Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

Mozzeltoff · 07-04-2014 09:20PM

Just came upon this thread and decided to add my own story. I have had quite a few weird and "wtf" experiences but this one is the most unnerving I had. I was about 15 at the time. I remember it was a Friday night in December. I had decided to go to bed early as I was absolutely wrecked. My mother, little sister and my youngest brother were in the sitting room and were watching the Late Late Toy show. My father and younger brother were gone out helping a neighbour fix a tractor.

Anyway, I switched off the lights and settled into bed for myself. I couldn't get to sleep straight away and was tossing and turning a bit. I sat up for a few seconds and tried to get comfortable. I remember feeling like somebody else was in the room but I put it down to me just been over tired. I lay back down and turned to face the wall. Suddenly I got this feeling that someone was standing right over me. I clenched my eyes shut. Next thing I know someone or something is whispering and hissing jibberish right into my ear. I remember their/it's breath was freezing cold and I was just paralysed out of fright. All this lasted about twenty or thirty seconds but it felt like my whole life.

The very second it stopped I jumped out of bed and switched on the lights. There was nobody else in the room with me. I ran out to the sitting room to find my mother, sister and brother sitting down watching TV. I asked them had anybody gone into my bedroom but they all said no. I then asked them if my father and other brother were back and if they had come into my room. Again, I was told no. I couldn't sleep in that room for a month straight. My family thought I was gone the whole road but it scared the **** out of me, big time. Some people have told me I could have been experiencing sleep paralysis but I don't think I was. I like to believe I was but I know myself that I just want to believe what other people are telling me and put it down to a dream.

Since then I can never sleep right in a pitch black room, much to the annoyance of my OH. I feel like a right clown for having a lamp or low light to be turned on but that experience really did scare the **** out of me has had an effect on me 12 years after

xalot · 09-04-2014 09:20AM

Never had anything spooky happen but one event did freak me out.

When in first year in college myself and a friend shared a room in a two bed apartment. In the other room were two guys around the same age as us. They seemed like decent enough lads but were very messy and smoked a lot of weed so we didn't spend a lot of time in the apartment.

One day at college I said to my mate that I'd had a dream that one of the guys was in our bedroom watching us and that I was a bit freaked, she told me that she'd had the exact same dream but we just put it down to not being comfortable around the guys and didn't really think more about it.

Anyway a week of so later I woke to find her packing her bags. We'd been out for the night and had a few drinks and she told me that after I feel asleep she'd been lying in bed listening to her ipod and saw one of the guys open the bedroom door and stand there staring at me asleep for ages. She said she was frozen with fear but he eventually closed the door and left.

Needless to say we moved out after that.

astrofool · 09-04-2014 09:54AM

roboshatner wrote: »

Msg is banned in america.

But not in Irish food....

It some places it is all over the food.

Msg is not banned in Ireland anyway.

It is made to make you eat more and make everything taste great.

MSG is not banned un America

Sadderday · 14-04-2014 07:37AM

On friday just gone, my OH was working all night - not due back until 8am saturday morning.
My friend said that she would come down after work and we would have takeaway and watch stupid tv and she would go to work from mine the next morning.

Everything was going grand.. we were both tired after a long week in work and my friend was working the next day so she had one glass of wine with her dinner and I had one beer.

My mum dropped around about 9.30pm and we all had a cuppa.

I had muted the tv so we could yap but some ghost hunters programme was on. My mum was telling my friend about her ghostly experiences etc and we were all laughing. My friend asked me If I get nervous in the house alone (living there 6 months) ... and I said I never really did, I put the alarm on and have a tv in the bedroom etc etc etc...

OUT OF NOWHERE, this powerful KNOCK KNOCK... we all looked at each other and I kinda froze...
there was alot of 'did you hear that?'.... now I know it could have been teenagers joking about... but I'm there 6 months, never ever experienced anything like it, there was no-one around.

My mum said 'its probably your brother messing'..... but I rang him and he was at home drinking wine.

When I went to the hallway-which took a good few seconds and I was freaked I peered around to see the front foor wide open. I checked upstairs... No one there, my friend and I walked around the block to suss out if it was windy.... No one bit. My mother insisted we go home with her but I wouldnt because I didnt want it to take over and be a big ordeal.

But the three of us agreed never to discuss it again.

WTF

14-04-2014 09:01AM

Don't worry, was probably just Walter White up to his old tricks.

fortwilliam · 14-04-2014 10:30AM

About ten years ago,
South William Street in Dublin.

I was walking along towards St. Stephens green end of the road when I sort of locked eyes with this guy, he was mid twenties and was staring directly at me and started walking very quickly towards me.
He had the kind of urgent look about him, as if he had been looking for me all day and needed to tell me something.
The street was busy, people shopping etc, it was a Saturday afternoon.
He walked straight up to me and smacked me across my face, very hard on the left cheek, I was stunned, I didn't know what was going on.
He then walked straight past me, I looked around, here's the weird thing, nobody had paid any attention to what had just happened, as if it didn't happen at all.
I was standing there, my hand on my cheek where it was stinging, but nobody looked or even seemed to notice.

Did it even happen? I really don't know.. It hurt like hell, I can still see this guy's face and his expression in my mind, but I really don't know.

I Heart Internet · 14-04-2014 10:41AM

shuffles88 wrote: »

I've posted this somewhere else on here before but its pretty creepy so I'm posting it again.

The night my Gran died my parents were returning home after dropping my Grandad home from the hospital. They had just started out on the bog road home and were the only vehicle around at the time as it was fairly late. There weren't many homes in the area and it was always pitch black but for the lights on your car. They were talking away and all of a sudden my father jammed on the brakes. In front of them on the road, only for a moment though, a creature stood only a few feet in front of them. It appeared to have the legs of a goat and I believe the top half had human like qualities but wasn't quite what you would call "human". It only stood about 2ft high. It dashed on into the ditch on the opposite side of the road and my parents drove home without saying a word about it. Months passed until one night my Mother turned to my Father and said "You saw what I saw the night your Mother died didn't you?" and he said without even having to think about it "I did, why didn't you mention it until now?" neither of them could figure out why they never mentioned it before then.

One night a few years later at a family party held by my mothers side of the family, people started talking about odd things they experienced and my mother told the story. It was then one of my uncles (by marriage) said "Out near where I have my site?" and my mother said "Yeah, just up near the bridge". I have never heard my uncle sound so freaked out before or since. He said that his Grandad had lived there as a boy and there used to be woods where that bridge and the road is now and his Grandad was warned to never go in or near there and nor would any of the neighbours because of the "little men" that lived there and only came out at night.

Ah you gotta love these stories!

2thousand14 · 14-04-2014 01:08PM

gemma188 wrote: »

Not exactly creepy but I've lost count of the amount of times its happened to me that I'd randomly think of a scene/episode of the Simpsons or Friends etc and when I'd turn on the TV later that evening the exact episode would be on! Always freaks me out a little!

So I'm not the only one!

Mozzeltoff · 14-04-2014 01:21PM

2thousand14 wrote: »

So I'm not the only one!

It happens me too :eek:

I am pie · 14-04-2014 01:36PM

99% of what passes for creepy experiences which happen just before sleep are sleep paralysis. I find it hard to understand how it is harder to believe that you experienced a known sleep disorder which casuses strong halluciantions (aural, visual and including the sensation of being physically touched) than you had a one off experience where some unknown entity came into your bedroom one night with the sole purpose of hissing at you then promptly disappearing.

Seriously, after 12 yrs you need to do yourself a favour and free yourself from this. It's a relatively common experience.

Plug · 14-04-2014 02:17PM

Mozzeltoff wrote: »

Just came upon this thread and decided to add my own story. I have had quite a few weird and "wtf" experiences but this one is the most unnerving I had. I was about 15 at the time. I remember it was a Friday night in December. I had decided to go to bed early as I was absolutely wrecked. My mother, little sister and my youngest brother were in the sitting room and were watching the Late Late Toy show. My father and younger brother were gone out helping a neighbour fix a tractor.

Anyway, I switched off the lights and settled into bed for myself. I couldn't get to sleep straight away and was tossing and turning a bit. I sat up for a few seconds and tried to get comfortable. I remember feeling like somebody else was in the room but I put it down to me just been over tired. I lay back down and turned to face the wall. Suddenly I got this feeling that someone was standing right over me. I clenched my eyes shut. Next thing I know someone or something is whispering and hissing jibberish right into my ear. I remember their/it's breath was freezing cold and I was just paralysed out of fright. All this lasted about twenty or thirty seconds but it felt like my whole life.

The very second it stopped I jumped out of bed and switched on the lights. There was nobody else in the room with me. I ran out to the sitting room to find my mother, sister and brother sitting down watching TV. I asked them had anybody gone into my bedroom but they all said no. I then asked them if my father and other brother were back and if they had come into my room. Again, I was told no. I couldn't sleep in that room for a month straight. My family thought I was gone the whole road but it scared the **** out of me, big time. Some people have told me I could have been experiencing sleep paralysis but I don't think I was. I like to believe I was but I know myself that I just want to believe what other people are telling me and put it down to a dream.

Since then I can never sleep right in a pitch black room, much to the annoyance of my OH. I feel like a right clown for having a lamp or low light to be turned on but that experience really did scare the **** out of me has had an effect on me 12 years after

Its sleep paralysis, quite common. You need to get over it.

duchalla · 14-04-2014 02:30PM

About 30 years ago, we were coming home from visiting my dads cousins out in the country. It was after 2 am when we got home. Openend the door to house, went to turn on the light in the hall, no light came on, presumed the bulb was blown, turned on the light in the sitting room to give a bit light out to the hall, twas only then I noticed that the bulb was missing from the light fitting in the hall, next thing I noticed a bulb sitting in the corner of the hall, twas obiviously the bulb from the light fitting.
Now, for those of you that say the bulb probably came loose and fell from the light fitting, back then we had lino in our hall, if the bulb did fall from the fitting it was have almost certainly have broken and if it did manage to stay intact it couldnt have found its way over to the furthest point in the hall away from the fitting. No one had a key to get into the house while we were out and every door and window had beed locked. scared the absolute **** out of me and my 2 sisters, especially after seeing how unnerved my parents were after it. Even looking back on it now, we still cant find an explaination for it.

I Heart Internet · 14-04-2014 02:31PM

Plug wrote: »

Its sleep paralysis, quite common. You need to get over it.

Yeah, it's just sleep paralysis.

Or ghosts. One of those two alright.

maguic24 · 14-04-2014 02:39PM

You cynics are ruining good stories.

I am pie · 14-04-2014 02:50PM

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Yeah, it's just sleep paralysis.

Or ghosts. One of those two alright.

Yep, ones that hiss and paralyse you just before you go to sleep.

12 years! For the love of baby jeebus...

FouxDaFaFa · 14-04-2014 03:48PM

I was 11 and in (Galway) town watching the Macnas Halloween parade with my family. I had long hair, down to the bottom of my shoulder blades.

We were moving through the crowd when I heard a man behind me slur something like "I love little girls with long hair".

Next thing I know, a guy dressed like Mel Gibson in Braveheart had come up behind me and, in one movement, wound my hair around his hand to make a fist and pulled me back into him in a kind of headlock.

He essentially had full control of my head and neck and was pulling me backwards and down into his chest so I couldn't get my balance.

He started rambling about inviting me to a barbecue and I was like "wtf, sir". My family had melted away into the crowd.

I stumbled around a for a few seconds before managing to swing an elbow backwards and get him in the stomach.

He released my hair and I ran away, to find my family laughing.

Turns out the guy was a volunteer actor with Macnas and was with the "pig on spit" display, explaining the barbecue invite.

I have held a mild grudge against Macnas ever since.

Mozzeltoff · 14-04-2014 03:54PM

I am pie wrote: »

Yep, ones that hiss and paralyse you just before you go to sleep.

12 years! For the love of baby jeebus...

And you need to get over the fact that it's 12 years :rolleyes: What's it to you at the end of the day? :rolleyes: How's what affected a total random stranger from the internet going to affect your day? Or your life? Moder o gawd! Yes I know I need to get over it and I have tried but it's something that has deeply unnerved me. Get over it yourself. I came here to share an experience that freaked me out, not to be told "get over it" by someone off the internet. Hear enough of that off my OH without you having a go :rolleyes:

I Heart Internet · 14-04-2014 03:57PM

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

I was 11 and in (Galway) town watching the Macnas Halloween parade with my family. I had long hair, down to the bottom of my shoulder blades.

We were moving through the crowd when I heard a man behind me slur something like "I love little girls with long hair".

Next thing I know, a guy dressed like Mel Gibson in Braveheart had come up behind me and, in one movement, wound my hair around his hand to make a fist and pulled me back into him in a kind of headlock.

He essentially had full control of my head and neck and was pulling me backwards and down into his chest so I couldn't get my balance.

He started rambling about inviting me to a barbecue and I was like "wtf, sir". My family had melted away into the crowd.

I stumbled around a for a few seconds before managing to swing an elbow backwards and get him in the stomach.

He released my hair and I ran away, to find my family laughing.

Turns out the guy was a volunteer actor with Macnas and was with the "pig on spit" display, explaining the barbecue invite.

I have held a mild grudge against Macnas ever since.

I'd have done the same! Macnas bastards!

I Heart Internet · 14-04-2014 03:59PM

My wife's uncle told us a story over the weekend about coming face-to-face, literally with his double on a street in New York in the 1980s. Not just someone who looked like him, but someone who was, to all intents and purposes, him. He (the uncle) tried to talk to him but he just ran off.

Hank Scorpio · 14-04-2014 04:17PM

I Heart Internet wrote: »

My wife's uncle told us a story over the weekend about coming face-to-face, literally with his double on a street in New York in the 1980s. Not just someone who looked like him, but someone who was, to all intents and purposes, him. He (the uncle) tried to talk to him but he just ran off.

Seen a Film lately with something similar

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316411/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Well worth a watch

I am pie · 14-04-2014 04:17PM

Mozzeltoff wrote: »

And you need to get over the fact that it's 12 years :rolleyes: What's it to you at the end of the day? :rolleyes: How's what affected a total random stranger from the internet going to affect your day? Or your life? Moder o gawd! Yes I know I need to get over it and I have tried but it's something that has deeply unnerved me. Get over it yourself. I came here to share an experience that freaked me out, not to be told "get over it" by someone off the internet. Hear enough of that off my OH without you having a go :rolleyes:

But seriously, it wasn't a hissing ghost.

Mozzeltoff · 14-04-2014 04:20PM

I am pie wrote: »

But seriously, it wasn't a hissing ghost.

It could have been the damn cat for all you care, so tell me again, why does something that happened me 12 years ago matter to you so much today? What crusade are you on?

Sinister Kid · 14-04-2014 04:24PM

My mate was walking back from dropping her kid to school and a guy came up behind her and started smelling her hair... freaked the bejasus out of her!

FouxDaFaFa · 14-04-2014 04:28PM

Sinister Kid wrote: »

My mate was walking back from dropping her kid to school and a guy came up behind her and started smelling her hair... freaked the bejasus out of her!

I've had that happen a few times, actually. And about 5 different people over the years have snuck up behind me to run their hands through my hair.

It must be magical.

I am pie · 14-04-2014 04:28PM

Mozzeltoff wrote: »

It could have been the damn cat for all you care, so tell me again, why does something that happened me 12 years ago matter to you so much today? What crusade are you on?

Doesn't matter a fig other than I find it vaguely amusing and mildly bizarre than a hissing phantom is more believable to you than a common sleep disorder.

That's all it is, mildly amusing/slightly bizarre. Move on, calm down.

ivytwine · 14-04-2014 04:52PM

I Heart Internet wrote: »

My wife's uncle told us a story over the weekend about coming face-to-face, literally with his double on a street in New York in the 1980s. Not just someone who looked like him, but someone who was, to all intents and purposes, him. He (the uncle) tried to talk to him but he just ran off.

Like the The Double, brilliant film. But don't let your uncle-in-law see it....

Munstermad · 14-04-2014 05:43PM

Love this thread btw, all the talk of hair reminded me of something that happened about 10 years ago... Not scary but odd to say the least. Had forgotten about it till now.
My sister and I were shopping in a well known D.I.Y. store on Limerick and were admiring their gorgeous patio furniture... My sister was checking out a patio set and I was admiring a very expensive fancy gazebo by the front door.
I was looking up at the top of the gazebo when a manager came over and asked if I wanted any help... I politely declined and he rambled on about how lovely it would to own said gazebo then he stood behind me and blew into my hair and down my neck!!!! I turned around stunned and he was grining inanely...
I promptly called my sister and left... I was kinda stunned tbh... ???
I should have reported him or said something but I didn't..... Yuch!!! :eek:

8mv · 14-04-2014 07:02PM

Not unnerving but a little puzzling.
Our dog can get out of our garden over the back ditch if he really wants to, so to avoid the possibility of angry sheep farmers at my door, I keep him tethered to a large rock during the night. He usually just lies in his kennel and sleeps.
But a few weeks ago I went out first thing to let him off and found him looking forlorn outside the side gate, which was closed, still tethered to the rock which was the other side of the gate. I'm sure there's a rational explanation.

Or aliens.

14-04-2014 07:05PM

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

He released my hair and I ran away, to find my family laughing.

Turns out the guy was a volunteer actor with Macnas and was with the "pig on spit" display, explaining the barbecue invite.

.

Wtf? That's not funny

You poor thing

ENMcD · 14-04-2014 08:10PM

I used to dream about my dad who had died and I used to wake up in tears all the time, one night I woke up same thing absolutely balling my eyes out trying to calm myself while trying not to wake my boyfriend who was beside me. I kept saying in my mind I wish you were here(my dad) and if your ok, few seconds later this white light just appeared right beside where my boyfriend was asleep and I felt this calm come over me and I felt happy again, I didn't find it unnerving or creepy but needless to say my boyfriend had a freak attack about the whole thing :pac:

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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