AIBU - to want to know your spooky stories

[LouH1981]

So, similar to a fellow mumsnetter, I too am laid up in bed, I have an infection post partum so feeling a bit rubbish and would really love to hear about the spookiest unexplained things that have happened to you.
I’m always fascinated by this especially from people who are skeptics and something has genuinely taken them aback.

I’ll start...just moved in to our new (to us) house (about 100 years old) and DS was about 6 weeks old. Middle of the night and I was changing him in the spare room on a changing table. Heard a voice ask if I was alright. I’d left DH deep asleep in our room and although it didn’t sound like his voice I assumed it was him and answered ‘yes fine’. Returned seconds later expecting him to be awake but he was still asleep.
A few weeks later, my mum mentioned while our shopping that she thought our house was a bit spooky. And when I asked why, she said that while she was trying to get to sleep in the other spare room she heard a voice gently ask her if she was alright. She said she just hid under the duvet!
Freaked me out but has never happened again...

Woo, please tell us more about the Ouija board flat! We need to know!

@PlomBear Yes, I stayed there a few years ago but knowing it’s history I insisted on staying in the new part. I am far too much of a wuss. Made zero difference because I hardly had a wink of sleep out of fear 😂
We visit every year on our way to Cornwall for a meal and I always like to take a few photos just incase I catch anything but absolutely zilch!
Which room were you in?

@Leighhalfpennysthigh That’s got to be worth a google if you haven’t already. I do think you have to trust your gut with these things. Bet glad you don’t take that route anymore! I’d keep clear!

By the way, if any of you used to watch Most Haunted, I have just heard that Derek Acorah has died today 😱

I have 2 :
First one , very appropriate on the day the death of Derek Acorah was announced .

DH and I were watching "Most Haunted" they were dong a live seance . We had the Christmas tree lit , lights on the mantle piece and the TV on.

The tree lights were in seperate plug sockets ( we had about 3 sets and I don't like adaptors for tree lights) .

During the seance , the all tree lights went off briefly . The other lights and the TV did not .
It wasn't a blip in the power , it wasn't one socket .
DH and and I just looked at each other !

2nd one:
We used to have a cat , she died when the DC were little .
About 3-4 years ago, I was in bed , I felt the weight of something walk over me . The very definate, hesitant steps like a cat would make when they are choosing where to put their paw. I was half asleep and thought "Oh it's the cat..." then realised we didn't actually have one !

Edinburgh Vaults are a fantastic place. Ive been on 3 tours there, and every time I've heard footsteps like a lady in heels.
The Covenanters Prison is something else. It's in Greyfriars Cemetery and if you go on a tour with the City of the Dead tours, they're the only company with a key to get in.
There are pretty much constant reports of attacks by what they believe to be the Mackenzie Poltergeist (well worth looking up!).
The first time I was there, I didn't feel anything at the time but when I got back the hotel and went to go in a shower, I had like a triangle of what I can only describe as welts on my hip, it was like little burn marks, in a perfect triangle.
The second time, I heard a sort of low rumbling noise, that got louder and louder until I couldn't think or hear anything over the noise and my head was in so much pain, but I then found out that no one else could hear it? Weird.

@Meggie2008 ooh, googling Mackenzie Polgergeist as we speak...

So after indulging in this thread last night and telling you all about my dream, I had a really vivid, lengthy dream last night. It felt about four hours long and was really detailed and consistent: basically the whole town turned out to watch a supernatural event take place over the sea, and it was a celebration with reenactments in the run up to it. Really weird.

I used to love Most Haunted! Was brilliant when it first started, when stuff rarely happened and all you ever saw was a few orbs flying around. Then as time went on it became obvious they were either making stuff up or massively exageratting. Ive been on ghost hunts and nine times out of ten nothing happens, but every week something would attack Yvette Fielding and Derek would end up getting possesed. It was daft because they didn't need to do any of that.

Most of my experiences strangely have been at work! I used to work in an old pub, I was in the kitchen closing down quite late at night, my manager was in another outer building sorting bottles etc, I heard this loud 'SHUT UP' in my ear and ran to my manager who obviously hadn't moved?Sometimes peoples drinks used to be thrown off the table etc. I now work in a care home, used to be a children's a mental Institution, knocked down and rebuilt on. On a night shift I could hear dragging of chairs or something in the hall above me, went on for so long I asked if the staff were moving furniture but nobody was occupying the unit.(another time)I also was nodding off in the lounge around 4am and saw someone walk past me and lock the toilet door but nobody ever came back out? And lastly, I was on a day shift, heard what sounded as if a man was choking I flew around checking on the residents most were out/napping. I returned to the office and the same thing happened again but louder but this time was coming from behind me where the rooms werent actually being occupied at all as it was a newly built unit. I've experienced really weird things throughout the years and that few weeks I've actually had burning sensations on my neck/back and when I look they're huge scratches! Really throws me! (Being a nail biter )

@LucyAutumn @LouH1981 @Elieza
I seem to have been really lucky as I dont meditate or eat any special diet for it to happen. It's all about being aware of the moment you are about to fall asleep. I wake anytime between 5am-10am and put on my eye mask and ear plugs. I allow my body to fall asleep but try to keep my mind awake. I see swirling colours in front of me and watch those to keep my mind awake. I start to see images flash in front of me. When I hear a loud tapping sound or a whooshing sound I know it's about to happen. It's important to relax at this point. I then rise from my body. It's such a strange feeling.

So the main part is to be aware of the point that your body is falling asleep. I don't manage to do it late at night as I'm too tired.

It feels completely different from dreams, even lucid dreams. With lucid dreams I just kind of become aware I'm dreaming by looking at clocks and them not making sense. Then go have fun in my dream world. With astral projection, I can literally feel myself rise from my body. I start off in my house everytime. I can float through doors, walls and windows. Windows feel like floating through a pane of water. I can feel changes in air temperature if I go outside.

I'm on a Facebook group for astral projection. There's over 40,000 of us talking about our experiences and helping others. I have taught 2 people successfully to do it, using my techniques above 😊

I worked in an adult hospice that had been a burns hospital during WWII. There was one room we only put clients in if all the other rooms were occupied. It had a call bell that would go off when no one was in there (yes, had it checked multiple times by sparks, maintenance, etc. there was no malfunction). You'd go in there to switch the call off and it would be back on by the time you got back to the desk.

If clients were in there their visitors would often say they thought some random was in there as they could see someone sitting in the chair by the window but no one was there. One client was blind but she kept ringing all night to 'Get all these people out of my room!'

HATED walking past that room to the stores as something was always amiss with it - the window would be open in Winter, the cupboard door flung open, one of the chairs upended, etc.

Final straw came when a staff member went in there was the window was open again, the door slammed shut when his back was turned and then it would not open. Other people were trying to get him out, no joy for a good ten minutes.

They closed it off and made it into storage and partitioned off a lounge area to create another room. You'd still hear shit from in there, though, banging and slamming.

Creepy AF.

Shameless place marking

Not spooky, but different...

A few years ago, some friends and I were taking part in a druid ritual in the stones at Stonehenge a day or so after the summer solstice. There was obviously a bit of setting up to do for the ritual once we were inside the stones so I decided to ground myself. I was wearing a long linen dress and a wool cloak and had my feet bare on the grass. I balanced myself, wriggling my toes into the grass and closed my eyes. I started to hear low chanting to the sound of drums. Thinking we were starting, I opened my eyes - no one was either drumming or chanting; everyone was either setting up or chatting quietly. I closed my eyes - drumming and chanting; opened my eyes - nothing. I closed my eyes and tried to tune into the rhythm until the ritual started and I had to open my eyes. Not frightening but weird: I only heard the drumming and chanting when my eyes were closed and I was trying to centre myself, and I only heard the modern day sounds when my eyes were open.

@ChristmasMistletoe1234 I hope you don't mind me asking, but when you leave your body do you see spirits/ghosts? And if so, aren't you worried that one could go into your body while you are out of it? Or can't that happen? I don't know if you remain attached to your body somehow or whether there would ever be something that could prevent you from going back to it.

@FruitcakeOfHate 😮 holy moses

@SirChing please ask any questions you like. I'd say it's more like your consciousness is leaving your body, or one of your consciousness. I've had a very odd experience where I was aware I had gone astral but I was aware of my physical body at the same time. It feels bizarre. It's like what I imagine being on ketamine to be like. It's a powerful experience but raises more questions than it answers. I don't worry about other beings entering my body. I've never seen other spirits but I have felt an entity touch my physical body while I was astral.

I'd like to add that I don't do witchcraft or have a religion, I'm a normal mum living in Scotland! My life is average, I have experienced very little paranormal stuff apart from this!

@ChristmasMistletoe1234 Is that because you believe that they can't enter your body whilst part of you is out of it?

Interesting that you couldn't see the entity which touched you, or had your consciousness left your room at that time?

At the age of almost 72 I can remember, and 'see', a cold snowy day, just before I was 4 in February, I trailed after my mother when she went to get coal from the bunker in the side of the house late morning. The neighbour across the road came to the end of our path and called to my Mpther, Oh, isn't it awful, the king's dead',
My mother always swore this never happened, my father brought the news when he came up with a cup of tea before he went to work.
When the various anniversaries have been on in recent years it was said that the news was released at 11.30. My mother had by that stage died but I can still see what she swore never happened!

@SirChing I guess I don't know if they can enter my body but the group I'm in it's widely believed that they can't. If it happens then oh well 😂

The entity was behind me, like I could feel hands on my back but didn't want to open my eyes as that would stop it all most likely. I can't explain what happened, it was really weird and an entity is the only way I can describe it. I thought this kind of thing all happened to woo people 😂

*only happened

@ChristmasMistletoe1234 Ah I see. Maybe you now have become a woo person? They all have to start somewhere

Thanks for so patiently explaining. It's really interesting but I am too scared to try it!

@Tunnocks34

Your brain is awake but body is still asleep basically. www.nhs.uk/conditions/sleep-paralysis/