Aside from me as I stub my toe on the way to the bathroom.

So I just watched a creepy show called "A Haunting" on the Discovery Channel and I'm thoroughly creeped out, as I should have known I would be. Since not enough people are online, I'm looking to talk to people/occupy myself so I'm less creeped. What better than to make a thread on Massassi?

So who here either believed in ghosts or gets freaked out by things like tv shows about hauntings or ghost tours?

I, for one, don't believe in ghosts or the paranormal at all. Until I'm scared. Then all of the sudden I'm a big believer. And I have to admit I'm a bit of a wuss on the subject. I have all kinds of mildly amusing stories involving me being a wuss about this stuff.

so it's either a discussion on the paranormal or an attempt to distract me

No, I do hope there's paranormal stuff but since reality is lame, there probably isn't.

The middle one because I have imagination and I'm easily spooked.

I've never seen evidence of the paranormal. Of course, if I had, then it would be normal and not paranormal.

The fact that Keith Richards is still walking kinda has me leaning towards believing in the paranormal and occult.

Otherwise, haven't not never seen nothin remotely scary none

I don't believe in it, but on the occasional but rare occurence something or another might get my imagination stirring in a wrong time.

The one repeating occurence is if I'm walking alone in the dark of night outside, in a quiet and/or dark area. I'll be shooting glances all over and quickening the pace.

ONE event that I will remember is this one dream/reality twist that happened. I was having a dream about some sort of mutant undead zombie ghost things and I woke up chilled to the bone. To worsten things, something (a branch) was lightly tapping the window. I slipped back to sleep, but in my dream I thought I was lying in my bed listening to whatever tap at the window. In the dream I got up and tossed the curtain to the side and there in my face was a cold, white deformed face with pale iris-less eyes, snarling at me through the window. Woke up to the same tapping in the window, and that time I got pissed of my scare, popped on some shoes, threw on a t-shirt and walked outside in my boxers to comfront wtf it was.

I wtfpwned that branch something fierce I'll tell ya.

But ya... I don't believe in paranormal shizzles.

I tend to have an overactive imagination. And yeah, I'm not good with secluded or empty areas late at night.

2 nights ago I'd seen something on tv so I'm scared (again) and my dog's on my bed with me, so I think to myself "okay, well as long as the dog's not freaking out, I'm fine." not 5 minutes later, my dog goes into the hallway, whimpers and runs under my bed.

*facepalm*

Don't worry, I'll protect you!

yes i do believe in the possibility of the paranormal, and im sure that doesnt surprise anyone.

but oh man is that show on discovery frightening some times! you should check out the episode called: Demon Child. creepy stuff.

hahaha no, no I don't! I don't know why I keep watching these things. I had to sleep in my friend's room the night we went on a ghost tour in Edinburgh.

Things that go bump in the night.........mmmmmmm my bed against the wall.

Gigggity.

the only instance that has ever freaked me out was when i was going to class once. i was in a building that has an open stairwell in the main lobby, which connects to each subsequent floor, also open to the lobby.

there are park benches by the railing for each floor, and as i was traveling up the stairs from the second floor, i noticed an old man sitting on one of the benches on the floor above me. he looked over at me and smiled, and i was like wtf.. anyway, i had my back to him while i was going up the side of the stairs that faces into the lobby, when i made the turn to go up to the level he was at, but he was gone. there was nobody on that floor, and my back to him for about 5 seconds. there was nowhere that he could've gone that i wouldn't have at least partially seen him.

that has been the only thing to this day that has made me slightly uneasy.

also, if that show creeped you out, never watch TAPS on scifi. they have video clips of 'paranoia' that'll mind**** the hell out of you.

The only somewhat paranormalish thing I've experienced in the last few years was in 2005, but every time I had a nightmare and woke up, I thought I saw a Muslim woman standing in the middle of my room for a few seconds until I realized there was nothing. Freaky.

I haven't experienced anything myself, at least not that I remember, but I do accept the possibility.

Aw cmon, the tours aren't that creepy.

Haven't you heard?

Weekly world news = truth.
http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/news/breaking_news/

(not quite ghosts but they report on aliens a lot)

it was the south bridge vaults that did me in

No. But I'm willing to make fun of you for being afraid of things that aren't there...

Did anyone else expect this thread to be about something else?

Hehe. I'll admit they were creepy when I went in them. I was 9!

Actually I was in south bridge today.

Thanks, love

No, that's more or less what I expected

Baconfish: 9?!

I'm going to say there's a good possibility. I haven't experienced anything myself, but according to my mother, strange things happened in our house shortly after my dad was killed.

I was wee and it was a halloween school trip thing I think.:awesome:

No.

But I do imagine random bad stuff happening all the time, and I can creep myself out with that.

I've had experiences, and heard the testimonies of many close friends.

Way too tired to tell scary stories, but in a word.

Yes.

Very much so.

Scariest thing that happened to me at night was when a squirrel jumped of some ledge of another apartment and banged my window. It fell to its death though :(.

I thought it was a man trying to get in my house.

Well, luckily the window didn't break.

I had a really bad nightmare (which led to a bad night) after watching Steven King's "Storm of the Century". It's weird because the complete series wasn't really scary.

I believe in it, however I don't trust the vast majority of stories & things.
I think it's real but gets embelished most of the time.

You mean like UFO stories and sightings? Perhaps they hallucinated.

squishington! he was my favorite i remember the episode where there was a piece of radioactive toast that came from behind the microwave.

reality is but that which is perceived

Being a deployed grunt, yes.


It's ok though, Only 4 more days.

Hopefully you've helped prepared the noobies who'll be taking over your tasks enough that they're not in any unnecessary danger, eh?

And Alran, Squish was pretty smart for someone who lived in the bathroom....

Sugarless, try not to listen too much at the top of your stairs, eh?

Well... not too much. But I had this one situation, when I was living in the states, we used to live up in the woods, in the house where the owners parents had died. Every know and then, doors would fly open, lights would inexplicably go on and off, and my entire family once witnessed the front door nob turning while no one was behind it.

My dad kept telling us his lame theories of how these things happened, I was spooked out A LOT at first, but then I started sort of buying into the theories.

There was also this one time where we heard crying in our house... but we just concluded that it was the wind.

Oh sorry, I thought this thread was about me. I read the topic as "things that go hump in the night." My bad.

I wish.

When I stay at my grandmother's house, I always get this funny feeling that I'm being watched or there's someone there. It takes me forever to fall asleep because I keep poking my eyes up. My grandfather and great-grandmother both died in the same room in which I sleep. Let me sleep, grandpa!

I've never seen anything but I have definitely felt a presence at Martyn's parents' house - they have a friend who runs a ghost tour in York and he has seen Martyn's grandfather's ghost in this house. On his tour he takes you to a number of places in York which have a bit of history or where he has experienced ghostly goings-on, and I have felt something in those places.

Or maybe it's just because I want to believe that I do!

Oh No, I'm not going home. I thought the title of the thread implied something sexual and I get to see my fiancee in 2 days..


Be advised: Paratroopers go bump in the night.



Roach, are you going to Jump School?

yeah definatly, Watched TAPS stuff alot, and they very rarely see anything.

But boy when they do... The chair in the lighthouse was somewhat convincing