To start a new creepiest/scariest/unexplainable stories thread?

[RightYesButNo]

I love these threads, and have my own past favorites (Savernake Forest, etc). I’ve gone through all the old ones, here and on the Unexplained board, and I’ve run out.

Excuses for a new thread: I have a shite-my-pants-terrifying doctor’s appointment tomorrow and could really use the distraction, it felt like autumn outside this morning, and we might have new people on the site to share since the last thread.

So... share your most bizarre and creepy story with us, if you have a moment?

I live in an old hospital that’s been converted to flats. Apparently there is a ghost in another block of a naval nursing sister who was killed in World War II. When I think of all the people who would have died here over the years, dating back to the 1780s, I am surprised there is nothing remotely woo about our flats

Cactus plant

Have you thought if anything has changed recently? Moved furniture around or any other upheaval? Why would it come back now?

This is true , it didnt happen to someone else , it happened and happens to me and has done all my life , I have briefly mentioned it before but was a bit concerned when a few people on here have asked me to help them or even ridiculed me

I had been searching high and low for a property to buy 20 years ago, with defaulting on a mortgage when I was married , knew I would have to pay cash

I arranged a viewing on a small 3 bed house , and decided to view a couple the 5th I went to view, the estate agent a tall plump woman was already at the property

As I walked in could see a tiny little lady stood behind her smiling ,dressed in 1960s clothes , she didnt say anything , the estate agent showed me round , the little lady dissapeared

eventually when the estate agent went down stairs , the little lady reappeared , and said you will be happy here , the seller has turned down an offer of xxxx he is desperate to sell , he will accept xxxx , I said thanks ,went downstairs and made that offer

The seller accepted straight away I didnt tell anyone about the little lady who I called Mary , especially because of my job, but I have always seen spirits , ghosts or whatever you choose to call them , they don't bother me

8 weeks later I moved in with the help from a feminist group I was in , I made up my bed being so exhausted , got into bed at about 7pm , the duvet lifted up and the tiny lady , got into bed and smiled at me I drifted off to sleep not thinking about it .

That summer Jo and I got together , we decided to hold a party and BBQ , we were all in the garden , when Francis a friend called me , she said I think your neighbour has been taken ill in the loo we have knocked on the door , so I said neighbour ? its only us 12 women here , most of my neighbours are old , they will be in bed

I opened the loo door ,and the loo was empty , two women had followed her up the stairs and seen her go in the loo , so told them about Mary and I had seen her since buying the house, one friend who doesn't believe in ghosts still wont believe ,what she saw

when I got the deeds to the house , her name was Mary G , her and her husband had bought my house the day I was born (but I think thats just a coincidence )

I made friends with all the elderly neighbours . One told me all about Mr &Mrs G , I hadn't mentioned about seeing her , as I don't want to be ridiculed so always stay quiet
eventually the neighbour showed me a photograph of Mary and her husband , she looked exactly like I have always seen her , I have never seen her husband

I don't see her these days but around May 16th I can hear her calling for May her sister in law , I now know they were childless but after speaking to the actual sister in law who is called May found out Mary had , miscarried twins on the 16th May 1966

As I have said I don't believe in God and I don't believe in mediums as all the ones I have come across have been fakes

but I have always seen people who have passed away ,and have spoken to many over the years

including one woman who walks the isles of our local Asda , she is always in the same 1980s clothes , and has told me how rude and miserable everyone is in that store , everyone ignores her

I gather she took her own life , by fitting pipe to her exhaust , although she doesn't know or remember what she has done or how she comes to walking about our local Asda

I know I am not bonkers as Jo has been with me the times I have seen her , Jo claims she can smell exhaust gases around the area where I can see this woman , and I have seen a few little girls who can see this woman as her clothes just don't fit with todays fashions

have overheard said little girls telling their mothers about the scarey smelly lady in the leather jacket , which is how this poor woman is always dressed

I have linked to a few friends relatives over the years , and told them things I couldnt possibly have known , but I wouldn't ever charge or do this professionally , as it wouldn't seem right to me

only a few friends know I can do this and I don't talk about it , but have met a couple of others who can do what I do , I don't need Tarot cards or anything , I have been able to do this all my life

Hasxanyone provides a link to the nurses ghost stories?

I have a few stories, great post. Placemarking for later.

I've posted these in MN before over the years but here you go.

Growing up in south London we lived behind a large cemetery. You could see the cemetery from my bedroom window and the only thing that separated my house/garden from the cemetery was an alleyway. The fence around the cemetery was a wire metal one so you could see through it. As kids back in the 90s we played a lot outside ‭‬and down the alley way etc. I sometimes rode my bike through the cemetery and looked at graves but was never scared or frightened of it. When I was down the alley I do remember often feeling watched and sometimes a bit panicked like having the feeling that I had to run away but generally I never felt bad vibes.

I often had dreams that I was flying through the cemetery and remember that they felt so real to me. One night I woke up to see a black shape floating in my bedroom. I was probably around 7/8ish at the time and I wasn't scared at all I just watched it then started to feel uneasy so ran into my parents bedroom , only the shape followed me and appeared in their room. It was like a black floating mass that was see through kinda like weaving in and out of the wall. I saw the same figure down the alley way once too. About 20meters in front of me when I was on my own I saw it floating and honestly thought it was a bin bag caught up in the wind. Walked up to it and it disappeared.

On another occasion I was leaving my house to play outside and had a voice in my head channel me and told me to go to a specific place in the alley way.. I went there and there was a fence that had been pulled over I lifted it up and found a handbag. I took it home and my dad found a phone number in it, turns out it had been stolen that night. The same voice told me to.make sure I had my seatbelt on and 20mins later my dad crasher the car! It was like I KNEW it was going to happen.

I also had premonition dreams for example I had a dream my parents divorced and my dad moved to a massive manor house. The next day my parents told me my aunt and uncle were getting divorced. 19 years later my parents divorced (recently) and my dad now lives in a massive old stately manor house that's been turned into flats!

I had other dreams too but less recently it used to happen more when I was little. Like cosmic ordering I would do when I was a child and it always worked

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_unexplained/2161707-Give-us-your-eerie-stories?pg=2 scroll down to Shia’s story about the night club ghost!

And the WWII scene in expatinscotland‘s story if you scroll down:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1239819-To-ask-if-anyone-has-had-any-paranormal-encounters-experiences?pg=6

I love reading things like this although I've scared myself. Told dp who is a massive sceptic that I've freaked myself out and he was like. ..but why is it always little Victorian kids you never see a ghost dinosaur 😂😂 . Made me feel a little less scared haha!! No stories of my own sadly.

TinkysWinky

Where about in Manchester did you live? I’m curious as I work in an area that has loads of period conversion flats

foxyliz26

It’s sounds like you have a real gift.

I had no idea we had pow camps in Scotland!

I think there is one on an island where Italian POWs created an RC chapel.

I'm in the Midlands, not far away from a German war cemetery!

Found it, it's on one of the Orkney isles.

www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/eastmainland/italianchapel/index.html

Back to the woo everyone

Batty twatty - we were in Chorlton

An in law reported a dream/real happenstance that he could only put down to astral travel! - he dreamed that he was standing in a downstairs room looking out at the back garden, in a terraced house that had an alleyway down one side, covered by the upper floor of the house next door. As he was standing looking, in his dream, a man came to the window and peered in, looking around the room (it was night, but moonlit). This man, who was now inspecting the louvre arrangement at the top of the window, presumably to get in and burgle, seemed to catch sight of him standing there watching, and his face changed to absolute terror, and he turned making a clatter and ran off across the back garden and up the alleyway, at which point my relative woke up in bed! And got up, rushed down the stairs and out the door stark bollock naked in hot pursuit to see the man further up the road running very fast. No explanation for what could have spooked him, apart from seeing someone appear out of thin air? Very strange.

Ok I have too but one is nice.

I had a rescue cat since I was about 10. She died when I went to uni and I was devastated. She was my cat, she would follow me home from school, sit in my lap, sleep in my bed. I just left bed her.

Anyway the first time I went home after she died, Mum cooked me a lovely Sunday roast. I sat down at the table and felt two little paws jump up on my leg. Like when a cat says hello or wants some food. Didn't freak me out as my parents had another cat, but then my dad just walked in the room saying he had just put the cat out! My mum thinks it was my cat saying good bye

My aunt was a foster parent and always had loads of kids at her house. She looked after my cousin who was about 3 a lot. Walked into her house and saw him run past the French doors, I ran out and chased him round the house....couldn't find him any where! Went in the house to ask my aunt where he had gone for her to tell me he was with his dad and no other kids were at the house that day. That one freaked me out!

Last time I read one of these threads it was 6am in a farmhouse and I couldn’t sleep. I’d just finished the dog Forrest one when for absolutely no reason the fire alarm went off. Got the fright of my life but was so happy to see other people when we evacuated!

Plonking my arse down right here and settling in with a .
The first house i lived in had allot of creepy and weird things happen just to name a few

I would always feel as if i was being watched night or day. At one point i am in the kitchen washing up. the hall and front door are directly behind me. Dp had popped out to the shop. I was putting some plates away and as i turned i saw what looked like a man in a green puffer jacket walk into my living room (door was by the fron door) so i call out and ask dp what he has forgotten. No .answer. so i walk into the living room and it is empty!

I could put that down to my eyes playing tricks on me BUT a few weeks later as i was getting into bed. I had just lay down so nowhere near asleep when a man in a green puffer jacket and jeans walked into my room. I could see him as clear as day! I sat there frozen thinking i was getting robbed when he just disapeared. I dont think i have ever ran so fast in my life.

Dp had never believed in the paranormal and would just laugh it off. I once sent him a sexy pic whilst he was downstairs telling him to get his butt to bed. In the photo you could clearly see a woman standing right behind me she was blonde thin and looked angry. Dp couldnt explain it.

My dsis was friends with a man who lived in my house about 10 years previous to me. At a bbq we got talking and dsis brings up the house so i ask him if he ever had anything weird happen in that house. He imediatley says "have you seen the blonde woman? Shes a nasty f#**@r* that one".

Dp thought it would be hilarious to try and record an evp. Thinking he would just prove that nothing was happening. I refused to be anywhere near so hid in the bedroom. About 20 mins after he starts he comes bolting upstairs and wont tell me what happend untill the morning (wont lie i thought it was hilarious that he got a fright as i had warned him) he tells me the next day that as he was poking fun saying ghosts didnt exist he saw a black shadow walk through the middle of the living room and described it looking like a cloaked man.at that point he ran

Plenty other things happend in that house. Even my neices who would stay over frequently have told me how they have seen a man walk out of my bedroom and down the stairs (creepily the same route 3 different dogs who we have dogsat for family at different times ran barking as if chasing an intruder)

A bit long and rambley sorry.

@sashh I think you may be near to me!

I grew up in an old house in Orkney, a house an old man had apparently died in years previously. There were two sitting rooms in the house, an everyday lounge and a fancier one for visitors which was only ever used occasionally and which we kids called 'the good room'.
There was always a sense of being unwelcome in the good room to us kids, (though my parents never noticed anything) and it never, ever seemed warm in there.
One morning, whilst getting ready for school, I was on my own in the good room. I remember as clear as day, hearing a very loud evil-sounding man's laugh, echoing right round the room at me. I just knew it wanted me to leave and I got out of that room as quickly as I could and never went back.
Whatever was in the 'good room' really wasn't nice and certainly didn't want kids in there.

cactusplant

I second getting in an RC or C of E priest/vicar and I'm an atheist.

You don't need to know who or what is causing these things, you want your house to be peaceful, the non spiritualist churches have centuries of experience and concentrate on blessing the house making it 'safe' and putting anything else to rest.

If you trust the mediums you had before, fine, but still get one of deliverance ministries in to bless the place.

Madison I don't think there are many cemeteries like it so probably.

TinkysWinky

ahh ok. My guess was Didsbury. Close though!

We live in quite an “active” house too. It's an ex commercial old place and has had extensions and alterations over the years, which sometimes seem to amplify phenomena.
There is an ever present sense of movement in the Hall - I can't be clearer than that, just that things seem to be nipping about - the dogs are interested, but not afraid. One bedroom is atmospheric, not cold or unwelcoming but just aware, somehow. The silence has a different quality from the rest of the house. No tales of unease or disturbance from guests..
I have had lost jewellery turning up in the drawer and half-heard voices and snatches of music. Sometimes louder.... this week, I heard “who ARE you?”
DH swears I call him and often turns up answering my call when I haven't.
The worst was an intermittent horrible smell at the foot of the stairs, which came and went. We did some cleansing and don't get that any more.
I found an unfamiliar ring under cushions on the rocking chair that no one had sat in from the last clean. (Not gold, alas)
And (this may out me) visitors sometimes experience a helpful hand in the small of the back when going upstairs. The family doesn't get this much anymore, apart from DS1, who is the most psychic.

Ooooh Giggorata, maybe your family is haunting the people who lived there in the past and you're appearing to them as ghosts and moving stuff around

Hence the "who are you?" I meant!