Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

Butterface · 13-09-2020 5:32pm

Not sure if this qualifies as creepy but it was strange and does make me think I have a doppelganger out there who is slightly famous..

About 8 years ago I was hanging around Trafalgar Square with a friend (after a demonstration/rally) and a group of girl scouts or brownies started taking pictures of us.

Eventually, their adult leader came over and asked if I would pose in a photo with them. It all happened so quickly that I didn't even think to ask why..

To this day I have no idea who they thought I was and I wonder where all those photos ended up!

Cunning Stunt · 13-09-2020 6:45pm

Butterface wrote: »

Not sure if this qualifies as creepy but it was strange and does make me think I have a doppelganger out there who is slightly famous..

About 8 years ago I was hanging around Trafalgar Square with a friend (after a demonstration/rally) and a group of girl scouts or brownies started taking pictures of us.

Eventually, their adult leader came over and asked if I would pose in a photo with them. It all happened so quickly that I didn't even think to ask why..

To this day I have no idea who they thought I was and I wonder where all those photos ended up!

Post your pic up here and we'll let you know!

Ted_YNWA · 13-09-2020 8:41pm

Butterface wrote: »

Not sure if this qualifies as creepy but it was strange and does make me think I have a doppelganger out there who is slightly famous..

About 8 years ago I was hanging around Trafalgar Square with a friend (after a demonstration/rally) and a group of girl scouts or brownies started taking pictures of us.

Eventually, their adult leader came over and asked if I would pose in a photo with them. It all happened so quickly that I didn't even think to ask why..

To this day I have no idea who they thought I was and I wonder where all those photos ended up!

I can't believe it's not Butter(face)

joeguevara · 14-09-2020 1:41am

I freak myself out sometimes. My dad was driving me up to Dublin today and he had his Spotify on. Now mostly 70s folk rock. But then this happened.

I started telling him about the Mandela effect and specifically mentioned Cats in the Cradle and most people think that it’s written by cats Stevens. Now, baring in mind the music playing was nothing to do with this. I also telling him about jaws and ET and the Mandela effect.

Then, fcucking next song was Cats Stevens Father and Son. This is the main reason for Mandela effect with Cats in the Cradle. Anyway we were laughing and he calling me a freak. But then, it gets freaky and I am going to preface this with I hadn’t a fcuking clue about this song.

For no reason I pulled out my phone and showed him a picture of my mate on Facebook. My dad would know him from playing music in my pub. He said ah that’s Eric who played a Paul Brady song, when Brady was in the ajohnstons. I said yeah, And told him he sold out the National concert hall with a Leonard Cohen tribute. Now that was years ago and I had no reason to be even talking about it. And also I had no clue and never knew this next bit.

The next song that played was Paul Brady and Johnston’s singing Leonard Cohen’s ‘hey that’s no way to say goodbye’.

https://youtu.be/L3wpPe4uzHY

It really is freaking me out.

s1ippy · 14-09-2020 1:44am

Spotify have an algorithm that does that

joeguevara · 14-09-2020 1:52am

s1ippy wrote: »

Spotify have an algorithm that does that

It’s not the algorithm. I get that. It’s the fact that father and son played immediately after I said the Mandela effect about cats in the cradle. Everyone thinks cat Stevens wrote it, but mixed up with father and son. But Paul Brady who was in the Johnston’s singing a Leonard Cohen song (which I didn’t know) after I was talking about my mate, who my dad only knows from singing a Paul Brady song, and me telling him about him doing a Leonard Cohen concert (completely out of the blue and completely unconnected to anything my dad knows of him) and then the Johnston’s came on singing a Leonard Cohen cover, and neither of us knew that they recorded it.

AcidLollyPop · 18-09-2020 11:06am

Last week (I live on my own in the country side, in a new built house) I could hear myself, while sleeping, saying "the power of Christ compels you, THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU".

Woke myself up.

I cant remember the dream or why I was shouting that. I know the line comes from the Exorcist, but haven't seen that film in years.

saabsaab · 18-09-2020 12:17pm

AcidLollyPop wrote: »

Last week (I live on my own in the country side, in a new built house) I could hear myself, while sleeping, saying "the power of Christ compels you, THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU".

Woke myself up.

I cant remember the dream or why I was shouting that. I know the line comes from the Exorcist, but haven't seen that film in years.

It may mean that mentally you are taking a big step on your own and establishing mature independence. You now want to tell anyone that you can stand alone and don't want any unwanted interference.

Gael23 · 18-09-2020 1:00pm

20 years ago on Father’s Day, 17 June 2000, about 10pm at night we were watching a movie when the phone rang. I still remember answering the phone to a woman crying so uncontrollably that I couldn’t figure out what was wrong, really hysterical to the point where she couldn’t speak.
Eventually someone near her took the phone to tell me that my mums healthy mid 50s uncle had dropped dead.

A moment that I will never forget and I can still point to the chair I was sitting in that night

AcidLollyPop · 18-09-2020 1:25pm

saabsaab wrote: »

It may mean that mentally you are taking a big step on your own and establishing mature independence. You now want to tell anyone that you can stand alone and don't want any unwanted interference.

Very interesting. Never thought about it that way

I didn't give it much thought. Other than it was bizaare.

Yes, lots of changes and an assertion of independence!

saabsaab · 28-09-2020 5:28pm

I've heard it said that some people have weird dreams after getting the flu shot. Amyone? It can make the arm sore for a bit alright.

sbsquarepants · 29-09-2020 8:41am

saabsaab wrote: »

I've heard it said that some people have weird dreams after getting the flu shot. Amyone? It can make the arm sore for a bit alright.

I seen a post on boards before saying get a quartz crystal and put it under your pillow and see what happens. I'm not into anything like that so i said, i'll get one and do it and i bet nothing happens. So i did it and had about a week of the weirdest, wildest dreams i have ever had....which apparently is what was supposed to happen.

Now it could be coincidence, as i said i'm a very skeptical type of person, but it was a genuinely bizzare experience. (I rarely remember my dreams, although the ones i do remember, do tend to be batshít crazy) I'd actually compare it to taking acid or mushrooms. I still have the crystal at home but it seems to have lost it's mojo unfortunately:D

Capt. Autumn · 29-09-2020 11:40am

Around about 1985 I went through a phase of mitching school with my brother and close friend.

As anyone who has ever mitched off school will know, the biggest problem is what to do with yourself for the day. You can't go home, it's too late to head back into school and it seems everyone you meet knows that you are up to no good. One of the places we used to hang out it was the old RIC barracks in Mountrath. If I could explain the set-up here, this was a disused, ancient building consisting of four three story buildings set around a courtyard. It was an ideal haunt, remote, loads to explore, lots of old newspapers to read and bric and brac to sift through.

One afternoon we were idly throwing stones across the courtyard, trying to hit and smash some panes of glass on the buildings on the other side. Suddenly, from a second story building I saw the form of a woman's face looking out from a window ledge glancing in our direction. She was translucent, almost floating, she looked quizzically at what we were doing. She did not look real. I convinced myself that it was a trick of the light. I hadn't really seen anything.....then I saw her again. There she was in the window, floating, staring at us. 'What the f***', I said. I looked over at my brother. He was standing mouth agog, staring at the window. I wanted to be sure that he saw what I saw so I said nothing and asked him to describe what he saw. 'A floating woman, over there in the window, staring at us'. 'Yes', I shouted, 'I saw her too!!'

We froze. Our friend, who had seen nothing, started taking the p*** saying that we were having him on. We assured him that this was no wind-up. It took at least half an hour before we plucked up the courage to go across the courtyard and investigate the sighting. As we walked across we convinced ourselves that there would be some logical explanation, a torn piece of polythene hanging from a nail or debris all over the second storey floor. Something that would explain what had fooled a couple of obviously deliriously bored teenagers into thinking they had seen some sort of other-worldly spirit. When we reached the building and walked into the ground floor below the window from which we had seen the vision, our blood ran cold.

There was no ceiling, no floor above our heads. We stared at the window standing isolated eight feet from the ground floor below. There was no debris, no stray piece of plastic swinging in the wind. It was obvious that nobody had been there today, nobody had been there for years and years. There followed a cameo from Scooby Doo when I swear I saw my legs frantically spinning but my body wasn't moving, or at least wasn't moving fast enough to get the hell out of there as fast as possible. We all exited through a small window in the back of the building. Of course I was the last one through and I was convinced the 'white lady' was going to grab me by the throat as I made good my escape....

Over the years, my brother and I often recall that afternoon. We both agree that it was the weirdest, most unexplainable thing that has happened to either of us. For years we promised ourselves we would go back some night and see if she would make another appearance, especially if we were after having a few drinks and were feeling brave, but we never summonsed up the courage. We did some research and, incredibly, did mange to dig up some sketchy details of a famous ghost in Mountrath, known as 'The White Lady'... I can't remember all the details now but apparently she died a violent death and there were numerous sightings of her in various locations around the town down through the years.

The courtyard behind the barracks is gone now. Most of the out-buildings levelled to make way for flats. Whenever I visit home and I drive by I can't help but glance over at the windows. Does the spirit still hang out there or did she finally relinquish her grip on this dimension when the wrecking ball levelled the old RIC out-buildings in Mountrath........?

https://www.omnia.ie/index.php?navigation_function=2&navigation_item=%2F15414%2Fniah_search_jsp_type_record_county_LA_regno_12900610&repid=1

the purple tin · 30-09-2020 8:12am

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I seen a post on boards before saying get a quartz crystal and put it under your pillow and see what happens. I'm not into anything like that so i said, i'll get one and do it and i bet nothing happens. So i did it and had about a week of the weirdest, wildest dreams i have ever had....which apparently is what was supposed to happen.

Now it could be coincidence, as i said i'm a very skeptical type of person, but it was a genuinely bizzare experience. (I rarely remember my dreams, although the ones i do remember, do tend to be batshít crazy) I'd actually compare it to taking acid or mushrooms. I still have the crystal at home but it seems to have lost it's mojo unfortunately

It runs out of juice just like your phone. You need to charge it.

ckeego · 30-09-2020 8:24am

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

Around about 1985 I went through a phase of mitching school with my brother and close friend.

As anyone who has ever mitched off school will know, the biggest problem is what to do with yourself for the day. You can't go home, it's too late to head back into school and it seems everyone you meet knows that you are up to no good. One of the places we used to hang out it was the old RIC barracks in Mountrath. If I could explain the set-up here, this was a disused, ancient building consisting of four three story buildings set around a courtyard. It was an ideal haunt, remote, loads to explore, lots of old newspapers to read and bric and brac to sift through.

One afternoon we were idly throwing stones across the courtyard, trying to hit and smash some panes of glass on the buildings on the other side. Suddenly, from a second story building I saw the form of a woman's face looking out from a window ledge glancing in our direction. She was translucent, almost floating, she looked quizzically at what we were doing. She did not look real. I convinced myself that it was a trick of the light. I hadn't really seen anything.....then I saw her again. There she was in the window, floating, staring at us. 'What the f***', I said. I looked over at my brother. He was standing mouth agog, staring at the window. I wanted to be sure that he saw what I saw so I said nothing and asked him to describe what he saw. 'A floating woman, over there in the window, staring at us'. 'Yes', I shouted, 'I saw her too!!'

We froze. Our friend, who had seen nothing, started taking the p*** saying that we were having him on. We assured him that this was no wind-up. It took at least half an hour before we plucked up the courage to go across the courtyard and investigate the sighting. As we walked across we convinced ourselves that there would be some logical explanation, a torn piece of polythene hanging from a nail or debris all over the second storey floor. Something that would explain what had fooled a couple of obviously deliriously bored teenagers into thinking they had seen some sort of other-worldly spirit. When we reached the building and walked into the ground floor below the window from which we had seen the vision, our blood ran cold.

There was no ceiling, no floor above our heads. We stared at the window standing isolated eight feet from the ground floor below. There was no debris, no stray piece of plastic swinging in the wind. It was obvious that nobody had been there today, nobody had been there for years and years. There followed a cameo from Scooby Doo when I swear I saw my legs frantically spinning but my body wasn't moving, or at least wasn't moving fast enough to get the hell out of there as fast as possible. We all exited through a small window in the back of the building. Of course I was the last one through and I was convinced the 'white lady' was going to grab me by the throat as I made good my escape....

Over the years, my brother and I often recall that afternoon. We both agree that it was the weirdest, most unexplainable thing that has happened to either of us. For years we promised ourselves we would go back some night and see if she would make another appearance, especially if we were after having a few drinks and were feeling brave, but we never summonsed up the courage. We did some research and, incredibly, did mange to dig up some sketchy details of a famous ghost in Mountrath, known as 'The White Lady'... I can't remember all the details now but apparently she died a violent death and there were numerous sightings of her in various locations around the town down through the years.

The courtyard behind the barracks is gone now. Most of the out-buildings levelled to make way for flats. Whenever I visit home and I drive by I can't help but glance over at the windows. Does the spirit still hang out there or did she finally relinquish her grip on this dimension when the wrecking ball levelled the old RIC out-buildings in Mountrath........?

https://www.omnia.ie/index.php?navigation_function=2&navigation_item=%2F15414%2Fniah_search_jsp_type_record_county_LA_regno_12900610&repid=1

Probably one of the best written, well described events to date on this thread...

Literally the hairs on the back of my next are standing to attention...

sbsquarepants · 30-09-2020 10:15am

the purple tin wrote: »

It runs out of juice just like your phone. You need to charge it.

Do i just leave it under a rainbow or what?

the purple tin · 30-09-2020 10:21am

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Do i just leave it under a rainbow or what?

I think you can leave it outside overnight and there are different ways too. Check online or ask the person you bought it from, I'm suprised they didn't tell you that about it at the time.

john123470 · 03-10-2020 5:58pm

When i used to traipse round the world.

One of my traipsings saw me in Osaka, Japan.
I was doing physical work at the time so would
come home exhausted in the evenings just
available for bed.

One nite i was sleeping under my fotatsu (low
heated wooden table covered with a fouton).

I was living on top floor of a 3 storey house in Kyoto
near my work.
There was an office mid floor (of the Korean Co
i worked for) .. and an empty ground floor.
I stayed alone there overnight.

One night, I awoke in terror .. convinced I'd heard 3
distinctive loud knocks on my door. I threw open the
door. Nobody there

Next evening when I returned from work, the Korean
Secretary from the office .. hollered upstairs
"- John-san, your father is dead - "

Talking with my sister later, I learned my Da
had passed away the previous nite

I've always thought the 3 door raps were too
distinctive to be co incidental

If he was saying goodbye, i always thought there
might be a more gentle, tender way to do so ..

Church on Tuesday · 03-10-2020 6:03pm

My mother, when she was younger, saw her dead neighbor walking around said neighbors garden in the middle of the day.

Apparently the neighbor was dead about a week at this stage.

saabsaab · 03-10-2020 7:02pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

My mother, when she was younger, saw her dead neighbor walking around said neighbors garden in the middle of the day.

Apparently the neighbor was dead about a week at this stage.

Same story. A lady also told me she saw her next door neighbor in the garden but he had died a few years earlier!

Liebling · 03-10-2020 9:05pm

Parents had cowboys painting the outside of the house years ago. They were fierce dodgy characters and would make inappropriate comments as we passed them coming in from school. Ignoring them didn't work and out of frustration one day I said "you better mind yourself or you'll fall off that ladder". As we headed in the door we heard an almighty crash - your man had fallen off the ladder. Felt fierce guilty about it at the time - even made a card for your man.

9db3xj7z41fs5u · 03-10-2020 9:17pm

Has anybody ever used a Ouija board?

Church on Tuesday · 03-10-2020 9:28pm

Sterling Gifted Laborer wrote: »

Has anybody ever used a Ouija board?

It's not advisable tbh.

I know of someone back home who used one and it was an unpleasant experience.

Day Lewin · 03-10-2020 11:20pm

Sterling Gifted Laborer wrote: »

Has anybody ever used a Ouija board?

It was a great craze for a short while when I was at college.

Mixed reviews; mostly we thought people were cheating: by - consciously or unconsciously - pushing the gadget that made the letters spell out words.
A few odd experiences did happen, though I never witnessed anything definitely supernatural.
Went out of fashion, -- a lot of people seem to be very uneasy about this.

I admit that I retain a certain curiosity!

saabsaab · 03-10-2020 11:31pm

Sterling Gifted Laborer wrote: »

Has anybody ever used a Ouija board?

Many stories on this thread. As someone said most are second or third hand. Not many from personal experience.

DVDM93 · 03-10-2020 11:31pm

Sterling Gifted Laborer wrote: »

Has anybody ever used a Ouija board?

Poundland AKA Dealz of all places selling them atm.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=8220416361338815&id=199098633470668

Coopaloop · 03-10-2020 11:33pm

Sterling Gifted Laborer wrote: »

Has anybody ever used a Ouija board?

Nah, they always have given me the creeps. They got very popular back in the early-mid 90's and friends of mine at the time did it, they didnt have a good experience with it, don't know what it was, or if they just worked themselves up so much doing it but you cant mention it to them ever, even 20 odd years later....

One thing that freaked me out not so long ago, I was chopping food at the counter and my 5 year old son was at the table, I had my back to him. He was playing away and then asked me was I afraid, and I answered 'afraid of what baby?' And he replied 'of that man standing behind you?"
Holy hell I turned around so fast I nearly got whiplash. No one there obviously. So I asked was he still there and he said, nope hes gone now. Hasn't mentioned seeing him since. Kids are freaky.
The younger one who's 4 has a habit of coming into our bed room in the middle of the night and just stands beside the bed looking at you until you sense his presence, always scares the sh*te out of me.

NIMAN · 03-10-2020 11:41pm

There is nothing sinister about Ouija boards.
Some of the stories around them would make you think they are dangerous. but they aren't.

Urban myths.

Church on Tuesday · 04-10-2020 12:03am

I strongly urge people not to get a Ouija board.

auspicious · 04-10-2020 12:07am

NIMAN wrote: »

There is nothing sinister about Ouija boards.
Some of the stories around them would make you think they are dangerous. but they aren't.

Urban myths.

It's sustained taboo alright. But why?
We, Boardsies, could always create a mass experiment, video recorded for concrete evidence, to see if the 'myth' holds true.
( Not me btw.)

the purple tin · 04-10-2020 12:07am

NIMAN wrote: »

There is nothing sinister about Ouija boards.
Some of the stories around them would make you think they are dangerous. but they aren't.

Urban myths.

Why take a chance?

Hand in Your Pants · 04-10-2020 12:30am

Hi folks,

Something very unnerving happened earlier. I was setting up a Bluetooth speaker to play medieval tunes for a gaming night and just after successfully connecting to my device it cut out and starting to produce a very strange and deep undulating sound out of which I could distinctly hear birdsong. I immediately checked my device which was paused on the medieval music page, and all the while this eerie noise was emitting from the speaker. Then I heard several very loud burping or retching sounds from the speaker, this was not white noise but definitely and distinctly human or animal sounding, but it scared the hell out of me.

Does anyone know what this could have been? Can Bluetooth speakers tune into other people's devices or radio waves?

SmartinMartin · 04-10-2020 12:37am

I'd say the speaker threw up at the thought of the drudgery ahead.

jam_mac_jam · 04-10-2020 12:39am

That's ghosts. Do you know any priests?

Hand in Your Pants · 04-10-2020 1:00am

Just reading online about many other people who have reported similar unexpected noises from their devices.

Many reports of guttural, belching or growling sounds as well as wretching or choking sounds or otherwise menacing and otherworldly noises. Many with this undulating low frequency sound cutting in.

bobbyy gee · 04-10-2020 1:06am

Delete all you devices then log back on

Bluetooth only goes about 35 feet

nthclare · 04-10-2020 1:08am

Toothy critters

Panthro · 04-10-2020 1:08am

Funny oul name isn't it, Bluetooth.

I'd have gone with AlabasterSkull I think.

Trouser Snake · 04-10-2020 1:09am

When you say Bluetooth OP, do you mean "cup against the wall"??

bb1234567 · 04-10-2020 1:10am

Hand in Your Pants wrote: »

Just reading online about many other people who have reported similar unexpected noises from their devices.

Many reports of guttural, belching or growling sounds as well as wretching or choking sounds or otherwise menacing and otherworldly noises. Many with this undulating low frequency sound cutting in.

Wtf that would scare the **** out of me
Any explanation as to why this occurred

fleet_admiral · 04-10-2020 1:13am

You'll need a young priest and an old priest

Hand in Your Pants · 04-10-2020 1:13am

I'm just not sure what happened here. I tuned into something happening in the neighbours house and heard birdsong, rumbling (possibly a washing machine?) And at that exact moment they start making some very deep burping and wretching noises? What is the most reasonable explanation for this?

Shpongler · 04-10-2020 1:28am

You connected via blue tit by mistake.

BorneTobyWilde · 04-10-2020 1:30am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpyg94OzHK0

NSAman · 04-10-2020 1:36am

fleet_admiral wrote: »

You'll need a young priest and an old priest

Ahhhh heyar... add altar boys in to the mix and we can have spot prize nights...

AlfaZen · 04-10-2020 1:39am

Panthro wrote: »

Funny oul name isn't it, Bluetooth.

I'd have gone with AlabasterSkull I think.

The truth is more than interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth

gozunda · 04-10-2020 1:49am

Ah simple really.

You've picked up your neighbours baby monitor hence the burping and belching etc.

Bird song was probably one of this toy mobile things with music for kids.

Solution is to tell your neighbours to stop broadcasting the baby monitor...

Quantum Erasure · 04-10-2020 2:00am

Low rumbling animal sounds? Birdsong? That's just the sub-woofers and the tweeters

Gretas Gonna Get Ya! · 04-10-2020 7:37am

Me thinks the OP wants to start the halloween debauchery early!

Good I say... let's get the creaky door of lucifer's lair open, and see what beastly darkness awaits us!

Ted_YNWA · 04-10-2020 8:11am

Mike Myers has connected his spotify playlist to it to distract you.

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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