What’s the spookiest thing that has ever happened to you?

[EchoChamber]

I love these types of threads and having watched quite a haunting film yesterday it’s playing on my mind. Nothing particularly to relate myself but keen to hear people’s stories!

We used to live in a Victorian terrace when I was a teenager with my mum, stepdad and siblings. Ahhh... so many things happened in that house not sure where to start. Things would be moved, figures walking past the kitchen doorway when I was home alone and hearing them run upstairs, this was also seen by other family members at various times so we could verify we weren't going mad! Me and two siblings saw a figure simultaneously once, we still talk about it to this day.

Many a time I heard the front door slam shut when I got home from school, and I'd go to see if it was my mum coming home from work but it wasn't - plus the door would be locked anyway. A big old heavy stained glass door, so not wind related, they required effort to open...That used to scare me a bit, I'll admit!

My brother heard footsteps outside his room at 3am every night so resorted to wearing headphones to bed, I was always too cowardly to stay up with him and hear it for myself, but he had a friend or two that would sleep over who both mentioned footsteps without prompting (although maybe my brother was putting ideas into their head!?) Either way, one friend refused to come again, bless him.

My stepdad would frequently come down in the morning and the cupboard doors would be open. We're a very "non-woo" family and things only ever happened in that one house (thankfully!)

When I was about 5 I asked my parents why we didn’t visit my grandpa, but he always visited us.

They looked a bit freaked out and explained that he died a few years before I was born.

I dont remember this but I have always had an awful fear of ghost women hiding in my house and jumping out at me in the dark. I never envision a man or child, it's always a woman ( for as long as I can remember I've had this fear ) so maybe I subconsciously do remember it

When I was a child we moved to a small village and my mum said I would frequently wake in the middle of the night crying, saying a woman was in the corner staring at me.

A few weeks/months later my mum bumped into the woman she bought the house off, they asked how everyone was going on, my mum had mentioned what I had been saying and the woman asked if it was the bedroom at the front of her house and said her son used to say the exact same thing

I love these threads too! And I was just reading another one about spooky places which reminded me of a walk I took a few summers ago - just me and the dog - along part of the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire. Early morning, hot day, suddenly birds went silent, and it just felt so strange, difficult to describe, not malevolent. The path ahead was actually shimmering, and it felt like I was there, but not there. (And I had eaten breakfast!). Dog stayed close to heel, which is not her style at all. And then all of a sudden it was over, birds sang, fellow walkers appeared. I was in a bit of a daze for a while. If anyone knows the area, it was the bit between Wayland Smithy and the NT car park. Most peculiar!

Also same house - sister had her own bedroom and one night refused to sleep in her room and ended up sleeping in ours. That night, the cabinets she had above her bed fell down and smashed her bed. My mum said it would of killed her if she had been there and couldnt figure out how they had fell off as apparently they were installed on huge brackets like kitchen cabinets

@EchoChamber Also to add if you like spooky things and haven't already, I highly recommend the Uncanny podcast by Danny Robins who has 3 seasons of spooky paranormal tales that he tries to solve, I usually listen to them while washing up and some are so creepy (others not so much but still entertaining!)

I used to live in a very old house where was once used as a base for victims of the plague. It was a really unsettling place.
One day when my mum was out shopping me and my best friend were hanging out in the living room when we both heard a really angry male voice scream “Get out!!!”
Absolutely shit ourselves and went to hide behind the garden shed until my mum got home.

Yes, also on player now too!

I’ve got loads of stories about the house I used to live in but the dog walking one above reminded me of the time we took our dog up to the cow and calf rocks in Ilkley. There’s a stone circle nearby, which we walked up to. Anyone who knows the area knows that there are rocks scattered everywhere on the way up, and our dog was happily running over them sniffing and exploring them. Until we got to the circle. The instant we went inside it the hackles came up, he was growling, barking, backing away and crouching down. Never seen him behave like that before. As soon as we left the circle he was back to happily sniffing around. Completely bizarre.

Also The Battersea Poltergeist and The Witch Farm. You've probably listened to them though! I think there's another Danny Robins one from years ago... possibly called Haunted. I'll just have a quick check...

Here it is

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/haunted/id1299841207

Worth a listen if you like spooky stories.

I could tell you hundreds (and have shared several on here) but this is an odd one that I didn't experience but involves me.

When I left home, DM would often come into their kitchen and smell my favourite sandwich that I made every day for work. I used to leave a few hours before they got up because of the hours I worked. They would hear me about the house pottering about as well. But I'd moved out. Historic memory association, no doubt.

Years on from that and two marriages later, they heard me let myself in with my DC early hours of the morning. They both heard me settle my DC in the usual room they would stay in and heard me use the bathroom and then go to my old room. DPs agreed they wouldn't bother me, something must have been awful (marriage problems at the time), that I'd left to be safe and they'd let us all get a good night's sleep and see what was what in the morning. Except, in the morning, there was no sign of us because we hadn't been there. DM phoned me in a panic, DF said they'd both heard me and my DC, but we definitely hadn't been there. (Which is ironic because when I was late teens, had gone out clubbing, got home drunk in the early hours, DPs had accidentally locked me out and I climbed up the rear of the house and broke in via an open window - they didn't hear me then!)

Thanks for starting this thread OP 🙏

A relatives house makes people feel tired. They become quiet, even fall asleep sometimes. They’ll be lively, normal, then start looking dazed. It’s very strange.

Sorry Checken but quietly chuckling at this. Are you sure it's not the relative having this affect?

Loving it! It’s cheering me up whilst I recover from a virus.

My mum sees ghosts. I suppose you’d say she’s a medium - except she doesn’t want to be. She ignores them and tells them to go away. Although there have been a few rare occasions when I’ve seen her acknowledge them.

I remember she spoke to a lady who was dying and she named and described all of the lady’s deceased family members who had come to fetch her. Her children just stood with their mouths open, because there’s no way my mum would have known any of that. Later I asked how she knew what the lady’s parents looked like, and she said “well I was looking right at them”.

Waylands Smithy has a reputation for being being creepy/haunted.

There is a road in Dorset ,we call the "Avenue of trees" Just on the Blandford Road from Wimborne to Blandford. Roman Soldiers have been seen running through there apparently(or maybe just a few well soaked pub goers!)

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I’d be checking the carbon monoxide levels

I moved into my first boyfriends house as his parents had passed away.
His parents had experienced odd things happening over the years, milk bottles smashing on the doorstep, doors slamming, shoes going missing etc. Low level annoyances.

I moved in but never felt welcome in the house. I was often ill despite being a healthy young 17 year old. I had tummy bugs, flu, high temperatures - I was more ill than I’d ever been over my life in that 7 months I lived there.

Stuff slowly ramped up. Doors slammed between the garage and the kitchen, strange smell in the kitchen, we suddenly became overrun with ants and bugs in the food cupboard.

I lost a necklace and it was found in the bottom of the toilet. I took a bracelet off and it never reappeared at all.

The strangest thing though was one day, not long before we moved, I went to put washing away and found the clothes in the drawer that I opened absolutely sodden with water. It was really weird - I could wring them out. The clothes in the drawer below were bone dry.

I did wonder whether my then partner had wee’d in the drawer half asleep or something but it was definitely water.

We moved not long after, I hated that house.