So....what happened next? How/did you eventually get the fish down?I'm guessing the fish was deadAssuming this is real
I have trouble believing this one for some reason...
So....what happened next? How/did you eventually get the fish down?I'm guessing the fish was deadAssuming this is real
It was around '05-'06. I was in middle school and, for some reason, wore wristbands during those two years. Maybe because all my friends did but I never cared for them before or after and this is one of the reasons why. Before I start, here's a bit of backstory; when my brother and I were younger, my dad would scare us all the time. Didn't matter where or when. Every now and then he'd sneak in our room and toss something at us and such. He said he did it as a way for us to be aware and be ready for anything. I think he just wanted to scare the shit out of us just because.
Now, onto that night. I had a routine I'd do before I went to bed and one of the things was making sure my wristbands were on the table next to my backpack and ready for the morning. About a year or two before, my dad got a job at the airport and would leave the house around 4 in the morning. Late that night, I felt something hit my face. I immediately get up and something hits me again. I look around and see my wristbands on the floor next to me and when I look up into the hallway, and thanks to the small bit of light from our neighbors' house that came through our window, I see a dark silhouette of a man. He's just standing there and I could hear breathing but I couldn't see any details.
I think the man is my dad so I make some comments about him not being good at scaring me anymore. Nothing. So I keep going. Still nothing. I finally just say "okay dad, I give up. You got me" and then the silhouette raises its arm and begins to move towards me slowly. I start to freak out and just then my mom opens her door (my parent's room was across from ours) and reaches to turn on the hall light. I then saw the dark silhouette poof away and continue to freak out. I tell her what happened and she said my dad went to my grandma's house (his brother lived there to take care of her) since he had the night off and left hours ago when I was brushing my teeth. I called him and we talked about what could have happened. I went out to the living room and noticed my backpack was pulled a little ways on the floor.
Nothing like that happened again but it freaked me out for a few nights. If I didn't already believe in ghosts, that would do a a pretty decent job at convincing me.
I once (and only once) had a premonition about a goal being scored at the 2002 World Cup that was so strong and so vivid I bet on it and won £1500. It happened exactly as i described it beforehand: match time, positions, players involved, nature of the goal.
Very spooky. Profitable, but spooky.
Ok, so here's the basic layout of my house when I was a kid:
It was probably about 10:30 at night, and the only people in the house were me and my parents. So I was laying there because I couldn't sleep, just staring in the hallway. My parents were asleep already in their room. We had the nightlight on that night, because I was pretty young and the house was dark, so it's easier to see where i'm going if I need to use the bathroom (the nightlight it self casts a pretty strong light, I could see the hallway and into my parents room pretty clearly). Well, as I was laying there, something in the bathroom (I guess right outside the door) steps/appears in front of the light and casts a shadow into the hallway for a good couple seconds, and then just disappeared. Basically, it was blocking the nightlight from shining in the hallway. It scared the shit out of me and I think it took me a good couple hours, laying there frozen in fear, before I finally fell asleep. Still not sure to this day who or what stepped in front of the light.
Ok, so here's the basic layout of my house when I was a kid:
It was probably about 10:30 at night, and the only people in the house were me and my parents. So I was laying there because I couldn't sleep, just staring in the hallway. My parents were asleep already in their room. We had the nightlight on that night, because I was pretty young and the house was dark, so it's easier to see where i'm going if I need to use the bathroom (the nightlight it self casts a pretty strong light, I could see the hallway and into my parents room pretty clearly). Well, as I was laying there, something in the bathroom (I guess right outside the door) steps/appears in front of the light and casts a shadow into the hallway for a good couple seconds, and then just disappeared. Basically, it was blocking the nightlight from shining in the hallway. It scared the shit out of me and I think it took me a good couple hours, laying there frozen in fear, before I finally fell asleep. Still not sure to this day who or what stepped in front of the light.
Town house. Wasn't too old. Didn't see one rat in or around the house the 3 years I lived there (it was in Alaska). The light was about a foot off the counter anyways, no way a rat that small could have basically blocked the entire door.Was it an old house? If so, a rat or mouse is the most logical explanation. That would scare the shit out of me too.
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This felt spooky as hell...
When I was a kid we were holidaying in Bora Bora and took a boat out to a diving reef/underwater sandbar type snorkelling adventure, you duck dive about 10-15 feet down to the floor seeing starfish etc. The sort you take a boat out for 30 mins off shore. Anyhow after some time dad and I are taking a rest just floating, mouth pieces out and having a quick chat...drifting without realising because we're way out in the ocean.
Finally we decide to put our mouth pieces back in and go back to snorkelling only to be over complete blackness! I mean zero, just total black underfoot. It felt like you were being sucked underwater with no escape and simultaneously feeling like something was rising up at you. I have never swam so fast back to a boat.
Something like this but we were up at the surface and unaware of drifting off the sandbar over the deep black:
Not a spooky story as such but I certainly felt something otherworldly down there. Still gives me chills thinking about it to this day.
It was around '05-'06. I was in middle school and, for some reason, wore wristbands during those two years. Maybe because all my friends did but I never cared for them before or after and this is one of the reasons why. Before I start, here's a bit of backstory; when my brother and I were younger, my dad would scare us all the time. Didn't matter where or when. Every now and then he'd sneak in our room and toss something at us and such. He said he did it as a way for us to be aware and be ready for anything. I think he just wanted to scare the shit out of us just because.
Now, onto that night. I had a routine I'd do before I went to bed and one of the things was making sure my wristbands were on the table next to my backpack and ready for the morning. About a year or two before, my dad got a job at the airport and would leave the house around 4 in the morning. Late that night, I felt something hit my face. I immediately get up and something hits me again. I look around and see my wristbands on the floor next to me and when I look up into the hallway, and thanks to the small bit of light from our neighbors' house that came through our window, I see a dark silhouette of a man. He's just standing there and I could hear breathing but I couldn't see any details.
I think the man is my dad so I make some comments about him not being good at scaring me anymore. Nothing. So I keep going. Still nothing. I finally just say "okay dad, I give up. You got me" and then the silhouette raises its arm and begins to move towards me slowly. I start to freak out and just then my mom opens her door (my parent's room was across from ours) and reaches to turn on the hall light. I then saw the dark silhouette poof away and continue to freak out. I tell her what happened and she said my dad went to my grandma's house (his brother lived there to take care of her) since he had the night off and left hours ago when I was brushing my teeth. I called him and we talked about what could have happened. I went out to the living room and noticed my backpack was pulled a little ways on the floor.
Nothing like that happened again but it freaked me out for a few nights. If I didn't already believe in ghosts, that would do a a pretty decent job at convincing me.
I always try to look at the night sky, I have seen weird things like you described. Once was a light coming up from the city horizon going up up up, then it stopped and hovered above the city for a few minutes without moving, then it skyrocketed straight up into the sky an disappeared, there were no clouds.I'm not sure if it's really spooky but it's something I've always tried to look for an answer to and never found.
Back in middle school I was waiting at the bus stop. It was still pretty dark out since it was January and 5 something in the morning (yay first stop on the bus route). The two other kids who had the same bus stop lived much closer to it, and were leaving their house to walk over. I waved to them , then looked a little further up into the sky like I still kind of do. I saw a shooting star streak down. I was like "neat!" cause I'd never seen one before. But then my eyes went wide when the shooting star proceeded to curve back up into the sky, like a cross between a checkmark and a u, then disappear. All of this happened in 3-4 seconds.
It was too wide of a curve to be from "hitting" something and ricocheting back up (and there was really nothing there to hit, clear winter sky and it did not fall far enough to hit anything near the ground), and because the other two kids had their backs to it they didn't see it.
Still have no clue what it could have been,
I also have a lot of stuff with my first apartment when I was 19, and nightly "visits" from shadow people. That shit was terrifying.
I still have them to this day, I am now 30 and they arent nearly as scary but now and then I have the occasional one that jumps out and surprises me. PLenty more stories of SP if anyone cares to hear them.
Another time me and my friends saw what looked like a burning plane falling from the sky but it disapeared before it got too low.
About once or twice a year, I'll wake up with a giagantic welt or scabbed-over wound that spans the length of my left forearm. There's never been any trace of blood or stain on my sheets. Just a long freaking scar. No clue what's going on.
well i don't label this as spooky. i just think it's kinda neat.
in 1998 my grandfather died of throat cancer. he had been diagnosed with it in 1994 and thanks to treatment i think the time between then and his death he managed to eke out a couple bonus years. as a kid, i would always see him messing with this cuckoo clock in the tv room. the clock itself would never run and he was always standing next to it and tinkering with it, checking the pendulums, winding the hour and minute hands. the clock didn't work. everyone in the family knew it didn't work. he messed around with it so much i started to associate it with him, like you might somebody's car. grandpa and the clock.
when he was in hospice care, his bed was put in the tv room. he was in there for about six weeks, almost always in bed before his final sleep. the days i'd visit, he would be messing with that clock still, pulling on the chains and messing with the weights. he died around noon on a tuesday, and my dad took me and my sister out of school. his body was still there and we were able to see him. now that i think about it, that's something you believe might be fairly traumatizing and maybe it was. i remember seeing my dead grandmother just two years ago in the same room under the same conditions, except i arrived moments after she died and forehead was still warm. regardless, i didn't really see either one of them as dead or objects. they were my grandparents. i had been talking with them just days prior. so it didn't really feel like they were gone.
my grandfather's body was finally removed from the house at around 6pm, well after it was already dark. it was a very long day and it was especially weird that at that moment to feel his absence for the first time. after a lot of emotional moments with my grandma, mom, and other family, i for some reason started wandering about the house on my own. i think i was just bored. or maybe in shock. i went over to the clock and pushed the pendulum once. to my surprise, the pendulum didn't slow to a halt after a few swings back and forth. it kept going, and the clock works to this day.
now i'm not a religious man, but i also won't discount the possibility that anything is possible. after this happened, which also surprised everyone else in the house that day, my mom revealed she had had a conversation with her dad as his health really started to decline, and she wanted him to give us a sign that he got to heaven safely when he finally passed on.
there could be a rational explanation behind this, and maybe there is, but there's no way of reaching back into history and finding the answer. the possibility of something extraordinary happening gives me a small degree of comfort.
You've already posted this before, right ? Maybe in the Halloween thread ?
I remember your story.
tell these stories!
Im kind of burnt out on sleep paralysis stories but yours were pretty creepy! I've also heard something talking in tongues and saw some gnarly shit . Just with anything else you can see the "symptoms" and maybe help yourself out. A lot of the time i had it i would be paranoid as shit before i slept, things like that. Also, i dont sleep on my back anymore because it would only happen when i sleep on my back(and because i snore). I read somewhere that sleep paralysis is a good way to have an out of body experience. Can anyone confirm this?
omg maybe you saw something like i did! I told the story before on here but what i saw looked like a fireball in the sky. the weird thing was it was falling to the ground super slowly and you can see flames on it. it was just falling really slow, that's just what made it extra weird. i live in a big city and i tried looking on the news for some coverage but it seems no one else saw it except for me and my friend.
I also saw a ufo one night when all the power went out. i was bored so i decided to watch the dudes try and fix things and when i was looking at the sky i saw a light that looked like a star but a lttle dimmer. it was moving one way, stopped and then started moving the other way. then it started getting dimmer and dimmer like it was moving higher up.
I was hit on by a decent looking girl once.
I bet that joke was made already, I apologize
It looked like a something was on fire right?
Falling really slowly and then disappearing. I live in a big city too and there was no report on it either, me and two friends just saw it falling like wtf is that?
And what could possibly explain a light moving in directions that not even the most agile of aircraft could manuever? Only to go fly up into space?
This shit seems more frequent than it should.
So I grew up with a thing called Sleep Paralysis, I am sure most have heard of it by now. You wake up and for some reason its like the opposite of sleep walking, instead of your body acting out your dreams you wake up and are still in a sleep state unable to move.
So most people thats it, the wake up can't move and eventually they pop out of it. Still scary.. but then theres the type I have. The kind where you wake up and can't move and you notice someone standing in the room just outside of your vision in the dark. Hallucinations so real they scare the fuck out of you.
So I will start by telling my very first two episodes of sleep paralysis..
It started when I was about 9, I lived in a double wide and my bed was just in a spot that if my bedroom door was open I could see down the hall into the living room and past that into the kitchen. So one night I get up due to being thirsty, get a glass of water and then head back to bed leaving a few lights on in the process. I lay down and get comfortable an slowly start to fall back asleep... but then I notice something. A moving light just outside the view of the hallway in the living room. The light moves to the hallway and it is blinding at first but then fades to reveal a man, a man completely engulfed in flames. He slowly walks down the hall fire just jetting off his skin and hes looking right at me. As he walks slowly there is this weird chanting.. like some foreign language or someone speaking tongues.. but its echoing.
Now I grew up in a pretty religious family, my dad would talk of demons and such, even once telling me that if I am ever attacked by one to cry out the name of Jesus. Well.. I tried that, but unfortunately being in a sleep paralysis state the most I could get out of my gritted teeth was gggeeeesssoooossss. Which didnt seem to help. The figure moved into my room and then stood over me speaking still in a weird chanting language. He reached down to touch me and.. poof! gone. I fell out of bed and ran my scared ass to mommy and daddies room.
So strange thing.. that was it. I never saw this figure again and I could never really explain what happened but I know to me it was real as day. So yeah that was pretty much it, didnt see like that again or have sleep paralysis for a good 4 years.. then well it happened again.
This time was even a bit more weird. So it started I was at a friends house staying the night, we had planned on going to Las Vegas in the morning to go to the mall and shop for school stuff and hopefully go to the arcade. However I woke up at 5 am and for some odd reason felt like I should not go, that I should go home now. I woke up my friend and told him I needed to head home. He asked why and I really didnt have an answer but that I wouldn't be going to Las Vegas today with his family. He said whatever and I grabbed my stuff. I walked home which was a few blocks from his place, when I got there no one was home. Turns out my father and sisters stayed at my grandmothers outside of town for the night and my mother at the time was a ambulance driver so she worked 24 hour shifts. She wouldn't be home till 8am, it was now 6.
So I just decided Id go lay down and try and get some more sleep. I got on my top bunk, which now was in a different spot in the room where I could not look down the hall. As I dozed off I all a sudden heard the front door slam. My first reaction was oh my mom is home, then I thought wait its too early. Then I heard steps walking down the hallway. Now in this house I could always hear peoples steps and most of the time I could always figure out who it was based on weight and the speed of the steps. So as I listened to these steps a deep fear came over me. These were unfamiliar steps, to light to be my father and to heavy to be my sisters or mom.. my hairs stood up on the back of my neck and I began to feel adrenaline pump through my body making my skin tingle. I tried to move but I was frozen, stuck there as someone made their way to my room. So in total fear and no options of escape.. I just shut my eyes. The steps stopped and there was just silence. I waited, hoping and moment now I would pop out of this nightmare and everything would be ok. Time passed enough that I figured it was over, so I opened my eyes. Well it wasn't over, the damned guy was just fucking standing there at my door way staring at me, flames just flying off him and soon as we made eye contact he rushed at me yelling crazy nonsense in some freaky language. He came right up to the side of the bed and stared me right in the eyes, and thats when I noticed.. he had no eyes his skull appeared to be hollow and you could see the flames inside. That was the last thing I remember before I started hyperventilating and eventually blacking out.
I woke up 2 hours later, once again to the door slamming shut, this time however it was my mom home from work. I layed there in bed though struck with fear, to scared to move. When I did manage to move it felt as if my body had run around the blocks 5 times and then just fell down. I was sore as hell. I tried to tell her what had happened but she was busy and just seemed to think I had a bad nightmare.
So after that.. I started having these episodes all the time, at least a few times a month. Always when I least expected them. However the man on fire, I never saw him again ever. After him it was more obvious scary things like shadow people and ghostly figures all of which seem to have their own personalities and such. I had these throughout my childhood and they really didnt calm down till I was 17, when I finally found out what was actually going on, that it was some strange sleep disorder. Up till then I almost thought I was actually demon possessed and they were feeding off my soul or something.
I still have them to this day, I am now 30 and they arent nearly as scary but now and then I have the occasional one that jumps out and surprises me. PLenty more stories of SP if anyone cares to hear them.
tell these stories!
Im kind of burnt out on sleep paralysis stories but yours were pretty creepy! I've also heard something talking in tongues and saw some gnarly shit . Just with anything else you can see the "symptoms" and maybe help yourself out. A lot of the time i had it i would be paranoid as shit before i slept, things like that. Also, i dont sleep on my back anymore because it would only happen when i sleep on my back(and because i snore). I read somewhere that sleep paralysis is a good way to have an out of body experience. Can anyone confirm this?
I haven't had sleep paralysis that I can remember, but IIRC during it you're fully awake in terms of consciousness/awareness/whatever despite continuing to hallucinate and be immobile.I figured I must have been dreaming, sleep paralysis, etc, etc, but I know I was awake, and was not just in the fog of half awake/sleep. I was wide awake each time.