Topic: Creepy Experiences

So I've been sitting here most of the day researching various haunted house and ghost stories for one of the scripts I'm working on, and it got me to thinking about some of the creepy stuff I've seen in my time.

I think the creepiest thing for me was when I was in the service.  We'd been training for the EIB (Expert Infantry Badge) test; we'd basically go to the training fields first thing in the morning, then load up and return to the barracks around 8pm.  The course was huge and anywhere from three to five infantry units were there each night.

At the time I was recuperating from a car wreck and had been assigned as our Battalion Commander's Radio/Telephone Operator, so I spent most of my time on the EIB course at his side or sleeping in the Humvee.  On the fourth night of training he gets a call from another Battalion commander requesting a platoon from our unit to accompany him on a search of the grounds because one of his soldiers had come up missing on the map-training field.  Well, within three or four hours every unit on the course was looking for this guy. 

Around 4a.m.  we get another radio call saying there's a sergeant who knows where the missing guy is.  So we trek across the training ground and there's another BC with this E-5 sergeant.  This sergeant was full-blood Native American and was telling the BC's something (I wasn't close enough to hear) but then real loudly he shouts, "I'm cold, I'm wet, my head hurts."  So we're all just kind of standing there staring at him, didn't know what to think, and he says it again and points out across the grounds.  He says he can show us where the guy is.

So the BC and we RTOs load up into the Humvees and we drive something like a mile across the grounds.  My BC and I were in the rear Humvee, then we see the first one up ahead grind to a halt and this Sergeant climbs out of the Humvee and points a couple dozen yards ahead. 

So.  We climb out, he leads us over to this pond, about the size of a really big swimming pool, and he's pointing and saying "I'm here, I'm here, my head hurts."  One of the BC's said we need to call in a drag team to drag the pond.  So we're sitting around and a couple hours later, around day break, this drag team shows up and they drag the pond.  Sure enough, they find this missing guy in the pond and the Sergeant just starts jumping and shouting, scaring the piss out of us.

Anyway, a few weeks later we find out Army investigators learned a local Hawaiian had snuck onto the course and saw this kid out trying to find his bearing with his compass.  It was night ("I'm cold") and he cracked this kid in the head with a rock ("My head hurts") and dumped him in the pond ("I'm wet.") 

They did catch the guy who did it: a few days after the kids was found, a pawnbroker from Waihiawa -- which was just outside of Schofield Barracks -- notified MP's a local had just pawned an M-16.  MPs tracked the SN from  the rifle to the 1st & 14th Infantry unit, where the armory confirmed it had been assigned to the murdered soldier.  So basically this dude killed this soldier for his rifle.

Anyone else have any real life creepy experiences to share?

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I went threw a few creep things in my life. My and my one friend Chris were in 5th grade and we had walkies talkies screwing around playing investagators in his moms apartment. We got a weird message on the walkie talkie it sound "Bobby" in a very creepy voice. True story i swear to god and it turns out the guy who lived in the apartment b4 his name was Robert. Creepy stuff. Another one was when I was 6 or 7 me and my mom had a yard sale at my grandmothers house every weekend in the spring. My grandmother has a funeral home and then next door was a lil food shop and the building next to it used to b an old ma and pop store that burned down a few years earlier. I heard stories from ym uncle that he heard footsteps on around. I never believed him cuz i didnt beleive in ghosts they were in horror movies thats it. So Im going threw the stuff cuz there was some kool stuff i would like and all fo a sudden i hear somethign rocking I turn around and there a suitcase on the counter. I turned around went back to what i was doing and BOOM the suitcase falls. Scared the shit outta me I run outta there screaming. my uncle was the only one who beleived me.

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I don't believe in ghosts even though I died literally last summer from an accidental gunshot wound but I do get funny feelings at times about stuff sorta like Spiderman if that makes any sense.

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This will sound silly but when I was 13 and living in Georgia I went to hang out at a friend's house and we played with a Ouija board.  The message "I" got was that Lillian was going to die.  We laughed and played some more and joked about how none of us knew anyone named Lillian. 

While I was walking home, it occurred to me that my Grandmother's real name was Lillian but had always gone by her middle name of Patricia.  When I got home I called my grandparent's house in California.  It rang and rang and just when I was about to hang up my grandfather answered.  He sounded winded and distracted when he said "hello?".  I said hi and asked what they were up to and he said that I had caught him just as he was swinging by the house really quick and he needed to get back to the hospital because grandma had a heart attack. She died shortly after that.

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I was going fishing with my dad and got really sad and disoriented -- I told him to be careful because I was sure he or I was going to die.  When we got home I found out his mother had just passed away. 

And another time, I was standing at a mirror and I felt a... almost like a laugh and an ascension.  It was like a great release, and it made me actually cry with happiness.  Two days later, I found out that my severely handicapped cousin had died that day. 

So... I'm pretty sure I'm somewhat psychic.  But the *creepiest* experience was when I used to share a room with my younger sister and we heard a loud heavy breathing coming from the wall.  I told her that I was doing it so she wouldn't get scared, but then she got pissed at me for not stopping it.  I couldn't stand it too long and ran downstairs.  When mom investigated, it was gone.

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When I was in Okinawa, we were cross training with the Japanese Army...they didn't know we were on the same route as them during a convoy, and they shot a tank round at my Humvee....it hit right in front of us and put a huge ass hole in the ground, we probably should've died....by Platoon Sgt pissed his pants, I was in the turret, covered in dirt and scared to death....

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One time late at night during a storm, I couldnt sleep so I was sitting on the computer.  All the lights were out so it was dark and a little cool because of the rain.  As I was sitting there I had this sudden chill come over and I cringed.......what happened next freaked me out and possibly scarred me for life....I stumbled upon a picture of Rip on these forums.....CREEPY!   Never will I be able to get that nasty image burned out of my brain.  Everytime I get the chills I fear that Rips ugly mug is about to surface in some sort of way.......  lol

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Sorry to bump this thread up but I wanted to ask people if they have lived in or are living in a haunted house. Instead of creating a new thread I thought that I would tack it on to this as it would fall into the same category and it was the first one that seemed appropriate when I searched for haunted houses. (please correct me if I am wrong)

Anyways I believe that I live in a haunted house. Well I live in part of it anyways, its divided up into flats. I know that people were killed here about 80 odd years ago as it is part of Irish history. I have never seen anything weird but I do sometimes sense that people are in the room with me when I am all alone. And I have also heard talking when the place was empty and also sensed, as opposed to felt or heard, someone breathing while I was in bed late one night. They, if they exist, don't seem to be angry or threating and I guess as I haven't annoyed them they haven't annoyed me. I have never seen a ghost, always wanted to even though I know I will just soil myself, but my mom has on a few occassions, the lucky so-and-so smile.

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Well i lived in a haunted house. too long of a story there but one thing that scared me the most is when i went to bed i can feel something sit next to me on my bed. scared the shit out of me. happened every night. the ghost followed me when i moved but it eventually stopped. Also something grabbed my legs at night in bed (same house) I ran out of my bedroom screaming. decade later in the new house one night something rearranged the living room furnature in a bizzare way. My dad blamed it on the dog ( like a basset hound can move a sofa, ya right) real creepy.

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Ok so my mom and dad bought this really nice house when I was 3 months old I think. Anyways the story goes like this.   So mom got a whole bunch of those musical cards that play when you open them. One night she puts me to bed and then goes to bed her self. A few hours later one of those cards starts playing, mom wakes up and figures it was a bug or something that walked by and hit the card so she lays it down in the closed position, and goes back to bed.. Well about an hours or so later another card starts playing, she gets up and is half asleep so lays it down with the other card and goes back to bed, only to woken again by the third card playing. She ended up placing all the cards in the dresser drawer and goes back to bed. Later on when I was a toddler I kept seeing this old man around the house when I was little upon futher questioning by mom turns out no one knew who this old man was. When I got older, I would go to sleep with my bedroom door cracked a little bit and always till this day hear little girls in the hallway playing and giggling. That house still creeps me out.

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The spookiest thing that ever happened to me was receiving a letter addressed to Christophe Benoit the monday that Chris Benoit and his family were found dead. We've never gotten a letter addressed to Christophe Benoit before or since then.

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jonze wrote:

The spookiest thing that ever happened to me was receiving a letter addressed to Christophe Benoit the monday that Chris Benoit and his family were found dead. We've never gotten a letter addressed to Christophe Benoit before or since then.

Oh yeah, that was totally freaky, I forgot that.

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Samhain wrote:
jonze wrote:

The spookiest thing that ever happened to me was receiving a letter addressed to Christophe Benoit the monday that Chris Benoit and his family were found dead. We've never gotten a letter addressed to Christophe Benoit before or since then.

Oh yeah, that was totally freaky, I forgot that.

I'm glad you remembered cos I was starting to think it was in my head! I took a picture on my phone, and I put the letter in my bag and they both vanished! It was so bizarre tongue

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When I was 8 and 9 we lived in Rothsville PA (heart of the Amish Country),
we lived in a 200 year old stagecoach house that at one time had been part
of the underground railroad during the Civil War. Anyway, that place was haunted
as hell. I used to have a train set down in the basement (where most of the residents
stored stuff), when I was down there we'd perch the 3 windows open with wood.
On three separate occasions the boards inexplicably came loose on all 3 at the same
time shocking the hell out of me but I was always hoping I'd SEE something.
I saw an apparition once in a graveyard nearby there also.

My house here in Texas I believe is haunted too. We've actually channeled spirits (not thru a ouija) on a couple of occasions and once we asked for them to give us a sign of their presence. A plastic skull on our entertainment center came crashing down to the floor, we captured the audio of that session. We've seen dark shapes in the backyard and occasionally you can feel a 'heaviness' in the house (especially certain rooms) and we do a banishing ritual and burn blueberry incense and you can feel a noticeable change in the atmosphere.
I definitely believe in the supernatural but I'm on the fence as to whether they are caused by actual spirits or by psychic imprints/suggestions. As Johnny Carson would say, "weird, wild stuff."

Last edited by deadhorse13 (2008-10-30 17:52:57)

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Justin stole my horror story.

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I remember when I was around the age of 6, I  was brushing my teeth in from of the bathroom mirror. As I was brushing, I saw in the mirror, that behind me there was a dark figure of a tall man in black raggedy clothes that walked down the steps. It scared the crap out of me. I stood there, frozen, with the tooth brush hanging out of my mouth for a whole two minutes. I eventually snapped out of my frozeness and ran down stairs and told my parents what I saw. And of course, being parents, said "It was only my imagination."

Perhaps it was my imagination, but to this day I still don't think so. Anyway, at the time it scared the crap out of me.

This is a great thread by the way.

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WOAH deja vu I'm sure I've heard this story before lol:lol::lol:

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how much have I had to drink ?????? Help I'm seeing in double roll

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^^^^^LOL Puppy^^^^^

Another story -

I live on a large piece of property, that my relatives before me used to live on. Almost every family member I know, who has lived on this propety, talked about how they heard music. Church songs, and drum solos. My Great Grandmother heard it, my grandfather, my Aunt, everybody heard it at one time or another. And when I was 5 or 6, I remember sitting with my grandfather in my house on that property,and hearing "Amazing Grace" in my head. At the time, I didn't know about the music, so I just shrugged it off as nothing.

But now that I know about everyone hearing it, I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the supernaturel.

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My son's dad and I were looking at this house to buy (probably around 1996).  It was kind of out in the boonies.  I asked to owner where the dirt road lead that was about 50 feet away from the property.  He said, "oh, that's an old folks home down there".  We made an offer on the house but were having trouble with getting everything to go through because of an issue with the well.  So the guy who owned the house asked of if we would rent the house from him until everything cleared so he wouldn't have to keep making two mortgage payments every month, great.

My kids were 5 and 6 at the time.  One day, a couple months into renting the house, I was home with the kids and I heard helicopters overhead.  I went outside and looked and there were a couple of them in the air.  My daughter opened the door and said, "our house is on TV".  I went in and sure enough, there was an arial shot of our house on TV.  They were looking for a sexual predator that was under 18 that sexually abused other children.

Turns out that "nursing home" was a half way house for children who have sexually assaulted other children.  It was a place for them to go between juvi or psych and going home.  One of them left the house and they couldn't find him.  Needless to say we didn't buy the house and when I confronted the owner about it, he said, "why the hell do you think I moved out?"  What an asshole.  He tried not to give my my earnest money back until I threatened to sue him.

I know this isn't "super natural" or anything like that but it still was one of the most horrifying incidents of my life.  What a jack ass.

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RIP wrote:

I don't believe in ghosts even though I died literally last summer from an accidental gunshot wound but I do get funny feelings at times about stuff sorta like Spiderman if that makes any sense.

There is a reported sixth sense for people who have been very close to death who get to pick up on stuff like moments before it happens, or really good at guessing.  I experience this from time to time, I knew my grandfather, who was in perfect health, was going to die the next day.