To ask for your woo tales?

[Tellmeyourwoostories]

I understand this isn't for everyone but I love a good woo story. Even if you've seen/experienced something but aren't 100% sure and are on the fence, I'd love to hear your stories.

I've had a few experiences myself, nothing majorly scary just in my old house I'd often hear loud clear footsteps when nobody could be there and often saw a shadow figure, sometimes right infront of me and other times in my peripheral so can understand why people think they've seen something but can't be sure. I also worked in a pub that had some poltergeist type activity and various figures had been seen by staff and customers. I'd love to hear yours!

Not my actual story but several years ago my sister was working in a shop. She started serving a lady (she’d never seen this woman before). The lady said to my sister that she didn’t want to frighten her but she could sense the spirit of someone who had passed over standing next to my sister. She then described our Nan who had died a few years earlier, she described her to a T and even mentioned my sisters nickname that we as a family only ever use, no one ever calls her that name outside of the family (it’s an unusual name too).

Its something we often talk about because it was totally unexplainable.

Following, always enjoy these types of threads 😁

I run a cleaning business and went with my team to clean a vacant house before new tenants went in. The house was eerie and had a really creepy vibe. I can't explain it, something just didn't feel right. It had 4 floors, 6 bedrooms, high ceilings with old features, creepy pictures on the walls and old fashioned decor. I felt like I was being watched the entire time and not long before we left I swear I saw someone stood at the top of the first flight of stairs. I glanced up and saw their legs and assumed it was another cleaner, but we were all downstairs.

My old house had the presance of a former tenant who'd been murdered. When I first sensed something I didn't know about her. One day returning from work, as soon as I opened the door I had a feeing that someone was screaming for me to get out. The upstairs wardrobe door was banging. I shut the door and went to my mum's, who was my childcare. On the news was her case, the man accused had been acquitted. In the same house we'd all see spirit cats, including visitors.

I don't have any but I love these threads. I liked watching Uncanny at Halloween time last year and I love the Christmas ghost stories.

I don't believe this for a moment, and have only the word of the (generally commonsensical) friend who told me it to go on, but it's a gently creepy story. (I've almost certainly told it on here before under another name.)

A foreign friend of a friend lives in a small Irish town, and was visited by another friend from her home country with a young daughter, neither of whom had ever been to Ireland before, and of course knew no one else locally.

They were all three sitting in the window of a coffee shop on the main street, when the little girl pointed out an elderly man passing and asked her mother 'Who is that man with all the funny people walking behind him?' The mother was puzzled because the man was clearly alone, but the little girl insisted she could see 'funny people' all walking behind him in single file.

The friend kept to herself the fact that this elderly man was the retired local undertaker, who had buried everyone for miles around for forty years.

I grew up in a haunted house, so many of the things I took for normal until we moved when I was a teenager and realised just how creepy it was.

examples: always seeing someone out of the corner of my eye when looking in mirrors, a man with black hair, my Mum always said I was imagining things but others saw him too and after we moved she admitted seeing him also.

Footsteps thumping up the stairs but stopping just before the top.

Putting something down, turning around and it being gone, moved somewhere else with no one around.

Taps coming on full blast then turning off just before you reached them and being turned so hard that it took my Dad to get them back on again.

Ornaments randomly jumping off shelves.

The feeling of someone sitting on my bed in the night but no one there.

Hearing light switches snapping on and off in the night.

The dog barking at nothing, loud bangs from rooms with no one in them, I could go on and on.

These things weren’t constant, it wasn’t like a horror film but they added up and when we moved I couldn’t believe how different and ‘lighter’ the new house felt, I’ve never felt anything like it since either in any house DH and I have owned.

I went to see a psychic once. Bizarre experience, she literally kept looking over my shoulder, saying my spirit guides are trying to tell me blah blah blah. The whole thing was a jumbled, confusing, nonsensical hot mess.

Until it wasn't. Everything she said was true - even the proper, actual names of people. It played out about 2 weeks later, then it all made sense, every word. It was crystal clear.

Following! I do love a good woo thread. 🙂

I’m still here for the grandfather clock missing chains mystery.

My father died suddenly when we were on holiday in another county. When we returned home a few days later, the kitchen clock had stopped at the exact same time he died.

My grandmother heard someone come in the side door. She used to sit in a large recliner and you couldn't easily see the door without standing up. Nan heard someone behind her chair and they put a hand on her shoulder. Nan said she was calm, because she realised it was a great aunt that started speaking to her. The aunt said she was saying goodbye and was leaving now. My nan stood up to greet her- then realised there was no one there at all. A few minutes later she got a call to say that the great aunt had just died.

I've shared this before but I'm 100% convinced I saw and said hello to an apparition.
Got into an abandoned hospital (Blackburn Infirmary) to photograph it before it was demolished. Was with a friend.
Climbed through a first floor window and as I was coming through looked up to see a man walking across the ward from right to left, said "oh, sorry, hello!" assuming it was another photographer we had interrupted. Then turned back round to the window to haul friend through. She looked over my shoulder and said "Hi" and nodded a greeting.
By the time we had tlooked up again from picking up our backpacks from the floor and survey the room, he was gone.
There wasn't enough time for him to cross the rest of the ward in the time it took us to turn and pick up a bag, it was a couple of seconds max.
There was no exit door in the direction i'd seen him heading in (left wall was a wall, right wall had the door, he was crossing R-L and was in the middle of the room)
The weirdest thing was that when we took a step forwards into the ward, our feet were crunching on all the rubble plaster glass etc that was strewn everywhere but he was crossing in absolute silence, no crunching.
Double checked with friend that she had seen him, and she had, hence the hi to him and not me.

Went round the hospital for the rest of the day taking photos and there was nobody there but us.

Not really woo, but something weird happened to me last week.

I sometimes cover shifts for local shops/cafes if people are ill/holidays etc. Whilst on one of these shifts, I had to phone a supplier about an incorrect order we had received. I spoke to a woman there, and it was all resolved, but then at the end she said, "goodbye, and a pleasure to speak to you, Miss Fluff".

How did she know my name? I wasn't the one to place the order, I've never spoken to them before (a massive supplier to businesses all over the country), and I certainly did not give her my name at any point during the call. I feel like Truman!

Wow, what was their name?

A few weeks ago I couldn't sleep so I went into another bedroom at around 4am so as not to disturb DH. I was lying on my front trying to sleep and I felt the duvet being pulled off the bed then hands around my neck trying to strangle me. I had a weird mind over matter sleepy chat with myself (them?) and it stopped. I thought nothing of it and just assumed it was some trying-to-sleep nightmare. But about 4 days later I received an email from a relative (I am estranged from all of the others) to tell me my step-father had died unexpectedly 4 days ago. I wasn't given any further detail and I didn't ask because the last time I saw him 15 years ago he had tried to strangle me.

I worked in a large company and was pregnant with my first child.
A young woman from a different department, who I hardly knew, came up to my office and asked to speak to me. She was embarrassed and a bit unwilling to talk to me, I was very surprised to see her in our department, we had no real contact professionally or socially although I did know who she was.
Her mother had recently died and she had been going to spiritualist meetings. At one of these the medium asked if anyone knew a Veronica. No one responded and the medium asked again, very insistent.
When she said 'Veronica, who is having a baby' my colleague then said she did know a pregnant Veronica vaguely at work.
The medium said to tell me that someone called, [name changed here] 'Charlie' knew about the baby and sent her love. My auntie Charlene, often misheard as 'Charlie' had died earlier that year.
I hate, hate, hate that I cannot explain this as I'm really not a 'woo' person.....

I'm loving these stories so far, some I recognise from past threads and love to see them again.

Stories like some of these about loved ones make me do believe there is more to after this life than we know for sure.

@ponoka7 I bet you could never really relax in that house after knowing the history and then having activity go on in it too. Yikes 😬

There's been some great stories on here in the past, like the nightclub ghost incident of the angry spirit, the alcove one seemed popular and the woman and her children who could see a figure if they looked in a mirror at a certain spot behind them. One of the ones that freaks me out and doesn't even sound as bad as others that have been posted before is the lady who was on webcam with her DC and she saw a man walk behind them clearly but nobody was there. It was just her and her DC at home.

Oooh nothing to add but I love these threads! Thanks for starting 😊

Oooj that is very very scarey hopefully he has moved on and can’t return

Not a spirit but a real person my older sister lives over a hundred miles from me i havent seen her in person since my brothers funeral 8 years ago, bear with me we were supposed to go to Brittany for our holiday my OH was very ill a while ago so i cancelled that holiday and booked Pontins in sand bay instead, got there Saturday afternoon sitting eating dinner and who walked into the dining room yes my sister her and her husband were staying there that weekend what are the chances of this happening especially as we were not supposed to even be there originally it was great seeing her and as shes 79 i probably wont see her again in person

When I was a young child when my grandfather passed away. He was in an open casket as was the custom back then where I grew up. I was in a room alone with him and I saw his spirit leaving his body.
I immediately told my mum what I saw and she brushed it off but to this day I remember it so clearly, as if it was yesterday. It happened 40 years ago.

When I was about 12 I was very into witchcraft / 'magic' (this was the age of The Craft film, etc). There was a girl in my class who was bullying me and I was so angry one day that I secretly stuck pins in a doll, imagining it was her. The next day she wasn't at school - she had gone to hospital with appendicitis. I was so freaked out that I told no one, and never used my powers again!

OMG, this gave me the chills!

Try sleeping on the third floor of The Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool! I've stayed there a couple of times with a friend. This year we were in room 366.

I couldn't sleep the first night because there was what sounded like someone trying to get in our room - scratching, banging, knocking, footsteps. Then my duvet lifted up off me as if someone was turning it back to get in. Then then knocking started and a little girl said 'helloooooooo!'and started giggling. My friend slept through it.

Next night. My friend asked me to wake her up. I did. Neither of us slept the second night either! Our beds were bolted to the wall (odd) but we grabbed each others hands from our twin beds because it was quite disturbing, all the knocking and banging.

Spoke with reception. They offered to move us, especially after I told them about the giggle. 'You heard The Little Girl??!!' the receptionist asked, she obviously knew all about it! We said we'd stay in the room and she asked us to keep her updated!

I've also had (very mundane) precognitive dreams. Eg dreaming of the clock being 1.27am, and waking and indeed it being 1.27am.
My partner has similar dreams. He dreamt that someone he had a meeting with via zoom had a tattoo of three people dancing. It turns out he did indeed have a tattoo exactly like he dreamt of, on his back (he never saw his back on zoom).
Feels like some kind of glitch in the matrix!