a freaky ghostly encounter...

[newworldengineer]

Right, I hate having to re-tell these significant events in my life, cos I feel I can never do them any justice verbally, but here goes:

This happened a few years ago, we might be talking around 1999/2000 time, I was asleep in bed (living at my parents) and it was around 1pm at night and my sister came home really drunk and not discreet, she slammed the back door which woke me up abruptly.

so I sat up in my bed, which is aligned with the window which faces onto a fairly big back garden, and leaned on the window-sill cos once I'm up, I'm up for a while... so I gazed out of the window down the garden, now the garden is separated from the house by a patio and an archway (with some viney flowery stuff growin on them) connects the patio to the garden path which goes all the way down to the bottom of the garden.

So I was just staring into the distance, could only see a part of the garden due to the moonlight, and I noticed something flapping about, almost like some cloth blowing in the wind, but quite slowly... so I thought my mum must've put some washing out, but then I thought it's the middle of bladdy winter, she wouldn't do that. then this flowing "thing" glided towards the garden path (it was about 3/4ths the way down the garden). I was a little confused as to what it was until it started getting bigger and moved down the path towards the house.

As it was gliding slowly down the path, what appeared was feet underneath the cloth-like thing walking and it slowly revealed itself to be a really young girl in an old skool nightie, looking really periodic and out of place in this time. I was just mezmorized, it didn't strike me as being a kid on the loose in the early hours of the morning... it continued or rather.. she continued to walk down the path and she stopped at the archway. <<FREAK OUT ALERT!!>> she put both her hands on either side of the archway (outstretched) and looked up sharply, directly at me!! I'd had enough of this 'orrible shit by this point so I quickly pulled my curtains closed and sat there in shock until I fell asleep.. I think I tried to convince myself it was a dream or something as you do... but man, it was fucking freaky... and what's more freaky about it, is that it was a kid... I hate seeing kiddie ghosts, they tend to freak me out more :-(

Wonder what it could mean, or has anyone had a similar experience??

[lauren_almighty]

creepy.

but i've had experiences like that where i've just woken up and then thought i'd seen something. i get like that when i haven't given myself chance to wake up properly. i always have to give myself 10 minutes to be properly awake before i get up otherwise i confuse dreams with reality.

i'm not saying you didn't see something. but the mind can play tricks on you.

[armoured_amazon]

The one experience I'm glad I DIDN'T have was the entity my youngest brother and mum saw on different occasions, a woman with no eyes and black hair (I always imagine something like the one in the Ring or something lol). When my brother saw her, she was crawling up the bed. Another time, my mum saw a line of clowns hanging from nooses in the back living room.

I'm glad when I lived in that house I didn't have any negative experiences, phew.

[lauren_almighty]

omg a_a, that is fucked up. i'd freak out if i saw anything like that.
clowns hanging from nooses? ... anything hanging from a noose is scary but a frikking clown!? :eek:

[armoured_amazon]

omg a_a, that is fucked up. i'd freak out if i saw anything like that.
clowns hanging from nooses? ... anything hanging from a noose is scary but a frikking clown!? :eek:

LOL I know! And why is it that so many of us hate clowns and yet they push them on kids? I remember my own cruel mother getting a clown for my tenth birthday party (omg I have to find pics, that's when I started having my hair cut like Michael Jackson lmao) and I was close to tears. I think it's something to do with their makeup masking their real facial expressions or something...

[newworldengineer]

creepy.

but i've had experiences like that where i've just woken up and then thought i'd seen something. i get like that when i haven't given myself chance to wake up properly. i always have to give myself 10 minutes to be properly awake before i get up otherwise i confuse dreams with reality.

i'm not saying you didn't see something. but the mind can play tricks on you.

yeah I was thinking that myself for quite sometime after, but I did wake up really sharpish when my sister came back. I did give myself time to sit up (and be pissed off cos I'd been awoken :p) until I saw the apparition. I felt pretty awake but how do you know that the frequency you perceive when you're inbetween dreaming and waking consciousness isn't really happening? you might be open to these other subtle levels of reality.

but usually when I see something bizarre when I'm half asleep, if I move, it disconnects me from it straight away. luckily I don't get the paralysis.

[newworldengineer]

LOL I know! And why is it that so many of us hate clowns and yet they push them on kids? I remember my own cruel mother getting a clown for my tenth birthday party (omg I have to find pics, that's when I started having my hair cut like Michael Jackson lmao) and I was close to tears. I think it's something to do with their makeup masking their real facial expressions or something...

yeah clowns are very one-seasoned with their plastered on fake overly sensationalistic smiles, so if a child was scared of a clown, the clown would still look stupidly happy and that comes off as kinda sadistic. they're a very strange concept for entertainment. there's a lot to be said about clowns, do we have a thread for that per chance?

[biblegirl]

wow, good stories you guys!

[newworldengineer]

all the strange experiences in my life have just proven to me that reality is alot more scarier than any horror film can depict! my life story would make the best horror film :-P I shall post more of my stories when I get the chance.. wouldn't trade em for the world tho :-)

[lauren_almighty]

all the strange experiences in my life have just proven to me that reality is alot more scarier than any horror film can depict! my life story would make the best horror film :-P I shall post more of my stories when I get the chance.. wouldn't trade em for the world tho :-)

i would like to read more of your stories.

i've had a few strange experiences and i think i would prefer not to have had them. i'm surprised i've not died from fright lol

[nimlyn]

yeah clowns are very one-seasoned with their plastered on fake overly sensationalistic smiles, so if a child was scared of a clown, the clown would still look stupidly happy and that comes off as kinda sadistic. they're a very strange concept for entertainment. there's a lot to be said about clowns, do we have a thread for that per chance?

Reminds me about an incident with a clown way back in my teen days…An Aunt and Uncle who ran a pub were given some free tickets for the circus and I was invited to go to the show with their offspring…At the end of the show I was leaving with the crowds when the cousin (such a chubby li’l brat) pushed me hard into a clown…Being shy, I was extremely embarrassed about the collision and I apologized to the clown but I swear I saw a look of shock and awe peek through that broad painted smile…:)

[newworldengineer]

i would like to read more of your stories.

i've had a few strange experiences and i think i would prefer not to have had them. i'm surprised i've not died from fright lol

hey but I'm sure you'd rather had experienced them, to really come to terms with how strange life can get :) helps you grow metaphysically, and the more you grow metaphysically the more wierd shit you have to deal with trust :cool: but it's all good... I know I don't fear death anymore, that's for sure.

so go on then... spill the beans... lets here one of your scary stories... :)

[newworldengineer]

Reminds me about an incident with a clown way back in my teen days…An Aunt and Uncle who ran a pub were given some free tickets for the circus and I was invited to go to the show with their offspring…At the end of the show I was leaving with the crowds when the cousin (such a chubby li’l brat) pushed me hard into a clown…Being shy, I was extremely embarrassed about the collision and I apologized to the clown but I swear I saw a look of shock and awe peek through that broad painted smile…:)

it depends how crassly the face paint was put on ;) but you can pretty much go beyond the mask of a person when you're in tune with yourself intuitively.

[nimlyn]

it depends how crassly the face paint was put on ;) but you can pretty much go beyond the mask of a person when you're in tune with yourself intuitively.

Oh so true…:D

[lauren_almighty]

hey but I'm sure you'd rather had experienced them, to really come to terms with how strange life can get :) helps you grow metaphysically, and the more you grow metaphysically the more wierd shit you have to deal with trust :cool: but it's all good... I know I don't fear death anymore, that's for sure.

so go on then... spill the beans... lets here one of your scary stories... :)

Well I see creepy things all the time like shadows in the corner of my eye and reflections in windows and mirrors of what I like to call ghosts. I remembered something yesterday that happened when I was about 11.

I was home alone because my mum had gone round to her friends house so I was watching tv in the living room whilst doing my homework. My living room has conjoining stairs right next to the couch and opposite is the fireplace with a mirror just above it so when I look into the mirror I can see the stairs and the landing.

Anyway, I was getting on with my homework when out of the corner of my eye I could see movement on the landing that looked like something swaying from side to side. I looked up at the landing and there was nothing there. I thought nothing of it and went back to my homework. As soon as I looked down at my book I could see the movement again. I immediately looked up and there was nothing there. This happened about 10 more times and I was getting really pissed off with it. I decided to ignore it and it carried on for another 20 minutes with me not looking up at it but I couldn't not look anymore. I had the urge to look up and when I did I totally freaked out because I could see legs dangling as though somebody had hanged themselves and was hung there swaying from side to side.
I grabbed a cushion and held it to my face to block the view of the mirror and I turned the tv to some kind of comedy so that it would distract me from what I just saw.

I like to think that it was my mind playing tricks on me because I still live in the same house and I've not seen anything like that since. It was so scary. I couldn't wait for my mum to get home that night. It's wierd because whenever somebody comes round to my house they mention that there's something creepy about the stairs. We have a chair opposite the stairs and nobody likes to sit there because they can easily see up the stairs.

[newworldengineer]

Well I see creepy things all the time like shadows in the corner of my eye and reflections in windows and mirrors of what I like to call ghosts. I remembered something yesterday that happened when I was about 11.

I was home alone because my mum had gone round to her friends house so I was watching tv in the living room whilst doing my homework. My living room has conjoining stairs right next to the couch and opposite is the fireplace with a mirror just above it so when I look into the mirror I can see the stairs and the landing.

Anyway, I was getting on with my homework when out of the corner of my eye I could see movement on the landing that looked like something swaying from side to side. I looked up at the landing and there was nothing there. I thought nothing of it and went back to my homework. As soon as I looked down at my book I could see the movement again. I immediately looked up and there was nothing there. This happened about 10 more times and I was getting really pissed off with it. I decided to ignore it and it carried on for another 20 minutes with me not looking up at it but I couldn't not look anymore. I had the urge to look up and when I did I totally freaked out because I could see legs dangling as though somebody had hanged themselves and was hung there swaying from side to side.
I grabbed a cushion and held it to my face to block the view of the mirror and I turned the tv to some kind of comedy so that it would distract me from what I just saw.

I like to think that it was my mind playing tricks on me because I still live in the same house and I've not seen anything like that since. It was so scary. I couldn't wait for my mum to get home that night. It's wierd because whenever somebody comes round to my house they mention that there's something creepy about the stairs. We have a chair opposite the stairs and nobody likes to sit there because they can easily see up the stairs.

holy crappola! I see what ya mean, you don't wanna be seeing that kinda shit! Did it not prompt you to look at the house's history or maybe look into the peeps that lived there before, or have you maybe come across a story of a traumatic experience that happened in the area that you lived? - a suicide or summink like that.

but hey no matter what comes before you, however terrifying, never give in to fear.

[ianw]

omg a_a, that is fucked up. i'd freak out if i saw anything like that.
clowns hanging from nooses? ... anything hanging from a noose is scary but a frikking clown!? :eek:

What do you think of that clown on the plesure beach,
It scared the crap out of me, when I saw it as a small child.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_lVFbyGn1Q&feature=related

[lauren_almighty]

holy crappola! I see what ya mean, you don't wanna be seeing that kinda shit! Did it not prompt you to look at the house's history or maybe look into the peeps that lived there before, or have you maybe come across a story of a traumatic experience that happened in the area that you lived? - a suicide or summink like that.

but hey no matter what comes before you, however terrifying, never give in to fear.

A few years after that horrible experience when I was about 14 I decided to find out about the house and the area to see if anybody had been hanged. But I couldn't find anything about my house.

All I found out is that the house was built in the 70's on old farmland. But I know a few families on the street and there are rumours that some of the houses are haunted. One of the houses is supposed to have a ghost from the early 1900's. The owner is an editor of a local newspaper and he published a story about it last year.

[lauren_almighty]

What do you think of that clown on the plesure beach,
It scared the crap out of me, when I saw it as a small child.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_lVFbyGn1Q&feature=related

Yeah it is a creepy clown. I was never scared of clowns as a child. But I am now though just a little bit. I don't understand how they are supposed to be entertaining.

[newworldengineer]

Yeah it is a creepy clown. I was never scared of clowns as a child. But I am now though just a little bit. I don't understand how they are supposed to be entertaining.

yeah it's almost seems like some kinda forced entertainment, look at the stoopid fuckin idiot clowns make asses of themselves cos your taste in the arts is pretty much none-existant... lol