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Tell me your creepiest story

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HeartStrings · 29/03/2018 20:15

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 Smile

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" Confused

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 29/03/2018 23:13

I'm a strange commodity me. I love horror movies. The scarier the better. However I know for a fact if I saw anything even if it was bloody Casper the friendly ghost. I would literally shit a brick.

I even shit my self when I see my reflection in the mirror.
I'm.like "who's that. I'm sure I know her.Grin

cushioncovers · 29/03/2018 23:22

When my youngest was about 7 he asked me one morning who the people were that stood at the end of his bed at night! Shock

TooManyPaws · 29/03/2018 23:55

I did go to a psychic after both my parents died within six months. I had just moved into a new house and was having some work done.

The one thing that stayed with me about the reading was when she said in a puzzled tone that she had a man who was saying something about door handles, get the bloody handles sorted. I had had wardrobe doors fitted but they hadn't yet had handles fitted which was becoming a pain in the neck.

It sounded so like what my dad would say. When I told the workman, he fitted the handles immediately and said he'd never been nagged by a ghost before! 😂

BearFoxBear · 30/03/2018 00:28

YaasQuuen that search and rescue link is bloody terrifying!!

ReanimatedSGB · 30/03/2018 00:30

The Left-right Game. FFS. That's got to be one of the great horror writers messing around, but it's awesome.

darkriver198868 · 30/03/2018 00:32

I am really interested in other poeples experiences.

Bubblegum89 · 30/03/2018 00:34

My daughter used to “see” things. When she was about 1, we lived in an old cottage and the water tank was in her bedroom in a built in cupboard that closed on a latch. Every night at the same time, my daughter would start screaming hysterically so I’d go in and get her and 9/10 times, the latch on the cupboard door would be undone and the door slightly open. She would scream if I tried to take her back to her cot.

We moved to another house not long after and when she was about 2/3 and able to talk, she started telling me about a girl called “Megan” who sat next to her bedroom door at night. Sometimes I’d hear my daughter talking to herself or giggling. One night, tucking her into bed, she pointed to the window opposite her bed and said “mummy, the spookies are here”. Another time she told me “the spookies” were big and black and floated off the floor.

She’s 9 now and doesn’t really remember any of it but when you are a single parent living alone and your small child starts telling you about spooky floating black shadows that show up in her room at night, that’ll shit you right up lol

I also used to have weird experiences myself as a teenager. I used to sleep with my door open until one night I saw a girl walk past it. After that, strange stuff happened like my room tidying itself (very handy! My mum would be made up I’d tidied and so I took full credit) I would wake up to my name being whispered in my ear, scratching noises on the wall. I also suffered with sleep paralysis. Mostly it involved being “awake” but having the sensation of someone sitting on my legs and being unable to move which was scary as I didn’t know at the time that sleep paralysis was a thing. One time during an episode, I watched a tall black figure walk from one side of my bed to the other, very slowly and stopping now and again to stand and watch me lying there.

Bluecube1 · 30/03/2018 00:38

We had a restaurant in an old building, it had been the managers house attached to a British Linen bank. In the first month 4 cups, the kind that stack inside each other fell off a shelf but stayed stacked together. Another day I opened up and found mint leaves all over the floor of the gents toilets. I pushed the door open the bin was toppled against the other side. There was no other door or window. I'm not at all woo, but this did make me wonder....

PatriciaBateman · 30/03/2018 02:37

cushioncovers That might be sleep paralysis. I have it and often see 'shadowy' figures standing around my bed at night, more when I was younger.

When I was a teenager I went through a period of thinking they were alien abductors!

My primary age son apparently also has it too, I recently learned after watching him play! He was playing with a toy figure in the garden and making it pretend go to bed, and then started making it shout, "Shadow, go home! Go away!"

I said, "Go home?"

He nodded at me and pointed his finger straight up toward the sky.
I don't believe in aliens. Shock

PatriciaBateman · 30/03/2018 02:42

Same son also told me at length about how he got lost in the woods with 'friend name' (very unusual name from particular area of my husband's country, but we don't know anyone with it).

He got lost in the woods and then fell in some water and died. His words: "I'm still died there. In the mud. And now I'm a baby again!"

He will occasionally ask for his friend (the one he said was with him), and also tells me he misses his "other Daddy". (that was fun trying to explain what he meant to DH!)

Marcipex · 30/03/2018 03:12

: "I'm still died there. In the mud. And now I'm a baby again!"

Crikey PatriciaBateman.

PanPanPanPing · 30/03/2018 08:18

The disco story is on this thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_unexplained/2161707-Give-us-your-eerie-stories

Scroll down to a poster called Shia and she posted her story on Mon 18 Aug 2014.

HeartStrings · 30/03/2018 09:39

@turnipfarmers defo not a window cleaner. Info I missed out in my story was that this was evening time in the winter so was dark outside and the bathroom window was about the kitchen which has a completely grass roof like a conservatory so no one would be able to stand on there. Sorry for the drip feed there 🙈

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HeartStrings · 30/03/2018 09:40

Just read that disco story too. That is really creepy 😨

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dustarr73 · 30/03/2018 10:02

@lookatmybabyspider story has reminded me of this one.

My bil commited suicide many hears ago.But he was close to my dp.So after he died he came back.And he told my dp he had seen a list with my name on it.And it also told him how i died.

He said he would get my name off the list but it would be replaced by someone else.My bil was very upset because he told my d i was to young to be taken.

Less than a year later my mam died.I often think about that list.

MerryShitmas · 30/03/2018 10:13

We'd just moved into our first home in Australia (we are British) it was a 2 bed ground floor unit (only one unit above it and was empty throughout our time there). House was laid out (from left to right)
Bedroom one with ensuite bathroom, living room next to the bedroom(living room at the front of the house, bedroom in the middle, ensuite at the back) , kitchen in the middle of the house, bedroom 2 (huge room) at the other end. We always felt a bit... odd. In that second room, which is why despite its size we just didn't want it as our bedroom. we also had weird smells occasionally, like food cooking (like fish though we don't eat it, or onions. Again not something we cook with generally) I'm not sure if that's relevant or if it was something else.

I was woken one night by the sound of a baby screaming. Dh didn't hear it... but we didnt have a baby. It seemed to be coming from the 2nd bedroom. As I got halfway across the kitchen the crying stopped. I had an impending sense of doom. I'm not sure if I thought paranormal or "has someone dumped a baby in my bin?" But I definitely thought something's not right.. I got to the bedroom. I saw a woman crying over an empty cot(the room should've been completely empty) . I thought I was dreaming, the woman had long dark hair, olive skin and was wearing a white nightie. I tried to talk to her but at first it was like I wasn't even there. She didn't seem to see me or hear me.
Then all of a sudden she turned and screamed at me for taking her baby. She just kept saying "you've taken my baby! Where is my baby? I know she's here!" I slammed the door shut, ran across the house and locked myself in the bedroom. Dh was still asleep.

With the noise she was making I was beginning to think I'd imagined it... surely Dh would've heard it and woke?
I tried to forget about it and thought I was going a bit nuts.

A few days later I was working late and Dh got home before me (rare). As he approached the gate he could see someone With dark hair was sat on the living room sofa (but could only see from the back) He thought it was me. (I have dark hair, by the way). He opened the front door and heard a baby crying, seemed to be coming from the 2nd bedroom. He came in and realised the living room/sofa was empty. Went to the 2nd bedroom and saw it empty except for the woman curled up in the corner sobbing. He tried to approach her and she disappeared while screaming.
He rang me shaken up, I was leaving work by this point. I couldn't understand what he was saying so just rushed home quickly. He looked like death warmed up and was sat on the sofa. He told me what happened, we talked about what I'd seen too and We made a decision then to move and we were trying to think of a good excuse for the landlord to allow us to break lease and move elsewhere (we had over 4 months left on the lease).

That night I got up for a pee, I was sat in the ensuite and heard rustling around and footsteps in the bedroom. Presumed Dh was also getting up for a pee. I finished up and as I was opening the door I saw her again, She was standing next to DH and started to shout "X isn't breathing! Phone an ambulance! She's gone blue!"
Dh got up and ran for the bathroom and locked himself in thanks Hun and the woman ran to the 2nd bedroom. Then it all stopped. We searched the house, everything was back to normal and she was gone.

We packed our things and moved into a motel while we wrangled with the landlord. When I was at work not long after we moved out a coworker said to me "I can't believe you took that unit on SuchNsuch street... I wouldn't" I asked why. Then she told me what had happened (and I was able to verify most of it with a newspaper report)

Young couple bought it, moved in. Had a young baby (earlier referred to by me as "x", same name). Baby died (cot death) Husband was blamed locally. No charges brought against him. He killed himself in the house. Wife came home, found him dead. Called emergency services but it was too late. Then a few weeks later killed herself in the house. It's said they all died in one of the bedrooms but no one knows which one. I strongly suspect it was the spare room.

My heart aches for her, the possibility that she's still reliving those emotions Sad I found out where her family (mum, dad, siblings etc) lived. I considered telling them... but I came to the conclusion that if it wasmy daughter knowing that would torment me mentally. Or I'd look like crazy. So I kept quiet and just moved away.

I'd love a logical explanation.
A couple people have suggested time slips but I don't know if that's logical either! All I know is, for whatever reason it happened, it was the worst time of my life and it still, pardon the pun, haunts me. I'm not sure what I believe in reference to souls and the afterlife but the concept that she may be stuck there reliving that (I never saw the husband or the baby) breaks my heart.

Pittapatter · 30/03/2018 10:16

Placemarking to read later!

Cockmagic · 30/03/2018 10:34

MerryShitmas wow 😱

HeartStrings · 30/03/2018 10:58

@MerryShitmas omg that story sent shivers down my spine. Sounds like something out of a horror movie. It's terrifying to think something like that can happen in real life

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DrunkUnicorn · 30/03/2018 11:25

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darkriver198868 · 30/03/2018 11:28

Wow merry @merryshitmas

I have had a few vivid dreams. The scariest one was I dreamt about a young man going into a classroom and shooting all of his classmates. The next morning my boyfriend rang me and asked was up. When I told him about the dream he asked if I had seen the news? I went to my local shop and all across the newspapers was news about The Virginia Tech massacre.

beyondthesky · 30/03/2018 11:37

Can only read these stories in daylight because I'm a big baby.

Sat here on the sofa with a cup of tea and water has just dripped onto my hand! I'm totally freaked out.

There is no explanation. No leak,not raining outside, no water pipes near where I'm sat yet a definite 'plop' sound as it landed on my hand.

I've just said to my DH that water has dropped onto me and he said don't be ridiculous!

MaureenSowerbutts · 30/03/2018 12:17

This is not creepy so much as comforting.

My dad's favourite food was fish and chips, he went to the same shop for years very week and was a well loved customer. The owners and staff came to his funeral.

Anyway a few days after he died my sisters came to pick me up to go to his house.

I got in the car and it stank of fish and chips, I made some remark about how they could have got me some and they both looked like they had seen a ghost.

Before they had come to get me they had walked into one of their houses and said to dbil oh you've had fish and chips it stinks in here. To which her dbil said no we had roast beef what are you talking about?!

After the funeral we all went seperatley under our married names to a medium, with random items of his and she told all of us she could smell fish and chips whilst we were there...

Iwasjustabouttosaythat · 30/03/2018 13:13

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FilledSoda · 30/03/2018 13:51

love these threads

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