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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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DontstepontheMomeRaths · 09/07/2014 23:04

Goatman didn't bother me when I read it. It just seemed too fake.

I'm loving the stories on the thread though.

Quokka1 · 09/07/2014 23:05

My DD who is usually a fairly silent sleeper is murmuring a lot to herself tonight which I can hear through the baby monitor next to me... Why oh why did I click on this thread?! (And I didn't even read half of the scary stories!!)

SquigglySquid · 09/07/2014 23:08

Goatman didn't bother me when I read it. It just seemed too fake.

All ghost stories are fake. You just have to allow yourself to slip into suspension of disbelief to enjoy them for what they are. I liked the goatman because of how unique it is. There's a couple other stories I like, I'm digging around to find them. :)

Pipbin · 09/07/2014 23:08

I love this one which was doing the rounds a while ago:

"I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody on my bed.”

MrsWinnibago · 09/07/2014 23:09

Oh that's a horrible one line story Pipbin I've heard it before but it always makes me shiver.

TheWorldAccordingToJC · 09/07/2014 23:10

Well thanks a million pip!

MrsWinnibago · 09/07/2014 23:10

I think we need a scared emoticon.

Something frightened looking...with eyebrows like / \ that.
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MrsWinnibago · 09/07/2014 23:11

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StormyLovesOdd · 09/07/2014 23:11

Last Tuesday I caught the train home from work, was reading my book and out of the corner of my eye I saw a fluffy white feather drifting down towards me, it was about 2 inches long so pretty big. I looked up and clearly saw it, put my book down to catch it and it disappeared.

Twenty minutes later at home, I walked straight into my kitchen and right in the middle of my kitchen floor was a big old fashioned penny, the ones that went out of circulation in 1970. I did not have anything like this in my house and I have no idea where it has come from, my DH has never seen it before.

My Nan (who died 17 years ago) used to believe in angels (the feather?) and she had a collection of old coins I often used to play with as a child. I think Nan is letting me know she is around. Smile

DontstepontheMomeRaths · 09/07/2014 23:11

Ok I'm suspending disbelief in readiness for the next story Grin

SquigglySquid · 09/07/2014 23:12

Some of my favorite creepy pasta classics:

The keyhole
Normal Porn for Normal People
Russian Sleep Experiment

WalkWithTheLonelyOnes · 09/07/2014 23:14

squiggly are you me? I love those ones.

Ujjayi · 09/07/2014 23:22

The Facebook story was sad rather than scary.

Pipbin - that's horrid. I have such an awful mental image of that scenario.

When we bought our last house we never met the vendors as they had relocated overseas. The day we moved in I had this overwhelming sense of being watched by a little boy. As the weeks passed I would sense him near me - it felt very calm but he did seem confused about why I was there. I should clarify that this was all a feeling - I didn't see anything.

I eventually told DH (who thinks I'm bonkers & smiles & nods to placate me Grin). And then one day I was chatting with a neighbour who told me that the previous owners were coming back to the UK to visit their son's grave...he had died aged 4. Obviously I didn't say anything about my experience as didn't want new neighbour thinking I was a bit "woo"!

So I began to talk to the boy & on the advice of another friend told him it was safe for him to leave. I haven't felt his presence since.

RalphGnu · 09/07/2014 23:22

Here's one of my own:

This is from when I lived with my foster mum, just me and her. She used to leave for work at about 7:30 and I went off for the school bus at about 8.

I got home before her and went upstairs to get changed and found in the middle of my duvet a paper aeroplane. Just a small one, made from plain white paper. No idea where it came from but I reasoned the cat must've found it somewhere and brought it upstairs. Except then I remembered that the cat had been out all day as I'd let him in when I'd got home from school.

My foster mum came home and I asked her if she'd been home at lunchtime and left it there and she said it must've been one of the ones I'd made the week before that had somehow got on my bed. But I hadn't been making any planes and she sort of went a bit white and said she'd found a small white paper aeroplane on top of the tv and in her bed.

We didn't get any more but it was just such a weird thing to happen.

Ujjayi · 09/07/2014 23:24

Stormy - that's lovely Smile. I often wish my lovely nan would send me a msg. She passed 14 years ago.

ClashCityRocker · 09/07/2014 23:24

Ooh I'm sat in bed absolutely terrified! Took me a moment to get that first one squiggly!

misstiredbuthappy · 09/07/2014 23:24

Im going to read these in the morning I wanna sleep tonight :)

Bifauxnen · 09/07/2014 23:34

yay! scary thread! love the ds thread, it kept me going for days when it was posted here before.

for the gamers: www.juonthegrudgegame.com/

www.sinthaistudio.com/thehouse/

Meid · 09/07/2014 23:37

Visiting DH's family last Christmas it seems I saw the ghost of my FIL (who had passed away before I met DH).

It was a very quick sighting, like a flash, but a man stood beside me and I could clearly make out what he was wearing and his height, but not his face. It was very close to me and also made me jump.
I found out later that DH's nephew sees him regularly and he was able to describe to me an accurate description of what I saw and where. He also asked me if the dogs were barking. They were although I hadn't connected it with my ghost sighting. He said when he hears the dogs bark for no obvious reason he usually has one of his sightings shortly afterwards.

Freaked me out, hope it doesn't happen when we visit again.

Groovester · 09/07/2014 23:40

Seriously spooked now

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Pipbin · 09/07/2014 23:42

Just went to get ready for bed and draw the bedroom curtains and there is an old man stood over the road staring at my house!!
Then his dog comes along and it all makes sense.

I have some real life stuff I'll share tomorrow when I have time.

juneybean · 09/07/2014 23:46

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juneybean · 09/07/2014 23:49

Oops in my panic I managed to accidentally post! I have a love hate relationship with these threads!

shockinglybadteacher · 09/07/2014 23:53

I only ever had one spooky experience but that was one too many really :)

I was a kid and my parents had taken me and my siblings to stay in a hotel for our holidays down South (I won't be exact as to the part). When we got there at reception they were cracking jokes about how we were nearly put into room 13, but they'd changed it to 11. When we walked up the stairs I wished they had kept the original booking. I'm not a fanciful person and wasn't even as a child, but I had the sense something was looking at me from behind the door of 11. I felt like it could see me but I couldn't see it, and it was watchful, and it was malevolent. I didn't want to go in, but my mum laughed at me being "overtired".

When we got into the room everything just seemed normal, but it had been a long day and we were all asleep and in bed by 10pm. Suddenly something woke me and made me get up. It pulled me horridly and I couldn't wake or resist. I went sideways past my sleeping parents and to the window and then I had to look out of the window, because whatever it was wouldn't let me not. I saw a fire, a huge fire in the street outside the house, with people burning in it and opening their mouths as if crying out in pain, but everything was silent. I tried to turn my head to look at the thing which was holding me in position. There were two of them, they were there and not there and their eyes were red. At that point I woke up screaming.

So, maybe a bad dream, except for one thing. When my parents got to me I said to them "It's 4.22 in the morning, they took me past the clock". My dad had a clock next to his bed, but from where I was sleeping, I couldn't even see the clock far less read the time. I was right.

DontstepontheMomeRaths · 09/07/2014 23:59

That's scary bad teacher. Did you research the area for house fires in the past?