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"

I hope so. He wasn't afraid of dying.

I was a holiday nannying one year. I was in the hotel overlooking the beach and the little boy, who was about 4 I think, told me 'I used to go surfing when I was a man'. Of course that could easily be attributed to a vivid imagination, but nobody in his family surfed and it wasn't a 'surfing' beach, so I'm not sure what triggered it.

Ds’s toy turned on by itself. I got shock of my life but even more of a shock when I realised there was no batteries in it.... I can only think there was some sort of surge of power left in it (well that’s what my rational mind wants to believe)

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I'm not really into "woo", but I have told this before on similar threads - when DH and I lived in a 2 bed apartment, his parents came to stay. We gave them our double bed and we slept in the bunk beds in the little room.

In the night, my father in law crept in and stood hesitantly in front of the bunk beds for what seemed like ages, in a dressing gown. I'm a light sleeper so I half woke up when he walked in - I waited for him to say what he needed (I thought he was looking for headache pills, or a clean glass or something) but he didn't speak and I was comfy and sleepy so I dozed off again.

The next day I asked him if he'd sorted out whatever he was looking for in the night, but he had no idea what I was talking about - he hadn't been in the room where we were sleeping, and he didn't have a dressing gown with him.

Might have been dreaming, but I certainly clearly recall the door opening and someone standing there because the air in the room moved. I can remember the dark image of the lower half of a tall man in a dressing gown!

endofthelinefinally Hugs, I'm so sorry x

I get sleep paralysis, I often wake and see people by the side of my bed, usually crouching on my bedside table. Freaky at the time, but goes away once I manage to turn my lamp on.

My DS used to talk about his life before he came to us. He said he was a grown up and he had a little boy and a little girl. I'd forgotten about it until I read this thread.
I've had a few woo experiences. The first was staying in a B&B. I woke up freezing cold and there was a woman standing at the bottom of the bed holding fresh cut flowers in her arms.I thought I was dreaming but DH woke up and put the light on, and I could still see her. The cold had woken him but when he checked the heating was turned up to max.
Another time, I was on holiday and woke up during the night. I felt very upset and started shivering uncontrollably. In fact, I was so upset I called home the next day to see if everything was ok. My aunt had died during the night.

My dad got a job as head teacher at a junior school which was built on land which used to be a graveyard. He's not remotely "wooo" but over the summer holidays before he started the role he was in the school alone sorting out his office when he heard footsteps in the corridor. Assuming it was the caretaker he went to say hello but there was no one there. All of a sudden the temperature plummeted and he was overwhelmed by a really oppressive feeling unlike anything he'd ever experienced in his life – he couldn't get out of the building fast enough and was shaken for days afterwards.

He never mentioned this to anyone apart from family, but over the years he found that every time it came to the holidays and the school had been empty for any length of time, the same thing happened. He worked there for a total of 20 years and lost count of the number of staff who confided in him that they'd experienced the same eerie presence, temperature drop and footsteps. He never admitted to them that he'd felt it too because he didn't want it to get back to the parents and children and scare them. During term time, the menacing presence always disappeared, seemingly drowned out by the busyness of the building.

Towards the end of his time there I went to the school with him during the holidays. It was in the days before we had the internet at home and I wanted to use one of the computers to do some research for my degree. As I was working away, my dad sitting next to me, I said to him, "so do you believe in ghosts given what you've experienced, or do you still think there could be some other explanation?" He said that he tried not to think about it, because it freaked him out. At that moment the light fitting fell from the ceiling, smashing into tiny pieces, inches away from us. I never set foot in that school again!

When I was a teen I remember lifting my head in the night and feeling like a 'clump to the head which made me lay back down, I was paralysed with fear for a while but there was no one there. In the morning, my radio alarm was unplugged and the stuff on my dressing table had been moved about. There was no way anyone could have got in without detection.

When my DD was 3 she kept waking up at the same time talking about the man with the 'Ricey' hair in her room. I thought it was night terrors, it went on for months and she would point to where he was over my shoulder when I came in, saying he's there, he's there!
A while later going through some old photos of Ex's he showed me a picture of his best friend who had died, DD came in and said it's the man with the Ricey hair - she meant curly and when he used to stay at Ex's he used to sleep in what became her room.

My Ds has 2.
He said once he remembered being a soldier and there were loud noises and then the blood came and he wanted his mummy but no one would hug him and then he died.

The other is, he remembers when we lived at the house with the wooden gate before he was born (we did live in a house like that before he came along) and he was waiting for us to be his mummy and daddy and one day he forgot why he was there and nearly left and then he remembered he was waiting for us and then he was born.

This really creeped me out. I had a picture of my boys and for many years it was in an album. It was taken when I was down visiting my mum and grans house. Many, many years later, [children all grown up]my dh decided to scan the photos to keep them safe on the computer and there in the background in the darkenss stood my gran. Obviously she was there all the time but couldn't be seen by the naked eye but she had died many years ago when my sons were little. It was as if she was reminding us of her.

As a child, I apparently used to tell my DM about my "mummy before" - I can't remember anything about it now, but I still have a good imagination

Told my 13 year old daughter a family friend was pregnant. After a few moments thinking about it DD said “I think she will miscarry”. That night friend miscarried. She has often predicted things and when she told me this the hairs stood up on the back of my neck.
No explanation for it and DD doesn’t like “knowing” things

I have a couple of my own but I'm too tired to write them out tonight

There are some brilliant ones on r/nosleep on reddit, fictional but told as if they're real (and the rules are that if you comment, you comment as if it is real - no "Oh this wouldn't happen" etc so it's good fun) but there are some really creepy ones. My favourites are -

I'm a search and rescue officer for the US forest service

Has anyone heard of the left-right game? (this is the best one I've ever read, you can imagine it as a film)

My dad had been in a really bad road accident and while my mum rushed to the hospital my auntie and uncle came to babysit us kids (about 3 and 5 at the time). We were in bed and they sat downstairs waiting for news when they heard children's footsteps running along the bedroom towards the stairs. Auntie came up and we were sound asleep in bed. Same thing happened another 5 times. Only stopped when they'd got the call from my mum to say my dad was stable.

Also when I was a teenager I woke in the early hours to somebody shaking my shoulder and hissing my name urgently down my ear. I could actually feel breath on my cheek. Nobody there. Freaked out, I run to my mums room and she wasn't in bed so I went downstairs (already shitting myself) and my mum was on the floor fighting for breath having an asthma attack. She was that bad she couldn't shout up or get to the phone for help. But somebody or something woke me that night. People have said it was luck or whatever but I still remember that hand on my shoulder and the voice in my ear

Endoftheline, I'm sorry. My DD is 8 now, and when she was about 2-3ish she had a whole parallel life in an imaginary place she called 'the forest'. She shared it with two people she referred to as 'my father' and 'my godmother'. Everything was wonderful and amazing in the forest, anytime something went wrong in real life she would tell me how it was the opposite in the forest. I was a bit sad when it dropped out of her life and she says she doesn't remember it.

Unashamed place mark for later.

One night I was woken up by my boyfriend yelling. He said he'd dreamt that he was already awake and was lying next to me when something started moving in the bed. He lifted the cover and saw a little girl crouched there looking at him.

I have so many.
I have a good friend who is a devout buddhist. She talks so sensibly about this kind of thing. It gives me hope and reassurance.

I also have sleep paralysis, and have on multiple occasions woken up to what definitely feels like an evil presence pretending to be DP (and on one occasion my landlord at the time). At some point I realise it isn't actually him but as I can't move, I can never see what/who it actually is and it is terrifying. There's been a few scenarios but it's always that basic theme of knowing it isn't who it is pretending to be but not being able to either see who it actually is, or to get away from it, or even scream. Whenever it happens I always feel really off for the rest of the day. It's horrible.

Outside of that, I've had a few more ghostly experiences at my parents' house - the first one I remember was when I was about 8 and there was a knock on my bedroom door but everyone else was downstairs. I'm pretty positive I wasn't imagining it as there was a knock, I said "come in" and no one did, then there was another knock and this time I opened the door and there was nothing there. There's been lots of other stuff happening over the years (not just to me either, visitors too) but that's the one that really sticks in my mind. I was terrified for ages afterwards!

I remember a story doing the rounds when I was at primary school - was never sure if it really happened or just an urban legend.
It was about a little girl who had an ‘imaginary friend’ she called BeeBub. He used to try to get her into trouble by whispering ‘bad things’ for her to do in her ear. One of those things was to go and lie in the middle of the road which she did, and was only saved when her mum saw her in the Road when she looked out the kitchen window.
Supposedly ‘BeeBub’ was the little girl’s pronunciation of Beelzebub. Still gives me the creeps 👹

There were a few threads like this a couple of weeks ago. In them a PP linked to other spooky threads (one was described about the disco) and I managed to lose that one- if anyone has a link I’d be grateful.
Always terrify myself! After reading the other thread I had nightmares for a week

All this sort of stuff really freaks me out, I'm in bed in the dark with a virus reading through lying next to my baby monitor!! She just sneezed in her sleep and I shit you not I think I just jumped a metre off the bed!!