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Time for another spooky stories thread?

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 26/09/2015 13:51

I know how much I enjoyed reading previous scary story threads so thought I'd start another and start with my own.

Now I always thought I had imagined this but after meeting up with my sister last week and getting on to this found out she remembers this too.

We both had a friend in the village who lived in a long house with an old barn out back, looked fairly normal had a ladder in the middle which took you up to the top level and the roof had a roof light window in it. Anyway this friend told us it was haunted and we thought she was having us on until she knocked on the door and an almighty bang answered, this kept happening. Then once it had stopped stuff started flying out of the roof window! Old sacks and old stove kettles etc! We were so scared but went in and no one was in there just totally empty. We then went in the house and said to friends mum and she said it must have been her dad but her dad was in the living room!

Needless to say I've never forgotten this and my sister obviously hasn't either.

So now I've started anyone else want to add any??

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ChilliAndMint · 29/09/2015 23:18

I have sent a text message to my friend. I explained about the shower and she said her partner has witnessed this too but she hasn't herself. She's lived in that house for 15 years!

The last " woo" encounter I had was 30 years ago.
I'd have dismissed it as nothing had I not had a witness , my DC is very level headed. She was holding the cat and observed me flushing poo
down the toilet.

She swears I was never near the shower, it just turned itself on.

Hushabyelullaby · 29/09/2015 23:20

My Dad who is totally non woo is adamant that this happened one night when he was a young man. He used to own an old Victorian doll, a 'cute' one, not creepy. It was about the size of a newborn, had an old white lace dress on and had a porcelain face with its features painted on.

He was in his and my mum's bedroom when across the room he saw the wardrobe door open and this doll walk across the floor. Of course he totally freaked out and put the doll in a different room. He never saw it do anything else, and one day when he picked it up its face had a crack all the way down it. It had been glued back together and the glue was old, yellowing, and flaky. One day the doll simply disappeared.

I was a child when this happened (and he obviously didn't tell me), but I never liked the doll and always felt uneasy around it.

I have a few more, but really need to get to bed and not think about them too much tonight or i'll never sleep. Back tomorrow!

Sweet dreams all not too sure mine will be all that sweet

Fakebook · 29/09/2015 23:20

He says its a stream that gets wider in places and narrower at other places. Probably not best described as a river. Where she was standing the bank was a bit higher too so needed a hand to get across.

He has another story about what he thinks was a jinn trying to taunt him.

He was late leaving university one day with his friend and half way home he realised he'd left his books in a study room so they turned the car around and drove back. His friend waited for him whilst dh rushed in and went straight to the room. The whole place was quiet and empty. At the far end his books were on a table. The door, being a firedoor shut behind him and had a window. As he turned back to walk towards the door he saw a face that looked like it was melted with menacing eyes looking through it. Dh says he closed his eyes and opened them and it wasn't there. He ran and opened the door and hurried down the corridor with his heart pounding and realised that every door had a melted face looking through at him as he ran down towards the exit. He got to the car and his friend asked him "was everything ok in there?" Dh was apparently shivering by then and said "What do you mean, do you know what just happened?"
His friend didn't know what had happened and apparently later told him that as Dh had rushed in, his friend saw a small thing shaped like a little man sneak in with Dh as the door shut.

katemiddletonsothermum · 29/09/2015 23:28

fakebook Shock

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katemiddletonsothermum · 29/09/2015 23:31

I live opposite an old coaching inn. I took a photo of a Ferrari that had been parked outside my house (as you do wasn't pretending it was mine, ho no) and put it on facebook. A friend posted "The house opposite looks like it has a face."

She's right. It does. Two eyes... a nose.....

The Amityville Horror... now I can't bear to look at it. It's only a couple of windows and the door to the beer cellar. But it's always a face to me.

FattyNinjaOwl · 29/09/2015 23:54

Another thing that I've not long realised
My DS was born 19 years to the day my grandad died...
Speaking to my mum about it, it appears that my grandad died at 5 past 6 at night...the time my DS1 was born!

Murloc · 30/09/2015 00:08

I hear my cat crying downstairs all the time when I'm in bed and she's snuggled up asleep next to me.

ThereGoesaTenner · 30/09/2015 00:19

DontTell I hate clowns! Thanks. Sad But I don't wee during the night, so I guess I'm fine... (now tonight I will!)
One thing I think I'm always going to see is a little demon girl in my bathroom because years ago I watched a lot of ghost/spirit and demon videos on Youtube and that one properly stuck with me! I think about it everytime I have to get up during the night to go toilet or see my son.

You can probably find it by putting ghosts spirits and demons on youtube. It's a compilation video thing. Its the shadow of something a distance away from the person filming, he panics and runs away, but goes back to find it even closer.

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 30/09/2015 09:27

I think the dolls with the cute faces are probably the worst!

fakebook wasn't there a film about jinn once?

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Amy0039 · 30/09/2015 09:31

There was a film I saw at the pictures when I was in my teens about a Jinn. It was called Long Time Dead. One of many I expect.

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 30/09/2015 09:33

Yeah I think that's the one I've seen

Keep them coming if there is anymore!

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FruSirkaOla · 30/09/2015 09:39

I vaguely recall a post(s) on previous woo threads about Irish wakes and Banshees - one, in particular, where the men in the house locked all the doors leading to outside and wouldn't let anyone leave the house until the next morning. But I can't remember the whole story.

nowshesaturtle · 30/09/2015 09:50

I saw a little fairy/pixie type thing about eight years ago. And I don't believe in fairies.

I was walking the dog in a wood. It was autumn and windy, and there were leaves swirling around. As I rounded a corner a saw a flurry of leaves blowing across the path, and in the middle of them, running, and wearing a natty little outfit in the same colour as the leaves, was a little man. I could hear his feet pattering too. He ran across the path, sort of going faster than the leaves and overtaking them, and disappeared into a hole in the base of a tree. I know it sounds bonkers but I saw it really clearly. It was very close to me.

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 30/09/2015 09:50

Banshees are they the screaming scary women?

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MissMarpleCat · 30/09/2015 09:56

Dds and I often go fairy hunting in a nearby forest, never seen anything yet. I'm quite envious of pixie man sighting Grin

FruSirkaOla · 30/09/2015 09:58

Yes, Hot!

nowshesaturtle · 30/09/2015 10:12
Grin
nowshesaturtle · 30/09/2015 10:14

Crackley Wood, Kenilworth, if you fancy a go, MissMarple. Right near the entrance, too

MissMarpleCat · 30/09/2015 10:15

Thanks for the tip now Smile

Letustryagain · 30/09/2015 10:24

Foundation, what is it about keys etc. I know I've mentioned my parents house (my old house) and that it never felt scary or horrible, but keys and money used to disappear ALL the time and turn up in really random places. If money disappeared altogether it would be more believable, but the fact it turned up, just in a random place that we would have already searched numerous times, was weird.

The weirdest one was that my Dad was a Building Society Manager and my Mum used to clean the Building Society. So they both had keys for it.

Well one day Mum's set of keys disappeared. We turned the house upside down looking for them. It got so worrying that Mum even dredged the fishpond!!! They were nowhere to be found and the locks all had to be changed.

The following day we all came down in the morning and the keys were in the middle of the kitchen table.

The only occasion though where I was actually scared was about 8 years ago. I'd moved away and had come home for a visit. I loved coming home and I used to stay downstairs chatting to my parents until quite late. One night we all decided to call it a night and I was the last one leaving the kitchen. I just went to turn off the light and as I reached my hand out, the memo board that was hanging on the wall flew out towards me, stopped in front of my face and then fell to the floor. If it had fallen straight down I wouldn't have thought anything of it, but the fact that it flew out from the wall, stopped in front of my face and then fell, really freaked me out.

In the same house, my Dad was always a non-believer in the Supernatural. My Mum was a believer though. Then when my Grandad died about 14 years ago his piano went to Mum's house. Both of my parents were frequently woken at around 4am by the piano being played. My Granded used to be a concert pianist so played beautifully and was the only one, other than my Mum, who could play.

They sometimes say that spirits can appear more active when a child is going through puberty. I am one of 5 and certainly there was more activity as each one of us was 'coming of age'.

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 30/09/2015 11:12

There may be some truth in that as the one that happened to me was when I was about 10 kind of age. Never had anything woo happen as an adult apart from the horrible feeling at that farmhouse at my grans

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Hairballs · 30/09/2015 11:23

I have an odd one involving a passport photo of me and three friends which was taken whilst I was travelling in Australia when I was 19.

It was one of those fun photos; a black and white one of the four of us squished into a photo booth pulling funny faces. I wrote our names and the date on the back of the photo and it stayed in my wallet when I returned home to England.

We lived in a house with a lovely big gravel drive. One day, my dad found the photo lying in the middle of the driveway. I had no idea it had even fallen out of my wallet. I thought nothing of it and put it back.

A few months later, I lost the photo again. It just disappeared. I was a bit bemused but not overly bothered by it and forgot about it...until I went shopping in a huge town near us one day about a year after I realised the photo was missing. I'd not been to this particular town for a very long time.

I parked the car and headed to the shops via a side entrance to a big department store. As I did so, something on the floor right in front of me caught my eye. Something small and square, black and white, right in my path. I immediately knew what it was before I'd even picked it up; it was the passport photo. Lying face up, in the middle of the pavement. Our names and dates still on the back. It was like someone had put it there for me to find.

How the fuck it ended up there I will never know. I've lost it again since twat and I often wonder if it will turn up again.

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 30/09/2015 11:29

Hair balls how peculiar!

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dustarr73 · 30/09/2015 11:51

Another one from me,my mam had just died and i was coming down the stairs.We have patio doors leading in to the back garden.Clear as day i seen my mam walk past the sliding doors and disappear.

Have just thought of another one,few years ago was sitting in bed[we sleep downstairs]
And i seen a big ball of blue light whizz past in the sitting room.We sleep beside sitting room,[its open plan] and straight in to teh kitchen.I mean it was like a bolt of lightning the colour of it and it went so fast.

Went in to kitchen and it was no where to be seen.There was no thunder/lighting or rain that night.Really weird.

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 30/09/2015 12:50

That is weird

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