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

[TheOrcHeadKeeper]

Anyone have any spooky stories or unexplained happenings?

I've done the urban legends thread, I've done the ghosting spooky one that was around in August, plus this one

I'm starting to panic this one is drying up AIBU

I think I've posted this before, but anyway...

The building where I did my undergrad degree used to be a morgue. It had a long, narrow lift (for stretchers) and nobody liked working late there. There was a subterranean corridor linking it to another building and one night the swing doors at either end of the corridor started swinging madly and bashing off the walls. This went on for ages, nobody could work out why. There was nothing on the CCTV. The backshift janitor called another janitor over from another building but neither of them could work out what was happening. Together, they went down to the basement to have a look around. They would pull the doors closed, but when they walked away, they'd start swinging again. In the end, they called the police. The police witnessed all of this, but found no cause. It was officially put in the report as 'unexplained disturbance,' apparently. Around dawn, the doors stopped and they haven't done it again. I heard all this from the jannies, who I was pally with.

Apparently some brave students working late dafties have seen a little girl at night in the basement!

Ok just had a YouTube video sent to me by a friend (soon to be ex-friend) - but I can't bloody link to it grrrrrr

So you will have to google -" Wingate Hotel Illinois ghost"
Your first return will be the YouTube clip I've just watched

BTW nothing jumps out at you on the screen

Someone kindly put a link on Facebook to a ghost in a hotel with screaming sounds, really creepy!

Think it's the sane one!

Yep that's it! And then a misty figure leaves the room

We live in a new build house, but weird stuff has happened. Within a few months of moving in, I heard a man's voice on the stairs (not DH, he was in the garden), and later the stereo switched itself off and then on again.

A beer bottle top slid across the work surface on its own; when DD and me were sitting downstairs, a beer bottle (yes, we drink too much) in the recycling box starting vibrating at a very rapid frequency.

I'd read stuff on here about asking it (not Pennywise, just an 'it') to stop and I did that and things are mostly ok. I still get freaked when the cat appears to look at things walking across the room. Stuff still moves around occasionally, I don't like it, but put up with it.

LEDKR. Fucking WHAT????? --why am I reading this in the dark late at night (under the covers)

Made myself paranoid reading this. Late night here and I finally convinced myself to get up to make a cuppa, made the dog come too. Left the kitchen and the dog sat in the doorway staring at something in the kitchen, thought she was watching the cat but then he walked up and sat next to her staring at the exact same spot. I distracted them, then 10 minutes later the dog is back staring at the exact same spot.

We lived in a new build when I was growing up and there used to be a grey figure that I would see. One day (midday) I saw him walk down the hall and in to one of the rooms. He wasn't scary at all but very odd.

Also we used to have a cat that would always comfort me when I was upset. After she died whenever I was upset in bed I would hear a purring coming from my closet, it was kind of comforting, the weird thing though was that it was not her purr she had a very distinct purr and it was far too normal for her. One day I told one of my friends about it and never heard it again. I still miss that purr.

I have been reading the urban legends thread and googled it and found this story, don't look if you have that fear about those pictures with holes!

urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_breast_larvae.htm

just (within the last hour) had this conversation with my 3 year old son
(he speaks Welsh and English and hasn't worked out yet to just use one at a time, so translations for the Welsh bits are in brackets)

"mammy, a bit crying"
"you're not crying!"
"noooooooooooo, upstairs."
"you're not going upstairs now"
"nooo, upstairs a crying"
"no-one's crying upstairs"
"yes, a boy a crying upstairs. a bit sad."
"oh?"
"yes. he trist (sad). a crio (and crying)."
"pwy (who)?"
"he SCARED, mammy!"
"aaah, there's nothing to be scared of, is there?"
"he scared. a trist.... no be scared, ok? iawn (ok)? oh! yn mynd nawr (going now)"

oh dear

Of fuck, LittleMissGerard, how I wish I could un-see that!!

Little miss. I reckon that's false as it didn't affect my cluster fear apart from slight itching.

After I'd been reading that fucking urban myths thread yesterday ebwy, 3 YO DD2 said she'd had a nightmare, that 'Daddy got run over by a lorry, and I was sad I couldn't sit on Daddy's knee any more '

Don't be bloody saying that!

Spooky kids scaring us... He's been waking up scared and pleading to sleep downstairs a lot lately

I went backpacking in the early nineties , beforehand, I went shopping and bought a fabulous scarf which I took with me. One day whilst driving, I noticed that my scarf had fallen out of my hair and was lost somewhere on the previous 30 miles of road. My friend and I commented frequently, throughout the following years travels ... 'that scarf would have gone lovely with that outfit ' yada yada yada ....
A year later I returned home in the October - it was cold and I immediately dug out my winter stuff I'd left behind.
Upon opening the suitcase lying on top was the scarf I'd lost whilst on holiday. I was freaked out - I'd bought it especially to take with me so there was no way I wouldn't of packed it. I remember wearing it a few times before it was lost - so did my friend...
I did manage to lose it again on my next holiday though - it ended up somewhere in Ibiza.

Is that the same one frizzcat mentioned Sole I am not clicking on the link to find out!!

Yeah, not scary at all, really.

More like utterly terrifying!

YABVU by the way as this thread is stopping me sleep!

Sole - you must be nails (hard as) that hotel ghost scared the bejesus out of me.....