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Creepy unsolved/paranormal/strange events thread
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Well, the elderly woman was the "least normal" of the two. When I approached them and said hello, she was completely oblivious to me. As far as I could perceive, she did not react to me. She was not startled and did not acknowledge me. The man's quick, expressionless glance was not unnerving, but it was odd. We know some of the occupants of the few houses in the surrounding area, and they have no knowledge of the couple living in the area. Also, there literally was no car. The design of the cemetery, coupled with its small size, renders it impossible for us not to have seen a car enter or exit the single outlet. This couple appeared and disappeared. The only natural explanation I can muster is that they either walked through the cornfields or the gully that surrounds the cemetery. I do not believe in ghosts, so I can only classify this as a mystery.Joe Shlabotnik said:
*Edit* If anyone was interested, I came to the conclusion that those buried at the cemetery had emigrated from a specific region in Germany and that there was an outbreak of some sort in the 1920s.
Lord Error
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That is as unbelievable as it's terrible. How could have they left her for three days there with no help? TV crew was there, but they couldn't bring some equipment to lift the concrete off her legs, or as the very least resort, a doctor to sedate her and amputate legs?GalacticAE said:
I don't mean unbelievable in sense that I don't believe it really happened, I mean unbelievable that people there were so inept at helping her.
God's Beard said:
Dude, this fucking creeped me out. I'm seriously freaking out right now. I need to go outside, where the sunlight is, because this is fucking me up. No joke. Holy shit, that opening gift and the music and heart beat have me flipping out. Oh god...
Anticitizen One
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Tonay said:
Ok for starters you need to stop being a condescending asshole
Herpes Reasons
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wat the hell o_0shagg_187 said:
The following is a true story witnessed by myself...I won't bother trying to explain what it was that freaked the hell out of me but merely recount the story.
During my college years, I spent one year at an old house with a couple of rich friends (I never would have been able to afford it on my own). The house was built in the 20's where it still stands today near downtown Orlando, Florida.
Well, one day (around 5 in the afternoon) I came home from school and found myself alone in the house. I unloaded my car and went upstairs to change. As I was a heavy smoker then, I came back downstairs a little while later and opened the rear door of the house to smoke on the porch.
A quick bit about the house...The house (as I said) is old. The doors, windows, floorboards, etc all have their sounds and idiosyncrasies that you get used to. Its get to that you can tell who is walking around in the house by the sound the floors and doors make. The porch door was painted over many times over the years and required force to open and close. The porch door also had a pane of glass in it that rattled everytime you opened it. There were no lock on the door either except for a latch.
Anyways, I had my cigarette and went back upstairs but left the latch off as I was coming down again for a second cigarette later. While upstairs, I SWEAR that the porch door opened and closed. I looked out the front and back of the house and saw no cars...nothing. I called out...nothing. I went downstairs to find a completely empty house...Porch door closed and the latch in the locked position.
A couple of days later at the same time of day, I was downstairs when I heard someone (or something) beat the shit out of the door of the master bedroom. I sounded like someone was slamming a door with all of their might in quick succession.
I meekly walked half way up the stairs before begging the "ghost" to stop scaring me...I never heard another sound.
During my college years, I spent one year at an old house with a couple of rich friends (I never would have been able to afford it on my own). The house was built in the 20's where it still stands today near downtown Orlando, Florida.
Well, one day (around 5 in the afternoon) I came home from school and found myself alone in the house. I unloaded my car and went upstairs to change. As I was a heavy smoker then, I came back downstairs a little while later and opened the rear door of the house to smoke on the porch.
A quick bit about the house...The house (as I said) is old. The doors, windows, floorboards, etc all have their sounds and idiosyncrasies that you get used to. Its get to that you can tell who is walking around in the house by the sound the floors and doors make. The porch door was painted over many times over the years and required force to open and close. The porch door also had a pane of glass in it that rattled everytime you opened it. There were no lock on the door either except for a latch.
Anyways, I had my cigarette and went back upstairs but left the latch off as I was coming down again for a second cigarette later. While upstairs, I SWEAR that the porch door opened and closed. I looked out the front and back of the house and saw no cars...nothing. I called out...nothing. I went downstairs to find a completely empty house...Porch door closed and the latch in the locked position.
A couple of days later at the same time of day, I was downstairs when I heard someone (or something) beat the shit out of the door of the master bedroom. I sounded like someone was slamming a door with all of their might in quick succession.
I meekly walked half way up the stairs before begging the "ghost" to stop scaring me...I never heard another sound.
Meh.
Couple years back, I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a humming noise in my ears. I tried to move, but shivers started running down my arms and my body, and it felt as if my entire body was charged with electricity. I couldn't move.
A green light filled the room, and from the corner of my eyes, I could see the window filling up with a bright light, as if something was getting closer and closer.
Then, bam, black. I open my eyes and it's still night. I get up, walk around, I can still feel the shivers. I turn the light on. Check the clock.
I thought it was aliens, lol, but apparently it was just sleep paralysis, as I found out in college later on.
Couple years back, I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a humming noise in my ears. I tried to move, but shivers started running down my arms and my body, and it felt as if my entire body was charged with electricity. I couldn't move.
A green light filled the room, and from the corner of my eyes, I could see the window filling up with a bright light, as if something was getting closer and closer.
Then, bam, black. I open my eyes and it's still night. I get up, walk around, I can still feel the shivers. I turn the light on. Check the clock.
I thought it was aliens, lol, but apparently it was just sleep paralysis, as I found out in college later on.
bengraven said:
I was being dead serious. You mentioned scientology which while they haven't gone to vile and inhumane acts the nazi's did are in to things of a very similar nature. Nazi's aren't really necessary for the mythology I'm talking about scientology loves ripping off esoteric themes like crazy and adding their own bullshit why not just go straight to the source?
Gio_CoD said:
The typical crutch of the baseless argument is to call your opponent "close-minded".
I don't believe Science has solved everything, in fact one of the most mystical things I can think of is when you start getting down to Quantum Physics and trying to understand it's mechanics and implications. But demons, ghosts, and psychic abilities? Those theories are long dead, none of it is ever repeatable or even observable. Even if you are proposing these as possible explanations you're still not even explaining what ghosts, demons and psychic abilities even ARE to begin with. You would need a scientific explanation to your scientific explanation, and thats just plain silly.
Oh and your electromagnetic anti-gravity isn't anti-gravity, its ionizing lift. It's been proven to not work in a vaccuum. Its the same priniciple as any wing or rocket thrust we use today. Plus saying the government researched something doesn't make it real either. There has been plenty research on the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, thats come up empty. Its already been proven that the US Military atleast is testing Saucer-like and Cipher flying machines, but that merely takes the literal term of UFO, the hollywood term for UFOs from outside of Earth is once again baseless or hoaxed.
Gio_CoD said:
That's not true at all. All the scientific method wants to do is isolate the variables it's trying to understand. If you can't relax, take a shot of morphine. If you must have the object unobstructed, that could be arranged. BUUUUUT they would still need to measure air currents and check for string and what not. If you can prove that the object is being manipulated without the use of somethink like air currents and string then you have a shot at pimping your theory of ESP.
...too bad that's never been done. Because it follows on the same level of pseudo-science of theory first, evidence after. You aren't looking for what is really going on you're looking for the answer YOU want it be. That is why these things have never been proven, ever.
Cyan said:
Two links to two conspiracists sites and one to a homemade webpage...what is there to debunk exactly?
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
While nothing unexplainable has happened to me, at least nothing so significant I can speak of, quite a bit has happened in my uncles house.
I come from a country town, and my uncles house is the house his family grew up with, along with many people before. Its an old house, as are most houses in the town.
My uncle is from my fathers side, and his family was really quite huge. Seven kids, maybe nine? I cant quite remember (Im not overly close to them). Anyway, I never got to meet my grandma on that side of the family as she died before I was born.
The creepy factor comes from one day when an aunty of mine took an old friend of hers to the house to visit. Because they had all grown up there, and because my uncle still lives there, theres a lot of stuff around from their childhoods and a lot of family goods. I dont know exactly what it was, but my aunty wanted to pick something up, so she took her friend there.
She invited the friend in, did a brief tour, told her to wait, and went to grab whatever it was she was looking for. Found it, collected her friend, and left.
In the car the friend started questioning my aunty with Why didnt you introduce me?. My aunty was dumbfounded as nobody else was in the else, my uncle included, and had no idea who her friend was referring to. Why didnt you introduce me to the lady sitting in the chair?. My aunty simply didnt know what to say as nobody was sitting in the chair, and just kind of let it go.
Later that night they were going through photo albums with her, as she was an old friend, and they were just showing her some photographic memories. A photo comes up and the friend points to it and goes, Thats her! Thats the lady that was sitting in the chair. The one you didnt introduce me to. The picture was an old picture of my grandma, mother of that side of the family, sitting in her favourite chair, the same one the friend claimed someone was sitting in, that still sits in the house today.
I dont believe in ghosts, but thats the closest story I can share. Could have been a simple misconception, I dont know. What I do know is that pretty much everyone, relative or not, is convinced that house is haunted. Thats just one of many ghost stories revolving around that house.
The town I live in also has a very old pub that people think is haunted. I know a waitress there once quit because she couldnt handle the apparent ghosts. *insert alcohol/pub joke here*
I come from a country town, and my uncles house is the house his family grew up with, along with many people before. Its an old house, as are most houses in the town.
My uncle is from my fathers side, and his family was really quite huge. Seven kids, maybe nine? I cant quite remember (Im not overly close to them). Anyway, I never got to meet my grandma on that side of the family as she died before I was born.
The creepy factor comes from one day when an aunty of mine took an old friend of hers to the house to visit. Because they had all grown up there, and because my uncle still lives there, theres a lot of stuff around from their childhoods and a lot of family goods. I dont know exactly what it was, but my aunty wanted to pick something up, so she took her friend there.
She invited the friend in, did a brief tour, told her to wait, and went to grab whatever it was she was looking for. Found it, collected her friend, and left.
In the car the friend started questioning my aunty with Why didnt you introduce me?. My aunty was dumbfounded as nobody else was in the else, my uncle included, and had no idea who her friend was referring to. Why didnt you introduce me to the lady sitting in the chair?. My aunty simply didnt know what to say as nobody was sitting in the chair, and just kind of let it go.
Later that night they were going through photo albums with her, as she was an old friend, and they were just showing her some photographic memories. A photo comes up and the friend points to it and goes, Thats her! Thats the lady that was sitting in the chair. The one you didnt introduce me to. The picture was an old picture of my grandma, mother of that side of the family, sitting in her favourite chair, the same one the friend claimed someone was sitting in, that still sits in the house today.
I dont believe in ghosts, but thats the closest story I can share. Could have been a simple misconception, I dont know. What I do know is that pretty much everyone, relative or not, is convinced that house is haunted. Thats just one of many ghost stories revolving around that house.
The town I live in also has a very old pub that people think is haunted. I know a waitress there once quit because she couldnt handle the apparent ghosts. *insert alcohol/pub joke here*
I woke up with this lump on my forehead today.
I went to the doctor and she said there's no sign of a bite, infection, or evidence that I got hit in the head. It's swelling, but there's no skin irritation at all. She literally said she had no idea what's causing it, but to try ibuprofen, ice, and allergy medicine for a few days. If it doesn't go down by Monday, they'll look at it again.
I went to the doctor and she said there's no sign of a bite, infection, or evidence that I got hit in the head. It's swelling, but there's no skin irritation at all. She literally said she had no idea what's causing it, but to try ibuprofen, ice, and allergy medicine for a few days. If it doesn't go down by Monday, they'll look at it again.
Herpes Reasons
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looks like a spider bite. the swelling is an allergic reaction.
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thetrin
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SteelAttack said:
My grandmother swears to this day that I am my grandfather reincarnated. There's nothing mysterious about that. He and I are very very similar, and there was a gap of 25 years between his death and my birth. It's just very interesting stuff.
bengraven
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LCGeek said:
I was comparing Scientologists' religious views on the cowering, garlic-stringing serfs who feared vampires and believed faeries were going to drag them under water to their palaces.
I don't see a valid reason to throw Godwin's law into this at all.
It's about what you believe in and after years of reality clouding fantasy, a person may no longer believe in the paranormal anymore - by choice.
Emerson
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When I was younger there were few things I enjoyed more than sitting around with my parents and grandparents and listening to them tell stories from their lives. One night around Christmas, my entire family was over and after dinner I sat with my grandparents, mom, two aunts and two uncles, who all told stories of strange things they remember. I can't remember them very well because I was probably only 13, but that night is one of my favorite memories.
My mom told one story which creeped me out big time. My grandparents' house was one of those big old houses that just feel off in some way. I was always mildly scared whenever I walked around alone. And when I spent the night there, I slept in what was my mother's room when she was a teenager. Once when she was about 15 or 16, her parents and two sisters were in the Netherlands for a week. The family remembered this and explained why at the time but I can't remember now. Anyway she was all alone in the house for a week, just going to school and so forth. One night she was in bed and swears she had locked her bedroom door. But while lying awake before falling asleep, she distinctly heard the sound of heavy footsteps, like a man's, walking down the hall to her room. She then said the footsteps stopped, and she watched as her doorknob turned, like it was about to open. Then the knob turned back, and she heard footsteps walking away.
She said that was the most scared she had ever been in her life, and even now I'm getting chills writing this, thinking about all the scary nights I spent sleeping in that room.
The only other relatively complete story I have was when a family friend's father died, and both my grandmother and the man's wife claimed to have seen the dead man's face in the clouds at separate times after the funeral.
The only story I can personally tell is once when I was about 10 or 11, I was lying in bed watching TV. On the verge of falling asleep, I ended up closing my eyes. I then felt the pain of being punched in my balls, hard. This isn't a joke at all. I've been hit in the balls for real and it felt the same. I was terrified and in agonizing pain for a few minutes.
My mom told one story which creeped me out big time. My grandparents' house was one of those big old houses that just feel off in some way. I was always mildly scared whenever I walked around alone. And when I spent the night there, I slept in what was my mother's room when she was a teenager. Once when she was about 15 or 16, her parents and two sisters were in the Netherlands for a week. The family remembered this and explained why at the time but I can't remember now. Anyway she was all alone in the house for a week, just going to school and so forth. One night she was in bed and swears she had locked her bedroom door. But while lying awake before falling asleep, she distinctly heard the sound of heavy footsteps, like a man's, walking down the hall to her room. She then said the footsteps stopped, and she watched as her doorknob turned, like it was about to open. Then the knob turned back, and she heard footsteps walking away.
She said that was the most scared she had ever been in her life, and even now I'm getting chills writing this, thinking about all the scary nights I spent sleeping in that room.
The only other relatively complete story I have was when a family friend's father died, and both my grandmother and the man's wife claimed to have seen the dead man's face in the clouds at separate times after the funeral.
The only story I can personally tell is once when I was about 10 or 11, I was lying in bed watching TV. On the verge of falling asleep, I ended up closing my eyes. I then felt the pain of being punched in my balls, hard. This isn't a joke at all. I've been hit in the balls for real and it felt the same. I was terrified and in agonizing pain for a few minutes.
Lionheart1827 said:
Did you taste the wine? It must have been a rare vintage.
Couldn't let this get no love, had me chuckling at work, good job
The only really creepy thing that happened to me I have no explanation for and am still wondering what happened in my brain that caused me to see something that obviously didn't exist.
One night in 1999 (or 2000, can't remember for sure), my dad was driving me back from a baseball game just outside of Toronto. Since it was late and I was exhausted, I leaned the seat back and started to doze off. Just before I was about to fall asleep, my head tilted to look out the passenger window and I swear I saw the moon, but it was blood red, and 3 times its normal size. I looked away briefly to see if my dad saw it and when I turned back it was just the normal moon again. I'm still really curious as to what happened in my brain then, but I don't think I'll ever find out :lol
Tornado Condor
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Dresden said:
There's more
Not really creepy, but very interesting. The WOW signal is the closest we have to proving there's intelligent life out there.speedpop said:
There was another, more recent recent signal.. anyone knows it?
Of course i wasn't the first to formulate this theory, but if the choice of words upsets you, replace 'theory' with 'my take on what hapenned...'. From the many possibilities (or theories) this is the one that is very likely to have hapenned, in my opinion.John Dunbar said:
WHAT?!!?!Purkake4 said:
Again, what? What scientific community would that be?, because i thought the scientific community agreed on the fact that it's uncertain whether the size of the universe is finite or infinite, with many scientists guesstimating that the universe is very possibly infinite.Purkake4 said:
Now, the big bang cosmologists sustain the idea that the universe is flat and infinite, but let's consider what you are saying: the universe is finite. What does that imply? Well, if the universe would be finite, that would mean there is a boundary, that it has an end. What is beyond that boundary? What is it expanding into?, because by definition the universe is all there is.
Find the answer to that and you'll have a place near Einstein or Hawking in history.
Of course this is all speculation, but i just wanted to point that the consensus among most cosmologists is that it is flat and infinite and not finite.
Except that the electrogravitic experiments HAVE been carried out in vacuums and have still worked, thus nullifying your ion propulsion theory. Again, try looking into Thomas Townsend Brown and checking about how he proved that ion propulsion wasn't the force behind the thrust of his discs.Holepunch said:
Gio_CoD said:
"Claims of the device working in a vacuum have also been disproven."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft
Where have you seen it proven to work in a vacuum?
Count Dookkake
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Yes you are. A lifter is not the same thing as the discs that Brown experimented with that were shown to work in a vacuum. If you're seriously interested (which you're not), read this:KHarvey16 said:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/159143078X/?tag=neogaf0e-20
It covers lifters (which do work on ion propulsion), and it also covers several other alternative forms of propulsion, including electrogravitic and microwave.
Ash Sparrow
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When i was 14-15 me and my cousins decided to take a trip to Mississippi.We arrived at my great grandmothers announced at night, Suprised she let us in she was quite old, better yet she had almost been robbed recently, her saveing grace being she threw bleach in the robbers eyes. Anyway she let us in, after talking with our parents it was bedtime, me and my cousins all stayed in a guest room. So me a girl cousin and a boy cousin, after acting silly for a bit, we settled in after our 13 hour journey.
I slept on the chair and gave them the bed. I've always been comfortable sitting up sleeping moreso than the average person. She didnt have heat in that room, actually she did but didnt tell us till the morning.Thing is i dont remember it being much cold at all. I mean summer in Miss can be scorching. The weather was so great feeling on the way to her house. Anyway That night I woke up i had never felt cold like that in my life, its hard to explain and would sound full of hyperbole if i said the cold didnt feel natural, but it didnt, it felt like there was no room around us, it felt like we were sleeping outside. I had a creepy feeling . Outside had been great feeling. And it was so dark in there, but the south can be dark in the country parts. Pitch black. I put the cover over my head and bared it.
In the morning my cousins would comment on how cold it was. After returning home to the suburbs i spoke to my mother about the experience. She asked me what it was like staying with my greatgrandmother. I mentioned to her the cold room. She was like yeah i'm not suprised. I'm like huh? Then she told me of her experience in the room.
One night when they lived in Miss, her and her sister were staying in the guest room. She woke up to see a man sitting in the chair by the bed. she said it terrified her, she said the chair he was in seemed pushed right up to the bed and the man was making a gurgling sound, like he couldnt catch his breath. she said it scared her so bad she threw the cover over her head, till she looked out and saw that he was gone. In the morning she told my great grandmother of the experience and my grandmother looked shocked. She said i didnt want to tell you girls, but a week ago a guy they knew called whispering Jon had died in the room, he had choked to death..
I slept on the chair and gave them the bed. I've always been comfortable sitting up sleeping moreso than the average person. She didnt have heat in that room, actually she did but didnt tell us till the morning.Thing is i dont remember it being much cold at all. I mean summer in Miss can be scorching. The weather was so great feeling on the way to her house. Anyway That night I woke up i had never felt cold like that in my life, its hard to explain and would sound full of hyperbole if i said the cold didnt feel natural, but it didnt, it felt like there was no room around us, it felt like we were sleeping outside. I had a creepy feeling . Outside had been great feeling. And it was so dark in there, but the south can be dark in the country parts. Pitch black. I put the cover over my head and bared it.
In the morning my cousins would comment on how cold it was. After returning home to the suburbs i spoke to my mother about the experience. She asked me what it was like staying with my greatgrandmother. I mentioned to her the cold room. She was like yeah i'm not suprised. I'm like huh? Then she told me of her experience in the room.
One night when they lived in Miss, her and her sister were staying in the guest room. She woke up to see a man sitting in the chair by the bed. she said it terrified her, she said the chair he was in seemed pushed right up to the bed and the man was making a gurgling sound, like he couldnt catch his breath. she said it scared her so bad she threw the cover over her head, till she looked out and saw that he was gone. In the morning she told my great grandmother of the experience and my grandmother looked shocked. She said i didnt want to tell you girls, but a week ago a guy they knew called whispering Jon had died in the room, he had choked to death..