To ask you to tell me the weirdest/spookiest thing you’ve experience

[NotSoJollyChristmas]

I’ve heard children speaking in my dds room when she’s the only child, there was no tv etc that could have made the voices

@glittereyelash Your post reminded me of a book I've just finished reading! It's amazing and very similar to what you describe, albeit I think all the female characters know their female ancestors memories.

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Years ago, my dh (then dp) was working in a bar, so often back late in the night. I was fully asleep in bed (rented house), and then half woke when I felt a man leaning over my bed. I thought it was my dp, coming home, murmured something about did he have a good night, rolled over and went back to sleep. Only to wake a bit later, very confused, when he actually came home. I hadn't felt panicked or menaced in any way, but it was definitely a man.

A policeman knocked on the door a week or so later, and I'm not sure it's related but the incidents go together in my head. He said he was just there checking everything was OK, but didn't seem to be indicating a particular incident. I was in my dressing gown so just got rid of him, even though he seemed to want to come in. He vaguely said he'd call back, but never did, and I later doubted that he was a police officer at all, due to his odd style of questioning and general demeanour. The only thing creepier than a ghost leaning over my bed at night is the idea that it was a flesh and blood stranger!

When I was little I was coming through arrivals with my parents at an airport. They had loads of payphones on the wall and one was ringing. No idea why but I answered it, the voice said "hello myname" I slammed it down and ran away!

Dad died in hospital in the early hours one morning mum came to mine hours later and I swear I was so cold when she sat in the front room. I wasn’t near her I was shivering until she left then I was warm again. A few days later and I was half asleep on the sofa and my right hand was suddenly freezing for a few minutes.

@essentialhealing my dad had pretty much the exact same experience. He lived at the time in a big Georgian mansion converted in to flats with a huge gravel drive. He was smoking outside on a foggy night and could hear the panting of a large beast and the crunch of the gravel moving towards him, but there was no dog

When I was at school we went on a school trip to Germany. One of the afternoons was spent visiting the site of a concentration camp. The whole class had split off into groups and pairs and we were walking round in silence. Everyone was reading the various information plaques and being very respectful.

Me and my friend were walking around what had been the medical block. We noticed a set of steps leading down to a door set into a basement type entrance below the building. We walked up to the door and noticed it was slightly open. Thinking this led to more museum, we opened the door and walked in. It was a dark basement area, but with what looked like dim lights set on the far wall. Thinking that was where more museum exhibits were, we took about 3 steps into the basement. We both then heard the most horrible scream from the far side of the basement. We both stopped and looked at each other, turned and ran immediately up the stairs and back outside.

I have no idea what we heard, but we both heard it. My only reasonable explanation is that possibly there could have been some kids messing about in there, but it seemed unlikely given the sombre nature of the trip.

I’ve told this on here before.

Back in the 90s I was the manager of a high street store, the shop occupied an old building with the shop, my office, the staff area and a stockroom on the ground floor and then up a flight of stairs were two more stockrooms.

I worked there for 10 years and right from the very start I had a strong feeling at times that if I looked up the stairs I’d see a man staring back at me. The stairs were in the ground floor stockroom and you had to walk through there to get to the staff area, I’d frequently quickly walk through with my eyes fixed on the floor because the feeling was so strong.

Anyway, one evening just before we closed one of the staff members was mopping the floor in the downstairs stockroom while I was in my office. Suddenly I heard something hit the floor (it was the mop as she threw it down) and she ran into my office, she was shaking and said that she’d glanced up the stairs and there was a man watching her.

There was no way that anyone could access the back of the store without getting through the security door behind the tills, which hadn’t happened, and I’d never mentioned my fears to anyone in case they laughed at me.

@pollypepper thank you I must look it up ☺️

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I have cctv of a white figure/cloud of dust type, but looks like a person walking towards my front door with arms stretched at the end, looking like it wants to push door open. Should upload it to a website but where?

Oh god I should not be reading this at midnight, alone, without even a cat for company. Some of these are pretty scary!

I had a visitation from DH, about 3 months after he died. I was lying in bed, he stood at the bottom of the bed, leaned over me and missed me, told me everything would be OK. I could feel him, smell his aftershave, hear him, see him. I was definitely awake because I asked him if it was really him and he replied. I could feel the pressure on the mattress from where he had his weight on his hands either side of me on top of the duvet. I'm not woo at all but that was such a vivid experience that I can remember it in minute detail even now, two years later.

A few years ago my son was asleep in his room. Me and my DP were in our bed, which was literally next door, a few feet away, both doors open. It was quite late at night and I couldn't sleep, so was just lying there scrolling through my phone

The next minute my son started crying, I thought I'd leave it for a bit and see if he can settle himself (think he must have been about 2 at the time) then I heard "Shhhhhh.." and my son stopped crying. A little freaked out, but thought maybe it was in my head and didn't think much about it after that. About ten minutes later he starts crying again. Again, I wait a bit and see if he self settles. Then again "Shhhhhhh!...." and he stops

Really freaked out by this point as I thought someone was in the house in my son's room. Terrified, I nudged my DP to say I think I heard someone in the house and to go look. He got up to check, but no one was there. Never happened since, but was quite spooky

In the days when I had an old Nokia 5110. I got a message from myself, to myself, asking me to call ....myself. For example say my mobile number was 0401 010 010 (not a real number, just made up for the purpose of this post). I got an sms on my phone from 0401 010 010 telling to me call 0401 010 010. Like, my phone smsed me itself, asking me to call it.

I stared at my phone for a long time after that, so scared of it I was too afraid to even touch the phone or pick it up. I remember getting up and walking away from it, then slowly going back and just peering at it. Like I was afraid it was going eat me or strangle me or erupt into fire something.

This happened on a night shift a few years ago. I'm not particularly woo, but to this day I still remember the feeling of my blood running cold.
I was working a bank shift somewhere I hadn't been before. This particular ward was in an old part of the hospital. It came up to my allocated break time and I went into the day room.

I made a little nest of sorts by bringing chairs together and lay across them with a blanket over me. The crack of light under the door was irritating me, so I turned my back to it. I was then overcome with cold and this feeling. It was pure, abject terror. I was frozen into place, my eyes screwed up tight. I knew if I was to turn around that something bad would happen. The blanket over me moved as though someone had tugged it and I had the clearest mental image of a man, fury was pouring from him, aimed at me. I steadfastly refused to move and wouldn't open my eyes (even if I had wanted to I don't think I could have moved, I was utterly petrified). Gradually the feeling lessened until finally the room felt normal again.

I gathered up my things and bolted back to the nurse's station. It later transpired that a man with a known history of violence towards women and under police guard had died in that room. It had been turned into a day room at some point since that happened and I was not the first to encounter whatever the hell it was in there. I haven't stepped foot in that ward since.

You don't live in a converted Freemason building do you? 😂 I lived in one and there was something in the area of the kitchen that would do very similar. One day I was sitting in the living room and there was a colander on the draining board, just me and DP in the house in the living room, and the colander suddenly hit the wall on the other side of the kitchen 10ft away!!! No way it fell and hit the wall 4ft in the air 10ft away, it had been thrown.

Another time all the VHS tapes on top of the TV lifted up 3 inches into the air and smashed to the ground.

The other thing was I would often hear what sounded like boots walking down the hall, but not where the actual (newly renovated) Hall was, along with the sound of a man coughing. It was so strange but not really scary

That was meant to reply to @Clovacloud

@Justletmelogon

I've just had a freaky moment right now. I had a shitty nights sleep and was reading this thread , got up made tea went back to bed and fell back to sleep. I have just been woken up by the tv in my room switching on! Theres no one else here! It hasn't got a timer and the remote was on the floor. WTF? I have read about people using their phones to control TVs etc but my DC are sleeping and DH at work! Loads of odd things happen to me but never anything like this when I bloody reading about it!!

This happened to me a few weeks ago! Me and my husband were woken up at 2.30am by the TV in the spare room blaring out a catch-up episode of Neighbours at full volume. No explanation, nobody else in the house.

I also remember watching The Amityville Horror as a teenager and then having a period of about 8/9 days on the trot of waking up at exactly 3.15am, which is the time in the film that the main character keeps waking up at. No explanation for that either, but it did lead to a good 3 or 4 months of proper insomnia.

I was looking after my brother then about 3 years old his dad had passed away a few weeks before and my mum had been called into work, I was sat in the living room watching tv and he had ran upstairs, so I listened to him at the bottom of the stairs and I could hear him giggling, he ran onto the landing and started pointing in his bedroom and he said to me "daddy is in there and he wants to see you"
I ran up grabbed him and sat in the porch until my mum came home I was terrified
The strangest thing was he has a speech impediment and didn't really talk until much later but those words were clear as day, he didn't speak after that either only the odd word here and there.

Another one in my mums house, we were all in bed early hours of the morning, I woke because I could hear somebody downstairs and the light switch had clicked, I got up and I heard footsteps at the very bottom of the stairs and the light switch kept clicking on and off...I ran across the landing into my mums room and woke her up, the footsteps followed up the stairs, we were huddled together and after what seemed like forever my mum opened the door to have a look, checked all the rooms, nothing!
We went downstairs and we could smell very strong alcohol like someone had just come in out of the pub, all doors and windows were locked from the inside, I slept in bed with my mum for 12 months before I'd sleep on my own again 😂

my mum, is canadian born and bred , she came to this country in 1974 bringing me with her i was two ,
she has told me more than once , that when she met and moved in with my dad she became a tropical fish keeper and she was very good at it . she had a huge tank of them ,she knew how to spot signs of trouble , a fish not looking quite right for example and what to do about it too

one night she went to bed and had a vivid and disturbing dream that she woke up as usual ,went downstairs and when she entered the living room to check and feed the fish , every single one of them was dead , all floating on the surface .

obviously the dream disturbed her and she woke feeling shaken ,she went downstairs as usual and it was like a real life enactment of the dream ,as she approached the tank every single one of her prized fish was dead , all floating on the surface , just as in her dream .
there was no sign of disease , there had been nothing wrong at all to indicate this would happen to them .

its been a good few years since shes mentioned this , but whenever any conversation turns to anything creepy or unexplained she will recount it , all these many years later it still is in her mind

how did she have a dream which was practically a premontion of what happened to her fish ? its so horrible , i felt chills when she first told me this and still do , i cant imagine having a dream about something awful happening and then awaking and living the dream , but this is what happened to her . shes never before or since had anything like this happen since thankfully

Not really spooky but definitely weird.

When pregnant I had dreams of a baby girl and I just knew my baby was a girl despite my whole family being convinced she was a boy. Her name also came to me in a dream and I had never heard of it before. I remember being in my dream and distinctly feeling like I need to remember this name as it will be my baby's name.

Now I have a little girl with that exact name

Not exactly outlandish but people refuse to believe I could dream up her name and that sub consciously I must of come across and i swear to you i never have

I've recounted this story before on here but my grandmother died when I was 8, at her funeral there was a thunderstorm and our house was hit by lightning, blew out the aerial socket but no bad damage- my mum said it was her mum saying goodbye, abs she'd also cause a storm when she died. She said that so many times it was like a joke between us that she'd do it, my brother was always very 🙄 but he doesn't believe I anything like that.
My mum died 32 years after her mum, she was dying for months before that abs very sick and unconscious for weeks prior to her death.
She died 28 June 2012. This day there were 3 supercell thunderstorms across the UK, two were where I live and my brother also. Literally 20 minutes after she died (Australia) the rain was pouring snd huge lightening abs thunder. I was alone with the children as my husband was away so collected my older child and took her abs newborn to my brothers house abs the storm was wild en route too, over Derbyshire dales, to his home. Very bizarre!
The recording of that storm is on wiki under notable supercell storms uk

I live 200 miles away from my family. I regularly call, if they don't answer the phone, I think nothing of it and go about my daily life, when they ring back they ring back and if they don't, it's again no big deal. Except one day I rang my sister, she didn't answer the phone and I don't know what or why but I had a very strong feeling of something has happened, something isn't right, I was so anxious, j was shaking, (I was pregnant at the time) I rang my mum who didn't answer either, still feeling like somethings not right, I then ring my older brother, no answer so I then ring my younger brother who breaks the news to me and I just burst out screaming and crying. I have never felt the way I did that day, how did I know something must've happened, it's very normal for my sister to miss my call and then will ring me at a later time, but that day every ounce of my body was feeling like something isn't right, which is why I started ringing every other family member til someone answered

Not spooky as such but inexplicable.
Had a dream about going to a house which had a door to the loft from an upstairs corridor. When I went into the loft it was split into two levels (you could step up or down to boarded sections) and the beams stretched off at an unusual diagonal angle to hold it all.
Months later we were in holiday and met some people on the beach. They invited us as a family over to their house to see their pets. Went about 2 days later and got a tour of the house which they'd been restoring. Got shown the unusual garage which dropped into a cellar that could be accessed from a small side door. Then got into a corridor upstairs. There was a door that lead to the loft. An exact mirror image of the one I had dreamed about. I did tell the home owners, who probably thought I was raving mad.

I just had the strongest, unexplainable feeling that I shouldn't enter the house. I was desperate for a wee but I just knew I couldn't go in. It's hard to explain but I just KNEW something awful was going to happen if I went inside. It was like a warning coming from the very core of my being. There was no way I could have gone in, I can't explain it. It was such an intense certainty.

I had a similar strong feeling when staying in a very old farmhouse in Somerset. It was a bed and breakfast servicing a small touristy village. The owners were out for the afternoon and I had wandered upstairs into a far wing of the house, little used, but part of the guests' area. At the end on the left was a bathroom which I was heading for. Opposite the bathroom door was a short flight of steps to a door leading to a long thin bedroom. That room was rarely used and the door was normally locked.

Just as I was about to turn into the bathroom I had the most terrifying sensation. I can only describe it as being a message from some higher power imploring me not to turn and look towards the bedroom. It was such a strong sensation, it was as if I had no power to disobey. I stood stock still staring ahead into the bathroom and out of the window at the fields and hills above the village. This sensation was driving me on to keep my face forward. It was so weird, this feeling of needing to count the trees, the rooves, draw an imaginary line around the clouds and branches - anything to take my mind away from the thing at the bedroom. I have never known any sense so strong, so purposeful and so protective.

After about 10 minutes (but felt like a lifetime) of standing stock still, sweat dripping down me, I sensed the bad presence and the good powerful presence starting to wane. Really weird, but at that precise moment a blackbird flew fast into the bathroom through the open window and perched on the wide window ledge. It's eyes were wide and bright, its chest heaving after landing. It kept blinking and looking at me.

The sensations were not quite over, but the blackbird had interrupted my train of thought. In a flash I thought I had imagined it all, so confidently turned away to look at the bedroom and the small steps leading up to it. What I saw was truly terrifying, before it vanished infront of me. That image stays with me forever. I am not going to go into detail because there are sensitive readers on this site. The real story is in the powerful presence, like the poster above, that strong sense coming from somewhere else that looks over you. Very weird but comforting also.