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To ask for your woo tales?

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Tellmeyourwoostories · 03/07/2024 17:10

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!

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Tellmeyourwoostories · 18/07/2024 18:13

@gotmyknickersinatwist how are my responses strange or stilted? I find you're coming across quite patronising tbh and seem more invested in me and my posts than I am. I'm not the best at communicating due to being neurodivergent as previously explained, so sorry if I'm "stilted" but obviously won't be a pro at replying to people. Rest assured I've been really enjoying all the stories so far, and in other threads people bump theirs all the time. I don't know why you've come for me and been unkind?

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BirthdayRainbow · 18/07/2024 20:25

Makethisrainstop · 17/07/2024 22:44

Please don't pull it . Loving it . If people want to be skeptical then that's up to them . Until it happens to them .

I'm not sceptical about the stories. I'm cynical about why the thread was started. There's a difference.

DPotter · 18/07/2024 20:53

Tellmeyourwoostories · 18/07/2024 18:13

@gotmyknickersinatwist how are my responses strange or stilted? I find you're coming across quite patronising tbh and seem more invested in me and my posts than I am. I'm not the best at communicating due to being neurodivergent as previously explained, so sorry if I'm "stilted" but obviously won't be a pro at replying to people. Rest assured I've been really enjoying all the stories so far, and in other threads people bump theirs all the time. I don't know why you've come for me and been unkind?

Some write effortlessly and smoothly and others do not.

There's room for everyone on here - as long as they are polite & respectful.

I'm enjoying the thread Tellme - thanks for posting!

ArabellaFishwife · 18/07/2024 21:00

Come on, who doesn't love a woo thread?

Tellmeyourwoostories · 18/07/2024 21:11

@ArabellaFishwife I know! MN woo threads have always had great stories 👻

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Downunderduchess · 19/07/2024 03:51

Tellmeyourwoostories · 18/07/2024 18:13

@gotmyknickersinatwist how are my responses strange or stilted? I find you're coming across quite patronising tbh and seem more invested in me and my posts than I am. I'm not the best at communicating due to being neurodivergent as previously explained, so sorry if I'm "stilted" but obviously won't be a pro at replying to people. Rest assured I've been really enjoying all the stories so far, and in other threads people bump theirs all the time. I don't know why you've come for me and been unkind?

Perhaps it’s because you’ve responded 37 times on the same thread. It’s just an opinion from someone. It didn’t seem unkind more an observation. You say yourself you aren’t the best at communicating and now jumped to say people are being unkind. Leave people to their own opinions. I’ve enjoyed the stories as well.

Tellmeyourwoostories · 19/07/2024 04:42

@Downunderduchess I'm allowed to post as often as I want on my thread, thanks. And people are entitled to an opinion, but don't have to be rude to me. It's incredibly weird how often you're watching I've posted and what I've posted btw.

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Itsthesameoldstory · 19/07/2024 05:05

I must admit I find these responses off certain users bizarre.... Why attack op when the thread was running nicely beforehand and I can't see op has said or done anything wrong... I was enjoying this thread, can we stop de-railing please
Anyway, I have a few stories to share :

My father died in 2021 of covid, he always since I've even been young worn the same aftershave and shortly after his passing, I kept smelling his distinct smell of after shave especially when I had him on my mind and was grieving him... I also was speaking about him with my dh and one of his favourite songs came on the radio... Could just be a good coincidence I suppose but who knows?

Second story is I used to work for 5 yrs in a high street shop that was a bit spooky... in the stock room it felt like you wasnt alone and was always being watched.. sometimes I'd see things out of the corner of my eye and once I saw a man in 70s clothing in the main staff room as I was walking in.. I looked down at something I had in my hand and back up and he vanished.. I wasn't really concentrating on him at first due to having papers in my hand and busy thinking about work, but you know when you look back up again at someone especially as he was wearing out of date clothes, I did that to see he vanished... If I wasn't so pre occupied maybe I'd have had a better longer look at him.. I only saw him the once . I also once had items on a shelf when I was alone one morning just fly off in front of me, that was unnerving as there was no way anyone was there to possibly do it as I was opening up shop alone early one morning .

I'll try to add more later on .

Downunderduchess · 19/07/2024 07:19

Tellmeyourwoostories · 19/07/2024 04:42

@Downunderduchess I'm allowed to post as often as I want on my thread, thanks. And people are entitled to an opinion, but don't have to be rude to me. It's incredibly weird how often you're watching I've posted and what I've posted btw.

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For goodness sake, I noticed that you were responding to quite a few people, as did others. You are looking to take offence where none was meant. I was offering you an opinion/explanation of why others may have thought it was odd. No one has said you cannot post. Post away!! Post every day!!

SpeculatingRooks · 19/07/2024 09:29

@Itsthesameoldstory poor ghost stuck wearing 70s clothes for eternity! This is why you should choose your outfits very carefully, if you die today they will become your ghost clothes!

Tellmeyourwoostories · 19/07/2024 10:37

@Downunderduchess I don't need you to explain anything to me. Move on and stop ruining what was an enjoyable thread, please!

@Itsthesameoldstory sorry for the loss of your DF Flowers but I'm sure it was a comfort to feel and experience him around you afterwards. I had similar in my old house with seeing things out of the corner of my eye, it was shadows really and sometimes I'd catch sight of them full on. I never really saw distinctive clothing or features, more a dark figure with no discerning features. But as @SpeculatingRooks said lol, 70s clothes weren't the best fashion and hopefully he wasn't stuck at work (providing your workplace wasn't there when he was alive and he haunts his old workplace)

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Downunderduchess · 19/07/2024 22:28

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Tellmeyourwoostories · 19/07/2024 22:38

@Downunderduchess and you have issues continuing to contact me and go on and on. If anyone needs to chill, it's you.. please leave me alone!

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Itsthesameoldstory · 20/07/2024 00:18

@Downunderduchess you again? Why keep de railing what was a good thread.... is there nothing better to do over there in australia?

Moving on I have some more stories to add:

I currently live in a bungalow and when my dgc have stayed over in the spare bedroom have mentioned a friendly looking old lady watching them, mostly waking up to seeing them but also on occasion when playing... she has her hair in a bun and an old fashioned collar type dress with slippers and glasses chain... They were a bit unnerved at first but it feels friendly here to dh and I so we tried to comfort them that she is watching over them and is their other dgm lol... I havent seen her yet but dh has but honestly it feels very friendly here thank fully.. I assume she was previous owner .

Other story I have is when I was in my early 20s I lost my ddog and would see him on occasion wandering around the house or out of my peripheral near me following me like he used to a lot before he sadly got unwell... I have some more stories but have already shared a few and dont want to bore you

mellongoose · 20/07/2024 08:58

My DH saw a man on a beach who couldn't have been there. The only way to get down to the beach was to climb down via a rope that my DH had put there himself and hidden.

This man was wearing a long trench coat, walked down the beach and into a cave. He never emerged. When DH checked, he wasn't in the cave.

Later he was telling some 'old boys' what he'd seen and they said "you've seen the old coastguard ".

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 20/07/2024 09:43

Dd has seen babies one and two, at the age when they’ve just learned to wave, so around 8 months, smiling and waving while she was holding them, at someone who wasn’t there. Same place each time, on the landing near the bathroom, with no mirror or anything else that could produce a reflection.

One of the former elderly owners of the house had died in it not long before she and SiL bought it. Dd was not especially spooked, though - the owners had had 3 children and you could tell from the moment we first walked in to view, that it had been a happy family home - it had such a lovely warm atmosphere.

When I was 9 we moved to a house where one of the previous owners, a woman only late 20s or early 30s, died in childbirth shortly after moving. Around the same time, my younger sister, only 3, used to say that ‘a lady’ would sit on the end of her bed and smile at her. She wasn’t at all bothered, just matter of fact about it.

OTOH dh and I once viewed a house that looked perfect on paper, but the atmosphere inside was horrible - so sinister! We didn’t even look upstairs - I just couldn’t wait to get out.

Tellmeyourwoostories · 20/07/2024 09:43

@Itsthesameoldstory I'm enjoying the stories that are coming through, keep sharing! I just feel a bit nervous to reply now as I don't want people thinking I'm dodgy Hmm I only was replying to previous stories out of politeness and didn't see I was doing anything wrong. I'm glad that lady your DGC saw is friendly though, especially as you and your DH have to live there! Maybe she approves of you and your husband taking over her old residence?

@mellongoose oh wow that's a bit of a weird uniform for an old lifeguard? A trenchcoat isn't something they'd usually wear surely? How strange though

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mellongoose · 20/07/2024 09:52

@Tellmeyourwoostories I wasn't sure myself do I just googled it and this came up 😬
As I say, I didn't see it myself so who knows 🤷‍♀️

To ask for your woo tales?
Tellmeyourwoostories · 20/07/2024 09:52

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER that's really sweet. The thing those babies saw must have been really friendly and a bit like the above posters story it's good that whatever it is is friendly with children and accepting of it's new occupants because as you've found out, some places can have horrible atmospheres can't they?

Your last story reminds me of one I've read on here previously that gave me chills where a woman moved into a new house and had nightmares of a lady all angry telling her to get out of her house. A few days later she was chatting to the neighbour and they showed her a pic of the old occupant and it was the woman in the dream. The OP said she never felt comfortable in that house

@mellongoose oh wow that's chilling. I wonder if your DH saw him with a hat on? I bet he was shaken up at the time

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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 20/07/2024 10:23

I’ve probably told this before, but here’s a doggy one.

Friends who lived in half of an old converted barn - it felt like an entirely separate house though - had a lovely old Flatcoat retriever, Charlie, who was on his very last legs - the vet was coming the next day to put him to sleep.

Same evening, the adult son of next door neighbours came with his GF to visit his parents. This was well before smartphones so while there he went upstairs to check emails on his mum’s computer.

While checking, he was unnerved to see, out of the corner of his eye, a dog go past. Asked his GF, ‘Did you see the dog?’
‘What dog? He’s downstairs!’ (Current dog was a Dalmatian.)

What he’d seen was their former dog, a Weimeraner, so utterly unlike the other.
The son was so spooked, he took them both off to the village pub!

But the general consensus was that their old dog, who’d been best friends with Charlie, had returned to keep him company on his way.

None of them had ever seen any hint of such a thing before.

Some years later at a 🎄drinks do, the (very un-woo) adult son told me about it - he said he’d never have believed it if anyone else had told him such a thing.

Tellmeyourwoostories · 20/07/2024 10:37

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER I think I've read that one before, that is very sweet 🥹

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Itsthesameoldstory · 20/07/2024 11:05

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER thats what it feels like in my home... a friendly prescence that watches over dgc so as far as I'm concerned shes welcome to stay.. rather that than a hostile one

Itsthesameoldstory · 20/07/2024 12:09

My good.friend was walking along a main road, she saw a man coming towards her... she looked down for a second and back up and the man vanished.. problem was there was no way for him to have gone cos next to them was thick bushes and she would have seen him struggle to climb in to them in the second it took for her to look down and back up

My dsis used to live in a house that was unwelcoming and experienced various things too.. it was that uncomfortable there it was the main reason she moved out as she hated every moment there...the upstairs was a lot spookier than the downstairs however...

Channellingsophistication · 20/07/2024 12:19

We’ve just returned from a holiday in a very old thatched cottage. The other morning I walked into the kitchen and saw low down on the glass door what looked like a child’s handprint. More strangely I rubbed it and realised it was on the inside….

CarrieMoonbeams · 20/07/2024 13:21

I've been thinking about houses with bad atmospheres, because DH and I were talking recently about a house that we went to view in the 'olden days' (mid 1980s).

Of course there was no online process at that time, and we lived far out of the area anyway, so there's no way we could have known anything about the awful history of that nice wee country cottage. Just driving up the driveway though, DH and I looked at each other - the atmosphere seemed really oppressive and I felt very cold all of a sudden.

We rationalised it by saying that it was probably because of the trees surrounding the house, but tbh if the estate agent wasn't sitting in her car waiting for us, I think we might have just turned round and gone home. We just went through the motions of looking round and got out as soon as we could. It was a beautiful house, but nope, not for us.

I won't type the details of what had happened in that house (although it had happened a few years before and the then owners continued living there) and we didn't find out until a year or so afterwards when we were living in our new house a couple of miles away, but that house definitely had a really sad feeling.

The house that we ended up buying was also a really old one, so obviously we knew that, realistically, several people would have died there over the years, but it had a really good atmosphere.

I've never forgotten that feeling from the other cottage, it was awful 😢

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