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Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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  • #1292
    hotticket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭hotticket


    Missmiddleton wrote: »
    Where I live is notorious for break-ins, especially in recent times. One evening during the winter it was one of the rare occasions I ended up in the house alone. I was in the sitting room, the dog and cat in the room with me and I hear a noise at the back door.
    I know the sounds of my house like the back of my hand as I've been living in it my whole life and I am 100% is was the door handle being tried. All I could do was sit there stunned and dismiss it.

    It was only when my parents came home and I told them about it that i actually got upset as the back door could have been left unlocked with the dog going in and out and that. I'm so thankful it was locked!


    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.

    A work colleague told me a freaky story about someone she knows who got broken into one night a few years back. The husband woke up to see some guy in his bedroom, goinng through his stuff. He decided to lie there, eyes closed and not do anything and hope that his wife didn't wake up. Anyway, he hears the guy robbing the house come up right next to the bed on his side and he is taking his watch or whatever off the locker. Then he bended over and whispered into the guy's ear..."I know you're awake".:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:


  • #1293
    BlimpyBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭BlimpyBoy


    hotticket wrote: »
    A work colleague told me a freaky story about someone she knows who got broken into one night a few years back. The husband woke up to see some guy in his bedroom, goinng through his stuff. He decided to lie there, eyes closed and not do anything and hope that his wife didn't wake up. Anyway, he hears the guy robbing the house come up right next to the bed on his side and he is taking his watch or whatever off the locker. Then he bended over and whispered into the guy's ear..."I know you're awake".:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

    Sounds like it was something made up based on this creepypasta:

    http://i.imgur.com/okNPl.jpg


  • #1294
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    kylith wrote: »
    It's part of the amniotic sac, and is supposed to protect from drowning, which came in handy with that middle story there!

    Sailors used to pay good money for cauls, for obvious, if superstitious, reasons.

    My OH was born with a caul too. He was born at home, and had the cord wrapped round his neck. In the panic his Dad pulled off the caul and threw it out:(. I believe you are meant to keep them?
    He was saved from drowning once when small, and has been in various crashes over the years, and almost always walked away....


  • #1295
    jazz101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭jazz101


    .Henry Sellers. wrote: »
    Cue a big sweaty arse rubbing against the window in pure panic,

    Oh man, I know this thread is meant to be scary but I've just about fecking exploded here.


  • #1296
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    73Cat wrote: »
    My OH was born with a caul too. He was born at home, and had the cord wrapped round his neck. In the panic his Dad pulled off the caul and threw it out:(. I believe you are meant to keep them?

    Well, you can but you don't have to! It's just a bit of, essentially, skin.


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  • #1297
    lennyloulou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭lennyloulou


    I am a bit un- nerved tonight, just went for dinner with my hubbie and went to the cinema, we had a pleasant evening and relaxed. both of us not drinking or smoking anything dodgey before I get smart remarks!
    anyhow en route home, my hubbie casually asks me do I believe in ghosts and thinking he was on a windup at the start, he went on to tell me he saw a lady in a black dress, dark hair with a hood, walk across the bottom of our room and pass through the wall a few weeks- mid April- ago, he was wide awake and alert. it was crystal clear he says and he remembers every bit of it. he didn't want to tell me as he didn't want to unnerve me. now my hubbie is the worlds greatest skeptic and dismisses all this kind of stuff. he wasn't frightened by the image/ghost, felt it meant no harm


  • #1298
    sing_dumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭sing_dumb


    In the bad 2010 snow a local young lad sadly took his own life. I knew him & his mam + dad just to say hello, but knew nothing about the details of why he did this etc We were totally cut off in knee deep snow so never even made it to the funeral. In the January of 2011, a few of us from work went to a fortune teller as a delayed Xmas treat!!!! She told me my deceased Mam & XXX (the lad who died by suicide) were present & both were conveying birthday wishes. I was hugely impressed, my son's birthday was the next day, and she told me in- depth details of XXX's death, and asked me to convey certain messages from him to his family. I agreed, but secretly thought it ain't gonna happen, coz I really did'nt know them. His people are very private and none of the things the fortune teller related to me were known publicly. When I went home that night I had to open the gates to park in our driveway, and someone wished me Good night. It was XXX's mother , which was totally unusual for me to meet her, as our paths seldom cross. Without stopping to think I impulsively blurted it all out to this poor woman about the whole experience & how impressed I was at her lad knowing it was my son's birthday next day. She let out the saddest cry I have ever heard & she shook & shook!! Then she said to me "it's MY birthday today"!!
    I did not even know her first name. Let alone her birthday. We have become great friends since then & we still talk about that night now, two years later.


  • #1299
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,009 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There are only 365 days in a year so only 365 birthdays to be had.
    Read into these things what you want to.


  • #1300
    IceFjoem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭IceFjoem


    Deleted User wrote: »
    There are only 365 days in a year so only 365 birthdays to be had.
    Read into these things what you want to.

    Cheers for that.


  • #1301
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    IceFjoem wrote: »
    Cheers for that.

    It's a fair point though. You thought it was your kid's birthday, she said it was her birthday. If her birthday hadn't been that day it would have been just gone, or coming up, or his fathers or sibling's, or it would have been someone's birthday around when he died. Unless the medium actually said "X wants you to tell his mother happy birthday because it's her birthday today" then she was just fishing.

    The medium may well have googled you when you booked the appointment, seen a newspaper article about a tragic suicide in the town where you live and decided to take a punt on you knowing the lad.

    They'll freak you out, but psychics are predatory scum rather than conduits to the other side.


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  • #1302
    Apanachi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    kylith wrote: »
    It's a fair point though. You thought it was your kid's birthday, she said it was her birthday. If her birthday hadn't been that day it would have been just gone, or coming up, or his fathers or sibling's, or it would have been someone's birthday around when he died. Unless the medium actually said "X wants you to tell his mother happy birthday because it's her birthday today" then she was just fishing.

    True, but on the other hand, one can poke holes at anything paranormal, scaptics will always find a scientific reason for paranormal activities, I'm not say the psychic had a true premonition or contact, but sing_dumb found this to be unusual or a message from a loved one, so who are we to doubt it?

    A wise man once said:

    "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."


    (having said that, I wouldn't really trust physics, but sometimes they can be spot on, obviously a lot of it (most of it?) is fishing, gauging your reaction to something vague they said, or pure luck, but part of me would like to believe they can contact of lost ones and relate messages from them)

    An old flatmate of mine had a friend who said she was a psychic, and she read my tarot cards, and almost everything she told me came true, I hadn't known my flatmate long and we more or less just co-existed, there was no real friendship and we hardly every saw each other and I certainly never told her anything about myself, so she couldn't have given her friend any information about me, it was odd that she could tell me so much, but at the same time, I never really thought much of it and was impressed, but not not convinced


  • #1303
    Ezekiel Easy Comedienne
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Ezekiel Easy Comedienne


    Apanachi wrote: »
    (having said that, I wouldn't really trust physics,

    Yeah, sometimes I float instead of falling. Wtf, physics!


  • #1304
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Yeah, sometimes I float instead of falling. Wtf, physics!
    Ohh, a spelling correction joke. Cool. :cool:


  • #1305
    Ezekiel Easy Comedienne
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Ezekiel Easy Comedienne


    Zulu wrote: »
    Ohh, a spelling correction joke. Cool. :cool:

    No, it's a "imagine if you really didn't trust physics, that would be funny" joke


  • #1306
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    So did anything actually creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?


  • #1307
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Apanachi wrote: »
    True, but on the other hand, one can poke holes at anything paranormal, scaptics will always find a scientific reason for paranormal activities, I'm not say the psychic had a true premonition or contact, but sing_dumb found this to be unusual or a message from a loved one, so who are we to doubt it?
    I have a serious distrust of psychics and mediums because I believe that they, consciously or unconsciously, prey on the vulnerable, and if that isn't something to guard against, what is?
    A wise man once said:

    "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
    Shakespeare was a lot of things; a poet, a playwright, by all accounts a fairly crappy husband (he did only leave his wife his second-best bed, after all), but can we actually call him a wise man? Sure he had a way with words, but does that add up to actual wisdom? The man couldn't reliably spell his own name, for goodness sake.

    But since you're fond of quoting him:
    To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
    To throw a perfume on the violet,
    To smooth the ice, or add another hue
    Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
    To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
    Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

    Or in other words (and as Tim Minchin put it): Isn't this enough?
    (having said that, I wouldn't really trust physics, but sometimes they can be spot on, obviously a lot of it (most of it?) is fishing, gauging your reaction to something vague they said, or pure luck, but part of me would like to believe they can contact of lost ones and relate messages from them)
    Most of me hates the idea of my dead relatives hanging around watching me. Why do so many people think it sounds lovely?

    And most of them aren't like that: every single one of them is. If anyone thinks otherwise Derren Brown did a very good series on it some years ago which I would encourage them to watch.

    If being dead means having to hang around the ether for eternity waiting for a chat with Dereck F'ing Akora or Syliva 'Lying Toerag' Brown to tell your relatives 'Nana is happy beyond the veil', then I'm not going
    An old flatmate of mine had a friend who said she was a psychic, and she read my tarot cards, and almost everything she told me came true, I hadn't known my flatmate long and we more or less just co-existed, there was no real friendship and we hardly every saw each other and I certainly never told her anything about myself, so she couldn't have given her friend any information about me, it was odd that she could tell me so much, but at the same time, I never really thought much of it and was impressed, but not not convinced
    Cold reading, and Barnum statements will get you a long way.


  • #1308
    Apanachi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    kylith wrote: »
    Most of me hates the idea of my dead relatives hanging around watching me. Why do so many people think it sounds lovely?
    I don't know, I just like to think thay are still there watching over me, but different strokes for different folks I guess.

    I have never (and probably never will) paid to see a psychic, but I like to hear them ramble on, "psychics" are gifted, that's for sure, even if their only gift is reading people and their emotions and picking up on things non-supernatural and using.

    I find them fascinating, but cannot condone them preying on grieving people, conning them into believing things that aren't true and feeding on their vulnerability. It's fun if you don't take it seriously.

    I do believe in the paranormal to some extent, but not in the psychics who charge you a fortune to feed you with BS


  • #1309
    OneArt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Saw a friend the other night. He told me that the other day he and his girlfriend heard a knock on the apartment door. They looked through the peep-hole and saw no one. When he opened the door, there was a single red rose on the doormat.

    Needless to say they slept with knives that night.


  • #1310
    Dave H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Dave H


    So I've a story each about when my grandmothers died.
    My father's mother died two days after Christmas Day, so we had all the decorations up in the sitting room. Since we knew she was on her way out, my Da slept in the sitting room every night near the phone, long before mobiles and more than one phone in the house ;) , just waiting for the call. So I slept on the armchair one night, only to be woken by my Da giving out sh1te, "What in the name of jaysis is all this sh1te all over me?!"
    All the decorations from above the sofa, and I mean all of them,even the ones that shouldn't have landed on him, were all over him. Then the phone rang and it was my uncle to say she'd died. Almost as if it all fell down on him when she died.
    When my mother's mother died, my parents and an uncle and aunt were clearing out her flat. When they went to leave, they couldn't find the keys. They pulled the place asunder looking for them but nothing. Then my aunt found them on the counter, seemingly where there had been nothing 5 minutes before.
    So when they got home, they heard the sound of the window in the kitchen slamming, and found that the house had been broken into. Now, the guards caught him (the silly bugger was nabbed as he was waiting for a bus in Leixlip village haha) and we got everything back but it was the fact that he'd been on a bit of a spree that evening and one of the other houses he'd broken into, he'd been disturbed and bet the bejaysis out of yer man with a vice grips. This was a big lad in his twenties too so I dread to think what would have happened to my 5'4, nearly 50 year old Da if he had have walked in.
    To this day my mother still talks about the 5 minute delay that probably saved my Da from a severe hiding at least. She reckons it was her mother looking out for them.


  • #1311
    Seanachai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭Seanachai


    Was walking home from a rural town in Co Wexford about nine or ten years ago with a friend ( male also ) at about 4 am. We were on a stretch of wide main road and hadn't seen a car for about five minutes , my friend went into a gateway to take a piss , just then a battered ford transit with a loud exhaust came rumbling up the road from behind. It drove past me for about forty feet and then stopped dead in the road for about thirty secs , nobody poked their head out the door to offer a lift. My friend then returned from the gateway and the van then drove off. If you had to have seen this van , it was red with a blue side panel and blacked out back windows. We were about 18-19 and it spooked the crap out of us.


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  • #1312
    will.i.am
    Site Banned Posts: 192 ✭✭will.i.am


    I live in the country side and during the Summer I normally leave my window open to leave air into my room. We have a couple of pet cats that never bother coming in because they know there not meant to be in the house. At the time my grandmother was in hospital for a few months and we knew she didn't have long left. One morning in early July I had my window open as normal when I was awoken by the cat lying on the pillow beside me. I found this very unusual and within a few minutes the hospital rang to say that my grandmother had dies!


  • #1313
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    kylith wrote: »
    Most of me hates the idea of my dead relatives hanging around watching me. Why do so many people think it sounds lovely?

    Me too, Like what when you are **** and they are just looking at you in the corner.


  • #1314
    Squaredude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭Squaredude


    Met a girl a few years ago who after a while of talking with her told me she was psychic and that she wanted to tell me a few things if it was ok with me, so I said grand not believing in any of that.After a few minutes I had to stop her as what she was telling me no one could have known and it really freaked me out.


  • #1315
    [Deleted User]
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    My flatmate came into the kitchen and took all the sharp knives out of the drawers and shared them out between us.
    That was pretty creepy.


  • #1316
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    Creepiest thing to happen me was when I was 6 myself and my brother were lying in bed and felt movement on the blankets long story short it was several rats. Freaked the living **** out of me, thank god my mother was up to batter some of them to death while the rest fled but it scared the bajesus out of me, wasn't able to sleep properly for a month after.


  • #1317
    kilkenny12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭kilkenny12


    Squaredude wrote: »
    Met a girl a few years ago who after a while of talking with her told me she was psychic and that she wanted to tell me a few things if it was ok with me, so I said grand not believing in any of that.After a few minutes I had to stop her as what she was telling me no one could have known and it really freaked me out.

    Well, tell us what she said then..:p


  • #1318
    Thom Merrilin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭Thom Merrilin


    Aciiiiiiiiiiid wrote: »
    ONE TIME I WAS HITCHING FOR A LIFT HOME AT NIGHT AND A CAR PULLED IN ABOUT 10 FEET AHEAD THEN I WALKED UP AND OPENED THE PASSENGER DOOR AND THERE WAS A SKELETON DRIVING THE CAR

    My god, what a horrific experience, how did you cope since ?


  • #1319
    Sierra 117
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Sierra 117


    Thom Merrilin wrote: »
    My god, what a horrific experience, how did you cope since ?

    I don't know about Aciiiiiiiiiiid but I heard the driver went to pieces.


  • #1320
    Catari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    Everytime I am in a car that drives past a certain area near Phoenix Park, I think Stoneybatter, I get really uncomfortable and uneasy, like my skin is crawling and just dread in my gut. Bad, bad vibes. After a few times on this route I told my friend how I felt and he pointed out that we are beside the sex offender prison. *shudder*


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  • #1321
    Palmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭Palmy


    I used to drive a taxi in Dublin, One night I picked up an Indian woman and her young baby. Her English wasn't that good and she directed me where she wanted me to drive instead of giving me a street address.
    When driving down some kind of small lane way/street she told me to stop. I instantly remembered seeing this house from somewhere and it's number.
    She paid her fair got out and I had to drive down the street a little and turn round to come back out. As I passed the house again slowly I thought to myself where have I seen that house. I then remembered where I had seen the house from. Two night's earlier I had been watching a documentary on T.V about the two scissor sisters in Dublin.
    It was the house they hacked and butchered your mans body to death in the bathroom and dumped his torso in the canel. S**t I couldn't drive out of that place fast enough.
    Poor lady I bet never even new what happened in that house.


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