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Creepiest thing that has happened to you that you can not explain?

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Snowcappedmountains · 28/04/2020 20:04

AIBU to ask about the creepiest thing that has ever happened to you that you cannot explain?

I realise threads like these have probably been done to death but I am super bored and struggling to find anything to watch/read.

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StormBaby · 30/04/2020 09:55

I worked in a clinical environment on a fairly boring industrial estate for about 5 years. At some point or another every person in that building had their name loudly whispered into their ears, in almost a angry hiss. I personally had it three times. One time we were sat in a circle doing the morning handover and I had "STORM!!!" hissed loudly in my left ear. Even one of the very staid, sensible management staff, with a very unusual name(Eowyn), had it.

CatkinToadflax · 30/04/2020 10:21

Not scary or particularly creepy but rather lovely.

My dad died a week ago today, last Thursday morning. It was expected and wasn't covid related. Even though we knew his death was coming, we didn't know this time last week if it was going to be hours, days or weeks. I think we were all expecting a few more days.

Anyway, earlier last week I decided to order some really nice new bedding. I'm shielding currently and fancied a treat. Last Thursday morning it suddenly occurred to me that, when it arrived, I would save it until after my dad had gone as it would be a nice cheer-up. Literally a couple of minutes after having this thought, I received an email from Yodel stating that the bedding would be delivered on Saturday. Half an hour after I received the Yodel email my mum called with the very sad news that my dad had died. While I was still on the phone to my mum, DH appeared with a package for me - Yodel had delivered my lovely new bedding, right when I needed it. On Thursday night I was desperately sad but I went to bed in my lovely new bedding. Thank you Dad x

The3rdWatermelon · 30/04/2020 11:02

My DP (now DH) and I had a flat together for a while in the city where we both went to uni. He got a job in Spain over the summer, while I stayed in the flat on my own.
One morning I woke up, opened my eyes, and there was DP leaning over the bed staring really intensely into my face. I jumped, screamed out loud, and threw the covers over my head. He didn’t say anything, so I peeked out, and he was gone.
I phoned him and he answered, from Spain.
I was really upset for the rest of the day. The vision of DP had been so close I could see the eyelashes and pores of his skin, but his tattoo was on the wrong arm, and I’d got a horrible, threatening feeling from him. His expression was so cold, like he was judging me and almost sneering at me. This was years ago and it still makes me feel sick when I remember it.

BumBurnerBum · 30/04/2020 11:06

This is something that happened to a family that mine were very friendly with in the 90s.

They had moved to a new house, the main attraction of which was an absolutely huge family room. The room had been made so big because the previous owner had been a semi-professional snooker player that liked to have a full sized table to play on in his home.

Sadly the young man had died by suicide (I have no idea if in the home or not.)

As soon as they moved into the property they would wake in the morning and many of the windows had been opened. They blamed their son (about 9 at the time) who vociferously denied it, and I think he got into trouble over it.

At the same time the mother of the family (and possibly others, I can't remember) started getting bad headaches.

Then their boiler started playing up. When they called in the engineer to fix it, he condemned it immediately as it had been belching out Carbon Monoxide.

The windows and doors were never opened at night again.

I like to think that the spirit of the previous owner was trying to save the young family from Carbon Monoxide poisoning. It also occurred to us that depression is a symptom of Carbon Monoxide poisoning, which may have led to his suicide.

A sort of sad but sweet story.

Wewearpinkonwednesdays · 30/04/2020 11:32

There was a story by a poster who had bought a really cheap villa in spain somewhere, I think?
Her story stuck in my head. I found it bloody terrifying.
They are spereated now, but they never used the villa, and never sold it on because they didn't want anyone else to experience what they had.

Also a few years back, I read one where where someone's mum had woken up to a man stroking her feet while she lay in bed. Turns out it was an actual live man, and he had come in through the window, while they were all asleep. That was bloody creepy.

Oakmaiden · 30/04/2020 11:38

I had an experience once similar (though far less intense) than the Savernake Forest story.

Walking on Dartmoor with my Dad and our loopy dog. I must have been about 10 years old. We were heading up to Sittaford Tor from Postbridge, via Grey Wethers - a prehistoric stone circle - when a sudden thick fog comes down. Really poor visibility. Obviously, being hardened walkers and expert navigators (OK -- my dad was) we were undaunted and continued on. We were nearing the stone circle when suddenly our dog stopped still, hackles raised, growling and refusing to move. Seemed to stay there for ages. And then just stopped and was back to normal bouncy dog.

It was very, very odd.

Survivalmode36 · 30/04/2020 11:55

My FIL died a few years ago and was a real character. Always had stories and would help anyone out. He snuck a drink whenever MIL wasnt around in his last few years as he deteriorated with cancer, and I used to cover for him as it seemed pointless to get him into trouble.

He would often lose or drop things as the illness progressed and I'd help out when I could.

Recently I was a bit drunk with a friend and thought id left my wallet in a taxi. I was cursing myself, crouching on the ground, looking in my bag, when at about a million miles an hour my wallet splats on the ground from the sky between us. We both looked at each other in shock like WTAF. No car nearby, nobody but us.

Picked up my phone and there on the screen is literally the only pic I have of FIL. There are about 20 of us in the pic and it is ZOOMED IN ON HIS FACE. The pic was from Facebook. Even if I'd opened the Facebook app...I hadn't, the last app had been Uber for the ride home....why would I have gone into an old album and zoomed in on FIL.

Had to have a whisky.

He would have approved 🤣

nopixelsfound · 30/04/2020 12:24

A relatives story, creepy but also a blessing.

Walking along in a relatively quiet park, her DD running and then stopping very abruptly saying “I’m so tired, I don’t want to walk any more, so tired” in a typical 4 year old whiny tone.

As you would, DR was chiding her on “come on, you do this all the time, you’re not tired, we’ve got to walk back to the car” when she heard a voice from the trees “It’s her heart, don’t you know it’s her heart, you need to take her to a doctor!!”

No sign of anyone around, her DD didn’t seem to have heard and once what DR had thought was a bit of a tantrum was over she went back to skipping along. But it stuck in her head, she took her DD to the GP and explained and he examined her with the classic “Pacifying ridiculous parent” attitude - until he listened to her heart. She had a major issue and ended up having emergency surgery within 48 hours, with DR later being told it could have killed her at any point.

They’d had no idea - apart from the occasional complaints about being tired which really just seemed like normal four year old “Don’t want to do this any more” she’d seemed entirely healthy and there were no heart problems in the family.

AliceTeale · 30/04/2020 12:25

There have been some brilliant spooky
stories on here and I really hope they’re true!

The Savernake forest story - I wish the OP of that one would come along and reassure us it’s true!

The story about the OP who saw the daughter of her NDN in the garden after she’d sadly committed suicide.

The pile of toys in the school.

The nightclub boy.

The poster who saw (I think) the ghost of someone who’d hanged themselves in a stable...

Love them all.

Applejaxx · 30/04/2020 12:26

Ive been going for lots of long walks during the lockdown and have discovered some really nice places I didn't know existed right on my doorstep, lovely nature and wildife etc. I'll defiitely carry on visiting after this is over.

Anyway I digress. A few weeks ago I was looking for somewhere different for a change and found out about and old quarry/mine that had been transformed into offices and had lots of paths and walks nearby. Now im not usually bothered by walking on my own anywhere, and at the moment there are so many people about so it doesn't feel lonely. However this place, despite being right in the middle of a village full of people felt wrong. It was eerily quiet there was no one else about at all despite it being a beautiful sunny bank holiday. The pithead buildings are still there but derelict and boarded closed off as presumably they are dangerous. It gave me the chills and I couldn't wait to leave.

I wondered if there had been some kind of mine disaster there asked my DF who is local and said not that he knew of but the mine had closed a long long time ago. I googled and found it had closed in the 1930's, but many years before that there had been a strike there due to poor working conditions which had turned into a riot. Don't know if this is relevant but I won't be going back in a hurry!

mrsduff · 30/04/2020 12:52

My mum died quite suddenly after a short illness, I rushed to be with her as she died in hospital. The rest of the family had left to get some sleep, so when she passed away, at 3:15am, it was just me and her and was very peaceful.

One and off for about a year after she died, I would wake with a start in the early hours of the morning and the time would always be the same - 3:15am. To the point that it became a bit scary and I would almost dread checking the time on my phone as it would always be the time that she died.

The last time it happened, I had woken up after dreaming about her. The dream was so incredibly realistic, there was no dreamlike quality to it at all. She was in the kitchen with my daughter and it took me a while to take in the fact that she was stood in front of me - I just asked her what she was doing here and she said 'I'm always here..' Woke up for real and, yep, it was 3:15am. For days afterwards I was quite shaken up about it as it really felt like she had visited me.

Anyway, I am rambling, and this is not very scary! But wondered if anyone else experienced similar?

FOJN · 30/04/2020 13:12

I've had a couple of mildly weird experiences but wasn't particularly spooked by them at the time. I've heard far more weird and very spooky stories from other people which I'll try to share later.

About 25 years ago I was living in a Victorian end terrace with my then partner. It was essentially a two up, two down to which a kitchen extension had been added at the back of the house. There was an alley between our house and the one next door which we owned but they had right or way through. We never used it because being an end terrace we had street access from the back garden on the other side of the house. The neighbours only used it if they wanted to take something into their garden which they didn't want to take through the house, so very rarely. I was in the kitchen, cooking dinner with my partner, one evening at about 7 pm when we both heard footsteps coming from the direction of the alley, the footsteps sound continued around the kitchen extension and out toward the street. There were two windows in the kitchen so we would have seen someone pass by on the path but neither of us did although we both heard the footsteps and looked out of the windows to see who it was. Our neighbours weren't CF's so it would have been highly unusual if they had just wondered through our garden. The gate onto the street was bolted and a bit rusty so made a screeching noise when wriggled open. We both went out to see who was there but the garden was empty and despite not having heard the gate being opened we looked out onto the street which was also empty. Neither of us are woo and despite finding it a bit perplexing didn't wonder if it was some supernatural occurrence. The fact that the memory is still vivid reflects that after all these years I have still not been able to come up with a logical explanation.

A few years later I was living on my own in a modern house. The house had two allocated parking spaces in a shared car park. I was returning from work one evening at about 9pm, parked the car and was walking towards the house when I heard the heavy breathing of a runner, no footsteps, the sounds came towards me and I felt the draft of someone running past me, quite close, but there was no one there.

In the same car park, again returning from work in the evening, I heard someone say "hello FOJN" but again there was no one there. I said hello back assuming it was a neighbour but got no response. I didn't recognise the voice and it was the kind of neighbourhood where people kept to themselves so I can only think of one neighbour who knew my name and she was female, the voice was male. I have to admit that one did spook me a bit as I wondered who was watching me from a concealed place.

I'll try to post some of the stories I've been told later.

peoplewhoannoyyou · 30/04/2020 13:49

When I was 15 my family were on holiday in an old cottage in a village in Dorset. It was at the end of a small terrace of thatched cottages. The hatch to the loft was in my bedroom. One morning I woke up at about 5am, it was June so light already. I heard the sound of someone walking in the attic. It sounded like they were at the far end of the terrace, walking purposely towards the end we were at, with the beams in the attic creaking noisily. Probably took 20 seconds. The footsteps got to the hatch in my room then stopped. No sound - no sound of them going back, no creaking noises through the ceiling, no moving about at all. I stayed there, frozen, until my dad came into my room about 9:30am wondering why I hadn't come down for breakfast yet. The whole time, there was no sound from the loft at all.

I am certain that I'd have heard them moving about if it was actually someone up there. It was a small village so very quiet outside. I don't know for sure that the attic was one long one extending the whole length of the terrace but that is quite common in older properties. I certainly wasn't tempted to open the hatch and check.

Another weird incident, a coincidence really, occurred a couple of years ago. For no reason I can think of I dreamt of an old money box I had when I was about four, a porcelain thing with Peter Rabbit on it. I'd never dreamt of it before, never even thought about it in thirty years. I woke up, got the bus to work, and got a Peter Rabbit 50p coin in my change - the only one to date I've received.

WriteronaMission · 30/04/2020 14:10

I'm only on page 4 right now but don't have time to RTFT yet. Sort of placemaking to remind me but also share mine.

When I was at boarding school, I was sleeping in one Sunday. Everyone else from my dorm was out of the room. I suffer from sleep paralysis very rarely and had it that morning.

I heard the door open (and close because it was one of those fire doors) and then heard someone come in the room and stand over my bed. By the time I could finally move and open my eyes, there was nobody there. The door hadn't opened again but I know there was someone above me because I'd heard a shuffling sound.

Still can't figure it out to this day. I'd asked my dorm mates if they'd been in the room (didn't explain anything to them at this point) but the ones who were around the building hadn't left the room they were in.

Apparently when I was little, I told my mum there was "a man in the room." I don't remember this but my parents went to the room to check and there was noone there. The front door was locked. I then told them "it's okay. He's often here checking on me." My parents do believe in ghosts (reason why is a story for another time) and wondered if it was my late grandfather checking up on me now and then. When I sensed the person above me at boarding school I immediately thought of this. It had felt like a male presence.

It's not happened since marrying and have kids. Part of me does wonder if my parents were right and that my late grandfather would check on me until he knew I had someone else to look after me. He was very old fashioned that way.

The3rdWatermelon · 30/04/2020 14:13

All the dark shapes and figures at windows and footsteps also puts me in mind of something that happened to my parents a few years ago.

They’re farmers and live in a fairly big farmhouse. The house is very cold and damp, with dark corners and odd creaking noises. It’s on a hill so the wind whistles in the chimney and bowls around it. It’s a prime location for getting thoroughly creeped out.
One night they were watching tv late at night. They suddenly heard footsteps right outside the door and then the door started to rattle as though someone was trying to push through it. My parents leapt to their feet and my dad went to put his boots on while my mum was just frozen in the middle of the room. There was a loud crash from outside and a dark shape loomed up against the living room window.
My dad flung the door open, with a stout stick in his hand, and... found himself confronted by a big heifer standing in the porch! About thirty cattle had got out of their shed and had made their way en masse into the garden, where they were busy gawping into the house windows and bumping into the garden furniture.
My poor mother had nearly wet herself in fear and had to go out in her nightie and wellies to herd them back to where they should have been.

BackseatCookers · 30/04/2020 14:28

Oh my god the nightclub boy does anyone have that saved / have a link to it? It's my favourite and I always forget to save it!

anxietrist · 30/04/2020 15:19

Ooh what's the nightclub boy one?!

SlimBig · 30/04/2020 15:25

I searched it, is it on here
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_unexplained/2161707-Give-us-your-eerie-stories

anxietrist · 30/04/2020 15:34

Thanks @SlimBig & it has another link in it to another thread too! Lots of bedtime reading later 😁

WTF0ver · 30/04/2020 15:53

Been reading these as I work from home and feeling quite creeped out! I keep looking over my shoulder lol. I just hope I don't remember certain stories when it's dark! Got a vivid imagination.

I just took 5 minutes to go and pluck some stray eyebrow hairs. Sat by my bed in front of the bay window, tweezers in hand and suddenly something swooped down at the window, seen in the hand mirror. It was a seagull! I just about shat myself Grin

Gin4thewin · 30/04/2020 15:54

Following!

doobiedop · 30/04/2020 16:20

@Raccoon2020vision it does have a nasty history. What's the Irish castle?

Zomblie · 30/04/2020 16:33

Something completely unknown and unexplainable happened to me yesterday...

I emptied the washing basket. Completely.

I had to have a bit of a sit down.

The world righted itself however when DS bought down a whole weeks worth of dirties.

In all seriousness I have mini time slips from time to time, nothing drastic like walking into the blitz or anything but more like 15 minutes of lost time.

I live a 4 minute walk from the kids school. I left the house at 7:55am for breakfast club at 8am. I can confirm it was 7:55am as both my phone clock and the time on the screen on the morning kids TV matched.

We walked out normal route at our normal time... but didn't get to the school til nearly 8:20am. The TA commented that she thought the kids were poorly AND I was late for work so I know it was later than it should be and not just my phone giving the wrong time.

Same thing happened occasionally when walking to the bus when I was at school, would leave the house in plenty of time and arrive at the bus stop a good ten minutes after the time I should.

Very odd.

lockitdown · 30/04/2020 16:50

In the past, not so much now, I used to frequently hear someone say my name.
For example, I'd be sitting on a bus and would randomly hear "lockitdown" as though someone was trying to get my attention from a few rows down on the bus.
Never aggressive, just like someone calling me from the next room.

custardbear · 30/04/2020 17:24

Wow love these stories!
Mine is a bit strange, mentioned it before in MN.
When my nanny died, at her funeral there was a massive thunderstorm and lightening hit our house, caused a small problem by blowing out the aerial socket but nothing bad. My mum said it was her mum saying goodbye and would cause a thunderstorm when she died - it was something she said regularly so the day she died, it had been coming for months, there were three supercell thunderstorms they hit the UK one where I live and another near my brother! It was 28 June 2012 - well documented storm! I'm sure it was her saying goodbye

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