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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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plonkie · 26/09/2015 18:37

Place marking. I have a story too, will type it up when more time!

FattyNinjaOwl · 26/09/2015 18:40

Place marking!

FlowersAndShit · 26/09/2015 18:45

Does anyone have any theories as to why this sort of stuff happens? I remember one poster saying that it could be like a form of time travel, where that person's memory is imprinted in a particular time and place.

StillFrankie · 26/09/2015 18:52

Two stories involving my gran.

My gran is originally from abroad. On the night my GGran died, gran saw her in the hallway waving goodbye.

More recently, my gran is now in a care home. She had a fall and had to go to hospital. When my mum came to take my gran back to the care home once she'd recovered, mum noticed another resident in the bed opposite gran.

Mum commented on this, to be told by gran, very loudly "yes she's going to die tonight"

Mum was v embarrassed, especially as other woman's family were visiting. She tried to shush my gran but my gran kept insisting she was going to die because "she's got a cloud around her"

well the next day my mum visited my gran back in the care home to be told by the staff this other woman had died the night before!

My gran's reaction? "see, I told you"

jorahmormont · 26/09/2015 18:58

This one was explained away on a previous thread, and at first glance has a totally rational explanation, but the details seem too coincidental.

When I was about 30 weeks pregnant, I'd been on a day trip to London with my mum. We got the train back, and I realised DD had gone very quiet. We called in at the hospital when we got off the train, they hooked me up to the monitor - everything fine with DD, but as I was having some weird headaches, we ended up there until the early hours of the morning as they checked for pre eclampsia and then arranged a neurology referral for me. It was the first time my mum heard the heartbeat and she was happy.

The room was the same room where my brother had been born. He was born with a metabolic disease and sadly died.

At just after midnight, the same minute he'd been born, the clock started spinning at a ridiculous speed. My mum had been watching the clock so she noticed as soon as it started. We watched in shock but wrote it off as the clocks resetting themselves - a bit weird to watch but nothing out of the ordinary. But by the time it stopped, it had been going for seventeen minutes. It stopped at a time I can't remember now - half three or something - for another seventeen minutes, and then went back to the actual time.

My brother died at seventeen days old. We racked our brains to try and think of some kind of significance to the time it stopped at. I don't think we found one at the time, but we did leave hospital at around half past three, and to this day I still look out for it.

At the time it was written off as just coincidence, but the timings and the room we were in is too much imo.

Not so much a spooky story as a woo story, but it was freaky at the time! Felt like my brother approved though :)

FattyNinjaOwl · 26/09/2015 19:03

jorah reading that I got goosebumps!
I do have a couple of my own but I've told then before and I'm busy with the baby right now.

originalmavis · 26/09/2015 19:06

OK ladies, prepare to be horrified beyond belief.

See - if you dare - attached image of a catalogue I got today (unsolicited). It gave me a few grey hairs... And I grew up in a haunted house.

Hairballs · 26/09/2015 19:16

Place marking. These threads are one of my favourite things about MN.

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 26/09/2015 19:17

Oh no didn't realise that the one about the camp pods and the snow was fake! I had seen it a few times on different threads.

These are all great stories. I liked the one with time slip type thing, I like heari things like that it kind of backs up my belief that all the energy in our bodies doesn't just stop but goes on whether reincarnated (small children who have 'been here before' as they say) or onto something else. Totally off topic there but those time slip ones fascinate me!

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HypodeemicNerdle · 26/09/2015 20:16

When I was 7 months pregnant with our DC2 my FIL was very unwell and we knew he wasn't expected to live very much longer. He wanted to be around for the baby's birth but just incase we requested a scan to find out the sex so we could tell him. 2 days before the appointment he took a turn for the worse and we travelled to where he was staying. In the early hours of the following morning, surrounded by his close family my FIL passed away. DD and I were sleeping in a nearby hotel so once DH had relayed the news I packed our little DD into the car and drove the short distance to where DH was. Obviously on my way there I was thinking about FIL and how sad it was that he didn't get to meet DC2 when I heard, clear as day in my head, 'it's a boy, and I know it's a boy'.
7 weeks later he was proved right when DS arrived.
i still can't think about that moment with some goosebumps and it gives DH and I comfort thinking that his dad didn't leave not knowing about his grandson

GloriaHotcakes · 26/09/2015 20:25

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Cerseirys · 26/09/2015 20:36

Mavis that's horrific! What's with the strap that goes over the boobs? How could any outfit work with that?

SecretLocation · 26/09/2015 20:38

DH and I spent our honeymoon in a rural cottage in Yorkshire. It was a stunning place, the cottage was very old but very cosy with working fireplaces and old fashioned furnishings. It was a mile away from the nearest neighbour and we could get no phone reception on either of our mobile phones and there was no landline but we had chosen the cottage for it's seclusion so weren't worried.

On the first night there, we were downstairs relaxing in front of the fire, when suddenly every single door in the cottage loudly slammed shut and there was a sound of someone running up the stairs. I have honestly never seen DH look so scared, we immediately thought someone had broken in. DH picked up a poker from beside the fire and went to investigate. Every door was wide open (including those we had closed) but there was no sign of anything else amiss. We put it down the a gust of wind at the time but the front door and all windows were shut.

MarthasHarbour · 26/09/2015 20:41

Blatant place marking Smile

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 26/09/2015 20:41

That's scary secret if have been off but you talking about that cottage brings to mind the urban legend of the old woman on her own making the jigsaw of the axe man standing behind her ??

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Hygge · 26/09/2015 20:58

Was the camping pods one the one where the man in the shower block had shot himself, and when he turned around the DH saw half his face was missing?

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 26/09/2015 21:02

I don't know hygge I remember reading that he had come back from the toilet In the middle of the night and was really spooked but can't remember if OP said partner wouldn't tell her or she didn't want to repeat it. Is that what happened? If it was and it was real and not fiction I don't think I'd ever get over something like that how sad and scary all at once

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Cerseirys · 26/09/2015 21:03

Yes, that's the one. The OP promised to fill us in but kept making excuses and in the end another poster pulled the story apart and OP hasn't been seen since! Also, I am no closer to knowing what a camping pod is...

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 26/09/2015 21:21

Oh no way just shows how much the OP reeled people in! I'm still thinking about it now!

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 26/09/2015 21:21

Anyone else got anything to add?

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Hotpatootietimewarp · 26/09/2015 21:22

Cerseirys - what thread was it where a poster pulled that story apart? I would be interested to see how they did it?

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Lauren15 · 26/09/2015 21:24

Place marking!

99percentchocolate · 26/09/2015 21:26

I used to clean the head office of a very famous high street women's clothes company. One night my boss and I went into a part of the building and started to clean separate rooms. As I was cleaning mine I heard the sound of chairs being moved around in the room next door. Went to the door, looked in the panel and all of the chairs had been stacked on top of the tables, where they hadn't been when I'd looked before. Assuming boss was in there hoovering or something I went in. Room was empty. Walked out and there was an almighty crash behind me as the door closed. All the chairs were on the floor. Boss came running to see what had happened and then filled me in that the building was well known to be haunted. She hadn't told me because she thought I would quit like every other member of staff she'd had.

Jo4040 · 26/09/2015 21:29

Wooooo

Hygge · 26/09/2015 21:31

Thanks OP and Cerseirys. If they made that up they need to turn it into a book. I absolutely would buy it and read it.

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