To start the spooky stories thread?

SurpriseItsMeHorseyNeighNeigh · 2023-10-02T20:57:10+00:00

Of course I'm not, it's Halloween, let's get scared. So what is the spookiest/most unexplainable experience you had? We're talking paranormal here.

Shiveringinthecountry · 23/02/2024 14:13

Thanks @ThisPeachJoker 😬

ThisPeachJoker · 19/02/2024 19:01

slightly spooky story…
when i was 14 me and my whole friendship group (about 25 of us) had a party at a huge mansion (my friends house) down a big, long, dark back lane which we were all a little unsure about.
being 14, we decided to play hide and seek to scare ourselves and have a laugh.
me, my bestfriend and her boyfriend went into a room and hid in a cupboard. a rather large cupboard with alot of clothes and with alot of space to stand and sit etc with a mirror hanging on the door.
we had our phone torches on to get hidden in clothes
i felt as though something was watching me so i glanced up quickly and saw a women stood looking at me in the reflection of the mirror. she had a black veil over her face and she looked grey and just completely numb
once the realisation had set in that i had just seen this women, (i hadnt mentioned it yet)
my bestfriends boyfriend said ‘what the f#ck just touched my shoulder’
i have never ever worked out what i saw that day but i am terrified still.

zappagirl · 15/12/2023 19:14

@Whatafustercluck the 'daisy daisy' slowing down is featured in the Stanley Kubrick film '2001 A Space Odyssey.' It happens when the psychotic AI bot HAL is switched off (unsure whether this was a sample from the movie which was played on the Alexa? - might be worth checking)?

MistressoftheDarkSide · 11/12/2023 22:26

Ok I've got a weird one that happened this morning.

Woke up at 6.01 for no apparent reason - I'm not a morning person. My cat was curled up next to me so while I'm coming round I'm stroking him, just lying there half asleep.

So this will sound weird but I have a large dress sword with a fancy pommel in a scabbard propped up between my bedside table and the bed. It's quite weighty, and is part of my late DPs vast collection of replica weaponry. We're not landed gentry or anything just weird hoarders. Our bed has a four poster vibe due to Akro scaffolding framework which my DP constructed. Part og the "canopy," is created by about a dozen swords zip tied to the framework - this is where the sword in question used to be before ibtook it down to detach a sword that belonged to someone else and had been on loan.

So I'm lying there half asleep, stroking my cat....and suddenly there's an almighty clatter, which naturally woke me up properly. I look around for the source and the sword is lying on the floor alongside the bed pommel at the far end and resting on some clothes near the far corner of the bed.

Now I could understand it sliding down for some reason and the pommel being near the head end of the bed - but it had tipped forward and the pointy end was about three feet away from where it had been resting. It's a weighty item, so would require some leverage to push it over, and I really don't see how it traveled the extra 3 feet either.

Not quite the wake up call I was expecting and I have no explanation at all. I can't even replicate the position it ended up in by pushing it over manually.

It wasn't me it wasn't my cat - if it's a message from my late DP I can only think he wants it back up on the bed frame with its twin which is on the other side.

Yeah very peculiar indeed.....

RedheadRedBed · 10/12/2023 17:49

Paul2023 · 10/12/2023 11:54

The above documentary is from around 2005 but a great watch. I find it quite believable as most of the people speaking were employees and seem convinced of what they saw. I only came across it recently myself.

One of the few documentaries about ghosts that had truly chilled me , I believe everyone's accounts .

Schadenfreudunsure · 10/12/2023 15:40

thanks @Paul2023 and @wavingfuriously

I just clicked on the thanks buttons on your posts - but then wasn't sure if it notifies you or even if you see it?

does it show you that the thanks button has been clicked?

Paul2023 · 10/12/2023 11:54

The above documentary is from around 2005 but a great watch. I find it quite believable as most of the people speaking were employees and seem convinced of what they saw. I only came across it recently myself.

Paul2023 · 10/12/2023 11:52

Schadenfreudunsure · 09/12/2023 23:27

@LeakyPipes @Paul2023

please do you have a link to this documentary or a full title of the one you are talking about? thanks.

Here it is ;

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bf_bxfE5gw

Ghosts On The Underground

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bf_bxfE5gw

Louise303 · 10/12/2023 01:29

Will have to watch this I seen a ghost in Euston station about 16 years ago a man with a dog. It was very early and deserted the man and dog came past me about 5 times and went on to the platform without coming out each time. My son was sat beside me and did not see anything I went and looked after the last time and it was deserted.

wavingfuriously · 10/12/2023 00:56

@Schadenfreudunsure

Schadenfreudunsure · 09/12/2023 23:27

@LeakyPipes @Paul2023

please do you have a link to this documentary or a full title of the one you are talking about? thanks.

Watchthedoormat · 09/12/2023 21:27

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LeakyPipes · 04/12/2023 20:39

Paul2023 · 03/12/2023 16:22

There’s a good documentary on YouTube about ghosts on the London Underground. Member of staff talking about some of the things they’ve experienced.

I can imagine it would be pretty spooky there at night , when no trains were running.

That's the best ghosty documentary I've ever seen 👍 I watch it at least once a year 😁

Paul2023 · 03/12/2023 16:22

There’s a good documentary on YouTube about ghosts on the London Underground. Member of staff talking about some of the things they’ve experienced.

I can imagine it would be pretty spooky there at night , when no trains were running.

Graciebobcat · 01/12/2023 12:26

I have been away with work and was staying in a hotel last night. I came up to bed about 10.30pm after some drinks with colleagues, though I hadn't been able to eat or drink much during the evening as nothing had felt like it was going down very well, so I felt pretty sober and was just looking forward to lying down in a nice big bed!

When I was taking my make up off in the bathroom and cleaning my teeth, I just felt really weird and like there was someone behind me, and like I could almost see someone out of the corner of my eye. But I didn't feel scared as I was just telling myself not to be daft, and there were an awful lot of mirrors in the room, and in the hotel room generally, which created an odd effect of seeing yourself into infinity (!) anyway which had already made me feel discombobulated.

But just for good measure I also said to myself/whoever in my head that I really would not welcome anything supernatural happening just now thank you very much, and there was anything happening like that, perhaps my dad could help whoever it was bothering me (he died a few years ago).

After that I continued telling myself to stop being daft, cleaned my teeth and got in bed, but kept the bathroom light and the TV on quietly and slept fitfully.

I found out this morning that a family friend died, P. She was like an aunty to me, a good friend of DM's and had unfortunately been very unwell for two or more years. She had just been placed into palliative care, but her imminent death was not particularly expected. While I'm sad, and sad for her husband and my mum, I know P wanted to die and it would have been a relief to her. She died at about 11pm last night.

I don't know what to make of it all, but just found it an odd coincidence when I heard the sad news this morning. I think we have all sorts of instinctive animal senses that we switch off/ignore at times, and perhaps my subconscious was aware of something going on. Or I was just slightly under the weather, and alcohol can make you feel a bit odd at times. Or if there is any kind of afterlife, and Aunty P was a bit confused about what was going on, that my dad could help her.

LeakyPipes · 12/11/2023 23:44

disappointed101 · 26/10/2023 10:34

Sorry if this has been linked already but went down a rabbit hole with these…
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/

Wow, me too! Still there. Just popped back to thank you for the link 😁

Mrsphilmiller · 28/10/2023 19:56

Could you DM me the ghost pic @verv

SinisterLookingLabrador · 28/10/2023 07:49

I have a bit of a Timelapse one

so my grandad lived at the bottom of a long lane, half of it was public property but towards the end turned into a private lane with the houses belonging to the water board company that was at the very end. I used to love going there as a kid, his house was huge and the whole thing was surrounded by fields and a river etc

After he died and years later I had such fond memories of this place that one day I had lots of time on my hands and so went for a drive there just to see it all again. Everything was normal until I got to the private part of the lane and nothing was there, no water board company, no houses - just fields and a few farm type buildings which I didn’t remember from a kid. Even the road itself was gone and it was just a dirt track. I couldn’t believe it. Went home and messaged my auntie saying “did you know that full lane got demolished? There is nothing there now, not even the road!” She replied “that’s odd, it wasn’t like that last year when I went!”

Next day she messaged me saying “you sure you went to the right area?? I’m here now and it’s exactly the same as when he lived here!” I went back and she was right, it was just like it always had been. I’m still confused about it now and yes I definitely went to the right place first time around.

MankyEar · 28/10/2023 07:38

Years ago DH’s friend inherited a big farm house, it was in a state and needed so much work doing to it which he couldn’t afford to do so he decided to sell it straight on - at the time the housing market was shit so he was struggling to sell it, therefore he used it to host little get together as for his mates. One night after such a get together DH had gone to bed and heard horses hooves outside on the gravel, he went to look out of the window and saw a bloke leading a horse up the driveway towards the (very unused and practically derelict) stables. He thought this was odd as his friend had never mentioned the stables being in use plus it was very late at night. Next morning he asked his mate who the bloke with the horse was, friend had no idea as stables definitely not in use. A few weeks later this friend messaged DH saying that a couple who came to look at the house was put off due to seeing a bloke with a horse wandering around the paddock outside from one of the bedroom windows, they had mentioned it to the estate agent who said he was sat outside facing the paddock the whole time they were in the house and nobody had been near the place.

another one … my non woo friend had a dog for 15 years, it used to breath heavily on the back of her leg whilst she was cooking dinner every night.

The dog was put to sleep eventually and for the first 3 days after dog died she felt the breath of warm air on the back of her leg everytime she was cooking dinner but obviously dog was no longer there. On the 4th day she was cooking dinner and didn’t feel it so she said out loud “Nala, are you still with me?” and with that the little bell she had by the back door that the would ring to go outside made a tiny noise. She opened the back door, never felt the dogs presence again 😢

HP89 · 28/10/2023 02:39

On a night shift in A&E a few years ago I called in a patient to a consult room. I started with my usual “hello, my name is X, I’ll be looking at your ankle…”. The Patient greeted me back and replied “nice to meet you, X, and who is this young man?”, looking behind me, but as if they were looking down at a child. I was alone.
I looked behind me and awkwardly/ nervously giggled “uhh not sure”, and moved on. They looked slightly confused at my response.

Patient was a fit and well middle aged person, no mental health conditions / not on meds etc. Nobody liked using that room !

Paul2023 · 28/10/2023 00:18

SoShallINever · 07/10/2023 09:11

My DF was a miner. He told me a tale about a group of miners in his mine, who were working underground when an extra man joined their team and was working alongside them. One of them spoke to the man and he turned around to the group.
They then saw that he had no facial features at all, just a plain ghostly white smooth surface where his face should be. They fled along the mine shaft with him following behind, still carrying his pick axe.
It traumatised the miners so badly that not one of them went back to work in that pit.

Go back to page 15, someone posted a link about Arthur C Clarkes tv programme from the 1980s. It’s about ghosts !
It features a minor saying he saw a ghost and couldn’t go down the pit again?
Was this your DF?!

Paul2023 · 27/10/2023 23:44

HalloweenIsHereWooo · 03/10/2023 13:01

I absolutely love stories like this.

I’m from Liverpool & Tom Slemen has written some brilliant Haunted Liverpool books, they’re spooky even if you have never been to the city before.

I’m sure I’ve told my scary story before but I’ll tell it again.

When I was about 8/10 years old the local youth club had a fun day on (Summer) I was sitting on the grass waiting for my
turn on the trampolines.

When out of nowhere a man who looked like a throwback to the 70s/80s was sitting there, I’d say early 20s, longish hair (70/80s style) with wine coloured lenses glasses on.

He wasn’t there when I’d sat down because I wouldn’t have sat near a random man, I’d never seen him before & I was always at the youth club.

Anyway, I didn’t feel threatened at all & he smiled & said “How is your dad?” I just assumed he must’ve known him, so I said he’s fine, he then asked how my mum was & I replied she’s fine too. He then said “tell your dad to stop worrying, I’m ok, tell him I was asking about him” so I just nodded then it was my turn for the trampoline.

The trampoline was about 5 meters away. Once I climbed on it & turned around the man was gone including the little deck chair.

That afternoon I went home & told my dad about the man & what he’d said. He scratched his head thinking of who it could be. He described all of his mates & none of them matched up so he chalked it up to someone he must know & that was that.

Years later me & my mum & dad were going through the photo album & got to a picture of a man in his early 20s, I instantly knew it was that man on the youth club field so I said, That’s the feller who was speaking to me about you dad when I was at the youth club.

Him & my mums face dropped, it turned out it was my dads younger brother who had been killed tragically before I was born. He’d been run over in his early 20s. My dad couldn’t believe it & I’ll never get over the look of shock when I told him that was the man.

That’s the one story that made me believe there’s something after life.

Sorry for the long story.

That’s a good and kind of sweet story. But hadn’t you seen photos of your deceased uncle before you saw that man?

Im not disbelieving you , I just would have thought you’d atleast have sen photos of your dads brother before you recognised him in the photo album?

Paul2023 · 27/10/2023 18:07

Back in the early 2000s, I was based in Germany with the Army. The camp was built in the 1930s and I believe was occupied and built for the German SS. It has closed down now.

Lots of stories went around about it being haunted.

One Christmas, I had to do guard duties, basically a skeleton team of us worked on the camp keeping it secure , whilst everyone else went on leave for two weeks. So the camp was pretty much empty.

Whilst I didn’t actually see anything, it was quite eerie patrolling a deserted camp at night, with the history that the place had.

About 12 years ago I was doing work as a security officer in central London. Day and night shifts. Multiple companies occupied the building.

Whilst the building was open 24/7, most staff were not there at night obviously, but some were.

Part of my duties at night was patrolling the building, checking for leaks and floods mainly.
We would have to start at the bottom and work our way up. At the bottom of the building was a basement area, there we would have the water tank room, the power rooms, the maintenance rooms etc. Similar to most other office buildings I suppose.

One day a maintenance engineer, mentioned to me that he had heard a woman crying down in the basement area. He couldn’t see anything despite having a look around.He wasn’t in the least bit woo, and wasn’t someone I would say was a liar. He was baffled by it and there wasn’t any explanation for it, there would be no way for someone to go down there without a key card and no public would access it anyway.

The building itself wasn’t that old, probably 20-30 years old back then but the last hundreds of years , many other buildings have been there previously.

From then on I always tried to get away from that basement area as fast as I could at night!

Other security officers and even some office staff members had reported a presence on the 8th floor of the building.

ATaleTooOuting · 27/10/2023 17:26

This had the potential for 'woo'...
Well sort of.

At my parents there was a lowish old cabinet in the hallway. As a teenager, when I came in after a night out, I'd chuck my keys & purse down there. The purse was really distinctive - I'd been to Disneyland & it had Mickey Mouse on it.

Got back v late one night, put my keys & purse on the table & went to bed.
Next morning, my purse was missing...

We searched everywhere. It wasn't in the car, I even called the pub just in case I had left it behind, nowhere to be found.
It had completely disappeared...

A few weeks later, I was reading in the kitchen when my Dad started calling me outside.
In the garden we had a small pet graveyard. Each pet buried individually. We even made gravestones.
There was a patch of disturbed soil in the graveyard but as there was no gravestone, no animal was buried in that part.

We gently dug down & found my wallet

The only explanation was the dog, a Golden Retriever, but he'd never buried anything before, it wasn't his thing.
If you wanted a dog to wander around carrying a stick, he was the dog for you but picking up a purse & taking it outside to bury?
Not his style...

After a very thorough wash, I started to use it again.
Sometime after this, I'd been out late on a Saturday night, came in & left my keys & purse on the table.

Sunday morning, and Dad & I are reading the papers in the kitchen. Back door was open, nice sunny day.

I happened to look up & saw the dog wander past with with my purse in his mouth

He obviously decided that Mickey had to be buried once more...

qwerty123454 · 27/10/2023 12:34

A few years back DP and I saw a woman with what looked like no face

We had been into town and were just about to get into the car when a small woman wearing a hood walked past us and as we looked at her she had no face