Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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!

Has anything genuinely creepy or unnerving ever happened to you?

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