Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

Nailin4Whales wrote: »

Creepy, you don't know the meaning of the word man. This one time I was seeing someone well more like a fb really but yano I was trying to ignore them and hope they would **** of by their own accord without any awkwardness and loike texted me 4 times without me ever sending a reply! If that wasn't bad enough they posted on my FB wall asking was I ignoring them for all my friends to see. I was loike totes meurto loike!! Such a creep!

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Ban please.

Tragamin2k2 wrote: »

too low in the bushes(might i add dense bush)to be a horse and way too big to be a dog

mariaalice wrote: »

The racing pidgin was the most interesting it came in cocked its head sideways and gave me a puzzled look as if to say do I live here, I never noticed it before but some birds do have expressions on their faces or heads because I am not sure if birds have faces.

blinding wrote: »

In Fairness he doesn't tell us how big the Jack Russell is.

That Jack Russell must be Gi-normous the way he tells the story or else he is a very tiny man ! !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

If that has anything to do with mushrooms AND badgers I will not be impressed

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

There's that story that crops up several times in the "has anything creepy ever happened to you" thread. It's basically about a couple living in the country who have a son , or adopt a son depending on the version of the story, and leave him to fend for himself in a hen house as a small baby where he grows up believing he's a bird rather than a human. He has clawed feet he can perch on things with and pecks at things with his mouth and nose. In some versions the couple are eventually arrested and the boy goes into care and in others it's never discovered. There seem to be a good few old people,70s 80s who are quite convinced this happened in Ireland. I remember my elderly neighbour telling me about it and I read here other people's grannies telling them.
Has to be a rural legend... surely?

I knew Kevin. He used to holiday in Ballyhornan. As far as I know he is still alive.

I remember meeting him once in ST Matthews club late eighties he seemed well adjusted considering his past. And from what I remember he was a good dancer.
Haven't heard a lot since then, but if he is still around he would be in his fifties.

I actually spent time in hospital with him - RBHSC - in the late 60's . . . 67/68 - I was in with Scarlet Fever and he was in a bed at the end of the ward. Kicked up a racket some nights but other than that didn't have much dealings with him. Is this my 15 mins of fame???

My aunt was a nun in the Nazareth Lodge Orphanage on the Ravenhill Road. I remember my aunt telling my mother about this unfortunate boy shortly after he was taken into care there. I don't know how long he remained there.

The NSPCC and the police were notified. The child was named as Kevin Halfpenny, a seven-year old boy. He was immediately taken to the Nazareth Lodge Children's Home. While there he was examined by doctors who were horrified to find that he only weighed two stone. His height was a mere 30 inches high and it was claimed that he was suffering from rickets for at least five years due to continual denial of sunlight.
NSPCC Inspector Alex Mahood gave evidence following his examination of the boy at Nazareth Lodge. He said Kevin looked pale and thin, his arm and leg joints were swollen, and his shin bones were concave in shape. Kevin Halfpenny could only stand without assistance for half a minute and then he fell down on his badly developed legs.

The medical evidence showed that the child had been suffering from rickets for a long time and Judge Hanna commented that, for four years, the child was kept for at least some periods in this outhouse where there were bags placed over the windows which kept out the light. Rickets can be caused both by a lack of sunlight and a diet without vitamin D. Basil Kelly, who led Mrs Halfpenny's defence, said that she had no other place to leave her child. Apparently, "some of the children were out working and some were at home. Those at home were at school every day. Mrs Halfpenny was faced with the problem therefore of finding a safe place to leave the child while she went about her work. This was the safest place for a disabled or subnormal child where there was no fire, stairs and chairs about."

Sister Irene Maher of Nazareth House in Cape Town remembers: 'I only met Kevin, the child in question, later in his life. The Sister who admitted him to a Nazareth House at the time related how the boy perched on his cot and cawed like a hen all through the first few weeks following his admission. During my stay there with the group of children, I saw him grow up, responding to love, enjoying music, but at the same time requiring a lot of medical treatment — especially to his legs; in fact, he had to have a great deal of surgery to straighten them. His speech was seriously affected. Kevin left Nazareth House eventually for sheltered employment with the Sisters of Charity.

In February of this year, Russian care workers discovered a seven-year-old boy in Volgograd whose mother had kept him in a two-room apartment filled with tame birds. She had fed and clothed him, but never spoken to him. A picture of the child was in the newspapers, a slender boy with a face so precisely beautiful it could cut your heart. He could not speak, but reportedly chirped and then agitated his arms like wings when he realised he was not understood.
A similar story unfolded in 1956 in County Down, Northern Ireland, where a boy called Kevin Halfpenny, also seven, was discovered confined in the hen-house by his mother. He too was unable to speak, but cawed, and the reports of his discovery inspired "Bye-Child", an intensely moving poem by Seamus Heaney. The poem calls him: "Little moon-man/ Kennelled and faithful/ At the foot of the yard". It goes on to describe his release: "But now you speak at last/ With a remote mime/ of something beyond patience".