As the title says, does anybody have any stories or such they want to share that were scary or where you suspected ghosts/supernatural beings were present?
I haven't had that may "suspicious" encounters in my life but recently - in the past week - i've had one.
I bought some new pyjamas and with them came one's of those acessories you strap around your head so it covers your eyes. At first i thought it was kinda cool... it wasn't. Whenever i wear it i hear loads of thumps and such from above (the attic) and am certain i hear a woman's voice - at first i thought it was my mum but it wasn't. I've done a test run for the past week and whenever i DON'T wear it, there's nothing. But as soon as i put it on, a while later weird things are heard.
:S It's freaky i tell ya! I'm considering burning the thing...
My friend is more familiar with ghost stories. Her house is like a hot spot for them and has loads of stories to do with it - one being that the clock in the front room stops whenever a family member dies.
So yeah, your stories?
My living room seems to be a hotspot for them. It always happens when my family is all together. We'll hear lots of thudding and creaking and once we had a deoderant stick fly across the room. The worst bit was when we were pretty sure we heard crying from the basement.
I once talked to a little girl, and when she ran away from me I turned to see where she was going - since she seemed a bit lost, and she'd disappeared.
The beach was full, but mind that we were about 100m from the shore, and she couldn't have gone very far.
Scared me a little but hell - I don't know.
My friends father passed away a while ago, and sometimes when I stay there for the holidays, you can hear steady footsteps going from the front room to the bathroom in the early morning. The time and path he took before having a heart attack. It's strangely comforting. Makes you feel he's watching over you.
My friends father passed away a while ago, and sometimes when I stay there for the holidays, you can hear steady footsteps going from the front room to the bathroom in the early morning. The time and path he took before having a heart attack. It's strangely comforting. Makes you feel he's watching over you.
In my school sometimes cupboards will open when no ones near them and stuff will get knocked over. Once a door slammed in my face, but it wasn't windy or anything and every other time is closed normally. And another time my friend recorded a video, but when we watched it all there was was a glowing ball of light, which admittedly kind of freaked us out.
Once in art class, Me and my friend Liam were well doing art and we looked up and the heavy paint pot between us was moving. We both smiled thinking one of us was moving it but we both realised that we couldn't be. It continued moving for a few more seconds and stopped. After searching under the table and everything we realised that nothing could have moved it. Also the paint pot was heavy and makes a noise if you push it across the table but it didn't make a sound. We told this to someone and our friend said that a girl did die at this school due to cancer and it really freaked us out.
Also my best friend's sister used to talk to someone when she was a kid that had white hair. Upon telling her dad this her dad asked her what white lady. And she pointed to the corner where no one stood.
My other friend also had an experience when she was young. The night her grandma died her parents didn't tell her. In the car the next die she asked if she was dead and her mum asked how do you know and my friend said Grandma told me. CCCCRRREEEEPPPPPPPYYYY x
This isn't really a supernatural story as such- it's just a bit 'weird', but, of course, it could be entirely coincidental. When my grandad was dying, he had a heart attack and fell, knocking the clock off the mantelpiece and stopping it. It was just kinda weird because it was the night that the clocks went back.
Woah now I'm paranoid
At my half-sisters funeral a table that no-one was near just flew over and all the drinks spilled
half-sisters dad's funeral**
At age 18 my friends and i made a ouija board, and first time we used it we got the usual, " i am satan " messages and the like, the second time we used it however it propheseyed my death at age 47 and all of my friends freaked and denied all knowledge. Theyve maintained that none of them did it for the last eleven years and i believe them, besides its tone was completely different from the first instance. I plan on being a shut in for the whole of my 47th year by the way. Then these was the time my neighbours sister asked for help with some ghostly presences, that wasnt hard. Some anti ghost powder, a lesser rite of banishing, full on house cleansing and a few talismans. Then there was an incident with a presence last year and i had to repeat the procedure. I also got some information from another witch, how to stop family ghosts from haunting you by binding them to one spot. Aside from that its just your bogstandard prophetic dreams, deep meditative experiences and the odd psychic flash, its a family thing.
The first house on Chapel St, Conway, is haunted. My father rented it (he rents anywhere; he's rented places next to cemeteries before now) and felt a nameless dread, someone watching him from the top of the stairs and absolute terror at nights. When we went to stay with him one holiday, we felt exactly the same thing, and one night I was so scared I was sick. I should add that:
-My father did not tell us of his experience; we found out in retrospect
-We are not superstitious by nature; while I do believe in ghosts, if someone actually says they have seen/felt one, I regard it with skepticism and a raised eyebrow. The same is true for my father.
-He has lived alone for years and rented all over the country, and this has been his only brush with the supernatural
-It isn't the most glamorous or exciting of ghost stories, but it was TERRIFYING.
If it's still up for rent, rent it and see!
>>12 I'll pass....
>>11 Ouiju board!? NO!!!
At my boarding school, some students thought it'd be a fantastic idea, so they got some Scrabble pieces and a glass tumbler, before heading up to what many say is the most haunted part of the school. I should say, that nearly every student, boarding and day, and quite a lot of staff say there's a ghost. Whether this is to scare the year 7's I don't know, but then again, why would they say it to me when I was in year 11?
Anyway, the moro-- I mean students went to the courtyard and set it up, and some of the electrics nearby started playing up - Outdoor lamps starting to flicker, that sorta stuff. Nothing else happened because staff suddenly ran out from where they were hiding (They'd had a tip-off) and one kicked the scrabble pieces away, causing it all to stop. The staff then told the students that some serious shit had gone down about ten years before when some students did the same, and one got injured.
The students were expelled for a week. That's how serious the school took it. You don't fuck around with that kinda stuff.
>13 What can i say, i was younger and dumber then. You wouldnt catch me with a ouija board now. Although it did sort of nudge me onto my path as a pagan so it wasnt all bad, just a little freaky.
Well, there was this one time when I said "Candlejack" but I'll ne
Hey!....... http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/science-scams/ worth a look...(I do think there are some 'supernatural' things out there....but interesting none the less.
I once saw an inverted shadow of a man walking by a lamppost. Allow me to explain. The silhouette was definitely human, and I could see that it wore a hat. The strange thing was, the head was oriented towards the light, not away from it as you'd expect. Another thing was that there was no one there, nor anything else that could have cast that shadow.
I plan to get my hands on a ouija board sometime to see what will happen; I'm pretty sceptical when it comes to that.
The museum I work had reportedly has a ghost, and from the opening/closing of doors, sounds of footsteps and moving rugs, I totally agree!
Is it ever creepy working in there by myself!
Umm, Better NOT get an ouija board. One of my friends used one with some others and say they got in contact with a ghost. They got so scared they cut of their conversation with it. A while later they started to see shadows of people that weren't there and things started to fall of places where they couldn't fall of.
A year later, my friend who started the game died. The parents didn't want to tell how she died but she was only 14 so yeah.
And my mother believes she can see ghosts. In our house, she once saw a woman dancing around after I was born. And she was also standing in my room and watching me during the night.
After some digging she found out that 30 years before they came to live there a woman lived with the name Amelia. My name is closely related to hers and now my mother thinks she came back because I'm here now.
(scary part, I still sleep in the room where she's always spotted and it may be just some paranoia, but sometimes I feel like I'm being watched.)
And lastly, a good friend of the family is a medium. And she helped us out with the ghost in our house, but when she came back for a visit she said that it was back again.
SO I don't really know what to believe right now. Though some scary things happen in our house, (e.g. sounds or light flicking on when I'm alone, or the tv that once started playing by itself. And once, the backdoor stood open while no one had gone outside.)
>>19 I've heard a lot of stories like that, as well as a lot of people telling me not to do it, but that just makes me want to do it more.
Thing is, I sometimes find reality to be boring as hell, so I want to find out if there is more to it than we know, and summoning a ghost/demon/whatever would be a nice way to prove it. I hear a lot of stories, but until I've witnessed it with my own eyes, without any 'professionals' involved, I won't believe it. I put professionals in air quotes because in these things I take it to mean con artist, like Char with her cold reading.
Maybe I'm colossaly stupid and end up with a demon stalking me, but I don't think so. I've tried makeshift ouija boards before and nothing happened, so my next step is to actually get my hands on a real one.
Besides, from what I've heard, if you don't do anything like suddenly cutting the connection, but instead respectfully sending it away you seal whatever gate you've opened again and you'll be fine.
>>20 True, but they got so scared they didn't really end the conversation bbut instead just cut it of.
I'm not sure I would try an ouija board though, maybe because of what happened to my friend.
But if you want to do it, that's fine. (I think it would have been fine for them too if they had followed the rules.)
I do think there is something else out there, but that we normally can't see/feel/hear them. And that if we do, it is very rare and under some unique circumstances.
>>21 Exactly. And I want to recreate those circumstances, but without the help of some con artist with fishing lines puling on the table or something.
Well, what I have to say isn't nearly as exciting as some of the rest of you, and it's not necessarily to do with ghosts/spirits, but I have no idea how to explain it either, so, here goes.
Sometimes if I'm day-dreaming, or actually sleeping, or just in a state where I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, I see things. I see a sequences of events, say for example I'm walking down a street or sitting amongst a group of people during a specific part of the conversation. I see these little fragments of time in perfect detail. Then sometimes days, weeks, months or in the rarest instances years later that sequence of events happens.
There is absolutely no way that I can predict any of it, no way I can have any kind of forewarning, but it happens nonetheless.
It confuses me more than it creeps me out. Anyone have any idea what's going on there? I've been puzzled about it for years. I'm 20 now and it's happened on and off since I was about 7.
>>23 Deja vu?
>>23 Your Hogwarts letter got lost in the mail
>>23 exactly the same thing happens to me and several people in my family. i think it's more common than we think. I don't think it's anything special (unfortunately.) If looked into, it probably is something akin to deja vu.
>>27 Thanks, other people get this, I've really not understood it for years and to know it's not just me is a great help.
I so wish I was a Time Lord though. Or that I could have gone to Hogwarts.
>>23 I don't know if it's the same thing,but especially during finals; when I have to answwers questions it's like I'm in a dream state. My hands write down the answers but I don't really think clearly, like I'm watching through a fog you know?
Other times I have it when I'm just walking down the street. Maybe it's stress?
Oh dear....
Na, I get the Deja Vu thing as well. Everyone does, I think. Some just aren't vocal about it.
I've dealt with the supernatural before. I'm not supposed to believe in it though, being an atheist and all. I believe what I see and am able to proof.
But I've seen an army of shadows march through my house. I heard every step they took in unison.
Turned out there were soldiers (WWII) stationed near where I live that never returned home. Only saw them once and I'm glad it stayed at that. There could be a logical explanation for it (there probably is) but I can't think of anything.
And I've seen possesed people. Again there could be logical explanations for that but when a man you've known for a long time suddenly starts shouting at you in a language he shouldn't know with the veins on his eyes a deep red colour and then suddenly act normal again... Well I find it hard to find a rational explanation for that.
And I've had the Deja Vu thing before. Moments in time that appear in my head and really happen days or months afterwards... again no explanation, though I think it's something with the brain calculating certain possibilities that something might happen.
TL;DR weird stuff happens
Maybe there is a logical, scientific explaination for most of these things. We know very little about our brains after all. And, in human history, whenever people don't understand something, we chalk it up to the 'supernatural.'
There probably is. It's just hard to find, seeing as for a scientific explanation you need something repeatable or at least physical evidence. It's rather hard to find in situations as these.
Yeah, that's another thing. I'm an atheist as well, but this stuff has been happening to me my entire life. There is no possible explanation that I can think of that, and more likely than not, the only people who would say they had one will probably be asking to have you pray with them before not answering the question. Sorry, but I'm more than a bit distrustful of religious organisations.
Anyway, what's the strangest thing you can think of that you saw in your head before it happened? (This part is directed at the thread in general)
Mine was probably the time when I dreamed I was reading a fic, and the text of my favourite part of that chapter appeared in my mind's eye. What's more, that chapter hadn't been posted until about a month later.
Mine was working with a friend on a random thing at school, painting a table that had been rusting away since the 90's...
We were painting it and all of a sudden he tells me to look out with my paintbrush, so I wouldn't spill paint on him. Really odd but very clear at the same time.
I had said deja vu moment a few months before it actually happened. Weird stuff going on.
I remember having a dream when I was about ten, about an old house with a barn, I particularly remember one of the tapestries hanging by the stairs. On holiday a few years later we stayed in that house. I was creeped out when I saw the tapestry, it was the only clear thing I could really remember. The house was really old too, and I swear there was someone else there, there were noises when I swear I was alone, and doors opening on their own, and once I saw a shadow, with nothing that could have caused it. Together with the weather, it was the crappiest holiday i had ever been on.
Aside from that, I keep hearing noises in my room (I live in the attic) which could possibly be the birds that have made thier home in the eaves through a hole in the roof, but I often hear it when they definately aren't there, in winter usually, that and the birds make quite a distinct noise...so I can tell if it's them or not...
I've actually went ghost hunting at the Ohio State Reformatory, last year. I saw shadow people and had an ice cold hand go down my back when I went into a cell alone.
I even have photo of an orb that wasn't there when the picture was taken.
My family has premonitions. I dreamed my sister-in-law was pregnant and the next day she announced that she was pregnant. A week later I dreamed she lost the baby and two weeks later she had a miscarrige. I dreamed she was pregnant again in august of that same year and she was. I also dream it would be a girl and now I have a beautiful niece. My mom dreamt that the second kennedy got shot and the next morning they announced it on the radio.
My family has premonitions. I dreamed my sister-in-law was pregnant and the next day she announced that she was pregnant. A week later I dreamed she lost the baby and two weeks later she had a miscarrige. I dreamed she was pregnant again in august of that same year and she was. I also dream it would be a girl and now I have a beautiful niece. My mom dreamt that the second kennedy got shot and the next morning they announced it on the radio.