To ask for your creepy, unexplainable happenings

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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"

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.
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?

@SharonMott I'm gonna have to give that a miss I'm sooo easily spooked! I'd genuinely never sleep

😱😱 just had a quick read on the nurses site 😱😱

When I was younger I heard an air raid siren for the first time (think world war bomb siren) and for the first time ever I had a panic attack and was filled with so much sadness it hurt.
I couldn't explain it, I would've been to young to hear the horrors of the world wars or even what those sirens meant but even now if I hear them it reduces me to tears.
I believe it was from my past life

I absolutely freeze with fear near drops which mainly involve water e.g. Harbours but even if we are no where near the edge I get very nervous even more so when I am with children. To the point of being unreasonable. I believe in a past life I drowned or fell into water.
I am not scared of swimming though.

When I was little, my DGPs used to live in a village several miles away from us. We'd drive over to visit them pretty often, the road was, in places, unlit, narrow & steep. We live in a fairly hilly area.
One winter's night when I was about 5 y/o, we were driving home, I was suddenly overcome by a feeling of absolute terror. No particular reason for it; although the road was dark, there was enough moonlight to see out, & I knew every bit of the way home.
My dad slowed down, & stopped the car as he was concerned (I was generally a very quiet child) & my mum had just turned to tell me off when a car with no lights on shot round the blind corner a few metres ahead of us, skidded, & carried on. My dad quietly said it was a good thing he'd stopped, or we'd likely have been rammed off the road & straight down the very long, steep hill to the side. My mum hissed at him to shut up & we drove the rest of the way home in silence.

Another one - this one is nice. When DH & I started going out, he lived with his parents. I'd stayed over one night. I went to the loo one night, in the dark. There was a cat sitting on the cistern & it frightened the life out of me by patting my shoulder as I was doing a wee. I told DH (then DP) when I went back to his room, he just sniggered. In the morning we were chatting & & he mentioned it to his mum, she said something like "you too, eh", & gave me a weird look, & they all laughed. Turns out, the cat had died about 2 years previously, but it used to sit on the cistern & pat people on the shoulder. I wasn't the first visitor to report a ghostly visit from it either. But it would only pat people it liked.

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@Jozxyqk
That last story!!😂❤️
At least you got the seal of approval from the cat😂

Oh God, the nurses stories 🤤🤤🤤🤤 the one about the black evil thing standing over the dead patients 😱😱😨😨

when I was about 7 I wrote a story about a boy walking the streets of a city looking for his lost cat. I could see the scene vividly: the buildings around him were all bombed, and he was an orphan, and the cat was all he had. I described everything I saw.

My teacher freaked out, called me a copycat and asked me to tell the truth about which book I'd stolen the story from. I remember sobbing while she took books off the bookshelves and said is it this one? is it this one? This was pre-internet. Of course she couldn't find it, because it was my story.

kids. pfft.

@cablewable could be vertigo - yours is a very normal reaction to those kind of environments

@ItLooksABitOff I had similar from my English teacher at senior school. She told me my story wasn't as good as the movie. I had no idea what she was on about! She gave me a C for plagiarism l!!!

I didn't find most of the nurses' stories too scary tbh - but there were a few. The one of the cancer patient who was vile and nasty to everyone in life, screaming 'I'm burning, I'm burning' as she died .. and the black shapes, figures, spirits hovering over beds and waiting to take people's souls away and dying patients screaming 'don't let them take me'. Shudder!

If all that is true then it kind of points to the existence of Heaven and Hell ... and where you go if you aren't a good person in life.

One of the nurses put up a link to a site about near death experience and I went and read a few of those. All seemed to have very pleasant experiences of joy, peace etc - so that's a bit more encouraging!

I do have another one. This really creeped me out when it happened.

When I was about 13, I had a really vivid, surreal, & confusing nightmare one night. It was dark, but there were lights in the distance, & screaming, & I couldn't stand up. I couldn't breathe, I kept coughing - my lungs hurt, so I assumed that I was having an asthma attack & somehow still partly asleep. Eventually I woke up, realised it was just a dream, calmed down, & eventually went back to sleep. The next day, I heard that a ferry had sunk that night, with over 800 people lost.

Ever since I was quite young - about 6 or 7 - I've known I was a bit different. I always felt grey, flat, or angry for no good reason. Often very unstable emotionally. When I was 12 I was diagnosed with depression. I realised when I was about 20 that the periods of the worst depression would always coincide with incidents like this. I've mostly been better for the past decade, & haven't had any more incidents. I hope I stay better, it's horrible & unsettling. There were numerous other little incidents too, but that was the one that sticks in my memory the most.

Tafftum - I know! I saw the cat around a few more times after that, but not recently. And then I always used to be on the lookout for it... vanished!

I'm going back to read the thread now. Or maybe tomorrow.... why do I always discover these things at bedtime?

I'm a nurse and several years ago, worked in a nursing home on nights.

One of the clients, an elderly gentleman, was in hospital. As was protocol, his room was locked whilst he was away. His call bell went off in the wee small hours, and I suddenly thought 'oh God, Mr X has been discharged from hospital and the day staff forgot to tell us.' Went to his room, door still locked, call bell still ringing. I unlocked the door, muted the bell, went back to the office, and the phone rang. It was the hospital telling me he'd just passed away.

So was it him saying goodbye? Or just a faulty call bell?

@Emmageddon I had a friend who works in a care home and told me something similar happened to her! She was on the night shift and they had an empty room after one of the people in their care had died. This was a week or so after he'd passed too.. she was in the staff room and the call bell for his room kept going off. Scary! I'd have been straight out of the door!

@Emmageddon she also told me another story and I cant remember if it happened on the same night but a person she cared for died and she got on really well with him. She went to leave after her shift and the fire alarm went off, all doors locked. Fire department came, no fire. Everytime she announced she was leaving the fire alarm went off causing the brigade to come out, until her colleagues ended up saying "stop announcing youre going, just walk out"
Not sure how true it is but she told me and it creeped me out! I'm such a wuss!

My mother was in a nursing home as she'd had several strokes and could no longer be cared for at home. We knew she was dying and I had come home but this was into the second week. The home had my mobile number as my father was extremely deaf.

I woke in the night for some reason and checked my mobile but nothing. I heard my father moving around on the floor below, going to the bathroom and assumed he had woken me. A few minutes later the call came. I went downstairs to my dad's room and he just said 'she's gone, hasn't she?'. He'd been woken by a tap on his hip and had put the light on, thinking my cat had come down to visit him but the room was empty so he decided to go to the bathroom.

After the funeral, until Dad died six months later, Mum was around on a regular basis. She would prod him in the back when she thought he was being lazy in bed, slam doors when he refused to go into hospital, and leave perfect impressions of a head on the pillow on her side of the bed, across an untouched sheet. I'm a bit hurt that she doesn't visit me.

I've had things moved around on a reasonably regular basis in every house I've lived in, including things being left on top of a pile of papers where there had been nothing two hours previously. I heard my cat meowing in my bedroom door one morning only he had died the previous day and there was no other animal in the house.

I used to work in a police building that was known by everyone to be haunted and it was taken for granted though it used to freak some of the senior officers out because it was mainly their floor. I once saw someone walk into an office out of the corner of my eye and followed them in, only for it to be empty and no way out.

Dad was rather woo too but I'll save his stories for later. There was another story I meant to tell but it's gone out of my head now

I posted under my old username but it's so weird I feel I have to post again:

Lived in previous house for 3 years, didn't pick up any atmosphere when we viewed it but it was a bit of a last-minute thing as the landlady of intended home let us down. Never felt at home there, weird atmosphere, always felt was being watched. Often had a sense of dread for no reason.
Things would go missing and then reappear randomly in somewhere completely different - I remember taking 2 lipsticks and putting them in my make-up draw. When I went to get them, one of them wasn't there. It reappeared a year later in the bathroom, in a basket I regularly used to keep shampoos etc in.
Frequently had nightmares and night terrors in the house. On occasions, me and DH both woke up to see a black figure floating above us. It looked like a death-eater from Harry Potter. We both thought we had been dreaming till we compared notes!
Worst thing was when I came home to find a studio family portrait of a family (man, woman, toddler) on the floor in the doorway of our bedroom. The woman and baby's heads had been torn off and were lying next to it. Neither myself nor DH knew the people in the photo or had any idea how it got there. Was extra freaked as boy in the photo was same age as my DC was!
So glad to have moved out of that horrible place!

I always find with these threads that the page doesn't load properly and posters talk about threads I can't see! Or there'll be a post on the page I haven't read, inbetween two I have already read.

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The best story i have readon here was a bout a woman who used to go to a disco.I think the poster was SundaySimon.God it was well creepy

Couple years ago me and my dh were visiting his grandparents and when we were leaving and I said his grandmother good bye in my head flash voice saying "This is the last time you see her alive." And that was truth, she passed away shortly and I never seen her again. Same thing happened to me with my grandfather, but at that time the voice said "You'll not see him again anymore." And I really didn't.

Years ago when I was a baby my family was staying with my grandparents for a few weeks before we moved into our new house. My grandparents were having their house decorated at the time. My mum couldn’t put her finger on what it was but she felt incredibly uneasy around the decorator and felt bad about it as he was perfectly nice and had no reason to feel like that. She made sure she and i were never alone with him and went out of the house even if she didn’t need to to avoid being alone with him. A few months later he was arresting for having raped and murdered a random woman.

I get the same intuitive feelings that someone is dangerous or malevolent. Everyone loved my sisters new boyfriend and I instantly disliked him, knew there was something bad about him, like he had a bad aura about him. No reason to think this at all. He was on the surface charming, friendly, loving etc but he became very abusive physically and mentally to her. I was the only one able to see it in him and he had the rest of my family and her friends fooled. Thankfully she is out of that relationship now.

Oh my god hollowtree!!! I could have written that! Forever being called Rachel (teachers, clients.. people I have known for years)I think Dh thought I was imagining things until it happened in front of him recently! Most odd....

Like you, my name is nothing like Rachel, not even close.
Don't want to pry but am desperate to know if we share a name and there could be a possible link via that? Does your name start with a 'C'?