Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

Missmiddleton wrote: »

Only a while ago I heard a story about a man in the area who woke up in the night to something hot dripping on his chest. He opened his eyes and a masked man was holding a boiled kettle over him and demanding his car keys or he'd pour it.

I just want to confirm that this is a very real thing. Creeper burglaries, where someone breaks into your house with the intention of stealing your car keys, are on the rise.

My own mother's house was broken into a few years ago. When the cops arrived one of the first things they did was walk to the kettle and put their hand on it to see if it was warm, and it was.

What they do is: one person breaks in, starts the kettle boiling and lets their accomplices in. One will stand at the bottom of the stairs with the kettle to hand. Anyone coming down the stairs to investigate noises will get a kettleful of boiling water flung in their face.

I had a pretty horrible of experience of sleep paralysis. Posted it in another thread on here a while back:

I had my first experience a few weeks ago, it was horrible.

I was sleeping in a hostel and fell asleep pretty quickly. I had a pretty vivid dream where me and my friends were walking around my hometown and we ended up in a fight with another gang of lads. It was so real, I could feel every punch. In the dream, someone knocked me down and I hit my head against the concrete and went into some sort of fit.

At this point, I woke up and really I was having some sort of fit but I couldn't say anything or actually move. I think the fit was just in my mind. Whatever it was, it got the attention of the other people in my room and two of them rushed over and grabbed hold of me, shaking me to snap me out of it but it didn't work. All the people in their beds had got up and were standing around looking at me, asking was I ok but I couldn't reply. I was really panicked and these people were shaking me for about thirty seconds or so.

Then, I remembered that I was the only person staying in my room, all the other beds were empty. I blinked and I was in the room alone, just lying in my bed. It was an absolutely horrible feeling.

On the subject of robins, not long after my Dad died, my daughter told me a robin had hopped along walls beside her all the way down to school:)
I've since been told by a psychic that he is always with her.

I was visiting a cousin a couple of weeks ago. She told me that one evening recently, her dog went nuts in her sitting room, growling at the sofa and eventually backing out of the room into the kitchen. Nobody could figure what was wrong, as the dog is normally very quiet. She went out and picked it up, and brought it back in. The dog started to dart backwards and forwards at a spot on the sofa, it's tail wagging.
Not long after she met someone she knows who is known to be a bit psychic. She ran the story by him, and couldn't believe it when he straight away said that it was her uncle, ie my Dad, paying a visit. He showed her exactly what my Dad was doing to the dog, and I couldn't believe this, my cousin said he started doing jazz hands! My Dad used to drive the dog at home mad, waggling his hands in the air at it:D My cousin would not have known this herself.

For myself, other than having the feeling that I'm not alone at times, nothing really that mad has happened to me directly. I think though it's because I always talk to my Dad for example, in my head, and ask him not to scare me:o

Stepping Stone wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2013/0306/world/intruders-threw-boiling-water-at-man-224615.html

It's not really the same MO. They woke him up holding knives and a brush.

I had a similar experience last night. I am not sure whether I was asleep or awake but I was paralysed in the bed, I could hear something out in the landing, then somebody coming in and pressing their fingers into my stomach through the duvet! My logical mind was telling me if somebody had broken in, the alarm would have gone off and the dog, sleeping on the end of my bed, would have barked but the experience was very real and very frightening and I am out of sorts today because of it!

Tisserand wrote: »

I had a similar experience last night. I am not sure whether I was asleep or awake but I was paralysed in the bed, I could hear something out in the landing, then somebody coming in and pressing their fingers into my stomach through the duvet! My logical mind was telling me if somebody had broken in, the alarm would have gone off and the dog, sleeping on the end of my bed, would have barked but the experience was very real and very frightening and I am out of sorts today because of it!

I was so looking forward to sleeping tonight!

i was living in spain a few years ago and had a few creepy experiences while living there. i used to live in an apartment with a few others including one man in his 60s who we wouldnt see from one day to the next as he would leave early in the morning and would return late at night. i was often woken up in the middle of the night to the sound of the tap running in the kitchen, this went on for a number of nights until i finally plucked the courage to go out and see who/what it was. anyway wasnt it the elderly man washing himself in the sink each night!! bearing in mind his room was beside the bathroom! our food would also go missing and so i presume it was this man. i soon moved out of that apartment into a beautiful one on the other side of the city. a couple of days after moving in didnt i spot the old man stumbling out of a pub and across the street to the kids playground outside my building. i would have often seen him either asleep on the benches there or just sitting and watching the kids...all i could think was thank god i was out of that old apartment away from that creep!
i also had a creepy experience while in my new apartment too. my bedroom window overlooked a tiny courtyard where the lady who lived below kept some flower pots/hung her washing out. and so one day i was just out of the shower and had my towel around me and i walked past the window to my dresser, as i walked past i spotted the ladys husband staring up at me. i jumped out of sight away from the window then. a minute later i looked out to see if he had gone, and he had but then i saw that he was behind the curtain stil peeking up at me! ugh! what is it with creepy spanish men!!

When I was a young child I used to have the most bizzare dreams. The first one only lasted about 5 seconds but i'll never forget it. I'll try and explain this as best I can. So the dream started out and everything was black and then a man's face appeared out of the darkness. When he smiled he had no teeth, but elastic bands where his rows of teeth should be. He then laughed and the elastic bands vibrated like mad. It was so weird! I was only about 4 at the time.

The next one occurred around the same time. I used to love Bosco, but that suddenly changed after this dream. I dreamt that Bosco came out of the tv and started running around the house after me with a pair of scissors! When I woke up I was absolutely terrified. I didn't tell me mother until years later, as she always wondered why I hid behind the sofa when Bosco came on!

I would also have lucid dreams where I would dream that I had woken up. I would get out of bed in the dream and walk around as if I was getting up. About 5 seconds in, i would realise that I was still dreaming and actually say f sake i'm still asleep. I would then dream again that I was awake and this circle would continue until I woke up for real. Very annnoying!

My mother told me this freaky thing that happened her the other day and I immediately thought of this thread! So she loves walking and we live in the countryside with plenty of narrow country roads. She was out walking the other morning and she saw someone in the distance walking towards her. She didn't pass any remarks as it was a popular walking route.
As the man came closer, she realised he was walking backwards!! Completely freaked her out and she didn't know whether to keep walking or turn back. As he passed her he said 'hello, lovely day isn't it?' and walked on!! There was obviously some reason behind it, maybe something to do with strengthening the muscles in the back of his legs but I can imagine how freaked I would be!

Pudders wrote: »

About a week later, at 3 in the morning, we were woken the TV on full blare. I had assumed that there had been a power cut and the TV had switched itself on. Went down and again it wasn't plugged in. This time the girlfriend came with me as she was to afraid to stay upstairs on her own.

Something similar kept happening to me, I'd be in the house and all of a sudden the TV would turn itself on, the first few times this happened I was on my own and it kind of freaked me out - turned out our neighbours have a similar TV and when ever they turned theirs on, they would turn ours on at the same time (strangely enough, it doesn't turn off when they turn theirs off, nor can they change our channels or adjust the volume.

It's a pity most of my creepy experiences have a logical explaination.

One thing though did happen and I don't know if it was a coincidence or not, but when I was 13, my grandmother was in hospital, but expected to make a full recovery. I was in bed asleep and woke up all of a sudden with a very uneasy feeling, I couldn't figure out why, I tohought maybe I had had a bad dream that I couldn't remember, shortly afterwards my mother came home from the hospital and told me my grandmother had passed away at the exact same time I woke up.

Apanachi wrote: »

I thought not many unusual things have happened to me, but the more I read the more I'm remembering certain incidents

This happened about two years ago, it's not really scary or creepy, but I found it interesting

From the age of 1 until I was about 7 we lived in a little cottage in rural Ireland, for some reason I am fascinated with this house (maybe because my first memories are of living there) anyway, I was back home in Ireland for a holiday and dreamt I was back in the house going throgh all the presses because I was looking for a certain piece of jewellry (a necklace), the next morning, I took a spin with my husband past the house to show it to him. Later on that day, my sister arrived up from Roscommon and said she took a wee detour to the house on the way up to show it to her husband - just a coincidence I thought - fair enough, anyway I told her I had done the same thing that day, she told me she felt she had to drive past the house because she had had a dream about being in the house because she was trying to find a necklace!

I have no idea why we would be dreaming the same thing on the same night and if this necklace we were looking for even exisxts, but I found it strange to say the least

Woah, that's awesome! Did you find the necklace in the dream or do you have an idea of what it looked like even?

Apanachi wrote: »

No, I have no idea what the necklace looked like, I just knew I had to find it (unfortunately I never did and neither did my sister, it would have been interesting to know if we were looking for the same one and if it even exists in real life)

If there really is paranormal stuff going on that's definitely right up there, if it was me I'd be breaking into the old house when the family are out, I'd kill for some freaky personalised mystery like that! Based on nothing but prejudice from films and ghost stories, I think it's safe to say the necklace belongs to a deceased relative.