This still gives me the creeps

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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

We have a room at work it’s a meeting room that has a horrible feeling in not always but at times it feels as though someone is watching you

It could be because the meetings held in there we are often discussing very heavy issues but we also often laugh quite a bit.

It’s only in that room, I know the history of the building (Victorian hospital has been a mother and baby home and part of a mental asylum) but it’s all refurbished and bright

There will always be those who claim these experiences can be explained and some can but I know from experiences I have had they can’t be

If rooms feel wierd to more than one person, then get the lights and all the electrics checked and check for carbon monoxide. Seriously.

Lights are fine we can dim and often do as the room has very large window

Electric heating ....

Feels strange to a few not all. Those it feels strange to are also the ones who pick up with residents when something isn’t quite right - the paranoia, anger projection (work with ex offenders with mh issues) some are totally oblivious to it and will not experience that gut feeling that something isn’t quite right

I believe some people are just more turned into to what can not always be explained

I was getting ready for school when about nine and went to turn radio off but dial turned itself to off before i could reach it. I just thought ‘ah well’ and went upstairs to clean teeth. As I reached for the tap the same thing happened. The tap turned on by itself, water gushing out before i touched it. I know i was a kid but i was not at all prone to vivid imagination. It was first thing in moring so not like i had been watching Dr Who or whatnot. Never have been able to explain it. Nothing like it ever happened again.

itsbritneybiatches, the Savernake story was posted upthread, see:

haverhill Wed 27-Feb-19 15:35:02

I’ve seen several ghosts, but didn’t take a picture of any. They looked like real people until they disappeared, and by then it was too late!
My colleague did catch one on camera though. She was taking photos of our ward after it was refurbished but before we moved back in. The head, shoulders and chest of a woman showed up on one picture. I recognised her as someone who’d walked past me in the same place months earlier and through a closed door. A second colleague also recognised her as someone who had appeared inside a locked clinic room standing next to her.

I love when @BertrandRussell pops her head up from a weighty tome to give us all a dose of reality. 😂

That wasnt snarky @Bertrand I genuinely love your posts.

I was house hunting a year ago and looked round my perfect house - a 17th century former Priory with original features. Cheap because it needed modernisation. Everything was fine until I went up the stairs to the attic bedrooms. I remember thinking that I wouldn’t like to go up those stairs at night and then I thought why would I make my children do it if I didn’t want to do it?? The leaking roof was the final straw so we didn’t put in an offer.

The people who bought our house told us that they’d viewed the same house and their 5 year old boy refused to go up those stairs. The attic had a very bad feeling in it so it wasn’t just me who felt this atmosphere.

That said, I saw our buyer 6 months after completion and she said “Hey, Vanilla, what’s this with the ghost?” Apparently her children, her friends and her friend’s children saw a man with a dog in one of the bedrooms. We never saw anything ghostly at all, in fact, the house was very welcoming (bloody freezing, though!).

A lot of the face-in-a-window-type experiences are down to good old pareidolia, and the I-woke-from sleeping-and-saw/felt ones will be sleep paralysis or vivid dreams. Humans like to see patterns in things, and research into false memories shows that we embroider and develop real or imagined experiences until the embroideries become our reality.

Then there's confirmation bias. I had a friend who was convinced she was psychic. She made several predictions that have most certainly not come true and will not do so, and made several confident statements about an item that was a family heirloom - all wrong. She explained away her misses, though, so she's still convinced of her abilities.

The phantom dog walkers has creeped me right out! I live in an old farm cottage with nothing but fields for miles, not looking out the windows anymore 😂

Anyway my 2 for the thread: first one similar to the phantom dog walker happened to my granny years ago when she lived near Southport. She lived in a cul de sac and down the bottom was an old abandoned farm house type dwelling with ground that everyone took their dogs to. I always found it really creepy there whenever I went but one day my granny was on her own walking the dog maybe late afternoon when she passed another dog walker and said hello, can’t remeber is they replied but she walked maybe a few more mins and turned to check the dog and the other walker was no where to be seen!! It was all open the grounds and you could see the street leading away from it and there was nothing!

Second one: when I was around 9 or 10 me and my sister were friends with a girl in the next village who lived in a big long house on the Main Street that had like an old barn out the back. One day we were there and larking about as we did, the friend told us the barn was haunted and started banging on the door etc, anyway we got bored and started playing something else when all of a sudden the hatch in the roof opened and all these things started flying out like old kettles, sacks of stuff etc!! We ran into the barn, as thought it was her dad, and up the stairs and there was no one there! It was fairly empty so no where to hide and only one way in/out so no way they got out without us seeing. Anyway thoroughly creeped out we ran back out and closed the door and just as we were walking away the door did a massive bang like a huge person had ran against and the doors actually bowed outwards!!

We ran in and said to the girls mum and dad and the mum tried to make out it was the dad but he had been in the living room the whole time and I could tell by the look on her face she didn’t have a clue why it had happened. Soon after the family moved away but I would often think of that time and not long ago I brought it up with my sister thinking I’d maybe imagined it or it had all been a game but no she remembered it as vividly as me and it still creeps her out too. I still live near that village and have family there and whenever I pass that house it gives me a horrid feeling

Ds and I saw a Victorian lady in the driving seat of our neighbours van once. She turned out to be frost-and sadly she didn’t show up on camera.

@BertrandRussell

I don't show up on theist threads telling them I'm an atheist.

can't we just enjoy this thread?

@haverhill

sorry you had that experience, but you write beautifully. Amazing story!

Grace, if you're referring to the Savernake story (puppy in woods, scary evil voices), I don't think it was haverhill that experienced it - she'd just found the post on an previous thread and C&Pd it!

I don't think any of us can remember who the original poster of Savernake was!!

Hank

oh....sorry.

this makes me wonder more.....I know an author who writes ghost stories and she told me she'd read some great ones on here. When I was reading what I thought was haverhill's post, I thought, is that the author....hmm...maybe it is, but if I ask, she won't tell me anyway!

Oops, that should have read " ... post on a previous thread"

Grace, I don't suppose your ghost story author friend mentioned a story about camping pods in Scotland, a terrible blizzardy night, a sighting of 'something' dreadful and a couple called Tristan and Molly?

After hearing that DH’s father had had a stroke, he had a dream whereby he heard three loud knocks and a voice said death will come in three.

Yes, reader. DH’s dad did die three days later.

Hank nope, sorry, that's a reference I know nothing about.

Lugg wow.

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There’s an area in our paddock that makes me shudder. I don’t like going in there alone, and neither do the dogs.

My husband and I always 'saw' a ghostly cat sitting on the stairs. Became a bit of a joke, ghosts are obviously not real.

However... Our baby's first word was 'cat' always said with pointing and gesturing at the stairs, and at a cat that wasn't there...

We had a wonderful black cat for 17 years. We still sometimes think we’ve caught sight of him out of the corner of our eyes in the shadows. I bet we wouldn’t if he had been white, though!