To start the spooky stories thread?

[SurpriseItsMeHorseyNeighNeigh]

Of course I'm not, it's Halloween, let's get scared.

So what is the spookiest/most unexplainable experience you had? We're talking paranormal here.

I have been away with work and was staying in a hotel last night. I came up to bed about 10.30pm after some drinks with colleagues, though I hadn't been able to eat or drink much during the evening as nothing had felt like it was going down very well, so I felt pretty sober and was just looking forward to lying down in a nice big bed!

When I was taking my make up off in the bathroom and cleaning my teeth, I just felt really weird and like there was someone behind me, and like I could almost see someone out of the corner of my eye. But I didn't feel scared as I was just telling myself not to be daft, and there were an awful lot of mirrors in the room, and in the hotel room generally, which created an odd effect of seeing yourself into infinity (!) anyway which had already made me feel discombobulated.

But just for good measure I also said to myself/whoever in my head that I really would not welcome anything supernatural happening just now thank you very much, and there was anything happening like that, perhaps my dad could help whoever it was bothering me (he died a few years ago).

After that I continued telling myself to stop being daft, cleaned my teeth and got in bed, but kept the bathroom light and the TV on quietly and slept fitfully.

I found out this morning that a family friend died, P. She was like an aunty to me, a good friend of DM's and had unfortunately been very unwell for two or more years. She had just been placed into palliative care, but her imminent death was not particularly expected. While I'm sad, and sad for her husband and my mum, I know P wanted to die and it would have been a relief to her. She died at about 11pm last night.

I don't know what to make of it all, but just found it an odd coincidence when I heard the sad news this morning. I think we have all sorts of instinctive animal senses that we switch off/ignore at times, and perhaps my subconscious was aware of something going on. Or I was just slightly under the weather, and alcohol can make you feel a bit odd at times. Or if there is any kind of afterlife, and Aunty P was a bit confused about what was going on, that my dad could help her.

There’s a good documentary on YouTube about ghosts on the London Underground. Member of staff talking about some of the things they’ve experienced.

I can imagine it would be pretty spooky there at night , when no trains were running.

That's the best ghosty documentary I've ever seen 👍 I watch it at least once a year 😁

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@LeakyPipes @Paul2023

please do you have a link to this documentary or a full title of the one you are talking about? thanks.

@Schadenfreudunsure

Will have to watch this I seen a ghost in Euston station about 16 years ago a man with a dog. It was very early and deserted the man and dog came past me about 5 times and went on to the platform without coming out each time. My son was sat beside me and did not see anything I went and looked after the last time and it was deserted.

Here it is ;

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bf_bxfE5gw

The above documentary is from around 2005 but a great watch. I find it quite believable as most of the people speaking were employees and seem convinced of what they saw. I only came across it recently myself.

thanks @Paul2023 and @wavingfuriously

I just clicked on the thanks buttons on your posts - but then wasn't sure if it notifies you or even if you see it?

does it show you that the thanks button has been clicked?

One of the few documentaries about ghosts that had truly chilled me , I believe everyone's accounts .

Ok I've got a weird one that happened this morning.

Woke up at 6.01 for no apparent reason - I'm not a morning person. My cat was curled up next to me so while I'm coming round I'm stroking him, just lying there half asleep.

So this will sound weird but I have a large dress sword with a fancy pommel in a scabbard propped up between my bedside table and the bed. It's quite weighty, and is part of my late DPs vast collection of replica weaponry. We're not landed gentry or anything just weird hoarders. Our bed has a four poster vibe due to Akro scaffolding framework which my DP constructed. Part og the "canopy," is created by about a dozen swords zip tied to the framework - this is where the sword in question used to be before ibtook it down to detach a sword that belonged to someone else and had been on loan.

So I'm lying there half asleep, stroking my cat....and suddenly there's an almighty clatter, which naturally woke me up properly. I look around for the source and the sword is lying on the floor alongside the bed pommel at the far end and resting on some clothes near the far corner of the bed.

Now I could understand it sliding down for some reason and the pommel being near the head end of the bed - but it had tipped forward and the pointy end was about three feet away from where it had been resting. It's a weighty item, so would require some leverage to push it over, and I really don't see how it traveled the extra 3 feet either.

Not quite the wake up call I was expecting and I have no explanation at all. I can't even replicate the position it ended up in by pushing it over manually.

It wasn't me it wasn't my cat - if it's a message from my late DP I can only think he wants it back up on the bed frame with its twin which is on the other side.

Yeah very peculiar indeed.....

@Whatafustercluck the 'daisy daisy' slowing down is featured in the Stanley Kubrick film '2001 A Space Odyssey.' It happens when the psychotic AI bot HAL is switched off (unsure whether this was a sample from the movie which was played on the Alexa? - might be worth checking)?

slightly spooky story…
when i was 14 me and my whole friendship group (about 25 of us) had a party at a huge mansion (my friends house) down a big, long, dark back lane which we were all a little unsure about.
being 14, we decided to play hide and seek to scare ourselves and have a laugh.
me, my bestfriend and her boyfriend went into a room and hid in a cupboard. a rather large cupboard with alot of clothes and with alot of space to stand and sit etc with a mirror hanging on the door.
we had our phone torches on to get hidden in clothes
i felt as though something was watching me so i glanced up quickly and saw a women stood looking at me in the reflection of the mirror. she had a black veil over her face and she looked grey and just completely numb
once the realisation had set in that i had just seen this women, (i hadnt mentioned it yet)
my bestfriends boyfriend said ‘what the f#ck just touched my shoulder’
i have never ever worked out what i saw that day but i am terrified still.

Thanks @ThisPeachJoker 😬