Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

K-9 · 23-12-2012 03:06AM

My teacher in national school told us the story about Ards Friary, the Capuchian monks live there and say mass in the chapel, it was donated to them not long after the state was founded if I'm telling the story correctly. It's in a rather beautiful location a few miles from Creeslough in Donegal, you go along a narrow lane for a couple of miles to reach, then out the other lane. Must have been one of Ireland's first one way systems, one road in, one road out.

Anyway, originally it was the house of the English lord, same story has been told a few times on this thread. He built a road to the Church of Ireland church that would mean he didn't have to meet any of the peasants on the way, there's an arch under the old railway that apparently was part of these plans (hard to believe but the now defunct railways in Donegal would have been built as part of the famine works).

Anyway the story is a poor Catholic peasant happened to cross the path to the Church and the Lord was making his way to the service, saw the peasant and struck him repeatedly with the horse whip and the peasant died. The lord returned to his room in the Friary, never left his bedroom and servants would have to leave his food at the door. Nobody ever entered the room until he finally passed away.

The son left the house to the Capuchian's. It's a beautiful spot, small little harbour onto Sheephaven Bay and a walk around the grounds.

THe spot where the Catholic peasant was murdered would be a lesser travelled spot, not along the water, it's inland and not a touristy route. To this day, they say a dog will not pass that spot where the peasant was murdered, and yep, brought my dog on a walk there, and he turned back!

PS. My Mum is from close from there, other side of the peninsula, Doe Castle which has it's own history, but nobody ever spoke of this story, well, not openly anyway!

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DesperateDan · 24-12-2012 05:03AM

My friend and I lived just off of Mountjoy Square last year. He was walking home at about 3 a.m. one night on his own and slightly drunk but still sensible. He got to the square and walked up the side with the bus stop, on the opposite side of the road from the bus stop. It was totally dark and silent, about a week before Hallowe'en I think it was.

Anyway the odd shape of something catches his glance at the far corner of the bus stop side as he's walking up. For nearly the entire time my friend took the shape for a tree, because it was completely still. As he approaches he is startled to see that the shape is actually a guy, who is standing deadly still. He didn't want to stare, as you wouldn't want to at that hour in the city.

Not only that though, he's wearing a long thick trench coat, with thick, long hair and has his arms are stretched out like there is a coat hanger still in the coat if you know what I mean, like some of the zombie poses here . It's clearly not a natural position to stand in, like he's posing or something. My friend has to walk past this guy (but he's still on the opposite side of the road), and as he does, the guy doesn't even blink. He just stands there, in the freakiest motion-less manner possible.

He hurried home and the guy was gone in the morning. I put it down to drink at first when I heard this, but he told it with a lot of honesty, so the only solution I could come up with was it was someone doing a dare to freak out passers-by, but it's just the weirdest thing I've heard

PaurGasm · 26-12-2012 03:10PM

DesperateDan wrote: »

My friend and I lived just off of Mountjoy Square last year. He was walking home at about 3 a.m. one night on his own and slightly drunk but still sensible. He got to the square and walked up the side with the bus stop, on the opposite side of the road from the bus stop. It was totally dark and silent, about a week before Hallowe'en I think it was.

Anyway the odd shape of something catches his glance at the far corner of the bus stop side as he's walking up. For nearly the entire time my friend took the shape for a tree, because it was completely still. As he approaches he is startled to see that the shape is actually a guy, who is standing deadly still. He didn't want to stare, as you wouldn't want to at that hour in the city.

Not only that though, he's wearing a long thick trench coat, with thick, long hair and has his arms are stretched out like there is a coat hanger still in the coat if you know what I mean, like some of the zombie poses here . It's clearly not a natural position to stand in, like he's posing or something. My friend has to walk past this guy (but he's still on the opposite side of the road), and as he does, the guy doesn't even blink. He just stands there, in the freakiest motion-less manner possible.

He hurried home and the guy was gone in the morning. I put it down to drink at first when I heard this, but he told it with a lot of honesty, so the only solution I could come up with was it was someone doing a dare to freak out passers-by, but it's just the weirdest thing I've heard

i live around here...Lot of drugs and creepy people haha

Thespoofer · 26-12-2012 04:23PM

I had an elderly grand Aunt whom moved to the UK long before I was born many decades ago eventually end up in a nursing home there in her old age with an illness. I only met her the once when she came here to visit her childhood home so it would be fair to say that we were not very close, nice and all as she was.

Anyway as night follows day I received a phone call from my mother to say that such and such ( grand aunt ) had died yesterday at the home and to be honest, didn't really bother me. She then went on to say that the aunts son told her that the staff at the nursing home were fairly shook, "how do you mean"? I asked, " well, they were lifting her from the chair into her bed and it was at this moment she died and also at this time the picture of the saint on the wall flew off the wall "... all of the English staff were adamant that no-one was next or near to the picture..

A few months later while speaking about the same event with another elderly member about this, which I to be honest thought was a load of bollox, was told "oh yes thats right, its not the first time that has happened in our family, when such and such died ( here in Ireland ) a few years back, the mirror on the wall fell off at the moment of death"....

Senna · 26-12-2012 05:40PM

Great thread, unfortunately nothing supernatural has ever happened me and all my "unnerving" stories are drink related.

I remember my parents sitting around with my grandparents telling stories like these, I really wish I had of been old enough to remember them.

Tisserand · 27-12-2012 12:37AM

My parents are both dead but their house (in which they both died), our old family home is vacant and the family use it from time to time for weekends away or holidays. This weekend just gone, my sister and I decided to spend Saturday and Sunday there for old times sake as we were both going to other relatives' houses for Christmas. We arrived there on Saturday and lit two stoves to heat up the place. About 5.00 p.m. on Saturday two of our nieces had joined us and a smoke alarm up on the landing started to go off. We checked all of the rooms etc. but found no smoke,fires, draughts etc. We took the smoke alarm outside and left it outside on a bench but 15 minutes later it was still going off so we took out the battery, decided the whole thing was faulty and put it and the battery in the bin outside. We recalled that a similar thing had happened one Sunday a few months earlier during the summer when we hadn't lit the fires and we had to do the same. We had another brand new smoke alarm and new battery in a box so we opened them both and put it up on the landing to replace the old one. Anyway, we went to bed that night and were in separate rooms and I dreamt that I turned around in my bed and that my mother was lying beside me and that I ran into my sister's room and my mother followed me and we were asking her what it was like being dead but she wasn't answering and that my other sisters and brother joined us. I woke up petrified and couldn't go back to sleep. The next night I decided to sleep in another room however, we were both woken up at 6.20 a.m. by the new smoke alarm going off. We checked all around the house again, but no fire, smoke or draughts or anything that might set it off. It was going bananas so we had to take the battery out. We were both scared and convinced that my mother's spirit was in the house. I had intended staying in the house on my own the following night but needless to say I didn't.

Janedoe10 · 27-12-2012 01:06AM

Tisserand wrote: »

My parents are both dead but their house (in which they both died), our old family home is vacant and the family use it from time to time for weekends away or holidays. This weekend just gone, my sister and I decided to spend Saturday and Sunday there for old times sake as we were both going to other relatives' houses for Christmas. We arrived there on Saturday and lit two stoves to heat up the place. About 5.00 p.m. on Saturday two of our nieces had joined us and a smoke alarm up on the landing started to go off. We checked all of the rooms etc. but found no smoke,fires, draughts etc. We took the smoke alarm outside and left it outside on a bench but 15 minutes later it was still going off so we took out the battery, decided the whole thing was faulty and put it and the battery in the bin outside. We recalled that a similar thing had happened one Sunday a few months earlier during the summer when we hadn't lit the fires and we had to do the same. We had another brand new smoke alarm and new battery in a box so we opened them both and put it up on the landing to replace the old one. Anyway, we went to bed that night and were in separate rooms and I dreamt that I turned around in my bed and that my mother was lying beside me and that I ran into my sister's room and my mother followed me and we were asking her what it was like being dead but she wasn't answering and that my other sisters and brother joined us. I woke up petrified and couldn't go back to sleep. The next night I decided to sleep in another room however, we were both woken up at 6.20 a.m. by the new smoke alarm going off. We checked all around the house again, but no fire, smoke or draughts or anything that might set it off. It was going bananas so we had to take the battery out. We were both scared and convinced that my mother's spirit was in the house. I had intended staying in the house on my own the following night but needless to say I didn't.

Bit scary alright .by any chance did u use the same battery in the new alarm the last night . If it was the brand if smoke alarm it could be a faulty type .
If u want to rationalise further write off to the manufacturers as it could be indicative of fault .
Otherwise it may be your mam just telling u she's there . I would not though stay away from the house it's your family home . If u are worried ask a priest to say a few words in the place . Think of good memories . My grandmother used tell my mam " don't be scared of ghosts they can't harm you ,it's the living that does more damage "

Das Kitty · 27-12-2012 01:23AM

I sometimes get sleep paralysis. It used to freak me out when I was a kid, not being able to move, or scream and no sound comes out.

I had my first hallucination though, one Stephen's night in or around ten years ago. I hadn't slept in a week due to the fact that I had the worst flu I had ever had in my life. I was on the mend so I went out to my boyfriend's family home and stayed the night on the sofa. I was resigned to not sleeping due to my cough, but I lay down anyway as there was literally nothing better to do.

At some point I did in fact fall asleep for a little while. And when I woke up it was still the middle of the night. Across the room, crouched by the door, were what appeared to be two skin-heads. I remained very rational, stared at them until my eyes could make sense of what I was actually seeing. Some light through the curtain casting oddly on something.

And I continued to stare at them as they both stood up, with the most menacing expressions on their faces and crossed the room to me on the sofa. I woke up fully, screaming my already raw lungs out.

Worst thing was not one fcuker in the house stirred in spite of my own ears ringing from my screams. Bastards.

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The other time I hallucinated was when my kid was a newborn and there was no sleep to be had. I was zonked on the sofa and was relatively sure I was awake until I became aware of a little boy standing next to the telly staring at me.

I think the worst thing was that being paralysed, I couldn't drag my eyes away from the the frigging One Show to take a good look at him. *shakes fist* Bleakly!

Man City 10 · 27-12-2012 01:30AM

Well....
I was in the bed 2 days ago and i left my desktop on sleep and all of a sudden it turned on in pitch dark lol i was ****ting my self
It has happened 3 times already in the past 4 months
I mean like a desktop does not turn on by itself you probably know in order to wake a desptop up from its sleep you either have to move the mouse around or hit the on/off button

BUBBLE WRAP · 27-12-2012 01:33AM

Man City 10 wrote: »

Well....
I was in the bed 2 days ago and i left my desktop on sleep and all of a sudden it turned on in pitch dark lol i was ****ting my self
It has happened 3 times already in the past 4 months
I mean like a desktop does not turn on by itself you probably know in order to wake a desptop up from its sleep you either have to move the mouse around or hit the on/off button

Maybe there is a ghost using your laptop during the night... :eek: I won't be to worried as long as it isn't using redtube or the like..

Man City 10 · 27-12-2012 01:35AM

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Maybe there is a ghost using your laptop during the night... :eek: I won't be to worried as long as it isn't using redtube or the like..

I am serious I don't know why you are taking this as a joke but like yeah maybe there is need ah call the Ghost Busters

BUBBLE WRAP · 27-12-2012 01:42AM

Man City 10 wrote: »

I am serious I don't know why you are taking this as a joke but like yeah maybe there is need ah call the Ghost Busters

I am taking this serious, I was asleep one night their a while ago and I was dosing off to sleep and then moved about 2 feet and then fell over.. :eek:

Man City 10 · 27-12-2012 01:49AM

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

I am taking this serious, I was asleep one night their a while ago and I was dosing off to sleep and then moved about 2 feet and then fell over.. :eek:

De Ja Vu

Yeah that is natural that happens to me all the time you gotta live with it
I know you think i am fooling around but i am actually serious
And ill tell you why you moved 2 feet its because when you are asleep your body moves around well thats what mine does anyways

BUBBLE WRAP · 27-12-2012 02:15AM

Man City 10 wrote: »

De Ja Vu
Yeah that is natural that happens to me all the time you gotta live with it
I know you think i am fooling around but i am actually serious
And ill tell you why you moved 2 feet its because when you are asleep your body moves around well thats what mine does anyways

Oh wait, I mean a chair moved 2 feet and fell over not me.

Man City 10 · 27-12-2012 03:15AM

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Oh wait, I mean a chair moved 2 feet and fell over not me.

I swear to God yeah
I have this similar situation but instead of the chair falling down i hear chairs moving downstairs in the kitchen i do not know if its the noise of the neighbours(I highly doubt it as i live in a 2 story house)

cassid · 27-12-2012 03:27AM

When hubby and I moved into present house, I used to get a strange feeling in the kitchen, just beside the window. When I was cooking I used to feel like someone was beside me or watching me, I would get goose bumps on my neck. Got a friend of the family who was a priest to come and bless the house, I told him about the strange feeling I got, he had a crystal something on the end of a string and he was able to identify the spot exactly where I had these feelings without me telling him, the crystal thing started swinging from side to side. He said some prayers, used holy water and it stopped. I never had the sensation again after that, although it was not sinister feeling just a bit unnerving when in the house on my own.

When on honeymoon in the beautiful hills of Tuscany, we stayed in a converted country farmhouse from the 1800's. On the 3rd night, I woke up with the sensation of someone standing over me, pushing a hand on my chest, I got the fright of my life. For the next few nights, we slept with the lights on, to be honest I barely slept and I would not stay in the room on my own even during the day, it just freaked me out. I was so happy when we left a few days later to another location.

Man City 10 · 27-12-2012 03:31AM

cassid wrote: »

When hubby and I moved into present house, I used to get a strange feeling in the kitchen, just beside the window. When I was cooking I used to feel like someone was beside me or watching me, I would get goose bumps on my neck. Got a friend of the family who was a priest to come and bless the house, I told him about the strange feeling I got, he had a crystal something on the end of a string and he was able to identify the spot exactly where I had these feelings without me telling him, the crystal thing started swinging from side to side. He said some prayers, used holy water and it stopped. I never had the sensation again after that, although it was not sinister feeling just a bit unnerving when in the house on my own.

When on honeymoon in the beautiful hills of Tuscany, we stayed in a converted country farmhouse from the 1800's. On the 3rd night, I woke up with the sensation of someone standing over me, pushing a hand on my chest, I got the fright of my life. For the next few nights, we slept with the lights on, to be honest I barely slept and I would not stay in the room on my own even during the day, it just freaked me out. I was so happy when we left a few days later to another location.

Lol that would make me sleep sound and asleep
But the thing i do not get yeah is when you see this situation like you had and much worser in movies those people who are affected by it incline to stay in the house i mean what idiots for example ever watches paranormal activity 4 those people stay in the house Now if i was in your case lol the day i felt the thing forget about calling the priest i would had made the run out the back window

FouxDaFaFa · 27-12-2012 03:12PM

cassid wrote: »

On the 3rd night, I woke up with the sensation of someone standing over me, pushing a hand on my chest, I got the fright of my life. For the next few nights, we slept with the lights on, to be honest I barely slept and I would not stay in the room on my own even during the day, it just freaked me out. I was so happy when we left a few days later to another location.

Most likely sleep paralysis. The sensation you described, of feeling like someone is pushing down extremely hard on your chest to stop you breathing, is one of the most common experiences. Very scary when it happens but nothing supernatural to worry about.

Semele · 27-12-2012 03:44PM

I had sleep paralysis for the first time 6 months ago. It was horrendous! I felt like I was in a light sleep in the middle of the night, aware but not fully awake, and I became aware that there was something on the bed, a heavy warm weight near my feet that shifted from time to time. My rational brain kinda went "oh, it's just the dog" and I tried to get back to sleep properly, but was becoming horribly conscious that I wasn't in the family home and there was no dog in my house! However, I drifted into a deeper sleep rather than waking. I then came back into the lighter stage of sleep with a jump and a feeling of absolute terror, but couldn't move. I was sleeping on my stomach and it felt like there was a man kneeling on the back of my legs, with one hand in the middle of my back and the other on the side of my face, forcing me down. It wasn't like any dream I've ever had-I was aware, I could feel and sense everything rather than just imagining it, but my body just wouldn't move. I felt myself drifting into a deeper sleep again but was trying to fight it as the weight of the man on my back was making breathing incredibly difficult and I felt sure that if I let myself pass out I'd suffocate! It felt like I was struggling against him for hours but then suddenly I was awake in daylight with no sense of intervening time having passed.

I kinda knew what it was while it was happening, but that knowledge seemed detached from what I was feeling and wasn't particularly comforting. The sense of terror was like a physical presence in the room. Shudder!

positron · 27-12-2012 04:11PM

cassid wrote: »

When hubby and I moved into present house, I used to get a strange feeling in the kitchen, just beside the window. When I was cooking I used to feel like someone was beside me or watching me, I would get goose bumps on my neck. Got a friend of the family who was a priest to come and bless the house, I told him about the strange feeling I got, he had a crystal something on the end of a string and he was able to identify the spot exactly where I had these feelings without me telling him, the crystal thing started swinging from side to side. He said some prayers, used holy water and it stopped. I never had the sensation again after that, although it was not sinister feeling just a bit unnerving when in the house on my own.

Not dismissing your experience, but this can be explained really easy, since everything happened inside your own imagination. You assumed there's something there that's watching you, and you got the priest in and somehow / unknowingly you guided him to that spot (which happens a lot, you just don't remember that part - look up James Randy video of debunking mediums etc) , and then the priest did the oldest trick in the book - which is very effective to you - to your mind - to convince you that all is well now - and so it turned out to be!

My scariest experience was sleep paralysis too.

It happened about 6 months ago - I remember waking up or not waking up - not sure if I was dreaming there for a while - I was waking up early morning, lying in the bed just inches away from the other half, and I have this strange sensation of air bubbles rising from the back of my head to the front - as if I fell into a big bottle of Coke I suppose - it's that sensation, sound and feeling, except that it's happening inside your brain, and your brain is falling thru Coke / Pepsi. And then I realised I can't breath. Something is wrong. This is not right. I need to wake up wifey. She's right there, but I can't open my mouth. I can't move my arms. I can't exhale even. I was able to roll my eyes and look around the room but I can not move, I can not roll over, I can not get up, I can not turn my head, and then it comes back to me - I can not breath - I need air - I need to open my mouth - but I can't.... and the fizzy feeling goes thru the brain again..

It's hard to tell how long it lasted - probably a few seconds, may be 15 - it eventually disappeared and all was back to normal and I remember shaking as if I had seen a ghost for next 30 mins of so.

Realtine · 27-12-2012 06:30PM

This great thread brings to mind an incident that happened to me and my friend waaay back when we were 14 or 15 years old, in the 80’s
I grew up at a crossroads, so small, not even a village really, with a couple of houses dotted around each road, a few miles from a midlands town.

Most summer evenings with not much to do my friend and I used to go for a cycle ‘around the roads’ as we called it…we started at the crossroads and take one road off it and do a circle and come home back down another road, usually it was the same route and it would take us over two railway bridges.
On the second bridge we would always stop awhile for a chat or wait to wave at the passing train if it was around that time.

Anyway this particular summer’s evening we had stopped as usual and were chatting when some man came up over the bridge on a bike, unusually we didn’t know him, but really didn’t think anything of it as there were a lot of farms in the area and we presumed he might have been doing some casual labour on one of them. We didn’t speak to him or he to us.

Anyhow, about 10 mins later we were about to go when I walked over to the other side of the bridge and glanced down onto the railway tracks below when here was yer man who had passed us minutes before climbing up the side of the bridge up to where we were – I ran to my bike calling to my friend to follow, which she did even though she had no clue what was going on, and we sped off down the bridge to a safe distance before stopping and turning around to see this man on the bridge jumping up and down and shaking his fists at us in rage.

No idea what was going on really, or why, it may have been all very innocent – but to this day I have never forgotten the fear of seeing him climbing up the side of the bridge and the memory of it is as clear today as back then .
(still creeps me out).

admiralofthefleet · 27-12-2012 07:07PM

last night as i was heading to bed i suddenly got a strong feeling that my late grandfather was around me. i was standing outside the hall door having a smoke when i looked up and saw him on the landing for a split second, as i was going up i saw a small light move from the moddle of the wall and go down and vanish into the carpet.
i was stone cold awake and not the slightest bit afraid ad he meant a lot to me.

Rasheed · 27-12-2012 08:41PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

last night as i was heading to bed i suddenly got a strong feeling that my late grandfather was around me. i was standing outside the hall door having a smoke when i looked up and saw him on the landing for a split second, as i was going up i saw a small light move from the moddle of the wall and go down and vanish into the carpet.
i was stone cold awake and not the slightest bit afraid ad he meant a lot to me.

That must be a lovely feeling, that someone you loved is watching over you!

Sulla Felix · 27-12-2012 08:42PM

Roisy7 wrote: »

Sounds like maybe sleep paralysis or a waking dream. Thankfully I've never experienced it, but it's supposed to be absolutely terrifying!

I had it once when I was a kid. Had been reading a Michael Scott book and the fscking scare crow bastard from it was coming down the hall for me, I was trapped in the bed not able to move or call out, woke up terrified. :mad:

Shryke · 27-12-2012 09:18PM

HeirToWoe wrote: »

Long time lurker, first time poster. Fantastic thread.

My granddad used to work as a porter and cellar hand for a few bars in South Dublin, particularly Crumlin in his early years, this would be the 1940's .

He was making the rounds one morning, around 5am he said, when he passed a tall man in a black trench coat and top hat down the lane were the tradesmen;s entrance was. He thought nothing of it as many a man would be stumbling home at this late hour after a lock in in that particular pub, he wished him good morning but apparently the gentleman made no remark.

So he paid no heed and he knocked on the back door but there was no reply. Strange considering the man he had passed had surely just exited through that door. He knocked again and said what came were three unnaturally loud knocks that made him jump back.

He knocked again but there was no reply. He yelled who it was, and to open up but there was still no reply so he went on his merry way and made note for the boss that the delivery could not be made and went on to complete his other deliveries.

The following afternoon he was told that there was a body found in the bar, the night porter had a heart attack and had died the night before. My granddad had terrible dreams about the gentleman in the lane afterwards, he said he dreamed of his long nails but couldn't for the life of him picture the gentleman's face. Swore it was death incarnate until his dying day!

Great thread. I'm a bit cynical about this though... so..

Sorry but did your granddad report a figure leaving the premises where a man was found dead? It doesn't take much brains to put on a coat and a hat for a disguise and you're not going to want to stop and chat, you're going to want to leave the scene with the least bit of notice.
If he didn't imagine the loud knocks then I imagine they were the dying man hammering on the door opposite shortly before he passed. He could have been drugged/poisoned just before by the assailant.
I don't see anything supernatural here, just potential murder and the murderer hopping passed your granddad and into the night.

sunflower27 · 27-12-2012 09:59PM

Remembered another...

My brother was living in Brisbane a few years ago and has three little girls. They were around 4, 7 and 8 at the time and told my brother that there was a little boy in the house that they sometimes played games with. I can't remember the name they called the boy(I'll call him Patrick), but my brother thought it was just an imaginary friend.

That was until one day they were all watching a TV show and the programme showed children from the early 1900s. My nieces all said that the children on the tv show were wearing clothes just like Patrick wore.

Freaked my brother out no end...

seklly · 27-12-2012 10:03PM

Myself and the brother both experience sleep paralysis, for me it occurs around every 6 months or so.

Nothing too scary with me, I 'wake' and cannot move other than move my eyes, at this stage I know when it happens and I know I'm asleep. The only way I can get out is to try to shake myself out of it if that makes any sense!

The brothers experiences are weirder, there is always a girl in the room floating, she wears a long white gown. She then moves over him suddenly and hovers directly in from of him staring into his eyes. Finally she disappears into his chest at which point he awakes with a jump.

tempura · 27-12-2012 10:34PM

some random drunk wrote: »

Some of these stories are pretty scary. Read at your own risk!

I hate you !

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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