Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

My workplace is really creepy.

It's a new enough building but is built over the slaughter house that was behind an old livestock mart that was torn down a good few years ago.

All staff members have experienced at least one thing. The most common is knocking on doors from upstairs when everyone is downstairs, hearing banging around the shop, at closing time bags rustling, products that are on the shelf securely will fall off or will be pushed right back to the back of the shelf - this happens when the shop closed as I will face off a product before the shop is locked up and then during opening the product will be push right back or thrown off the shelf.

When we are closed sometimes a sound similar to a woman wearing heels walking around can be heard and a knocking noise can be heard.

The newest thing is hearing a co worker call a name but that coworker didn't call you or is not even in the same area. This happened to me, there were only 3 of us working my female coworker and my male manager. I heard as clear as day, my coworker saying "Jenny, come here a minute" while she's right behind me, we were both freaked out as the noise came from the back of the shop we were both at the front and the manager was on break. Another coworker was called while she was upstairs by a coworker who wasn't even working that day. It's as clear as day.

We are aloud to bring dogs to work, one of my coworkers dogs won't even go upstairs, my young lab won't go up but if he does he growls and barks and stares into a certain corner of the office and won't enter our storage room. My older lab also won't enter the storage room and will wail and cry if I go in. Both of my dogs also sometimes stare at a corner and will start growling defensively.

My freakiest experience in this shop was while I was on break and the rest were on the shop floor I heard a violent banging from upstairs, I went upstairs to investigate and I could hear footsteps that made a sound similar to if you had something very sticky at the sole of your shoe. There was nothing sticky under my shoes and when I stopped walking upstairs to hear the sound continued, a squelching sound from upstairs like someone with sticky shoes walking around. Needless to say I ran, and wouldn't go anywhere alone in the shop. None of my coworkers were upstairs at the time and cameras confirm it.

I refuse to stay in that shop alone, especially after closing, the feeling of being watched is unreal in that place, it's very unnerving.

Hope this isn't too long ... There's so much to say about this shop!

Seriously freaky - particularly about the dogs. Where is it?

I have a very friendly well adjusted dog & one day out if nowhere he went ape**** at a man who was walking by. No reason for it. Other man passed me & said - keep away from him; he's trouble. Creepy.

Same dog would never go near my allotment neighbour whose allotment is about 250 foot away from mine. he will sniff about everyone else's being nosey & friendly but never will go near his. Turns out I was told much later, he's a convicted child sex molester .

Dogs know.
Listen to your dog!!

JustAThought wrote: »

Seriously freaky - particularly about the dogs. Where is it?

I have a very friendly well adjusted dog & one day out if nowhere he went ape**** at a man who was walking by. No reason for it. Other man passed me & said - keep away from him; he's trouble. Creepy.

Same dog would never go near my allotment neighbour whose allotment is about 250 foot away from mine. he will sniff about everyone else's being nosey & friendly but never will go near his. Turns out I was told much later, he's a convicted child sex molester .

Dogs know.
Listen to your dog!!

Maxi Zoo in Maynooth.

Dogs do have this way about them, was out walking my younger lab at around midnight - couldnt sleep, so nothing better than a walk! This dog is a very people orientated dog, he loves people of all shapes, sizes and ages.

As we were walking there was this man walking ahead of us, kept twitching oddly, I was a bit worried but didn't think much, some people are a bit odd :P I started to hear the dog growling quietly, looked down and the he was transfixed on this man, wouldnt let him out of his sight.

This dog is normally a really bad puller, but that night he swapped sides so he was between me and that man and kept his body right beside me.

The man was walking really slow so we overtook him, as we did, dog didnt make a sound, just kept staring, as we went past him the dog walked a bit behind me still between me and the man.

as soon as we had made good distance, the dog started wagging his tail again and went back to pulling and sniffing everywhere happily.

I called my mam to get her to pick us up, didnt want to be out around someone who would cause such a reaction in that dog.

Apparently where I was walking is notorious for young girls to go missing, I'm so thankful I had Ollie (the dog) with me, hes a 40kg black lab, but hes a pet and such a little hero

yikes getting quite freaked out reading this thread

have a couple of strange / unnerving stories that happened over the years that have come to mind after reading other stories

the house i grew up in our neighbours ran a business from a workshop behind their house so we would regularly get people calling to our door looking for this business and we would say no it's not here it's next door. when i was in secondary school i would be on my own in the house alot during school holidays etc and I remember one day the doorbell rang and I went out and answered it. I was just out of the shower in my dressing gown with towel on my head so in hindsight i don't know why I even went to the door like that but anyway there were two traveller men outside the door kind of looking around them. they seemed a bit surprised when the door opened as the house probably looked like it was empty no cars outside etc and then one of them asked me if i knew where "X" was. Now I live in a pretty small place in the country where "X" was the biggest thing in the area and everyone knew where it was and it had a huge sign in front of it with it's name which you could actually see from where they were standing... I started telling them it was right there pointing at the sign but could tell they weren't really listening they were like ok grand see ya walking away... was very odd i think they were probably sussing the place out to see was anyone there and when someone answered they were surprised and came up with a stupid excuse of looking for directions.

another time myself and my sister were really hungover and were watching tv in bed. we both must have fallen asleep with the curtains open in the room and when I woke up it was dark but there was a little boy looking in the window at us then I could hear other voices outside and I was so freaked out thought there was someone outside trying to break in. turned out my dad's friend was going to be doing some work around the house so he had brought up his colleague to look at what needed to be done and the colleagues little son was with them and being nosy looking in windows

when we were in our early teens my sister had a dream that the devil was chasing her and the fire alarm went off in the house that night out of the blue - total coincidence but kind of freaky!

we also had a woman come to our house when we were kids asking had we high walls at the back of our house... turns out she was a psychic or something and she was having visions of someones missing dog being locked up in a place with high walls which she though was behind our house

and finally...
when myself and my sister were in primary school we used to be at home alone for about an hour or so before our older siblings got home from secondary school we were probably about 8 and 11 at the time. so anyway the bus drops us off outside our house and we see this crazy looking "bag lady" near our house so we were kinda scared and ran in quickly and locked the door behind us. We were afraid she would see us through the windows so we closed all the doors and huddled in the hallway but she came to the front door and was banging at the door and shouting at us through the letter box we were terrified... no idea what she wanted she eventually went away but it was really scary


sorry for the ridiculously long post

Lingua Franca wrote: »

This only happened 2 hours ago and isn't spooky, but it is creepy and I am inviting speculation as to what was happening.

My partner and I were sat here watching a film. We're not long moved in and we don't yet have blinds for the big bay window so we're pretty exposed and we can see everything that happens outside. We live on a main road, but on a smaller road that runs parallel to the main road, if you know what I mean. A car pulled very slowly onto our street and stopped in front of our house. My partner goes "What the f*ck is THAT?" - the car had a big camera on a pole attached to the roof and it was pointed at and filming (or photographing, but I think filming) our house. It moved off very slowly, stopping on front of each house for a few seconds. I went "Oh, it's just like the cars that make google streetview!" and he went "At midnight?!" I got up and stared back at it and my partner got the licence plate number.

I told him to call the cops, because something like that requires permission. Either they have permission and are doing something legitimate or they don't and we need to know what they were doing recording us.

He called the cops. They were very interested and equally suspicious. They sent a car out within a few minutes, so the other car was unlikely to have left the area by the time they got there. We had a licence plate number anyway.

We'll call tomorrow and ask what the police found out but feel free to speculate in the meantime!

If you find out, let us know what it was...

Lingua Franca wrote: »

I told him to call the cops, because something like that requires permission. Either they have permission and are doing something legitimate or they don't and we need to know what they were doing recording us.

He called the cops. They were very interested and equally suspicious. They sent a car out within a few minutes, so the other car was unlikely to have left the area by the time they got there. We had a licence plate number anyway.

We'll call tomorrow and ask what the police found out but feel free to speculate in the meantime!

Let me know what happens!!!

I had a nightmare and woke up jabbering saying "sorry, sorry", I was dreaming that there was a black monster with fangs leaning down into my face,my wife woke up because of the noise I made. And claims she saw the same "monster" while awake. Very creepy.

The cops said it was nothing authorised by them, it was an unmarked car and I believe cannabis is grown in greenhouses here. At least, I see a lot of signs in the countryside that say "Field/Greenhouse for rent, NO WEED!".

Great thread! What happened me didn't really creep me out at the time but as I got older it did a bit. I can remember it as clear as if it happened yesterday. When I was about 4, I was wondering around Penneys trying to find my Mam. I was always getting lost as a kid- I'd just get distracted and wonder off.

Anyway this woman comes up to me and starts chatting, tells me that I'm very pretty and I remind her of her daughter and she tells me the daughter had died. She was upset and took my hand. She offered to buy the head band I was playing with and we walked to the tills and she paid. We started walking out as she had offered to help me find my Mam. We were nearly at the exit when Mam appears and asks what's happening.

I explained that the lady's daughter had died and she bought me headband and the lady was helping me, while the lady cried (she was still holding my hand). Mam has a semi freak out but tries not to loose the head (a scary thing to see!) and takes my hand away from the lady and asks her if she is ok, in an uncomfortable way, and then touches her arm and says she's sorry for her loss but I can't keep the headband and we have to go. The lady argues that she wants me to have it and I was pretty feckin pissed that Mam was giving it back. Mam says goodbye, drops what she was going to buy and marches us out of the shop. I got a very long lecture about wondering off. Mam tried to explain it to me but I didn't really understand how fecking weird it was until I was much older. I remember Mam getting particularly upset when Jamie Bulger died and she hugged me for a long time that day.

Mam brings it up every now and again, says it still gives her chills. There is a girl a bit younger than me in my hometown who is the living image of me and I often wonder if the lady had another daughter and if it's her. That or my Dad has some explaining to do!

.Henry Sellers. wrote: »

These stories are great, I was reluctant to write mine in case my friend reads it but sure why not. My story is kind of long but sure here goes.

About twelve or thirteen years ago, me and my two friends who were ten and I was twelve years old used to mess around on the grounds of an old hospital. It was fairly small and used mostly to deliver babies. Thinking back now it was crazy because of the information of patients on sheets and in cabinets that was still left there when it was closed up.There was still some beds and stuff you could see through windows to the rooms that were locked.

Anyway we used to dare each other to go further into the building whenever we went up there, when everybody went in together we all acted like big men but when you went in on your own for a dare you would sh1t yourself.
We got one of the lads to go into the delivery room and bring something back out, he did it and came out with some floor tiles, of all things. The next lad went in and we could see him clearly through the door until when he turned around to come out, the door slammed shut.
We just ran for the exit until we realized we couldn't just leave him so we turned around and heard him crying and calling us, we pushed the door open, went in and he was black and blue with marks on him. We thought he fell or something and he wouldn't say what happened him. Brought him home and he told his Dad he got in a fight and we just kind of forgot about it until years later.

The lad who got hurt, His mother died after he was born in that hospital, he found out from a cousin. He never knew how she died but he knew it happened around when he was born. Now it gets freaky. It turns out his mother used to get drunk and beat the sh1t out of his older brothers when they where younger before he was born and the other mothers on the street used to hate her as she would hurt the brothers fairly bad and didn't like their kids going near her.

So roll on when we are all about sixteen and seventeen and drinking out in the fields trying to impress our lady friends with our alcohol based antics. We were drinking at the back of the hospital and the guy whose mother died gets fairly steamed up and is shouting abuse to his mother in the hospital. All the girls are laughing at him and egging him on. He said "why did you hit me when I met you", "I was only a child". Now me and my friend start piecing together what happened when the door slammed shut and he had marks all over him. He climbs under the fence and charges into the pitch black inside the hospital so we run after him leaving the girls but he's long gone inside.

We shout out his name but still no response, then we here him sobbing and call his name again. He just bursts into tears and is roaring from down the corridor, in the delivery room. We wade through the dark and reach the room, call his name again before going in and tell him to just cop on and come out because it's getting freaky, then the crying just stops. We have to go in so we open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the Dinosaur.

Now that's just bold !!

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

It's amazing the amount of people who came just within a hairs breath of being nabbed by a pedophile, rapist, serial killer. I'd have never thought so many kids out there had these narrow escapes. These are just the near misses. There must be thousands being abducted week.

You could be right actually. Here's my two cents:

Back when I was about 7, I remember walking home from school which at that time was probably a 3 mile walk. Normally I got a lift from my father but for whatever reason that I can't remember, I was walking that day, which was fine as it was quite warm. About halfway into it, on a long straight and dead quiet country road, a car passed me with two men inside and stopped about 30 yards up the road. The passenger, probably in his 20's, leaned out of the car and asked me where do I live and if I wanted a lift. I had stopped walking, sensing something odd and just said "no, I live around the corner" even though I didn't. They then stayed there for a few seconds and drove off. Only when out of sight did I continue walking.
Of course, it's possible they saw me as a sitting duck and thought 'let's give this kid a lift home before some weirdo grabs him', and were just being good samaritans, but I'll never know.

The other story is from just a couple of years later. I was sent out of class for messing to the principle who was a Christian Brother in his 60's. He brought me inside and closed the door. Instead of the b0ll0cking I was expecting, he was nice as pie to me. Sat down directly opposite me, very close, and held my clasped hands tight in his hands. I don't remember much of what was said but I do remember him remarking on my sweaty hands and saying I shouldn't be so nervous. I got out of there in a flash as I felt very uneasy. I thought no more of it for years but then heard a while back that he had mollested 2 lads in my class around that time. Never found out if he was convicted or not, or what happened exactly, but certainly in hindsight his behaviour could be seen as "grooming".

It's strange, but even as a naive young child without any real outside world exposure, I could sense danger in both those cases and acted accordingly.
But yeah, I never told my parents of these incidents as I thought what's the point really, so who knows how many kids have had near misses (or, at least, perceived near misses) and never divulged them to anybody? Scary, especially as I now have an 18 month old daughter, and everything in the real world just looks so menacing these days.

A few years back when I still went underage drinking ( cringe ) myself and a friend were walking home, the topic of our conversation at this point was the church, I was going on a huge rant. there was absolutely nobody in sight the place was dead, we sat down to lay against a wall in a failry remote area as we continued our conversation.

Out of nowhere a black car goes absolutely flying past us, I mean at a ridiculous and unnecessary speed. We noticed as it flies past a book is thrown out the window. pages flying everywhere. I then joke to my friend "ah now id love if that was the bible haha".

We went over, and funnily enough "Holy Bible" was written on its black cover.
This has not made me religious in any way, but to this day we are freaked out about it, my friend kept it. I can't explain it. a bit of a **** story, but a true one.