Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

Sagats_knee · 16-10-2019 11:49pm

A few years ago I woke from a vivid dream of my Sister in the passenger seat of a car sliding uncontrollably on the road and crashing.

I woke up and as I lay in the bed gathering my wits, the phone rang, my wife handed it to me and it was my mother to tell me that my sister had been in a serious car accident as a passenger due to the car losing control because of ice.

She needed spinal surgery but thank God pulled through albeit with permanent neck and nerve damage.

17-10-2019 1:16am

From what I can see there is a lot of retrospective evidence of the phenomenon of telepathy which seems to transfer from an individual in an emotional state (just involved in a crash, planning to fly planes into buildings, or more rarely in a happy state of eg winning lottery) to recipient who is usually “emotionally invested” in the subject, most usually a close relative.

Can’t remember if I posted this one: my mother’s sister and her husband and children were just arriving back to Ireland in 1961 from India, where they had lived for some years, via England. This was two months before I was born. My own mother, pregnant with me, was over at her parents’ house, helping to prepare it for accommodating the homecoming family as they would wait to buy a house.

My grandmother had recently been put on a high dose of aspirin for her rheumatoid arthritis and my mother had already been worried about a bleed in the eye conjunctiva, which the doctor assured was of no concern. The night before their due arrival my grandmother said she was really worried about facing their return next day as she was feeling dreadfully tired. She started vomiting, her digestive system going totally awry throughout. Mum said she was a bit concerned but thought it was a bit of a nuisance tummy bug.

Early next morning Mum was urgently summonsed around to her parents’ house, as her mother was very unwell. Mum said she was extremely pale and had lost a lot of blood. The doctor was called, saying at first it was just a bug, then declaring she was dying and to call the priest. She died about an hour later.

During the night before she died my aunt and her family were in cabins on board a car ferry from the UK to Northern Ireland, from where they would drive to Dublin. My aunt was drifting towards sleep when she suddenly saw a vision of her mother standing at the door of her house and waving goodbye, saying “I’m sorry I have to say goodbye to you”. She bolted awake upright in her bed and said to her husband “something dreadful is wrong with my mother”.

She didn’t disturb the children, but they noticed she was very quiet next morning and reluctant to talk at all. As they drive off the ferry a policeman stopped them and said there was a message to hurry urgently to Dublin. They were given a police escort at least part of the way. My grandmother had died by the time they arrived, and my father had washed her and laid her out which was a difficult enough job to clear up remaining evidence of the slow fatal bleed from the aspirin.

My grandmother’s anxiety about dying before her daughter and family would arrive seemed to have been conveyed to her daughter in that vivid pre-sleep state where she was receptive to it. I asked my mother why an ambulance wasn’t called, but as she explained that in those days you always called a GP first, and often enough the illness would be beyond medical help by the time they arrived; ambulances were reserved for accidents and heart attacks on the street. Even if you got to hospital with something urgent and serious there might be anybody expert enough on duty to save you in time.

Widdershins · 17-10-2019 2:15am

Guy, the perception that some entity is sitting on you/clambering up on you from the end of your bed during sleep paralysis, is known as being hag ridden.

I'm horribly familiar with sleep paralysis. I'm amazed your wife could detect your signal/noise, Sagat. I'd be screaming til my lungs felt like they'd burst and not a sound would escape my lips. Sleep paralysis is like being embalmed and mummified but conscious all along. With a malevolent dark shape coming for you.

My SP started soon after I'd undergone a spinal epidural injection and I have to wonder. The main risk with epidural is paralysis.

Joe Don Dante · 17-10-2019 2:19am

yes it has

mobileforest · 17-10-2019 6:47am

As a kid me and my friend were walking home from the downtown area of my home city. As we approached a shop with a bin outside we saw a man with a large camera drop this plastic box shaped cartridge from the bottom of his camera into the bin and walk off. As we were kids and thus no sense in hygiene, when we got to the bin we fished the plastic thing out of it. It was a plastic frame with some sort of small thin package fastened to the middle of it. As we pondered on it for a second we looked up and saw a man walking purposefully to the bin and when he saw us, he looked at the thing, turned white, and turned to walk away. Being kids we were creeped out, dropped the thing, and left. About a block away we turned back to watch the bin from a hidden spot and sure enough the guy returned and fished the plastic thing out for himself. So what was it? Spy drop box? Drug deal? or just some random guy as curious about the thing as us. Happened about 30 yrs ago so will never know.

The chan chan man · 17-10-2019 8:27am

The ghost stories here don’t freak me out as much. One staggering thing here is, for a relatively small online thread...in a small country...the amount of child abduction near miss stories! That is scary.

My own experience was when I was about 12. I was in the old Waltons guitar shop in Georges st looking at cheap guitars, knowing ai could never afford a real fender or gibson.

This old guy came over telling me how “eric clapton holds it. Sounds better”. He then told me how he has all these expensive fender guitars back in his flat and told me to come with him. Freaked the sh1t out of me at that age and thankfully I had the sense to leave. What a different life I might have led after. These scum need to be castrated or simply put down!

Sagats_knee · 17-10-2019 8:29am

Widdershins wrote: »

Guy, the perception that some entity is sitting on you/clambering up on you from the end of your bed during sleep paralysis, is known as being hag ridden.

I'm horribly familiar with sleep paralysis. I'm amazed your wife could detect your signal/noise, Sagat. I'd be screaming til my lungs felt like they'd burst and not a sound would escape my lips. Sleep paralysis is like being embalmed and mummified but conscious all along. With a malevolent dark shape coming for you.

My SP started soon after I'd undergone a spinal epidural injection and I have to wonder. The main risk with epidural is paralysis.

Yes in those moments when sleep paralysis becomes unbearable I’m also screaming with all my strength but what actually materialises, if I’m lucky, is a faint whimper. My wife is very tuned into me so she’s pulled me out of it a few times now.

corner of hells · 17-10-2019 8:58am

The chan chan man wrote: »

The ghost stories here don’t freak me out as much. One staggering thing here is, for a relatively small online thread...in a small country...the amount of child abduction near miss stories! That is scary.

My own experience was when I was about 12. I was in the old Waltons guitar shop in Georges st looking at cheap guitars, knowing ai could never afford a real fender or gibson.

This old guy came over telling me how “eric clapton holds it. Sounds better”. He then told me how he has all these expensive fender guitars back in his flat and told me to come with him. Freaked the sh1t out of me at that age and thankfully I had the sense to leave. What a different life I might have led after. These scum need to be castrated or simply put down!

You're aware of the connection between Facebook ,"white vans " and near miss child abductions in this country.

maccored · 17-10-2019 9:09am

Guy Person wrote: »

Amps pick up radio waves, probably there were kids in their earlier in the day on their phones and it got picked up by the amp. If it's left on the noises just kind of bounce around in there until it gets replaced my new noise. An old neighbour of mine used to get European radio stations on his guitar amp in the early 90's!

hang on, an amp picks up noises, keeps them for a while and then replays them? Electrical circuitry can pick up radio alright - I've seen amps do that. Ive never seen an amp with 'noises (that) just kind of bounce around in there until it gets replaced my new noise'

nthclare · 17-10-2019 9:14am

I was running late yesterday morning while driving to work, usually I've a few minutes to spare and I don't drive fast.
Driving through Ennis town from the Lahinch side there's a few housing area's off the Lahinch road, so I'd usually let the odd few out by slowing down flashing them to pull out and get on the road .

Yesterday morning I hadn't time to be my usual passive driver so just drove on, came to the last housing exit, some driver in front of me let out 5 car's.

It made me think about the law's of physics'and synchronization.....

dubstarr · 17-10-2019 9:28am

Guy Person wrote: »

There is a thing known as Sleep Paralysis that I get often. It's almost as it sounds, it happens in that in between stage of falling asleep but still being awake. I am unable to move, speak or open my eyes and the particular type I get is that it feels like somebody is sitting on my bed or even sitting on top of me! I try to move or shout and I can't. :eek:

That last bit is actually common for people who get sleep paralysis and it's creepy as all hell. When it first started happening I was never able to sleep afterwards but it's so regular these days that I get weirded out for a few minutes then fall asleep.

I used to get that a lot when i was in my 20s.I normally only get it now,if i go back asleep during the day.

I fell asleep the other morning after the kids went to school.And i knew i was about to get it,i felt something closing in on me.What i do now,is concentrate on my big toe.Wiggle that it means it wakes up your whole body.

My son gets it fairly regularly ,i told him about my trick.He says it works for him as well.

The chan chan man · 17-10-2019 9:51am

corner of hells wrote: »

You're aware of the connection between Facebook ,"white vans " and near miss child abductions in this country.

Apparently not. What’s the craic?

AngryHippie · 18-10-2019 3:14am

The chan chan man wrote: »

Apparently not. What’s the craic?

yeah , whats the story ?

Your Face · 18-10-2019 3:34am

Nothing crazy but why not:

When I was a teenager, a friend and I were walking to his house at night.
We stopped for a bit and were chatting away.
As I was listening to my friend, I noticed a faint flash that lit up his face for a second or so.
At the same time he stopped talking and was looking wide-eyed, upwards behind me.

I was about to ask him was he alright but he half-shouted "Did you see that?!"
I said I saw the faint light but he was gone. He bolted for home. I jogged on behind him and was asking him what did he see and all he would say was he saw "something green flash in the sky behind me"
That's all he would say about ever it again. Ive asked him a few times over the years about but he just wont talk about it. I think he whats to block it out.

blinding · 18-10-2019 8:53am

Ah , the Green Flashing Sky Alien .

maximo31 · 18-10-2019 11:41am

Just started reading this thread and someone mentioned about a dogs sixth sense and it reminded me of something that happened just over a year and a half ago.
Myself and my partner got a new dog , lovely little fella and really friendly with people. Would jump up on a strangers lap no problem.
One evening my parents called to the house for a visit. Their first time meeting our dog.
As my dad walked into the sitting room our little dog starts barking very angrily behind him. Very unlike him . He hadn't done it before that and he hasn't done it sense.
My dad would have been an animal friendly person too so it did seem strange. My partner and i even spoke after they left about how weird it was.
Sadly only a couple of weeks later my dad died in an accident / from a heart condition......
We have spoke about that incident sense and often wonder could our dog sense death , could he see death on my fathers shoulder???

Widdershins · 18-10-2019 11:57am

Dogs can sense human pregnancy. Some dogs will nuzzle their owners tummy and seem to stick closer to her. I have witnessed it .

There were successful experiments showing that dogs can detect diabetes and some other diseases.

jiltloop · 18-10-2019 12:12pm

Dogs can also smell cancer and I believe there are plans to use them in diagnoses. I don't think it's a sixth sense they have detecting things but rather a very heightened sense of smell.

SJW Lover · 18-10-2019 1:56pm

Widdershins wrote: »

Guy, the perception that some entity is sitting on you/clambering up on you from the end of your bed during sleep paralysis, is known as being hag ridden.

I'm horribly familiar with sleep paralysis. I'm amazed your wife could detect your signal/noise, Sagat. I'd be screaming til my lungs felt like they'd burst and not a sound would escape my lips. Sleep paralysis is like being embalmed and mummified but conscious all along. With a malevolent dark shape coming for you.

My SP started soon after I'd undergone a spinal epidural injection and I have to wonder. The main risk with epidural is paralysis.

Happened to me only once. Sleeping alone in house i was living in during college. Around Halloween so my housemates werent there. Thought i had gone to sleep but then "woke" completely paralysed. Trying to move my tongue even and couldnt. The house i was in had a room at the end of it which was closed off to us. A man had lived there and died in that room years before. I was in the bottom bunk of a bunk bed and, while paralysed, i felt like i was lifted off the bed and slowly moving over the end of it towards the door of my bedroom. I can still remember it vividly. I felt a presence in the room at the end of the hall that i was moving towards. Totally paralysed and terrified. Then, all of a sudden, i wake up back in my bunk drenched in sweat. Was so scared i called my uncle and told him what had just happened. He told me to calm down (understandably). I lay in against the wall and eventually went to sleep. Had no idea that it was sleep paralysis until i read up on it the next day. I have never been more scared in my life.

blinding · 18-10-2019 6:22pm

Sleep paralysis could be Aliens messing with ya ...just saying .

HotMama89 · 18-10-2019 7:17pm

Couple of years back I broke up with the father of my child and a guy I went to school with obviously copped he was no longer in the picture on social media etc. and kept asking me out on dates after being told no thanks really persistant to the point I had block him...shortly after that I see him being outed as a paedophile on facebook makes me shudder as to what his real intentions of being so persistant were

branie2 · 19-10-2019 5:22pm

HotMama89 wrote: »

Couple of years back I broke up with the father of my child and a guy I went to school with obviously copped he was no longer in the picture on social media etc. and kept asking me out on dates after being told no thanks really persistant to the point I had block him...shortly after that I see him being outed as a paedophile on facebook makes me shudder as to what his real intentions of being so persistant were

You had a lucky escape there

20-10-2019 9:34pm

jiltloop wrote: »

Dogs can also smell cancer and I believe there are plans to use them in diagnoses. I don't think it's a sixth sense they have detecting things but rather a very heightened sense of smell.

I had cancer, my sister's golden lab used to be all over me but suddenly wouldnt come near me, seemed petrified of me.
Had the op and some treatment and she went back to being all over me again

Airyfairy12 · 20-10-2019 10:00pm

The other night I walked into the kitchen, turned on the light and for a split second saw a man sitting at the table, might have just been my eyes playing tricks but I got the fright of my life.
The chair that I saw someone sitting in was pulled out as if it was being used, all the other chairs where pushed in under the table.

He looked like my dad (whose alive) and I thought it was him straight away.
His brother who died not so long ago looked exactly like him, they were like twins and very close in age, ive recently had dreams about him in that room of the house.

I dont believe in ghosts but it did freak me out a bit.

Widdershins · 24-10-2019 4:27pm

A dead animal on my driveway. Tbh it was gruesome. Unnerving also because idk if another animal would inflict that kind of injury. Had a bit of a stalker but he didn't do anything awful.

Widdershins · 24-10-2019 4:34pm

HotMama89 my friend met a fella who *from the night they met* pushed her to let him go home with her & meet her children.She gave him a trial as a date for a few months but he proved to be odd as two left feet. Needless to say he wasn't allowed near her family. Always trust your instincts.

Graces7 · 25-10-2019 9:28am

dickangel wrote: »

Yes I thought so too. I thought initially it was a match but there was no commentary or anything. It was pretty much 20 minutes of what you hear. Until I switched it off and left. There was nothing happening in the school, unless it was training somewhere close by being picked up.

At one old cottage I lived in, I used to hear police radio messages. Never did work out how. Just that background voice

Graces7 · 25-10-2019 9:32am

Sagats_knee wrote: »

A few years ago I woke from a vivid dream of my Sister in the passenger seat of a car sliding uncontrollably on the road and crashing.

I woke up and as I lay in the bed gathering my wits, the phone rang, my wife handed it to me and it was my mother to tell me that my sister had been in a serious car accident as a passenger due to the car losing control because of ice.

She needed spinal surgery but thank God pulled through albeit with permanent neck and nerve damage.

Premonitions .. The week before we went on holiday where my brother died in an accident I was terrified that something terrible was going to happen. And again the morning he drowned.

When I finally told my mother I got blamed for his death but as I know, no-one would have heeded me.

saabsaab · 31-10-2019 8:49pm

My Grandmother told me and others this story some years back, I'm not sure if some of our family believed her.

Many years previously (1920's) her brother had left Ireland for political and work reasons and went to Canada. One Summers day she was looking out the window from her kitchen into the front garden and saw her brother standing there smiling back as large as life. She didn't expect him over so was surprised that he came without writing or calling to say he was on the way. Anyway she went outside to welcome him but nobody was there. She thought this was very odd and after a while went back inside to hear the phone ringing. It was a call to say that her brother had died suddenly witihin the last hour!

Rhys Essien · 01-11-2019 2:10pm

Heard a good one on radio earlier. It’s already well known that the old Cork Gaol is haunted to fcuk. I saw something there myself a few years ago. Anyway the story goes when the place was being done up years ago the electricians were in to rewire the place. One of the lads was on the first floor pulling cables through walls. The cables jammed up and then suddenly they were pushed on towards him. He went down stairs after to thank whoever helped him out. The other lads didn’t know what he was on about as he had been the only one on the first floor.

A very helpful ghost indeed.

razorblunt · 01-11-2019 2:34pm

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Heard a good one on radio earlier. It’s already well known that the old Cork Gaol is haunted to fcuk. I saw something there myself a few years ago. Anyway the story goes when the place was being done up years ago the electricians were in to rewire the place. One of the lads was on the first floor pulling cables through walls. The cables jammed up and then suddenly they were pushed on towards him. He went down stairs after to thank whoever helped him out. The other lads didn’t know what he was on about as he had been the only one on the first floor.

A very helpful ghost indeed.

Someone was pulling his wire I'd say!

Had a friend that lived nearby that Gaol, he said his Mam always thought she saw strange things in there.

buttercups88 · 01-11-2019 2:40pm

The evening of my grannys funeral we were gathered back at my parents house, 5 adults sitting around the sitting room and out of nowhere one of my grannys knitting needles which were behind a clock on the mantle piece "flew" off the mantle and into the middle of the floor.
No one had been within 5foot of the fireplace and the fire wasnt lit.

About 6 months later my sister went to see a medium and she said about the knitting needles moving being a sign from granny

evil_seed · 01-11-2019 3:01pm

buttercups88 wrote: »

About 6 months later my sister went to see a medium and she said about the knitting needles moving being a sign from granny

Did the medium bring it up or did your sister ask the medium what it meant?

buttercups88 · 01-11-2019 3:03pm

evil_seed wrote: »

Did the medium bring it up or did your sister ask the medium what it meant?

Medium said it. Sister didnt say anything about granny at all

Daisy78 · 02-11-2019 2:08am

Couple of years back myself and my OH went on a day cruise of the Aeolian islands off the coast of Sicily. Pre booked our tickets a few days beforehand in the local town we were staying in. That morning we get on the bus with the rest of the day trippers who were booked on the same cruise. As is the case on a lot of these trips you stay with that group for the day until you make the return journey back to the local town again. Anyway we queued up with the rest of the group and waited on our turn to board the boat. Our tickets were only valid for one particular boat so we were advised to remember the name for the return journey back in the evening. Can’t remember the name of it now but it was something like The Aeolian Princess. Anyway off we go, got to see three of the islands and had a great day. At the last stop we made our way to the designated departure point to queue up with the rest of our group to get back on the boat. There were quite a number of boats in the harbour but we made sure we got on the correct one. We both recognised some of the group who had traveled with us earlier that day boarding as well so no issues there. Or so we thought.

It took two hours to get back and was dark by the time we arrived. We were both tired at this stage and anxious to get back to the hotel which was another 45 minutes away by bus. Got off the boat and made our way down to the bus terminal. Given that we were the last to get off the boat we were the last to get to the car park where the bus was parked. Just as we made it the bus took off and there we were left looking at each other. We tried ringing the number on the ticket but no response. A bit panicked at the idea of being left behind by our group late at night with no hotels and no public bus service we legged it to the local bar. Not having any Italian we resorted to sign language to communicate our problem to the bar man to see what our options were. He confirmed we were stuck there for the night. Now more desperate than before we rang the tour company number again, this time a lady picked up and put us through to our guide. When we angrily asked why they had abandoned us in a terminal car park at eleven o clock at night she sounded confused. She told us that she was on the boat with the rest of the group which had just docked in the harbour and that the bus was waiting for us in the car park. We explained that couldn’t be the case as we had disembarked from that boat half an hour beforehand with the rest of the group. Sure enough when we made our way back to the terminal there was The Aeolian Princess waiting in the harbour. Now neither of us had that much to drink and we had definitely got on the right boat at the right time so an explanation eludes us. The only reasonable explanation is that there were two boats with the same name and we happened to get on the wrong one but I’m sceptical about that too.

Airyfairy12 · 02-11-2019 2:11am

Kind of a stupid one but years ago when I was in second year in school me and my friend decided to go on the mitch for the day, as we didnt want to get caught we went wandering through fields and derelict areas in town, my friend told me about this old big derelict industrial building that she'd heard of and wanted to find, we knew the general area of where it was as it was a known place in town as its part of the town history but not easy to get to, we basically had to climb through hedges, nettles and thorny bushes. It was in town but very isolated and took a bit of a trek to get to,
When we got there it was really just the frame standing, no roof, no floors or walls inside, it was mostly a large broken wall structure and nothing but rubble, blocks and burnt wood on the ground but the top stories of it where surrounded by over grown banks with thorny bushes and trees like a woods.
At these banks where the walls of the structure with high up windows looking down into the inside of the buildings structure, no glass on them just big rectangle holes in the stone walls.
This is where we decided to hang out for the day, the empty window spaces gave us a decent spot to sit and we could graffiti the stone walls with tip-ex and permanent markers.
We were having a great time, smoking cigarettes and having the craic, we'd been sitting on the window ledge for ages, never saw or heard anybody. I then turned and looked at the window down into the structure and saw a man standing completely still, he was standing side ways and was far away from me, I was looking down on him so I couldnt see his face but I remember him wearing a grey tracksuit, he was facing a wall near one of the empty windows at the bottom but standing a good few feet away from it, what struck me was how still he was, he looked like a cardboard cutout or something as there was no movement from him at all, he stayed that way for ages.
I turned to my friend to tell her that someones down there but as soon as I looked back around he was gone.

I found it very strange as he was on his own on this isolated derelict building and stood staring at a wall, so still for so long, his odd behavior freaked me out.

Mad how some people behave when they dont realise they can be seen.

Ann22 · 02-11-2019 2:11pm

Graces7 wrote: »

Premonitions .. The week before we went on holiday where my brother died in an accident I was terrified that something terrible was going to happen. And again the morning he drowned.

When I finally told my mother I got blamed for his death but as I know, no-one would have heeded me.

Jesus! That's terrible! You poor thing! My friend's son was killed after sneaking out one night to meet his mates and her daughter saw him leave and was in two minds to tell him to come back but she didn't. Her mother never blamed her. The poor girl felt bad enough.

saabsaab · 14-11-2019 12:46am

Gone quiet here.

A bit early but has anyone got any Christmas related weird stories?

Leg End Reject · 14-11-2019 12:57am

saabsaab wrote: »

Gone quiet here.

A bit early but has anyone got any Christmas related weird stories?

When I was younger my parents told me a fat man in a red suit used to watch me all the time. They swore he could tell if I was naughty or nice, and that he would sneak into the house to check if I was asleep.

Graces7 · 14-11-2019 7:14am

Leg End Reject wrote: »

When I was younger my parents told me a fat man in a red suit used to watch me all the time. They swore he could tell if I was naughty or nice, and that he would sneak into the house to check if I was asleep.

That is horrible..bad!

I know this does not qualify but it was totally unnerving y;day to find a large brown cow at the door.. they are so BIG! freaked me out!

Dr. Bre · 14-11-2019 10:07am

Leg End Reject wrote: »

When I was younger my parents told me a fat man in a red suit used to watch me all the time. They swore he could tell if I was naughty or nice, and that he would sneak into the house to check if I was asleep.

Did he come down the chimney?

razorblunt · 14-11-2019 10:13am

saabsaab wrote: »

Gone quiet here.

A bit early but has anyone got any Christmas related weird stories?

Can't recall how I was told this, possibly a friend talking about his neighbour.
He heard noise downstairs on Xmas morning just before 4am. He thought it was the kids sneaking down to the toys early.

Went out and saw his son on the landing saying "Santa is here". Knew something was up so ran down to the room to be confronted by a guy helping himself to the presents. They had a bit of a fight where the guy broke free and tried to run out the front door. The fella tackled him in the garden and beat the absolute shíte out of him.
Gardaí were called, turns out it was the 3rd house he'd hit in the estate, van was loaded with stuff and tvs from the houses too.

blinding · 14-11-2019 11:01am

razorblunt wrote: »

Can't recall how I was told this, possibly a friend talking about his neighbour.
He heard noise downstairs on Xmas morning just before 4am. He thought it was the kids sneaking down to the toys early.

Went out and saw his son on the landing saying "Santa is here". Knew something was up so ran down to the room to be confronted by a guy helping himself to the presents. They had a bit of a fight where the guy broke free and tried to run out the front door. The fella tackled him in the garden and beat the absolute shíte out of him.
Gardaí were called, turns out it was the 3rd house he'd hit in the estate, van was loaded with stuff and tvs from the houses too.

Bad Santa .

Dow99 · 14-11-2019 11:27am

I've just come across this thread and thought I'd share my story. Not Christmas related but here it is anyway!

In 2005 I was 26 & took a year out to go traveling for a year,. doing the usual route at the time, started off in California, went west to the Cook Islands and Fiji, 6 weeks in NZ.

I settled in Sydney / Australia for about 9 months.

It was at the time that most of my friends who I had grown up with were doing the same thing.

The night before I left Ireland I can remember it vividly. It was a Friday and I went to see U2 in Croke Park. I was planning an all nighter as my flight was early the next morning.
After Croke Park I went to my local night club and had a good night with my mates before I set off for my travels.

One of my friends who had a full time job and girlfriend plus didn't have the urge to travel stayed at home in Ireland. In the night club he was so clingy ,,, He was constantly saying "Dont forget me,, will you" "Look at me" putting his arm around me hugging ect. I remember saying "Jezz man, I'm not emigrating I'll be back in a few months".

Over the year away I'd mention it to my friends who were traveling with me, that it was really strange behavior as he was never that person who'd be overly affectionate as mates.

Anyway - fast forward nearly a year later. I was on my return leg of the trip and in Thailand. It was before smart phones and I came back from day way and there was a text from my Dad to say the same friend who was clingy in the niteclub, "Was in a car crash, he's in hospital, but all is okay!"

I cant remember if I rang home then but I was reassured that there was nothing too serious.

A night or so later, I had a dream, the same friend was in it, but it wasn't how I remembered him, he seemed a bit fatter. In the dream we were standing at a corner of our national school. The same corner that when we were 12, we both collided while running around opposite sides. He broke his nose off my cheek bone, that left him with a prominent crooked nose. So this was a significant spot for the two of us, that literary marked him for life.

In the dream, he had a big smile on his face and was telling me, & reassuring me that everything is fine, he's happy, and everything will be okay. We had a conversation, I remember saying to him "Wow, you gave me a big scare with the accident. I can remember him laughing & saying, yes, but he's fine now!

The next morning, I woke up a bit freaked that the dream had been so vivid, but thought obviously the accident was playing on my mind.
I went straight to the hostel / hotel reception and rang home,,,, it would have been early in Thailand so it must have in the middle of the night back home. My father answered the phone, and said "Son, I've bad news, xxxx has passed away"" .

Obviously I was devastated - balling my eyes out in the hotel reception. Cant remember time lines exactly, but started to try and arrange traveling home for the funeral.

I arrived back in the evening of the funeral. So missed the burial, wake ect. That night in the pub, people who were at the funeral were still there. I was upset and said that I really wanted to get back in time to see him. When I said this, the person. said, "Na, you wouldnt have recognised him, he was bloated from the drugs in the hospital". It was strange that when he appeared in my dream he was "fatter" than I had remembered.

The clingy ness of my last time with him & the apparition the night he died was a bit much for coincidence.

Anyway there it is!!

Graces7 · 14-11-2019 12:00pm

Ann22 wrote: »

Jesus! That's terrible! You poor thing! My friend's son was killed after sneaking out one night to meet his mates and her daughter saw him leave and was in two minds to tell him to come back but she didn't. Her mother never blamed her. The poor girl felt bad enough.

It was even odder. I those far off days, boys rarely if ever showed any concern or affection for little sisters.

The evening before the accident we had been out rowing on the lake and the boatman had trusted us with the boat after he had gone home.

By the time we moored it and were heading for the hotel, it was dark and we were running along a path.
Suddenly my brother ,turned to me, took my hand ( a first) and said so kindly, " Don't be afraid.!" Never ever spoken to me like that,

Less than 24 hours later he was dead,

There is no explanation for these things.

Loughc · 18-11-2019 2:05pm

Leg End Reject wrote: »

When I was younger my parents told me a fat man in a red suit used to watch me all the time. They swore he could tell if I was naughty or nice, and that he would sneak into the house to check if I was asleep.

Bishop Casey was a terrible man alright. :pac:

cj maxx · 18-11-2019 3:54pm

Graces7 wrote: »

Premonitions .. The week before we went on holiday where my brother died in an accident I was terrified that something terrible was going to happen. And again the morning he drowned.

When I finally told my mother I got blamed for his death but as I know, no-one would have heeded me.

The night before a friend killed himself I had an awful night. Couldn't sleep and awake all night. My brother said later that he had a premonition of him in a coffin laid out in the sitting room.

optogirl · 18-11-2019 4:12pm

When my Dad was dying and a bit away with the fairies he said he was dreaming that he was in a coffin and all his relatives were around him!

sunbeam · 18-11-2019 5:49pm

In my early twenties I had recurring dreams of coffins appearing in the house for about a year. There was someone laid out in them, but I was always too scared to look. When I told my dad he was very freaked out and said that as a young man he had the exact same dreams, down to very specific details.

The dreams stopped immediately after my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. We waked him in the house.

During the same year, I also had recurring dreams that my dad was being taken way from us by a group of unknown assailants. I guess at some subconscious level I knew he was sick.

At the time I was in college and seeing the student counsellor for an unrelated very stressful matter. Shortly before he was diagnosed I remember blurting out to her how hard I was finding things now that my dad was so gravely ill. But none of us knew that then, we thought he just had a mild chest infection. I was actually very confused about why I had said it.

My dad died from lung cancer. He had given up smoking two decades before, but occasionally had a rare cigarette, if offered. When I would see him doing this in the years before his diagnosis, my blood would run cold. I've never experienced a feeling like it before that or since.

Airyfairy12 · 19-11-2019 11:16pm

sunbeam wrote: »

In my early twenties I had recurring dreams of coffins appearing in the house for about a year. There was someone laid out in them, but I was always too scared to look. When I told my dad he was very freaked out and said that as a young man he had the exact same dreams, down to very specific details.

The dreams stopped immediately after my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. We waked him in the house.

During the same year, I also had recurring dreams that my dad was being taken way from us by a group of unknown assailants. I guess at some subconscious level I knew he was sick.

At the time I was in college and seeing the student counsellor for an unrelated very stressful matter. Shortly before he was diagnosed I remember blurting out to her how hard I was finding things now that my dad was so gravely ill. But none of us knew that then, we thought he just had a mild chest infection. I was actually very confused about why I had said it.

My dad died from lung cancer. He had given up smoking two decades before, but occasionally had a rare cigarette, if offered. When I would see him doing this in the years before his diagnosis, my blood would run cold. I've never experienced a feeling like it before that or since.

Its so weird, I know that feeling, you just know an event or particular situation is about to happen, its happened to me a few times and every time its been spot on and I wasn't surprised because I knew like it was a fact that it was going to happen.

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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