Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

fryup · 13-03-2019 6:49pm

^^^^^^^^^^^

did you find out if your grandad owned it?

Airyfairy12 · 13-03-2019 6:52pm

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.

fryup · 13-03-2019 6:54pm

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

branie2 · 13-03-2019 7:00pm

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!

Airyfairy12 · 13-03-2019 7:00pm

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.

tamara25 · 13-03-2019 9:27pm

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

Widdershins · 14-03-2019 12:31pm

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

dubstarr · 14-03-2019 3:27pm

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

Lizheen · 15-03-2019 12:45am

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.

New Home · 15-03-2019 6:04am

Please tell me you bought it!!!

Day Lewin · 15-03-2019 8:15am

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!

AngryHippie · 19-03-2019 10:16pm

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

19-03-2019 11:07pm

AngryHippie wrote: »

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

ardinn · 22-03-2019 2:52am

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

RonanP77 · 22-03-2019 3:11pm

dubstarr wrote:

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

No.

Purple Mountain · 22-03-2019 3:14pm

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.

Truckermal · 22-03-2019 3:21pm

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!

Graces7 · 22-03-2019 3:33pm

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.

Kingp35 · 22-03-2019 3:34pm

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.

dubstarr · 22-03-2019 3:55pm

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

TinCanMan · 22-03-2019 4:02pm

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.

ardinn · 22-03-2019 4:11pm

If my mother dreams about you - get your sh1t together coz your dead a few days later!

Widdershins · 22-03-2019 4:24pm

I had a really strange dream about someone I didn't know, and it came true . Also met either his brother or doppelganger in unusual circumstances. Nothing dramatic or interesting came of it so it seems these things don't have a point or a reason.

maccored · 22-03-2019 5:40pm

dubstarr wrote: »

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

Anything 'paranormal' that happens just before sleep or just before/when you wake up more than likely would be sleep related and not in anyway paranormal. Sleep paralysis is also known as the old hag syndrome because people sometimes feel something is holding them down. when the body is technically paralysed, ready for sleep, but the brain is still active you can imagine and see all sorts of things as you are half asleep. So - it isnt linked to seeing ghosts, but it is linked to people thinking they did

dubstarr · 22-03-2019 8:47pm

maccored wrote: »

Anything 'paranormal' that happens just before sleep or just before/when you wake up more than likely would be sleep related and not in anyway paranormal. Sleep paralysis is also known as the old hag syndrome because people sometimes feel something is holding them down. when the body is technically paralysed, ready for sleep, but the brain is still active you can imagine and see all sorts of things as you are half asleep. So - it isnt linked to seeing ghosts, but it is linked to people thinking they did

I only ask because i had sleep paralysis a few times in the past few months.And i havent had it in years.And i seen the shadow upstairs.

screamer · 22-03-2019 9:05pm

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!

Yep, but I usually predict it years ahead.... I’m not psychic but I can just read people and situations like a book. It’s a great self defense mechanism to stay clear of assholes.

Sephiroth_dude · 22-03-2019 9:15pm

Rubberlegs wrote: »

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.

Sounds like you saw her doppelgänger

NIMAN · 22-03-2019 9:15pm

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!

Its coincidence, nothing else.

How many people come into your head and nothing happens to them? Lots more I'd guess if we actually were able to measure it.

Its like people seeing numbers repeating. I myself often see 12:34, but don't put any great store in it despite having a reason to. Because I realise that as often as I see 1234, I see countless other combinations of other numbers but take no heed of them cos I don't see any reason to.

Its just all random, you aren't displaying any special talent.

fryup · 22-03-2019 10:38pm

^^^^^^^^^^^^

of late i always seem to wake up at 4.44 in the night..kinda freaks me out

NIMAN · 22-03-2019 10:40pm

... and again, you probably don't always wake at 4.44.....get my drift?

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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