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JustGetThroughTheDay · 26/09/2020 19:35

As it's almost Halloween season (for what it's worth) and because I have gone through every previous thread of similar stories.
I have a few but the first one that comes to mind is that a distant elderly relative lived in a dormer bungalow. The whole house felt oppressive and dark. I can't explain the feeling. I was maybe 13. If I went to the loo I would make someone else come with me.
One day, for some reason, my dad showed me the upstairs of the house and it was even more awful feeling than the downstairs. It was literally a bedroom and a tiny en-suite. No one else in the room but there was an indentation in the mattress that looked like someone was sat on the end of the bed. Stared at it for a bit and as I went to point it out to my dad it slowly raised back up to normal size.

When I tried to broach it with elderly relative she was so blasé about it that it made me feel a bit stupid. She was like 'oh yeah, built on an Indian burial ground (in north Lancashire) so I get lots of visitors'
I've only ever felt that oppressive feeling once since in Edinburgh castle (not in the dungeons)

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JustGetThroughTheDay · 27/09/2020 09:07

Anyone?

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Hingeandbracket · 27/09/2020 09:10

Yabu

JustGetThroughTheDay · 27/09/2020 14:01

@Hingeandbracket

Yabu
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FancyARoot · 27/09/2020 14:14

I love these threads!!

JustGetThroughTheDay · 27/09/2020 15:58

@FancyARoot

I love these threads!!
Me too but I can't seem to get anyone else to reply! Blush
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Mammylamb · 27/09/2020 16:02

I love them too, but reckon peeps are all out of stories...

QuestionableMouse · 27/09/2020 16:11

I mean it is nearly Halloween 🧟🧟🧟

Some houses just feel heavy and bad. I went to an agricultural college when I left school and the halls there felt awful on weekends (it had accommodation and most students stayed Mon-Fri) I stayed weekends and was typically alone in a huge building. I used to run along the hallway to reach the bathroom or kitchen. Just felt like I was being watched all of the time. Was properly creepy.

Laiste · 27/09/2020 16:15

There's been quite a few of them recently so maybe everyone with the inclination has already given their story OP :)

I'll 'do' one of mine (although i've told them all on here before)

Me DH and DD4 in car when DD was tiny in rear facing seat. Driving down the country lanes near our house when she loses her blanket. I pull over into an area in front of the gate to a field. Massive flat field with ankle length straw stubble, hedge hip height or missing completely all along the road edge and the gate is wide open. No other hedges or trees for miles.

I jump out and nip to the back door of the car to see to DDs blanket and as i do i glance up and see a couple walking hand in hand through the field towards us. I guess they are ... 30 meters away. I remember they both wore navy waterproof walking gear. Strolling close together aiming towards this gateway.

I finish with DD (less than 10 seconds) and get back in the driving seat and as i buckle up i look past DHs face to see how close the couple have got (everyone waves at everyone round here).

They've disappeared. I blink a bit and DH sees me looking past him and he looks that way too and then says '' ... where the hell have they gone ... ?'' So he'd seen them as well. We both sit and stare at this big empty field like a pair of numptys for a few moments, we look at each other, then i drive away.

Without posting an actual photo i can't explain well enough how there was No.Where for 2 adults to have gone in the 10 seconds it took for them to disappear. Really really weird.

MesmerisingMinerva · 27/09/2020 16:19

I love these threads. Does anyone have any links to recent ones? It's been a while since I was on here.

Mrsfrumble · 27/09/2020 16:48

I’ve told this one before, but here we go.

Many years ago, before the days of digital photography, I did my art foundation course at a rural FE college where the photography darkroom was rumoured to be haunted. Darkrooms are obviously a bit creepy anyway, with only dim red lighting most of the time, but there were stories of students hearing heavy breathing or being touched while they were in there alone. One time a friend was working in there by himself and felt like he was being watched. Eventually he freaked out enough to turn the main light on, and of course saw the room was otherwise empty, so calmed down, switched off the light and got back to work. To his annoyance, he realised he’d had paper in the enlarger which had now been exposed to the light and ruined. When he’d finished he took his prints over to the developing solution, including the ruined paper which should have turned completely black in the chemicals. Only it didn’t; instead a child’s handprint appeared... For the rest of the term he wouldn’t go in there alone!

At the end of term we all went to the pub with the tutors, and after a few drinks the course leader told us that that part of the building had been exorcised more than once over the years, but they didn’t tell the students so as not to freak them out. A few years after I left there was a fire and the building was destroyed.

MilkOfThePuppy · 27/09/2020 19:31

My story isn't very exciting, but I've never shared it on MN before.

When I was 3 or 4, I went through a period of having night terrors. I would suddenly start screaming like a banshee in the middle of the night, waking my parents with the kind of shockingly piercing cries only a terrified child can make.

One night, my father was tangled in the sheets and ended up falling hard out of bed in his hurry to get to me, barely awake himself. I'm not sure if it was that night or on another occasion, but once when they went to calm me, I'd stopped screaming by the time they got to me.

Instead, I was sitting up in bed, staring at something they couldn't see and not immediately responding to my parents. I was speaking incoherently, looking all the while at nothing, so far as they could tell. My mother asked who I was talking to, and eventually I answered that I was talking to that old woman... and pointed into the room, where there was nothing remotely resembling a person.

This was creepy and interesting enough that they mentioned it in passing to my grandmother and great-great-aunt, who lived with my grandparents for as long back as I can remember. My parents thought it was eerie, but nothing more than a child's nightmare; however, my g-g-aunt matter-of-factly told them that if it happened again, they should stand behind me and look over my shoulder, which would allow them to see what I was seeing. Confused

Apparently there was some story that the people who lived on our land before we did (in a house that had been torn down in the meantime) may have hidden some money somewhere on the property (buried it, perhaps). My g-g-aunt said that they should get me to ask the ghostly woman (or maybe ask her themselves, when they saw her) where the money was hidden.

As far as I know, I never spoke to my parents about the old woman again, and we never found any hidden money, even when we eventually built a new house on the exact site of the old one.

I'm sure it was just a nightmare, but I can talk myself into getting goosebumps over it, if I try hard enough...

Especially since, when I was older (maybe 9 or 10?) and my family was living in the new house, I had another odd experience. One morning, in the first instant of opening my eyes, I thought I saw an elderly woman (with long, grey, wavy hair flowing back from her face) standing at the foot of my bed, looking down at me. [shocked] I blinked, and she was gone.

Again, I'm positive it was the remnant of a dream or a trick of the light, but still a little creepy...

JalapenoDave · 27/09/2020 19:32

Oooh I love a spooky thread!

Get on Reddit if you can OP, and look at the #nosleep stories. Some are pretty good.

JustGetThroughTheDay · 27/09/2020 22:47

I have been on Reddit but I find the layout much better on here. I'll go have a nosy again. Better on the app or just on safari?

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TheySeeHerRowling · 27/09/2020 22:49

Nothing will ever beat the Savernake Forest story for me (do a mn search)

Had to drive through it the other week and couldn't get out of there fast enough!

JalapenoDave · 27/09/2020 22:51

@JustGetThroughTheDay try the app. Also for some weird stuff Google "creepy Wikipedia pages". Some very, very spooky stuff on there.
Rob Dyke on YouTube is good too, especially his stuff on mysterious disappearances.
Let me know what you think!

EdinaMonsoon · 27/09/2020 23:38

I have a few.

The house I grew up in was really creepy. It had a very oppressive feeling that even my mother would comment on. It was always freezing and had very little light. It actually makes me feel physically sick to think of being in it at all. One evening, aged around 8 yo, I was laying in bed and I could hear paper rustling in my older sister's bedroom. I called out several times and got no reply but the noise was getting louder with banging around and seemingly more aggressive. I got really scared and started crying and shouting for my parents. It took them a while to hear me - in fact it was only because my dad went out to the car, passing under my bedroom window, that he heard me. I was so hysterical they pulled me straight out of bed and rushed me downstairs. It was clear from their faces that they believed everything I told them. They then put a cross on my door and moved my sister in to my room. I was told a couple of years later by a neighbour that the woman who had lived there before us was a vile tempered & violent woman. I'm actually getting cold shivers thinking about it.

My parents separated not long after and I saw a middle aged man in a dark blue overalls watching me play in the bedroom at my dad's new house. It made me jump but I wasn't scared.

When I was pregnant with DS2, we were having all the bedrooms decorated and so we were sleeping in what would become the nursery whilst our bedroom was being painted. It was a Victorian house. The nursery had previously been DS1's bedroom and I had never felt entirely relaxed in there. I had found toys in his cot when he woke up from a nap that he couldn't have possibly have reached for himself etc. Anyway, on this particular night I was fast asleep and was literally forcibly shaken awake. I was terrified but could hear DS1 crying so I went to him. I soothed him back to sleep and then got in bed with him because I was too scared to go back to the room!

keeprocking · 27/09/2020 23:55

I don't know if I've posted this here before or not. Many years ago we lived in a Med location so it was hot. At night we would just have a sheet over us but kept a blanket folded at the bottom of the bed for when it cooled during the night. Each night I was vaguely aware of OH getting up, going to the loo, coming back and pulling the blanket up to my shoulders and patting my shoulder. Before we moved we were talking about random acts of kindness and I mentioned this, we were no longer in that flat, he said 'But I didn't, you were the one who did that'! A few years later we met a couple who it transpired had lived in the same flat and her first words were 'Did you get tucked up at night?'. I'm currently covered in goosebumps even writing it.
There were lots of things about that flat, I could go down the three steps to the bathroom and get back to the bedroom with my eyes closed because I 'knew' there was someone coming the other way along the corridor.

Jourdain11 · 28/09/2020 01:01

This is when I was young, so I don't remember it well.

My mum and dad were already divorced by then, but she had a picture of him and her travelling in North Africe hanging on the wall (still has on display today).

One day, my aunt was visiting and as they were drinking coffee, the photo fell off the wall face down. She went to pick it up and she suddenly got this feeling - like, shiver down her spine.

A couple of hours later, she got a call. My dad had been in a car accident and was critically injured.

Later, when she found out the details, she discovered that it must have happened at the same time, give or take, that the photo fell face down.

I wonder if she has reimagined it a little subsequently. But I still find it a freaky thing - a real more things in heaven and earth moment.

JustGetThroughTheDay · 28/09/2020 21:05

Thank you everyone. The tucking in one has really creeped me out!

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Noidea2114 · 28/09/2020 21:41

Son and Dil moved into a council house. It had been empty for a few months as there had been a fire.
Before the fire an old man had lived on his own for nearly 30 years. He was a very private man kept himself to himself.
Things kept being hidden or moved. One day while I was there a picture fell of the wall, Dil shouted stop it Ethel.
(She said she called the disturbance this so she wasn't scared)
When grandson was about 4 he told his mum that Ethel loved them all and was happy they were looking after her house.
Son and Dil started asking around who had lived in this house before. On the records there was only the old mans name.
Until I met and spoke to someone from our towns historical society if they knew anything.
It turned out that the old man was due to get married to Ethel yes it was her correct name but the day before she was killed after the
bus she was on crashed into a bridge.
To this day they still live there and don't know why they named Ethel.

JustGetThroughTheDay · 28/09/2020 22:06
Shock
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QueenArseClangers · 28/09/2020 22:11

@TheySeeHerRowling Savernake Forest is definitely the creepiest MN tale!

BibblingScribbling · 28/09/2020 22:34

I love reading the Search and Rescue stories on Reddit. I doubt they're true, but they're a good read!

amp.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/

NancyBotwinBloom · 29/09/2020 08:14

I can't find that savernake forest story.

Would anyone be kind enough to copy it and post it for me please or link the thread.

AgentCooper · 29/09/2020 08:17

Here for this

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