Tell me your creepiest story

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I was reading an article on Facebook the other day about children saying creepy things to their parents in relation to a 'past life' that they had remembered.
I'm not sure how much I believe if this but they're fun to read so I'd like to know your creepiest stories that made your hairs stand up and sent shivers down your spine at the time. Just for the sake of it

I'll start. I was bathing 2 of my children (aged 3&4 at the time) and I just popped into my bedroom next door to grab their towels. All of a sudden I heard screaming so I ran back in and you three year old was standing up begging me to get her out (this was unusual as she usually hates getting out the bath and wants to stay in longer) my 4 year old then said "she's scared" when I asked what she was scared of he pointed to the window and said "that man out there..... he looks very scarey"

They are probably still in the shop Oldsu and when you go in on Monday, turn the lights on, nip to the loo or make a coffee before turning the sign round to say 'Open' for the day they will probably creep out.

Or not.

I was about 7 and lived in an old Victorian terraced house (that was condemned and knocked down a few years later) and had an electric keyboard that I loved (it was the year princess Diana died and I was obsessed with Elton John singing candle in the wind )

I was lying in bed one night and was awoken by the sound of someone holding multiple keys down on the keyboard, it was sitting on top of my wardrobe and there was nothing near it, so so so scary 😭

I'm fascinated by this 'list' pp's have mentioned

Ok, true story and hopefully not to outing - when i was a 19 year old student in Southampton I shared a very old tudor house close to the Dell, (old football ground) it was next door to a pub - i've no idea if either the house or the pub are still there. My bed had a wooden headboard with a strange carving in it and one night i swear i woke up to see an old lady stood at the end of the bed looking at me. One day i was walking home and at the boundary between the pub and house i looked up at the window upstairs at the end of the hall to see what i think was a fairy (not the tinkerbell kind, more like a gargoyle) looking down at me.

I'm laying here in bed, right now, thinking about the lovely lady who lived in the house before us, and how she'd be upset with how untidy it is (very, at the minute) and a little tappity tap tap has started up on the ceiling. I've apologised.... Hopefully DP is coming to bed soon.... I'm really not that woo.... But there's always that superstitious streak that being a Celt gives you

The Left/Right Game is SO good! I'm on Part 5 and trying to read the rest while at work and hoping no one will notice!

Place marking as can't hit watch on app...

I have another one I've just remembered.
When I had my first DS I still lived at home with my family. I had just got him to sleep and put him down in his cot and went to have a bath downstairs.
I was in the bath for about 20 mins, then got out and was making a coffee in the kitchen when my sister came downstairs and her face went white. She said " how did you get down here?" I said "Ive been down here for ages, why?"
Sister replied " the baby is hysterically crying and I've just gone in to check on him and there was someone with long dark hair leaning over the cot, shushing him and rubbing his back. I thought it was you".
I ran up the stairs and sure enough DS was crying, and standing up in the cot, looking round the room and pointing at something. I just had the feeling someone was watching me.

This happened a couple of days ago. We have a small freestanding battery operated motion detector alarm in the shed to ‘protect’ the bikes. It’s a couple of years old and has only gone off once in that time (wasn’t a burglar, probably a mouse or something).

I noticed it wasn’t working and brought it indoors to replace the dead batteries. Tested it and it worked fine. Didn’t take it back to the shed as it was dark, tipping down and I was being lazy, so left it on the hall table, forgot about it and went up to bed.

About 2am, the alarm goes off. Scares the crap out of me, but I pull up my big girl pants (DH is away, typical) peek over the bannister but there’s no one lurking, so I check the doors, reset it and go back to bed.

Around an hour later, it goes off again! Down I go but this time I turn the detector part to face the wall, so it’s almost touching but not quite. Back to bed.

Wide awake trying to work out what on earth is going on but eventually nod off, only to be woken by the bloody thing screeching yet again.

This time, I remove the batteries and get some undisturbed sleep.
It was probably a very skinny spider running inbetween the detector and the wall, or something technical, I keep telling myself.

It’s back in the shed now and has been silent ever since.

I think I've told this before (but not on this thread). Years ago I was helping out with a Halloween event run by an organisation DH worked for. It was early evening and I'd made up and told a ghost story about the location. I'd asked some of the staff about the history of the site, and made my story about people who had lived there some hundred years earlier. The story was well-received by all, and we then got boots/coats on to go for a walk with bat detectors etc.
Standing in the car park people were testing the detectors before we got moving when I felt what I can only describe as a clip round the ear. Nobody was standing anywhere near enough to have touched me without my knowledge, and we were clear of any trees where bits might have fallen off.
I told DH who dismissed it as "some sort of tic or cramp" , but I've never before or after felt a stinging flick feeling like that on the top of my ear. I can only assume that the 'villain' in my story didn't take kindly to my making things up about him!

sashh

I always did wonder if my brother and sister were just playing pranks on me (a few years apart but I just assumed my brother had told my sister what he'd said them years before to scare me and she played along too) that was until DH said pretty much the same thing and the look of pure confusion and a little fear on his face. He didn't know about the other incidents until I had mentioned them after that day. I'm glad I'm not the only person who this has happened too lol just wish there was an explanation!

Soul

That's what I thought reading your post. Is it us? Is it a tie slip?

We moved flat, into the flat directly beneath. Our old flat remained empty for a while, pending renovations.

We were sitting in our new apartment, when we both distinctly heard a childs feet skip across the floor above us (i.e. in our old apartment). I am a little woo, my DH is totally non-woo. We both heard it distinctly, the floors above are wooden so this type of noise is very clear.

The first time, we kind of looked at each and shrugged it off. Then it kept happening. We knew the apartment was empty. Eventually, after another occurrence my DH went up to check (still had the key). He was sure there was a workman there or something but nothing at all - it was completely as we left it....

The building has a lot of history, so I always wonder... One time in that flat, the sound system came on in the middle of the night full blast (it didn't have any alarm settings). Another time a full glass of wine on a table next to me just shattered into tiny piece, untouched.

Essexmummy I am from Lancashire so nowhere near you but I used to work near a little village with lots of history and I remember my friend who actually lives in the village telling me that she woke in the night once to see a gargoyle type at the end of her bed! I've never heard anyone else say anything like that until I just read yours!

@YassQueen I'm so glad this thread has come back! I read the left right game after reading your suggestion - amazing!!!

Sorry, what is the left right game? I take it is a book? Will be searching for it on my kindle app

The Left Right Game is a story on Reddit. Someone linked to it up thread.

My DD was born in the early hours of the morning. Our hospital is an old building with the maternity wards in the original building dating back to 1796. DH left and I was still up at around 2am when a nurse came into my cubicle. She had a chat and fussed with DD, even holding her while I got comfy. She was tall, slim and had on the traditional nurses uniform with a hat. All nurses at in our hospitals have different shades of blue uniform and slightly different design tunics, depending on your job role. So I didn’t think anything of it. I asked her for some water and she disappeared. She never came back. Bit annoyed but found, after spending 4 days there, that this was common! Next morning I spoke to another nurse regarding checks as DD needed extra medical attention and mentioned she had been checked at around 2am after DH left. This wasnt possible as that nurse was the only one doing rounds at that time. I described the nurse that we spoke to and she had no idea who I was talking about. . Told DH later and he laughed it off as her either joking about not knowing them or me dreaming it. But I know what I saw.

** by “she disappeared” I mean she left, not puff of smoke disappeared :)

The Left Right Game is a story on Reddit. Someone linked to it up thread.

Whoever linked to the No Sleep subreddit is responsible for me getting NO work done this week!

Sock, that’s actually deeply disturbing in a non-supernatural way. A random woman wandering around the maternity ward in the middle of the night pretending to be a nurse? That gives me chills.

I get aural hallucinations as I go to sleep.
I’ll hear banging, shouting, car horns, all sorts.
That might explain the banging.

My dd (3)!told me the other night that the pretend children come in when it's dark and read her books. Then she said 'they're standing right behind you Mummy!' Eek!

I've just read the left right game and I'm a bit confused. Can someone explain it to me please?