Do you have any "true" creepy stories?

[Richie C]

What I want to know is why does this stuff never happen when you are stuck in a traffic jam on the M25, or sat drinking a cup of tea in the cafe at the garden centre, or doing a presentation to 20 people in the office?

[rufusgti]

blindswelledrat said:

AmiableChimp said:

HarryW said:

The question we all want to ask.....

...how can you possibly think that "jamp" is the past tense of "jump"?

I had to educate my daughter about this 4 years ago, but she was only 10 years old.

Indeed. I can only apologise. It didn't even look right when I wrote it.

[fatboy b]

At work one day about 15 years ago. Trying to find a spare computer to work on. I found one in the training room downstairs in the customer area. The room was empty, and as I walked in, I noticed the room key on a hook by the door.

I sat down and started working. After about 5 mins, the key by the door just fell off the hook on to the desk below. I know it couldn't do it by itself, ad it was properly hooked on.

I logged off like a big scardy cat snd went back upstairs. To tell the story, only to find out the site is next to a monastery grave yard, snd wasn't the first wierd happening.

[Magog]

rufusgti said:

When I were a young lad growing up in west Wales we were messing around in some woodland when we found a car on its roof wedged between some trees. It was one of the first of the BMW 3 series, E21 I believe, very flash motor, we were climbing all over it and realized it was open. Inside had blood smeared all over the windscreen and soaked into the seats.

At that stage we were unsure of how long it had been their and remember being quite unconcerned. that was until i went round the back of the car and started trying to get into the boot, which was facing down the slope and obviously upside down. My mate was telling me not to incase the car slipped further down and over me, but i managed to push the button and use my feet to push the boot lid open. Just as it did 2 black bags fell out and slid further down the bank.

My mate jamp down to grab the bags and slid with them a little. I remember him grabbing one and un zipping it and he just looked at me. I knew it was something interesting just by the look on his face, I jamp off the car and headed down to take a closer look. That was when I first saw the guy that must have been watching us all along. he was sat against a tree right at the bottom of the slope dressed in a big grey jacket, he had blood on his face and soaking through the jacket. He started shouting at us, and trying to get up but it was obvious he couldnt get to us, he was in a lot of pain and to us, looked seriously angry. we grabbed the bags and ran up to the car. He was yelling for his bags but my mate had them both and was just telling me to run. Once we were out of sight he stopped and threw a bag at my feet, I imediately unzipped it, looked inside and just zipped it up again. At 9 years old, the most money most people have seen is a few hundred quid. Even at this point I knew there had to tens of thousands of pounds in these bags.

We ran to this place in the woods where we used to hang out and chuck rocks in the river, we knew a place where we could stash the bags under a stone arch. We stuffed them in and ran home to get help.

After telling my mates parents and them calling the police, (we obviously didnt mention the bags) we ran back down to get the bags. When we got back, literally 2 hours later, there was only one bag in the stash. We couldn't figure it out, nobody knew our stash place, and there couldn't have been anyone else around, but a bag had vanished. We must have walked for an hour, very carefully checking nobody was following us and found the perfect place to bury the remaining bag, then ran straight home.

When we finaly got home the police were waiting for us and my mates dad looked angry. They said they had found the car, and that it looked like it had been there for a while, and that there was no sign of anybody needing help. They accused us of making it up and I was sent home after recieving a good bking from the police and my mates dad.

We decided to leave the bag for as long as possible and not to tell anyone. We made up loads of reasons and stories about where it had come from, why it was there, what had happened to the second bag, some reasonable, some bizzare.
But we both knew what we saw, and we both still agree to this day that there were 2 bags, and that 1 vanished while we went for help. Looking back now, we can see there was more to that day than we will ever know, and certain events since then have shed light on the fact that we were not alone in those woods, and that we were lucky to come out in one piece. I have my theory, my good friend has his. We don't agree entirely on what led to those bags being in the woods, but we agree on what we actually saw.



I think I know where the money came from, I also think the Bmw was making a dash for Fishguard to get over to Ireland, It was only weeks after that we realised the guy in the woods had a strong Irish accent. Things pass you by when your kids I guess. We dont fully understand what happened that day. But we agree, mainly from certain incidents that happened in the years after, and also from memory of how bad the driver was injured and how he couldn't stand up, That the policeman knew much much more than he let on. He and another cop knew about the money, and I believe they knew we had some of it. We don't agree on wether that was intentional.
We also knew we had to tread carefully. We knew there were guys searching the woods for years after, And an absolutely terrifying experience with 2 Irish men in the local pub years later reminded us just how lucky we had been to get that far without anyone getting hurt. Also, we obviously new we were followed by someone when we stashed the bags the first time. We dont know wether that was the cops, the Irish, or possibly even someone else who stumbled on the scene. We don't know what happened to the injured guy, We never saw him again, We dont know what happened to the car. Somebody left tens of thousands of pounds in a bag in our hiding place, intentionaly. Police?, The Irish? both? There's still loads we dont know. but we know the truth is seriously ugly. Either way, We always, always sensed it was much better to keep the money on the low down, than to hand it in or draw attention to it.

Obviously not creepy in a super natural way, but it still creeps me out now!

You might not be able to conjugate, but I doubt amiablechimps daughter has ever ripped off the IRA.

[limpsfield]

-DeaDLocK- said:

The rumours were that those army guys had tried to enter one of the girls' tents and mess around, and one of the spirits of the jungle did not like it at all, possessed said Chinese chap and exerted his authority. It was simply bizarre. Said teacher never came back to school.

And we never spoke of it again.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Whoa Camouflage, Things are never quite the way they seem.

[stuart313]

blindswelledrat said:

-DeaDLocK- said:

I grew up in Malaysia, which has its fair share of "phenomena". I really think that if some of you coddled Westerners with your educated cynicism spent some time looking into some of these mystical st in far flung reaches of the world, your mind would be rather... ummm... blown. Two stories come to mind:

Oooo intriguing. I cant wait to hear these stories.

Deadlock said:

1) A girl went mental once.

2) An angry teacher prevented some men doing no good.

Oh.

I was going to say drugs and drugs.

[stuart313]

Fastchas said:

Martin350 said:

When I was in my early twenties my parents went away on holiday so I was home alone for a week or so.
On the first day they were away I got home from work, put my mobile phone on my desk and put the radio on, much louder than usual, of course.

After a couple of minutes I could hear another noise, so I turned the radio down and realised my mobile was ringing.
Just as I picked it up it stopped ringing.
I looked at the screen to see who's call I'd just missed and it said "Home".
I double checked the house and I was definitely alone.

I know technological things can do odd things, but I've always wondered what would have happened if I'd answered it in time...

My GF had a call from her dad in Sheffield yesterday wanting to know why he had a missed call from his daughter's house at 4.15am that morning. She had no explanation.

Sometimes when me or anyone else rings a bloke called Don we get a very pissed off chap in Nottingham that runs a wood yard, but mostly we get to talk to Don.

[Jollyclub]

exitwound said:

I'm an NHS bio-engineer and in our old lab we had several goings on with stuff moving around on the benches (watched live). Pounding on the door so you could see it shake (looked out in the long corridor to see no one around, there was no other doors to hide behind in that corridor either and the distant ones at each end were very noisy to open and shut).

Footsteps in the corridor and shadows moving across the walls. We even set up an old crt cardiac heart trace monitor and hung the three chest wires as ariels on the wall. These are so sensitive that all you need to do is wave at them and they will deflect the trace slightly, but on a few occasions, the trace went mad with no one near it.

Yes, there's probably a scientific explanation for it all .

There is. It's called Infrasound.

[markmullen]

Mr GrimNasty said:

Whoa Camouflage, Things are never quite the way they seem.

He was an awfully big marine.

[dazwalsh]

I used to live in a Victorian terraced house and I fit an over bath shower screen when I redid the bathroom. Fast forward about a month later at 4am and awaking to the sound of the glass exploding and thousands of fragments were flung across the whole bathroom.

Now I believe there was something wrong with it and it was under too much tension and gave way but the paranormal crap did go through my mind for a bit. Creaking floorboards were common too whilst sleeping, blamed it on the radiator pipes under the floor.

Mrs was so glad to leave that house.

[Magog]

dazwalsh said:

I used to live in a Victorian terraced house and I fit an over bath shower screen when I redid the bathroom. Fast forward about a month later at 4am and awaking to the sound of the glass exploding and thousands of fragments were flung across the whole bathroom.

Now I believe there was something wrong with it and it was under too much tension and gave way but the paranormal crap did go through my mind for a bit. Creaking floorboards were common too whilst sleeping, blamed it on the radiator pipes under the floor.

Mrs was so glad to leave that house.

Seems a reasonably frequent occurance;

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[blindswelledrat]

exitwound said:

Good reply, but I tend to think of it as a parallel energy transfer or displacement of some type that we haven't understood yet, not so much as just 'ghosts.

We understand the concept of 'warping time' to travel great distances, and just because we can't get a handle on it practically at this time, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Remember we need to look at the big picture and forget the entertainment value of this. If we just close our minds, that's not progress, ..anyone can do that.

Agree and understand what you mean.
I just see this paranormal thing as slightly different because I disagree with there being a base assumption that paranormal stuff happens at all. If I thought it did, I would share your opinion and not dismiss it just because it couldn't be proved. I need at least a *theory* or a smidgeon of evidence of it's existence to open my mind up to something.

[exitwound]

Jollyclub said:

exitwound said:

I'm an NHS bio-engineer and in our old lab we had several goings on with stuff moving around on the benches (watched live). Pounding on the door so you could see it shake (looked out in the long corridor to see no one around, there was no other doors to hide behind in that corridor either and the distant ones at each end were very noisy to open and shut).

Footsteps in the corridor and shadows moving across the walls. We even set up an old crt cardiac heart trace monitor and hung the three chest wires as ariels on the wall. These are so sensitive that all you need to do is wave at them and they will deflect the trace slightly, but on a few occasions, the trace went mad with no one near it.

Yes, there's probably a scientific explanation for it all .

There is. It's called Infrasound.

Did consider that, but was unable to replicate the effect at will with various low frequency energy sources, like voice effects, fan heaters, wobble boards, sound devices etc, ..even tried a bass guitar in the lab to no effect.

Watched it during a thunderstorm one time and still no deflection. Doesn't mean we can dismiss infrasound though, just no way to replicate and or quantify the source and the effect, but it was fun to play around and work out theories, even by the staunch sceptics! That's what its all about, ..a voyage of discovery!

If we try, we're only stupid for a short while, but if we just dismiss it and don't try, we're stupid forever..

[Ayahuasca]

Years ago my fiancee and I attended a friend's wedding in a small castle somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. We stayed in an old hotel a mile or so away. In the middle of the night I woke to the sound of rushing water. I stumbled into the bathroom to find that all the taps were on. Not just a bit on; they were turned all the way and water gushed into the Victorian style sink and bath. I didn't know what to think, was half asleep, so I just turned them off and went back to bed.

The next morning we checked out and as we were leaving the receptionist asked us if we had slept alright. 'It's just that some say that room is haunted,' she said.

I said we had not seen any ghosts and I asked her about the hauntings. She said that sometimes the room lights turned themselves on and off, and the taps in the bathroom did the same.

[Aphex]

Ayahuasca said:

Years ago my fiancee and I attended a friend's wedding in a small castle somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. We stayed in an old hotel a mile or so away. In the middle of the night I woke to the sound of rushing water. I stumbled into the bathroom to find that all the taps were on. Not just a bit on; they were turned all the way and water gushed into the Victorian style sink and bath. I didn't know what to think, was half asleep, so I just turned them off and went back to bed.

The next morning we checked out and as we were leaving the receptionist asked us if we had slept alright. 'It's just that some say that room is haunted,' she said.

I said we had not seen any ghosts and I asked her about the hauntings. She said that sometimes the room lights turned themselves on and off, and the taps in the bathroom did the same.

So she was up there fiddling with the taps at night trying to build a reputation of a haunted hotel to improve the amount of bookings?

[Ayahuasca]

Aphex said:

So she was up there fiddling with the taps at night trying to build a reputation of a haunted hotel to improve the amount of bookings?

Either that or dodgy plumbing in a very old building!

[Jollyclub]

exitwound said:

Jollyclub said:

exitwound said:

I'm an NHS bio-engineer and in our old lab we had several goings on with stuff moving around on the benches (watched live). Pounding on the door so you could see it shake (looked out in the long corridor to see no one around, there was no other doors to hide behind in that corridor either and the distant ones at each end were very noisy to open and shut).

Footsteps in the corridor and shadows moving across the walls. We even set up an old crt cardiac heart trace monitor and hung the three chest wires as ariels on the wall. These are so sensitive that all you need to do is wave at them and they will deflect the trace slightly, but on a few occasions, the trace went mad with no one near it.

Yes, there's probably a scientific explanation for it all .

There is. It's called Infrasound.

Did consider that, but was unable to replicate the effect at will with various low frequency energy sources, like voice effects, fan heaters, wobble boards, sound devices etc, ..even tried a bass guitar in the lab to no effect.

Watched it during a thunderstorm one time and still no deflection. Doesn't mean we can dismiss infrasound though, just no way to replicate and or quantify the source and the effect, but it was fun to play around and work out theories, even by the staunch sceptics! That's what its all about, ..a voyage of discovery!

If we try, we're only stupid for a short while, but if we just dismiss it and don't try, we're stupid forever..

You can't hear infrasound. It's below the frequency of our hearing.

Your old old CRT heart rate monitors could though.

[J4CKO]

I was at my wife's aunts, I chatted to an old gent who was visiting, he introduced himself as "Hoagie", we sat at the kitchen table, don't remember him coming in but assumed he was visiting the wife's aunt and she had nipped out for something, he said he had to leave and off he went, I forgot all about it as she has a lot of visitors and it's on the coast, we had the kids there so we're looking after them.

Anyway, we went back numerous times, one time she mentions this "Hoagie" bloke in conversation with someone else, and I say I remembered him, she said couldn't possibly remember him as he had died long before I had ever visited and before I had met my wife, I described a rotund, slightly crumpled but quite posh old man and described how he spoke, she still maintains I couldn't have met him but I chatted to him at her table, the rest of the family agree with her, but it does seem weird.

[exitwound]

Jollyclub said:

exitwound said:

Jollyclub said:

exitwound said:

I'm an NHS bio-engineer and in our old lab we had several goings on with stuff moving around on the benches (watched live). Pounding on the door so you could see it shake (looked out in the long corridor to see no one around, there was no other doors to hide behind in that corridor either and the distant ones at each end were very noisy to open and shut).

Footsteps in the corridor and shadows moving across the walls. We even set up an old crt cardiac heart trace monitor and hung the three chest wires as ariels on the wall. These are so sensitive that all you need to do is wave at them and they will deflect the trace slightly, but on a few occasions, the trace went mad with no one near it.

Yes, there's probably a scientific explanation for it all .

There is. It's called Infrasound.

Did consider that, but was unable to replicate the effect at will with various low frequency energy sources, like voice effects, fan heaters, wobble boards, sound devices etc, ..even tried a bass guitar in the lab to no effect.

Watched it during a thunderstorm one time and still no deflection. Doesn't mean we can dismiss infrasound though, just no way to replicate and or quantify the source and the effect, but it was fun to play around and work out theories, even by the staunch sceptics! That's what its all about, ..a voyage of discovery!

If we try, we're only stupid for a short while, but if we just dismiss it and don't try, we're stupid forever..

You can't hear infrasound. It's below the frequency of our hearing.

Your old old CRT heart rate monitors could though.

I know you can't hear it, but you can generate it in various ways as above.. Didn't get much of a deflection when we tried, but on the odd occasion the trace went wild without any intrusion.. Odd, but fun to try to evaluate.