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Creepy Forest/Dog running off/Scary tale?

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TakeMeToKernow · 03/06/2021 19:45

AIBU to ask someone to please direct me to the CREEPIEST story I’ve ever heard on MN, about someone who was house sitting in a forest and then a dog got out... if you’ve read the story, you’ll know it. Much to my OH’s annoyance I was up till about 1am trawling the woo threads in Classics but couldn’t find it 😫

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TheVanguardSix · 04/06/2021 23:59

Oh! It’s been mentioned before I posted: the boy in the disco.
This and Savernake are the most memorable woo stories of all. I think the Southend one is real though.

TheVanguardSix · 04/06/2021 23:57

A brilliant story. One of my all time faves… that and the ghost of the young man in the nightclub. I don’t care if one is/both are creepypasta. They’re entertaining!

tothesea · 04/06/2021 23:54

Was the boy in the disco one true? I’ve never forgotten it.

3orangekissesfromkazan · 04/06/2021 23:48

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion Yes! That sounds like the one.. it was all a bit Wicker Man, but very entertaining!

Anyone able to dig it up?

austrian · 04/06/2021 23:44

@StormBaby Go on then, what was it?

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 04/06/2021 23:40

I couldn't care less if its fake its fascinating and I suppose fake does show imagination and creativity.

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 04/06/2021 23:31

@3orangekissesfromkazan

Does anyone remember one about a woman taking her dog for a walk near her house ( v rural) and seeing a strange man who seemed to be watching her?

Sure there was something about stuff being left outside her house too ( or am I imagining it??)

Was that not the one where she had moved into the village, and the villagers didn't like them because they had outbid someone the locals knew for the house, and they were trying to scare them into leaving? Or was that a different one. No idea if that was true or not though.
Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 04/06/2021 23:29

@Serin

Mine is no where as dramatic but we had an experience on a dark winters night when DH was away. It wasn't late and we were all huddled around the fire with me reading a bed time story to the 3 DC (aged between 4 and 7). Cat and dog snoozing. When suddenly cat slinks off the sofa and creeps down the room with her tail all bushed out and starts this low weird hissing and yowling, staring intently at something. Then our harp that is positioned in that corner of the room played 3 really loud and clear descending notes. The dog went mental, snarling and snapping towards the harp and then all the DC started crying and saying "I don't like this". I didn't like it either but I convinced them that everything was fine and harps often make noises by themselves.Hmm Funnily enough we live in dense woodland that reaches right up to our patio. Nothing untoward has happened in the 18 years since then, but I often think that if I ended up living alone here, I would move!!
Bloody hell. I don't know how you didn't move that night!
3orangekissesfromkazan · 04/06/2021 23:24

Does anyone remember one about a woman taking her dog for a walk near her house ( v rural) and seeing a strange man who seemed to be watching her?

Sure there was something about stuff being left outside her house too ( or am I imagining it??)

Mummyratbag · 04/06/2021 23:01

One of my favourites, along with the young lad in a nightclub in Southend.

frankenpoodle · 04/06/2021 22:59

I agree that the voices speaking go too far. It's not nearly as scary because of that. If she had merely felt an evil presence and run back, it would've been better.

BristishIdiot · 04/06/2021 22:58

The guy at the disco was 😱 what about a haunted mill turned office? That was donkeys ago!

Pedalpushers · 04/06/2021 22:55

I've always thought it was a bit of a rubbish spooky story. Scarier stuff is posted on reddit nosleep every day.

StormBaby · 04/06/2021 22:42

I once saw something even more terrifying than that in a forest and I can promise you it was 100% true!

winewolfhowls · 04/06/2021 22:37

The scariest mumsnet story is the bloke in the arcade/or seaside resort one, anyone remember that?

Forgottenyeti · 04/06/2021 22:12

@Serin I think I would have moved already! 😬

MilesOfSand · 04/06/2021 21:36

Speaking of mumsnet legends, now I’m remembering that ski chalet one from ages ago.

MilesOfSand · 04/06/2021 21:35

@PigGondola it’s interesting isn’t it? I think humans are wired to love a good story and this one has the structure that we innately look for along with the (very faint!) promise of it being true. I think on the context thing maybe the forest it’s supposed to be in adds a bit of interest too which helps people to remember it.

PigGondola · 04/06/2021 21:32

@MilesOfSand

I don’t know, I think the voices are working as it’s been so well remembered here!
I’m always baffled at how often it’s referenced on here, and think it’s largely contextual— it’s been shared so many times on Mn, people appear to think that gives it more of an appearance of truthfulness, when it was just a more articulate than average contribution to an old ‘woo’ thread that ticks off all the usual tropes — isolated house, woman alone, mysterious noises, dark woods, dark shapes, sinister voices, frightened animals, invocation of Jesus, chase.
MilesOfSand · 04/06/2021 20:22

I don’t know, I think the voices are working as it’s been so well remembered here!

LaBellina · 04/06/2021 18:12

If this is fake then I hope the person who wrote it will start publishing horror stories.
I’d immediately buy their book.

indecisivewoman81 · 04/06/2021 18:08

No I love the idea of the voice, for me it tunes it into something much more demonic the. Simply a scary woods

ToffeeNotCoffee · 04/06/2021 16:53

It reads too smoothly and with plenty of supporting detail to keep the readers' attention.

Also, I agree the Satanic voices were a step too far.

PigGondola · 03/06/2021 23:28

@Librariesmakeshhhhappen

The voices actually talking were a step too far in that story. It's made up.
Well, of course it’s made up. But I agree with others that as a piece of creative writing it would be better without the two voices. (And without The Way of Chicken...) Grin
Serin · 03/06/2021 23:16

Mine is no where as dramatic but we had an experience on a dark winters night when DH was away. It wasn't late and we were all huddled around the fire with me reading a bed time story to the 3 DC (aged between 4 and 7).
Cat and dog snoozing. When suddenly cat slinks off the sofa and creeps down the room with her tail all bushed out and starts this low weird hissing and yowling, staring intently at something. Then our harp that is positioned in that corner of the room played 3 really loud and clear descending notes.
The dog went mental, snarling and snapping towards the harp and then all the DC started crying and saying "I don't like this". I didn't like it either but I convinced them that everything was fine and harps often make noises by themselves.Hmm
Funnily enough we live in dense woodland that reaches right up to our patio. Nothing untoward has happened in the 18 years since then, but I often think that if I ended up living alone here, I would move!!