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

I have a few.

I lived in a house where there was a very strong feeling that someone was watching. One day I went to take my rings off to have a bath and realised that one of them was missing. It wasn’t too big, and it had disappeared off of my hand entirely. We spent days looking for it and never found it.

Then about 6 months later we got up and DS ran into the kitchen, he came out with my ring in his hand saying “look, here’s mummy’s ring.” It was in the middle of the kitchen floor.

I also was sitting at my pc one night when I heard someone walk on the decking outside of the window. I never heard the back gate go or anything, but there was distinctly something there.

And on an entirely different note, I was due to go into hospital for open heart surgery. I had been quite ill for quite a long time, and about 3 weeks before I had a dream that I went in for surgery, and when I came round I felt completely better, no more sign of illness. And my family were all there waiting for me. Except they were there, and although I knew they were there I couldn’t get to them. It was as if we were in different dimensions. I told my DP after I woke up that I knew I was going to die the day I had my surgery. I did wonder about cancelling but thought the world would think I’d lost the plot if I cancelled off the back of a dream, so I said goodbye to my DS and DP that morning, knowing in my heart this would be the last time I would see them, and went to the hospital. Before the surgery the surgeon came to see me and said that having reviewed my scans again, he felt that surgery would be inappropriate as I would not survive it.

He sent me for a different procedure, and I crashed anyway and very nearly died, spent 6 weeks in hospital, cardiac arrests, defibrillator, CPR the works. But I did make it out. All the consultants essentially said that while this was bad, had I actually had the surgery I wouldn’t have been here to tell the tale.

My three month old baby fell asleep in her sleepyhead pod in the living room. I left her to sleep while I went to the next room to quickly take the hem up on some trousers. I suddenly felt a freezing cold draught of air on my legs. I got up to check the kitchen door and it was wide open. I closed it, checked on DD and went back to my sewing machine. It suddenly turned cold again so I got up again to check the door. It was wide open again. I closed it, locked it and went to check on DD again. She was out of her pod and lying in the opposite direction. A good meter away from the sleepyhead. It was as if she had been picked up, turned around and placed back on the carpet. She was wide awake and smiling at something on the ceiling. She was only 3 months old and wasn’t even nearly rolling or shuffling about at that stage. We were home alone.

@Myla2

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

yes premonition dreams arent spooky i agree , but they are unsettling if its a horrible one and most definately weird , theres just no explanation for them is there ? its like a force forwarning you and also my poor mum about her fish about what will happen , and in your case , the fact the baby will be a girl and this will be her name

@essentialhealing

About two weeks ago I was leaving my Dad's house just before midnight, walked up his drive to my car so pretty much pitch black and I heard a panting sound a bit like a dog out of breath. I've never got in my car so fast

It's a village so at that time of night it was silent and very dark, hardly any street lights

The noise was very close to me but I couldn't see anybody or anything. I actually locked the doors. It really put me on edge. As I left I didn't see anybody walking a dog but they could have gone down a driveway by then

No idea what it was

Could well have been a hedgehog i reckon.

Turned out I was having a mental breakdown and having hallucinations. I'm on appropriate medication now and don't see or hear anything anymore. According to my psychiatrist 1 in 10 people have seen or heard hallucinations which seem very real in periods of stress. I think this might explain many ghostly happenings.

Absolutely. I have visual hallucinations when my brain is tired, anything from shadowy figures to things that look like quick darting dark mice/blobs on the floor. I just ignore it. I also have auditory hallucinations when stressed. It’s really common actually and doesn’t need addressing if it doesn’t bother you (I’m not bothered as know what’s it is and why it is happening so ignore it).

I’m not saying that this explains every persons experiences, as I do believe there are things that cannot be explained, but if you struck out people where this is the cause I think the number of weird/spooky experiences would be hugely decreased.

@Penguin81

just half an hour ago we heard 3 knocks from my daughters bedroom wall..knocked back twice on 3 occasions, 3 knocks back nothing the last time we knocked we are staying downstairs for a bit!

Not to freak you out but three knocks is a common sign of a demonic entity mocking the Holy Trinity.

@FlubberNutter omg this would terrify me to the point of moving out I reckon 😲

@feb2022 My uncle sadly died just before my DD was born. He adored children and was a bit of a prankster. I know it’s crazy but I think it was him. A few spooky things happened after she was born but weirdly I never felt scared. We had things randomly falling off shelves, lights being switched on and off while we were in the room and battery operated toys going off in the middle of the night. I was also dreaming about him constantly. It has all settled down now though. Nothing weird has happened for a good few months.

My gran died in early December. I live abroad and had visited mid-November so she gave me my Christmas card and presents to take back. Fast forward a few years and that christmas card still sat on my bookshelf cause I couldn't bring myself to take it down. In all the years it sat there, it never fell.

One day, I was in the kitchen and speaking aloud to my two grans who had passed on (they were like parents to me), we were going through issues trying to conceive, I'd just miscarried a few months before and I said aloud "oh what's the point, it's not like you can hear me, if you can hear me gran, let me know!" In that moment, I heard a loud bang in the living room. A book had fallen pushing the Christmas card off the shelf and it was lying on the floor. It was spooky but also comforting...

I then told my auntie about it straight away and she replied "oh that's really weird! I had said earlier "mum I'm doing ok right now but I think Fernando needs you more"

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On a more eerie note, I was walking back from a friend's house when I was around 15 years old. I had left it ridiculously late but the whole way back was a main road so I thought I'd be fine
My mum taught me to ALWAYS stay on the main roads while walking home in the dark, where it's busier and there's houses etc. So with her words in my mind, i followed the main road around a huge, dark, grassey area that I would usually cut across to get home. It was quite quiet and the houses were dark as it really was quite late. As I was walking around the big field, I suddenly got a really strong urge to go across the field. It was so strong, I actually said aloud to myself "no, I'm not going across the field". But it got even stronger, like a little voice in my head and a sensation in my tummy telling me to get my butt on the field as fast as possible. I ended up listening to my gut feeling and when I got halfway onto the field, a car drove past on the main road filled with guys...music blaring, windows down, and lots of yelling.

I remember thinking in the moment, ah that's why I was supposed to go onto the field!

I was staying in a hotel in London for one night due to a work trip. In the middle of the night I awoke and was paralysed. It felt like I was being held down. Looking to my right I saw a tall shadow man figure by the door and he slowly started coming towards the bed. I was panicking as I couldn't move as he got towards the bed and closer to my face. I managed to let out a "Nooo" and then it stopped. Never seen him again but it freaked me out as I had never dreamt about my house let alone the hotel room. I was frightened about going to sleep for a few nights after.

Not particularly woo but I was driving home in the dark a couple of years ago, headlights on full beam down a country lane. I saw what I would describe as a creature like a hare but much bigger, sitting on hind quarters, with skin rather than fur and with a skeletal face, in the road. I was only going slowly and instinctively turned my full beam off - as soon as I did this is was gone. It didn't run away, I didn't even blink, it just vanished. Shudder! I sound crazy and never mentioned it to anyone obviously

I have a thing where I say out loud that I haven't seen such and such for ages, and then I see them that day, or I'll ring someone who I know is in town to pick something up for me and they're standing right outside the right shop...

Most recently, I had a really sore toe on Tuesday night, swollen like I'd stubbed it, but hadn't, and so sore I couldn't sleep but absolutely fine the next day. Saw my sister yesterday and was telling her and turned out she'd stubbed the same toe really hard on Tuesday night!

@chaosrabbitland

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

@chaosrabbitland

This is so weird. It sounds just like a dream I once had.

I had several koi in my garden pond. One night I had a nightmare that seemed to go on all night, of one of the fish gasping for water like it was suffocating.

I went outside in the morning and the fish I saw dying in my dream was dead and floating on the surface of the pond.

@Pebbles218

I was staying in a hotel in London for one night due to a work trip. In the middle of the night I awoke and was paralysed. It felt like I was being held down. Looking to my right I saw a tall shadow man figure by the door and he slowly started coming towards the bed. I was panicking as I couldn't move as he got towards the bed and closer to my face. I managed to let out a "Nooo" and then it stopped. Never seen him again but it freaked me out as I had never dreamt about my house let alone the hotel room. I was frightened about going to sleep for a few nights after.

@Pebbles218 Sounds like you had an episode of sleep paralysis. It occurs when the natural paralysis of our bodies when we dream (to stop us physically acting out what we are doing in them) continues fir a short period after we wake. People often report feeling terror in the room or seeing something scary at the same time, often pinning them down. I think it tends to occur more if you are sleeping on your back, that’s certainly when I get it most (a few times a year usually, often when I’m anxious or stressed).

@Pebbles218

I was staying in a hotel in London for one night due to a work trip. In the middle of the night I awoke and was paralysed. It felt like I was being held down. Looking to my right I saw a tall shadow man figure by the door and he slowly started coming towards the bed. I was panicking as I couldn't move as he got towards the bed and closer to my face. I managed to let out a "Nooo" and then it stopped. Never seen him again but it freaked me out as I had never dreamt about my house let alone the hotel room. I was frightened about going to sleep for a few nights after.

Don’t be alarmed, @Pebbles218. What you describe is a classic instance of sleep paralysis, which is purely physiological, just a glitch in the way your body goes in or out of sleep mode.

x-post with @Twitchynose.

I was working a night shift in an old hospital, it used to be the work house. I was on my break in the staff room 3 floors up, there wasn't a ward on that level. As I was dosing off, I got woken up by what I thought was a nurse. When I went back to the ward I was working on, they asked why I was back so early.

Explained that I got woken up by a nurse, they all looked at me and said no. I did hear that there was a nurse who used to work there, who had died.

Another was when I was friends with someone. The hospital I worked in had been knocked down and they had built houses on the site. She said where her garage was, no cat or dog would go near the garage. She said 1 night while putting the car away, she felt the air go very cold (was summer time). I told her later that was where the mortuary was, she nearly freaked out.

@feb2022

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 😂

That reminds me of when my son (now a teenager) was about three. I could hear him chatting away to himself upstairs, or so I thought.

When he came downstairs he said he had been talking to my sister, and he said ‘the dead one’. My sister had died two years before he was born, and he hadn’t been told about her yet.

Love this thread, will add my story later .

About a week after my Dad passed away, I was back in the office and always started earlier, before most people were in. Apart from one female colleague there was no-one else anywhere near my desk. As I sat there I could smell my Dad's aftershave - I often used to buy it for his Christmas present. It was quite strong and not just a waft, and no-one had walked past. It lasted for a few minutes and I found it very comforting. I asked my colleague if I could smell her perfume and it was nothing like the aftershave smell.

I’ve probably told this one before. Our beloved dog, Jake, had cancer and was pts at home 11 years ago. He had a habit of taking himself off upstairs and jumping on the spare bed for a lie down. When he’d had enough, he’d jump down and come back downstairs. For years after his death, he still used to jump down-the spot is right above my head. We’d all just say ‘Oh, there’s Jake getting down’. It was just accepted. It stopped a few years ago. I miss him.

When I was younger about 14, my grand dad had died a few weeks earlier. 1 night I went out to the garage and could smell pipe smoke (he smoked pipes) looked around and outside saw nothing.

@dontsaynothing
Not to freak you out but three knocks is a common sign of a demonic entity mocking the Holy Trinity.

Not to freak you out but there's a demonic entity in your house...