Your spookiest experience?

I have to be completely honest and say that I don't believe in ghosts/spirits/the paranormal...

but your post did make me feel a bit spooked.

Not myself, but my mum claims her house is haunted. I believe her because she's not the sort of person to believe in ghosts! I've heard bangs in her house, but that could be explained by the walls of the house settling into place and heat moving around pipes etc. The only weird thing that's happened to me in the house was my phone springing to life and playing music when I was no where near it- but sure that can be explained! Every single night I stay there I wake up with a shock, lie awake still with fear for some reason for a couple of mins, then fall back asleep. This never happens anywhere else I'm sleeping.

The biggest thing she's had happen to her is she was lying in bed on her side, at one side when she usually sleeps in the middle of the bed. Somebody/something pushed her towards the middle of the bed. She says it was a hand as she felt spread fingers. She wasn't scared just knows someone is trying to keep her safe! I don't ever stay in her house on my own!

Loads. I know that many people think ghosts or spirits is a load of bollocks however I think there is definitely something there.

there are at least three occasions where I have seen something that can't be explained, all of which others witnessed too.

A few myself. I feel like a right tool discussing them on here though as I know the majority will think I'm completely away with the fairies. (Or spirits ?)

That post gave me shivers..so weird!

My Mums house is really weird and I remember so many things happening there that I just couldn't explain.

My OH and I were in bed one night and I was actually telling him creepy stories and I mentioned that me & my friends used to hear whispering and laughing sometimes, and literally at that moment we heard a little girls giggle. Our neighbours didn't have any girls and it was early hours in the morning, I actually let out a little scream i'd got such a fright.

Our old dog Larra used to sit up straight out of a sleep and stare at the same corner of the living room, and a patch of hair on her back would stick up, our new dog Molly looks strange sometimes into the same corner.

My brother stayed over one night and said he was positive something weird was happening, he was beginning to think there was a mouse or something in the room as there was noises beside the bed then he said it was like something flicked his pillow right beside his face...so being the strong man he is he got out of bed in his boxers and ran into my brothers room haha.

I remember my brother and his friend drinking one night and we were sitting at the dining table, his friend put his bottle down and about 2 seconds after it was still it moved a tiny bit to the side but we all saw it and you heard the noise of it moving, we couldn't find any explanation for it.

So many more things along those lines but the weirdest and time I was so frightened was when I had a school friend over and I heard her running quickly. She had ran out and I followed her and seen she was crying, she was so pale and said that she saw a man in the kitchen...described what he looked like, what he was wearing and everything but said she knew he wasn't really there by the look of him, she wouldn't come into the house from that day and I didn't want her to if i'm honest..it scared me a lot.

Some people don't believe in things like that and will think i'm talking rubbish but I honestly believe there's something in her house, I don't know what i'd call it and I've never seen any what I would class as ghosts. I get jumpy and things if certain things happen, but i'm not scared of it anymore whatever it is.

Do tell! I love these stories and don't think anyones away with the fairies for it ?

O-kaaay...

When I was little I saw a ginger Irish man in the corner of my room talking. My mum couldn't see him.

Have had lots of things disappear when I know full well they were there, then they'll be back in that exact place.

Often hear conversations but no-one is around (in human form anyway)

Have you read about astral travel? Yeah that. Or very very vivid dreams...

ETA my mum, nan and great nanna have had similar experiences so I really do think there is *something* going on

Wow, the man talking would freak me out..were you frightened when he was talking or just aware of him being there but not bothered about it?

I had to google the astral travel...that sounds scary..i want to know more but have a feeling I wouldn't sleep tonight hearing these stories haha!

My parents house is haunted. Frequently you will see a man stood in the kitchen doorway. Lots of people have seen him but I've never been scared there. He us a nice man even though I have no way of knowing that.

my sisters old house in Cornwall dated from 1600's. The basement which is where her rooms where (was a guest house) felt horrible. There was always an oppressive feel down there. The worst was the baby moniter which you could hear people talking on. Not a surprise as I know the radio signals can get crossed but my Neice would talk to the voices and they would talk back. I never went down there on my own if I could help it.

I also saw a ghost when I was 8 or 9 in Yorkshire in a hotel. My mum saw it too.

like I say many people will think it bollocks I know but I know what I saw.

Nah he was just a jolly Irish man having a chat!

I wouldn't be down that basement : \

The night before my step Dad died, C (2.5 yrs old at the time) slept on the sofa, as he was adamant that he couldn't stay in his bedroom. My Step Dad died at around 8am the next morning, and half an hour later, my Mum phoned to tell me. At the exact moment I answered the phone, C let out an ear piercing scream, and started crying hysterically for about 10 seconds. I ran downstairs, just as he was waving at the sofa opposite him, saying "bye bye Grandad". My Step Dad always sat in the same spot on the sofa, the spot where C was waving.

Mini - Know what you mean, I don't care that people think i'm a weirdo..you just know when it's yourself that's experienced it!

Missus S - Well that doesn't sound too bad haha, nice jolly irish man!

ER - The hair actually stood up on the back of my neck reading that!

The worst type of person to live with in a haunted house is one who sleep walks. Yes dear brother, that's you! Nearly sh!t myself the first time it happened!

I've never seen or spoken to a ghost but I fully believe my best friend and my gran have been to visit me on more than one occasion.

I was bridesmaid at my best friends wedding, she walked up the aisle to Shania Twain "Still the One". Sadly a few years later she died of Leukemia. When I fell pregnant with my eldest child I decided whether he was a boy or a girl the baby would be called Sam as that what my friend always called her bump when she was pregnant because she didn't know what she was having. Samuel was born by emergency c-section, at precisely the moment he was delivered Shania Twain started playing on the radio in the theatre. Coincidence maybe......

10 years after my friend's death I went for a job interview to work for the same company we had both worked for when we met. The radio was playing as I walked through the office to the interview room. Shania was on again. I got the job.

Four weeks before the birth of my 3rd child my Gran, who had been very ill for a long time and was in hospital took a turn for the worse. We were told she would be gone within 24 hours. I'd seen her a few weeks earlier and I knew instinctively then that it was the last time I would see her (she lived over 400 miles away) but she assured me she couldn't wait to see the new baby and she'd be down to see him at the hospital. I just smiled and agreed as she didn't often make much sense or understand what was going on. Even if her health improved, she would never have made the journey. 24 hours came and went and my Gran held on, 3 weeks passed and she was still with us. My mum made the journey from Scotland to care for my older children while I was in hospital having the baby. We were all nervous knowing that my mum was now 400 miles away from her mother should anything happen. Moments after my mum came into my house we got the call to say my Gran had slipped into a coma. They were stopping all her medication and just up-ing her morphine dosage. That night my mum and I both woke up at the same time (in different houses as she was staying at the flat my dad rents) and felt as if someone was with us, we both described giving the same sigh of relief and feeling the strangest feeling of calm. I phoned my mum first thing in the morning expecting there to have been a call during the night but no, my Gran was still holding on.

I went to hospital the next day for my c-section. Jacob was born at 1052. The time on my Gran was pronounced dead was 1051. I was in theatre so had no way of knowing this and, in fact, no one told me until 6pm that evening, but I felt her standing beside me the whole time and turned to my OH as he was handed the baby and told him in my drugged up state to "let my Gran hold the baby before she goes".

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Icklefee, you've got me in tears.

I used to see a young girl with long hair standing in my room. Sometimes she was standing at one end of the room, other times she'd be standing right beside the bed

I used to frequently see people around the house.

And just yesterday someone sighed behind me when I was on my own in the loo. Got the flight of my life.

Missus S, I can relate to all your experiences. I always felt silly telling people what I'd seen.

I scared H when I told him for the first time. Creeped him out even more when I saw someone while he was there.

And I've had things go missing when I knew where they were. I lost my make up remover that always sat on my chest of drawers. Searched high and low for it, said to the room at large to put it back as I needed it and waked out the room for 10 seconds and came back in and nearly knocked it onto the floor as it was perched on the corner of the unit.

Pandora, I find this incredibly spooky that you said that because I felt the same when I was a child. I remember having very strong feelings that I had successfully jumped/flown from the top of my stairs to the bottom. I actually remember asking my mum if she had seen me do it, and she was really confused and telling me I must have been dreaming but I still swear it happened!!! Creepy!!!

You had it too?!?? It's so weird.........

I've told this before, but our floorboards upstairs are loose so anyone walking across them makes a noise. When H has been working late, and I've been watching TV downstairs I have heard someone or something walk about upstairs. It wasn't our dogs as both were with me, in my line of sight all the time and H was still in his office at work.

I do recall waking up as a child and seeing a man in my room, dressed in old-fashioned clothing.

Our 'spare' room (currently filled with crap) always gives me the creeps - it used to be my Nan & Granddad's bedroom and you access the 'side' loft through the room. I will not go into that room in the dark, and despite it being much bigger than our room, I suggested to H that we turn the big room into a guest room for his sister when she visits, there is no way I could sleep in there.

Things go missing in our house, H never tidies up so it's not him. They turn up in a totally random place - like my new leather gloves in what is now our airing cupboard. It use to be where Nan kept 'outdoor things' such as coats, gloves, hats etc.

I regret reading this thread while home alone! I'm scared to get out of bed for a shower...

I think I was aged between 6-8, so a bit older than you.

Despite not believing in the afterlife or ghosts, I love reading about these things and am fascinated by the supernatural. My H swears he saw a ghost. It was a man in white standing next to him and his best friend saw it too.

My dad says he has seen loads of ghosts, especially when he was working in Thailand. He would see men in the room that would suddenly vanish. I wonder if he was on drugs....

Apparently my Nan used to have dreams about things that would then happen. E.g. She dreamt about a car crash in the river and as she cycled to work the next day, a man drove his car into the river.

I have VERY vivid dreams and although I don't read anything into them, I can remember them for years afterwards. The only one that particularly stands out was from when I was about 7 or 8. I dreamt I was staying the night at my paternal Nans house (the one mentioned above) even though she had died a few years earlier. I was in bed and through the crack in the door I could see a light. It just got brighter and brighter until I was so scared I ran down the stairs. As I ran out of the bedroom, i quickly turned my head and there was just a huge mass of light coming from the spare room. i knew it was to be feared in my dream which is odd as when you hear of these things, usually the 'light" is a comfort. I got to the living room and my mum was there. I can even tell you what clothes my mum was wearing in the dream (maroon tight tshirt and tight dark blue jeans). My maternal Nan was there too. That was it, end of dream but I find it weird that I can still remember it despite me dreaming it about 27/28 years ago! There are loads more too but this is the most detailed one and the one that still makes me feel scared.

I used to 'float' down the stairs too! I would then walk into the living room and speak to mum and dad, then 'float' back up to bed. I did a lot of sleepwalking/talking when I was younger so my parents would always put it down to that, but I vividly remember flying down the stairs! So weird that there are others who did the exact same

Maybe we all have something in common from our childhoods?! Apart from flying, obviously.

awww sorry!!! Both my experiences, if that's what they are, have been of enormous comfort to me.

On a side note, littlest baby who was born the day my Gran died was always a very clingy baby. Until he was around 18 months old the only people he would go to were myself, OH or my best friend. He screamed blue murder if anyone else tried to pick him up. He met my Grandad for the first time when he was 14 months old and toddled straight over to him with his arms up for a cuddle.

That's so strange. I've never told anyone before as it sounds bonkers. But maybe it is a well known phenomenon amongst youngsters? I think I was around 6/7ish but not sure. I had never been on a plane before or rollercoasters or anything that would link to the 'flying' feeling and definitely never read anything about aftelife, astral projection, etc at that age. Maybe someone more sciencey would be able to explain it (though I reckon they prob won't come near this thread!) I do remember quiet often feeling scared at other times on those stairs, like I was being watched whichever direction I was going in, but maybe that's not unusual as a child.

That happened at our old Victorian terraced house. My mum told me (years after we moved) that they bought the house from a lady who kept crucifixes all over the place and she was adamant that she was leaving them there and would get new ones for her new house. My dad, being an atheist, wasn't comfortable with them and they took them down. After that weird things happened, seperate from my crib rocking thing, so they actually bought holy water to sprinkle around (I can't believe my dad would agree to this lightly so it must have been bad.)

My mum said she always had a good vibe in my little room but a deep opressive feeling elsewhere. Apparently they used to experience odd things if ever one of them went into the built in wardrobe in their bedroom - which was actually placed over the spooky stairs now I think about it. Like they would take a towel out and something would vanish from the house, or they'd put something in there to store and hear weird noises from inside that night. I'm not really sure if something major happened because they never openly said to me. My dad would never tell me as I was too young I suppose, and now if I ask my mum has always brushed it off and refuses to talk about it as she gets very easily scared.

I'm frightened now - wish I wasn't off work sick and home alone!

I find this thread so interesting, I'm a scientist but have experienced many things over the years which i cannot explain at all, most happened when I was 8-14. My other half has also had experiences that he cant explain, although he just says he must have made them up as they happened when he was a child (even though i know he didn't!). Its nice knowing lots of us have had experiences, makes me feel less bokers!

If you Google that floating down the stairs thing, it seems to be really common.

Ah I totally forgot I have seen something weird, I don't even know if I believe it myself hence why I forget about it. When I was younger (12 ish) I was walking our dogs and up ahead I saw a man in shooting clothes and a gun. It's an area where there are a lot of shoots so nothing that unusual. I wasn't close enough to make out his face etc. He then vanished infront of my eyes, rather than turn or walk away. I didn't think much of it and just though I'd not seem him walk away. I kept walking but I remember looking into the bushes either side of where he'd been standing expecting to see him there, and didn't. He was wearing the exact type of clothes my dad would have worn shooting, same build etc. But as I said I couldn't see his face. I wasn't scared at all at the time, now I'd be terrified and leg it in the opposite direction! All sorts of things have gone through my head over the years, if it was my dad did he appear like that to 1. Check I was looking after his dogs (!) or 2. think it would be less scary than if he'd come to the house? At the time I told my mum and I think she just thought the same as me, I'd just not seen the man (presumed real) walking away. She'd not entertain such nonsense (not now she's being haunted herself!).