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[Diablo2000]

So I had a couple of supernatural stories from my childhood I wanted to share and I wonder if any of you escapists would like to do the same.

I live in Brazil, in the summer needless to say it's pretty fucking hot. When I was much younger around 9 or 10 it was really fucking hot and my parents let me stay on their room where there was air conditioning for a few nights. (The one in mine and my brother's room had broken down). I never felt very confortamble in that room, but I was kinda of jumpy child so I just suck it up since it was too damn hot.
I slept on a matress on the floor, I sleept on my dad's side of the bed, but I could see my mom's side from under the bed and one night I saw someone standing right to my mother's side. It was white and was wearing a long dress, so I naturally assumed to be my mom and got up to greet her... There was no one there. I wasn't dreaming, I was wide awake and I sware, that was someone standing there other than my parents who were both sleep on their bed. I wish I could tell I that I never slept there again, but a few nights after I saw it again. This time I just turn myself around and hoped whatever it was wasn't evil or something... Needless to say, I wouldn't sleep there ever again and still fell very uncorfomtable being there, even when my parents door it's open and the lights are out I closed because that room just creep the fuck out me and I am 21 today.

Also another one from much earlier childhood, when my parents where out (I was much younger than the first story, around 5-6) and they didn't trust my brother or my sister enough to look out after me. So they leave me with my grandparents, sometimes I sleept there when was going to be too late to pick me up or they weren't going back that day.
One night, I got up, don't remember why. it was dark, I got up and went out of the room. I saw someone entering the bathroom. At the time I assumed it was my grandfather but thinking back, I think it was something else. I entered the living room and push the switch to light the room, and when I did, I couldn't see anything. My memory is that the light seemed too strong, wasn't a blinding white light, was more a worm light, still blinded me all the same. I shut it off and I could see again (as much the darkness allowed), so I crawled back to the bed and sleept the night. Back then I didn't understand what had happened, but thinking now, it was odd. Very odd indeed.

So had any of you had any similar stories that you guys like to share?

 

[Frezzato]

Just curious, are you religious or do you believe in the supernatural? It seems like a loaded question, but that's not my intent.

I'm going to regurgitate (yet again) one particular experience (my only one) that happened back when The Ring came out on DVD back in 2003. I was working long hours at a shit job and ordered The Ring from Amazon because a friend recommended it. I got home at around 2 AM and found the bubble mailer hidden under the door mat. I watched the movie, then found the actual short video used in The Ring, within the special features. Just a reminder, when people in the movie watched that video, they get a call from Samara telling them they have 7 days left to live. I watched the short film, searched through the other special features, put the DVD away, and powered everything off. By then it was 4 AM and I was ready to pass out.

Then the phone rang.

I stared at my landline (remember, this was many years ago) and let it ring perhaps 3-4 times. Within those few seconds, questions raced through my mind: Was someone watching me? How could they have possibly known that I had ordered The Ring when I didn't tell anybody? Did they open the package or were they watching me through the blinds? is someone in the house RIGHT NOW? (I lived alone) Also, could it be that...

I picked up the phone and it was a friend living in a different city, but the same time zone as me. She worked as a nurse (still does) and her shift kept her working until 8-9 in the morning. She was prone to calling me at all hours of the night, when decent people were asleep.

In retrospect, I'm almost 100% certain that I picked up the phone before I could finish asking myself if it was Samara calling me. So in that respect, I cannot judge anyone for believing in the supernatural as I was on the verge--the very knife edge--of wondering if a plot point from a movie was real. It was exhilarating, and ever since then I've sought out the scariest movies I can find, but nothing comes close. I'm actually jealous of you for your experiences. It's times like those that you find out what you're made of.

 

[Catfood220]

I learned this a little while ago. My folks were looking for a house when I was about 2 years old. They were looking at one house and I was fast asleep in a pushchair so they went to check out the upstairs, leaving me downstairs. Apparently I started screaming at the top of my lungs and would not stop until I was taken out of the house. They decided not to buy the house after that.

Back when I worked in bars, I was in one and the locals would come in at about 12 in the afternoon when it opened and go at about 5 in the evening just before it closed. Well this day was no different and I'd got everything cleaned up and was lounging on the sofas when I heard someone walking across the wooden floor. I figure its someone come in for a late drink and get up to serve them. There is no one there, so I figure that they have gone to the toilet so I check the toilets. No one there. Freaked me out a bit that did.

Again, when I worked in the same bar and I used to walk back along the beach, it was a couple of miles but I didn't mind. Anyway, I was walking home on a foggy night and listening to my music when I saw the outline of a man walking towards me. He got to be about 2 metres away from me when he simply dissolved into the mist. That unnerved me too.

I have more, like the ghost that stood behind me while I took a pee. But I think that will do for now.

 

[Zontar]

I have two: one was when it was late at night and I saw something flying around outside my second floor window from my bed. I do think it was a white grocery bag, but the way it flew around over my parent's car and garage would have required quite the odd wind condition as it flew around in quite the large circle before moving on its way.

Also there was the time I killed a fly which landed on my window at night, and the next day there was a ladybug's body there instead (or it may have been the other way around, either way I just put it down as a glitch in the matrix).

 

[rgrekejin]

When I was just a young grad student, I used to work at a research facility with a very unique layout. Each floor jutted out from the building, and had a glass ceiling, to let in natural light during the day. Each floor had a series of parallel lab benches that were perpendicular to the main building, and at the far end of each bench was where your desk would be. This was somewhat annoying if you worked late, because (to be more eco-friendly) the lights in the building at night were motion controlled, and turned off if they didn't sense movement every 15 min or so. The motion detectors were at the far end of every bench, by the main building. This was at the opposite end from your desk, so if you didn't get up and move around every now and then, the lights would go off on you. Each motion detector controlled only the lights for the bench it was near.

I was there one night at around 2 am, waiting for a machine to finish running. I was working on a paper at my desk, and wasn't bothering to get up to keep the lights on. Though I thought I was alone in the building, I thought I heard typing noises from somewhere else on the floor. I got up and looked around, and my suspicion was confirmed - there was no one else here, I was all alone, at least on this floor.

I went back to my desk, thinking the noise must have been the AC or something. After a few minutes, the lights I had turned on when I got up to check the noise turned off.

And then the lights turned on over the bench on the far end of the floor.

And then the next one.

And then the next one.

One by one, the lights over all the benches turned on until just before the bench where I was sitting working. I couldn't hear any footsteps, but I thought that someone must have just come in to lab to do something late at night, like I was. Not wanting to startle them, I got up and walked to the end of my bench so they'd know I was there.

There was no one there.

No one. Nothing which should have been tripping the motion detectors. There was no moving machinery, no debris on the floor. Nothing. Those lights don't have any other mechanism for activation than the motion detectors, so it couldn't have been a security guy messing with me. To this day, I have no explanation for what happened.

 

[Diablo2000]

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I come from a religious family, I myself am not religious at all... However thanks to my experiences I believe there's "something", I just don't know what this something is.
And if my previous experiences were anything to go by, younger me must been quite the badass in relation with me now. I would be like "Nope, Nope, Nope. Not going to sleep in a room with a freaking ghost." maybe there would be girly screams involved but my masculinity won't let me confirm that...

I have more, like the ghost that stood behind me while I took a pee. But I think that will do for now.

That's literally the worst time and place I can possibly think to be haunted. Damn.

 

[San Martin]

One night I woke up and Nicholas Cage was in bed with me. I screamed until my mum came in turned the light on, at which stage he vanished. Mum insisted it was a bad dream, but it happened again a couple of years later when I was living on my own. To this day I'm convinced that Nicholas Cage is haunting me, moving household objects around, changing the TV volume when I'm not looking, and bombarding me with terrible movies.

Also OP, do you know any good Brazilian horror movies? Eu gosto de seu país e do terror, então uma mistura dos dois seria muito legal

 

[Diablo2000]

One night I woke up and Nicholas Cage was in bed with me. I screamed until my mum came in turned the light on, at which stage he vanished. Mum insisted it was a bad dream, but it happened again a couple of years later when I was living on my own. To this day I'm convinced that Nicholas Cage is haunting me, moving household objects around, changing the TV volume when I'm not looking, and bombarding me with terrible movies.

Also OP, do you know any good Brazilian horror movies? Eu gosto de seu país e do terror, então uma mistura dos dois seria muito legal

Well there's the Coffin Joe (Zé do Caixão) movies, try to look for his work even outside of the Coffin Joe series, there's decent stuff in there. Marco Dutra also have a good selection, I personally prefer Trabalhar Cansar. Isolados is one I heard is actually pretty good, came out this year if I am not mistaken. Mangue Negro it's our attempt at Trash... It's a lot of cheesy, but interesting movie still.
Some people would recommend Desaparecidos, I personally disliked it. Watch it at risk.

Oh, and we have our own Slenderman movie, because why the fuck not? It's pretty terrible actually.

It's really sad that our industry prefer invest in really bad comedies and the ocasional drama over other types of movies, there a lot of talented people in there.

Espero ter ajudado.

 

[small]

on a cloudless early evening just after sunset my friend and i were sitting on her back step and there was a 6ft wide or so glowey white ball? of light that just appeared in her back yard and shot up into the sky. no idea what the hell it was but we assumed ball lighting or something

 

[DanteRL]

I live in Brazil, in the summer needless to say it's pretty fucking hot.

Oh my friend, "pretty fucking hot" it not even close to how infernally hot is in our country. Also, achei que iam rolar histórias do Saci, ou da Mula Sem Cabeça =P.

Anyway! Ok, so this happened when I was 3. I don't really remember it, but my mother told me, and she got pretty scared.One morning she went to our bedroom to wake me up, but I was already awake, and when she told be to eat breakfast, I said I had already eaten with my grandmother's mother.
At first she thought it was funny, and that I was probably dreaming with my grandmother, since (spoiling the plot twist here, my great granparents died before I was born). But I insisted it were tem, and proceeded to describe some details, like how the woman was limping and used a cane, and the man had a weird way of eating bread and salami separated (some weird Itallian thing I guess). Long story short, those were all true details that little 3 year old me couldn't know. Mom was alone that morning (apart from her now horror movie star of a son) so she got really scared.

 

[happyninja42]

When I was probably 14 or so, me and a friend were riding our bikes, and saw a sudden purple streak of light across the sky, right around sunset. Shortly after about 6 military helicopters flew overhead, in formation, in the same direction. The impression I recall was almost like that of a starship going to lightspeed, it had a direction as if it was moving, the purple light I mean. But it was a momentary blink of an eye. I live near a military base, so seeing helicopters isn't unusual, but seeing 6 of them in formation wasn't something I'd ever seen before.

I would have to qualify it as a UFO, simply because I couldn't identify what it was, but these days, as my skeptic nature has grown, I attribute it to random light weirdness from the corner of my eye, my imagination filling in blanks, and a coincidental arrival of military vehicles.

 

[Fappy]

I honestly think I have a couple from my childhood that I have suppressed in my memory. I can recall feelings of dread and unexplained phenomenon, but the details are lost.

On a related note, two friends of mine claim they live in a haunted apartment and a lot of people they know agree. When I told my atheist girlfriend we were going to go ghost hunting at their apartment she gave me the best response ever:

"This is how I hunt for ghosts:
Step 1: Remember ghosts don't exist
Step 2: Pat myself on the back and go home"

 

[happyninja42]

^^^ I like your friend xD

Yeah I used to listen to a podcast called The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, and they would joke about the best way to avoid being abducted by aliens, or haunted by ghosts, or any other weird supernatural events. The answer "Be a skeptic, they amazingly never have this stuff happen" xD

 

[Fox12]

Well, I have a ton of "supernatural" stories from my childhood, none of which I remember. Apparently my mom informed me that I had a ghost friend I would play with after my uncle died. She assumed it was an imaginary friend, except that she claims she saw lights hanging around me sometimes. She also claimed lights turned off and on, and that things would fall and move. She insists it was my guardian angel. She also claims that I would tell her stories about talking to people who were dead, and that I'd give vivid details about them that I shouldn't know. On her end she apparently had the exact same dream as my grandmother after my uncle died. I vaguely remember talking about the ghost, but it could just be my imagination filling in blanks. My mom is far more superstitious and religious than I am, though, so I don't know what to think of it. I'm a pretty skeptical guy.

As for my adult life, I don't really believe in ghosts. This doesn't stop me from going ghost hunting, though, which has led to some interesting results. At one point I visited a place called Hells Church at about two in the morning. I searched the area, but didn't find anything. My roomate and his friend were with me, but they elected to stay by the car. They started freaking out, and said they saw shadows moving in the forest just beyond the cemetery (we were pretty deep in the woods). I wanted to check it out, but they basically dragged me to the car. I don't know what they saw. I think they're imaginations invented it myself, since they were panicked, but they were adamant that something was out there. I never saw anything, so I don't believe it, but take that as you will.

Me and another friend checked out a haunted watermill one night as well. We met a guy in the woods and thought we were screwed (we were trespassing... a little bit). It turns out he was there for the same reason, and we talked for a few hours. Apparently he's had several supernatural experiences there. At one point I reached for the windmill, and it passed through a cold spot. Then my entire arm went numb, and shock of electricity went through my whole arm. The hair on my arm was actually standing up. Later, strange lights appeared in the forest, despite not having a source they could come from, and disappeared. I don't believe in the supernatural, but I must say, I can't explain whatever happened that night. I think it was swamp gas. Electrocuting my arm. Yeah.

 

[Just Ebola]

Unexplained is such a broad category, I've seen many strange things that nobody ever bothered to explain to me, but I can't honestly say I've witnessed anything paranormal. At least not for myself, though not for lack of trying. I have however heard more second-hand accounts than I could count and seen the evidence they had collected.

Growing up I always had a curiosity for things like ghosts and the unknowable, I've read ghostly books, taken many a ghost tour, visited the sites of great tragedies (mass graves, body burnings and the like) and walked through cemeteries in the dead of night, touching the head stones of particular note. I've even looked at evidence other people have gathered, pictures of phantasms and ghostly figures captured through the glass windows of a supposedly haunted shops and things like that. But I can't say I've seen anything definitive for myself.

Maybe I'll have something to share someday.

 

[Godhead]

At night a couple years ago, I used to hear a pitter patter and muffled sounds in the dark. Turns out my cat liked to hide dying animals in the portion of the attic directly above my head.

 

[FalloutJack]

I've managed to become a victim of acute temporal displacement...at times.

*Rimshot*

What would happen was that I would find sudden instances where, for example, I had seen the time a minute or two earlier, and then time moved BACK when I checked it again. We're not talking daylight savings either, or even a lapse in consciousness. I gained four hours, one time, the first-noted case where I got up at 8AM, and then I looked back and it's four in the morning!

 

[Twintix]

Well, my mom seems to have this supernatural ability of always tempting fate and being a walking techbane...

...I guess that doesn't count...

One time, when I was about 14-15, I was at home alone. I got a phone call from my dad. When I picked up the phone...I heard this slightly distorted, terrified sobbing and a girl who said, in a panic, "I didn't mean to, please!". After that, my dad answered as usual.

It was...kinda creepy, actually. I don't know what could've caused it and it has never happened again.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

I remember when i was 12 and lying in bed i woke at night to see a ball of light in my room. It was moving on the ceiling from corner to corner doing laps. Saw it also when we moved to a new house in my new bedroom. Last time was 23 years ago.

 

[The_Waspman]

One time, when I was about 14-15, I was at home alone. I got a phone call from my dad. When I picked up the phone...I heard this slightly distorted, terrified sobbing and a girl who said, in a panic, "I didn't mean to, please!". After that, my dad answered as usual.

It was...kinda creepy, actually. I don't know what could've caused it and it has never happened again.

I once answered the phone to a really creepy organ grinder tune. No idea what it was, but it freaked me out. I was afraid my brain might have been infected with some computer virus or something.

I've had a few other experiences. Well, one wasn't supernatural really, but as someone who used to be into English Folklore I had an experience one night. I was walking home from the cinema, back to the place I was staying at the time. The walk took about an hour, and it was about midnight, but it was mainly through leafy suburbs. Nothing I hadn't done before. Well, I was minding my own business when seemingly out of nowhere this huge black dog ran up to me. Now, black dogs - The Shuck - are never a good sign in folklore, and here was this one just staring at me. Then it crossed the street and kept pace with me all the way back.

I also did a ghost walk a few years ago for a friends birthday. Now, we're all a bunch of atheist skeptics, so it was just a general night of fun for us. A bit of a history lesson thrown in, some folklore, all that jazz. A few things did actually happen during the night though, that none of us can really explain. One of which happened to me. Our guide was telling us about the city gate we were going through, and how people were hanged there, and about one of those zany murderous bastards who did so back in the day. Well, we were doing this thing, the bunch of us, to try and "summon" him, which of course made the electrokinetic meter we had start going crazy. Well, our guide asked for a volunteer to go down into the trench beneath the gate and try and "provoke" the spirit of this guy into a reaction.

Bearing in mind that this was late on a Saturday night, and it was pitch black down there.

Well, I stepped up, because everyone else was too scared, and also, I thought it'd make me look kinda macho in front of the hot ladies who were with us. So I go down into this trench, and everyone else is above me, giving me encouragement to provoke this guy, which I'm doing. Regrettably, I missed the opportunity to prank everyone and act like I'm standing right next to a really angry looking dude who looks like he wants to kill me.

What did happen though, was that my hands went really numb. And not like a cold numb (I was wearing gloves) but like a circulation has been cut off numb. Like my wrists had been bound. Later on we did a bit of spirit board action and the planchette did some moving about on its own, but thats about as close to a supernatural event as I've had.