Mysteries that intrigue you?

[maduggar]

I love reading about unsolved mysteries, they fascinate me!

Here are a few of my faves ...

sommerton man

- this one has noise!

the Beaumont children - imagine 3 of your children going mising :(

What are yours? Stonhenge, UFOs, The Kennedeys ...?

Ohhh I love MNetters real life mysteries :)

The real life mystery that I have never ever revealed to anyone else sounds too improbable but did happen.

At the age of nine I became v arachnophobic, pretty much overnight after previously beeing an ardent bug catcher. No-one thought to ask why.

One evening when my mum was trying to help my sister with her reading I went out (can't remember why) to the garage as there was nothing else to do. While I was there I stood in front of the chest freezer and some movement caught my eye - a tarantula came out and slowly creeped across the front. The thing is it was a wierd tarantula, not the black and yellow type - it had white / grey guard hairs and a mostly black body with tiny red dots in lines across the back.

I froze and literally could not run inside to get my mum, and just stood there as it very slowly creeped back, then went inside.

Didn't say anything - knew no-one would believe it and somehow managed to convince myself that it was my imagination.

Funny thing was around nine years later we were painting the inside of the garage magnolia (so spiders would show up easier - and give me more warning to get out)and sorting out everything, and in a box containing glass bottles there was the corpse of a very squashed, quite flat, hairy tarantula sized thing and I could make out grey/ white hair and think tiny red spots. But instead of just pointing this out to my family I just tipped into a bin.

It's been a secret for so long now that I can't mention it to anyone. Would be dying to know if there are some tarantula type beasties that resemble what I thought I saw.

nameymcnamechange - last week we had 2 lots of mushrooms appear in the garden in a circle shape and about 6 mushrooms in each group .

So would i fluffy - but i aint google-image-ing Tarantula breeds for all the Gin in London ....

It could have been someone's escaped tarantula, fluffy.

I am still loving this excellent thread, it really has drawn me . The posts here are so strange and very intresting.

fluffybit, your spider experience is so very strange and spooky. I would of run away ! Also weird that you saw the same type of big freaky spider twice and years later. The way you have described it makes it sound creepy and not of this world.

I am scared of your average house spider, so seeing one like the one would send me over the edge/sheer panic.

Not as creepy or strange as your spider storie, but a few months back me and DD were sorting through the toy box
when, without warning, the biggest spider I have seen in awhile , honestly jumped/launched at me. The less scary part was it ambushed me from behind a big, soft SpongeBob SquarePants,so I can sort of giggle a bit , but it was terrifying. It was maybe the size of a small side plate with its legs at full lengh. I got my hand/arm away sharpish. Never before have I seen such a big,freaky spider, and one who seemed to want to attack rather than trying to run a way. We both screamed and my gut reaction was to lob the box out the back door,which I did, and all the stuff went flying, but the spider had dissappeard.

Like fluffbit, it was how strange and creeped out it made me. I felt that this 'Thing' didn't really belong on earth.

So my spider experince was terrifying, never happed before or since. I am now irrationally petrefied of SpongBob SqaurePants as everytime I see anything SpongeBob related , i feel shivers as I can just see it flying through the air from behind SpongeBob, Im aware the SpongeBob part of my experience is a bit funny, but I have never been so scared as I was that day seeing this werid/mystery creature. Now I can take comfort that another person has seen a freaky spider, so its not just me losing my mind [hshock]

Thats quite creepy LeQueen

This thread is amazing! Although, following earlier posts am now dividing my time between mn and david icke!

In rl though, used to live in house I was convinced was haunted, was on my own while pg with dc1 and felt someone pinch my bum! Convinced myself it was hormones but the friend who owned the house (we rented off them) told me her visitors had seen apparitions on the stairs! Me and dh also used to hear noises from loft sometimes, putting it down to neighbours or just general older house creaking. Strangely, we had some roofers in at one point, when in the loft one felt something brush against him and was spooked.
I also get the sleep paralysis described earlier. Maybe some people are more sensitive to certain energies?

Agghhh......have just read through this entire thread (all 20 pages of it) and am scared shitless. On my own with DS and am too scared to get up....

Damn MN and damn my sheer nosiness for not stopping at page 1.

Oh and am also convinced that LTJ's brownie girl was a ghost....Arggghhh

"Like fluffbit, it was how strange and creeped out it made me. I felt that this 'Thing' didn't really belong on earth"

ilike - there is a widespread theory that spiders are aliens - hence our wariness toward them.

saltire Was it Powderham castle?
I was warned about going into the room because I had 4 month old DD in a sling and they werent sure if the "ghost" would react badly or not. I just thought it was one of those tall stories to make the people on the tour feel spooked!

I used to work in a hotel on Loch Ness that is apparently haunted. Most of the staff (myself included) had 'encounters'. Even the owners were apparently scared to go into certain rooms. Also guests would often ask the desk staff if the place was haunted because they'd had strange things happen to them.

Oooh! When I read about the spooky castle, I thought of Powderham castle too!
We went down to Devon a few years ago, and visited it, and I ended up so spooked I stayed outside!
Not sure what I was scared of though, and dh thought I was being pathetic.

Amazingbouncingpoltergeist - I googled Powderham, and it was that castle.. It was an awful feeling. none of the tour guides ahd mentioned anything beforehand, it wasn't until after I'd said how I felt that he told us.

Brilliant thread.

Did anyone else collect the 'mysteries of the world' (or something like that) cards when they were little? I think they came out of boxes of teabags.

The Edinburgh dungeons are really spooky. Especially as ds2 spoke to people in them that noone else could see. (Can't remember how he was exactly when we were there- I think maybe 3 or 4)

I am still really enjoying this thread, it maybe my most fav MN thread ever, it has truely drawn me in and the posts are interesting! Well done madugga for thinking to start this brilliant thread,it will never get boring and everyone adds really good incidents ! So, horray for maduggar![hsmile]

Really, PortBlack? I have never heard that before. Interesting, you have taught me something new today PortBlack. That has made me feel even more creeped out about my experience now!

OOhh maybe that explains why a fear of spiders is one of the most common phobias worldwide. Perhaps because of the spider/ alien theory we are atomatically programed to dislike them as they from a different place to earth. It was definantley the way the spider/thing made me feel like a panicy terror that was the most scary, even more so than the look of it!

I swear the spider was intent on attacking/hurting me rather than scrambling away to hide like most spiders do.

The way in which it ambushed me from behind SpongeBob was strange, as it really 'flew' at me with real height/power. I have never seen a spider do this and due to its size and creepy freaky look, there was no way I would let it come near me or DD so ran the box to the back door and chucked it into the garden. Items from the box flew everywhere, and I know the spider just dissappeared! . I was generally shocked, as was DD.

Phew, I would not want to go through that again, I can tell you! Unfornatuly for DD,the SpongeBob is not allowed in the house now, as I keep unlogically linking him to that monster arachnid ! So poor spongebob in now under a bush in the flower bed getting cold and dripping wet from rain. I will NEVER look at SpongeBob SqaurePants inoccently/in the same light again. From now on SpongeBob's memory for me,and maybe dd, will one of terror and alien killer spiders! [hshock]

Ooh so glad someone else has had a freaky spider experience ilike. Bloody hell that sounds sooo scary - that big! Does your DD ever talk about it?

The wierd thing like you is that I just felt so freaked out that I couldn't believe it was happening and just felt paralysed or hypnotised, but I guess in any situation where you feel intense fear you can go not into flight or fight mode but freeze mode (if I were a hedgehog I'd be roadkill [hgrin]).

Scurry I've later thought that maybe it was someone's escaped pet - especially as I saw some kind of flattened tarantula corpse some years after. But I know nothing about tarantulas and have no idea if it would possible for one to suvive, at least for a few months / years in an unheated garage.

As it was so wierd it is kind of easier to pretend it didn't happen. I really don't want to believe that a giant, poisonous arachnid could quite happily be lurking in any garage or shed.

portsblack I came across that theory years later of so called 'screen memories' but although it did feel very strange it feels more likely that it was an escaped spider than an alien [hwink]

Spooky though, although I'm not gonna google tarantulas either!

Bumping

fluffybitingguineapigs - I'm not trying to scare you, but did you know that tarantulas regularly shed their whole skin when they grow, leaving behind perfect "shells" of their bodies. Sorry.

crispface Noooooo [hshock]

The disappearance of Lionel "Buster" Crabb

So how come are some people not scared of spiders then?

Marking my place so I can go back later and click on links. Definitely needs to be a MN Classic thread.