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To ask for your creepy, unexplainable happenings

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Menarefrommarsitwouldseem · 06/02/2018 11:08

I know this type of thread has probably been done to death, but someone on fb shared a daily fail link yesterday about the creepy things children sometimes say. It got me thinking about strange goings on.

My eldest dd at about the age of 2 was sat playing in her room while I was putting washing away in my room. She suddenly started screaming so I ran in thinking she had hurt herself and she was wide eyed with fear. I asked her what was wrong and she said while pointing I should add " there's a man with black eyes and a hat holding a baby" Confused

I've never walked out of a room so quickly ( backwards I should add so I didn't have to see the man) my cat also used to refuse to enter that room at all. Lots of other little things when she was pre school age.

For myself I kept smelling "death" I work in a hospital environment and do believe death or pre death to be more specific has a certain smell.
I was still living at home and for about a week everytime I walked in the front door I could smell death. Hmm
I still remember DM face everytime I announced it. Ha.
Towards the end of the week the smell was so strong. That evening I had a dream that I was in bed fast asleep and the whole house started to shake. I got up and looked out or the window to see an aeroplane about 12 feet away with people screaming at the window getting closer towards a block of flats ( there are no flats nearby)
The next day was September 11th.
I remember watching the news and thinking FUCKING hell. The dream.
Weirdly enough after that happened the smell of death went too. It still weirds me out when I think about it.
I also dreamt about the London/Birmingham riots a few years nack 2 days before they kicked off.

Do you have any odd stories to share?

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LaurieF · 18/02/2018 19:19

@redbox my hubby looks at me like I'm crazy but DD (8) HAS told me she regularly sees him too x

tothesea · 18/02/2018 19:48

Not really woo but a strange coincidence nonetheless. When I was pregnant with DS1 I kept having really vivid dreams. In one of them I was reversing into my parents drive (I don’t drive in RL) and I ran over our adored family dog (long dead) . I was distraught and held his head while he died, he gave me a last loving look as if he had forgiven me. As I looked round my Dad was leading my sobbing Mum into the house.
This dog was a huge part of our lives but in RL he died of old age. We were all so upset and my folks never got another dog.
When I woke up I had tears streaming down my face and thought it was so odd to dream about him in that way when he had been dead about 10 years.
Anyway I told my Mum all about it and she went quiet...then told me when she was pregnant with me she was reversing out of their drive and had run down their much loved dog!! And she said my Dad had to lead her into the house she was crying so hard! Such a coincidence.
Love these threads!

MrsStinkey · 18/02/2018 23:44

@GraveorExtension I'm still here and fine! Luckily it happen to me in the daytime when nothing else remotely creepy was going on!

SukiTheDog · 20/02/2018 09:33

@ToTheSea 😐

Nakedavenger74 · 20/02/2018 10:00

@sashh both me and my DH do this and have done before we met. I've asked loads of people and I reckon 50% of the population do it!

MerryShitmas · 20/02/2018 10:27

My grandad died before I met him (I was just days old and my mum lived 60 miles away).
I was having really troubled thoughts about a big decision (emigrating) a few weeks before the flight. I was very much swinging towards not going.
I had a dream there was a man sat at the end of my bed. I didn't feel scared and we spoke for a while. He told me to go and that I wasn't safe here. So, on April 10th I flew out of London and completed the journey.
A week later the "local" (to where I previously lived) police got in touch with my mother then with me (they didn't have my new contact details). They wanted to ask me questions because 2 days after I left someone poured an accelerant (alcohol, I believe) through my letter box and set it alight. It was a rented flat, top floor and thankfully nobody was hurt but I was told it caused £17,000 of damage. I suspect I know who did it but there was never any conclusive proof.

ItsNiceItsDifferentItsUnusual · 20/02/2018 11:59

Blimey shitmas! Out of (nosey) interest, was the person who you thought was responsible, a reason for you emigrating?

DinoBen83 · 20/02/2018 13:26

My brother in law and his wife moved from Aberdeen to Glasgow last year - they bought an old house in a little village outside the city from an old lady who'd lived there with her husband although he died a few years previously.
When they moved in they shoved some boxes on top of a wardrobe and eventually went to empty them a few weeks later. The boxes were sellotaped and when they opened one they found some black and white photographs of people all dressed up for a wedding, including the bride, standing in front of the house. They think its the husband and he just wanted them to see who lived there previously. So a nice ghost story really instead of freaky - they got in touch with the lady through the solicitors and gave her back the photos.

MerryShitmas · 20/02/2018 15:01

ItsNiceItsDifferentItsUnusual
Not really, no. It was a minor consideration in that it was an additional good thing but not something I'd even really thought of.
I didn't believe myself to be at all unsafe as I hadn't seen the person for 5/6 years and lived a reasonable distance from where I'd last known them to live. I certainly wouldn't have expected my flat going up in flames and I'm very glad we weren't there - as it's a flat (top floor) the only way out (without going splat) was the front door, where the fire was started. I dread to think what would've happened.

ItsNiceItsDifferentItsUnusual · 20/02/2018 19:01

That's terrifying shitmas. So pleased it worked out for the best.

LaurieF · 21/02/2018 06:29

Just remembered another! My mum was given one of those little metal calendars if anyone can remember them, you had cards in them that you changed each day to show the date?
Me and my sister were very young at the time. Anyway it kept being changed to a specific date say 25th March, my mum would change it back to the correct date and the next day it would be back to 25th March. She just thought it was one of us messing around.
Eventually a friend suggested she put it in a high up cupboard that we wouldn't be able to reach. She hid it away, went back to it a few days later and yes you guessed it, changed to 25th March!

LaurieF · 21/02/2018 06:29

15th not 25th!!!!! Fat fingers...

cablewable · 01/03/2018 12:51

My daughter(4) drew this the other day. The 3 girls are my daughter and her sisters. And then there is the mystery girl 😳

To ask for your creepy, unexplainable happenings
Backscratchesforever · 02/03/2018 12:45

I have had a lot of weird things happen. So this is going to be a long one! I’ll try and do them in order.

In my very old childhood home I used to always see a white small breed dog in the corner of my eye. We only had a huge dog. My mum, Dad and I used to see a small boy around 6 run up and down the hallway through the glass door too, it scared them so much they changed to a solid door.

The day my GGM died (I was 11) it was really sunny, the glow of the sun was so warm on my skin, it felt like she was with us. (There is a point to this later)

I have noticed that I will suddenly become interested in a celeb, I will look into them online etc.
Quite a few times (6+) weeks later, I’ll just get this feeling of sadness and guilt, I’ll go online and they will have died. Every time this has happened it is really sunny, not a cloud in the sky. I can’t explain it, but it just calms my feelings of guilt. It feels like they have moved on to a better place.

This happened with 9/11 too, the weather was amazing and I felt they had all gone somewhere better. I felt very connected to them, and their loss, even though I know no one that sadly lost their lives that day.

I also get built up anxiety before big catastrophic events. It will build up over about a week, I’ll keep checking the news and I will feel dark, it will become so bad I can’t leave the house. Then it happens. Manchester, London, Florida shooting to name a few. The anxiety then goes. It’s horrible.

I knew all the sexes of my children before I had them. I would even tell the sonographer I already knew but dp wanted to know and didn’t believe me.

I had a dream about my first baby, the sex and what they looked like. I was pushing the pram on to a bus and I saw their face. In my dream I went to the city centre nearly 4 miles from my area. But before I get there I just know a bomb has gone off, and then I hear it. I go back and my brother was killed in the blast.

My dream was 100% right about the sex and description of my baby. I’m terrified now of losing my brother, in that horrible way, he still lives in that area.

I also dreamt the sex and description of my last baby, and it was 100% right.

I also have a pregnancy radar.

My ex raped me, so I don’t know if that is linked to this. But I feel I can sense by meeting or looking at people if they are a rapist or peadophile. I knew years before that Rolf Harris was dodgey, I would tell people and they wouldn’t believe me. Other people too, but I don’t want to get sued so I won’t mention them.

Both my wedding bands from this marriage and my last have gone missing. When I was with my ex a psychic told me that I had someone unrelated to me with me, and he took it to protect me and tell me to get away from my ex. When I left him I found it in the house in a random place when packing up.

My dp now is a great guy, so I don’t know why my ring has disappeared this time. But it’s beeb gone for a year and I have hunted high and low.

Before Christmas I brought an old doll on eBay, hell knows why I hate them. She has 3 faces, totally creepy thing. I can’t sense she only likes one side, so I always live her on that face. We’ve heard scratching in the walls, stairs creeking, and just a presence. If I walk down my hallway and the toilet door is ajar I can feel someone in there looking at me. My 3rd dc has had terrible nightmares since this doll arrived, I salted dc door threshold and it stopped. Hoovered it up and it started again! I need to rehome the doll but every time I go to I can’t. So she is sat on a bible lol.

Last thing is terrifying, so much so I can no longer watch horror movies, shows or anything like that. I have to sleep with a night light now.

I have a chronic condition, and nye I was feeling like death, so my dp kindly slept in the spare bed.
I had left these blue led fairy lights on, and the door was shut to, but not shut properly, incase one of the children needed me.

I woke up in the middle of the night, and I saw the door open approx 7inches. I saw three figures slide in, I thought it was some of my dc, they were about the same height but they were the wrong frame... very skinny, no hair just round head shaped heads.
They looked black, but were covered in tiny static that moved like on old TVs. Two crawled on to the bed, either side of me, and the bed dipped! I felt the duvet sheets and heard them moving. The other stayed at the foot on my bed. I looked up and some huge spider looking thing was on the ceiling, and I mean huge! Easily 2/5 of the ceiling was covered by its body, not including its legs reaching out!

I couldn’t move, I tried to so much but I couldn’t, I couldn’t even scream. And they just sat there staring at me, really getting a good bloody luck, probably for a good minute!

Finally I could just move arm, but it was like... you know when you play tug of war and someone lets go? Like my arm had been catapulted, I grabbed my phone and put on the light, they were gone! So I turned it off and they were there again!!!! So I turned it back on got up and put the big light on! I told my dp the next morning and he believed me, which is very unlike him. He said a few days later that I was that scared he finally believed all my woo-y stuff!

Nothing since has happened like that, thank God!

Backscratchesforever · 02/03/2018 12:53

Oh when I was younger (7ish) I told me friend I had a ghost in my room, I can picture his face and I called him milky, cause of his colour. I don’t know if it was my imagination, but I do think it was the NDN who died when I was 5, I remember him looking like him. He always used to give us toffees when we popped round with my mum, she would hate him for it because it was before School. So I can picture him.

A few years later we went to Wales on holiday, and we went to a car boot sale. I had walked off from my parents and was getting a bit upset. And a man walked up to me and said “Hi backscratchesforever” how are you? This way, and I followed him up the aisle, I knew I shouldn’t go with strangers but he didn’t feel like a danger. He felt familiar. I found my dad and the man just wasn’t there anymore!
I still believe he lead me back to my dad, maybe he is the wedding ring thief?

Backscratchesforever · 02/03/2018 12:54

Poor quotation usage, sorry! Snow day and I’m distracted

TitaniasCloset · 02/03/2018 13:01

Back scratches I see the spiders on the ceiling too.

Backscratchesforever · 02/03/2018 13:21

Closet, really?! I wonder why.

Do you have a spider phobia? I don’t, but I am not keen on them. Moths I have a fully fledged phobia of.

TitaniasCloset · 02/03/2018 13:25

I do have a phobia, don't like spiders.

It tends to be when I wake myself up suddenly after a bad dream, I see these grey spider like squiggly things bigger than dinner plates, sometimes much bigger, , scurrying across the ceiling then they disappear in the corner, then I wake up fully.

I have told myself they are like the sandman, they bring me my bad dreams. Yeah I know I'm a bit odd!

TitaniasCloset · 02/03/2018 13:27

I also think they might be the pets of jinn. Really!

But someone rational would just say I'm still half asleep and it's an hallucination.

mamahanji · 02/03/2018 13:32

I get the ceiling and wall spiders too all the time. I'm not especially scared of spiders either. I will pick one up and take it outside so I'm not sure why I see massive spiders most nights.

TitaniasCloset · 02/03/2018 13:36

See? It's jinn!

I am amazed anyone else gets this though, thought I was the only one. Good to know.

Do yours turn up when you have had bad dreams?

FlatKraken · 02/03/2018 13:44

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mamahanji · 02/03/2018 14:18

I pretty much only have bad dreams 😂. I also hallucinate a lot and am semi awake so I jump up to catch the spiders of the massive hands floating over my face. I never thought of them as anything supernatural, I always assumed it was my semi-conscious dreaming but awake.

It's going to be a lot scarier tonight. They're always negative aswell. I remember once there was a noose hanging over my bed directly above my head but it was made of really thick metal chains and I whacked it I swear I felt cold metal. And once there was a skull that floated in the room and over my head bit as soon as I sat up, it whooshed out the room.

Not once did it occur to me that it was supernatural! My sister who is a devout Christian told me just before I had my worst breakdown, that i felt like I was being attacked. She said she could feel the devil pressing in on me trying to break in. That was before anyone knew I was struggling and about to have a mental breakdown!

I've sort of scared myself now...

IJustLostIt · 02/03/2018 14:32

Several years ago, DP got a call from his twin sister. Had a normal conversation until she said "I can smell something burning".

Her DP went to investigate and couldn't find anything. It was forgotten about and they carried on chatting. DP passed the phone to me while he went upstairs to fetch something and found his belt on the floor, in the middle of the room, on fire.

Nothing else was alight, nor was there anything nearby that could have caused it.

His twin also lived 300+ miles away at the time. Freaks, both of them Grin