something spooky

[otis williams]

-- FLIX

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[dirkk03]

One time when my mom was in college, she went to stay the weekend at a friends house. His parents had this bed in the basement family room that she stayed in. Her bed was also across the room from her friend's basement bedroom. Her bed was also right underneath the lightswitch to the room. She reached up to flip the light off and a short time later, her friend was retiring and flipped off the light switch to his own room. Within less than a minute, she feels her friend sitting on the edge of her bed (felt the edge of the depress and heard mattress springs creak). She's still fully awake and thinking her friend is going to try and scare her. She feels him sloooowly climbing up over her with hands and knees on each side of her, and feels the bed depress on either side of her. At this point, she's smiling in the dark becuase she plans to scare the $%^& out of him by flipping on the light and shouting at him. She waits for it ... waaaaits for it ... she reaches up, flips on the light and shouts 'GOT YA!' Nobody there. Her friend comes out of the room and asks what the heck she's doing. Freaks her out to no end, so she sleeps with the light on and makes him sleep on the floor next to her bed. I told her, her mind was playing tricks. She said no way becuase she was fully awake, the light had been off for one minute and she wasn't even thinking anything freaky. Good story. Told it to my kids several times.

 

[kalama]

mr. soon heres one i posted awile back ,was ono,,,aloha

 

[HikingMano]

Yeah, I remember that one, looked ono and made me miss home. :thumbup:

 

[Wildewinds]

I had a freaky experience in Hawaii too.

I was on a coastal trail later one evening. Headed out there to get some good sunset shots. The trail is anything but scary. It's really nice. After heading out a bit and taking some shots, I started heading back, taking photos along the way when I saw a memorial to a dead surfer next to the water. It was a cross with half a surfboard next to it along with shells and other mementos. It was interesting and sort of weird, so I took some photos of it.

Well, I don't know if seeing that got me in the mood, but soon afterwards it was totally dark and I was alone on the trail, and I started getting a creepy feeling. I laughed at myself a little, 'cause I figured I was only getting nervous 'cause I saw that odd memorial. Nevertheless, I was walking a bit more quickly than normal to get back to my car.

I had a small flashlight with me and I was using it to follow the trail. Something made a noise behind me and I quickly turned around just in time to see something zoom across the trail about 20 feet behind me. No freaking idea what it was, but it was white and big.

As I was running like a little girl back to the car, I thought "What could be big and white in Hawaii?" Yeah, there's a joke there about mainlanders, but I was serious. I know they don't have polar bears. I know it wasn't a bird. Goats? Maybe. Who knows, but first getting a creepy feeling, when I never get creepy feelings, and then seeing some unexplained creature darting across the trail behind me was a really spooky experience.

 

[Outdoors Fanatic]

It was a Tengu.

 

[Outdoors Fanatic]

That is a very creepy photo; it looks like a shadow person.

I had an experience in 1988 while traveling Taiwan's northern east-west cross-island highway. A Taiwanese girlfriend "Lisa" and I traveled by combination bus and on foot. We arrived at Hohuan Shan, which is a small ski resort up in the mountains, but it was summer, so no snow. But unlike in other areas of Taiwan at that month, up on the mountain was cold. It's pretty remote, and quite a winding hike up from the highway down below. There was a lodge with a dorm room with bunk beds. There were only about 3 other couples there, who took 3 top beds on the opposite wall. "Lisa" and I took a bottom bed near the doorway at the end of the hallway. There was a lone guy sleeping on a lower bunk way at the other end of the room. If we looked across the room at the other bunks, all we could see of the couples were maybe the bottoms of their feet, if that.

All that day, Lisa had been nervous and said there were spirits around, because there are lots of fatal car accidents on that mountain. There was a car that had apparently fallen about 300 yards down a steep mountain just sitting there near and below the lodge. I've had many experiences in my life, but I thought Lisa was trying to mess with me. Even though the place got a very weird vibe after dark.

As we went to sleep, my last thought was to kinda laugh in my mind at what she was afraid of. I remember at some point suddenly waking, unable to move/completely frozen. I was on my left side, and Lisa slept with her back to me, but she looked like she was at the end of a tunnel. There was an odd, low moaning that had a wavering/vibrating quality to it yelling in my right ear. That moan gradually rose in pitch until it sounded like a very high, elongated woman's scream, vibrating faster and faster. I struggled to move, and it was like my ears were plugged and all I could hear was this screaming in my head. I also had a vision of being inside of a car looking out the windshield as it plummeted and bounced down the mountain. I don't know how long it lasted; maybe about 20 seconds, but it felt like an eternity.

I fought to move, and suddenly the spell was broken and I pushed up. Simultaneously, Lisa pushed up exactly like I did, almost like we were connected by strings. She turned around, shaking, and said, "There was a pressure in the air, and I heard screaming." My ears were still ringing, but the room was dead silent. Everyone else was asleep like they weren't there. I felt a drop of sweat on my face, and the sweat felt ice-cold.

We didn't sleep the rest of the night, instead sitting up and talking quietly. I don't scare easily, so I hate to say that at one point we walked each other to the restrooms and took turns keeping watch for each other in the hallway. The lodge was run by a family who slept way in back, so the whole place was dark and silent. We both knew that something very real had happened. I'll tell you, it's one thing to read or talk about being pressed down by a "ghost" or paranormal entity; it's quite another thing when it actually happens to you. You don't need to believe anything, because you KNOW.

I've had other freaky incidents at other times and places since then, but that was the absolute spookiest.
Jim

It sounds like you had an episode of Sleep Paralysis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

 

[Tostig]

As many times as I've been hiking , camping , four wheelin' , fishing - I have not experienced anything supernatural outdoors ( other than the commonplace 'spooky feeling' for no apparent reason sort of thing ) , other than the car story I posted in a different thread.

I've had some scary events at a past workplace and a relatives house.

I do love this sort of thread , thanks for the stories , especially the fellow from Taiwan - I enjoyed that story about the lost hiker.


Tostig

 

[untamed]

It was a Tengu.

The creatures that supposedly revealed the "skills" to the forerunners of the shinobi/ninja? I'd guess meeting one would be frightening, but COOL at the same time!

 

[dipbait]

For all the people who get spooky ,uneasy feelings. Heres a theory I have come up with.I may be full of it ,but I think we sometimes pick up on things , and the more expierence one has the more intuition one develops.

Say your mushroom hunting. Your conscious mind is busy looking, stepping, observing...In the distance a tree frog stops chirping. Consciously you may not pick this up. Subconsciously you might. You get this feeling, not knowing why. Esp has nothing to do with it, but it is sort of like having a sixth sense.

 

[kalama]

thats a very good theory:thumbup::thumbup:

 

[Chewy1]

I've had that sleep paralysis a few times in my life. Nothing so scary as that. However, now I know what it is, so I don't try to move. That is...if I can remember.

 

[James Y]

It sounds like you had an episode of Sleep Paralysis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Nope. I have experienced that, too, among other things. This particular experience was most definitely not ordinary sleep paralysis. I posted on this thread a bit later explaining why I know it wasn't sleep paralysis.
Jim

 

[Haze]

I remember reading about the effects of low frequency vibrations on humans
in a paper published by Edinburgh University.

That claimed that the feeling of being watched / looked over or the presence
of something in the same room was a common effect felt in laboratories that had
equipment emitting such vibrations.

Places like Hawaii and Taiwan as well as many other places see alot of seismec activity
so the earth it's self may well be emitting the same sort of vibrations and causing similar effects.
Your imagination is more than capable of adding on the percieved visual side of the experience too.

 

[Joben]

For all the people who get spooky ,uneasy feelings. Heres a theory I have come up with.I may be full of it ,but I think we sometimes pick up on things , and the more expierence one has the more intuition one develops.

Say your mushroom hunting. Your conscious mind is busy looking, stepping, observing...In the distance a tree frog stops chirping. Consciously you may not pick this up. Subconsciously you might. You get this feeling, not knowing why. Esp has nothing to do with it, but it is sort of like having a sixth sense.

This also probably explains why most of the time when you get the feeling and become hyper alert there is absolutely nothing to see/hear. Because by definition that feeling is triggered by a sound stopping.

By the time you're paying attention there is no sound. And since we don't live in Wonderland, you certainly can't say to yourself anything nearly so illogical as "Aha! I distinctly hear a tree frog not chirping!"

That wraps things up very neatly indeed.

 

[James Y]

Haze,
I think that *might* be a possibility in this case (certainly it wasn't ordinary sleep paralysis). Taiwan is on or near part of the Pacific Rim "Ring of Fire" earthquake fault. In '86, I woke up to a scary earthquake there that had my 6-story apartment building swaying. Though it is odd that my GF experienced exactly the same thing at the same time, and nobody else in the dorm experienced anything.

One thing I've wondered about low-frequency vibrations or such having an effect of humans or animals perceiving other presences: Could it also be possible that in some cases, such frequencies may actually open some people's perceptions to things not ordinarily sensed? Sort of like tuning a radio from one station to partially receiving the frequency of another station? I dunno. Just a thought.
Jim

 

[Haze]

I think it has more to do with what you "think" is going on rather than anything else.

When you get the feeling there is "something" there it is never the same reaction you would have to something actually being there because it's pretty much all in your head.
The feelings or "emotions" you're getting are all part of how you preceive the world around you so can have quite an effect on you.

I personally do not believe in any way there is monsters or ghosts roaming around but I have still been freaked out more than once.

 

[cj65]

I can only relate one incident that was similar to sleep paralysis. I felt a huge face of a prescence right over the top of me while sleeping. I cannot say if it was a dream or real. The face was as big as one of those exercise balls you arch your back over. It had piercing eyes and gave out a low moaning sound. It hovered about 1 ft above my stomach. I snapped up as if waking up from a nightmare, and shouted JESUS CHRIST IS MY SAVIOR! The thing fled or vanished and I was able to go back to sleep. My wife has spooky things happen, I generally do not. The experience was real, but foggy. I know I stood up and shouted, because I woke up my wife. I got through the whole thread, and got chicken skin as well. Stay safe on those night hikes.

 

[Pyre]

oh man...reading this thread at 2 in the morning was a bad idea. I knew I should have just stuck with the one about eating cats and dogs.

 

[Skimo]

I know an old Athabaskan woman who had spirits abduct her when she was a child, about 80-90 years ago, her family looked for her and found her days later covered in pine boughs.

I got the creeps a lot in Alaska, many dreams of bears.

walking in the dark in the winter is about as bad as it gets for paranoia, the silence is so great that the crunching from walking in the snow sounds like gravel being crushed. Just by walking you tell everything around for miles that something is walking through the snow... and those pesky wolves don't make a sound unless they want to.

So yo get caught in a catch 22, move and not be able to hear if anything is moving or stand still and strain to hear anything.

What's worse is if there's good moonlight and a breeze, less chance of hearing anything AND all the dang trees making shadow dances.

I'd like to never feel stalked again... something very wrong with animals being smarter AND stronger than us.... and to top it off bloody quiet!!!

Maybe I'm a pansy or paranoid, I like lights locks walls and doors along with other people.