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?

Thanks for the kind words, @overnightangel and @prestonsflowers. I feel close to him still, I often feel like he’s in a car that’s just driven by and that if only I had looked up a second earlier, I would have seen him. It feels like what happened was an absolute gift to me

@RightYesButNo aw sorry not the best news but that sounds promising, glad you’re upbeat if it can be controlled with meds that’s great news.
Glad youve liked the thread I have too , just wish I had some more “Woo” stuff to share!

I don't know who it was but someone on here told a story about a helium balloon and it freaked me out a bit and also my dd when I read it to her. I hope I remember this right. They'd had a party and had a few metallic balloons hanging around. They were leaking so op decided to deal with them the next morning. Op woke up to one level with her face next to her bed. It had crept it's way around the house up the stairs round the landing into her room and them across to her bed.

Just remembered one “woo” thing and I can’t believe I forgot, used to work with a woman in a shop, I’d be 25 she’d be 55, we’re really close friends, after I’d left the shop stayed in touch met for coffee etc, I’d moved on about 3/4 years later. Knew she was going into hospital for a routine op, she was hopeless with her mobile, got a test off her 11pm this one night with just a blank screen, didn’t think anything of it, got a call next morning off another ex work colleague saying she’d died the previous evening around 8pm in hospital as she’d got an infection. That really freaked me out as she was a really spiritual person and used to see mediums etc and to this day I’ve never k own what it was all about, we were really close I’d like to think it was just her letting me know “it’s ok” or that she was alright or something like that. It freaked me out in a way bit was comforting at the same time. People may say that’s nonsense but there’s so’uch we dont understand. Saying that she used to rip the piss out of me mercilessly so would t surprise me if once she’d gone to the other side she was just trying to “wooooi” me ! Which again is quite comforting!

@overnightangel Thanks for the kind words, and I think that’s a lovely story about your friend. I love the idea of her taking the piss out of you from the other side! If I have the “extended” mobile service, I’ll definitely be doing that to my loved ones when the time comes, because they’d have a great laugh

@Oldaintallthat..great name btw. I still think about that dream all the time.
Our house is a crumbling Victorian heap, I’ve heard footsteps and a few weeks ago, I was in our back office, I heard the front door open, close and the sound of my dd’s feet pounding through the kitchen. I waited for her to find me, she never came to the office. I called out to her and was met by deep silence. Not another person was in the house with me.
Our neighbourhood experienced a tornado five years ago. It devastated twenty houses but stopped three short of ours. In the following weeks, we experienced some weird happenings. Clearly heard someone come up our porch stairs and call “Hello!” I went to see who it was, our porch was empty. Both my older an younger dds were present when that happened.

We came home late one night to find a very old and ornate walking cane hooked over our back porch railing. You can only reach the back via a gated and locked fence. The gate was firmly closed and still locked when we checked. We ended up donating it to the town historical society. It seemed wrong to keep it.

Our oldest dd woke up several times with very fine scratches on her arms and legs. They were a couple inches long and red. She said they stung like someone had dragged a pin over her skin. She decided to stay at her father’s for a few weeks after that.

I had a friend who worked for a very famous paranormal group. I called and told him what was going on. He said he thought the demolition of so many houses might have left any spirits in those homes, confused and searching for their old residents.

I’ve just read that full Left/Right game reddit thread in one sitting. Brilliant!!!!

@RightYesButNo
If there was one person who would do that to me in the afterlife it was her! 😊 She was the loveliest person she’d been quite ill before and lost her husband 6 months precious and think she’d just had enough and I’d like to think it was her just giving me a heads up along lines of “don’t worry I’m alright”. I’m 36 so god willing have another 50 odd years left but she’s someone I’ll never forget and if she chose me to give a nod to then I feel privileged she was someone I’ll never forget. I hope you get your health issues resolved sounds like you’re having a stressful time

Following to read in day light.

Omg I read one post and I’m shitting my pants.

Marking my spot for later. Need to read in the morning as I get nightmares

This is just a coincidence but happened very recently.

We live (not in the UK) at the top of a fairly steep hill covered in trees, which you access by a winding road which cuts through the forest. The road is so steep and twisty that there are metal barriers along the sides to protect cyclists and prevent people from driving into the trees as visibility could be quite poor at night or in fog.

Anyway a couple of weeks ago I'd just given birth to DS2. He was born at 3am. He was a bit poorly at birth so by 5am they transferred him to another hospital which had an ICU unit. I had to stay where I was so DH followed the ambulance and spent a couple of hours there filling in forms and finding out where they'd taken him. He wasn't allowed to stay and sleep, so he went home to get some rest. As he was exhausted at this point from the adrenaline crash and being awake over 24 hours through the whole labour he was driving very carefully and concentrating on staying awake. As he started to drive up the hill he realised at the last minute that the car in front of him had not turned in time and was about to smash straight into the barrier. He beeped his horn and the driver swerved so suddenly he realised that he must have fallen asleep. The other driver didn't crash thankfully but did scrape his car all along the barrier before he'd managed to correct himself.

Then a week later we could finally bring DS2 home, so we strapped him into his car seat and spent the journey like brand new parents worrying about every speed bump When we got to our hill, we were driving up it when a cyclist came down on the other side of the road, came whizzing around the corner and then inexplicably pressed only his front brake and flipped straight over his handlebars, smashing his face into the road Obviously we stopped to see if we could help but my ambulance ringing was really poor as my language skills aren't great and I wasn't sure of the address (I told them the name of the nearest bus stop, in the end), and DH knew what to do in first aid, but didn't want to leave the new baby alone in the car. The man was quite beaten up and had chipped a tooth and split his lip right up to the nose, it was nasty. Luckily the ambulance turned up and he didn't seem concussed, so I guess that was something.

We were slightly afraid to take DS2 out again in case he caused any more accidents Luckily it seems he has grown tired of trying to pick people off by proxy.

My mum used to have a horse for years, I’d ridden him a few times many years before, but hadn’t even seen him for probably a couple of years as I’d moved away.

Had a really vivid dream one night about this horse, that I was back where I grew up and was riding him. The whole dream was centred around him.

The following day my mum phoned me to tell me that the horse had been put down the day before.

I have a Charmouth one too, #YoghurtBinger.
It's the same story... Six of us on holiday in Lyme and Charmouth, all looking for fossils. No one found anything all week.
Last day, last minute, getting up to go, I put my hand on a nice ammonite as I got to my feet.

#yoghurtbinger sorry i didn't get your name quite right. My post was the same story as yours. Are you me?

@yoghurtbinger third time lucky.

I’ve had a few things happen to me that makes me believe there’s more to life than we really know.

I had an emergency C section back in the mid-70’s. I came around in the recovery room when I left a very painful sharp pain in my right heel - it felt like a knitting needle was being stabbed into it. I looked down at my feet expecting to see someone doing something to my foot but my feet and legs were under dark green hospital sheet or blanket and no one was near me. As I did this the doctor came in and I told him my heel was really hurting. He looked at me very strangely and told me my baby was have blood test from his right heel when he saw him a moment before.

Another odd event happened not long after I turned 18 and was in love for the first time. I woke up at 5am one winter's morning calling out my boyfriend's name and then started feeling very agitated. I couldn’t get back to sleep. Later on that morning I fainted twice. It was later again that day I found out my boyfriend had been killed in a traffic accident that morning. In the newspaper I read it happened at 5am.

Neither of these things are made-up or imagined. They happened to me and so I know there is more to life than what we see.

Something spooky happened in my bedroom. I have an old teddy bear sitting on a chest of drawers. I woke up this morning and she was facing towards me and pointing at me ! ! ! Shitted me right out. Oh I live alone and no one visited yesterday. Have I got a Teddy bear version of Chucky. It’s freaking me right out.

Dying doesn’t scare me but being dead terrifies me as I don’t know where I’ll be.
Might sound stupid but when people say “it’s best that they dies in their sleep” that terrifies me, I always thing if you die in your sleep will you one you’re dead ?? The actual act of FYI g doesn’t bother me I’m just terrified of what comes next. Sometimes I think your life starts after you die, if that makes sense, and that this is just a prelude (I’m a catholic don’t judge me)

@ladybird69 oh god I’d have to get rid!!!

Dying doesn’t scare me but being dead terrifies me as I don’t know where I’ll be.

For most people it is the other way around. Maybe the place you’ll be when your dead is the same place you were before you were conceived.

When i was about 15 ( now 25) i had a vivid nightmare about a car crash and an oil van and a certain green mondeo car, didnt think anything of it but 4 days later my brothers best friend passed away due to a car crash in his mums green mondeo that collided with a car that collided into an oil van.

Every dream and nightmare has scared me since, also had my grandad come say goodbye to me the night he passed away when i didnt even know he was dying, was told the next day.

About 18 months ago, I had a really vivid dream. In my dream, there was a special event happening in town and the govt had erected a temporary chair lift that went over the top of my backyard. My husband took the kids (12 and 10) to the entry and they both went on. As they were coming over the back yard waving, I noticed that when the chairs went over the poles, they bumped the passengers around quite a bit. Right before my eyes, my younger child slipped from her seat and her brother caught her by the hand and she was dangling in the air. In the dream he couldn't hang on to her and fortunately when she slipped, it wasn't too big a drop and she fell unharmed. Very specific dream.
Very next morning, this was on the news.
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-26/theme-park-rescue-sees-girl-caught-as-she-falls-from-ride/8651942
The video on this news story has expired but the story is so close to my dream, it's very weird. Also weird is that I don't usually tell people my vivid dreams but that morning, I told a colleague the details and that was several hours before the story was posted online.

Standstilling - no sleep is generally accepted as fiction with the agreement that everyone acts as if true. Still creepy though.

@overnight. I’m going to put her back in the right position now. See what happens tonight 🙁

I have a good friend who I only met earlier this year. At first, we would just randomly message each other and talk about mundane stuff. I'm very secretive about myself in RL, especially around new people.

We would have known each other for about 6 weeks, apart from the initial meeting we hadn't actually spoken to each other. Just text throughout the week. Really late one night he messaged me asking if I was awake, nothing usual even people I chat to on the phone do this. I answered, and he rings me straight away. Something kept bugging him and insisting that he call me, not text me. That he had to get me on the phone. Something was wrong, and in a text I could easily lie. He tried to ignore it as you would, but everything got loud and urgent. He's never been able to explain exactly what happens. Of course, he didn't come out and tell me this at the beginning of the call, he knew this would freak me out.

The odd thing was I was in Crisis. I was in a really bad place with my MH. He didn't know about my problems as I am really good at hiding. But he knew something was wrong. He stayed up all night talking me through it all even offering to meet me anywhere I wanted. But he had to keep talking to me.

We spoke afterwards and we were both like wtf was that. How this 'stranger' who knew nothing about me had this unbelievable need to phone me and not take no for an answer. Of course, neither could explain it.

It's not the first time that this has happened. He still all these months later gets this weird shit telling him to contact me because I need help.

It's bizarre. When I'm at that stage I continue to act externally like everything is fine. Very few people who see me all the time recognise the signs because I've gotten so good at hiding. I don't post anything about this on SM, but then I only have him on Whatsapp. But there's a weird connection.

It was by chance that we met, to begin with. Our plans changed at the last minute, within seconds of each other and we ended up in the same place.

Now, this is where it all gets even stranger. I'd seen him before, well several times. He has a distinct look and stance that is recognisable. He would show up when I was really, really bad mentally. His presence was always calming as he stood to watch me, the first time was in my room. I would talk to him although he never answered back he gave me clarity. The first time I saw him I thought he was a ghost, and even though he never spoke, I knew his name and his age. I cannot explain how. When I saw him again, it was a different location so I started to think he was a hallucination. He would have been a child in RL, but I always saw him as the person he is now. Even now I get the same clarity and no judgement from him. And yes he is real, I have photos of him, there were moments when I questioned this myself.

There may be a logical explanation for it all. But neither of us can think of one.