What is the creepiest post you have read online ?

[MeepyMupp]

Over the years I have read quite a few creepy/spooky/scary posts of all sorts on here and elsewhere online. What is the creepiest you have come across ?

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If you're interested in fictional creepy stories written as though they're true, Reddit's "no sleep" section is good. The Left Right Game and the one about staircases in the woods are my favourite.

Other than Savernake I haven't read anything particularly scary on here but I'm place marking because I love this sort of stuff!

I always find it quite amusing on here how if ever anyone starts a thread about anything relating to poo/ibs/bowel troubles they get accused of being the poo troll. It happened to me once after I started a thread about ibs problems and i was so confused when lots of hysterical people started accusing me of being this fiendish, creepy poo troll who gets off on stories of people's bowel movements. I hadn't heard of it before but apparently it's legendary on MN.

The savernake story is not creepy if it's the one I read.

There was a thread on here once I was massively disturbed by, because to me it seemed very very likely that the OP's dc was being abused by someone and the OP was so utterly close minded to the possibility and focussed on the DC's behaviour needing to change. Creepy is not quite the word but it really bothered me and still does at times.

There was a thread a few years ago about someone who lived in an isolated Cottage and things kept happening- I can’t remember the details but something was left outside the house at one point

The person who discovered a drifter had been living in their attic and coming down in the night to steal food

I quite like the Savernake Forest one. The first time I read it was in the middle of the night, all on my own and I was really creeped out! I've read it lots of times now and it doesn't scare me at all.

I read the David post on here and thought it was quite creepy (but obviously fake) though I'm not sure if i ever found out the ending as the poster was getting it from twitter and didn't always update it.

I read the Left/right game on reddit. I enjoyed but I wasn't creeped out by it at all.

I might get my 10 year old to read the Savernake one, she loves scary stuff.

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The Dear David saga is pretty freaky, even though it was made up.

There was a thread on here a few years ago where someone was posting in real-time during their stay at some sort of stately home. It wasn't a hotel, I don't think, but the person was there for (I think) work purposes that she didn't reveal.

I think it was something to do with her only being left a really small amount of food for her "dinner" outside her door and she was wondering whether to try and find the kitchen.

I'd love to re-read that thread if it is still on Mumsnet, as I don't know what the outcome was or if it was someone having us on.

The creepy reddit threads are great. The Smiling Man properly freaked me out and there was one about a woman whose partner would suddenly assume a different persona and physically change shape, bending his feet back really peculiarly to tip toe around her - the mental image of that scared me! Read one on here too that got me - can't remember perfectly but the op and her husband stayed in a holiday home with 2 bedrooms but the second was locked. In the night she heard the room unlock and footsteps creeping down the hall so she got up and leant against her door only to feel something push against it! I love a good scary story!

The savenake post about michael ryan was more chilling than the other post.

Creepypasta website is the place to be if you want freaky stories. I have a scroll now and then if I'm bored and have been left really creeped out by the odd few that have been brilliantly written.

I love the story about the vanishing alcove in a flat. It’s so simple yet so weird.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3889092-To-ask-the-spookiest-creepiest-mysterious-thing-youve-ever-heard?pg=5

I didn't think the Savernake Forest story was scary either.

Creepiest story I've read online was the one about the man who is woken up by his son calling for help because there's a monster under the bed. It's short, but really creepy. It wasn't here, possibly Creepypasta.

There’s a poster on Digital Spy called DollFeet who posted this:

forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1376448/what-is-the-creepiest-thing-to-have-ever-happened-to-you/p110

I'm reluctant to post this one and am going to leave the odder details out, but maybe your friend is just the person to ask.

Summer '81 I was in Piccadilly Circus and was quite distressed. A couple approached me, were sympathetic to what had happened and offered to take me for a coffee. We were right by a coffee shop but the woman said she knew a cafe in Piccadilly tube station so down we went, the entrance opposite The Regent Palace Hotel, and there was this little cafe tucked away right next to the stairs.

We were the only customers, there was a waitress in a pink gingham 50's costume and an old woman at one end behind a counter on which there was a strange Heath Robinson contraption made of copper. I couldn't work out what the hell it was, it stretched the length of the counter, and I felt very unnerved by the old woman who stared intently at me the whole time we were there. Everything about her seemed to be gray.

Something strange happened (sorry to be so vague but this is very personal) and I ran out of the cafe, up the stairs and straight into the arms of my boyfriend who I'd been looking for. The couple came out after me and the woman spoke to my boyfriend, said she was relieved I'd found him and commented on how odd the strange thing that had happened was.

A couple of years later I was in Piccadilly tube station with a friend and remembered the cafe, reflected on how I'd been up and down the stairs opposite The Regent Palace Hotel countless times and never so much as glanced at it, which was odd considering what had happened there. I asked the friend if he fancied a coffee and we headed for the cafe.

It wasn't there. He said there'd never been a cafe there and I argued that there had been, it must have been bricked over...until he pointed out that the wall tiles were original and had been there since the station was built.

We checked every entrance to the station even though I knew for a fact which entrance it had been next to. The only thing resembling a cafe was the snack bar in the ticket hall. I was so distressed that my friend stopped a guard and asked if there used to be a cafe down there. The guard said no.

I've since read several accounts of people visiting cafes/restaurants and later finding that they didn't exist. Maybe your friend could shed some light on this Andie. I'd be very happy to hear that that cafe did exist in '81 - but given the things I'm not comfortable discussing I wouldn't bet on it.

If you want to read more about the mysterious cafe that wasn’t, somebody on Fortean Times put together a whole document...all very very strange. Scroll down to Carl Grove’s post.

It’s made even weirder by the OP coming back and having a massive go at Carl!

What is the Dear David thread?

Love No sleep subreddit. The one about the boy being stalked by the man that starts with the letters they’re encouraged to write at school - Penpal? - was so creepy and so sad. I think the author turned it into a novel.

I read a creepy pasta about a man who wanted to be minimalistic and got rid of all his stuff. Then all his body hair. Then his body parts. Obviously not true but it put the willies up me.

Also I have a bit of a thing for urban legends. One time I read Snopes for an entire train journey from Sheffield to Norwich. I felt so trippy and discombobulated when I got off the train. The one that scared me most (even though objectively it was one of the least scary) was about a man who would purposely trip people in the cinema so they would fall of the balcony. Not true at all or even very scary but it puts a shiver down my spine whenever I remember it.