To ask what's the weirdest/strangest/creepiest thing that has ever happened to you?

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As the title says...

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My mum felt spooked by what happened in our house but never actually believed it.
She honestly thought I had been abused or traumatised by something else and that's why I acted out.
When she heard from adults that they loved the house but couldn't have ever lived in that house because of the horrible feelings from it, that is when she realised I wasn't crazy.

I sometimes still feel a presence of someone around me. I honestly believe that spirits haunt people rather than places. So many times in my own house I feel someone following me and it scares me

My daughter once was looking at something and cried I asked her loads of times what was it and she said "the man the man looking"
This confimed that he was still around.

Sorry I meant frizzcat!!

Ah shit I'm afraid to move now

I used to hear voices singing, like angels, when I was young. Happened many, many times. Or was lovely. It would be at night and the sound would come from above, sort of in the sky near my house. I'd obviously be in bed but could hear it out there. There was no explanation for it. It wasn't from a radio or TV.

I heard a guitar being played beautifully on Christmas Eve night. I peeped downstairs but my parents were watching TV and neither play any instruments and the sound stopped. I received a lovely guitar from them for Christmas the next morning - but they definitely hadn't been playing it...

Angels, thinking of Angels, not thinking of old men smoking on wardrobes..... Love my floor to ceiling wardrobes

"Fru maybe it was some sort of top secret thing - and the Men in Black visited the folks who's garden it landed in hence no newspaper reports."

That's the only thing I can think of too, UnGoogleable, so it makes sense of a total media black-out. But there are two local internet forums which are both popular and busy - and I've not been able to find anything on them either. I can't possibly have been the only person to see it

I might add that the main road, with shops, bus routes, the mainline train station etc, is only a few minutes walk from me - and it seemed to be going along the route of the main road.

AprilSkies - I've just noticed you said you lived in York, a family member of mine lives just south of York and saw stealth bombers flying overhead one night. This would have been early 90s, I think it was around the time of the first gulf war. They had been rumoured to exist but at the time was denied by the govt I think. Lots about stealth aircraft online now of course! There are quite a few air bases around the York area with US military involvement...

puzzledandpissedoff - re your post of 17th about the photo of your mum in her coffin. You said it was your ex DH who shredded it for you. Has it turned up since you split from him? Could he have been pranking you, didn't shred it and left it in all those places?

Okay, just read on and realised you know fit certain the photo was shredded. Ignore me!

I wonder if he copied it... If he's an ex, could be possible that he was planning to be nasty.

I wonder if there were copied made and the dad hid them around as he felt it was comforting and thought she would too.

On a slight detour - my brother and a system went to see mun in the chapel of rest.

On the way out DB says to ds 'oh, she looked awful didn't she?' then the attendant piped up 'wull, she iz deed, isn't she?'. Which is exactly what mum would have said in the same circumstances (very dark sense of humour).

Slightly odd thing just happened to me. I was in my bedroom yesterday afternoon and heard beeping. I searched for it and discovered a Casio digital watch in my bedside drawer. It stopped beeping when I picked it up. I have never seen the watch before! I can't wear a watch because I'm allergic. So I mentioned it to my husband this morning and he said it goes off every day at 5pm (he works shifts and is sometimes in bed then). But when I checked, the alarm isn't set. Bit odd. I don't know where the watch has come from!

Similar to Kathy just a few days ago.
Grill was taking ages to heat up, so I'd left it on, with my sandwich under it whilst I checked on something in another room. Lost track of time.
Heard my fire alarm beeping (the noise it makes when the battery is running low), and went to investigate. My sandwich was perfectly toasted, sizzling under the grill. Went to change fire alarm battery to discover that there was nothing at all wrong with it. It's not beeped since and is working fine (tested it).

Couple of people have mentioned the Men in Black, I bought a book about the Men in Black when I was about 15 - the actual Men in Black, nothing to do with the film. It looked really interesting but I'll never know - started reading it alone, late at night and the first line said "The Men in Black could be watching you anywhere, any place - they could be in the corner of your room right now, watching you." So freaked out I shut the book and never picked it up again!

Fucks sake.

Reading this thread indoors on my own and our front door just gave out a MASSIVE crack. For no reason.

Little bit of wee came out.

A few things have happened to me but I am still 50/50 on the sceptic side.

I was half asleep and I heard a whisper in my ear saying "there is a spider on you" I jumped up and there was this little spider in my bed.
In the same house when I was half asleep I use to feel like this wind like feeling from my feet to my window. I never opened my eyes when this happened.
I use to hear footsteps upstairs and always feel like I was being watched in that house.

When I stayed in a women refuge me and another one of the women were watching a movie, in the middle of the day like 2pm and we saw the curtain tugged. There were no windows open or anything behind it, was completely random. In that house I felt like I was always watched as well.

I have had sleep paralysis a few times which is super creepy, even the other day I was half asleep and saw this black figure pointing aggressively for me to keep my head down and I said Go away and then I could get up

As a girl I had an old wind up gramophone under my bed that had belonged to my grandparents. It had to be wound up by a handle that was kept inside the carry case, then once wound up, you had to slide a small lever to set the turntable moving.
One Sunday afternoon I was doing my homework in my room when I heard this odd noise coming from underneath my bed, like a rythmic scraping sound. I went nearer and realised it was the sound the turntable on the bloody gramophone made!
It hadn't been wound up for years. I have no idea how the turntable inside a closed up carry case started to turn round, but it freaked me out!

A power ball also ended up being thrown down the stairs when no one was up there too. I say thrown, as it made quite a noise bouncing of the walls as it made its way down. I was downstairs watching tv with DM. Neither of us can explain it to this day.

Had a creepy experience in a graveyard (of all places 😊) when I saw a dark figure and also a horrible, dark feeling at a stone circle in Cumbria when I saw a number of dark hooded figures.

Stayed in the counting house of a dilapidated French chateau. Every night there was really loud banging and crashing in the kitchen - like someone was angrily slamming doors. Loud enough to wake us up and we are good sleepers. When we went down there was nothing there. Happened every night. Dh and my parents scoffed that I was scared but offered no credible explanation.

On the last night we heard fingernails scrape down the outside of the bedroom window. We were a high up first floor. I was glad to leave.

Stone circle has reminded me. Years ago we went to Cornwall on holiday and spent most of the time checking out stone circles. Some were pretty hard to get to, and quite a challenge to 'do'. There was one, I forget the name of it entirely, but it was right by the sea. We set off and as we got closer it got foggier and foggier - we're from the Vale of York where fog is default setting some winters, so totally unfazed by it, usually. But this got so bad you couldn't have seen your hand in front of your face. So it even surprised us.

We were driving down this tiny country lane, crawling along at about 1 MPH, thinking we'd never find this circle. Then stumbled on the sign for it.

The kids were all scared and wanted to stay in the car. So we left them whilst we went into the field. Literally the second we got to the circle, the fog lifted. Just enough for us to see round the circle and a bit beyond. We were shocked to see there was a steep cliff very nearby - we'd had no idea we were even that close to the sea. That's how bad visibility was.

Anyway, we walked round the circle where, there was no fog, had a good look round and then suddenly, the fog descended on us again. My husband who isn't remotely 'woo' in his conversation, despite having had a few paranormal experiences, just said "I think they want us to go now." Which was more shocking, coming from him, than anything. So we left.

It was the middle of the afternoon and that week with the hottest day in a century or something.

We were camping and one night whilst we were all in the tent, husband stayed in the car for ages. I thought he was just listening to the radio. After, he told me he had been 'frozen' in panic and fear - he thought there was something malevolent outside the car and he literally couldn't move from the spot. We teased him about the 'piskies' coming to get him for ages, afterwards.

We had another weird experience on that holiday, going to look at Madron Well. You have to walk through some woods (that look like Fangorn Forest - really creepy trees) for about ten minutes to get to the site of a pagan holy well. The trees and everything round is (or was, in those days) covered in ribbons and little offerings. It's a magical place. We went right through the wood and on a bit further, and in the deepest part of the wood saw this man, kind of hippy-looking, indeterminate middle age, Jesus beard, etc. He just caught our eye and smiled and nodded, kind of thing. He looked very peaceful. We just thought it was standard issue hippy and gave him no more thought.

IIRC there was only one path through this lengthy(ish) wood, or only one we could see. We turned round, eventually, and walked back out to the car park. And there was the man again, smiling and acknowledging us. We thought he couldn't possibly have got there without passing us in the wood, again, but we had passed nobody on our way back out...

i read this whole thread last night then at midnight was carrying sleeping 11mo dd upstairs and see the outline of a dog in the dark, just thinking i was about to be eaten by black shuck when i remember it's my brothers very new dog that i'm not used to yet! then i dreamt about an alien ted bundy so no more woo threads for me...

i've got a couple of spooky stories, once walking through a field in the dark when we hear thundering hooves coming up behind us, so we leg it a jump over the gate, turn on the torch and shine it across the field and theres no animal in sight...could have sworn there was a horse right behind us seconds before

pre-baby i used to go to parties under the arches of a railway going over a canal and it always freaked me right out, felt like we were being watched from the undergrowth and other arches but it was the place to be so i never said anything and it was alright if there was plenty of us there. one night i dreamt that my friends called me to see if i was coming out but i couldn't because i'd broken my arm, the following night i ask where a certain friend is and it turn out he'd broken his arm the night before climbing over the fence to get to this place! still feel a bit guilty about that!
recently someone killed themselves around there, the exact location isn't known but i've got a nasty feeling it was where we used to have parties :(

final one- i was walking through some woods i'd not been in before, on my own, and the path split in two, the new paths running pretty much parallel and i felt like someone was telling me to take the right path, my body felt physically more comfortable facing the right path so i took it and was looking left through the trees to where the other path was, and saw a grey hooded misty looking figure... never walked so fast out of those woods! maybe it was just someone in a grey hoodie stopping for a smoke but either way i'm glad i took the right path!

This thread hasn't made working late night in a supermarket much fun!!! I was on 4pm till midnight last night and there were only two of us in the building for the majority! I was very jumpy!
I've a few different ones.
Sleep paralysis wise I used to suffer a lot. The last one I had I remember thinking 'it's sleep paralysis, don't fight it, just relax' after a few minutes of deep breathing I came round enough to move.

Woo wise.. Dh and I had taken his niece with us to visit family friends of my dads side. Whilst I was taking her to the loo upstairs in the old farmhouse she says 'it's sad about the little girl,isn't it?' When I asked her which girl she said 'the little one that died.' She was only 3 or 4 and had no way of knowing that the family had lost a daughter at three years old. That one really spooked me.

When living and working away from home in a rescue centre my old foster dog was pts. For weeks after I used to hear his distinctive 'chuff/cough' and his tag rattling on his collar. One night I was crying in the dark and I felt his presence in the room as he lay down next to my bed.
Our last old dog came back after he passed and I heard his nails on the floorboards and his collar jangle.
Mum once stayed in a haunted house for a charity thing and set up tape recorders in different rooms. One recording you could hear them all chatting as they set up and left the room and the whole time there's a squeaking noise in the background. When they checked it later they moved the rocking chair that was in the bedroom. Same noise. Same night there was an almighty banging on the door as if someone was using the 'sanctuary knocker'. Mums group came running downstairs to see what was happening but no one in the room next to the front door had heard anything. Mum went to open one of the doors to check on the recorder and the handle was pulled away from her as if someone was in the room. No one was.

Lastly dh and I took our two dc to Edinburgh one year (to go see the pandas but they were off viewing on our day )
We decided to head round the castle and the girls loved looking at everything. At one point dh tells me that he went into part of the castle on his last visit that really spooked him. He wouldn't tell me where but wanted to see if I had any reaction. I assumed it would be the dungeons so carried on happily with our day.
Walks down a couple of steps into a room and BANG. It's as if someone has thrown a sopping wet, heavy cloak over me. I actually felt like I couldn't stand up straight. I've never felt anything like that before. I quickly read the inscription and I can't remember exactly but a few hundred people had basically died all crammed in together. Possibly starved. I shot out of the room without checking if dh and dcs were following . Dh found me outside in the sunshine trying to flick the 'cloak' off myself. I was actually flapping my hands over my shoulders to try and get it off me. It took ages for me to lose the sensation and the feeling of extreme dread.

Oh and it was the exact same spot that dh had felt it too.