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The paranormal

Give us your eerie stories

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winkywinkola · 17/08/2014 23:59

because I've none.

Go on. I love hearing about them.

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misstiredbuthappy · 24/08/2014 11:54

cubee Shock

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0pheliaBalls · 24/08/2014 12:35

I have a few. I have to go out so I'll quickly post a short one and post again later.

When I was 17 a friend of mine asked me to do a ouija board with her in her house - her dad had died suddenly at home a few months previously and she found him when she got home from school. She was desperate and wanted to see if she could contact him. I was pretty sceptical but she was so upset, I thought what harm can it do.

We started and nothing happened for ages. She kept asking if her dad was there but the glass stayed still. We were about to give up when it suddenly started moving really quickly and spelled out 'Ruby'. I had a great aunt named Ruby who had died a few weeks before - I had only met her a couple of times, her death had affected me not at all. I certainly had not mentioned it, or Ruby, to my friend. It then spelled my mother's name followed by 'London'. We lived hundreds of miles from London and had never even visited. It then spelled 'father gone' and again, 'London', followed by 'taxi'. It then went 'silent' again. I was perplexed as to how my friend had heard about my aunt and what had made her spell out all that random stuff - she of course insisted that she hadn't been pushing the glass but I didn't believe her for a second. I figured she'd put the 'father gone' stuff in to make it more authentic given what had happened to her dad. I was actually quite pissed off with her for trying to scare me when I'd only agreed to do the ouija board because she'd been so upset.

Fast forward three months. A band I loved were doing a one off show in London so I decided to go - my first trip to London, I was so excited. My mum decided to come too, she'd never been either so it'd be a massive treat. We had a lovely day, then took a cab to the venue. I went in alone - my mum had decided she'd go to the cinema, my taste in music being not to her liking Smile When I came out three hours later, she was still in the taxi, chatting to the driver like they were old friends, eating fish and chips. He drove us to the station and afterward my mother wouldn't stop going on about him. A couple of weeks later she got a letter from him at her work - she'd told him vaguely where she worked and he'd sent letters to all the likely places he'd found in the phone book (no internet in those days!) in the hope of tracking her down. She was overjoyed. They stayed in touch and she went to see him a few times until eventually she left my (violent, abusive) father for Mr Taxi and we moved to London.

So, my mother went to 'London', fell in love with a 'taxi' driver and my 'father' was indeed 'gone' from our lives.

0pheliaBalls · 24/08/2014 12:37

That wasn't short at all, was it?! The other ones I have are much scarier, no happy endings or anything too mitigate the woo. I'll be back later!

MeanAndMeaslyMiddleAges · 24/08/2014 19:40

I've told these before.

My dad's family are all from up north - we livedin Devon. When I was a few months old my dad's dad died and we all went up to the funeral. None of us went up to visit again until I was about 15, and my dad wanted to go and see my dgf's grave. We went to the cemetery and it was absolutely enormous, and my dad had no memory of where the grave was. We started looking but it was obvious we'd be there a while. Suddenly I just felt drawn to the far side of the graveyard and went charging off saying 'it's over there.' My family followed and I saw a grave from behind and said 'it's that one.' Sure enough we went and looked at the inscription and it was my dgf's grave. It was so far away from where we'd been looking you couldn't even see it from where we'd started, but I just knew. I always figured it was me somehow remembering something from being 5 mo until my mum told me I hadn't actually attended the funeral.

Natalie1989xo · 24/08/2014 22:29

Bumping for more Smile

DontstepontheMomeRaths · 25/08/2014 00:06

0phelia go on post some more!

Meanand how weird!

0pheliaBalls · 25/08/2014 08:55

OK, here's another.

Years ago me and my mum, dad and brother moved into a flat. It was in a gorgeous old terraced house near the centre of the city I grew up in and took up the whole top floor. The ground floor was a separate flat.

When we moved in we found those home made Palm Sunday type crosses everywhere - in drawers, cupboards, pinned to walls, there was even one in the shower. We moved in in August, so a long time since Palm Sunday! We threw them all away.

The first night we were there, I was woken several times in the night by a REALLY loud rumbling sound - it was like a heavy train going down tracks, that's the only thing I can liken it to. I was more annoyed than anything else. Next morning when I mentioned it to my family, nobody else had heard it.

Over the next few weeks, other strange things happened. My cassette player (it was the 80s Grin ) would turn itself on and off - and by that I mean I would see the play button depress by itself, not just a radio randomly turning on. One I was lying in bed and watched as the (tightly screwed on) lid of a bottle of still mineral water I'd left on my desk shot off and hit the ceiling above like a champagne cork, and the water fountained out of the bottle.

Meanwhile, a girl had moved into the flat downstairs. We spoke to her a few times, she was a doctor and really lovely. She asked us if we had the same problems with the plumbing - apparently it clanked and screeched all night and she couldn't sleep. We hadn't heard a thing. A week after she moved in, she left. She was there in the evening - we saw her come in from work at about 10 - but was gone in the morning. For some reason though the lock on her door was broken and the door to her flat was left open (the individual doors were inside the building isywim).

It was a really hot summer that year and our flat was often sweltering. My mum had decided to have a nose into the downstairs flat and discovered that it was much, much cooler than ours. In fact in the evenings it was so cool you could see your breath despite it being in the high 20s outside. She took to sitting down there to cool down, and I sometimes joined her. We would often open the lounge door to see a sort of strange cloud hanging in the middle of the room at about eye level - it was greyish white and less dense than a normal cloud. It would sort of fade and evaporate pretty quickly after we came in. It struck us as a bit odd but we figured it had something to do with how cold it was compared to the warm air outside.

One night my mum went downstairs alone to read - it was uncomfortably hot upstairs and she couldn't sleep. She opened the lounge door and saw the cloud (the room was dark). With her next step, her bare foot was sliced by a shard of glass that that had - by the way it had entered her foot - obviously been 'standing' on its edge. Hard to explain but it was a triangle of glass about 10cm along its base and maybe 5cm tall that had somehow been standing on its bottom edge and the narrow top point had gone into her foot. The 'cloud' remained all through this and when we got downstairs to her (the glass still poking out of her foot) it was still there. It stayed when we turned the light on, and only then began to slowly 'evaporate'. We saw that there was a framed picture of a boat on the wall which had a triangular chunk of glass missing from the frame - no other cracks, and it was still hung securely and straight. We took my mum to casualty but none of us ever went downstairs again. A young couple moved in shortly after but moved out within a fortnight.

The weird stuff upstairs continued and we were getting seriously freaked out, so my mum started looking for somewhere to move to. We found a new house and were all set to go by the middle of October. On our last night, my dad and brother were out and me and my mum were watching a film. Suddenly we heard somebody running up the stairs to our flat which we immediately though odd as we hasn't heard the big main door downstairs slam as it always did when somebody came in. We waited for the sound of keys in the lock, thinking maybe it was my dad or brother, but no sound came. We just started to relax when the most almighty banging started on our flat door. Somebody was hammering on the door so hard the stuff on the mantelpiece was shaking. We were terrified - we went out into the hall and the door was shifting in its frame the banging was so hard. It was as if somebody was trying to smash the door down. This went on for several minutes. My mum and I were screaming and crying, sure that whoever it was would soon succeed and smash the door down. Then, suddenly, it stopped. After a few seconds I went to the peephole but of course, nobody was there. Eventually we plucked up the courage to open the door to find the stairwell empty. We went downstairs, past the empty flat which was now securely locked, to find that the big heavy front door was locked from the inside with the safety chain on. We had not locked it or put the chain on, as we were expecting my dad and brother home. There was nowhere for anyone to hide in the downstairs lobby, it was just a square a couple of meters across.

We were so, so glad to move out the next day.

0pheliaBalls · 25/08/2014 09:02

Bollocks, that was long!

Much more briefly, here's another.

When DD was little - about 2/3- we lived in a little cottage. She would talk to the 'yady' who 'lived' just above, and slightly to the left of, the fireplace. I would come into the room and she would be sitting looking at this particular spot on the wall, laughing and jabbering. The first time I saw her do it, I asked her jokingly who on earth she was talking to and she said 'the yady'. This lady seemed to be there all the time - DD would say hello to her when we got home and night night to her at bedtime. When we moved out she cried because she missed the yady. She was pretty with brown hair apparently. DD doesn't remember her 'friend' now Grin

carlywurly · 25/08/2014 09:18

A really silly one from yesterday. Dp called his mum yesterday morning and had been expecting a call back from her all day. Come 8.30, still nothing and he was starting to get a little concerned.

My helpful suggestion was for him to google "where is my mum?" which he then did, pressed go, and immediately the phone rang. Google never fails Grin

FabULouse · 25/08/2014 10:37

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DontstepontheMomeRaths · 25/08/2014 10:44

I didn't mind how long it was 0phelia. Scary.

fabU that was freaky. Wise move not to speak up. That kind of stuff freaks me out.

CornChips · 25/08/2014 11:15

I have told most of mine before.

We used to live with a ghost dog. Both DH and I saw and felt it regularly. If we were in the kitchen it would touch the backs of our legs. We now have a ghost old man, but I have not seen or felt him for a few years- since DS was about 1 year old. He would wander around and smoke.

winkywinkola · 25/08/2014 11:16

0phelia, how do you sleep at night?

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dustarr73 · 25/08/2014 11:57

When i lived in a rented house,across the the road from Mil.The minute i walked in the door,i knew there was something there.I said it to dp.He just laughed it off.My ds1 was nearly a year old and i was due another baby pretty soon.We put him in the back bedroom and from the off he never slept.Always looked in to the same spot and was generally uneasy.

The room in question was always cold,you could see your breath.Things would be moved around and plugged in or out.I could see the man in my mind.An elderly man with a flat cap and wore a trench.Always carried a bowling type bag and a plastic bag.I described him to mil and said that was the man who lived there.
What really freaked me out was one night dp was out and i heard the door opening downstairs,it dragged across the step before opening.I thought it was dp and fell back asleep.Woke up a while later still no sigh of dp and i thought he had fallen asleep downstairs.Went downstairs and there was no one there,not even a sign someone had come in.Dp swears it wasnt him and i believe him

Another omne same house my sil was in the process of moving and asked me could she store stuff in the back bedroom.I said yes as nobody slept in there.She left a couple of bin bags a few boxes.She left them on the bed in the middle.Me and another sil sitting downstairs,heard this almighty crash and ran teh stairs to find all the stuff poured in to the middle of the floor.It didnt fall off the bed.

Another one,same house.Dp and i were in bed and we heard someone falling over his box he left on the stairs.He was a courier so left the box on the stairs when he came in at night.Went out turned the lights on and there was nothing there.But it was definately walking up the stairs and falling over the box.Like they didnt know it was gonna be there.

Sorry its a bit long.

SirChenjin · 25/08/2014 12:11
  1. Sister on her way to an interview at a racing yard one morning had to stop to let a man on horseback cross in front of her. She thought he was dressed a bit funny, didn't think anything of it - until he and the horse disappeared into a wall.
  1. Sitting in my flat years ago, one of the several ornaments on my fireplace mantlepiece leapt off - it really jumped, and landed in the middle of the floor. Nothing else moved.
  1. Parents staying in a hotel abroad in the mountains. Mum woke early one morning to find the room filled with smoke. Panicked, leapt out of bed, but no fire. Thought she had left the patio doors open and mist had got in - closed, sunny morning outside. Checked in case she'd left the hot tap on and it was steam - nope. Mentioned it to the hotel manager later who was taken aback - apparently the hotel had been rebuilt some years ago when the original one had burnt down.
  1. Friend (Police) called to a large house one night with his colleague - lights on, neighbour concerned as the old lady who owned it was away visiting and had left him a key. They went into the house, couldn't find any sign of forced entry, but heard a dog barking. Went into various rooms, found the old lady sitting up in bed with her dog beside her looking very surprised to be disturbed. They all apologised and left. Neighbour phoned the next day to say he'd just got word old lady had died many miles away the previous night.
OrangeyTulips · 25/08/2014 18:23

My mother visited my great-aunt quite a bit in hospital before the old lady died. Because my gran had died in the same ward a number of years before, my mother found going there stressful and developed panic attacks just before my great-aunt's death (I'll call my great-aunt Wendy for the purposes of this thread). Mum was still having difficulty going out by herself after Wendy's death but one day she was in a shop and a lady she had never seen before came up to her. The lady said she had a message from a spirit who was a woman with a name beginning with W. The spirit apparently wanted to say she was sorry that my Mum had suffered with anxiety due to visiting her and said to the lady that Mum had two daughters (true) and that we would have kids and be happy (also true) (neither my sister nor I had kids at that point and we both had issues when trying to get pregnant). The lady did not ask for payment and was very kind. Mum never saw her before or since.

There is more about Wendy though...

Therewere5inthebed · 25/08/2014 18:34

My IPad just blipped out whilst reading this thread, black diagonal flickers across the screen, FGS.. Now shitting myself.

OrangeyTulips · 25/08/2014 18:39

My great-aunt Wendy never married and lived all her life in her childhood home. She had about ten brothers and sisters. Sadly her sister Catherine died from leukemia in her early teens - I think she was about 14. Some of the older brothers were living in the UK when she was very ill and one brother got a telegram to come home urgently to Ireland when she was dying. Just as he boarded the ferry at Holyhead she appeared before him on the ramp and he knew then she had died.

Catherine was scared of dying and after she died her ghost was spotted on more that one occasion in the house. Once one of her brothers returned home drunk and he fell near the fireplace. Someone ran in to see what the noise was and saw Catherine cradling her brother's head so it didn't hit the hearth.

Anyway 70 years later Wendy dies and leaves the family cottage to her favourite great nephew Sean. Sean had left his wife and fallen in love with a man and Wendy found this very hard to accept. She asked Sean not to live in the house with his male partner after her death but that she would leave the house to him.

Sean let the house to a group of nurses from the nearby hospital. He did plan to live in it eventually with his male partner who was the love of his life but felt it best to let some time lapse before gutting the cottage and doing it up.

The nurses reported that electrical items were turning on and off and that they felt a presence in the cottage. They suggested to Sean that he get a faith healer in. The healer, who was unknown to the family, said there were two spirits - both female. One had died many years before and was frightened at death and did not pass over. The other spirit had died recently and would not leave without the other spirit. Wendy told the healer that she did not mind the two men living together in the house as long as they loved and looked after one another. The healer persuaded Catherine to go over first and then Wendy agreed to go. The 'ancients', according to the healer, come to escort the spirits over - these are family members from way back who have long since passed.

Sorry for the very long post. Both men live in the cottage happily now.

OrangeyTulips · 25/08/2014 18:47

This is in keeping with Wendy's personality by the way - she was kind of chatty and also interfering in a nice way! Clearly she didn't change in death!

DontstepontheMomeRaths · 25/08/2014 18:50

Oooo Orangey how freaky and cool.

OrangeyTulips · 25/08/2014 19:00

it was comforting when my sister and I were having difficulty getting pregnant although I suppose Wendy might have meant adoption. My mum is very rational and no nonsense so I tend to believe her!

expatinscotland · 25/08/2014 21:06

Elementals are nature type spirits, generally to protect the type of area they occupy, so are rare because only encountered when they are messed with, usually by human encroachment.

expatinscotland · 25/08/2014 21:12

As what Utopia's husband encountered was outside, it could well be elemental. Reportings of women by water is ancient, thousands of years old, mythical nymphs/water spirits are elementals, as are animals like kelpies.

Gnomes, trolls, fairies, sprites are examples of earth or wood elementals in folklore and mythology.

Nancyclancy · 25/08/2014 21:25

Please post some more spooky stories. I've loved reading these!

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