Urban Legends.

First recorded RL case of someone going on holiday by mistake!

I have rashly allowed myself to be talked into a few days (or a week) in a barn conversion in bum-feck nowhere. Won't be thinking about this thread at all

Don't let this thread die! I'm enjoying it too much even if it is shitting me up

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Or just search YouTube 'MTV Fear episodes' and there's a few. Haven't watched them all as am currently watching a bit of cbeebies to balance out all the horror I've been reading on here! I know, big wuss...

University College, Durham is based in the 11th century castle, and a lot of the student's accommodation is in the Keep (rebuilt in the 1830's after being in ruins for ages). I had some friends at the college, and they used to talk in hushed tones about the former student who would occasionally fling herself from the top of the Keep in a ghostly suicide bid.

None of them ever saw her, and I always wondered one of the few legends such an ancient castle could produce was quite modern, given that Castle college only started admitting female students in 1987!

I think the main castle has a ghost as well, although most people who claimed to see her were attending the famously debauched balls at the college and therefore not particularly reliable

There is (or was) a restaurant in Vienna which had a mortuary slab in the lobby. It held a huge flower arrangement.

Never figured out why.

Smegs its typical of him.

I mentioned upthread that DP used to work in what was an old asylum just up the road (and the weirdest thing he saw was Ian Hislop when he was filming). Its a housing estate now and the original buildings have been turned into trendy and expensive apartments. I often wonder if the people who bought the sweet little detached bungalow in the grounds had any idea it used to be the mortuary.

Yes, Sausage! I remember one in an asylum where the guy walked into a room and there was what looked like someone hanging upside down. The producers definitely tampered with the locations to up the scares. It scared me silly but I still had to watch it...Why?! Why couldn't I just switch over?!

Thank you! I knew I hadn't imagined that 'Fear' programme. No one else seems to remember it. Didn't the producers do things like hang stuff from the ceiling just to freak the contestants out even more?

Oh, and this thread has shit me up. I daren't go put a wash on in the creepy, dark cellar now.

I heard a weird one from my friend.. not scary, but it made me a bit
Someone she knew had moved with her DH and family into an end terrace with an empty property next door. After they'd been living there a couple of months, a middle-aged couple moved in to the empty house. They were a little odd, but very polite, always stopping to say hello and have a chat over the fence and there were no noise issues at all. They never heard a single noise from next door. Woman and her DH assumed the terrace walls must be unusually thick and carried on with their (noisy) family life.
A year after they moved in, the man and his wife moved out without a word and the house was re-let. The first day that the new tenants moved in, the woman's family were horrified to realise that they could hear every word of their new neighbors' conversations, hear the telephone ringing, footsteps etc. The walls were, in fact, paper thin, so not only had the old neighbors lived in silence, they had been eavesdropping on the woman's family life every day, and never said anything.

whatkungfu I know someone who regularly pulls those sort of stunts on his friends and family, and films it on his phone . His favourite target is his dad. I suspect that one day he won't have the 'hilarious' response he expects as his dad is getting on a bit and has heart problems...

I hope you gave your DP a good telling off!

Thanks to a combination of extreme tiredness and reading links from this thread far too late at night, I had visual and auditory hallucinations last night while I was in bed (waking dreams, I suppose). The worst was hearing my toddler DD screaming for me and calling for help, but when I ran into her room she was fast asleep, and perfectly peaceful . The other stuff was shadowy figures with claw-hands that reached for me in the night, and whispered odd stuff at me but that I could handle. DH was less than impressed though, I kept jolting awake and sitting bolt upright. Poor bloke

Pregnancy is totally the worst for vivid dreams anyway, god knows what I was thinking when I read all that stuff!

I remember after we watched Halloween H20 DP got called out to work and I went to shut the windows which meant putting my hand through the blinds. A hand grabbed mine - it as DP. He had been checking the boot of the car when my hand appeared and he said it was too good to miss. I nearly shat myself.

No, don't look out the window!

The MTV show was called 'Fear' and they didn't get any money for it..it was just for kicks! Madness!
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I wont look out the window now when I'm shutting the blinds at night for fear of catching glimpse of a slender man

The Stickmen cometh! What are they doing striding around at night, all menacing? Actually, forget it it...I don't want to know! Someone's bound to have a story!

Hellingsly looks so much like Silent Hill!

That cat is huge!

Does anyone remember an American game-show where students could pay off their student debt if they completed tasks at old abandoned asylums that were purported to be haunted? They had head mounted camera's so you could see their progress...really haunted or not it was bloody scary!

Bloody hell that cat looks massive! I'm hot but daren't open the patio doors in the bedroom as I'm scared of those stick men things

I was reading this thread the other night and getting all creeped out.
Then I was up late on Saturday night wrapping pass-the-parcel things for a kids party the next day. It was about midnight and everyone else in the house was asleep. I was sitting on the floor in the back room wrapping away, house silent.

Suddenly something quite distinctly knocked on the patio doors!!!

JesusHTapdancingChristINearlyCrappedMyself!

I looked at the window into the darkness (we back onto a railway track and everything is pitch black) and there were two BIG green eyes staring at me through the glass.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!

Honestly my heart was beating so fast I went faint (Overactive imagination from this sodding thread thank you all)
The thing knocked again ...

I blinked a bit to clear the panic clouded vision and there was a bloody great big cat. Knocking on the window to get in. bastard

See here feckingcat Honest! (Calmed down now)

I'm sorry to go back a little, but Lordofthe5Rings I am seriously that you googled ME!!!

Bertie was laughing at the links I posted. Some random weirdo took odd photos of himself (semi-naked) prancing around Opko Land, the abandoned theme park.

My name is a tenuous reference to Red Dwarf, btw. Nothing to do with smegma according to the creators of the show