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AIBU - to want to know your spooky stories

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LouH1981 · 02/01/2020 18:51

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...

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Meggie2008 · 05/01/2020 10:19

@Katiet123 weird!! I never felt it at the time, so I can't say whether it happened in the vaults or in the cemetery, I never felt cold like you did or anything. It's a really special place, going back in July and I always recommend people go and do it

custardbear · 05/01/2020 10:29

I write this one all the time so apologies if you've read it. My nanny died in 1981 and at her funeral lightening struck our home and caused a small amount of damage to aerial Bakelite boxing. My mum always said it was nanny saying goodbye and for years after, til she died, told me she'd make a storm when she died, id joke about not hitting my house!
20 mins after she died there was a huge storm across the East Midlands where I live and turned out to be a large 3x supercell thunderstorms across where I live and my brother too - 28 June 2012 - it's on Wikipedia though doesn't mention my mum Wink

Maydayredalert · 05/01/2020 10:32

I live in a really old house and where the original back door is now leads to an extension (so it is now an internal door, if you see what I mean). It is a huge heavy door with a massive knocker.

Just after we moved in I was in the kitchen with my youngest, about 4 at the time. There was no one else in the house, and all the doors were locked.

Then there was a knock at the now internal, original back door. A very friendly, jaunty knock, but still a definite knock. No one on the other side obvs. I wasn't freaked out but told them that they were welcome here but to please not scare the children. I've heard nothing since.

I think it is the lady who lived here for many years, she was born and died here (electrocuted in my spare room). My neighbour tells me she sees her in the garden sometimes but I never have.

coiner · 05/01/2020 10:56

she was born and died here(electrocuted in my spare room)

Woah woah woah... story please?!

Maydayredalert · 05/01/2020 11:06

@coiner nothing spooky, just bad luck! She was in her 80s so I had assumed she died of old age, however a neighbour told me that she was cold in the night (as she refused to put the heating on) so got up for a glass of whisky and was electrocuted when she switched on the light.

The house has been rewired since!

Foreverblowingbubbles1 · 05/01/2020 11:20

My dad was sadly an addict of heroin and chose to continue using than have a relationship with me. He lived at home with his mum and step dad (my "pop")
One early morning I was awoken, feeling like someone was watching me. It was exactly 5:52am and right over me stood my "pop" I could make out, he was wearing his big shoulder pads and a cap he always wore. I couldn't do anything but watch, he floated to the end of my bed and float upwards to the ceiling and disappeared.
I got a call that morning to say my pop had passed away. Around the exact time I saw him. His last words to my dad were "if you cant make sure your kids are OK, i will"
My dad passed away a few years later and sadly I've never saw him, although I struggled with having a baby and had 6 miscarriages before he passed. Then I fell pregnant with my DS and pregnancy was plain sailing! I went to see a psychic not long after I had my DS and she said that my dad was absolutely besotted with my DS and that my dad had met my DS before I did. (psychic didn't know I had a son or that my dad had passed) funnily enough, my DS is the spitting image of my dad.

Dustarr73 · 05/01/2020 14:51

I have had a few things happen to me.But 2 of the most recent were dreams.

Ist dream,i had a dream of my mam and uncle [both deceased]with a pram.I was there as well.Now im to old to be pregnant,but i told ds1 the next day.
Few days later ds2 told me his gf was pregnant.

2nd dream happened about 6 months ago,a friend who i had never met appeared to me.She was part of the same groups as me on fb and we had chatted a lot on Twitter.She was a really lovely person.

Anyway about 2 days later we found out she had died,and the dream was in and around the same time she had passed.

LucyAutumn · 05/01/2020 18:01

'Bump' Xmas Grin

IdiotInDisguise · 05/01/2020 19:17

@ChristmasMistletoe1234, just another question if you don’t mind.

Is your body safe while you are “out”? Meaning, would you feel a problem and be able to get back quickly and sort it? Let’s say the house fought fire of somebody has tripped over you, would you know?

ChristmasMistletoe1234 · 05/01/2020 19:27

@IdiotInDisguise in those types of cases I would snap back to my body automatically like waking from a dream as far as I know. It's like it all just disappears and I'm back to my body again. It is similar to dreaming but it feels so different.

AwdBovril · 05/01/2020 20:10

I've got a few incidents but nothing major.

Apparently when I was a baby, I would wave, babble & smile at something in my parents' bedroom. They were pretty convinced I could see something - I looked like I was focusing on a specific object, occasionally it mived around the room but mostly it was in one corner of the room. I didn't do it in any other rooms of the house, or anywhere else. The house had, some years before they bought it, been subject to a fire, & a man had burnt to death in that room. (Glad I never knew that while I lived there!)

When I was little, I used to get really strong bad feelings occasionally. Often something scary would happen shortly after. The worst was when I was about 4 or 5, we were driving along in the dark on an unlit, winding country road, in the hilltops. On one side of the road was a steep hillside falling away about 200-300ft, protected only by a wooden fence. For some reason, this bit of road has a significant adverse camber, so the road slopes away down the hill, it's an accident nightmare TBH.
Anyway, my dad was driving & we were just about to go round the corner of the hill & I felt terrified, like a cold dead fear had hold of me. I just started screaming. My dad stopped about 10m short of the corner in the road (blind corner) & my parents looked at me to ask what's wrong, I couldn't explain it. My mother slapped my leg and literally just as she slapped me again a car rocketed around the bend on the wrong side, barely missing our front bumper (I think it's the only time I ever heard my dad swear). My mother's head shot round & my dad just quietly said "he'd have had us off the road". We drove home in silence & my sister & I we were sent straight to bed. I still remember the blazing argument they had when they thought we were asleep. My mother denies it happened, now, but my dad remembers.

There were 2 major car accidents on my road when I was a child - the road had a nasty turn that was known for being a bit of a black spot. Both nights I'd been unable to sleep - usually I would read until sleepy, lay down & I'd be out. I found out much later that what was my room had been subject to an almost identical accident many years earlier which took out a good part of the house, including knocking down my entire bedroom (2nd storey) & the house had to be rebuilt.

I had a dreadful dream one night when I was in my early teens. Dark swirling, unidentifiable things floating all around me, panic & felt like my chest was afire, I couldn't breathe. Hands coming from the dark, grabbing at me & pulling me down. The next day people were talking about the ferry Estonia that had apparently sunk with over 800 people lost.

Regularly throughout my teens I'd have a few hours, or occasionally a couple of days of feeling really unsettled about something, sometimes it was really vague but sometimes I'd get dreams, weird phobia-like fears etc. Often followed by something horrible - a death, some particularly hideous thing on the news, etc. It stopped happening when my depression lifted in my early 20s.

FruitcakeOfHate · 05/01/2020 20:52

@FruitcakeOfHate Wow, it sounds fascinating. So how far do you go? What is the passage of time like? For example can you leave for what feels like 5 mins but when you wake it’s been an hour? Are you mentally knackered when your body wakes?
(Sorry for all the questions!)

I think you mean Christmas there. I haven't gone anywhere. Smile I've just lived in and worked in a couple of weird places.

IdiotInDisguise · 05/01/2020 21:00

Christmas, do you ever worry you may not be able to come back?

LittleSweet · 05/01/2020 21:25

Isn't astral projection the problem in Insidious?

LilyJade · 05/01/2020 21:28

I rented an old flat, the building had a concierge who told me the previous occupant was an old lady called Lily.
I asked where Lily had moved to but he changed the subject.

Every night at the same time part of the lounge would turn freezing cold.
It began to scare me as I suspected that Lily had in fact died there & never left.

One night I had enough and said, "Lily if that's you please stop it".
Strangely enough that part of the lounge never turned cold at that time again!!

tinkerbellla · 05/01/2020 21:59

Love this but shitting self

MaryPopppins · 05/01/2020 22:01

Thanks everyone. 😂

Now I need a wee and am having to beg my DH to come with me as the hall light isn't on and the switch is a bit far to walk in the dark.

He's no help "you'll be fine - just don't turn around and see the screaming skull"

Wanker.

I think I saw a ghost once.

When I was a teen I used to get the bus home from my weekend job and then walk home.

One evening an old lady got off the bus after me. Quite little and frail.

It was a long road and she walked behind me and I checked a couple of times that she was ok as it was Sunday evening and nothing open.

There was just a railway line (high fence) and allotments to either side so that time of day nothing open, no where to go except either end of the road.

But one of the times I looked back she was gone. I don't know what made me keep looking at her, as I was pretty shy and wouldn't have kept looking backwards when walking normally.

SilverOtter · 06/01/2020 00:03

I'm loving reading these, but think I might stop or I'll never sleep. I shall resume in the daylight😂

CelebrityDave · 06/01/2020 00:03

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Mumof3dragons · 06/01/2020 00:49

My grandpa died when I was 2. I didn't go to the funeral as I was too young. Apparently my mum was trying to change me on the morning of the funeral and I was struggling, whinging, trying to get away from her etc.

She said I suddenly went still, gazed up at the ceiling, tracked something across the room up high with my eyes...broke into a big smile and waved saying "bye bye Grandpa. Love you too".

She said the goosebumps made her sit down and cry.

MadisonAvenue · 06/01/2020 13:46

I've had a few experiences.

The first I remember was when I was around 7 or 8 and my Nan had recently died. I woke in the night and could feel my forehead being stroked, I looked at the side of the bed and my Nan was there. It could've been a dream but a few years ago I was talking to a friend who is a Medium and she told me that she was talking to my Nan and she gave me a message which was actually something my Nan always used to say to me every time I saw her. I'd never had the need to tell anyone what it was before that so it wasn't information she'd gleaned from somewhere.

On another occasion I was about to tell the Medium friend something my son had told me about which was a past life story and he was 4 at the time so couldn't have known one of the details. She stopped me and went on to tell me exactly what my son had said including his name and the age which he'd been when he died in his supposed previous life.

My father in law died when our oldest son was 2. A few days after he'd died I'd come home with our son, taken him out of his buggy in the hall and gone into the lounge with him to settle him with some toys while I made lunch. There was a loud bang in the hall, it sounded like something being dropped onto the stained floorboards and I assumed that it was my bag falling off the third stair up where I'd quickly put it before sorting my son out but when I went in pick it up there was nothing at all on the floor. As I walked back into the living room a Christmas card fell from the shelf and it was the one from my father in law, none of the other cards on the shelf fell.

I used to manage a shop which was in an old Victorian building. I saw misty people-sized shapes which slowly disappeared a few times in the upstairs stockroom and boxes would fall from shelves for no apparent reason. There was a staircase from there which led to the downstairs stockroom and we had to walk past that to the staff area. I always avoided looking up as I was certain that there'd be a man looking down at me. It was such a strong feeling that I had and I always walked past with my eyes trained on the floor. I never told anyone because part of me thought I was just being silly.
One day a staff member was mopping the downstairs stockroom while I was working in my office when suddenly I heard the mop hit the floor and she ran shaking into my office because she'd glanced up and seen a man looking down the stairs at her.

AwdBovril · 06/01/2020 15:30

I forgot to mention before, I think I saw a ghost once, but I'm not really sure. It was just a sort of person-shaped outline in the air, like the air had a slightly thicker texture there, or something, I'm probably not explaining that very well. It just some of moved through the other end of the room (massive 8 bedroom student house, the shape was right at the other end of the living room-kitchen area, the whole g/f had been knocked through & made open plan). It just moved slowly past, sort of in a walking motion, stopped, & faded away. I'm the only one who saw it, & it only happened once. That room was always really cold though, even in summer, everyone complained about it. But we never had anything weird happen, & no-one ever said anything about an unpleasant atmosphere - in fact, we were definitely the laid-back, chilled party house of the area... and people regularly used to crash in that room. There were 3 sofas & they were regularly occupied on a weekend morning. It must have been a friendly ghost. I did smell it a few times, though. It smelled of pipe tobacco & coalsmoke.

SuzieBishop · 06/01/2020 16:22

@GetMeOffThisCycleOfMisery your story brought tears to my eyes 💓

LittleMissTeacup · 06/01/2020 23:33

I shouldn’t have read this before bed, but some great stories here!

LouH1981 · 07/01/2020 05:43

@MadisonAvenue The man on the stairs...arghhhhh😱😱😱!

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