Creepy unsolved/paranormal/strange events thread

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

i saw mentioning of it in the first few pages of this thread. i kinda skipped the rest of the thread. but i went ahead and looked it up. that description makes total sense... honestly i'd say that sounds like it could be what it was!
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:lol Tell me about it, when I experienced it I seriously thought I had some freaky ass paranormal encounter. I told it to one of my friends and he's like " lol, sleep paralysis" and he links me the wiki article. Part of me was kind of disappointed.
 
Pancho said:
:lol Tell me about it, when I experienced it I seriously thought I had some freaky ass paranormal encounter. I told it to one of my friends and he's like " lol, sleep paralysis" and he links me the wiki article. Part of me was kind of disappointed.
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yeah thats what i thought also, but at the same time i wasn't sold on it. so i was just sitting down the middle in confusion. but it is a relief to rule that one out of the book... i've had other weird shit, but i'm pretty sure it was just due to being deprived of sleep back when KilgoreTrout and I had a horrorelectrocore noise-rock band.. we spend two nights straight no sleep, just recording shit. Then after we were done, i seriously thought there were glowing people outside my window. haha. I don't handle lack of sleep well.
 
I'm guessing I've had a mild form of sleep paralysis quite a few times.

When I was younger, about once every year and a half or so (complete guess), I'd wake up to a cold sweat in the middle of the night after a severe nightmare and lack the ability to move, talk, or deeply breathe. I don't recall ever hallucinating visually (holy crap, you guys), but my mind was definitely convinced that I was better off not doing anything and not going back to sleep for a while.

I never assumed anything paranormal because my family is just not of that type of religion, but for the longest time, I thought it was the nightmare itself that did it to me. It wasn't until one time when I completely forgot what I had dreamt about and STILL couldn't move that I suspected something else. I thought something was just wrong with me at that point. I hoped someone would open my bedroom door and find me if I was still like this by the time the sun rose, because I didn't want to be late for school.


It's really cool that there's a scientific explanation. I'll never see it the same way if it happens again.
 
If ghosts do exist and haunt buildings what happens when the building is torn down. Does the ghost haunt the empty lot?
 
R2D4 said:
If ghosts do exist and haunt buildings what happens when the building is torn down. Does the ghost haunt the empty lot?
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Usually a new building goes up in its place, so the ghost gets a swanky new condo one-bedroom for free.
 
Pancho said:
Also, I remember a story that my sister told me once. She's a nurse, and one night during night shift she and the other shift nurses from that floor kept seeing a black figure going into one of the rooms. Turns out the next day the old man that was in the room died. She has a bunch of other stories like that but I can't remember them well.
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Or was he MURDERED!?!

LOL. Dress up like death, scare the staff, snuff out an old man, collect insurance money...
 
Well, since we're all posting our sleep paralysis stories I guess I'll share mine. I used to get them a lot when I was younger but, they were usually really mild like, I couldn't move or speak for a while and I'd just go "oh, this again". No voices, sounds, visions or anything, just that really crappy feeling of not being able to move your body. I then just focused on moving my pinky finger until it did and that usually did the trick. The last time it happened was several years ago and boy was it a doozie.

So I'm laying on my bed falling asleep when I realized I couln't move anymore. Bussiness as usual, I thought, but then I start hearing these ungodly screams coming from beneath my bed. That was new, and it was what hell must sound like. The room filled with flickering red-orange light also coming from below and then it started. As I'm trying to move my arms the bed suddenly starts turning slowly sideways and I somehow clutch the sheets trying to hold on to something, anything. Imagine, if you will, if your bed were installed on a giant spit over a fire with a million wailing voices agonizing below in the blazing abyss.

Now I'm trying my best to hold onto my bed for dear life. I keep trying to scream and call for help but nothing except muffled grunts come out and at about the same time I start feeling like I'm finally sliding off the bed I suddenly sit up, everything being back to normal, except I've tears running down my cheeks, my heart's thumping like it's about to burst out of my chest and I've an iron tight grip on my bed sheets so much that my fingers hurt.

I then hugged my dog and proceeded to go back to sleep.

And that was the last time I've experienced sleep paralysis so far. If I never experience it again I can at least say it went out with a bang!
 
Jeramii said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

i saw mentioning of it in the first few pages of this thread. i kinda skipped the rest of the thread. but i went ahead and looked it up. that description makes total sense... honestly i'd say that sounds like it could be what it was!

*edit* pancho above talked about difficulty breathing with his paralysis. come to think of it, i did have some trouble with it. just kinda forgot in the description earlier.
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The heavy feeling in your stomach and sleep Paralysis in general is what inspired the stories of Succubus' and other demons of nations such as those in East Asia.
 
I used to get sleep paralysis so much sleeping in the library of my community college that I just got used to it, and it isn't scary to me any more. I would just kinda wake up and not be able to move, thinking "oh not this again...gotta wait a couple mins I guess". No biggie! :D
 
Sleep paralysis always creeps me out. I've only had a few in my life, but once, I woke, I couldn't move, I had trouble breathing, there were these tingling feelings running all over my body, and I could see a green light get stronger and stronger in the room, as if some object was coming closer to the window, along with this ringing, echoing noise. The whole time I was thinking to myself OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD ALIENS, then it suddenly stopped, I got myself out of bed, turned the light on, and sat drinking and watching anime the whole night. :lol



The freakiest experience was when I caught a fever, and ended up drinking too much cough syrup. I was like, oops, and got a cup of orange soda to wash it down along with some aspirin. I went to sleep, then suddenly, I felt a sudden rush of air, I open my eyes, and there's this extraordinarily giant thing just rushing past, above me, as if the roof didn't exist. I crawl off the bed and lay flat on the floor for a couple of minutes until it passed, then fell asleep there.



The weirdest was probably the time I took some acid in high school, and I lay on the couch thinking that there were things on me, things that moved and lived, and that if I moved I would crush them to death, which depressed me terribly. I was the mother and I could suddenly picture myself as this ball, upon which these brown-grey spider creatures scuttled.
 
AstroLad said:
Not to be a Tonay, but the idea that ghosts could exist, and in that form is just . . . you might as well think Boos exist.
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Yes, because believing something that millions of people have claimed to have experienced since time immemorial is the same as believing a videogame character exists.
 
The_Dude said:
Yes, because believing something that millions of people have claimed to have experienced since time immemorial is the same as believing a videogame character exists.
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Wow, never really thought of it that way. I take it back I guess; never even considered that when I made my post.
 
I had my first sleep paralysis experience last night. I had finished reading Anthony Bourdain's Medium Raw, and when I slept I had dreamt that the travel channel was doing some sort of generic traveling special with the guy. Anyways, they go from locale to locale, and for the last bit they went fishing in the Atlantic coast. Bourdain's talking to the crew when they suddenly run into a giant fucking tsunami.

It gets silly, the thing is lurching up over them like the tsunami from the Abyss, and it starts to crash down on them. Thing is, the dream acts like I'm right there and the camera was actually just my vision. The tsunami stops crashing mid-way and this loud-ass thumping/humming sound starts going off while everything else is silent.

At first, what I think is this giant, massive whale is going through the tsunami when I realized it had a gigantic snake-like body. I don't know why, but I had thought/spoken something like "Not even God has this sort of power", and then I suddenly awoke in my bed, unable to move, while the tsunami sound keeps going off in my room.

My cat who was sleeping next to me made some sort of freakish sound, and suddenly I feel like that thing was behind me, trying to take me. Funny thing was, is that it felt like my body was naturally reacting with fear while my mind was focused on getting up pretty calmly. It was strange to say the least. Literal waves of fear.

And that's about it. I "resist" it long enough and I get up out of bed.

10/10 damn that was cool, would do again
 
AstroLad said:
Not to be a Tonay, but the idea that ghosts could exist, and in that form is just . . . you might as well think Boos exist.
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AstroLad said:
Wow, never really thought of it that way. I take it back I guess; never even considered that when I made my post.
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Oh, sorry, I didn't realise you were making a purposefully stupid, nonsensical comparison.
 
I just hadn't thought about it that way like I said. Not much more to add really. Sorry if I upset you or whatever; wasn't my intention at all.
 
Rflagg said:
I always sort of wondered unless you are one of the lucky few that gets on with a show like the cancelled Monster Quest who pays you to be a cryptozoologist? I would love to get paid to try to track down bigfoot.
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I think it's generally done on a uh, pro-bono type basis...
 
Major Williams said:
I remember there was a video of a guy in an old house, using night vision on the camera, and he starts in one room, looks at a closet, then hears something so he goes across the hallway.

As he pans around the room, something TALL AS FUCK crouches down out of the closet and looks right at the camera/him and him and his buddy book it down the stairs and out of the house.

Does anyone remember what this is called/have the video?

Edit: found it: Barton Mansion Ghost/Demon. The screen captures are scary as hell, and the "closet" it came out of was only like a teapot holding counter area not more than 8-12inches deep. What. the. hell.
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Lord knows I would have literally ran through a wall trying to get out of there o.O
 
I always find those shows like ghost hunters funny. They go in places turn off all the lights as if thats what would draw them out. Spend the next few hours looking and yelling for something, then we they see or hear something they run away.
 
The problem with ghost hunter type TV shows is that you cannot possibly believe any of it. Generally speaking, I think half hour shows shoot four or five times that amount of footage and edit it all down. Who can seriously believe they have so much material and real things that have happened that they can keep pumping out season after season?

If it were a real show about ghosts it would have been canceled because no one would watch a 20 episode season of people sitting in the dark getting spooked by nothing and occasionally have an episode here or there where something legitimately strange/paranormal happens.

It's good entertainment, but they're not that lucky. It's a tv show, it has to be exciting, it's fake.
 
I experienced sleep paralysis quite a few times in my teens. The only thing I remember was being 100% certain someone was standing right beside my bed, just out of my field of vision.

Running the risk of being laughed at, I refuse to mess with Ouija boards. Had a very creepy experience with one when I was around 15. I'm a firm believer of the ideomotor effect explanation but I still won't touch one ever again.
 
R2D4 said:
If ghosts do exist and haunt buildings what happens when the building is torn down. Does the ghost haunt the empty lot?
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More importantly, what happens to ghosts once the Sun goes supernova and destroys the Earth entirely?
 
The_Dude said:
Yes, because believing something that millions of people have claimed to have experienced since time immemorial is the same as believing a videogame character exists.
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i think that the idea that a ghost would be in the shape of something out of Scooby Doo, lantern and all, is pretty laughable. If there are ghosts or spirits it makes sense to me that they would either be formless or assume the shape of something familiar.
 
AstroLad said:
I just hadn't thought about it that way like I said. Not much more to add really. Sorry if I upset you or whatever; wasn't my intention at all.
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Actually, I think I got the wrong end of the stick with your first post, so I apologise for that. Sorry!

water_wendi said:
i think that the idea that a ghost would be in the shape of something out of Scooby Doo, lantern and all, is pretty laughable. If there are ghosts or spirits it makes sense to me that they would either be formless or assume the shape of something familiar.
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Yeah, I see what AstroLad meant now. Went off a bit half-cocked on that one!
 
tmarques said:
Running the risk of being laughed at, I refuse to mess with Ouija boards. Had a very creepy experience with one when I was around 15. I'm a firm believer of the ideomotor effect explanation but I still won't touch one ever again.
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Don't be a tease, tell us what happened :o
 
Combichristoffersen said:
Don't be a tease, tell us what happened :o
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Nothing that would sound exciting when told, really. Just the distinct sensation that the pointer was being moved by an outside force. Never even spelled anything coherent.
 
Horsebite said:
The problem with ghost hunter type TV shows is that you cannot possibly believe any of it. Generally speaking, I think half hour shows shoot four or five times that amount of footage and edit it all down. Who can seriously believe they have so much material and real things that have happened that they can keep pumping out season after season?

If it were a real show about ghosts it would have been canceled because no one would watch a 20 episode season of people sitting in the dark getting spooked by nothing and occasionally have an episode here or there where something legitimately strange/paranormal happens.

It's good entertainment, but they're not that lucky. It's a tv show, it has to be exciting, it's fake.
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There are certain ones though that will literally show you nothing for an hour. I think Ghost Hunters does this sometimes. At least they did earlier on in the series that I used to sit there and wonder why I was watching it because they were showing crap. Then theres the episodes where they take what others have seen and debunk it on their own investigation. Its that kind of stuff that always made them feel more legit even if they actually arent. I dunno.

I havent watched it recently though. I try to catch the Halloween specials but they always kinda annoyed me with all the wrestlers or special guests trying to be cool and funny.
 
Man, at first that Barton ghost seemed really lame, but then I read the accompanying story and sort of got into it, and now the previously lame video is somewhat spooky to me :\
 
tmarques said:
Nothing that would sound exciting when told, really. Just the distinct sensation that the pointer was being moved by an outside force. Never even spelled anything coherent.
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It's definitely a freaky effect. It really does not feel like anyone is forcing it to move anywhere. Of course the illusion completely breaks down once everyone closes their eyes and stops looking at the board.
 
Just had a sleep paralysis episode a few nights ago. I always know when one is coming on because i get these "brain zaps". Anyway, I get them occasionally but it had been a while since one was actually disturbing. I was sleeping on my back when I got it and I felt and could see a baby face on my shoulder. I couldn't move and couldn't breath properly. The baby asked me to help it and seemed to be in distress. I looked around the room and everything would flash red for a second. It was pretty interesting since rarely do these paralysis episodes scare me. I was pretty exhausted and was suffering from a chest cold so I'm sure it was my discomfort that set it off.
 
GalacticAE said:
Just had a sleep paralysis episode a few nights ago. I always know when one is coming on because i get these "brain zaps". Anyway, I get them occasionally but it had been a while since one was actually disturbing. I was sleeping on my back when I got it and I felt and could see a baby face on my shoulder. I couldn't move and couldn't breath properly. The baby asked me to help it and seemed to be in distress. I looked around the room and everything would flash red for a second. It was pretty interesting since rarely do these paralysis episodes scare me. I was pretty exhausted and was suffering from a chest cold so I'm sure it was my discomfort that set it off.
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I think I know what you mean. Something kind of like when you're about to fall into sleep, but you're jolted out of it, yet you're almost in that sleeping state. It happens to me several times, then when I do fall asleep, I experience the paralysis, crazy vivid dreams, etc. I have never had an episode that didn't scare the hell out of me, though.
 
GalacticAE said:
Just had a sleep paralysis episode a few nights ago. I always know when one is coming on because i get these "brain zaps". Anyway, I get them occasionally but it had been a while since one was actually disturbing. I was sleeping on my back when I got it and I felt and could see a baby face on my shoulder. I couldn't move and couldn't breath properly. The baby asked me to help it and seemed to be in distress. I looked around the room and everything would flash red for a second. It was pretty interesting since rarely do these paralysis episodes scare me. I was pretty exhausted and was suffering from a chest cold so I'm sure it was my discomfort that set it off.
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With 'brain zaps' did you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome

I've had this a couple of times and it jolted me awake. Sounded like a gun going off in my head really loud.
 
Not sure if anyone has posted this or not...

Disappearance of the crew of the Mary Celeste:
Oliver Deveau, chief mate of the Dei Gratia, boarded the Mary Celeste. He reported he did not find anyone on board, and said that "the whole ship was a thoroughly wet mess". There was only one operational pump, two apparently having been disassembled, with a lot of water between decks and three and a half feet (1.1 m) of water in the hold. However, the ship was not sinking and was still seaworthy.

All of the ship's papers were missing, except for the captain's logbook. The forehatch and the lazarette were both open, although the main hatch was sealed. The ship's clock was not functioning, and the compass was destroyed; the sextant and marine chronometer were missing. The only lifeboat on the Mary Celeste, a yawl located above the main hatch, was also missing. The peak halyard, used to hoist the main sail, had disappeared. A rope, perhaps the peak halyard, was found tied to the ship very strongly and the other end, very frayed, was trailing in the water behind the ship.
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Pretty strange and interesting. Not necessarily a paranormal experience, but strange regardless.
 
$1148 Jack said:
With 'brain zaps' did you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome

I've had this a couple of times and it jolted me awake. Sounded like a gun going off in my head really loud.
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It tends to start with things like this, or the hypnic jerk. The moments when your brain begins to slip into a restless state, and your body begins to unconnect from these imaginations your brain creates.


There seems to be a pattern with sleep paralysis for some people. I know of people who will actively pursue them because the experience is, literally, out of this world, but others will avoid it at all cost. I've had it happen to me twice now and the situations prior were both similar; I was extremely tired, and I slept on my back. In fact last night I had a hypnic jerk and a sense that I would slip into a sleep paralysis, so I turned over onto my stomach and snoozed comfortably.
 
The Gable Film

Part Two WARNING, IT'S PRETTY GRAPHIC

Synopis: First video looks like a home film from the 70's with a bunch of outdoor scenes. At the end the cameraman is rushed by a strange looking creature (the so-called Michigan Dogman). The second video appears to be documenting the aftermath of the attack and it's pretty grisly.

Both
were confessed to being hoaxes, but still
make for some unsettling viewing.
 
Neuromancer said:
The Gable Film

Part Two WARNING, IT'S PRETTY GRAPHIC

Synopis: First video looks like a home film from the 70's with a bunch of outdoor scenes. At the end the cameraman is rushed by a strange looking creature (the so-called Michigan Dogman). The second video appears to be documenting the aftermath of the attack and it's pretty grisly.

Both
were confessed to being hoaxes, but still
make for some unsettling viewing.
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Great flicks! The first is incredibly unnerving...that 8mm film and the silence are brilliant! Very unnerving.
 
^^^^

The above photo actually reminds me of a photo of my girlfriend's family she has up at our computer. Everything about the photo is normal except for her sister-in-law's head. It's transparent. You can see through her hair and forhead to the lights in the background like she's a ghost or being erased from history Marty McFly style.

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The Bongo story was talked about in a recent episode of Mysterious World. I have to say that I've changed my mind about the hosts. One of them seems like a sceptic, whereas the other seems to be a full-on Fox Mulder-style believer in Greys, but he tries not to let that interfere with his hosting.

I like that they don't patronise their guests and give them enough rope, as it were.
 
I love this kind of topics.
Anyways! I got 3 videos showing off a Ghost in a Sears store here in Puerto Rico where at 12 in the midnight when the store was closed and no one was inside, a darkish cloud turns the lights on and off on the store. When they got back to the Store at 9am the next morning the found it weird to be on since theres a switch that turns the lights off at 10:30 and it has to be truned on manually. When they got to the security cameras they found out about that shadow where it walks the store and walks through the cables section. If someone would kindly upload them I could send it.
 
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