Do you have any "true" creepy stories?

Do you have any "true" creepy stories?

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stuart313

740 posts

112 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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Whats that place in Scotland called that is always a bit eerie? Not a building, more a large area, a valley or something.

dumfriesdave

384 posts

136 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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stuart313 said:
Whats that place in Scotland called that is always a bit eerie? Not a building, more a large area, a valley or something.
Culloden?

Markgenesis

536 posts

131 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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stuart313 said:
Whats that place in Scotland called that is always a bit eerie? Not a building, more a large area, a valley or something.
Clyde Valley laugh

stuart313

740 posts

112 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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dumfriesdave said:
stuart313 said:
Whats that place in Scotland called that is always a bit eerie? Not a building, more a large area, a valley or something.
Culloden?
Doesn't ring any bells. I have read similar threads on here before and people have mentioned going there and it has made them feel a bit uneasy or depressed.

alc

366 posts

223 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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we have holiday cottages in Devon on a site of a water mill and manor house - so many odd happenings over the years - we actually thought about holding "paranormal weekends" but thought it would put off the families who are our main customers - who knows

stuart313

740 posts

112 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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I think its Glencoe.

HarryW

15,150 posts

268 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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Markgenesis said:
My dad died in 96, my sister passed away (cancer) in 09.

The week my sister died i had a very vivid dream, so vivid i remember every second of it to this day.

My sister and i were standing on a platform in a railway station, a train pulls into the station, i see dad in one of the carrages, my sister gets on the train and i go to follow her, she stops me and said " this train is not for you ", she gets on the train and sits next to dad, the train pulls away with both of them waving.

She was gone three days later frown
My wife had a very similar themed dream to that shortly after her parents died. They died within three weeks of each other. She dreamed she was on a ferry type boat pulling into a picturesque quay side and her parents were on the Jetty waving at her as it tied up. When the boat docked and the gangway was over, her father shouted across, nice to see her and they were both well and together again but she was not to get off the boat as it wasn't her time. She then became aware that all of the passengers crossing the brow were non description, grey and opaque as was everyone else on the jetty apart from her parents who seemed to be in their 30/40's now, in their prime as parents.
Very spooky to hear it first hand in the morning and she can remember it to this day with absolute clarity, over ten years later.

Hainey

4,381 posts

199 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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Markgenesis said:
stuart313 said:
Whats that place in Scotland called that is always a bit eerie? Not a building, more a large area, a valley or something.
Clyde Valley laugh
Oi! I live there and...yeah your not wrong hehe

evenflow

8,784 posts

281 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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duckwhistle said:
Some years back a friend moved from the North of Scotland to the Cotswolds with his job. He found a nice old house near Minchinhampton common located up a narrow old lane. Beautiful place and location. We went down there to help with setting up and noticed that although it was summer the place was absolutely freezing, I mean freezing not just old house chilly. No amount of heating seemed to warm this place up. He found out later that long time back a notorious Highwayman was cornered in this building and hacked to death by his pursuers and his body chained to a post on the common to rot. Local legend said that he haunted the place. Very few people stayed in that house for long as it's history showed. My friend did indeed move out after a couple of years. My memory of the place was waking up during the night absolutely shivering with cold on each of the few nights I spent there . I just put it down to an old building needing dried out and heated up. None of us new anything about the area and had never heard of the history. I seem to remember the highway man was known as Long Tom, maybe someone local will know about this place and the house. It was in a lane near the top of the steep hill out of Stroud almost on the edge of the common. Never been there before or since.
Tom Long's Post - on the crossroads on the top of the common. Very eerie place sometimes. There is a lovely pub up there called the Old Lodge though smile

Markgenesis

536 posts

131 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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Hainey said:
Markgenesis said:
stuart313 said:
Whats that place in Scotland called that is always a bit eerie? Not a building, more a large area, a valley or something.
Clyde Valley laugh
Oi! I live there and...yeah your not wrong hehe
Ha, i knew fellow Scots would see the funny side laugh, grew up in Glasgow now living in Paisley wink

davhill

5,263 posts

183 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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Quhet said:
Paranormal websites are all so fking badly designed. What's wrong with black on white text?
But it isn't a paranormal website.

lel

395 posts

122 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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When i was a child (3 or 4 years old) i once had a conversation with my fathers father who died a long time before i was born, I was too young to have any knowledge of him. I was sitting in the back of my fathers Audi 80 on the way back from a family holiday (where my father and his father visited a lot when he was alive) and my mother turned round to check on me and to ask why i was chatting away to myself, but i wasn't, turns out i was talking to 'Granda Mick'!

I can remember it very very vaguely but i do recall being able to describe him, his outfit including a pigs hoof which he used to keep hanging out of his coat pocket for the dog and i heard a nickname which only my dad ever used to call him. Apparently i was talking and giggling away for a good 15 minutes with Granda Mick, my only real strange experience and i wish i could remember more of it.

AClownsPocket

899 posts

158 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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With the wife driving home from Whitby a few years ago along the coast road back to Middlesbrough. Driving up the hill just before Sandsend, round the bend and see a woman in a nightgown stood in the middle of the road. She held her hand up, I had to swerve and put the car in the bank. I got out of the car, turned round and she was still stood there.

The initial anger subsided and I asked if she was OK. She said yes and walked back to a driveway into a house. I got back in the car, checked the wife was OK and carried on driving home.

I mentioned it to my Dad and my Gran the next day. They both went white as a sheet and told me about what they thought was an old wives tale where seeing the lady is a warning of bad things to happen to the witnesses.

My Dad had the same experience in 1965 when driving that same road. Within a year, he'd lost a close friend suddenly.

Not so much the woman, but the effect it had on my gran and Dad is what really scared me.

Still waiting for the really bad thing, feel like we are on borrowed time some days.

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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750turbo said:
Just the one, whilst reading about the Stars/Universe/Sun type stuff on a thread on here...

Either:

  • We are alone in the Universe
  • We are not
Think about it...

beer
Reminds me of The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...

AClownsPocket

899 posts

158 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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Roy Lime said:
I have premonitions.

Some of them prove to be startlingly accurate.

For example I feel this thread will be good, harmless, round the campfire fun until one of the resident Pistonheads Mr Logic characters turns up to ruin it.

I'm even pretty sure I know which one it will be.
My wife has dreams like. In 16 years, she's predicted the World Trade Centre accident, the Concorde Paris Air Disaster, the Malaysian Airlines MH370 incident. I tend to listen to her nowadays when she tells me not to do stuff.

Turkish91

1,084 posts

201 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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My old man reckons he saw a ghost on his way back from work one night on his motorbike, basically rode straight through him as he crossed the road. He says he saw it again a few months later but this time it was early morning and this time there was also a car on the other side of the road, that subsequently had to slam on as the "ghost" appeared. My Uncle claims he used to talk to a wounded Cavalier soldier on the stairs at their house near Tysoe in Warwickshire when he was a toddler. I don't believe in ghosts myself though at all.

Only weird experience I've had recently was on Xmas Eve just gone by. I'd driven over to my girlfriends house and had been out at the local and got really drunk (but not to the point of not remembering or being totally incapable!). I'd managed to drop my phone whilst out, and cracked the screen so badly you couldn"t operate the phone anymore. This had happened literally just before I was due to go on holiday so I was pretty pissed off. Now I'm not a religious man in the slightest, but in my pissed up state, I decided now was the time to rant at the clear skies above me about how this was "his" fault and "why have you done this to me now of all times"... Embarassing I know, but I was pissed up and pissed off! I then realised as I was walking up the road back to hers that I needed to get her Xmas presents out of my car, yet had left my car keys in the house. Meanwhile, as I'm thinking this in the back of my mind, I'm still ranting and raving up at the stars, walking towards my car knowing I've got to go in the house first and bang... My stty old Astra unlocks all by itself.

Anyone who's had an Astra G will understand that the fobs only work about 1mm away from the car and when it does unlock the central locking is comparative on decibel levels to a sonic boom. Genuinely nearly had a heart attack from the shock and was totally frozen for a good 5mins, absolutely baffled out of my mind as to what had just happened! I still can't explain why or how it happened - I didn't even have the keys on me and they were a good 50m away up the hill in the house! So so weird...

-crookedtail-

1,558 posts

189 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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Not my own but I remember watching a program on NatGeo Wild about a bridge in Scotland that causes pet dogs to jump off and commit suicide. Not scary but very odd!

http://www.problempets.co.uk/media/overtounbridge....

YankeePorker

4,763 posts

240 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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I'm a pragmatic, atheist engineer who doesn't believe in the supernatural. I have always found a way to rationalise all the "weird" things that have happened to me over the years, all except one that I still haven't found a logical explanation to.

When I was a teenager my family lived in Cobham, Surrey. About at the boundary between Cobham and Oxshott there is a round pond called the Brickpit, an old quarry that was allowed to flood at the end of its quarrying days, supposedly with the old machinery still at the bottom. As you can imagine the quarry is steep sided and very deep. At least one if not two people have drowned there, playing and swimming in the first ten metres of gently shelving, warm margins, only to be surprised as they suddenly found themselves in deep, cold water if they passed over the edge.

One cold day in winter a friend and I came round to the back of the Brickpit through the woods. It was completely frozen over. As we stood there looking at this expanse of ice, he told me the story about the teenager who had drowned there a few years before. As he did so, a sizeable tree branch frozen into and protruding through the ice out by the drop off suddenly started shaking wildly, clearly agitated by something under the ice. I know that the Brickpit has some large fish in it, but in my opinion even a large pike or carp could not have made that branch move so violently. We watched this for half a minute or so, then ran off back through the woods completely freaked out.

Still haven't found a way to realistically rationalise what we saw that day, but I remain convinced that there must be a completely normal, physical explanation.


devnull

3,745 posts

156 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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I am usually very rational about stuff and attribute things to SCIENCE, especially when it is possible to have dreams that make you feel emotions and thoughts that seem like 100% real life, but two events in my life so far have properly freaked me out:

1. When I was around 9 or 10 in the 1990s, I was sat in my bedroom playing my Casio keyboard, which was against the end of my bunkbed. On the top bunk I had a shelf which had all my CAR magazines all tightly lined up. As I was playing, I happened to look up to the shelf. At that point, a single magazine pulled itself out from the shelf and slammed itself againt the opposite wall. This wasnt just a tumble. It came straight out. It fell to the floor in a heap. I didn't touch it for a day as I was so freaked by it. I could never explain this, ever.

2. A couple of years ago, I was having a boring Sunday afternoon in my apartment, so arranged to go round a mates house. As I was in the bathroom getting ready in front of the mirror, I had a strange feeling come over me and a voice said 'something bad is going to happen'. Never felt like it before, and it went as quickly as it arrived, shrugged it off and finished getting ready.

On the way to said friends house, I was at the front of the queue at a set of lights, which was at a major 4 way box junction, covered with yellow hatches. As i sat waiting, i saw a car loitering in the box. As i thought 'I dont think they should be there now', a motorbike carrying two passengers approached from the left at speed and went straight into the side of the car sending the two passengers over the bonnet and further afield.

I'm sure it was just a coincindence with my neurons, etc. But it was fking freaky.

SlackBladder

2,579 posts

202 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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rhinochopig said:
Baz Tench said:
Earlier this year, Two things happened in my house in fairly short succession. 1) was playing some old vinyl from years ago on New Year's Eve just gone and felt something blow on my elbow (had a t-shirt on). Managed to compose myself (not easy) and asked 'them' to do it again, held my arm out, and it happened again.

Had some 'white noise' a few weeks afterwards, totally randomly off my desktop as I walked past it. Again, I asked for the repeat and I was duly abliged, plus a couple of other more minor experiences.

I had the house 'cleansed' a few months ago, and have had nothing happen since.

I await the aggressive critics, but the truth is, it's the truth.

Edited by Baz Tench on Friday 1st May 20:50
Idiot, someone was offering to blow you and you gave it you're elbow.
I quite like your new single, didn't realise you're a forum member.