Have you ever encountered a ghost/UFO/cryptid/creepy shit?
A catch-all for our Mysteries of the Unexplained.
I saw a UFO a year or two ago. We heard this ringing noise, went out into the backyard, ringing stopped, and I saw a triangular thing vanish into the clouds silently and a plane came from the other direction. I also saw a big shadowy catlike thing on the rocks up a Chinese mountain-range when I was younger. No ghosts yet, however. |
I saw a ghost once...
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I only got this laptop recently, and until then had used a Desktop/Tower that was set up in the dining room. It was...okay, kinda slow-anyway, it was set up right in the corner, like so:
________________________ 1IPCI>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I 1IMEI>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I->Living room 1__>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I 1 'I<-Piano>>>>>>>>>>>I 1__I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I__ 1>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>1 I 1_VKitchenV_____________IV1 I_____I'm just gettin' carried away now HALLWAY Basically, from where I was sitting (ME) I saw this...grey...thing out of the corner of my eye, in the doorway leading into the hallway. Not an alien, but a big lumpy mass, bipedal, about seven feet tall. I saw it maybe 5 times, just for a second, and it put me on edge. |
I could write volumes....... but I don't because I wouldn't know where to start.
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I'm certain I've seen soldiers running by a window when the blind is half down, that seemingly vanish as soon as I pull up the blind and look.
I think I've heard a hermit crab ghost or something once. For those who don't know they make a sort of clicking noise. Some other time, I think I saw a white-masked man sitting in a tree staring back at me. If this means I'm insane, so be it.:D |
Oh, it is fun, the tricks that your eyes can play on you. I've had some weird hallucinations, but I can't pull one straight from memory.
I refuse to believe that these images are anything supernatural, as their cannot be ghosts or anything similar. I just don't think it's possible. Aliens are a different matter, but I doubt highly that there is anything living near us. |
The day before Valentines I had the most horrible feeling all night that something dreadful was going to happen the next day, I couldn't even sleep due to worry and gnawing terror.
Turns out I was right. |
I once saw a cow do a yellow crap (true story!) That was a pretty creppy shit. It turns out it had bowle problems.
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I've seen ghosts before. Normally I see faint blue outlines wandering around the house, but one time I saw an actual person wandering to the kitchen, and I never saw this person before. So I freaked out and yelled for my parents, and I turned around. Within a split second the person was gone and to this day my mom thinks I'm a lunatic. :(
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Fascinating. I wonder what causes folk to "see" things like this?
I'm not knocking anyone who believes in this kind of stuff by posting things like this. I am merely trying to initiate conversation with anyone who shares my opinion. |
Not sure. It could be influenced by stories and such told to infants and children, or just the aftermath of watching a scary movie.
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Yes, perhaps. I must admit, sometimes when I think I've heard something outside, I sometimes see shapes that aren't really there. There's usually an explanation for this, though, like a shadow, or a distorted reflection. If we're going to assume that there aren't such things as ghosts (I definitely am), I suppose it's a case of a very active imagination. If we're not going to agree, it's more a case of "let's move house".
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I recall when I was younger having a Taz laundry basket, and it would scare the piss out of me at night because I saw it staring at me and grinning from across the room. It was Taz's head on a laundry basket, and you'd put the clothes through his mouth. I also recall that only started happening after my aunt had me watch Child's Play, or whatever that movie was. Not the best movie to show an infant obsessed with toys. Doesn't this happen because of a child's overactive imagination? That they see these things that is.
Some people never grow out of an overactive imagination though, which is where I believe a lot of these UFO sightings and ghosts are coming from. There's that, and sometimes people see things at night in a warped sense of reality, kind of like what happens after you have a seizure. Or the person's on some type of hallucinagine. I never understood why people would move into a house, see some creepy abnormal shit happen, but just assume it's temporary or someone's just trying to scare them. If it were up to me, I'd be as far away from the house I'm in as possible by now. :p |
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True.
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I remember my aunt used to have a bin… it was furry (possibly grey) and had a face on it. Scared the shit out of me, and it always seemed to be in a different room each time I visited. Guys in mascot costumes scared me, too.
As for paranormal phenomenon, I have a history of being both fascinated and terrified by ghosts and aliens, predominantly the latter. For a while I would refuse to look up enough to see the sky if I went outside at night, and although I loved books on UFOs and abductions, there were always passages and pictures that I would try to avoid looking at. The slightest noise at night would make me dive beneath the covers. And for the longest time I would always have goosebumps walking about my house in the dark, and leap up onto my top bunk in extreme terror of The Thing that lurked on the bottom bunk (virtually always unoccupied). It was never a specific thing, just… some entity or other. And it was always just a fraction of an inch from grabbing my legs as I catapulted up in a horrified hurry. I still instinctively have these insecurities at night when I’m home from uni. I always knew they were meaningless and unsubstantiated, but now I can only consider them residual and habitual. |
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I heard from a friend that his friend left his bedroom one night for a midnight snack, and going back to the room to find that it was completely covered in burnt matches. I hear they moved house within the month.
Even if it is one of those 'friend of a friend' stories, it's still pretty creepy. I can't recall anything supernatural that's happened to me at all. Best I can think of was the other night while I walked down the stairs in the dark. It felt like I walked through a spiderweb. I'm terrified of spiders, but spiderwebs don't bother me much so I continued walking... until I felt this thing plant itself to my chest (around the same place the spiderweb collided with me) and started crawling around my chest. Needless to say, I ran as fast and as far as I could without opening any doors or breaking through any walls. After turning on the lights later, there weren't any signs of the spider or the webs, but I'd say that's reasonable because I'd imagine that spider would've pissed off like a rocket, and I would've destroyed the web with my body anyway. I hate spiders so damn much. |
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I had a freind (who was a strong beleiver in ghosts and stuff.) who said, he once got up in the middle of the night hearing the sound of typing. Figuring it was just his sister typing madly away on MSN/Facebook, he opened the door and saw nobody at the computer but the keys were being pressed. Then they stopped. As if that wasn't enough, he then heard the sound of heavy boots going up the stairs. I wasn't actually there, but he wrote a small story out of it as homework.
When I was very young, I saw an episode of Scooby-Doo which scared me more than enough to have nightmares. Everytime I went to sleep there was this fan in the middle of the room which I kept thinking was a ghost with chains and stuff. I don't know how I could have made that kind of resembelance out as a child but I guess I could. Again when I was younger, my parents and little sister were outside looking at the stars. I was getting cold out there and went back into the house. I heard something coming from the bathroom. Curious, I went to investigate adn found a manlike figure standing on the other side of the shower curtains. Scared like hell, I ran back outside and quickly forgot about how cold it was. I never told my parents or anyone else. To this day I haven't settled on what it was, an alien in disguise, a burglar, a hallucination or just a dream. |
I'm sure I saw a ghost once. That was about 10 years ago or so.
It was basically a ghostly figure. I didn't see too much of it and I was too scared to move. I'd prefer not to talk about it ;) |
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My sister (whose been practicing far longer than i have) and I were going to cleanse my attic since it was bothering our family.
When we went up there to evaluate the problem, two shadows were apparent on one side of the attic. I sheilded immediately (just incase), and we isolated them. Thinking that was it, we called out any dark entities. There were more than we thought. On the other side of the room, one jumped out at me and knocked me backwards. But with proper sheilding I wasn't harmed at all, and the problem is taken care of. |
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I don’t know, I didn’t bring it with me to uni.
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Lots of UFOs, but nothing special about any of them.
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This thread depresses me. But OANST's post cheers me right back up again.
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How does it depress you?
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*sticks head into a thread on one of his very rare visits. :P* Tired, hate being alone in a weird place, can't sleep. . . So now is the perfect time to tell you lot some ghost stories. :D I'm crazy.
Firstly if you want a really awesome (and possibly real but I'll leave you to decide for yourself) ghost story, you ought to read this B3ta post. It really did send chills down my spine when I read it first. But back to me. I've encountered weird things in my life. Fancy a long story or two? :P (No-one will read this, I swear) I'll start with the creepiest. Me and my friend work together as gardeners for an old man whom we know - He lives ontop of a hill surrounded by woods and fields. Across the road from him is an abandoned bungalow which I discovered one day while walking around the area. Together me and my friend went to this bungalow to check it out and see if there was anything worth salvaging. The garden was overgrown with brambles, house wasn't maintained, roof tiles falling off, cracks in the walls, paint peeling from doors and windowframes. . . Typical abandoned building, but peering through one of the windows, it looked very much like an old couple used to live there or something and nobody bothered to clear up after them when they died. Their household items and furniture were strewn across the floor amoungst the damp rubble of collapsed ceilings and wall plaster. It was the late afternoon when we entered the driveway - As I said we walked toward the house, peered inside the windows, saw the mess, decided that I didn't want to go in there yet, my friend agreed with me, then we looked toward an old run-down caravan that was parked on thier driveway. On the side of the house near the caravan was a little porch that had a large window on the front of it, and an open door on the back for access. The late afternoon sun shone through the door and against the window. When I turned toward the caravan, I found an abandoned shovel that was new but had been sitting underneath the caravan for a long time. I crouched down and pulled it out, knowing that we needed one at our workplace. I stood up and noticed that my friend was looking shocked and staring toward the porch, so I immediately turned to see what he was so shocked about. I heard no footsteps. I was croched down right next to the porch and would've heard it if someone was moving inside there. There was a silhouette of someone who was staring at us out of the large porch window, against the sunset shining through the door behind them. They were positioned directly in the middle of the window and were standing very VERY still. Writing this sends chills to my spine and makes me more alert at even the slightest movements within the room I'm in now. I didn't see a face - Just a shadow, even though I was close enough to the window to of been able to see who it was. "Uhm, run. NOW." I held onto the shovel and we both ran very fast, boosted by adrenaline rushes. Very fucking creepy. Later I found out that my friend was watching me pull the shovel out and only looked down at me for a second - He saw the silhouette when he looked back at the window the next second. Like it appeared suddenly while he was glancing away. It happened about 4 or 5 years ago but I'm sure as fuck not going back there again. :S It still creeps me out a hell of a lot and I always think about it when I walk past there and see that window. . . Boaurgh. Second story. A less scray encounter with a ghost of sorts. Back in 2007 I was staying in Leipzig in Germany with my (recent) Ex, Alector - She moved into an attic flat within a really (1800s) old building for 3 months during the end of my stay there with her, shortly before she briefly moved in with me for a year. The neighbour of our attic flat once claimed that she saw a figure of a small man walking through the walls of her flat - She isn't normally the type who sees ghosts or weird things. She immediately ran down to her friend who lived 2 floors below and spent the night with her instead. This was about half a year before we moved in. During our stay in the attic flat, I noticed something was odd about the place, especially since it was always cold by the entrance door in the living room but warm around the rest of the flat, even with the heating on. At night time we slept in the bedroom. We had to remove the door between the living room and the bedroom since we installed a new floor. And I hated being in the bedroom while looking toward the dark, dark living room doorway. It always felt like there was something weird in there. One day I was sitting at the computer table with Alector and I felt something on the opposite side of me. She said she saw a black shoulder-shaped object beside me even though I didn't notice it. Then we both felt like we were being watched for the rest of the night. Another night I was dozing off in bed next to Alector. Then I felt awake again and wasn't sure why I didn't want to doze off anymore. Alector stirred in her sleep - I opened my eyes and looked toward the door. I was half-asleep, but I think I saw the outline of a white face against a wall within the living room - It was incredibly vague and lasted only about 2 or 3 seconds so I might of imagined or dreamed it. Then I went back to sleep again somehow, only remembering it properly in the morning afterwards. Later on when I was back home in the UK breifly and had left her there on her own, she said she saw a lot of creepy shit within the flat. Weird high-pitched noises, little while lights floating around the room, weird temperature changes that rendered the heating inadequate. . . Very odd. Not so scary, but even so. I wonder what it was. There are other stories but they're not so interesting. I bet no-one's bothered to read this far anyway. :P lol |
I'm not really a superstitious person. But there was this one weird thing that happened:
There was a family get to gether at this park place. My parents forced me to go. So any way after driving for about three quarters of an hour we finnaly get there but the was no car parks left so we had to park a few streets away on a hill. My dad got out of the drivers seat, forgeting to put on the handbrake. Then the car started rolling uphill. |
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Creepy shit DarkHoodness... Creepy shit. The one with the shovel is... Scary.
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I once read a good thread on OWF.
Turns out it was a beautiful smack fuelled daydream. |
Smack fuelled cars, that would be interesting.
Each slap that you give the person next to you would power the car for 1 mile :D |
Yes. That kind of smack.
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Thankyou for explaining Salamander and not getting the joke.
Also, crack == cocaine. Hobo, that one's for you |