Spooky encounters

[Catfood220]

One of the bars that I used to work in was really fucking haunted, it used to be a farm house before the village grew around it and got sold off. One Sunday I was one the afternoon shift in the winter and the locals had all finished boozing for the day and gone home. I had finished cleaning the bar down and was just chilling out, laying on the sofa and waiting for the manager to come and close the place down (and because he was an arse, that could be any time he felt like turning up). Anyway, like I say I was just chilling out and I suddenly hear someone walking towards the bar across the wooden floor, so I get up to serve my customer but there is no one there. I think ok, maybe they've gone to the toilet, not wanting to have someone in that I didn't know about, I checked the toilets, again no one there. Really creeped me out at the time. Other people who worked there also reported weird goings on in that place so I know I'm not the only one.

Another time, I was walking home from work on a foggy night when I saw someone walking toward me throught the fog. As he gets closer I can see that its a man and as he gets closer to me he just suddenly "dissolves" into the mist. Make of that what you like, thinking back on it I think maybe my mind was playing tricks on me but again at the time, it really freaked me out.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Not really earth shattering but there's a cupboard in my room that opens on its own even when it's shut completely too. Its always creeped me the hell out. It never opens when I'm looking at it either I just turn around and it's open.

Also one night I could hear a woman walking up and down on the pavement in high heels, like the stratching noise they make. I was trying to sleep so I got p'd off after a while but when I looked out the window there was no one there. It continued for a bout another hour and then stopped.

 

[GodofDisaster]

I think I've already told this story in the Scary thread but it is complety true, so here it is again.

It happened on Halloween 2009, I was at my friend's Alex's house along with my other friend Chris. His parents and sister had left for a Halloween party and wouldn't be coming back to very late.

We weren't really doing much, just chilling, playing games and eating junk food. Which we soon ran out off. Therefore we decided to walk down to the local Tescos, but first made ourselves a proper cooked meal, pasta bake. Alex and I ate our's but Chris still had some left on his plate, we left the plates in the room saying to ourselves we'll clean them when we get back.

So we left the house, Alex locked the door of course and walked down to Tescos. We got our supplies, then walked back to the house. Inside we discovered that the pasta bake plates had already been cleaned. How? His parent's were away, his dog was locked in the kitchen and the house was locked before we left, who cleaned the plates there was no one in the house, and there is no possible way that someone would have got in? Even now none of us can figure out how this happened.

 

[Ldude893]

I used to live in small, English, mining villages that have had settlements on the same spots for thousands of years.. so lots of ghosts, they're pretty much just a fact of life.

Lived for ten years in a house where I basically considered the ghosts of two young girls my childhood playmates. It really never struck me as anything strange or unusual that I was playing hide and seek with ghosts, they were my friends. The house had been subdivided for an unknown reason and it always felt like there was something terrifying on the other side of the wall, that the girls would never go near.

After we moved out of that house, the new owners purchased both halves and knocked down the dividing walls, within two weeks the place burned down. Later I would learn that the house was the home to two young girls who died a century earlier, and an their parents... including an extremely violent and dangerous father.

..Mnyaaaaaaeeeeeh. :C
^^^ That's the latest spooky thing.

Somebody resurrect the Scary Thread. There's fright fuel to be preserved.

OT: I took a picture from a window on an apartment my family was staying in during a vacation in London. When I looked at the resulting image, there was an inexplainable black speck in the sky; right above the U2 Arena (our apartment was right next to it). The window and camera lense was completely clean, and the object neither resembled an bird nor an aircraft.

Meh. Superman.

 

[mongrelle666]

So we left the house, Alex locked the door of course and walked down to Tescos. We got our supplies, then walked back to the house. Inside we discovered that the pasta bake plates had already been cleaned. How? His parent's were away, his dog was locked in the kitchen and the house was locked before we left, who cleaned the plates there was no one in the house, and there is no possible way that someone would have got in? Even now none of us can figure out how this happened.

that's awesome i wish ghosts would clean my house

 

[Worgen]

I think I've already told this story in the Scary thread but it is complety true, so here it is again.

It happened on Halloween 2009, I was at my friend's Alex's house along with my other friend Chris. His parents and sister had left for a Halloween party and wouldn't be coming back to very late.

We weren't really doing much, just chilling, playing games and eating junk food. Which we soon ran out off. Therefore we decided to walk down to the local Tescos, but first made ourselves a proper cooked meal, pasta bake. Alex and I ate our's but Chris still had some left on his plate, we left the plates in the room saying to ourselves we'll clean them when we get back.

So we left the house, Alex locked the door of course and walked down to Tescos. We got our supplies, then walked back to the house. Inside we discovered that the pasta bake plates had already been cleaned. How? His parent's were away, his dog was locked in the kitchen and the house was locked before we left, who cleaned the plates there was no one in the house, and there is no possible way that someone would have got in? Even now none of us can figure out how this happened.

I would assume a mouse or rat.
I've only really had one that I can remember, I was looking after the house for awhile and I was in the living room watching tv and I just suddenly felt like I shouldn't be on the sofa where I was, you know the kind of sensation, like your being watched or whatever, the kind of thing that makes all your senses kind of wig out and you start seeing tigers in all the shadows, went to bed and locked hallway and room door, hasn't happened again.

 

[Chalacachaca]

Strangely enough, I live in a place where 60 people killed in a weekend is completly normal, yet I haven't seen any ghost around.

 

[TheNaut131]

I've seen about maybe 4 UFOs in the my life. Nothing much, but eh, it's all I got.

First was in the third grade. Recess and all. Noticed a black oval in the sky. It was going back and forth, zipping across the sky, rolling sideways, etc. It was doing all these quick maneuvers that I thought were pretty neat. I tried telling my teacher, but she just said I was seeing spots. When I cam back out it was still doing tricks. I just sorta said "cool" and walked it off.

Second was at my old house. It was in the middle of the day, and me and my brother were outside. Now, there were planes all around us that day for whatever reason, but I can tell you it was not a plane. We were in out front yard playing around. I looked up and notices something just sorta up there. It wasn't moving, didn't make a sound, and just sorta stayed in that general area. It was a red cylinder with what I can only describe as a golden tube around the center. We went inside for a moment to tell out mom, but she was busy, and when we came back it was gone.

Then, for a couple a months at my old house, there was this laundry window on the second floor I would look out of. It had a nice view into the woods separated by a fence and a nice open starry view, as well. Now, every night, I'd see this blue diamond shaped thing to the far right of the window. Imagine a blue, mushroom shaped cone, a space in the middle for an orange light, and then another blue, mushroom shaped cone pointing down, below the orange light. Thats it. It was actually pretty close to my house and I couldn't find an explanation for, there was nothing that close in that direction. I never saw it leave, all I know is that by morning it was gone.

And finally,at my current home, I was on my way to school and had only just stepped outside my door when I looked to my right. A bit behind a could of trees I saw this yellow oval diving and rapidly rising, and diving. It simply rinsed and repeated that in different directions for a couple of minutes. I just sorta looked at it and kept walking to school.

So yeah, that's pretty much it.

 

[Necroid_Neko]

I was lying in bed having woken up about ten minutes ago when I turned to my left and saw a guy I knew from school standing half in the wall and staring into the middle of my room, although of course he was see-through and ghost like. This happened again but with my boyfriend, I was in bed with him having trouble getting to sleep when I rolled over and saw a pale, ghostly version of him sitting next to me on top of his body/the 'real' him, also staring into the room looking thoughtful. I have to admit that I wasn't particularly freaked out at the site of disembodied men standing in my room, so I was probably just half asleep :/
I was not drunk/high at the time; how may points do I recieve ^_^

 

[Zen Toombs]

I was young, about 7 or 8. I was on the second floor of our house, and woke up late weekend. I walked across the hall to my dad's room. Staring at me from his bed was a large, completely black dog.

We do not own a dog.

I hid around the corner for a few minutes, and when I checked again it was gone.

 

[gellert1984]

Every so often when walking to work at night or early in the morning I see red lights in the sky. They always travel in a straight line, though in varying directions. Sometimes the light fades out and back in. They're to slow for shooting stars and don't have the lights of civilian aircraft.

I assume they're military jets using overthrust for training.

 

[Odinsson]

I was in the back of my parent's car as we were driving back from dinner at a restaurant. I was pretty tired at this point, but I swear I saw a green flaming orb plunge out of the sky and into a hill.

EDIT: Not mine, but a friend had this happen. He and his friends were at a church before an important theatrical production. My friend's not really religious, but he decided he needed all the help he could get, so he prayed for a bit. When he stood up to leave, the priest walked up to him, never looking at anyone else, and said 'Thank you'. When he left the church he asked his friends about the man. They never saw a priest in the church the entire time they were in there

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

I have never encountered anything spooky, and trust me I have looked deeply and hard for things. I have just accepted that no matter what happens around me, I will be able to find a rational and reasonable explanation for it all. That, and ghosts just don't want to be around me for some reason.

I have produced more then enough photos and the likes of 'supernatural things,' even some by accident, that I have grown very cynical when others try and present the same 'evidence' to me. You would be surprised how easy it is to make it look like spirits are rising from graves with a single candle and a shutter speed of a few seconds. If I still had these pictures I might upload a few so you can take a look, the US does have some great old grave-sites and a few of them where quite convincing even though all of them where fakes.

As far as I am concerned: We simply do not yet have the technology or scientific knowledge to be able to address the unknown question of what happens after we die. However, a lot of strange sightings have a rational explanation if you stop and think about it for more then a quick emotional response. Even the things you think you can see out of the corner of your eye often turn out to be nothing more then your own over-active imagination if you give yourself the strength to face it straight on.

That still leaves me curious about the biggest, unanswered, question of our generations though. I feel I won't know the answer to this till after I die. Look forward to it actually, cause if the spiritual exists it is a perfect excuse for me to drift around the cosmos for a few millennium looking at all sorts of space stuff. Another reason why I wonder why anyone would stick around here after they die: There are better places out there then Earth!

As for spooky stuff, there is enough things in our ocean that I do not want to encounter! The great and mysterious bloop is a prime example. This was a sound that was heard throughout underwater microphones across the face of the globe and matches no man-made or natural phenomenon known to man kind. This is not a volcano erupting under water, it doesn't match the sound that comes from plates grinding together and with how loud it is... no animal known to man could make this sound. It came, it went, and we don't know what caused it.

Interesting side note; it was traced back to coordinates frighteningly close to those written by Lovecraft to be the prison of Cthulhu. Bloop Coordinates: Roughly 50° S 100° W, R'lyeh Coordinates: 47°9′S 126°43′W. Oh and another unknown underwater sound, the up-sweep, can be found at 54° S 140° W, this one happens at least a few times a year and all we know is what it sounds like, as like the bloop it is too loud to be an animal and yet does not match any known natural events... it is a little scarier if you ask me, cause it sounds mechanical.

If you want a reason to be scared of things look no further then our own sea. There is a reason I do not go in there, even if the beaches are a long way from the trenches. The things we pull up from there are things of nightmare in themselves without thinking of these things being hundreds of times bigger then blue whales....

Side note:
Anyone else really annoyed at the 'ghost hunter' shows on television that take ANYTHING as evidence of a haunting? I'm going to blow up at the next person who tries to show me a picture of dust partials and claim they are 'souls.'

 

[mcnally86]

hey there. anyone out there ever seen a ghost or a u.f.o? or the bunyip or anything spooky that you couldn't explain. points for creativity and the absence of alcohol/drugs.

i saw a ghost of an old guy sitting on my bed once i turned on the light and freaked out when he disappeared. i can only assume that if he hadn't disappeared i also would have freaked out but probably not as much.

I used to think my house was haunted. Specifically my room where things would move about at night. Sometime I woke up with marks. Now that I'm old enough I realize it was rats. Now strange lights? Ya ok, I don't think those were rats. I saw something land in the woods nearby, I never found out what it was.

 

[mcnally86]

I have never encountered anything spooky, and trust me I have looked deeply and hard for things. I have just accepted that no matter what happens around me, I will be able to find a rational and reasonable explanation for it all. That, and ghosts just don't want to be around me for some reason.

I have produced more then enough photos and the likes of 'supernatural things,' even some by accident, that I have grown very cynical when others try and present the same 'evidence' to me. You would be surprised how easy it is to make it look like spirits are rising from graves with a single candle and a shutter speed of a few seconds. If I still had these pictures I might upload a few so you can take a look, the US does have some great old grave-sites and a few of them where quite convincing even though all of them where fakes.

As far as I am concerned: We simply do not yet have the technology or scientific knowledge to be able to address the unknown question of what happens after we die. However, a lot of strange sightings have a rational explanation if you stop and think about it for more then a quick emotional response. Even the things you think you can see out of the corner of your eye often turn out to be nothing more then your own over-active imagination if you give yourself the strength to face it straight on.

That still leaves me curious about the biggest, unanswered, question of our generations though. I feel I won't know the answer to this till after I die. Look forward to it actually, cause if the spiritual exists it is a perfect excuse for me to drift around the cosmos for a few millennium looking at all sorts of space stuff. Another reason why I wonder why anyone would stick around here after they die: There are better places out there then Earth!

As for spooky stuff, there is enough things in our ocean that I do not want to encounter! The great and mysterious bloop is a prime example. This was a sound that was heard throughout underwater microphones across the face of the globe and matches no man-made or natural phenomenon known to man kind. This is not a volcano erupting under water, it doesn't match the sound that comes from plates grinding together and with how loud it is... no animal known to man could make this sound. It came, it went, and we don't know what caused it.

Interesting side note; it was traced back to coordinates frighteningly close to those written by Lovecraft to be the prison of Cthulhu. Bloop Coordinates: Roughly 50° S 100° W, R'lyeh Coordinates: 47°9′S 126°43′W. Oh and another unknown underwater sound, the up-sweep, can be found at 54° S 140° W, this one happens at least a few times a year and all we know is what it sounds like, as like the bloop it is too loud to be an animal and yet does not match any known natural events... it is a little scarier if you ask me, cause it sounds mechanical.

If you want a reason to be scared of things look no further then our own sea. There is a reason I do not go in there, even if the beaches are a long way from the trenches. The things we pull up from there are things of nightmare in themselves without thinking of these things being hundreds of times bigger then blue whales....

Side note:
Anyone else really annoyed at the 'ghost hunter' shows on television that take ANYTHING as evidence of a haunting? I'm going to blow up at the next person who tries to show me a picture of dust partials and claim they are 'souls.'

As a reply to your side note Hugh Laurie from House also feels your pain http://www.hulu.com/watch/4261/saturday-night-live-haunted-house . Anyway I know what you mean about photos my Grandpa used to make a living doctoring photos.

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

Can not see that link, only people in the USA can and it is 5 AM here so I don't really want to go ahead and set up proxies to see what it was about right now. Maybe later, but can you give me a quick run down on what happened?

It is a side note to a side note, but I thought I might put forth this little titbit about ghost hunters:

I used to watch T.A.P.S when I was in the States, it was good background noise that seemed to be on 24/7 at the time and I didn't have to pay much attention to it so I could do forums, chat with friends or play games and ignore it most times.

The earlier series where not bad either, they would go in and record everything then actively seek explanations. A good deal of the time they would come away with very little, and what they did discover they found explanations for. They seemed to actively wanted to disprove haunting and it gave them enough credit that I didn't switch the TV off in disgust. Even when they found one or two things they couldn't directly explain at that moment they still stated the truth: Just cause they didn't find the explanation that night doesn't mean it was ghosts.

It went down hill quickly though and I have turned to look at a few of the later episodes now and then with disgust. It is as if the network demanded they started finding more 'spooky stuff' because... well it was getting ratings. It really does seem as if they tone down the rational explanation so they could have more 'spooky confirmations' which is what those that tune in regularly want to see.

Then you have their 'sister ghost hunter' groups that are the worse case situation. I still remember watching one of these fools running through a grave yard in Europe, chasing a light on top of a hill. When he got there the light had vanished and practically screamed that it was proof positive, caught on tape, of a ghost sighting. While standing next to a metal grave head... still holding the flashlight he was shining up that hill.

I died a little inside that night....

 

[kittii-chan 300]

Um...an Unidentified Flying Object is one of those objects that you haven't identified that, you know, flies.

Nothing so suspicious about those...if it's an unidentified object on the ground, no big deal, if it's up in the air OMG aLIENS!

That's not true, if it's an unidentified object on the ground it means its a bomb.

OT: Mirrors are terrifying. Especially during blackouts in the bathroom at night... It was completely dark when the light went out so I was trying to find the door but when the lights came back on I was inches away from the mirror and I jumped a mile. not really ghosts or ufo but scary...

 

[Angerwing]

One time I was in my room, which is located at the front of the house, when I heard this wild screaming coming from outside, about halfway up the driveway (from what I could estimate). It sounded like a demonic infant being tortured to death, and dying painfully. I was freaking out, and snuck a peek, to see some weird non-humanoid (or infantile) shape shuffling around on the driveway. This went on for a while, with my neighbours dog barking like crazy, until it eventually shuffled away. Terrified, I went to sleep.

Turns out it was a fox.


It sounded like this, but right outside my window, and continuously.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Side note:
Anyone else really annoyed at the 'ghost hunter' shows on television that take ANYTHING as evidence of a haunting? I'm going to blow up at the next person who tries to show me a picture of dust partials and claim they are 'souls.'

If you ever want an example of confirmation bias, watch any of those shows.

 

[cerealnmuffin]

I'm fairly skeptical of ghosts though I did live in a house with something that makes me question things. There would be muffled conversation in the stairwell where it was like many people talking in a party or at a pub but it was difficult to pick up words, I saw a lady in white walk into my closet, pots and pans would be on the floor in the morning, and my very young brother asked my mom who was the man behind her when no one one was there. My dad would complain about me being up early in the morning playing nes and being noisy when I was actually sound asleep. -_- Not sure if many people ever got grounded due to ghosts.