To ask for another creepy/weird/scary stories thread?

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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)

Search and rescue ones are creepy.
I've had a few incidences of people seeming to disappear.

@Laiste I saw something similar as a teenager, with a group of friends. We still sometimes talk about it over twenty five years later and all still cannot believe what we saw...a huge snarling red eyed dog watching us on the brow of a hill at dusk.

Dear David is one of ny favourites.

wakelet.com/wake/e6275d03-7bce-4789-9961-f3a04723cc71

It is loooong.

@StormBaby oh you need to tell us properly! Did it follow you?

The search and rescue ones being mentioned; is that the same one where an x s&r talks about seeing the random staircases miles and miles out in the wilderness sometimes? And how they know to leave well alone ... I found those stories fascinating.

@Laiste

I'm pretty sure it was 1995 when this happened, and my large group of mates had begun hanging around at an old church on a big hill near my house. We all knew the countryside here well as we had grown up roving around in the trees, and never thought anything of the fact that we were hanging around in a graveyard at night. It just wasn’t creepy to us.

Anyway, this particular evening a small group of girls had broken off from the group and walked on the road away from the church. We sat down in a circle at the base of a small rise in a field and were bitching about some girl none of us liked, and the sun had set behind the hill so it had a pretty glow to it. We were chatting away when we heard some wildlife being killed in the bushes, one of my friends said jokingly 'it must be a werewolf', and we all just laughed and said it must be a fox. I Don’t know why but I looked up to the rise and saw the biggest black dog/wolf/thing I have ever seen. I'm pretty sure I said ‘fuck’, and everyone turned around to look. It was Great Dane sized but bulky like an Alsatian, with huge red glowing eyes. It started to growl at us, and just stood and stared. I can still hear the awful guttural sound it made in its throat even to this day.

I told everyone to get up really slowly and walk away, and DO NOT RUN. We all took about 5 steps, someone shouted 'RUN', and we all just descended into this mass hysteria and bolted. I have no idea if it chased us. Makes me shiver thinking about it even now.

@ew1990

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1376448/what-is-the-creepiest-thing-to-have-ever-happened-to-you

A thread on digital spy. It's got 186 pages. Spent a good month at night reading through it.

Thank you 👏🏻

@FutureProofed

She was like 'oh yeah, built on an Indian burial ground (in north Lancashire) so I get lots of visitors'

Why would there be an 'Indian burial ground' in north Lancashire? Isn't that the usual American horror film cliché about haunted houses --you know, somewhere there were actually Indians/Native Americans with every reason to resent white settlers? Or are you saying she was joking?

I know, no chance it was true but I think she liked the idea that it was. She was a bit woo herself!

I’ve posted this before but since your short of stories I’ll do it again. When DS1 was about 2 I took him up to my bedroom for a nap. As we were laying on the bed I could see him concentrating on an area near the ceiling and following it with his eyes. I asked him what he was looking at, he replied “there’s a man up there, he’s got a hat on and he’s smiling at me”. After he said that he started giggling and said “ he’s laughing at me”. It was as if whatever he was looking at was delighted that he’d been seen, really odd but not at all creepy. Anyway we settled down and had a nap. Later in the afternoon he suddenly set off upstairs and said he was going to see the man. He came back down really disappointed and said he wasn’t there. It was never mentioned again but although I’m not at all woo, I really do believe he saw something that I can’t explain. He was too young to make it up and his eyes were definitely following something round the room.

I've got a few but I'll just share a short one for now. In 2000 I moved into a 1920's house with my husband. Every night when I walked upstairs to bed I would suddenly get a thought pop into my head 'theres an old lady in the hall watching me go upstairs' I would sort of see in my minds eye what she looked like (just a typical old lady in mid length skirt and blouse with grey hair) If I actually looked behind me I couldn't see anything. This went on every night for months and I never told anyone not even my husband. Id just thought I was imagining it and creeping myself out.

Then it came to halloween and me and my husband had a few drinks and decided to tell spooky stories for a laugh. He said 'I've got one for you, theres an old lady that stands in our hallway and watches you as you climb the stairs'. I totally freaked out and he said 'im not being serious I just always get that feeling and kind of see her in my minds eye, Im prob just imagining it. That's when I said 'you dont understand, I've felt the same thing for months too!' So we had both had the same feeling and picture in our mind of the same old lady and neither of us had told the other. Weird

I have an antique mirror. Nothing fancy but it has been passed down through the family so I am reluctant to get rid of it for that reason. I don't like looking in it. For some reason, I expect to see something I don't want to see. It used to be in our bedroom. DH woke up one night and looked in it, swears he saw a black shadowy forearm with hand coming down the wall towards my head.

Reading this and thinking about it a bit more deeply, I just realised it was in the room my grandad died in and in the room under the room my mother died in. Never occurred to me before, although I highly doubt that means anything woo.

I swear I heard someone shushing baby DD over the baby monitor once when she woke and cried. A woman’s voice with a sort of sing-song “SHUSH-shush, SHUSH-shush, SHUSH-shush.” Nobody in the room with her (it was a video monitor so I could see easily).

Probably I was hallucinating it through tiredness however real it sounded to me at the time. DD did settle back down herself, though, which wasn’t like her, so if it WAS a ghost then thank you ghost

I've a ton of stories but I'll share a recent one from my mother, who only recently told me about this one!

Her and my dad were driving through a part of the village, where tbh it is a bit creepy. There's a feeling of time passed, IFYSWIM
It's in a 'lowland' if you will, near a huge old Manor that dates 100 of years back (as an aside my grandma swore till the day she died she saw fairies in those woods, she was very woo though). She said they were driving along and they BOTH saw a kind of half animal /half man dash accross the road and over a wall!

I asked her what it was and she basically said it was a cross between an animal and a human. Not either.

Very odd.

I've tons more, I'll be back.

I'll be into that digital spy link later

@hammeringinmyhead

Dear David is one of ny favourites.

wakelet.com/wake/e6275d03-7bce-4789-9961-f3a04723cc71

It is loooong.

Well I just lost all afternoon to this...fascinating and chilling!

Ending is a little frustrating though.

I'm almost certain that I have seen a wolf in the forest too. Though weirdly I did not feel scared.

Place mark for when the night gets darker and spookier.

I'm one of the scarediest (sp) people I know (religious, believe black magic can exist, sleep with the light on if alone, can't sleep until 3am if I see programme about a serial killer etc etc) but I've never seen anything like this thank God, and take everything with a pinch of a salt. If I did see anything I would probably have to be accompanied everywhere 24/7.

@Cassilis

I'm one of the scarediest (sp) people I know (religious, believe black magic can exist, sleep with the light on if alone, can't sleep until 3am if I see programme about a serial killer etc etc) but I've never seen anything like this thank God, and take everything with a pinch of a salt. If I did see anything I would probably have to be accompanied everywhere 24/7.

I cannot do scary films at all. I jump at everything but there's something about these threads that I just love. Another one from me was hearing our son crying over the baby monitor when he was in bed with me (the floor above his room) DH and I looked at each other, then at him (fast asleep and latched on) and then at the monitor. I know people will say it was picking up another baby but we know who lives near us and it really did sound exactly like our son.

Oh and not scary but strange. Years ago dh and I were woken by our bed shaking violently. I said something like 'oh must be a ghost' and then we fell back to sleep. Woke up to hear there had been a rare earthquake a few miles away

My late nan who was completely down to earth , logical and calm told me about the night her mother in law died , my nan was very close to her.
It was around midnight and my nan was woken up by someone knocking her front door , she lived in a small quiet cul de sac .There was no one at the door.
The following morning my nan and grandad were informed of my great grans death .
Later that day the family were gathered together and my nans equally calm and down to earth sister in law told my nan how someone had knocked her door late the night before ,no one there , it was around the same time as my nans experience and it was the time my great nan had died .

DH walks the dog down a (at this time of the year) very dark country lane. We live in a small village, most people say hello to each other, and dh knows 90% of the village by sight if not name. When walking the dog, he greets everyone he passes, and 99% of the people he greets respond in kind. There is one old man, who he only ever sees on his late walk who never replies just walks on as if he didn't hear. One night, DH decided he was going to get a response from the old guy, so after they had passed each other, and dh had been ignored as usual, he turned around and said, " I said good evening" and there was absolutely nobody there. There was nowhere at all to go, the hedge is high on both sides of the lane, with no gaps at all.

Place marking. What is the hotel story on the digital spy thread? And does dadsheres DH still see the old ghost man of an evening?

Forest story is very creepy but the one from Mumsnet I always remember is one where a poster was in a nightclub and saw a distinctive looking young man on his own in the corner. From recollection she went a few times and saw him a few times.

She then moved away for years and years.

On a visit back to that town, she went to that club... and the young man was there, not a day older and identical to how he had been 20 years previous...

(Apologies to poster whose story it is as I’ve no doubt got some details wrong!)

Speaking of stories remembered from old threads i always remember the one about the imaginary friend.

MNer had a 6/7 year old lad iirc who had this imaginary friend who started out quite normal but then began telling the boy he didn't like his mum and dad (the son freely told the mum this) and then was whispering ideas to him about hurting or upsetting his mum and the pets.

The mumsnetter decided to not make a big deal out of it but tried to discourage chat about the i.f. She could always tell if her son thought the imaginary friend was 'there' as he had a certain uncomfortable look at times. Meal times when they were all together ect. Sometimes she would ask and son would say ''he's in the hall and wont come in 'cos you're here. He's told me to try and bite you ...''. (!) The OP would feel watched from the hall. Feel an atmosphere ect.

Un-beknowns to her son upon the advice of a friend she tried sprinkling salt across doorways, herb cleansing and saying prayers ect., and the whole atmosphere in the house lightened. A couple of days later while her son was playing happily in the living room she couldn't stand the suspense any more and asked is [imaginary friend name] not here?

Son said ''no. And i'm a bit glad''.
OP, trying to keep it light said ''well that's good then''.
Son said .... (and this is the bit that gave me the right heeby jeebies when i first read it)
''... but he's just out there'' . ''and he's watching us through the window ...''

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Excuse me if I missed it, but why was there an Indian burial ground in North Lancashire? (from the OP)