Scariest Paranormal Stories And Tales I
 

So post your scariest stories, or experiences in this thread. No copy pasta of any sort. :fuzvamp:

I once saw a green Wizard's ghost at the beach. It was weird. He started turning towards me as I walked towards him, then he disappeared.

I think it was just the weed/hash that I had smoked earlier, but damn was it vivid. And we all saw it.

I once thought I had a fly in my beer. Turned out it was a bubble.

I once had sex with a girl that I now wish was dead.

I spent years wishing a boy in my school would die and then he died in a car accident at the age of nineteen.

I saw Die Antwoord once. It still gives me nightmares.

If only I were as successful as you.

I'm kidding.

No, I'm not.

Yes, I am.

I'm not sure if I'm kidding.

One night when I was (I'm going to estimate) 7, I woke up on the bottom bed of my bunk and looked up. And through the ladder to the top I saw the face of an alien that was craned over and looking at me. Behind and around it stood other aliens, too tall for me to see their faces.

This is a genuine memory I have, but I would rationalize that, if it weren't an outright dream, it was my near-asleep brain bastardizing a bleary semi-conscious glimpse of my mum peering down to check that I was asleep. I still have a drawing I did of it. I very specifically made sure to hang onto it.

From memory, it was actually the night before we were travelling up to Scotland on holiday (possibly why my mum was checking I asleep, if she didn't do that every night). It was in the car I drew my recollection of it. I remember I was quite matter-of-fact about it that day, but I definitely spent the next couple of years never sleeping on the bottom bunk.

I used to have an overactive imagination when I was a little kid, and I always thought I saw weird faces peering at me behind furniture and whatnot. I would freak the hell out every time, too.

Another thing when I was younger, a while back, it was night and there was a crazy lightning storm outside. My brother and I peeked into this small room in the apartment that had a tiny window near the ceiling. Lightning struck, along with thunder, and we both could have sworn we saw the shadow of a man in the room. It was probably some visual trick that the flash of the lightning pulled off, maybe even one of our own shadows, but it scared the crap out of us.

The creepiest part though is that the following morning, we found out our landlord had died that night. Coincidence... ???

Ghosts aren't real.

I have ruined this whole thread.

This!! Nothing will ever top Die Antwoord in creepiness.


Well... I think that some part is not joking, and really feels strongly about it, but the moral part of you knows you should be joking. However, you know that a small part of you might actually be serious so you feel guilty and you choose to just be joking.... but you might not be.


Dont smoke weed.

I saw floating objects in a ruined, run-down house in China once.

And a UFO.

Why do these things always happen in ruined buildings?

I think I've told this story before. My best friend and I were snooping around in the front garden of a ruined and abandoned bungalow on the edge of some woods near where we work. Close to the house was a caravan. We were looking at the caravan door, trying to find a way in.

We both looked back at the house and noticed that a person-shaped silhouette had suddenly appeared in one of the windows, standing very still, staring at us. At the distance we were away from the house, we should've heard movement and should've been able to see them in detail since other objects in the room behind them were visible, illuminated by sunlight entering the room from behind the house. But it was just a very dark, and very still shadow.

I'm sure there probably was a rational explanation for it, maybe it was actually someone in the house and it was a trick of the light or so, but we didn't hang around very long to find out.

I thought I had sleep paralysis once because I felt like I couldn't move my limbs and that someone was sitting on my chest. Turns out my priest just followed me home.

Because very low frequency sounds are often produced by the wind blowing through older, poorly maintained buildings. And infra-sound has been proven to cause humans to feel cold, uncomfortable, pressure on the chest and even to hallucinate.

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infraso..._to_infrasound
This is one of the Wikipedia references which I found fascinating: http://users.iafrica.com/s/sa/salbu/apollo/HumA2.html



As for ghost sightings that specifically look like faces or people, the human visual system is wired up to recognise faces and people very quickly. There are strong evolutionary advantages for this, but the side effect is that people occassionally mistakenly think that vaguely face/body-shaped objects are the real thing.

Also, QI told me that the reason creaky old houses seem haunted is because everyone in there goes wacky from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Ben Drowned.

My grandparents own an abandoned house where strange things happen.
I'm gonna skip the facts i didn't personally see (like actual ghost with a gray face walking the stairs) but i can 100% guarantee occasionally objects move on their own in that house.

I don't understand how people can believe in ghosts when intrinsically they would be too paradoxical to exist. There is no such thing as far as I'm concerned because from what scientists can measure, the human soul in a religious sense doesn't exist. Our consciousness is in the brain, not some endoplasmic pseudo-bollocks.

ectoplasmic^

that too. I've never seen Ghost busters!

From a scientific prospective there are many things that are not supposed to exist but exist.

For exemple you can't mesure the fact that you exist but still this is probably the only truth you will ever be certain of.
Or again, why is the moon circling around earth mantainingg the same exact speed even thought it is constantly bombarded by asteroids?

Negating something just because you never saw it is not a scientific approch but a religious/dogmatic one.

This right here is some quality satire.

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN

It means that introspection is a very unreliable psychological research method.

Well of course we exist, philosophers can dance around that argument for eternity but we do indeed exist. It is as you say, certain. There are measures to determine our existence too, philosophers however will debate their reliability. I take the standpoint that whatever a scientist says is generally going to have more sway than what a philosopher says.

The moon is not circling the Earth at exactly the same speed as well, it is slowing down as the orbit expands due to a loss of energy. If you're going to come up with an argument at least back it up with things that are true. We can measure the fact that the moon is slowing down through observation.

I think you'll find it's the polar opposite, science only ever says anything is certain if it is measurable, that's why science on the most part rejects a creator being.

Me neither, but as I've said I read a lot about the paranormal as a child. Ghost Busters did not invent the idea of ectoplasm.

Fair enough, I never really got into ghosts all that much. I generally thought it was Ghost Busters that came up with the concept.

Betrand Russel says/said that we may not exist, but as long as we have no active reason to believe we don't, we should take it for granted that we do.

That's an eminently sensible position

Wait what? I exist? I didn't know this.

Back in 1998-2000 I lived on a farm on the outskirts of Belleville. I don't remember seeing any ghosts or being attacked by Predators in my sleep or anything, but I grew an extraordinary fear of the dark. The only light was an a rotten bulb from the 19th century hung in a jam jar above the back door. We had no windows facing the fields to the rear of the property, so all there was to guide you home at duskset was a creepy yellow glow. Again, no ghosts or Snarks or Grumkins. Just dark. And stars. Despite never seeing a grey probing the marmots, I was very positive from an early age that there was something beyond the borders of gravity, an OH FUCK THE SUN'S SETTING GET INSIDE JILLIAN GET INSIDE

When I was a teenager, mostly 14-18. I saw some shit. Shadow People were frequent, just chillin on the edge of my vision. I've mentioned a grey blob that I used to see in the hallway between my kitchen and the foyer before, shaped like an 8 foot tall whale man or a dog. My friend Jordan saw the dog as well.

I'm not saying that my house was haunted or anything like that. These were pretty clearly audiovisual hallucinations derived from reading a lot of scary stories and talking with Jordan (who suffers from Schizophrenia) about Shadow People and the like at length. I'd like to think that anything supernatural occurs on an extremely wide and slow scale. Or at least that sounds cool.

This^ was what ultimately turned me off of ghosts and paranormal research when I first read about it. Nikki can tell you I used to be way into that stuff.

While I think that personal 'paranormal' encounters that are experienced through one of the five senses have been wholly debunked, there are certainly a few pieces of footage/sound/photography/etc. that - assuming they weren't just doctored - have proven to be real head-scratchers.

"Ghosts" are just something we came up with to explain things we don't understand... yet. As technology improves, and we have a greater understanding of the world around us, we will inevitably discover a logical cause for these anomalies. For every fifty "ghost" videos that amount to nothing more than a smudge on the lens, or a piece of dust reflecting light, there is one video that leaves you groping around in vain for a simple explanation.

Unfortunately, these videos often fall under the scrutiny of stupid shows like "Fact or Faked" - a show run by bullshitters with no scientific background - resulting in reputable scientific communities refusing to touch it with a ten-foot pole.

I have had none, though I have had similar experiences to the rest of you here. But I knew what was happening as I had them.

http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF211-Atlantis.jpg

Seriously proud right now.

I saw aliens once, maybe.

Ghosts are real too, just semantics on what you might call them.

BM POSTED A GOOD COMIC!

Interesting, you like sex offenders then?

Yes.

Who doesn't?

Sex offense victims.

Or so they claim.

I wouldn't say scary, but I had an UFO sighting. About a year ago, when I was traveling by plane, to college, I saw an UFO. Not aliens, just an UFO. Fact is that it had a bright orange light, and as soon it got behind a small cloud, it disappeared. I was very far from any military base or even land, for that matter, which gave me some questions about the fast disappearing, but I really couldn't care less. Also, for the people asking if "Aliens really exist?", I seriously doubt we're all alone in this universe. As for ghosts, I never encountered anything, so my immediate response is no.