Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

Canard · 01-02-2013 12:07AM

I was lying in bed last night and wasn't too awake but not quite asleep, then I half heard an English accent whisper "sorry?" in my ear and I got a bit freaked out. But I knew it was my imagination. It did make it a bit freakier, though, when I was almost asleep and got what felt like a punch underneath the pillow. :eek:

I thought maybe I'd done something like that leg spasm thing, but when I tried dropping my head onto the pillow nothing felt the same. It was pretty sharp and distinct...so now I'm in bed reading this thread and afraid to sleep.

fasttalkerchat · 01-02-2013 12:19AM

I've jumped in my sleep the past few nights while still awake.

EDIT: That makes no sense... I mean just before falling asleep.

face1990 · 01-02-2013 12:31AM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

I've jumped in my sleep the past few nights while still awake.

EDIT: That makes no sense... I mean just before falling asleep.

That's called a hypnic jerk, nothing to worry about! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

wilkie2006 · 01-02-2013 12:47AM

Wurly wrote: »

Another night in Dublin, I got a taxi home. I was absolutely locked and my eyes were half closed. The taxi driver kept sh1teing on about Elvis and did I like him? And wasn't he the best thing ever? I was like, err yeah whatever. At this point, he got REALLY aggressive and started shouting at me. He turned the light on in the car and literally floor to ceiling were pictures of elvis sellotaped all over the camp. On the seats and everything but I never noticed. He was like 'I AM ELVIS', whilst shaking his fist. I was like - right, this is my house. I threw him some money, got out and legged it.

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I think I've met that chap before. Along with the pictures, he's got fairy lights all along the interior of his car? I think he does an Elvis impersonator show too...? Yea, I thought he was a bit of an odd character too when I met him...

u_c_thesecond · 01-02-2013 01:38AM

The night before my wedding last year there was a very bad storm.I was staying in my sisters house,It was 2am and the house was like a furnance so i woke from the heat.I opened the window and hopped bk into bed but the wind whistling and i couldnt sleep with it, so i got up and closed it and hopped back into bed.

I had just closed my eyes when suddenly in this roasting hot house i started shivering, I could feel the hair on my arms stand up. Then I felt a hand stroke me on the back of the head twice.I was frozen solid terrified to look behind me.

Suddenly it was gone and I was boiling again. Convinced to this day it was my deceased mother visiting me before my wedding:)

Mammanabammana · 01-02-2013 04:54PM

I was going to post this anyway this evening but I just posted it in the "There's no such thing as ghosts thread"...however, I'll post it here too. It's not terribly creepy but it's true nonetheless and will probably fit in here.

Some years ago I was working in an old building in Dublin. We finished up late at night (not terribly late, around 10pm or so). As I was going to collect my coat and bag I passed the small section that had been converted into a tea service area, a small corner with sweets, biscuits, a burco etc. As I walked through the door beside the service area, I looked into the area and beside the burco I could see as clear as day the figure of a woman standing there. I could see her clearly enough to see what age she was, what she was wearing, her hair colour, the position she was standing in. All of that.

The building manager was still there so I asked her if the building was haunted, to which she replied "Yep - which one did you see?". So I began to describe to her what I'd seen. As I described the woman, the manager said that I was the third person in the space of a couple of months to see her. Not only that, but she was able, from the descriptions given to her by the other people who'd seen the woman, to describe to me the things I hadn't told her - the colour of the woman's clothes (blue), the type of headwear she was wearing - and then she went in and stood beside the burco and said "Was she standing like this?" and stood in the exact position, with her arms folded - another detail I hadn't told her.

This is a slightly creepy bit. The following week the former manager of the building arrived in. We told him about the ghost that I and others had seen. He was able to tell us who she was, her name, where she was buried - he remembered her from when he was a kid working there. The outfit she was wearing was consistent with what a 1960s tea woman would have been wearing (blue dress, white apron, little blue cap, hair tied back).

There have been a few times I thought or suspected I saw or heard a ghost but that's the genuine article.

admiralofthefleet · 01-02-2013 04:59PM

Mammanabammana wrote: »

I was going to post this anyway this evening but I just posted it in the "There's no such thing as ghosts thread"...however, I'll post it here too. It's not terribly creepy but it's true nonetheless and will probably fit in here.

Some years ago I was working in an old building in Dublin. We finished up late at night (not terribly late, around 10pm or so). As I was going to collect my coat and bag I passed the small section that had been converted into a tea service area, a small corner with sweets, biscuits, a burco etc. As I walked through the door beside the service area, I looked into the area and beside the burco I could see as clear as day the figure of a woman standing there. I could see her clearly enough to see what age she was, what she was wearing, her hair colour, the position she was standing in. All of that.

The building manager was still there so I asked her if the building was haunted, to which she replied "Yep - which one did you see?". So I began to describe to her what I'd seen. As I described the woman, the manager said that I was the third person in the space of a couple of months to see her. Not only that, but she was able, from the descriptions given to her by the other people who'd seen the woman, to describe to me the things I hadn't told her - the colour of the woman's clothes (blue), the type of headwear she was wearing - and then she went in and stood beside the burco and said "Was she standing like this?" and stood in the exact position, with her arms folded - another detail I hadn't told her.

There have been a few times I thought or suspected I saw or heard a ghost but that's the genuine article.

my uncle used to be the night security guard in colaiste dulaigh in coolock i dublin. he was a hard bloke and nothing really got to him. he left the job after what the said were nightly hauntings. piano's playing in rooms that were locked and seeing things and feeling like he was being watched

positron · 01-02-2013 05:23PM

This thread has moved along surprisingly well without going into the debate of ghosts exists or not, and I don't want to go in that direction but..... for those of you above who thinks for sure that they / someone they know have seen a ghost ... have you ever wondered why almost all of these experiences are when the person is on their own? I am not insinuating that you/they are lying, but I am suggesting that your/their brain, is perhaps tricking them - and it's easy when there isn't another brain around to question/verify it on the spot.

All I am saying is that vast majority of the experiences posted in this thread is explainable, and there is nothing supernatural there, naturally, of course!

Cerulean Chicken · 01-02-2013 05:32PM

positron wrote: »

This thread has moved along surprisingly well without going into the debate of ghosts exists or not, and I don't want to go in that direction but..... for those of you above who thinks for sure that they / someone they know have seen a ghost ... have you ever wondered why almost all of these experiences are when the person is on their own? I am not insinuating that you/they are lying, but I am suggesting that your/their brain, is perhaps tricking them - and it's easy when there isn't another brain around to question/verify it on the spot.

All I am saying is that vast majority of the experiences posted in this thread is explainable, and there is nothing supernatural there, naturally, of course!

Funnily enough, the one and only time I have ever "seen" a ghost was when my boyfriend saw it too. I thought I was imagining it until we realised we'd both seen whatever it was.

We were driving over the bridge in Portumna, Galway a few years ago at night, he was driving, I was just looking ahead in the passenger seat. Then as we were going over the middle of the bridge I kind of pushed myself back in the seat and pressed my imaginary break pedal on the passenger side because I was full sure I saw a person standing between the cars, right in the middle of the bridge. But just as quickly as I thought I saw it - a tall old man, kind of white like he was made of or in thick fog - we were gone passed and I looked back and of course there was nothing there, no people braking, etc.

My boyfriend asked was I alright because I had moved quite suddenly, and I said "Yeah I just thought I saw something, it was nothing", and he said "The old man standing in the middle of the road?" :eek: I got him to describe exactly what he'd seen without me saying a word and it was the same thing, but he also said he thought he had imagined it because the person wasn't "solid", he was very fog like, I can picture it now as I type.

So the two of us saw the same thing independently. We wouldn't even drive back the same route on the way home!

positron · 01-02-2013 05:49PM

lol, your timing is good!

Simple explanation would be that you both indeed saw the same thing (natural enough as you were in the same car, just feet or two away from each other) but what you both saw is perhaps indeed fog, or a reflection, or a reflection off the water or any of that - and of course it's not fair me to sit here and imagine it based on your recollection of an event. The fact that you (and I) have our brains preconditioned to come up with quick and easy explanations (almost like a reflex reaction, rather than slowly reaching a completely correct answer after rational analysis etc)rather than rational, difficult to understand solution) doesn't help..!

Cerulean Chicken · 01-02-2013 05:59PM

It wasn't a reflection off the water as the bridge is quite high above the water with high sides. It was very odd anyway whatever it was, so funny when neither of us wanted to go back over the bridge, because of a bit of fog or whatever it was

I'd love to just know either way, are ghosts real or not, if you know what I mean! If they are then that is cool, if they aren't then our brains are crazy :P

Mammanabammana · 01-02-2013 06:07PM

positron wrote: »

This thread has moved along surprisingly well without going into the debate of ghosts exists or not, and I don't want to go in that direction but..... for those of you above who thinks for sure that they / someone they know have seen a ghost ... have you ever wondered why almost all of these experiences are when the person is on their own? I am not insinuating that you/they are lying, but I am suggesting that your/their brain, is perhaps tricking them - and it's easy when there isn't another brain around to question/verify it on the spot.

All I am saying is that vast majority of the experiences posted in this thread is explainable, and there is nothing supernatural there, naturally, of course!

So what's your explanation for my experience (which you can find a couple of posts back)?

Moll'll fix it · 01-02-2013 07:09PM

positron wrote: »

This thread has moved along surprisingly well without going into the debate of ghosts exists or not, and I don't want to go in that direction but..... for those of you above who thinks for sure that they / someone they know have seen a ghost ... have you ever wondered why almost all of these experiences are when the person is on their own? I am not insinuating that you/they are lying, but I am suggesting that your/their brain, is perhaps tricking them - and it's easy when there isn't another brain around to question/verify it on the spot.

All I am saying is that vast majority of the experiences posted in this thread is explainable, and there is nothing supernatural there, naturally, of course!

I beg to differ! When I was a teenager, I shared a bedroom with my younger sister. One night she woke me up shouting that there was somebody at the end of her bed. I had my back to her but turned around and sure enough there was a black figure stooped over the end of her bed. I calmly said to her it's allright, I see him too, go back to sleep! When we got up the next morning, I asked her was I dreaming or did she wake me up calling out about a man at the end of the bed. She described the exact same vision that I had seen. A black silhouette of a man wearing a hat and coat. She was sleeping in a double bed and she was on one side of the bed but he was bent over the other side. That's exactly what I saw too. We concluded it was out late grandfather who had lived in the house before us as he always wore a hat. So, we both saw the same ghost.

BBDBB · 01-02-2013 07:15PM

I thought the thread was for people to tell us their spooky experiences with or without explanation. Not whether they believe in the supernatural. So far its ticked along brilliantly imo. Do we really need to start challenging the tales for believability or liklihood. If you want to do that theres a forum for the paranormal etc but why divert a perfectly decent thread?

shoos · 01-02-2013 07:21PM

BBDBB wrote: »

I thought the thread was for people to tell us their spooky experiences with or without explanation. Not whether they believe in the supernatural. So far its ticked along brilliantly imo. Do we really need to start challenging the tales for believability or liklihood. If you want to do that theres a forum for the paranormal etc but why divert a perfectly decent thread?

Agreed! There's been a lot of stories where the people telling them seem just as surprised as anyone over what they seen or experienced. No point debating the ins and outs, let's just hear the stories and make up our own minds

MickFleetwood · 01-02-2013 07:25PM

today, whilst walking from school, I felt like somebody punched/moved my bag or something. honestly very weird.

Janedoe10 · 01-02-2013 07:37PM

positron wrote: »

lol, your timing is good!

Simple explanation would be that you both indeed saw the same thing (natural enough as you were in the same car, just feet or two away from each other) but what you both saw is perhaps indeed fog, or a reflection, or a reflection off the water or any of that - and of course it's not fair me to sit here and imagine it based on your recollection of an event. The fact that you (and I) have our brains preconditioned to come up with quick and easy explanations (almost like a reflex reaction, rather than slowly reaching a completely correct answer after rational analysis etc)rather than rational, difficult to understand solution) doesn't help..!

Please don't derail this . Most posting here are not looking for answers , we have already reached our own conclusions . This thread may trigger a memory for some and it's nice they are willing to share it .

positron · 01-02-2013 07:59PM

:-)defense

Janedoe10 wrote: »

Please don't derail this . ng here are not looking for answers , we have already reached our own conclusions . This thread may trigger a memory for some and it's nice they are willing to share it .

I fully agree with you myself. Apologies if my chat with the other person took it further in the wrong direction, which is what I commented as what I don't want to do in my earlier post. In my defense I was not the one who started it, but I certainly didn't help. So apologies. :-)

Fox_In_Socks · 01-02-2013 08:07PM

There are a few things from early childhood that I remember, but I'm not sure how accurate they are? I remember when I was about 3 or 4, I saw something flaming tapping against the window outside a bedroom in our house, and was at an age when I didn't know whether this was normal or not. The same way that I would see something on television, demand an explanation and be told "It's only a film" by my brother or parents.

This flaming thing like a ball of straw, but on fire. It tapped against the window which is what alerted me to it, and then dropped off down out of sight.

I wasn't freaked out....I accepted it.

MickFleetwood · 01-02-2013 08:31PM

This is the second greatest thread I've seen on any forum, ever.

WinnyThePoo · 01-02-2013 09:57PM

A few years ago now, I was walking back from a friends after a couple of films and a few cans. It was late, i walked down a side road towards my house. I was pretty tired and abit drunk and i was walking with my eyes to the ground, up ahead a man was walking towards me, I kept my head down. As I got closer i noticed his white shoes,his white trousers, his white cane, his white gloves, his white suit jacket. As I raised my head, as he walked directly past me, i saw the side of his face(not fully) he seemed to have a white face mask on, along with a white hat.
I jumped in fright, i was scared ****less, and he laughed , didnt turn just laughed. I ran home. For a sec I thought the devil existed.
This was in Greystones.

A week later a couple of my friends are on a dart going to greystones. The dart carriage they where on was empty, a man wearing the same get up, as i described earlier got on at dalkey. He sat in the same four seater as my mates, they where freaked and spooked and moved seats.

up for anything · 01-02-2013 10:14PM

bluecode wrote: »

Which does prove my theory that ghosts are just images of people who might be still alive. You have been haunting yourself. Ghosts are just images of people like video or something.

Me I think my ghost inhabits a certain place. Even though I'm still around. I hated that place with a vengeance. Woo hoo!

Why would I be haunting myself though?

02-02-2013 02:25AM

This isn't very scary but it frightened me.

Went into the kitchen a while ago to get something to eat and one of my dogs started barking really aggressively at one of the cupboards. I was calling her to come away from it but she wouldn't so I went over and opened it.

The bloody cat jumped out of the cupboard and sent every utensil crashing out of it. Scare the crap out of me!

No idea how she got in there or how long she was there for.

iCosmopolis · 02-02-2013 03:02AM

The night after my granny died, we were all in the folks and there was a domino affect of all the lights strongly flickering on and off from the back garden right to the front of the house.
She'd died after 3 days on a trolley in the matter, surrounded by 2 crazed drug addicts and a wife beater trying to drag his battered missus of casualty. Doctor wanted her to go there, but all she wanted as she told my brother that lunchtime was to back to ours, have a smoke and pass away there. She had a no ressusitate order, so a while after he left and a minutes before we got there, she died. I loved her so much. We all did. And i'd been trying for a baby for a couple of years and she always telling me she wanted to be a great grandmother. I miscarried a few weeks after she died-had been so wrapped up in my grief, by the time I found out I was pregnant it was over. Luckily got pregnant again after and had my beautiful daughter in Jan 2012
Granny always had her spot at the table, where she drank copious amounts of tea and smoked away.
What I noticed however, my daughter used to at first have weird reaction to that particular corner, but relaxed over time as if casually conversing in baby talk to some unseen entity. Later, family photo's-in every batch we noticed had at least two or three pics in each that have a bright yellow exposure of her, that look like there's an extra set of arms around her.
My parents have good quality cameras as they're into photography. Initially my dad was blaming on his new lens. Except a couple are on my mams camera too. And on mine. And mam took a picture of her birthday table, and above the chair, where her original chair was, there looks like a grey outline of a face with light flecks around it.

blue-army · 02-02-2013 04:13AM

MickFleetwood wrote: »

This is the second greatest thread I've seen on any forum, ever.

you can't say that without saying which was the best!

Roisy7 · 03-02-2013 10:19AM

Patchy~ wrote: »

I was lying in bed last night and wasn't too awake but not quite asleep, then I half heard an English accent whisper "sorry?" in my ear and I got a bit freaked out. But I knew it was my imagination. It did make it a bit freakier, though, when I was almost asleep and got what felt like a punch underneath the pillow. :eek:

I thought maybe I'd done something like that leg spasm thing, but when I tried dropping my head onto the pillow nothing felt the same. It was pretty sharp and distinct...so now I'm in bed reading this thread and afraid to sleep.

I mentioned it a couple of dozen pages back, I get that thing too, it's called Exploding Head Syndrome, a harmless symptom of stress!

In other news, I walked home last night alone from the train station (7pm so not super-late) along a empty country road where there is supposed to be a fairy ring. Nothing at all happened, extremely disappointed :pac:

up for anything · 03-02-2013 10:53AM

iCosmopolis wrote: »

Later, family photo's-in every batch we noticed had at least two or three pics in each that have a bright yellow exposure of her, that look like there's an extra set of arms around her.
My parents have good quality cameras as they're into photography. Initially my dad was blaming on his new lens. Except a couple are on my mams camera too. And on mine. And mam took a picture of her birthday table, and above the chair, where her original chair was, there looks like a grey outline of a face with light flecks around it.

Any chance of you posting some of the photos (with the faces blotted out of course)? Were they taken with a digital camera or 35mm film camera?

MickFleetwood · 03-02-2013 01:32PM

blue-army wrote: »

you can't say that without saying which was the best!

It was this thread on another forum about hot girls. It was the single greatest thing I've ever witnessed on the Interwebz.

Super-Rush · 03-02-2013 01:57PM

BBDBB wrote: »

I thought the thread was for people to tell us their spooky experiences with or without explanation. Not whether they believe in the supernatural. So far its ticked along brilliantly imo. Do we really need to start challenging the tales for believability or liklihood. If you want to do that theres a forum for the paranormal etc but why divert a perfectly decent thread?

I agree.

It's been a really good read so far and I'd like it to stay that way.

michellie · 03-02-2013 02:46PM

up for anything wrote: »

Any chance of you posting some of the photos (with the faces blotted out of course)? Were they taken with a digital camera or 35mm film camera?

Oh I'd love to see those !! Great story.

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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