Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Original poster

This still gives me the creeps

148 replies

WooWooCocktail · 22/02/2019 18:42

I worked in a nursery for 10 years with 2/3 year olds. Every few years, the room would obviously be full of a completely different batch of kids but the children would talk every now and then about a child called Thomas in the room and in the garden. Sometimes they’d talk about his red hair and describe what he looked like when asked. They obviously had very limited vocabulary so they couldn’t have possibly managed to consistently teach this to new kids in the room every few months. The building we were in used to be an orphanage so they must have all been able to see someone us adults couldn’t.
Still creeps me out.

Share your stories of creepiness with me! I’d love to know

OP posts:
Al2O3 · 22/02/2019 19:04

I was in a cab in central London a couple of years ago and it pulled to a halt at a junction by a park. Gary Glitter was crossing the road wearing a cap and a thick coat, collar turned up and as he passed I caught his eye.

Original poster
WooWooCocktail · 22/02/2019 19:06

@Al2O3 did you feel uneasy about it? I’ve always been curious if people ever get a vibe from evil people. My mum once felt off about a man on a church trip we went on, turns out he groomed his step daughter and it came out a few months later

OP posts:
KindergartenKop · 22/02/2019 21:02

Isn't Gary in jail?
He used to be in a prison next to a primary school near me and the kids would chant obscenities about him in the playground, which backed onto the prison yard.

DrCoconut · 22/02/2019 21:31

My mum was always uneasy about a certain man in their social circle. He never openly said or did anything untoward but she wouldn't let my brother be alone with him (he used to offer lifts to things occasionally for example). She said she just had a gut feeling that he was a bit too interested in boys. Obviously she never said anything with no proof and often said she really wanted to be wrong but the feeling was too strong to ignore. The man passed away so she never got to find out if her feelings had any foundation or not.

Clawdy · 22/02/2019 22:34

The Gary Glitter type creepiness is quite different from the OP's story, though. That's not what she meant, surely.

amrscot · 22/02/2019 22:37

Oooh I love woo threads, although nothing to add myself Sad

Al2O3 · 22/02/2019 22:39

It's still a creepy story Clawdy. What was yours by the way?

I have others which I have posted before under different user names, ghosts and murderers. This is just another one of a different kind.

He was not in jail when I saw him. To be honest when someone of that ilk catches your eye, with all that has gone before them, it is never going to be normal is it.

PrismGuile · 22/02/2019 22:41

@Al2O3 I had that feeling about an adult at my church camp... felt utter terror and nausea in the pit of my stomach as soon as I saw her. Turned out shed been abusing children under the guise of missionary work.

Al2O3 · 22/02/2019 22:43

Dale Cregan.....now he was devoid of all feeling.

Angelinthenightx · 22/02/2019 22:44

When i was a teenager when i was in bed i used to feel someone standing over me , i used to sleep with my head under the blankets i once had a look and no one was there, still scares me thinking about it
In the same house me and my brother heard our names being called and we went down and my mum said she diddnt call us down that did freak us out since we both heard it.

chatnicknameyousuggested · 22/02/2019 22:58

I work in law and have met many murderers and worse. Most of them seemed normal, and gave off no woo signals at all. Or at least not that I noticed. Some were obviously seriously mentally ill, but there was never any sense of evil.

VeryFoolishFay · 22/02/2019 23:33

Our house is 400 years old and we made enquiries about hiring it out as a ghost hunting venue - for the financial incentive! I'm not very woo normally.

A lady from a ghost hunting company came to look, seemed quite keen and when we were down at the bottom of the garden, asked me twice if my DD was at school. She said she asked because she could see a young girl watching us through the kitchen window.

I inwardly rolled my eyes, assuming she was upping the ghostly ante. I later checked the parish records and discovered a 12 year old called Harriet died in the house in 1890 and is buried in the churchyard, just behind the house.

Still not quite sure what to make of it.

amrscot · 22/02/2019 23:38

@VeryFoolishFay yikes Shock

VeryFoolishFay · 23/02/2019 00:19

I was working from home one day, on my own, and heard a bit of noise in the front room. Then 3 sharp knocks on the front door. I went straight to the door but there was absolutely no one there. And no one could have disappeared that fast without me seeing them go. That spooked me a bit.

I later read that 3 knocks is a traditional harbinger of death. But we're all still here....

This still gives me the creeps
amrscot · 23/02/2019 00:27

@VeryFoolishFay that's me not sleeping tonight Grin

nervousbreakdown · 23/02/2019 01:08

Frequently saw strange things at work (hospital). I also used to be able to smell if patients had a brain injury, a brain infection (enecephalitis etc) or had recently had brain surgery . Not sure what that smell was but it was very strong - it was overpoweringly nauseating in a couple of cases to be honest .

nervousbreakdown · 23/02/2019 01:11

In terms of strange things - my colleague saw a couple walk into the HDU, when she followed they had vanished . I saw a patient walking around the corridor , all mine were asleep and we checked every cupboard etc in case there was a ‘wanderer’ from another ward ... several patients told us they saw soldiers walk past their room . There was one room I dreaded moving people to, it was only ever used for terminally ill patients as it was quiet and private ... didn’t have a nice atmosphere .

Also had a very strange experience going to a Scottish town not that long ago - an overwhelming feeling of not wanting to be there or ever go there again . Can’t explain why . Whole area had a horrible sense of foreboding about it . I wasn’t well at the time though so that might explain it .

ChakiraChakra · 23/02/2019 01:18

Absent mindedly told the man off for chucking a poster off the wall before realising nobody was with me (i was at work in a new building by myself). I am fairly intuitive anyway and felt into who he was... a man with a specific profession, had hung himself there - that didn't make any sense to me as didn't think the building has been something else previously, it was modern. I ended up chatting to him every time I was there.

Later found out that a young man had taken his life by hanging there only a few years ago. Same profession. My jaw was on the floor, but I couldn't tell the person telling me because how do you tell your employer you knew that because the dead guy had already told you?!

Littledidsheknow · 23/02/2019 04:04

nervousbreakdown

You’re going to have to tell us which Scottish town this was. I felt similarly about a Scottish town that was very near where I lived when I was young. So close, but it felt unwelcoming to me. It was in Fife.

Pieandpeas3 · 23/02/2019 07:59

I went to Happisburgh in Norfolk once and it had a feeling of foreboding and I felt that I had to leave, it felt creepy.

While working a night shift at a hospital, I was taking to a colleague while walking past a communal lounge. We both saw the back of a woman wearing what looked like a dressing gown and both assumed that a certain patient had got out of bed. We thought this unusual and asked another colleague why she was up. He replied that she was still in bed. We checked immediately and she was in bed and due to the layout of the ward there is no way she could have been up and returned to bed without being seen.

nervousbreakdown · 23/02/2019 08:25

Little - Greenock and Port Glasgow . I don’t know what it was , I just had this overwhelming feeling of , this isn’t a nice place/ something dreadful has happened here and not somewhere I want to be ever again.

Only thing I can think of is a) I was ill with anxiety and recently changed meds and had a lot of strange thoughts for a couple of weeks or so ... or b) a lot of my ancestors came over from Ireland in the mid - late 19th c , and settled in Glasgow ... no idea if they would have docked at Greenock but quite possibly did . Without wanting to sound too woo it’s maybe some sort of ancestral throwback , if that even exists .

I’ve had other strange similar experiences where I’ve known things I couldn’t possibly - went on a holiday up Ullapool way years ago , think I was 15 . Standing on a hill near Gairloch I was able to tell my mum the names of several islands we could see at one point . I had never been there in my life - no connection I knew of - and then my dad told me his family (who I’ve never met) were all from the area and moved to Glasgow in 19th c ... very strange - I still remember looking at those islands and clear as day hearing in my head , that’s ‘there’s the summer isles’ !

CricketSnicket · 24/02/2019 18:56

My primary school had been a war hospital. Massive can of worms opened when a 5yo reported a strange man in military uniform in the cloakroom. Perfect description of a ww2 army outfit, and the head tried to keep it quiet, I believe...

DM still remembers the woo-shaped fuss all the parents made when it got out!

Skang · 24/02/2019 19:02

I love your story, OP. I suppose Thomas must have introduced himself, or else they wouldn't know his name.

ShadyLady53 · 24/02/2019 19:07

@littledidsheknow I feel that way about quite a few places in Fife! One begins with C the other L...

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 24/02/2019 19:14

Very interesting.
Have you not done any research to find out who Thomas is. He can't be the figment of their over active imagination if separate groups of children have spoken of described him.
Also like you say they're only tiny so they can hardly concuct a story, can they.