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

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JudgeyHotPants · 22/12/2014 13:24

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!

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DawnMumsnet · 19/02/2015 09:52

Just letting you all know that the Classics Nomination Committee have decreed that this thread officially Fits The Bill.

We'll be moving it over to Classics shortly. Grin

londonrach · 19/02/2015 09:56

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Jackie0 · 19/02/2015 10:07

Fantastic Grin

Nearasdammit · 19/02/2015 10:42

Whoever posted the story of the tall, skinny "slender man" following them home and peering through the glass door was being dishonest.

Not only were they repeating a story they'd read elsewhere; THE STORY WAS NEVER TRUE.

It was written as an experiment regarding creating urban legends.

Anyway......

The whole "time slip" thing is interesting. There have been loads of stories about a street in Luverpool where people seem to be briefly transported to an earlier time.

SneakretSanta · 19/02/2015 12:31

My little boy is seven months old and both my Mum and I have commented how much he looks like my DGF who died eight years ago. He has dimples in the same place, similar facial expressions and everything.

I've started taking him to rhyme time at a local library recently and he's pretty indifferent to most of the songs - he enjoys it but more interested in looking around the room and at the other babies iykwim. Then last time we went they started this song 'I am the music man' which basically involves doing impressions of lots of different instruments and he went mad- giggling and waving his arms and screeching. So much so that everyone else was finding it really funny. I've sung it to him a few times since and had the same reaction. I was doing it the other day when my Mum was over and she said she hadn't heard the song for years but DGF apparently used to sing it all the time after a glass of wine as a sort of party piece and always found it hilarious.

Anyway just thought it was an odd coincidence! He also reacts to photos of that DGF and DGM the way he reacts to ones of people he knows, touching the faces and smiling, whereas photos of other dead relatives/ people he hasn't met are briefly examined then chucked to one side.

Cariad007 · 19/02/2015 14:23

Hurrah we're in classics!

I remember a slightly odd thing at happened to me recently. I was in Australia and went away for a few days with my brothers and their families. We stayed in a very nice, modern house with lovely views etc. But every night at about 2am I would be woken by w banging crashing noise that no one else heard. My brother said it was probably possums but I doubt possums make that much noise! Then one night I heard someone in the kitchen - opening the cutlery drawers, taking stuff out of the fridge etc, but I assumed that it was my younger brother having a late night snack as he'd taken ill that day and not eaten dinner. But no, that wasn't him. So it's a mystery!

SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 19/02/2015 14:46

LadyFlumpalot I kill watches - and small electrical items like irons. Also, my phone goes a bit dodgy if I hold it for too long.

JoffreyBaratheon · 19/02/2015 16:56

I posted one some time back about the night my friend died. A few hours before, my watch broke and so did a silver ring I was wearing, that was solid silver and I had worn for a few years. I have rarely worn a watch since and this was the early 80s.

LadyFlumpalot · 19/02/2015 17:33

I've posted this one before so I'll give the condensed version.

GMIL died before I started seeing DH so I never met her. She was very close to DH indeed.

When DS began to talk he began to chatter away to "Nanny" and hold animated conversations with thin air. He has a Grandma and a Granny-Grandma, no Nanny. The only person to be called Nanny was my GMIL...

My DH is the most un woo person ever, but even he was beginning to feel uneasy and started complaining of feeling constantly watched and saying he kept feeling like someone was standing right next to him. I was feeling the same and it was starting to scare me.

One day I said out loud "Ok, please can you not, whoever you are, you're scaring us" and just like that the uneasy feelings stopped.

Fast forward a few months and we went to GFIL's 80th birthday. Neither of us had mentioned any of our scary goings on to anyone for fear of being thought mad. GFIL has always claimed to be very woo, spirit guides and the like.

As soon as I walked in, before I could even say "Happy Birthday" he grabbed me and said "She says she is sorry, she never meant to scare you, she just wanted to see her grandson and great grandson. She loves you all and is so proud of you."

celineybeanie · 19/02/2015 19:34

When I was at home living with parents My bf (now husband) came over one day to take me out for the day. We decided upon London. My dad begged and pleaded for us not go to london, anywhere but london as he had a bad feeling about it, we said we'd be careful and therefore fine. He eventually gave in, on the promise that we wouldn't get on any buses or trains.

The date was 7/7/05 the day of the London bombings

JoffreyBaratheon · 20/02/2015 00:50

A group of friends work in a museum and for a year or two, several of us met there in the evenings, after the public had gone, to make costumes for living history events - a sort of informal sewing bee. One of our group had the keys, and we'd let ourselves in and turn off the alarm system.

We usually got together in an upstairs room because it was the largest room. It is not a very old building, and is not on the site of any previous building, so is not particularly spooky or creepy. It has huge windows, you can see most of the site and the carpark too. We'd pull the gate shut after driving in so no members of the public could get in, and we'd have seen if any cars pulled up or people walked across site because of security lights, and where we were sitting with that view right across the place.

About half way through the evening, we'd stop for a coffee break and someone would go down to the cafe below and make us all a drink. The toilets were downstairs, by the cafe.

This one night, I went to the loo and as I was in there clearly heard what sounded like a man walking about just outside, in the cafe and he was whistling. Really, really loudly and unmistakable. I didn't think anything of it. But even so, when I came out of the bog, something made me feel a bit creeped out - it looked like there was no-one in the cafe. But I didn't dare go in and look, just glanced through the doors as I passed. I ran upstairs and collected myself before I walked in, not to look a prat, and casually asked which of the blokes had just been downstairs in the cafe and were they making a drink? Needless to say - no-one in there. In fact no-one in the downstairs of the building at all - apart from me. I asked them if they were sure none of them had been down. No, they said, no-one has. "Ah come on I heard you whistling, really loud. It was definitely coming from the cafe." - for months afterwards they'd tease me about the whistling ghost, and make silly ghost noises and whistle whenever I went to the toilet. Bastards.

I asked my husband again afterwards and he insisted no-one was on site, apart from us and no-one was downstairs apart from me.

Not long afterwards, right at the end of the cafe where I heard the whistling, I noticed an old photo that was perfectly innocent but freaked me out. I asked my husband who it was. He said it was one of the old trustees of the museum, who had loved the place and that was the table where he always sat. I think it was him I heard. Although why he picked me and why when I was on the loo - no idea. Thing is, it wasn't faint or imaginary it was very loud and only a few metres away - I knew exactly where it was coming from. And I don't think they were winding me up as I legged it up the stairs two at a time and no-one was ahead of me. They were all sat there, still sewing.

Friend of mine used to do some work after hours at the Imperial War Museum, once Bethlem hospital (asylum) and she said it was actually rather terrifying being in there at night.

I have a few living history/re-enactment ones too, as being in old buildings at night after the public has gone home, in kit, often seems to provoke something.

ajandjjmum · 20/02/2015 07:10

Nearasdammit - I mentioned the slenderman story upthread, as I thought it was really frightening when I originally read it on here. Quite happy to hear it was a hoax!

SneakretSanta - I have very happy memories of my DF and DM singing 'music man' with DS when he was a toddler. Smile

LadyFlumpalot · 20/02/2015 09:28

Joffrey - I used to be in the Sealed Knot and there were some seriously weird things that happened in and around our LH camps as well!

MrsCosmopilite · 20/02/2015 13:24

I've another short anecdote to share.

I did some voluntary work at a local nature reserve for a while (helping in their visitor centre). I helped out with a hallowe'en event, during which I told a story I'd made up, based on some of the genuine history of the site, and mentioning some names from the past. In my story, the Lord of the Manor was painted as a not-too-nice man. Creeped the kids out which was all well and good for the event.

Other commitments got in the way so I wasn't able to volunteer for a while until the following year when we were doing an early morning walk. We were gathered in the forecourt, nobody really knew each other, so everyone was standing a few feet away from everyone else. One woman started speaking to me, saying that she'd brought her kids to the Hallowe'en event, and how they'd liked the story. I said I'd made the whole thing up and had rather badmouthed the original owner of the house (which stood on the site of the visitor centre).
Suddenly, I got what I can only describe as a clip round the ear. It really hurt.

I was not under a tree, nobody was standing near me, and I have never experienced the sensation before or since.

u32ng · 20/02/2015 13:25

LadyFlumpalot Your story brought an unexpected tear to my eye. Just the thought that loved ones could still feel love for family just as they would when alive.

mandalee · 20/02/2015 22:42

Just saw this and thought of this thread immediately! Woo indeed...

www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/02/ohio_boy_5_believes_he_lived_past_life_as_a_black_woman_named_pam.html

tomandizzymum · 21/02/2015 11:03

Thought I'd share a few more spooky stories.

Years ago in their late twenties my parents regularly hosted parties. During one party my mother entered the kitchen and found an old rasterfarian sitting at the table, he said ''when all the sevens come together, that will be your time' and left the room. She was freaked out and tried to find him at the party but couldn't. None of her friends knew him. Seven years later she was due with her first child and was booked to be induced on the 6th of July. The baby hung on and was born on 7/7/77!!

In the same flat they lived in two other odd things happened. They regularly took in lodgers and one in particular was very difficult. She treated the flat as if it were her own and was frequently asked to leave, one night my mother was lying in bed and thinking 'just get out of my flat'. In the morning she went to the kitchen and the lodger said 'I'm not staying in this flat any longer, did you not hear me scream last night?' apparently a woman, dressed completely in red floated into her room and screamed 'GET OUT OF THIS FLAT'. Then floated out of the window.

Regularly my mother would insist that we go for a walk in the local park and then come home and have toast and Indian relish by the fireplace. We asked why and her response was that when she moved in she had a dream that in the 19th century an elderly gentleman lived in the flat and he would do this every sunday. Before moving they renevated the fireplace and found a 19th century Indian Relish bottle behind the grate, my mother still has the bottle.

I had a lot of frightening and reaccuring dreams in that flat and suffered from sleep paralysis and old hag syndrome as a child. It stopped when we moved. Something even stranger happened in the new house where my mother still lives, it was witnessed by several people.

tomandizzymum · 21/02/2015 11:59

This thread is great, I think I'm only on page 10. I will only read it during daylight!

So here's my final spooky story, one that will out me because everyone knows it. We call it the knocking ghost.

We moved to a new house, just me and my mum, after my parents split. It was a calm house, nothing ever happens and it's still like that. In the 90's my mother was still taking in lodgers and one in particular came from New Zealand. She'd recently lost her husband and was an older woman in her late 50's. She was travelling the world and a bit lost IMO, I suspect she was suffering from grief and depression. She had consulted a medium in a hope of finding her husband and even tried to 'contact' him herself but with no luck.
As soon as she moved in odd things started happening. We had a cat and a dog who began watching/barking at the stairs and following with their eyes as if someone was going up. The radio in my room (that had a slide from tape to radio switch) would turn on. The TV (old pre remote model) would also turn on when no one was in the room.
One night I heard clear, loud knocking on my bedroom door. Annoyed at being woken I ignored it. In the morning I asked the lodger if she'd knocked. She said 'No that was your mother, I heard her running up the stairs'. My mother was out of London for the weekend! She came home on Sunday from over 50 miles away.
A few afternoons later I came home from school with a friend. The house was empty. We were in my room and heard a clear knocking on the door. The dog barked and I said 'come in'. Assuming it was my mother, who might have returned and was perhaps carrying drinks or a snack, I opened the door. There was no one there and no one in the house. The dog was going frantic and we were so freaked out we both left for my friends house, taking the dog with us.
Finally my mum was in the kitchen, the wall backs onto the storeroom for the paper shop next door. She was putting up shelves with the help of the two neighbours (who still live next door). She banged with the hammer and banging came back. Again she did it in a pattern and the pattern came back. Freaked out, the neighbours left. My mum went next door to the shop. The owner was behind the till and alone. He let my mum go and look, not only was there no hammer but the wall had shelves and stock. Getting access to the wall would require moving the stock.
The woman moved out and nothing ever happened again.

bloodyteenagers · 22/02/2015 16:12

possible trigger So for the past few days I have been reading this thread on and off.
Earlier today I read the slender man post. A couple of posts later I was intrigued and googled it.

What I didn't expect to find was these headlines 'Slender Man' Stabbing Suspects Blamed Each Other in Interrogations
The news article is disturbing.

Crocodopolis · 22/02/2015 21:22

Have just found this thread and have lots of spooky stories to share.

First: about 25 years ago, I lived in Geneva, Switzerland on a quiet lane. I shared the house with three other people.

One Friday evening, I went to the theatre with a friend and got home about midnight. One of my housemates was up and she gave me a message that my dad had called (he was working in Saudi Arabia at the time). I called him back, we had a nice chat and then I went to bed. This would have been about 12.30am or so.

I was lying in bed, thinking about the play and the lovely chat with my father when I heard a woman screaming. Not shrieking, not yelling, but screaming. Have you ever heard the expression "my blood ran cold"? Well, mine did. And I was literally paralysed with fright as the screaming got closer and closer. I was terrified that there would be a pounding at the front door and I would find a blood-covered woman.

The screaming got closer and closer. It reached what I would estimate to be the front of the house and then began to become fainter and fainter, as though the screaming person was moving away from the house.

The next morning I looked in the papers but could not find any news of anyone in my neighbourhood being attacked or killed. My housemates denied all knowledge of hearing screams.

I never did find out what it was.

Crocodopolis · 22/02/2015 21:31

This is a funny one and slightly difficult to recount.

About 15 years ago, I lived in west London with a friend, 'Carl'. Over time, I became friendly with Carl's former girlfriend, an Italian woman named AnnaLisa (AL). AL and Carl had been together for a number years but went their separate ways when she developed an interest in woo-woo matters such as astral projection. AL used to chat to me about this and, as she was a bit older than I was, I used to humour her. There were stories about how one night she 'floated' into a neighbour's house and various other tales.

Well, every year Carl spent several weeks in his house in the south of France so I used to house sit for him. One night I was asleep and lying on my side (I sleep on my side) when I heard someone say very clearly into my ear "Yoo hoo!". I sat bolt upright but the bedroom door was closed. I leapt up and turned on the light, but no one was there. Checked the hallway. No one. The front and back doors were locked and windows closed.

A bit shaken, I went back to bed, though it took me a while to fall asleep again.

The next evening returning from work, I put the key in the front door and pushed it open. From the back of the house, where the conservatory was, I heard "yoo hoo!" - the exact same voice I had heard the night before. This time, I was awake and recognised it as AL's voice.

I called out "AL, is that you?"

"Yes", came the reply. "I'm in the conservatory watering Carl's plants."

I walked to the conservatory and told her what had happened the night before. AL smiled and said "Oh, that was me! I get a bit naughty when I do astral projections. Sorry if I frightened you."

To this day, I don't know what to think. I do know what happened, though.

Crocodopolis · 22/02/2015 21:39

Another one.

When I was a child, my family lived in a beautiful Georgian house. It was typically Georgian - light and bright with big windows. Everyone commented on how beautiful the house was. And then they commented on how spooky it felt.

My father used to say that he was in the kitchen, he used to feel as though someone was looking over his shoulder. I felt it, too. Only in the kitchen.

In addition to the house in the city we also had a country house. I am a city-dweller through and through and get anxious and uneasy if I spend more than a few hours in the suburbs. So the idea of spending a weekend in the country - even with the tempting offer of a pony - was not enough to make weekends away attractive.

My parents, rather than have a sulky teenager on their hands, agreed to let me stay in the house alone. (I know it sounds mad but I was actually a pretty responsible teenager - I didn't drink, didn't have a boyfriend and wasn't much for parties.)

A few times I would go out with friends and come home to find the front door wide open. Not just unlocked or with the door ajar - wide open, as though someone - or something was waiting for me to return. A few times, this happened when a friend's parents were dropping me off after visiting their home. The parents always insisted on going in to check that the house was safe and sometimes made me stay with them until my parents were due back.

Crocodopolis · 22/02/2015 21:40

I've got more, this time about the house I am currently living in. To follow...

waitoverthere · 24/02/2015 00:21

Crocodopolis What about the times your friends' parents didn't make you stay with them, did you just go into the house alone!?

Crocodopolis · 24/02/2015 10:34

wait, if the parents were there, they went into the house first and checked it. If they weren't there, I went in on my own. It was very spooky, though. There was always a feeling in the house of waiting.

I do know that the family who owned it before us had a teenaged daughter who was killed in a road traffic accident.

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