Cinder_Rabbit
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It's late at night I can't sleep the dogs can't sleep, I checked the forum and didn't see one of these so here we are !! Have you guys got some weird, scary tales to tell ?
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Either or !Fact or fiction?
I'm working on a novel right now, set in the near future when smartphone technology reaches a point where even the poorest people on earth could own it, especially with charity alliances ensuring that every single person on earth has a phone.
An unknown, but much-hyped app was released at midnight, and people began downloading and using it. By morning, two billion people became fixated on their phones, unable to take their eyes nor their hands away from it - not for work, not for food, not even to drive or look after themselves.
And it gets worst from there, as the people began changing...
What do you think?
Mmh, how about... my apartment used to be haunted? These are true, but I'm really bad at making them sound scary.
1.) For a while, at night, I would hear a young girl crying. I have a two room apartment, and whenever I was in the living room it sounded as though the crying was coming from the bedroom and vice versa. There are no young children living in this house.
2.) A couple of times I have woken up with scratches and burns that hadn't been there when I went to sleep. The worst one was a second degree burn on my hand that I woke up with from a nap. I hadn't slept anywhere near a source of heat that could have caused this.
3.) I used to sleep with my bedroom door closed and locked. For some context, to get to my front door you have to climb a set of metal stairs and the door opens pretty loudly, so when all is quiet it is impossible to enter without me hearing you.
So one night I woke up and lay awake for a while. You know, how you sometimes do seemingly without any reason. Suddenly there was a loud crash at my bedroom door, as if someone was trying to break in. Just one, but it was extremely violent. Naturally, I was terrified. I think I managed to fall asleep again at some point. The next day I investigated and there weren't any signs of anyone having been there and none of my family (who live in this same house) had been in my apartment that night, either.
I 'cleaned' my apartment with sage and nothing has happened since then. These are probably more weird than scary, but I hope you enjoy them. (-: Good night!
Here are some real life spoopies for those who can't sleep. Science has found that the best cure to insomnia is to scare the living shit out of your brain. And by science, I mean myself. My qualifications include a staggering 1.5 hours of sleep over the past 30+ hours. Can't get any better than that.
Note: I stole most of these off Reddit, so you can always just go there if you need more.
The Case of Michael De Bourcier
A thirty-something man dies, only for his friends and colleagues to find out that he had paid for his own funeral the following week. As it turns out, all his credentials are false. Fake name, fake university degree, fake everything. Not exactly creepy as much as it is intriguing and weird. Read more.
The Death of Elisa Lam
A university student is found dead and naked inside a water tank on the rooftop of a hotel. Did someone put her there? Maybe. But forensics failed to find any evidence of struggle or trauma. Did she put herself there? Maybe, but how? Access to the rooftop is restricted to authorised personnel. The water tanks themselves are pretty high up, and access often required using a ladder that wasn't always there. The lids are also pretty heavy, and it would have been tricky to close it from inside the tank. To top it off, there's a footage of her behaving erratically around the hotel lift. She would go in, go out, make strange gestures -- pretty much all the things you need to fuel a conspiracy theory. Read more.
This happened at the Cecil Hotel in LA. Name sound familiar? It's gotten a reputation over the years as a popular venue for murder and suicide. The serial killer Richard Ramirez allegedly used to hang out there.
The False Persian Princess
Almost two decades ago, a mummified corpse is uncovered in Pakistan. The mummification technique screams Ancient Egypt, complete with all the cuneiform inscriptions and golden decor, and none of the organs. The mummy receives huge exposure, as the corpse is believed to be the daughter of Xerxes the Great. Yes, that Xerxes from 300. You know, the one with the fierce eyebrows and the golden thong? Did you know he's actually also Karl, the cute glasses guy, in Love Actually? Ah, but I digress.
The alleged daughter of Xerxes/Karl turned out to be a fraud. Upon closer inspection, nothing holds up. The organs are all gone, whereas the ancient Egyptians often left the heart intact. The inscriptions are in the wrong language. The coffin is only over 200 years old. The corpse is presumed to belong to a twenty-something woman who had died only five years ago. Cause of death? Blunt trauma to the lower back / pelvic regions. Is it really just fraud? Or a cover-up for something more sinister?
Personally, I'm inclined to believe it's hardcore RP gone wrong, but that's just me. Read more.
The Imposter
A 13-year-old American boy disappears in 1994. Three years later, the boy's family receives a call. The boy has been found all the way in Spain. Great. Finally, a happy ending, right? Right, guys?
As it is with love and happiness (and Persian princesses, apparently), it's all a fraud. The boy is actually a wanted conman who has pulled this shit multiple times before. But okay, fine, the family doesn't care. They're just glad their son is back, even if his blond hair's turned dark, and his blue eyes have turned brown. Even if he has developed a French accent out of nowhere. It's obvious to anyone with at least one working brain cell that they are not the same individuals. Still, the family would have none of it. Even a DNA test is out of the question.
Somewhere along the way, the conman puts his ego aside and admits to himself that he can't actually be that good, can he? There's something off. He ups the publicity angle until the FBI gets tired of his shit and actually investigates. It's off to prison for him. Now that the ruse is up, the conman states that the family is fucked up and they're hiding something. He claims that the sister even coached him on what to say or what to do, like showing him pictures and telling him stories about them, so identification can be confirmed.
Meanwhile, investigation into the American boy's disappearance reopens. Shortly after, the boy's half-brother, a suspect in the disappearance, dies of an overdose.
Got this all from a wonderful documentary, under the same name, on Netflix. It heavily features the conman himself, who I'm still convinced deserves his own edgy HBO miniseries. Half-watched for the case, half-watched for the character.
If you don't have Netflix, here's a read.
3,096 Days in Captivity
A 10-year-old girl is abducted, and forced to live in a tiny room for almost eight years. I can't put the abuse she's suffered through in a single word. What the fuck might suffice, or perhaps what the fucking fuck, but it still feels inadequate. Better just read about it.
There's also a movieabout it, which is how I became familiar with the case in the first place. It's decent enough, but when you've got non-British/Irish Europeans speaking English for the entirety of the film, it sounds a little jarring. Otherwise, the acting is great, though. I watched the movie as I am a fairly big fan of the lead actor, who plays the kidnapper, and I finished the movie unable to look at him the same way. Always a good sign, I think.
All sounds pretty creepy to me dude. Cant imagine waking up with burns that cant be explained though thats abit unsettling, has all this happened in the same apartment?
The Elisa Lam case even became a movie.
I saw some dumb theory recently that she was playing some "Elevator game" which was the apparent cause for the whole disappearance which was just totally daft. The most disgusting part about that story is that people were drinking the water she had been floating in rotting away, that's how they found her.
I used to work for a well known company in the area that was part mechanics part recovery firm. We had everything from roadside breakdowns to fatal crashes to vehicles involved in serious crimes. Because of this the yard was only accessible to people who worked there due to the nature of the cars (Fatal crashes means mess in cars and sharp metal, glass etc) We all had to wear high visibility uniforms as standard so we knew where each other was just by looking around.
I used to deal with peoples property in the vehicles, when someone had passed away and the family wanted their belongings it was my job to clean all of the car out catalogue it take pictures of the belongings so on and so forth. Few times I'd be walking down the yard either looking for a certain car or spare part I might be able to salvage and I'd see someone sat in a car that cant possibly be there, locked gate, no one told me anyone was coming in and no high vis vest. Plus some of the cars, cant, be sat in.
As quick as I saw them then they were gone.
Funnily enough I worked with my step dad, we've worked together quite alot on cars and I help him with some of the bigger jobs that takes more then one person even when we were working different jobs, on the off chance one night he saw I looked abit pale and he asked if I was ok. I just said don't think I'm going nuts or anything but I'm sure I keep seeing people sat in cars or stood around the yard.
He just bolted his head around at me like I just said something completely abnormal which is what I expected and replied with, "What you see them too?"
TLDR: People standing and sitting where they can't possibly be people.
The elevator thing was most likely a psychotic episode, as she was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. Of course, the condition has many, wildly different, subtypes and we don't know which one she had, so it's always just going to be pure speculation.
They actually made a film about it? Must have been really stretched out. I mean, the case is very intriguing but it is what it is. The blanks are what make it so appealing. Can't imagine a full-length film with just... blanks. The cynic in me thinks assholes trying to cash in on it. Then again, I enjoy looking up stuff like that -- from articles to documentaries to feature films -- so I'm part of the problem and completely being hypocritical here. And euggh, yep. The smell and the taste must have been horrendous. It's not just corpse tea. It's rotting corpse tea. Part of me feels bad for the hotel, too. It just has the shittiest luck when it comes to publicity. Last I checked, they changed their name to something else.
I'll be real here. I am made of 100% Genuine Chicken Meat, and would probably last about 24 hours working less. Maybe less.
Well, it depends, really. On the other hand, it sounds like it could make for interesting stories, having to recover passengers' belongings, like getting a glimpse into strangers' lives. Got any other stories from your time there?
And now for our next intermission
Speaking of impossible strangers, I have a similar story.
Older sister comes home late one night, just an hour past midnight. Onto the nightly routine. Shower. Wash your face. Brush your teeth. The bathroom is adjacent to her bedroom, and the door between is left ajar. From where she's standing, she;s got a pretty good view of the bedroom window.
That night, out of the corner of her eye, she catches the silhouette of an old lady outside her window. The figure is skinny, has long grey hair. She's wearing one of those floral-pattern, cotton dresses old ladies like to wear.
It can't have been a trick of the light, can it? Nothing else in her visual field bears similar colours or shapes. And there can't actually have been someone out there, because my sister's bedroom is on the second floor. The window has to be at least 12 feet above the ground.
Sister completely wimps out, starts running outside and screaming bloody murder. It wakes everyone up. Everyone hates her for it because goddammit, it's almost 2 in the morning and we're all busy pretending to be asleep. She's in her early 20's at that point, a grown woman in her own right, but that night she legit ends up sleeping in my parents' bedroom lol.
Next day, we find out that a family friend's passed away. It's kind of a surprise. We hadn't heard from her or family in a while, which wasn't completely unusual, as they had moved cities away.
Family friend fits my sister's description of the old lady down to a T. She used to be my sister's nanny growing up. They were really close, to the point where the family friend had one of her granddaughters named after my sister. She died close to 2AM.
I've always prided myself as one of those sceptical, pretentious scientist types, but man, I still can't explain what happened there.
Sounds it to be honest XD Though It was a mum and they have poiwers...When i was about fifteen i swear to fucking god i saw my mother's head do a full 360, like an owl. Creepy shit.
But then again i was most likely high and having a bad trip. Still, scary.
Can you share it ?I have a story about how my nephew used to have sixth sense and communicated with dead Jewish children at a nazi camp
Would you be up to sharing some of them?This is a thread subject I love to read about. I have some odd stories, ones that I now discredit (perhaps because I just don’t want to believe them to be true, not really sure). I don’t have too many scary things that have happened to me. There are some things though that I just can’t explain fully.
This is pretty damn creepy O.o But she was totally fine I hope? No marks on her no nothing?About ten years back, myself and my mother were visiting her sister in the North of the country, a few hundred miles from where we lived. My mum had decided to drive rather than take the train and after staying the weekend, we started our return trip. We left on a Monday morning but as the distance to our town was so great we called in with my mother's friend with the intention of spending the night.
It was a really nice house but is literally in the middle of nowhere; at least a mile from the next nearest house and miles again from the nearest town or shop. As we got close to the house a huge summer storm hit; torrential rain, thunder and lightning. It turned out to be quite lucky we had planned to stay overnight as driving conditions had quickly become dangerous.
The house was undergoing massive interior renovation at the time, which meant my Mum and me would be spending the night crashing in the living room as all the spare bedrooms were out of commission. Once the workmen had left for the day we spent most of the evening on the back porch watching the storm before we turned in for the night. I crashed on the couch while Mum took a leather divan-type sofa that was placed directly under the window that faced the driveway.
Late into the night I woke up feeling very uneasy, as if I was being watched. I opened my eyes but didn't move anything other than my head toward where Mum was sleeping. There was a hooded black figure standing at the window over my Mum, with his hands up to the window as if he was trying to see if anyone or anything was in the living room. The driveway had a very powerful light fixed on a pole at the edge of the front yard. My Mum, exhausted from the driving, was completely out for the count despite the window being no more than 18 inches from her face.
The figure continued to slowly scan the room then stopped suddenly as if he had just seen me. (The yard light was positioned so that no light was cast into the house so the room was completely pitch black). By now the severity of the storm had increased and thunder and lightning was striking frequently. As if on cue, a lightning strike hit and seemed to illuminate the inside of the living room. The figure leaves his vantage point and started walking towards the right hand side of the house where there is another window offering a better view of the living room.
Without saying anything I waited until the figure was out of sight and slid off the couch scuttling into the doorway just off the living room and out of the second windows line of sight. I peek from behind the wall and can see the figure at the second window. By this stage I was freaked and unsure what to do. Lightning hit again and the figure snapped his head right to where I was hiding. I remember being almost frozen, feeling his eyes were locked onto me. He left the second window and headed back toward the first. I somehow managed to move, running to the stairway in the corner of the room that led up to the bedroom of Mum's friends. I burst in and shouted that there was a man outside looking in.
Once over the initial surprise of me waking them in such a panic, the husband, a large man in his own right jumped up, summoned his eldest son who was a couple years older than me, found two cricket bats and marched down the stairs. The rest of the family and myself followed warily. My mother, having been woken by the commotion, met us at the bottom of the stairs having just been passed in the hallway by her best friends half-naked husband, toting a cricket bat and marching out into the storm. I explained what happened but could tell my Mother was in equal parts sceptical as she was shocked.
We waited for what seemed like an eternity in the darkness as no one thought, or perhaps dared, to turn on a light. Mum's friend tried to reassure us it was just a late night traveller who had broken down or got lost. Her husband and son returned after a minute or two. The husband went as far to get changed and check the grounds before he hopped in his car and drove the road a couple miles in both directions.
There was nothing. There had been no sound of a car leaving the driveway or any physical evidence of anyone being outside. This did little to reassure me and I was unable to shake the feeling of being watched that had originally woke me.
We managed a fitful night sleep before we gathered our things to set out the next morning. My mother was convinced I had imagined the whole thing and told her friends so by way of apology. This annoyed me at first although I knew it was the most logical explanation for them as no one else had saw the figure. Looking to forget the whole experience I did not argue the matter. As Mum said her goodbyes I went and snapped a picture of the house before returning to find her waiting by the car and ready to go.
I quickly popped my head in the house to say my own goodbyes and apologised for waking them last night. Our car horn sounded and the husband remarked Mum was getting impatient which is not like her. I shrugged it off at first but the car horn kept sounding with two long continuous beeps and a third and final one which was a good bit shorter.
I went to the side of the house to where our car was parked, it hadn't moved and sat with all the doors closed apart from the passenger door on the driver's side which was wide open. It was as I got close to the car that I saw Mum, slumped over the steering wheel.
Frantically I pulled open the door and tried to shake her awake. I found the pulse on her neck which seemed strong but she seemed to be completely unconscious. I pulled her out of the car and shouted for help as I carried her into the house.
I set her on the same couch I slept on the night before and with the help of her friend tried to bring her around from what we assumed was a random fainting spell. Thankfully she revived quite quickly and within the hour was ready to hit the road. Her friends were more than happy to let us stay for the day but she was keen to get home and I was keen not to spend another night there.
My Mother loves big, expensive steel wristwatches and she was wearing her Brietling Chronomat when all this happened. As were leaving she noticed the time on her watch had frozen at what must have been very close to the same time she fell unconscious.
She didn't remember passing out or even getting in the car and said little about it, appearing to be more concerned over her watch stopping. It was only on the way home the question finally occurred to me for the first time; why had the passenger door been open?
Mum:
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Completely fine but she still doesn't remember anything about passing out.This is pretty damn creepy O.o But she was totally fine I hope? No marks on her no nothing?