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to start a spooky thread now it's nearly October? Come share!

140 replies

TheOrcHeadKeeper · 28/09/2013 13:22

Anyone have any spooky stories or unexplained happenings? Smile

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SaskiaRembrandtVampireHunter · 01/10/2013 12:56

About the bed shaking thing - this is used to happen in a flat I lived in. Not just the bed, the sofa too. It was quite spooky, but did have a logical explanation: we lived about 100 yards away from a train track. During the day you didn't notice the trains because there was a lot of traffic, but at night, when all was still, the vibration could be felt.

Hope that makes sense, typing one handed.

TheOrcHeadKeeper · 01/10/2013 13:15

I used to get bed-shaking in the dead of night when I lived in Norfolk & there was barely any traffic. Only happened a few times but I was fully awake everytime and had to get out of bed!

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Clawdy · 01/10/2013 14:21

Aw,the little handprints in the pastry...

Ledkr · 01/10/2013 15:44

I didn't tell the nurses about my shakey bed, I was very young and thought they'd think I was mad.
I just cried and said I didn't like the side ward.
It was in the olden days when you stayed in hospital for ages after a birth.

AnaisHendricks · 01/10/2013 15:53

On the last thread a MNer posted that she had a photograph taken and when it was printed, she was sporting a full beard and moustache.

She posted the photos and subsequent stories were made up to explain it. It's in Classics.

Story of the Ghosty Beard

It makes me cry laughing, but the photo is actually very spooky.

50shadesofknackered · 01/10/2013 15:56

I love a creepy thread Grin I'll be back later when I'm not alone

AnaisHendricks · 01/10/2013 15:57

Oops, forgot to say click on the photo to enlarge.

Ledkr · 01/10/2013 16:11

I've told this before but I used to live in a council house with ds1 and 2 who were 1 and 3.
I often heard noises at night such as footsteps or the odd bang but put it down to being nervous as I'd been recently burgled and lived alone.
Babysitters heard it too and would only come with friends.
One night I was in bed and heard a noise downstairs and was just giving myself a talking to when ds1 ran in a d got in with me half asleep. Then every time I heard the noise he would snuggle a bit closer so he obviously could hear it too.
I decided it might be someone breaking in so I called 999 and was telling the operator I lived alone and was very scared. He reassured me that there was a van full of coppers nearby and they were on their way to me.
I asked him to stay on the line as I was terrified, he said he would but then the phone made a clicking sound and bothe he and I heard a horrible mocking laugh!
He asked if I had a downstairs phone which I did and sounding panicked told me the police were on their way and not to go and get ds2 (I'd said I was going to) who was in his cot in another room.
When the police came it took them ages to get me to go and let them in as I was too terrified.
They could find no sign of a break in.
I took the kids to my mums.
Another night when boys were at my mums I went out and came home late. Went straight to bed.
The next day my boys wardrobes were in the middle of the room! Moved about 3feet from the wall where they stood.
My neighbour asked me later what the awful banging had been in my house the night before WHILE I WAS OUT ABD THE HOUSE EMPTY

SourSweets · 01/10/2013 16:17

Woah Ledkr, did you move house?!

Bootsy, it is amazing and terrifying what the mind is capable of! During the "episodes" I also get some sort of hyper vision, I can see every single thread in my bed sheets like they're being magnified, and that's quite cool. Every cloud and all that!

Ledkr · 01/10/2013 16:26

We actual did yes!
It wasn't like in films where you just carry on living. We slept downstairs sometimes all together or in my bed, a few times on the car and often went to my mums at 2am.
When I finished my nursing I bought a tiny 2up 2down and I will never forget the relief of our first night there where I just felt safe for the first time in ages.

loopylou6 · 01/10/2013 16:35

led and sour, TERRIFYING stories Shock

hamwidge · 01/10/2013 17:00

This will out me but I swear it's true.

My sisters were young teens and were looking forward to having a night alone when my parents were out at a party. They had sneaked a couple of my dad's beers and hidden them in a cupboard in their room. On the night they decided to make a Ouija board.

They scared themselves silly with it and threw it into the cupboard.

After they calmed down they opened the cupboard, the beer was gone and two Ouija letters N and O were in its place.

LittleMissGerardLouiseButler · 01/10/2013 17:46

I have some I will share later.

My favorites on here were one where a poster described going into a wood and finding an old school and playground and when they were on the swings everything went black and white. When they tried to find the clearing in the wood again with it, they couldn't.

Also one where a workman on a motorway followed a ghost car and found a car hidden in a ditch covered up which no one had discovered at the time.

phantomnamechanger · 01/10/2013 19:28

marking my place......

x2boys · 01/10/2013 20:21

I have one sadly a couple of days before my granddad went into a hospice to die my grandma had a massive stroke they were married for 56 yrs and she was to ill to attend his funeral anyway my granddad had a cancerous tumour on his neck in the hospice they put a bandage all around his neck and head and he wore glasses [at home he just had a bandage on the tumour. when we went to visit grandma at the hospital after the funeral she said the invisible man came to see me last night 70,s programme man bandaged around the head with glasses? Grandad would have been dead about a week then

mimsythemoocher · 01/10/2013 20:32

I’m a little Hmm about this one as it was probably just a massive coincidence, but here goes…

When I was little I used to spend the summers on a small Greek island where my Stepdad lived during the season. He owned a little seafront restaurant a few miles away from the nearest village. My sister was still just a toddler and shared a bed with my Mum and Stepdad, while I slept alone in a little room just off the kitchen.

Early one morning I woke to see a man walking across the foot of my bed. Red cloak, fringed helmet – a picture book Roman solider. It was like the bottom of my bed was an archway onto some ancient corridor, and he was only visible when passing it, if that makes sense.

Anyway, I thought it was the aftermath of a particularly vivid dream, and shrugged it off.

I got up and wandered through the empty restaurant. There had been a bad storm the night before and a few of the tables and chairs had upturned. Spotting my Stepdad on the other side of the road, looking down onto the beach, I went over to join him.

The storm had dragged all the sand from the beach to reveal what looked like the foundations of an entire village. My Stepdad looked very concerned. I asked him what the foundations were and he explained that they were Roman ruins. He was worried that archaeologists might see the ruins and close down his restaurant, which was built on top of the same ruins, which apparently ran right across the road. He had even built a ‘feature’ BBQ out of some of the stones!!!

Within a few days the sand had covered the ruins and the restaurant was saved. As for my Roman soldier, I never saw him again.

bootsycollins · 01/10/2013 22:10

Ledkr that's terrifying! Seriously. What did the police say about the situation?

Sour that fine tuned vision thing is sooooo weird

SourSweets · 01/10/2013 23:16

I wonder if they recorded that phonecall Ledkr... That's the making of a "including real footage" documentary right there!

1944girl · 02/10/2013 00:29

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ajandjjmum · 02/10/2013 12:52

That must have been hugely comforting for your sister 1944.

Ledkr · 02/10/2013 13:05

Dh is a copper and said he thinks they may keep old 999 calls yes.
It was about 24 yrs ago though but i can still temember the fear a d so can ds1 who is now 28

AgentZigzag · 02/10/2013 14:16

Thanks for the link to the urban myths thread crapping myself now

Nightmarish, even though they're blatantly not true.

Howling at the axe murdering jigsaw enthusiast replies Grin Grin

I wanted to be able to walk up the stairs in the dark tonight without thinking someone/thing was going to grab my leg, so I didn't click on any of the links to the stickman/slender man Grin

namechanging309 · 02/10/2013 14:26

DM and I were walking up the road the other day, chatting about something. Car went past and DM stared at it, completely silently. I asked her what was up and she said it was J. She said she was looking right at her, not facing the road, but completely blankly, no expression at all.

J died two years ago.

Scared us both!

LittleMissGerardLouiseButler · 02/10/2013 14:28

Thanks for the link to the urban legends thread, I blame you all for my nightmares!

My neighbour knocked on the door last night and I jumped a mile!

ProfondoRosso · 02/10/2013 14:42

Ho ho, a woo thread!

Will be delving into this with a big chocolate donut when DH goes out for his driving lesson this evening.