To ask what is the strangest/creepiest thing that has ever happened to you?

[JudgeyHotPants]

I have two strange/creepy unexplained events that stick in my head.

The first happened when I was teenager, my DF ran his business from our family home and we had a phone/fax machine in the living room. Whenever we picked up the phone we could always hear a radio station playing very distantly on the other end. I'll never forget the time I picked up the phone to ring a friend and could hear Penny Lane playing!

The other is slightly more sinister. My DM and I were at home alone one evening, it was summer and still warm and I had the bedroom window open. I can remember hearing a loud crash in the garden, thought maybe the cat had knocked something over and thought little of it. Then my mum suddenly popped her head around the door told me that she was going to bed and that she'd "locked all of the doors". Thought it was an odd thing to say, but thought little of it. That night I was kept awake by the next door neighbours security light going on and off, and when I got up the next morning my DM pointed out that the garden ornaments and solar lights from next to the fence had been smashed.

That's when she told me that she to and heard the crashing sound the night before, and got up to investigate and when she looked through the kitchen window she was convinced she could see a person peering through the window, as as if they were standing next to it with their back against the wall and peeing in from the side, but wasn't sure if she was seeing things or not! She was scared enough to lock all of the doors, but not to ring he police it seems! Still freaks me out now! I'm sure someone was in our garden for whatever reason!

When I was a child, the days of the horse drawn cart had passed. Well , mostly passed, you might still see the occasional rag and bone man.

One night, I was awoken by the ghostly 'clip clop' of a horse walking in our street. I pulled the covers over my head, terrified. It sounded so close, so threatening.
I whispered to my brother. Can you hear that ? hear what ? The horse!!
'Yes. now I hear it'

The horse got closer. closer. 'clip clop. clip clop'
It came into the house. 'CLIP CLOP. CLIP CLOP'

up the stairs. INTO THE ROOM. 'CLIP CLOP. CLIP CLOP'

'CLIP CLOP. CLIP CLOP'

I Screamed. my Brother Screamed.

The ghostly horse ran away as dad came into the room.

and the clock went back to normal. 'tick tock. tick tock'

Keep this flowing, it's my bedtime reading :)

I remember 12 years ago, the year we moved into the house that I still live in now, we went for a night out and, as we had just got a puppy, we took it to a friend's for the evening so it wouldn't be left alone.
I was alone in the house getting ready and I bent down to put a CD on in the player when I heard a heavy panting noise, identical to my fussy puppy's, in my ear.
Automatically, I said our dog's name and sort of brushed my hand over my shoulder to stop him jumping at me.... Then realised he wasn't in the house?
Honestly, I legged it outside and just stood on the drive for a minute wondering what the hell had just happened, it was so, so real.
Anyway, a few years later I had landscape gardeners in the back sorting the lawn, laying new turf and paving slabs, and I got a call while I was at work.
Apparently, they had accidentally dug up a dead dog that a previous family had obviously buried in the garden, and were asking if I wanted to just leave it there or whatever.
I told them to leave it buried there, but I do wonder if the panting was connected! I have no other explanation; there was only me at home, and the CD wasn't playing at that point. weird.

After my father passed away, I was sat, crying on my sofa when a very clear voice in my right ear said "it's going to be OK". There was no one else in the house at the time and it sounded angelic and echo-ey.

The evening we moved into our new home, the DC staying elsewhere, DH and I were surrounded by packing boxes, no TV/music etc. We got some fish and chips and sat on the sofa eating them, when we both heard clearly a sigh from by the door of the room we were sitting in. It was a contented sigh, that made us feel we were welcome in our new home.

Sounds very odd, particularly as we are both very un-woo normally.

We have now been here for nearly 20 years - mainly happily!! - and never heard anything subsequently.

The time slip ones have reminded me of a time late last year. It was Tuesday, which is clinic day to get your baby weighed. Dd hadn't been weighed for a while and as it was half term and DS was off school I decided to go up and get them both weighed together.
It was ok weather wise so thought we would walk instead of drive up.
Clinic was open 9.30-11.30. I got us all ready, got the kids red books and set off, it was about 9.45. The walk takes about 15 mins, if we're just dawdling maybe 25 but def no more. We got to the clinic and I picked up a ticket and waited, no one came out to call us in so I rang the bell, the health visitor came to the door and looked at me puzzled and asked what I wanted. Obviously confused I handed her my ticket and said I wanted kids weighing and she said but clinic is over TruJay?! And she pointed to the clock and she was right it was 12.45!! I was sooo confused, I genually just stood there and said but it wasn't even 10 when I set off!! Health visitor just laughed and said sleep deprivation was getting to me, she's lovely so still weighed the kids for me but it was so weird! I could not account for the missing time, very bizarre!!

When I finished my GCSE's (about 20 years ago - scary enough in itself!) me & my sister were on holiday with my Dad & step mum the week that results were due out. My results were being posted to home so I was going to ring my mum to find out how I'd done. I woke up results morning having dreamt that I would get 2 A's, 5 B's & 2 C's - I even told my sister first thing on waking up. My mum rang later & read my results for each subject out. I'd got 2 A's, 5 B's & 2 C's.

One morning when I was a lot younger I went downstairs alone. Sat on the rug & popped the tv on. From behind me I heard what sounded like our dippy dalmatian scratching his claws on the carpet. Thing is our dog had died some time before. Needless to say I legged it back upstairs pretty quickly!

lottalouise Do you think the man in the room was a burglar?

Off the top of people's head, which of the posts on this thread has stuck in people's mind? For me it's the slenderman in the bedroom one (horrific) and also the person who opened their eyes in bed as a child and saw three ladies in kimonos, one of whom put her finger to her lips and said "shh." I think those have stuck in my mind because I have a real fear of waking up and seeing a stranger in the room and I often have nightmares that that happens.

The one whose dh heard a voice whisper "I'm here" in his ear. Freaked me right out!

When I was 19 I was in a bad place and took an overdose. It was a silly thing to do and probably a cry for help, but it was enough to do me harm. I was living away from home but had come back for a weekend and I was in my parents house. It was late night/early hours and I was downstairs with no tv or music playing or anything. My dad woke up and though there was no reason for him to get up, he said he felt really strongly that he had to check downstairs, the kind of feeling he'd left the backdoor open or the oven on. He had woke with a bit of a start and my mother also woke, and she said he said 'I have to go downstairs now'. He found me passed out and called the ambulance. We don't talk about it as I'm fine, it was silly and certainly don't want to dwell on it as I'm very happy now. But I do think about that aspect of it a bit, he had no readon to get up or to think I was anywhere but in bed. Odd.

Marking place & still considering whether to share mine or not. I have shared them before on here & been shouted down by non believers & told I need to go to the doctors & been called a liar.

Magrats please share!

Don't worry Magrat, we'll send anyone who does that away with a flea in their ear. It's a woo thread, so people don't need to read it if woo stories rile them.

Sorry about the delay, I was having a swede crisis.

(the veg not the people)

Veg rage is actually part of one of the occurrances as it happens to me a lot but I'll tell you about that later.

I have a few happenings, some scary, some not. I'll start with a non scary one.

This happened at my last house so it would have been from 2009-2011 & I started a thread straight after it happened but I can't find it so must have been in Chat. Apologies if you have already read it.

OK I was in my kitchen just farting about as you do, tidying things from the side when all of a sudden I wasn't in my kitchen any more, I don't know how else to describe it. I knew I was still standing in my kitchen leaning against the cupboard but I had the feeling I was also outside & the ground was covered in straw with stone cobbles underneath. There was a structure that I don't know how to describe, it was made of woven twigs & had a back wall, 2 side walls & a roof but the front was open & it was quite low roofed. The stench was incredible, I've not smelt anything like it before or since & I can't approximate to you a similar smell. It was of things rotting & decaying & it was totally foul & I was choking on it. I was looking at the straw on the floor which was stained dark & disgusting but I got the feeling there were bodies in the hut thing, both alive & dead at once. The air felt thick & diseased & on my left there was a wooden door with black studs in it. I pushed it open, it was heavy & went inside & fell to my knees on stone flags that were cold, I felt their coldness on my knees & there was clear light coming from a window & the light was so beautiful & the air was so clean & the feeling of relief of getting away was so so strong. Then suddenly I was back in my kitchen & that was it.

When I think back I get the sense of 2 things; plague and church (I'm an atheist).

So I came on here & people suggested I needed to go to a doctor as I was hallucinating but its never happened before or since. I cannot explain it.

Magrats, that's really interesting! Could have been inherited memory? Is your house really old? There's a church in a village near here called Ashwell where people who were alive during the plague have scratched graffiti on the walls. It's the oddest thing, looking at it and realising how real it all was.

Well just tonight I was up til just after midnight, went to bed and then a minute later decided to get a glass of water for the bedside table. Went into the kitchen for this and on the way out glanced at the microwave and the clock there said 2.29! "OMG", I thought for a moment, "It's just like on Mumsnet and I've had a time slip, what a thing to post on the woo thread!" Then I realised that DP, who'd used the microwave earlier to warm his dinner, had put it on for too long and stopped it at 2 minutes 29 seconds. Once switched back to clock it still said midnight. How disappointing!!!

Mairzy the house was just rented, it was 1930's & no idea what was there before that.

Ashwell sounds compelling, is the graffiti legible? Can you read it?

Just looked it up and if you google Ashwell plague graffiti, you can see it on the church website

I was really disappointed when I looked it up. It basically just said that there was a plague.

I want to hear that story about the dog walkers who came across a werewolf.

The dog walker/werewolf story is REALLY scary. I think I've also read one on here about a tall, thin man with long legs chasing someone home, and then peering in through the front door?

DH will be home soon (hopefully!!)

Well, I made DH come upstairs with me last night as I was too scared to go to bed on my own. I don't have my own events to share, but have been told about these events by a friend.

She is very non-woo and admits she didn't believe in ghosts or spooks until they happened.

She works from time to time in a stately home which is sometimes hired out for weddings etc. it is known for paranormal activity such as a cradle which rocks itself. However, she wasn't fussed by these tales and would happily walk around on her own and go to her car in the grounds at night. One night she was heading back when she heard a loud rattling and bumping, the sound of thundering hooves. She felt a whooshing past her then there was a splintering crash and yells and screams. Nothing was to be seen.

There had been a fatal coach crash there hundreds of years earlier.

At a different time she had home to get something from a room near where she was working. She walking into the room to see a grey figure walking around. She wasn't scared but knew she didn't want to be noticed so stood very still until it vanished. Then she scarpered back into her work room. She knew she'd been gone 5 minutes, but her colleagues were very worried- she had left the room 40 minutes ago, they were about to come looking for her.

She now fully believes in life beyond the here and now.

Strange thing happened to me this week. So from time to time I have dreams about my nan or my friend who died, they are so vivid it's the type of dream I wake and remember it exactly start to finish & can for days/ months later unlike other dreams.
So I had this dream last week I was at my Nan's old house she was but wasn't there if that makes any sense? And my uncle was there and we were redoing her kitchen.
When I woke thought strange I had a dream about my uncle, ok we're close but I see him Xmas birthdays sort of thing, thought was random.
So day before yesterday my dad calls to my uncle has split up from my Aunty, totally out of the blue! And he's now looking for somewhere to live. Then also that day my DD1 comes home to say that a girl in school is leaving as they are moving house, and these people moved into my Nan's house not long after she died 10 years ago..... So I called my dad straight away if that's not a sign I really do not know what is. Really hope he goes for it!

ASBO made me laugh out loud (bit worrying that, on a thread like this)

Being an extremely practical sort, I can usually think of a rational reason for any event I read/hear about, what I've struggled with for the the last 30-odd years is hearing an upstairs loo flushing, when I was the only one in a building.

Oldish detached house in Southampton, pre-war and had been converted to a business premises. Downstairs were offices, a store-room and a cellar; upstairs were store-rooms and the ladies loo.

I worked at the front of the building and the stairs were immediately outside the door from the room I worked in. Not many employees in this business, 4 x women who all worked in the offices at the back, long with one man and 3 x men at the front. There were also mobile workers, who came into the offices once a day.

One day, I was sat eating my lunch and watching the lunchtime news, when I heard the ladies loo upstairs flush. I thought this was odd, as I was sure, I'd seen all the girls go out for lunch but assumed one of them had stayed in. Shortly after, all 4 of them came back in the front door. I ran up the stairs, looked in every room, nobody in any. Went to the back-offices, asked them all and they all said they'd all been out together.

When I explained why, I then got lots of freaky tales; how one of the managers had been working on one evening after we'd all left, heard somebody upstairs, thought it was the other manager and had called out to him, put his foot on the first step to go upstairs and felt all the hairs stand up on his neck. He ran back to his office, got his coat and bolted.

The other manager had been passing one Sunday and decided to pop in and ust the loo. His wife was with him and he'd just got into the gents, locked the door (weird I know) when his wife screamed. He ran out and she was having a fit, insisting that there was 'something' in the house with them.

One of the mobile workers, arrived early one morning, first one there and as he drove into the car-park at the front, saw a little girl looking at him from the upstairs store-room window. Another mobile bod had left after 2 x weeks because he was so freaked out by the atmosphere.

I can't work out why I heard the loo flush; not next to another building; only the two loos in the building; only me in the building and they were bog-standard, close-coupled toilets. I've just checked on Googlemaps Street View, to see if there's a girl's face looking out of an upstairs window but the house isn't there now, lots of demolition and re-building in that part of So'ton.

Reading about the 'fabric of space' and how celestial bodies, 'sit on' and 'distort' this fabric, might account for sounds and lights arriving at odd times, out of kilter with real-time events. I bloody hope so anyway.