Scary stuff

Not sure why I'm choosing to recount this tale from about 20-odd years ago, but anyway.

We used to have this mad collie cross called Rusty who was completely fearless.

One night, his hair stood on end and he battered himself against the door of the living room, trying to get out.

Proper petrified.

A few minutes later, there was a crash upstairs - in the opposite direction from the one Rusty had taken.

Me and my dad went to investigate, and a hand clock, which had been on the wall, had fallen off.

I picked it up - no damage done - glass still intact and clock face still completely sealed.

I then realised the minute hand was missing.

It was sitting on the carpet - outside the glass frame, which was a sealed-for-life affair that couldn't be opened.

Spooky or what?

Rusty took ages to calm down.

Anyone else got any scary stories?

Scary!

I've got a few spooky stories, but not many involving the dogs. Going to bed now, but I'll put a couple on here tomorrow!

It's not really a "scary" story, but here goes. My mum and dad used to have a German Shepherd named Cougar (he died when I was like two, so quite a while back). My dad and my uncle used to work in this old house, I think they were painting it or something, I don't even know, but anyway, they'd sleep there sometimes and the dog would come with them, and there was one room he'd never go in. I mean, he'd freak out, start whimpering, barking, even growling at my dad and uncle if they tried to make him go in. There was also another room, the room they slept in, where Cougar would just stand there all night looking around the room. Wouldn't sleep, he'd be really alert, let out little growls for no reason, etc.

But he was a crazy dog, he even almost managed to blow up the house one time so who knows?

Ooooooooooo I love these kind of storys, dont have any of my own but really enjoy reading others. That first one made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, spooky

Bandit always used to lay right behind me when I was cooking - sometimes I wouldn't hear him & would damn near go a over t when I turned around. After Bandit died, we often used to 'smell' him around the house (you know, that wet dog smell!), but on the day that would have been his first birthday after he died I was cooking & feeling kinda sad, missing him etc. As I turned around to pick something up, out of the corner of my eye I saw a dark mass on the floor right behind me. It was definitely Bandit sized & shaped, but when I looked properly there was nothing there. Wishful thinking? maybe, who knows.

Also, I used to do a bit of writing. I was working on a fictional biography of Mary Kelly (Jack the Ripper's last victim) and was typing away at the computer. The computer at the time was in the corner of the room, right by the front window. There was nobody else in the house (oh was on late shift) and it was about 11pm-ish. As I typed I heard a woman with an Irish accent say "Caryll". That was it, just my name. I jumped & looked around - nobody there; I looked out of the window but again, nobody there although I swore the voice was in the room. The same thing happened twice more. There was definitely nobody in the house & nobody outside.

I never finished that biography.

Oh more.................please Love spooky stories.

Caryll, similarly to your first story, when my old dog Zac died, I used to often hear the sound of him walking on the wooden floor even when the house was empty. Probably wishful thinking

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*Luckily it was a false alarm

Anybody ever been to Derby Gaol? It's an old jail used way back - 2 or 3 hundred years ago, maybe more. Anyway, it's supposed to be haunted. You can go in & look round & they let you go into the cells while they tell you about the life they'd have had.

I walked into one of them with my oh, 2 kids & the guide & the guide started to tell us about how the cells were unisex, no place to go to the toilet, no water etc. It was actually very interesting until I suddenlt got a terrible headache & felt that I had to get out of that room at all costs immediately! the second I left the room, my headache & claustrophobia disappeared. I just felt very shaky. I didn't say anything to anyone, just walked back into the cell. As soon as I did, the headache & claustrophobia came back straight away & I definitely heard a woman scream. Nobody else did.

When I left the cell again the guide followed me & asked me if I was alright. I told him what I'd felt & he said "Oh, that. Yes, a few people feel that" and carried on as though nothing had happened!

Caryll, that is spooky. And scary.

I have to admit I've seen and witnessed some strange phenomenon which couldn't be explained.

I have loads of these tales - mostly minor things, but they're freaky.

Years back, I owned an imported Subaru Impreza (ST5 for those car buffs), which had been to the tuners and was nuts-quick.

One day, I was giving it a bit of welly when this "message" came into my head - can't say it was a voice, or a thought in the usual sense.

It simply said: "Slow down, wheel bearing is going to collapse".

So, I did. To a crawl.

About half a mile later, the wheel bearing went.

There was no discernable vibration or noise prior to that "message".

Another time, when I was in college, we were all in my mate's mark II Escort (showing my age now), when a similar "message" came that there was a tractor around the corner, with a lowered spike, about to pull out of a gate.

I yelled at him to slow down, which he did and, right enough, as he trickled round the corner - a tractor with a lowered spike pulled out of a gate.

As all the hedges were overgrown, and we were on a flat road with no elevation, I couldn't have spotted this out of the corner of my eye.

Lol, feels daft relating them, but they're true.

Spooky!

I now have to try and go to sleep with all these storys in my head Should have some interesting dreams tonight anyway.

I am loving reading these it's great.

Crazy Caryll

Here's my spookiest one, though I can't say yet if it's true - I know my date of death to come.

Dave wrote:Crazy Caryll

Well, I never said I was sane, did I?

Working dog wrote:Here's my spookiest one, though I can't say yet if it's true - I know my date of death to come.

Now that one I wouldn't want to know...how did you come by that?

By arithmetic progression, Caryll - a type of mathematical "summing up" if you like.
Lots of mathematically-minded people have managed it - the famous De Moivre (whose theorem haunts Further A level maths students to this day ) managed it perfectly.
I think Cardan/Cardano was another.

I have to admit that I'm sceptical - but even so, I wouldn't try & work it out. What comes, comes. I'll wait in blissful ignorance.

Does anyone else believe in the idea that dogs sense emotion? Personally, I believe they do, I think all animals have that extra sense, even people, but cos we're so used to logic and communication, most of us have pretty much lost it. Anyway, I think that those premonitions people have and the messages that Working Dog mentioned are forms of that. I don't think it's a big stretch to think that people, and animals, are capable of sensing when something is gonna go wrong. Sometimes you just get that feeling because you've picked up on something without even knowing what you've picked up on. I reckon you see it in dogs quite a bit, they'll react a split-second before something happens sometimes.

ANattyRat wrote:Does anyone else believe in the idea that dogs sense emotion? Personally, I believe they do, I think all animals have that extra sense, even people, but cos we're so used to logic and communication, most of us have pretty much lost it. Anyway, I think that those premonitions people have and the messages that Working Dog mentioned are forms of that. I don't think it's a big stretch to think that people, and animals, are capable of sensing when something is gonna go wrong. Sometimes you just get that feeling because you've picked up on something without even knowing what you've picked up on. I reckon you see it in dogs quite a bit, they'll react a split-second before something happens sometimes.

I would say that there certainly seems to be evidence to back that up, but probably not something that can be proven. They certainly are much more in-tune than we often think. You could very well be correct.

Working dog wrote:Here's my spookiest one, though I can't say yet if it's true - I know my date of death to come.

From your last two stories, you clearly have a guardian angel. Is your D date far in the future, or not so much? Hopefully your Guardian angel will be there on that too.

I know some people won't want to work it out, but how do you? I would definitely want to know so I could take extra precautions that day. Especially if it's close, because I have absolutely no intention of leaving my kids until they are old and grey and don't need me anymore.

ooo i like spooky stories


Heres mine ..... My grandparents house had a eerie feeling about it, and as a kid i hated going upstairs to use the toilet, upstairs scared the crap out of me as a kid and i have no idea why.
But my Dad who was brought up in the house said he was the same as a kid about upstairs.
He did tell me one story and that was one night him and his brother were in the kitchen having a midnight snack ( as teenagers do ) his parents were fast asleep upstairs, and there was no one else in the house, when they both heard as clear as daylight someone run up the stairs. They both ran to see who it was only to see nothing, they checked on their parents whos bedroom door was shut and were still fast asleep. The house was detached so it could'nt of been that the walls were thin and it was next door they heard running up the stairs.
My Grandparents use to say werid things happened, but they got use to it and just ignored them.
Once they pasted away the house was put on the market, but the strange thing is noone lives in the house for long as the place is constantly being resold

I would like to know how to work it out. Not for me for some family members. Would like to know if I have to put up with them much longer

Ok this is going to make me sound even more werid than normal lol. I haven't had any for about 8 years now. When asleep I have had outer body experiences. No idea why and TBH I don't like it one bit. When I was a kid I used to think they were dreams. I float up and see myself lying in the bed but stop myself from going anywhere else and concentrate fully on getting back to my body. About 15 years ago I realised they weren't dreams when I noticed a spider walking across my bedroom floor onto my sock. I come back to my body and jumped up. Lifted my sock and the spider ran off

A few of you will know that i go on ghost hunts.Ive had several experiances,the best was my grandad comming through and telling me that he is always protecting me.

Ive had my arms lifted in the past,been pushed over,ive asked for a torch to be turned on and off on command and it has.Ive heard screams,seen lights moving around,i often see shadow people as well.

I always felt something at my friends old house before she moved.I asked her one day if anything strange ever happens that she couldnt explain.She was a bit freaked out,but told me that things moved about the house without explination.She would go looking for something and find it in strange places. She said she swore she saw someone standing in the hallway once but dismissed it.You could often feel like someone was watching you there.

Geez Blue, I do remember that happening to me a lot as a teenager. If it happens now I am blissfully unaware and I have not thought about it in many many years.

bbimson wrote:I would say that there certainly seems to be evidence to back that up, but probably not something that can be proven. They certainly are much more in-tune than we often think. You could very well be correct.

There was a precognition study done a while ago (can't think of where or when but will ask uni lecturer as he told us about it) where people were shown images on a screen.

The images were either nice ones (eg calming), or upsetting ones (eg violent or sad).

The brain's "thoughts" were recorded throughout the sessions - not sure how - imaging/EEG?

Anyway, the upshot is this - the brain responded in different ways depending on the image that was shown.

No surprise there. Until it was revealed that in a statistically significant proportion of the population sample in the study, the brain's response to the nasty images was actually demonstrated to have occurred a fraction of a second before the image was even shown.


There is also a huge global consciousness project underway - and has been for years - to look at the connection between the thoughts of a large proportion of the global population, and how that affects simulated numbers created by a global network of computers.

In short, when there's a major catastrophe - say the twin towers plane crash, for example - as this information breaks globally - ie in the news - these random number generators "react" and produce an array of values for which the odds of doing so are billions to one against.

It's underway in one of the U.S's best-respected universities.

Here's the link:

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/homepage.html

If you scroll down on this page: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/results.html, you can view the main outcomes.

shontelle wrote:
I know some people won't want to work it out, but how do you?

The older you are, the theoretically more reliable the result would be.
It involves a pure maths concept and one of multivariate statistics, the former of which is A level standard, the latter of which is possibly third year undergraduate level.

Even then, there's an issue of it only being a "model" and not ideal.

*Lynne* wrote:Geez Blue, I do remember that happening to me a lot as a teenager. If it happens now I am blissfully unaware and I have not thought about it in many many years.

No internet when I was a kid, I never realised it was common. My worst ones were about 10 years ago, got that bad that I wouldn't sleep for days. Well thats my excuse for partying for days on end

BlueStaffBlue wrote:Ok this is going to make me sound even more werid than normal lol. I haven't had any for about 8 years now. When asleep I have had outer body experiences. No idea why and TBH I don't like it one bit. When I was a kid I used to think they were dreams. I float up and see myself lying in the bed but stop myself from going anywhere else and concentrate fully on getting back to my body. About 15 years ago I realised they weren't dreams when I noticed a spider walking across my bedroom floor onto my sock. I come back to my body and jumped up. Lifted my sock and the spider ran off

This topic is of sufficient interest for it to have been developed into a study, too.
It has been ongoing in a particular hospital for a few years, and is of particular interest to quantum physicists.
I believe the study may now have expanded to include other hospitals.
The link is here: http://www.horizonresearch.org/

If anything comes of this, it not only points to the mind and brain being separate "things" - thereby addressing the belief in souls - but it also has profound implications for quantum physics - not least that of the divisibility of quanta and multiple additional dimensions. I have only an undergraduate understanding of quantum mechanics, so the implications are way out of my league.

While I don't remember having any out of body experience, I did, apparently, used to sit up in bed when I was very young, and talk, as though in a trance, about the mechanical dynamics of windmills at a level my dad (an engineer by trade) said completely and utterly lost him.

Working dog wrote:

shontelle wrote:
I know some people won't want to work it out, but how do you?

The older you are, the theoretically more reliable the result would be.
It involves a pure maths concept and one of multivariate statistics, the former of which is A level standard, the latter of which is possibly third year undergraduate level.

Even then, there's an issue of it only being a "model" and not ideal.

You lost me at A level standard! I am a third year undergraduate, but in English - Maths is my worst subject!

Working dog wrote:

bbimson wrote:I would say that there certainly seems to be evidence to back that up, but probably not something that can be proven. They certainly are much more in-tune than we often think. You could very well be correct.

There was a precognition study done a while ago (can't think of where or when but will ask uni lecturer as he told us about it) where people were shown images on a screen.

The images were either nice ones (eg calming), or upsetting ones (eg violent or sad).

The brain's "thoughts" were recorded throughout the sessions - not sure how - imaging/EEG?

Anyway, the upshot is this - the brain responded in different ways depending on the image that was shown.

No surprise there. Until it was revealed that in a statistically significant proportion of the population sample in the study, the brain's response to the nasty images was actually demonstrated to have occurred a fraction of a second before the image was even shown.


There is also a huge global consciousness project underway - and has been for years - to look at the connection between the thoughts of a large proportion of the global population, and how that affects simulated numbers created by a global network of computers.

In short, when there's a major catastrophe - say the twin towers plane crash, for example - as this information breaks globally - ie in the news - these random number generators "react" and produce an array of values for which the odds of doing so are billions to one against.

It's underway in one of the U.S's best-respected universities.

Here's the link:

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/homepage.html

If you scroll down on this page: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/results.html, you can view the main outcomes.

See, still learning a ton on the staffy forum!

There's always something new to get my head round, even if I don't always understand it all!

BlueStaffBlue wrote:Ok this is going to make me sound even more werid than normal lol. I haven't had any for about 8 years now. When asleep I have had outer body experiences. No idea why and TBH I don't like it one bit. When I was a kid I used to think they were dreams. I float up and see myself lying in the bed but stop myself from going anywhere else and concentrate fully on getting back to my body. About 15 years ago I realised they weren't dreams when I noticed a spider walking across my bedroom floor onto my sock. I come back to my body and jumped up. Lifted my sock and the spider ran off

Blinking heck i thought i was weird for saying i had 'Dreams' too as a kid. I could dream ( thats the only way i can think of to explain it) while i was awake.
They really scared me as a kid and most nights i would bunk in with Mum & Dad.
I started to get them mainly when i was ill for some strange reason and would feel one come on, it would start with my tongue feeling strange then my whole head then the rest of me and any slight moment i made like just lifting your arm felt like it was moving hype fast. I couldn't control them and would just have to wait till it subsided. As i got older they got less and less, but with each one i got i learnt how to stop it turning into a full blown 'Dream thing' And can now if i want bring one on ... but i dont as they still worry me.

While we're on spooky things that go bump in the night heres another.

My 1st husband was murdered, but the strange things that lead upto that day pointing to something bad happening only become apparent after the event.

I remember one night i awoke and saw what i can only describe as a human shape shadow standing at the bottom of our bed on my husbands side. I put the covers over my head and nudged him saying theres someone there, he looked and saw no one and told me i was dreaming .... but i know i was'nt.
He was Turkish and on one of our trips to Turkey a family friend was doing coffee readings and he handed her his cup for her to read, she took one look said nothing and handed the cup back and said she could'nt read his coffee.
And lastly i had a dream i lost all my teeth, in Turkey they say if you have one of these dreams you will lose something, little did i know i was about to lose my husband
Oh and i nearly forgot the night before it happen the Alsatian we had started howling for no reason.

There is a spirit world that i do believe, some of us are more sensitive to it than others.

Wow, Denise, that must have been so traumatic! Do you mind me asking what happened? Don't worry, I don't care if you tell me to mind my own business!

I've had several 'strange' things happen over the years, but it's only recently I've realised that it isn't rare. As a Christian I believe that the soul leaves the body at the moment of death. If that's the case, then maybe not all souls immediately move on as it were - maybe some stick around & they're what we call ghosts.

Denise wrote:While we're on spooky things that go bump in the night heres another.

My 1st husband was murdered, but the strange things that lead upto that day pointing to something bad happening only become apparent after the event.

I remember one night i awoke and saw what i can only describe as a human shape shadow standing at the bottom of our bed on my husbands side. I put the covers over my head and nudged him saying theres someone there, he looked and saw no one and told me i was dreaming .... but i know i was'nt.
He was Turkish and on one of our trips to Turkey a family friend was doing coffee readings and he handed her his cup for her to read, she took one look said nothing and handed the cup back and said she could'nt read his coffee.
And lastly i had a dream i lost all my teeth, in Turkey they say if you have one of these dreams you will lose something, little did i know i was about to lose my husband
Oh and i nearly forgot the night before it happen the Alsatian we had started howling for no reason.

There is a spirit world that i do believe, some of us are more sensitive to it than others.

That is an awful and chilling story, Denise.
I am entirely convinced there is a spirit world - existing in another dimension (perhaps a multitude of dimensions) devoid of time.
I am also sure that compelling evidence in the form of properly reviewed clinical trials will shortly confirm this.

So sorry to hear that Denise

Denise wrote:

BlueStaffBlue wrote:Ok this is going to make me sound even more werid than normal lol. I haven't had any for about 8 years now. When asleep I have had outer body experiences. No idea why and TBH I don't like it one bit. When I was a kid I used to think they were dreams. I float up and see myself lying in the bed but stop myself from going anywhere else and concentrate fully on getting back to my body. About 15 years ago I realised they weren't dreams when I noticed a spider walking across my bedroom floor onto my sock. I come back to my body and jumped up. Lifted my sock and the spider ran off

Blinking heck i thought i was weird for saying i had 'Dreams' too as a kid. I could dream ( thats the only way i can think of to explain it) while i was awake.
They really scared me as a kid and most nights i would bunk in with Mum & Dad.
I started to get them mainly when i was ill for some strange reason and would feel one come on, it would start with my tongue feeling strange then my whole head then the rest of me and any slight moment i made like just lifting your arm felt like it was moving hype fast. I couldn't control them and would just have to wait till it subsided. As i got older they got less and less, but with each one i got i learnt how to stop it turning into a full blown 'Dream thing' And can now if i want bring one on ... but i dont as they still worry me.

It sounds like something different to what I have. I get a buzzing type noise first and then if I don't fight it I start to become weightless and you can feel the matress unsinking until you start to rise slowly. Once you leave your own body it makes a loud cracking noise and then you can start to see yourself and wife etc laying next to you. When I was a kid I remember starting to drift out of the room. I don't think I have ever been as scared as that moment I thought someone was trying to take me away

One for this thread:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209468/Does-image-ghosts-WWII-prisoners-death-march-Former-Army-Officer-takes-haunting-image-route-took.html

The photo was taken through glass which "probably" explains this blurring effect on the image.