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Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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  • #5602
    [Deleted User]
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    Day Lewin wrote: »
    My theory is that the "thing" was always there, and only now - at some special moment - does the person become able or ready to see it. And then they see it.

    My father, a very quiet, and so often depressed man in life, seemed always to have given us small but amazing little signs in death.


  • #5603
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Has anybody stayed in a repudetdly haunted hotel and experienced things that went bump in the night? Would love some day to stay in tbe Hastings hotel up in Glenarm, but it’s expensive and the haunted tower rooms especially so. Also I tend to travel solo and might get a bit too scared up there in the tower! There are several other hotels reputed to be haunted, eg Bushmills Inn, Renvyle House, Dobbin’s in Carrickfergus.


  • #5604
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Has anybody stayed in a repudetdly haunted hotel and experienced things that went bump in the night? Would love some day to stay in tbe Hastings hotel up in Glenarm, but it’s expensive and the haunted tower rooms especially so. Also I tend to travel solo and might get a bit too scared up there in the tower! There are several other hotels reputed to be haunted, eg Bushmills Inn, Renvyle House, Dobbin’s in Carrickfergus.

    I mentioned here before in a post that I stayed above the Algiers pub in Baltimore west cork when I worked as a guide. The pub at the time was closed but the rooms upstairs were made available for tour guides in my case. Every time I stayed I was woken by tugging of the bed sheets between 3-4 am it was a very disturbing feeling in that place. I think stupidity had me return each time I did a tour down there.
    In the end one night I was too creeped out and so I slept in the back of my van.
    I've written a post about it 2-3 years or so ago. I can't find the link right now.


  • #5605
    New Home
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    *Searches posts by poster and keyword*

    Is this it? https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=106271046

    :)


  • #5606
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Has anybody stayed in a repudetdly haunted hotel and experienced things that went bump in the night? Would love some day to stay in tbe Hastings hotel up in Glenarm, but it’s expensive and the haunted tower rooms especially so. Also I tend to travel solo and might get a bit too scared up there in the tower! There are several other hotels reputed to be haunted, eg Bushmills Inn, Renvyle House, Dobbin’s in Carrickfergus.

    Shelbourne Hotel, one of the floors is supposedly haunted by a young waneen

    Renvyle House Hotel, Co Galway is supposedly haunted by W.B. Yeats, one particular room.

    Going to try stay in both these places some stage this year

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #5607
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    buried wrote: »
    Shelbourne Hotel, one of the floors is supposedly haunted by a young waneen

    Renvyle House Hotel, Co Galway is supposedly haunted by W.B. Yeats, one particular room.

    Going to try stay in both these places some stage this year

    https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/shelbourne-hotel-haunted-spooked-staff-6940121


  • #5608
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.hastingshotels.com/ballygally-castle/ghost-room.html

    https://www.spookyisles.com/2015/04/irelands-10-most-haunted-hotels/


  • #5609
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,847 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Stayed in renvyle and it was amazingly peaceful and rejuvanative.

    Heard nothing about a haunted room while there


  • #5610
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Stayed in renvyle and it was amazingly peaceful and rejuvanative.

    Heard nothing about a haunted room while there

    There was a documentary years ago about 'Haunted Ireland' places and all that, this thing was made in the 70's or that, that's where I first heard about it, that doc said it was him. Just googled there and this came up

    https://www.dailyedge.ie/most-haunted-places-ireland-1577445-Jul2014/

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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  • #5611
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    That Renvyle place does look class too. Bit of a 'Overlook Hotel' vibe from it, but by a nice lake

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #5612
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    This is the documentary I was on about. So cool. Why they can't make programmes like this no more, feic knows. Done in a few parts here uploaded to youtubez.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #5613
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Got up during the night to go the loo.We sleep downstairs.Only put the landing light on and seen a black shadow fly across the wall.Gave me the heebie jeebies.


  • #5614
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,688 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    dubstarr wrote: »
    Got up during the night to go the loo.We sleep downstairs.Only put the landing light on and seen a black shadow fly across the wall.Gave me the heebie jeebies.

    A bat flying past the window, cast the shadow from the landing light?
    (Its really too cold still for bats to wake up but if it is hibernating in your house then it may have warmed up enough.)

    Or a bird outdoors, disturbed from its sleep by a hunting cat.


  • #5615
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Playing toys with my sister one night, hear an echoey voice call out from my mum and dads room, it was coming from the top right of the room as if in the attic. My sister and me just looked at each other in shock and got up slowly ready to leg it down the stairs. As we passed the room, the voice, whatever the hell it was called out again. Christ we ran like the clappers. No idea what it was but the voice was coming from an uninhabited(attic was dark and unconverted at this stage) part of the house. There could have been someone up there who broke in living unknown to us I guess which is the only alternative

    For the record it must have been my dad but it wasn’t my dad, the trajectory of the voice was unmistakable. If someone asks me do zi believe in ghosts, I’d say no, but I heard what I heard. I’ll probably only know the day I draw my last breath.


  • #5616
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    A bat flying past the window, cast the shadow from the landing light?
    (Its really too cold still for bats to wake up but if it is hibernating in your house then it may have warmed up enough.)

    Or a bird outdoors, disturbed from its sleep by a hunting cat.

    No bats and its quite an enclosed place.It just shook me up.Cause we used to have some **** happen here.But has been quiet for the last few years


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  • #5617
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    dubstarr wrote: »
    No bats and its quite an enclosed place.It just shook me up.Cause we used to have some **** happen here.But has been quiet for the last few years

    Obvious follow up question...

    What kind of ****


  • #5618
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    Obvious follow up question...

    What kind of ****

    Seeing dark shadows,noises,

    I was in the back bedroom feeding my youngest son.My middle son comes out of the toilet.In to his bedroom he goes.Literally 2 seconds later the same son comes up the stairs.

    Beds being moved around upstairs.Footsteps and smells.

    But its been quiet here for a few years.


  • #5619
    smartyfarts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭smartyfarts


    a guy stood in the middle of the road last night outside a pub trying to wave me down. I slowed down so he thought I was stopping. then when he started to walk to my window, I sped off. I also nearly ran over a cat before this happened. I was on my way to Tesco to buy a king size duvet at 9:30pm.


  • #5620
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    dubstarr wrote: »
    But its been quiet here for a few years.

    That's what The Beast wants you to think.


  • #5621
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    That's what The Beast wants you to think.

    Feck off:D:D


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  • #5622
    JaCrispy
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭JaCrispy


    Working a late shift in Dell years ago (when they were based in Bray). Not too many people were knocking around, opened the door to a dimly lit corridor leading to the main canteen and a canteen tray trolley was making it's way towards me along the corridor.

    I could see through the trolley and that nobody was pushing it from the other side. The trays on the trolley were bouncing up and down.

    It's the only time I've fully been freaked out by something and still have no explanation as to what was propelling the trolley.


  • #5623
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    dubstarr wrote: »
    I was in the back bedroom feeding my youngest son.My middle son comes out of the toilet.In to his bedroom he goes.Literally 2 seconds later the same son comes up the stairs.


    Did you not jump up and follow him into his room to see the two of them? Which one wasn't the real middle son?


  • #5624
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    JaCrispy wrote: »
    Working a late shift in Dell years ago (when they were based in Bray). Not too many people were knocking around, opened the door to a dimly lit corridor leading to the main canteen and a canteen tray trolley was making it's way towards me along the corridor.

    I could see through the trolley and that nobody was pushing it from the other side. The trays on the trolley were bouncing up and down.

    It's the only time I've fully been freaked out by something and still have no explanation as to what was propelling the trolley.

    How close did you get to the trolley?

    To thine own self be true



  • #5625
    JaCrispy
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭JaCrispy


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    How close did you get to the trolley?


    When I opened the door to the corridor the trolley was maybe 10 feet from me. It was coming in my direction, slightly faster than walking pace. It got to within maybe 5 foot of me before I quickly turned around and returned to my office.


  • #5626
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,688 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    JaCrispy wrote: »
    When I opened the door to the corridor the trolley was maybe 10 feet from me. It was coming in my direction, slightly faster than walking pace. It got to within maybe 5 foot of me before I quickly turned around and returned to my office.

    Maybe the corridor was slightly sloping: someone at the other end had pushed the trolley and it just rolled?

    Would there have been an almighty crash behind you when it hit the door?


  • #5627
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    up for anything wrote: »
    Did you not jump up and follow him into his room to see the two of them? Which one wasn't the real middle son?

    I did but there was only one of him in there.And him and my eldest look nothing alike.So it wasnt him either.


  • #5628
    oceanman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭oceanman


    smartyfarts wrote: »
    a guy stood in the middle of the road last night outside a pub trying to wave me down. I slowed down so he thought I was stopping. then when he started to walk to my window, I sped off. I also nearly ran over a cat before this happened. I was on my way to Tesco to buy a king size duvet at 9:30pm.
    think you might be in the wrong forum.


  • #5629
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    dubstarr wrote: »
    I did but there was only one of him in there.And him and my eldest look nothing alike.So it wasnt him either.

    That reminds me of a similarly weird situation with my youngest, I'm sure I posted it before but not tech enough to find it. She ran down a path past my car in front of me, I was calling her back but she kept going with me running after her. The path turned at a right angle and as I ran around after her she was gone. I looked all around, was calling her in a panic, I actually thought she had hidden on me. There was no sign of her. I turned and went back the way I came and there she was standing back at the car. She 100% had not passed me on her way back to the car and the path was the only route to take. She told me she had not seen me either on her way back. I still can't figure it out till this day.


  • #5630
    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    Not really creepy or unnerving, more of a coincidence but strange all the same. About 2 weeks after my granddad died I went to a new restaurant in town with some friends. The restaurant menus where inside the covers of old childrens books - like hard back Beano book covers with the menu attached inside, the book covers where recycled as they had childrens scribbles and drawings on them. So I opened my menu only to find my granddads full name signed in on the inside cover.


  • #5631
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    did you find out if your grandad owned it?


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  • #5632
    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    fryup wrote: »
    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    did you find out if your grandad owned it?

    No, I suppose there was no way of finding that out but the surname isnt that common so its possible he did.


  • #5633
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    aren't you curious? go back to that restaurant and find out...i'm sure your granny or parents would know


  • #5634
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Not quite creepy either, but near the end of mass on Ash Wednesday, I was thinking about the hymn Tantum ergo, and the priest started singing it!


  • #5635
    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    fryup wrote: »
    aren't you curious? go back to that restaurant and find out...i'm sure your granny or parents would know

    It was a few years ago, the restaurant isn't there anymore but I regret not asking the staff if I could keep the book cover. My grandparents are all dead now but I said it to my mother at the time. They would have had beano books in the house so its possible but could also just be coincidence.


  • #5636
    tamara25
    Registered Users Posts: 378 ✭✭tamara25


    Lovely story airyfairy, that was definitely your grandad saying hello from the spirit world


  • #5637
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    branie2 wrote: »
    Not quite creepy either, but near the end of mass on Ash Wednesday, I was thinking about the hymn Tantum ergo, and the priest started singing it!

    I love synchronicity like that. Life is full of it when you're paying attention :)


  • #5638
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Sleep Paralysis.Do you think its linked as to whether you can see ghosts


  • #5639
    Lizheen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭Lizheen


    Airyfairy12 wrote: »
    Not really creepy or unnerving, more of a coincidence but strange all the same. About 2 weeks after my granddad died I went to a new restaurant in town with some friends. The restaurant menus where inside the covers of old childrens books - like hard back Beano book covers with the menu attached inside, the book covers where recycled as they had childrens scribbles and drawings on them. So I opened my menu only to find my granddads full name signed in on the inside cover.


    Not dissimilar and also not creepy – just a happy coincidence – but when I was a kid, we had a set of encyclopaedia (not very well known, Newnes Pictoral Knowledge Encyclopaedia and Atlas) – but it was missing Vol 2, which really irked me.



    As a student, I passed the Mansion House one day, and they had an antique book fair on, so being a bit of a booklover and never having been at a book fair before, I wandered in for a gander. Wasn’t there long; randomly wandered; and I remember rooting casually through a box at one stall – and to my amazement, the box had Vol 2 of the encyclopaedia set we had.

    I am convinced it was the actual original from our set as otherwise, why would the seller have had just that one? Our set belonged to my grandparents and I guess when they moved to Westmeath, somehow that volume got forgotten and wound up in the hands of a bookseller.


  • #5640
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Please tell me you bought it!!!


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  • #5641
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,688 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    I remember Newnes Pictorial Knowledge!

    A childrens' encyclopaedia.

    10 Volumes, illustrated mainly with black-and-white photographs. I think Volume 9 had the Greek myths and folklore legends in it: And the last Vol was an Atlas.

    I learnt a lot of my early education from them!

    Thanks for the memory, @Lizheen!


  • #5642
    AngryHippie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


    look out....its about to get all poop fetish hereabouts :eek:


  • #5643
    [Deleted User]
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    AngryHippie wrote: »
    look out....its about to get all poop fetish hereabouts :eek:

    nGMrD.gif


  • #5644
    ardinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭ardinn


    So

    Just this minute - I have a little office off the kitchen - I went out to the back of the kitchen where the air fryer is to put on a few sausages for meslef while I do a bit of work before bed on the laptop.

    When I went out, the handle of the back door was down, its always down as my mother cant lock it because its a bit warped and stiff, I usually lock it before bed.

    It was definitely down, went to collect said sausages and the handle is up, not tight, but up!

    I never touched it!

    Odd
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  • #5645
    RonanP77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭RonanP77


    dubstarr wrote:
    Sleep Paralysis.Do you think its linked as to whether you can see ghosts

    No.


  • #5646
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    ardinn wrote: »
    So

    Just this minute - I have a little office off the kitchen - I went out to the back of the kitchen where the air fryer is to put on a few sausages for meslef while I do a bit of work before bed on the laptop.

    When I went out, the handle of the back door was down, its always down as my mother cant lock it because its a bit warped and stiff, I usually lock it before bed.

    It was definitely down, went to collect said sausages and the handle is up, not tight, but up!

    I never touched it!

    Odd

    Maybe the handle got the opposite of morning wood?
    Night wood.

    To thine own self be true



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  • #5647
    Truckermal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    Can anyone explain this? Any random person could come into my head and I would be thinking about them then days later they are dead! This has happened several times down through the years!

    Then yesterday my sis in law came into my head and I was day dreaming thinking if her relationship with her boyfriend broke down she could move in with us, now she has being in a very happy relationship for ages... She phones my wife last night asking to stay as she's split up with the boyfriend!!!

    Stuff like this always happens and it's freaking me out now!


  • #5648
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Truckermal wrote: »
    Can anyone explain this? Any random person could come into my head and I would be thinking about them then days later they a re dead! This has happened several times down through the years!

    Then yesterday my sis in law came into my head and I was day dreaming thinking if her relationship with her boyfriend broke down she could move in with us, now she has being in a very happy relationship for ages... She phones my wife last night asking to stay as she's split up with the boyfriend!!!

    Stuff like this always happens and it's freaking me out now!

    when that happens I pray, hard and long, for that person.


  • #5649
    Kingp35
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,294 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    Truckermal wrote: »
    Can anyone explain this? Any random person could come into my head and I would be thinking about them then days later they are dead! This has happened several times down through the years!

    Then yesterday my sis in law came into my head and I was day dreaming thinking if her relationship with her boyfriend broke down she could move in with us, now she has being in a very happy relationship for ages... She phones my wife last night asking to stay as she's split up with the boyfriend!!!

    Stuff like this always happens and it's freaking me out now!

    It's called confirmation bias. How often do you think of someone and nothing happens? You only remember the times something does happen and not countless times that nothing happens.


  • #5650
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Truckermal wrote: »
    Can anyone explain this? Any random person could come into my head and I would be thinking about them then days later they are dead! This has happened several times down through the years!

    Then yesterday my sis in law came into my head and I was day dreaming thinking if her relationship with her boyfriend broke down she could move in with us, now she has being in a very happy relationship for ages... She phones my wife last night asking to stay as she's split up with the boyfriend!!!

    Stuff like this always happens and it's freaking me out now!

    Dont think ofm e,dont think of me:D:D


  • #5651
    TinCanMan
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭TinCanMan


    I woke up one morning to find the ghost of Gloria Gaynor at the end of my bed. At first I was afraid, I was petrified.


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