery and it was my turn to lock up the Cooperage (where barrels are repaired), I had already locked up the rest of the buildings, closed the last door and I heard this weird noise.
We had one of these (the large tool for boring holes, against the wall)
hanging from a piece of wire to show tourists the old tools used. It was spinning, I mean properly whirling around at speed. I have never ran out of a room so quickly in my life.
I had some friends who worked in the kitchen area and their stories gave me goosebumps.0 -
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Once I woke up because my best friend who was also my housemate had just whispered in my ear that he was leaving. When I woke up, no sign of him, he was asleep in his own room. Another night I was woken by my boss calling my name right behind me. I have looked it up and it is part of a sleep disorder...I can't remember what it's called.
It's fairly spooky to have someone talking to you in your room when you're asleep. Not half as spooky as some of the other stories though and at least now I know it isn't real.
Is it Exploding Head Syndrome? Started getting it last year. First time it was someone calling my name. I remember thinking "oh, I've finally gone mad" but it's totally harmless. Your brain's going overtime that's all. I've heard gunshots, a sound like an orchestra playing a big chord (like at the end of "A Day in the Life") and most recently a F1 car revving. It's no longer freaky but it takes me ages to get to sleep after. Noticed being on the internet late at night doesn't help so good excuse not to read this thread after 9pm
Lol I think most people would prefer to think it's their brains rather than an actual hag standing over their bed!!ChicaneAuto wrote: »Have to laugh at the people who fob off their experiences as sleep paralysis.
Yes it is sleep paralysis but what is that? How do you know it's not caused by the malevolent figure that most of you experience?my brother gets that a lot of the time. My dad used to wake up with a woman with a knife standing over him, thought it was my mam for a long time! Haha
This thread is brilliant, no sleep for a week after that crutch story and the guy in Taiwan!
When I was about 16 The Ring was on telly, stayed up to watch it. Went to bed, switched off the light in the kitchen before turning off the TV (I have to have TV/radio on if I'm on my own at the best of times, never mind after watching a horror) and the telly cuts out, making all this white noise. I know it was probably a tripped switch but after watching Samara come out of the TV I immediately freaked out.... So eventually went to bed, only to hear a rushing whispering noise on the way to my room. I thought maybe my mother was talking in her sleep (her room's next to mine). I called to her and she said, annoyed "I didn't say anything, I'm trying to sleep!"
There was no sleep for me that night!
When I was a kid, my neighbours' kids used to tell me that the old lady who lived there died in my room and she was watching me sleep. Turns out she died in hospital after getting a turn in town. Little feckers...
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I have gotten this since 2002 and its over the past year each episode gets progressively worst and feels longer. The feeling of helplessness when in that state and not being able to move a muscle or scream out for help whilst being fully alert is surreal. After doing some research on it, I still get scared more than ever. My latest one was yesterday morning and that fcuking hag yoke was right at my face! I swear I nearly had a heart attack. So creepy and weird. I honestly think its going to kill me one day.:(
I try to tell people family and some friends about it but the just look at me as if I am a lunatic lol. I wouldn't wish it on anyone!!
Luckily I rarely get anything close to my face during sleep paralysis. I usually just see what I think are people in my peripheral vision and I can hear them whispering and shuffling around. I remember the first time I experienced it as a child I told my mother the next morning that aliens were in my room! 0 -
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