creepiest thing to happen to you In Real Life

[Chamale]

I love this thread Makes me think of a couple of things I almost forgot.

One was about 7 years ago, I was studying for some exams a lot (about 16 hours a day). I came home one afternoon to take a nap before going back to the library to study. Of course I passed out almost as soon as my head hit the pillow. Now the freaky part. I woke up but I couldn't move. You know when your hand goes numb when you sleep? Well it felt like that but it was my entire body.

I must have a better memory for horror than most posters, because this reminds me of yet another creepy experience. About 6 months ago, I was on codeine because I'd had 4 wisdom teeth removed that day, and I found out (by way of nuclear annihilation) that I'm in the 1% of people who have terrible nightmares as a result of codeine. So I woke up drenched in sweat, though not catapulting out of bed like in the movies. Instead, I tried to just move my right hand to my forehead, to try to relieve some of the pain in my jaw.

You know, in the dark, you can still see your hands because your brain knows where they are? I vaguely saw my right hand in the air above me, but it couldn't do anything. I tried to grab the arm with my left hand, only to see them pass right through each other. At this point, I started crying from pain and confusion. I realized that my right arm was sitting dead at my side. I picked up the arm, held it there, and then let go. It fell down again like the nerves had been cut. At this point, I pulled a Kill Bill and just started punching myself in the crotch with that hand, until suddenly the nerves kicked back into gear and I was able to hit myself. It wasn't very hard, but it hurt, and it proved that I had my hand back.

I wrote down something like "If this is a dream, this won't be here in the morning". Unfortunately, I lost that piece of paper, because my parents sometimes throw away my possessions like I've already moved to college.


Another time, many years earlier (I was 10), I tried to fake some UFO photos, with my mom's camera and grandma's film, to surprise my friends. Imagine my surprise when the photos showed a bright, sun-like orb over my backyard. I eventually realized, years later, that it was just the flash reflecting off the window. Still, it was jarring to see that when the film developers gave back the photos, as well as some photos of dead trees in a desert. The dead tree photos were evidently the first few photos on the roll, and had a creepy vibe.

Unfortunately, those photos are lost, like most little cool tidbits I used to keep around. I hope that no documents of historical importance end up in the property of my parents, as they'll get binned.

 

[Littlee300]

I used to have the same nightmare once a month, from around the ages of 8-12 years old. But as I got older I didn;t have the nightmare as often so by the time I was 12 I was only experiencing it every 7-8 months.

Anyway, In the nightmare I am sat in school (I was still in primary school whne this happened) and I heard the bell ring. So I got up, walked out of the class and exited through the front doors. I was the only one at school and it was at night, but that didn't seem to bother me... Its when I set off walking home that I hear a something growl, but when I look behind me there is nothing; just the empty school. As I continue home I walk past some really random places which are not on the way home from school, but I guess thats kind of because of the whole dream thing. But as I walk home on my own with no one else in sight I continue to hear this growling...

Eventually I begin running as the growling gets louder and happens more often. When I am only a few steps away from my house I turn around again, but before I see the thing growling at me I wake up. I always wake up out of breath and covered in sweat. Everytime it happened it was after I had a rather bad da,. but by the time I realised this I stopped having the nightmare.

But, about 2 months ago, on the night after my dog died and I was pritty upset I had the dream again. However, at the end of the nightmare I turned around to see my dog which had died that same day, and it didn;t feel like a nightmare anymore. Also, remembering that I am 16 now (15 when I experienced the dream with my dog in it), it still began in my primary school but I was now 15.

Finally though, when I woke up I wasn't at all scared, and I wansn't out of breath or sweaty :S But what really creeped me out was that I then remembered something very specific in the dream which I had never though of before. When I look at the board in the school the date says 28/2/2010. This was the date my dog died and I am sure this was always in my nightmare/dream. Explanations????

Well your memory is probably tricking you but I don't know.
Aren't dreams help you with unexpressed emotions. With unexpressed emotions your unhealthy so i guess this is body's way of fixing that problem.

 

[ultrachicken]

Another creepy thing, is that when my parents arnt home (especially when my sister isn't there either) I hear the floor creaking like when someone walks on it, sounds of cars driving up the laneway, the phone ringing, and worst of all, my Mom calling my name.... no joke

The floor could be explained by temperature changes as the floor expanded and contracted with changing temperatures. Cars driving up the laneway might just be people being douchebags and using it to turn around. Not sure about the phone ringing, but if the phone isn't actually ringing then that is very weird. Same thing applies if cars aren't actually driving up the laneway.

Fun fact: The sound editor for some versions of Rammstein's album "Sehnsucht" added in the sound of a ringing telephone, and used the stereo effects to make it sound like it's coming from another room. I've often heard a phone ring (it's very quiet) while listening to the album, and then I remember. Maybe something like that is happening?

Maybe your neighbor is getting a lot of late night phone calls.

 

[dariuskyne]

Every single time I read the short story "the mist" by stephen king, the next day is foggy. every single time. Not light fog or the such, more like silent hill, can't see much type fog, and I know fog isn't a rarity where I live (Pennsylvania, in the US) but the coincidence of it happening the next day after reading the story... really creepy, especially if you read the story.

 

[goldenheart323]

When I was about 13, I had a rather mundane, but pretty detailed dream about me fixing something outside a brown house, near a corner, by a big open window, using an orange handled tool, next to a big brown pillar. The fact it was so dull made it stand out and be memorable. (The few times I remember my dreams as a teen, they've always been pretty cool ones.) Long story short, over a decade later, I found myself living in a brown house, fixing something outside, by a big window which happened to be open at the time, and I was also by a corner & a big brown pillar. Every detail was the same as my dream, right down to the orange handled screwdriver. I was in the middle of my repair job when the memory of that dream flashed in my head. It was like super deja vu on steroids. The fact every detail was so accurate, and the fact it wasn't just a vague feeling of doing it before, it was a very specific memory of a very specific dream, that freaked me out so much. I had to go inside and calm down. It doesn't sound like much reading about it, but it was really freaky to experience.

 

[IxionIndustries]

Mmkay, apparently, I'm a puss when it comes to creepy things, and here's my proof:

My grandma used to live in these apartment complexes right in the ghetto, so I'm used to loud noises, gunshots, etc. But one night, it starts to rain, and I'm just sitting at the computer, chatting up threads. All of a sudden, I hear this fucking wailing noise, like some woman screaming. It stops, and so do I. Sos I sits back and listens for it again. All through that night I hear those wails. Apparently they are a kind of frog, but that still doesn't make them any less creepy. I call em Balitoads, and in my mind, they eat people's souls:

Spoiler: I even made a picture!

 

[Axzarious]

I dont remember how old I was when this happened, but, I remember when I was a kid, probably in elementery, that I was playin with my lego... Then, one of my stuffed animals fell of my bed. So, I threw it back up, and heard it hit the wall. About 45 seconds later, I turn around again for some reason, and I see my stuffed animal sail over the railing as if thrown and hit the wall. Nobody was hiding up there.


Also, the earliest memory I have could also be considered the creepiest.... I must have been 2 or 3 at the time... im not sure how old... I just remember waking up one day, and having no memory of anything before that. I remember walking downstairs, and I dont even think I reconized my mom. It was.... Odd... and makes me wonder if it will happen again.

 

[Grike]

Creepiest thing that's ever happened to me? I have quite the story, but you must know this first. My house is on a hill, and at the bottom of the hill is a Wetland that's very dark and creepy during the summer.

A few years back, I was staying up late during the summer, and all was quiet. Outside, I hear the creepiest noise I've ever heard, coming straight from the wetland. It sounds kindof like a woman / baby screaming, it was horrible. Later found out what it was, but man, it scared me quite a bit.

The sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLHUxzEoRU

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Creepiest thing that's ever happened to me? I have quite the story, but you must know this first. My house is on a hill, and at the bottom of the hill is a Wetland that's very dark and creepy during the summer.

A few years back, I was staying up late during the summer, and all was quiet. Outside, I hear the creepiest noise I've ever heard, coming straight from the wetland. It sounds kindof like a woman / baby screaming, it was horrible. Later found out what it was, but man, it scared me quite a bit.

The sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLHUxzEoRU

Last year I house, and currently the view from my window is the town cemetery, kinda eery in itself. When I started hearing the screams at night, I didn't sleep a wink.

Turned out it was foxes, but jeez, it was creepy as hell for a while.

 

[Kud]

I had like the worlds worst dream about a year and half ago, I'm not going to tell you what it is because it is to long for me to write and also I have liked in a place with creepy ass people in it.

And it was haunted. Like I saw shit while I was in that house and I have no record of seeing things in the past and my mum and brother also saw them.

 

[Littlee300]

I had like the worlds worst dream about a year and half ago, I'm not going to tell you what it is because it is to long for me to write and also I have liked in a place with creepy ass people in it.

And it was haunted. Like I saw shit while I was in that house and I have no record of seeing things in the past and my mum and brother also saw them.

What kind of things you saw? You need to be more specific and don't pull that "something happened but i wont tell you" crap please

 

[snow]

*snip*

Those were awesome and suprisingly quite creepy at half past midnight. If you have more you should post them. Regarding the last one especially, it's easy to pass stuff off as your imagination or some other rational explanation when you're on your own, but when dogs start acting up it gets me everytime.

duuuuuuuuude. you could SO be a horror writer. those were really well told stories experiences of yours.

Scratch that, this is the freakiest.

Okay, first thing, keep that cane of yours, clearly your grandmother's soul is magical, and that cane will make a great weapon to fight the dark forces of evil that confront you.

Second, where the fuck is Witches Road, because I really want to go some day.

Wow! Thanks guys, it's always a surprise for me when people tell me how messed up my experiences are. It's strange when you can say that stuff like that happened so much in my life that I'm practically desensitized by it.

Which is why I get so much joy out of retelling it for entertainment purposes! ^_^

I'll definitely be posting more of these, I figured a few at a time would work well so that way I'm not stuck writing a wall of text.

I do wish to write for a living, though I feel that if I were to do horror, it would be for a movie instead of a book. Fantasy is more of my goal when it comes to writing.

IxionIdustries, if you're really curious, drop me a PM and I'll let you know where its at... Fair warning though, it's been a drag lately ever since they started rebuilding the house back there.

Ok so one quick story for the road.

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This story might not be as scary or creepy as the the others, but it was weird as hell...

This one involves... Well... Have you ever experienced a deep feeling of emotion, whether it be happiness, sadness, angst, hatred, or fear, for no apparently reason? If so, have you ever mentally pictured a reason as to WHY this sudden feeling of emotion slapped you across the face?

One night, several years ago. My good buddy, the same one that came to my house the day of the basement thumping, and I were over at a friends house who lived in town.

It was very late, but we didn't care, we all hung out on the front porch, bullshitting about stuff that we wouldn't even remember talking about the next day. It was a nice night... A little cloudy, but it was nice and cool, which was much needed for the days were extremely hot.

We were all chatting for about a good 3 hours before I finally get this feeling of dread and fear... I kept this to myself at the moment, because it would look silly to start panicking over nothing... I stayed silent, though I constantly watched up and down the street.

Neither of them caught on that I had stopped contributing to the conversation, which I didn't mind at all, for I had this feeling that if I got distracted from my guard dog-ish ways that something was going to get me.

I couldn't help but feel that at any moment, a man in a brown, scuzzy, dirty robe, who smelled of decay and garbage, would come up the street. I was a bit confused as to why this would freak me out, I just felt like it was one of those symbolic things you see in the movies all the time...

Anywho, the conversation ends, we all say our goodbyes, and my buddy asks me what I thought of this one girl we had recently met. I ignore his question as I get into the car, I still felt pretty strange. He starts the car, heads down the street, and makes an immediate left.

Upon doing so he asks. "Did you just get the feeling of a huge weight being lifted off your shoulders as soon as we turned off the street there?"

My first thought?

"No... Fricken... WAY!!!"

Although I responded quickly. "You too huh?" We had talked about it for a little bit, I explained to him the feeling I got, and to my surprise he was feeling the same way... I decided to call our other friend whom we had just visited... Though my cell phone wouldn't go through.

That freaked me out... I called several times with my phone, but for some reason it wouldn't connect with his phone.. Although as soon as I use my buddy's phone, I get a response right away.

I tell him to lock all the doors and windows and don't answer the door for anyone. He was a bit confused by this, but I explained to him this feeling we both had. (To make us both sound like lunatics of course!)

He goes away for a bit, comes back and tells us that everything is all locked. We go home, pass out... Uneventful story.

That is until a few weeks later...

We were all together in the car one day.. I forget what we were doing or where we were going, but I remember our friend bringing up that night.

He asks us "Remember how you told me about the creepy dirty guy coming up the street?"

My friend and I look at eachother before responding. "Yeah... Why?"

"Well the other day, I was home by myself in the living room watching T.V. when I get a knock on the door. When I went to answer, there was this really smelly guy with dirty clothes and no shoes who asked if he could come in and use the phone because he 'left his medicine in **a city that's about an hour or 2 from here.**"

"Remembering what you guys said, I told him I was house sitting for some one and was not allowed to have people inside the house other than myself, he insisted on coming in, was even getting angry about it, but I turned him away and locked the doors. He just went out onto the street and stood there after that.

My buddy and I gave each other another look of "WTF!?" This man sounded like a drug addict to me.


The man hung out on that street for atleast a week from what I remember.. I ended up seeing him myself.. He was using a cell phone when I saw him... While he didn't have any brown robe or anything like that... He did give me the chills just by looking at him. I never bothered getting to close to see if he did indeed smell or not.

Though I wonder... Was it a premonition that we had? and If so, what would have happened if that man had entered the house? After that week, we never heard of or saw that man again.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

I do remember going into one bookstore. It was really old and had two levels. So went to the top level, while my mum was browsing the lower one.

I'm flipping through some book of anecdotes when I hear my name being called. Naturally, I assume it was my mum. So down the stairs I go, ask my mother if she'd called me. She hadn't. In fact, she was so absorbed by the books, she didn't really care all that much if I existed or not at that point in time.

So... who was it? I still don't know.

Actually I just remembered something.

according to my grandfather (may he rest in peace) the brain replays sounds youve heard before, presumably for no reason.

maybe?

 

[Jfswift]

But for real, I didn't just see it in my peripheral vision, I stared at the goddamn thing for at least 10 seconds before I ran. I could make out a white face with no eyes staring blankly with it's mouth agape at me.

Does this freak you the hell out?

Spoiler

There are many accounts of people being visited by creepy figures not unlike those related in this thread, variously termed Men in Black, Grinning Men or Shadow People. I myself, in the moment between sleep and waking, saw just for a second, two tall, dark, faceless figures standing next to my bed. I blinked and they were gone. Probably dimension-shifting aliens come to study us less advanced beings for their equivalent of a school science project

I've seen them twice now. A dark figure with burning red eyes just watching me from the ceiling once, and then a few months later in the door crack between door and wall. I read though that they're just a hallucination, caused by a sleeping disorder which I sort of have. I'm not convinced those are real. I don't remember with the ceiling one (looked like he was lying back like on the ground but inverted on the ceiling, looking down) but the other was between 1am-5am. I couldn't go back to sleep after that.. I wanted to but I knew i'd probably see it again.

There was one other time when I was a little kid I thought I saw some eyes watching me once (behind old fashioned glasses) but it was so long ago i'm not even sure if I trust my memory.

 

[Chancie]

You guys are all freaking me out. ._. I'm in the basement, it's dark out, and no one's home except for me. I shouldn't be reading these posts, but they're very intriguing.

Anyway, I can't think of one of my own that's super creepy or anything but this is coming from someone that's terrified of ghosts, ghost stories, the idea of ghosts, etc.

I was probably in 4th or 5th grade and no one was home at the time. I was emptying the trash into the garage trash can and my dog came out with me. Usually, he'll sit by me and follow me around while I take care of chores.
This time, he did a lap around the car that was parked in there and he disappeared back into the house, which he never does unless I go inside too. Right as I saw him walk into the house, there was a click and the lights went out in the garage.
I ran back to the door and I thought that maybe the light bulb just burnt out, but I saw the light switch had actually been flipped down to "off."

I definitely didn't finish emptying the trash until my parents got home. xD

 

[ThaBenMan]

when i was a child i got lost in a crowd from my mother and an old man helped me. now, you may say that this is not creepy, and i thought the same until i saw the movie poltergeist 2. the man looked EXACTLY like the evil bloke in the film, i had actually forgot about getting lost until i watched that movie, even my mam was remembered what he looked like and was terrified.

Maybe it was the guy that played him in the movie?

Wow.. yea that would freak me out too. Those books honestly have some creepy sections in them, and books usually don't freak me out like that.

Spoiler

like the first time they travel through the ways, and that wind creature made of dead souls or something is chasing them, getting closer and closer. That whole part made me cringe a bit. Or the city where Mat finds the dagger. Although those parts would be great in a video game.

There actually was an FPS made based on the series. It's pretty old, so it might be kind of crappy, but both parts you mention are in it.

Sadly, I really have nothing to contribute to this thread. But I hope I do you all a service by bumping it!

 

[cerealnmuffin]

I have a few that can attend for the creepiest.

1. One happened when I was working in the bookstore. This guy came up to me for some help finding a book, then he proceeded to tell me that he had recently gotten out of jail. He had headbutted his girlfriend before she dented his truck. He snarled, "No one dents my truck". If that wasn't bad enough, he told me that he was looking for a karma sutra book with a lot of pictures to show his friends in jail.

He also declared that he had made it rain last night while sitting in the graveyard.... I told him that I didn't care much for rain... he said he will keep that in mind and make it not rain as hard next time. If he wasn't crazy enough already, he told me that he turns the color green to help plants grow. I helped him find the book, which he then said 'I have to go back to jail now" I said, "okay have fun".... Then I took an early break and hid in the break room.

2. I've been followed at night and almost assaulted by a guy who tried to drag me into an alley. More on the scary side than just creepy.

3. I had a 40+ year old stalker who would call my work all the time telling me how he knew how to treat girls like me right (ugh chasers), then he started sending me cards. One night, he came in asking if I wanted a ride in his yellow corvette, which I promptly declined, citing that I was already dating someone (luckily my friend was there to play the part). It's not the first time I've been stalked but this time went on for a few months.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Oh ghost stories... I hate these. God damnit I'm all shook up now and was about to go to sleep.

As for mine, it was one night when I was in my basement all by myself and the lights had gone out, a power outage. I kept my cool but when I looked behind me as I went up the stairs, I saw a white ghostly image.

Needless to say I fucking booked it up those stairs. I'm sure there are many other things that have happened to me, but that one freaked me out big time.

Actually, there was one on a Hay-Ride when I was 7 years old. I was sitting on the corner of the hay-ride and something tapped me on the shoulder. I looked back to see what it was and that part of the "amusement" was Out of Order. I was never so scared in all my life.

 

[Daipire]

Did the OP have a testi-pop?