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to start a new spooky thread even though it's the wrong time of year?

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SunkenDream · 09/07/2014 21:33

Mine is not terribly exciting but it seems only polite to make a contribution Grin

I live a few doors down from the house where I was born, very close to the village church. I grew up listening to the sound of the bells. When I moved back I was pleased to hear their familiar chimes again, until I discovered that the church had long been derelict and the clock stopped years ago.

Still, I continued to hear the bells nearly every night, until the church was finally demolished last year.

there is probably a completely rational explanation for what I was actually hearing but tonight I am living in the land of woo and whimsy

Anymore for anymore?

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WalkWithTheLonelyOnes · 09/07/2014 21:59

I promise the pasta is not a pop up screamer. It does make you feel strange though.

MrsWinnibago · 09/07/2014 22:00

Gorilla I COMMAND you to look up the history of that house and what was there before! Was it an old Celtic settlement or something!?

My own experience.

Living in a modern house built on top of an old workhouse....workhouse long gone but every evening I had the oddest feeling someone else was in the house. DD aged 3 complained of "ladies in the wall" which she told me had "pink headscarves" on and wrinkly brown faces.

She said they smiled at her...there were usually three of them and all she could see of them were their heads which "pushed out of the wall"

My DD was very articulate and all this info she gave herself. The ladies appeared that summer then went away again...they came back for two more summers and the year she turned 6 they never came.

I found that the land the house was built on was in fact the orchards of the workhouse. I wondered if the ladies had been inmates...maybe they spent a lot of time out there in the orchards hence their brown faces? Odd. She's 10 now my DD and still remembers them clearly.

needaholidaynow · 09/07/2014 22:05

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DioneTheDiabolist · 09/07/2014 22:07

I love a good scary thread.Grin

WalkWithTheLonelyOnes · 09/07/2014 22:17

I live in a tower block in city. In the 70s/80s it was a really rough place to live. All council flats. It's now owned by a HA. Some of the residents are from when it was first built and seem to know everyone/everything about the flats.

When we first moved in I always felt like I was being watched. We didn't have curtains and at night the living room window became a mirror and I would never look because I always felt like there was someone behind me. I was always the one to feel this, never DP. We found out that there was a man who lived here before us and died in the flat and it was weeks before anyone realised.

I used to put a sleep recorder app on at night. Most nights it would pic up 0-10 sounds but then every few nights it would pick up over 400 sounds.

I was in the kitchen cooking one day and I could hear someone stomping up and down the flat. Up the hall and through the lounge. I ended up on the floor with my back to the door begging DP to come home. He said I was being silly and he would stay on the phone while I checked. The second my hand touched the door handle the noise stopped.

When we were settled in we were watching tv. The hall light was on and was shining under the door. Out of the corner of my eye I saw what I thought was a big spider. I looked at the floor by the door and something was partially blocking the light. I stared at it and it went away, then came back, then went away. Someone was standing behind the door. DP jumped up to see who was in our home and there was no one there.

WalkWithTheLonelyOnes · 09/07/2014 22:18

Fuck that was long

pingufan · 09/07/2014 22:19

And this thread will keep you going for aaaages

forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1376448

DontstepontheMomeRaths · 09/07/2014 22:22

Lonelyones that's freaky. Has it stopped now?

CheckpointCharlie · 09/07/2014 22:24

Wow again walk that is super scary too. Are you still in that flat?

lolalotta · 09/07/2014 22:27

Squiggly that gave me goosebumps!

suitsyousir · 09/07/2014 22:29

When I was about 5 or 6 my younger brother and I were staying at my aunts sleeping a double bed. He was asleep and I saw the silhouette of a small, skinny looking old man walk past the slightly open bedroom door. scared the life out of me.

I mentioned it to my nan a few years later and she told me that she had nursed my aunt's grandad in the house and he died there a few years before I saw the silhouette. Turns out he was a short man, and due to having cancer was very skinny, matching the description of the silhouette I had seen.

WalkWithTheLonelyOnes · 09/07/2014 22:42

Yup I am still in the flat. Most days are fine. Some days I come home and I can feel me being watched. Sometimes it feels friendly and I chat along to "it" and other days it feels scary.

I've tried to include a screen cap of my sleep talk recorder. I've stopped using it because it really freaked me out

to start a new spooky thread even though it's the wrong time of year?
McFox · 09/07/2014 22:42

Goatman is not a story to read when you are home alone and DH is working 500 miles away!

MrsWinnibago · 09/07/2014 22:46

Walk does that App actually record the sounds? What's it for? So you can hear yourself talk in your sleep?

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RalphGnu · 09/07/2014 22:48

I read this yesterday which gave me the serious creeps.

WalkWithTheLonelyOnes · 09/07/2014 22:50

MrsWinnibago The app is designed to start recording when the mic picks up a sound. On normal nights it will pick up general sleep sounds, rolling over, snoring sleep talking but some nights it will pick up hundreds of sounds some of which I can't hear but the mic has picked up

Sparklypants · 09/07/2014 22:51

Walk....that's really creepy! I'd be scared shitless all the time!

WalkWithTheLonelyOnes · 09/07/2014 22:54

needa a lot of the time I couldn't hear what had been picked up. At first It hought it was too sensitive but it was the same everynight. We had a dresser in our room with a really flimsy plastic and metal chair. In one of the recordings it sounds like this is being dragged round the room. That might be due to my imagination though

MrsWinnibago · 09/07/2014 22:55

Oooh! Shock I've just downloaded it too Walk

Grin < that's a terrified grin!

Quokka1 · 09/07/2014 22:56

I kid you not, I got as far as the camping story & something tapped on the living room window 3 times! My heart has stopped & is racing now! I dared to look outside after a few mins, nothing was there except my cat sitting on the window sill so I'm telling myself it was her that tapped whilst wishing that a) I'd never click on this thread & b) my DH wasn't away on a course!

I'll not sleep now!!

Sparklypants · 09/07/2014 22:58

I will not read any of these scary links till it's daylight!

everythinghippie29 · 09/07/2014 23:00

Goatman has scared the crap out of me and now the baby monitor is crackling and I have to get out of bed and go check on LO but I'm too creeped out! I knew it was a bad idea to click on this thread!

repeats mantra whilst brandishing a ghost battering pillow i'm a goddamn adult

RalphGnu · 09/07/2014 23:01

Ok, I do not usually scare easily but for some reason tonight I'm feeling jittery and nearly cried reading the frigging goatman story.

Sparklypants · 09/07/2014 23:02

Baby monitors have always scared me. I'm convinced I'll hear voices or something.....too Many horror films!