When my sister was young, my parents got her a personal "phone" - a landline so that she could feel 'special' (yes, she was extra spoiled.) It was a pre-paid landline though, so basically no one could call in or out if she ran out of credit, much like a mobile phone. anyway, every night at 3am her phone would ring. she said there was a man on the other line, and she would get really scared and come running to my room. it escalated to the point that I asked her to please disconnect her phone before going to sleep because it was becoming extremely annoying to get woken up every single night by this 'person' that called her. to be honest, since she was about 10, i thought it was just these stupid scary movies she liked to watch. eventually she just got rid of the phone.

in any case.. i recall this stopping. a few years ago we were talking about it, and she confessed that her phone continued to ring even after she disconnected it, which is why she said she didnt want it anymore. she has no recollection of what the person on the other end was saying, or maybe she's just completely blocked it out.

I've heard stories like this before, minus the getting things forwarded after changing numbers. Usually the "screaming" is a digital signal being sent over a phone line, like a fax or an old modem. Back in the day they built a lot of things like alarm systems or specialized industrial machinery that would plug into a phone line and call their manufacturer if they needed service. Of course eventually the manufacturer goes out of business, and the alarm system is deactivated, but it's still there and still connected to the phone line, so once its electronics start failing (which can take decades) it tries to phone home for repairs.

Listen to these recordings. Imagine the machine attempting to play them was broken and couldn't quite make the sounds properly. Sound familiar at all?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC3uDuRXJyA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55o7ZjzlcNg

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Demon lost its job and phone too. Damned recession!

What the fucking fuck. Fuuuuck that.

This exact thing happened to me when I was a teenager in 07 with my old flip phone. My house # would call my cell and vice versa in the middle of the night leaving the hellish screaming static messages. My parents thought it was weird but never did much about it. I thought they were screwing with me for a long time. My mom swears that they had no interest in pranking me, and my dad was extremely strict, not the joking type. He of course chalked it up to "a glitch". Um okay then.

I probably would have filed a harassment case with the police long before changing my number.

Jesus christ this same exact thing happened to me when I was in 6th-8th grade. I had entirely blocked out the memory until just now. Crazy shit.

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Your mum is a prankster

Clearly your mom was the ultimate prankster

Fox stuck in ventilation system.

Fax machine...?

I haven't really had this happen, but about a year ago I got a voice mail on my cellphone that I thought was with the publishing company that is publishing my books and when I listen to it it sounded like a frickin clown laugh on the other end.

created an account just for this! hope my story doesnt get buried too far!

this happened to me when i was around 14 or 15, in 2002-2003, and LAN centres were all the rage for Singaporean boys. i used to hang out with my younger brother's friends, who were also my neighbours, and we would meet very frequently at night on weekends to go to the nearby LAN centre to play wc3 or something.

i live on the 11th floor of a high-rise public housing flat, and one evening, i was leaving my flat at about 825pm. my neighbours were waiting for me at a convenience store some 400 m away from my flat. my apartment is at one end of the flat, and there are three lifts spaced out long the entire width of the building. the nearest lift was literally 3 metres away. so anyway, that night, i stepped out of my apartment and started putting on my shoes right outside my door. right after, i checked my watch before walking towards the lift (that how i rmb the time) when i heard a LOUD laugh right by my ear. it was a deep, throaty, booming male voice and it sounded like a middle-aged man enjoying a good show. i freaked out, because the laughter was waaay too close to be even coming from anyone in the vicinity. not like there was anyone in the vicinity. it was literally

anyway, my mind went blank, and i literally could not recall the next 3 minutes of my life. the next thing i knew, i was sprinting towards my friends who were just standing idly next to the convenience store. when i caught up to them, they asked me why i was running so fast, and i just replied that i didnt want to be late. we started talking about more exciting things like who was gonna pawn who in dota or counterstrike so i just brushed off my incident as a trick of the mind.

but now, more than 10 years later, i still recall the circumstances of my encounter. i live on the 11th floor, and it was a weekday night, and there was no one near me at all. the nearest block of flats was at least 50 metres away, it wasnt possible that someone's laughter from that block could have travelled all the way to my ear without losing any volume. another thing, after i blanked out, did i wait for the lift to arrive to take my down 11 floors, or did i panick and run down 22 storeys worth of stairs? i only started realising that i was running when i noticed i was out of breath while running. anything that happened between the lift and the convenience store was just blank. finally, who did that laughter belong to?

i've got four more, one of them happened to me while i was outside, the other happened to me and my mom, one happened to my dad, and the final one was witnessed by my entire family. if this doesnt get buried too far, i will share them!

I don't know why they do that. See I had a shadowman in my old house and he/it would do that to me, but only on my landline.

So I'm not completely insane for checking under my bed nightly.

kudos to that guy for having the steel balls to not scream like a little girl. and the foresight to get her outside before telling her.

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This sounds really similar to a popular Urban Legend I've heard around 10 times.

Started off like the beginning of a porno, ended with a hobo. I think I'll check under my bed now...

I give props to whoever could find space underneath my bed to hide in because it is filled with those flat plastic storage boxes for my books and clothes

Is this true?! I hope so. What an incredible story.

This is terrifying.

I think this is the scariest shit ever. How did he got there in the first place? Just thinking about it makes my heart pounding.

Our bed is a platform with drawers underneath. No room for a person. We had thought about changing this... until now. The platform bed stays.

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She couldn't smell him?

Anyone else thinking southpark? Hint: Oprah episode?

I've read this exact same story where someone stays over and sleeps on the floor to finding someone hiding under the bed then insisting on leaving the house at odd hours of the night so many times it seems like such a common thing. With that being said, thank god something like that has never been reported around where I live.

He just wanted to sleep. Poor Mr. Homeless Man.

Good story but this is a pretty common story to hear from English teachers over here in Korea (usually once they are back home). I have heard variations of this story from 3 different people.

Good telling of the story though. I do prefer the version of a friend visiting someone teaching here and crashing on their floor version. Feels more true then letting a student crash on your floor.

Cheers

That's why I always check under my bed before I go to asleep because fuck that.

Holy crap that's a creepy story

THIS is what nightmares are made of!!

What happened to the boy and minji afterwards? Keep in touch or what?

Not really that creepy, honestly. Poor guy probably just wanted in from the cold.

This is the one story on this thread that made my heart jump. Damn.

How'd he pull that off? Had a key?

That took a complete 180 from what I expected it to turn out to be

I apologize to the student for thinking he was some psychopath/murderer/rapist

Fuck me... I'm glad my frame goes straight to the floor.

That's insane

holly fuck shit creep fuck ass crap that shit no

Thank god I have too much stuff underneath my bed for anything to fit... And a dog that sleeps next to me

The internet has ruined me..I was expecting a three-fiddy .

For a second I thought this would escalate into him being the creeper.

I read a story of almost the same thing happening to a woman who was alone in her apartment and saw someone under her bed before she hopped into the shower. She went into the bathroom, ran the shower and climbed out of her apartment to call the police. When the police went into the apartment, the found the person (a man who appeared to be homeless) standing at her bathroom door with a knife. This story and the one in this thread make me never want to sleep on a bed above ground, ever.

This would have been enticing if not for the obvious copy paste, the unrealistic boy being calm cliche and the 75% of the stuff in this that is completely irrlevant to the plot was a give away too

and also th- oh good gosh typical morons thinking its real...well its not like i didnt know acting like you have half a brain cell gets you upvotess, but I'd rather keep my dignity than be anything like these idiots falling for this fake story

Lol thats bullshit. She would have heard him. Even if he doesn't snore like most homeless people, he would have moved or something.

2 months? I'm all for humoring the shit, but this thread is supposed to be true stories. And there's no fuckin way that's true.

Whoa man, never tell when your parents aren't home

I was always told to hide from people at the door if my parents weren't there. I even remember hiding in the kitchen with my older brother. It now seems like a fine piece of parenting.

Why wouldn't she have just closed the regular door and locked it...?

I had a similar story, although I ended up facing the person that crept up. Turned out it was someone who lived down the street and was concerned about the tracks in the snow to our family's place that he wasn't used to seeing that time of year. Really freaky when a guy comes out of the woods with a shotgun. I met him with one of our rifles at the front porch but thankfully we recognized each other. Old people in small communities do weird stuff sometimes, like not call the police to check on neighbors and do it themselves.

So do you think a man was trying to invade your house and kill you guys? What do you think that loud noise was?

Please help me! My car broke down, there's no signal on my phone and it's fucking freezing at 12:30!

car speeds away, along with last hopes for survival

shit, maybe I should have tried the doorbell...

Oh fuck this is maybe the scariest one I read in this whole thread, mainly because it sounds like it could happen to anyone. There was nothing supernatural here, somebody was where they weren't supposed to be, and likely up to no good. Ugh, glad you got away.

This is like one of those horror movies with Jason. But it was so much better because you survived and your first course of action was "Fuck this shit. Let us egress the fuck out of here post haste."

I have a similar I think my house has been invaded story. I was about 13 at the time and my parents were going out to dinner with my aunt and uncle and they had left me in the house at home. I generally love when this happens because I get pizza and have the whole house to myself. But this time I did not enjoy it at all. I'm watching tv upstairs when they leave so I shout bye to the and they leave. About an hour goes by just fine and i decided to go downstairs to get something to eat. As I go downstairs I realise in horror that the front door is wide open. I know leaving a front door open is pretty common in the US but it is certainly not in Ireland. And it was about half ten by now. I don't really know what to do so u check the whole house out and nobody seems to be there. I was more worried about someone breaking in because it's happened before and that time the door wasn't wide fucking open. I looked for about 20 minutes and couldn't find anything missing and so I eventually came to the conclusion that my stupid uncle had left my door on the latch and it had been wide open for a full hour. I was more annoyed about this because you can clearly tell If the door hasn't closed and he obliviously had not given enough of a fuckin to close it after failing to do so.

That's terrifying

So what happened afterwards?

All that story needed was for your car to fail to start and you have the plot of every horror movie ever!

I'm going to spend the weekend in a cottage in the middle of nowhere, Wisconsin later this month so...

This sound you mentioned... Reminds me of a story. My sister never had dreams as a child (I'm not sure if she sees any now.) But when she did... boy, were those terrifying experiences for all of us.

We slept in the same room. One night, I wake up because of a faint clicking noise. When I look at her bed, I realize that she is smacking her lips and clicking her tongue at the same time. I speak her name softly trying to wake her up, but she just keeps getting louder, without actually waking up. Suddenly, the sounds change from clicking to this hoarse breathing, and she sits up in her bed, still sleeping, and "looks" with her eyes closed at the window, through which moonlight shines. That's when I run across the room to her and start shaking her. She only wakes up in a minute or so, and doesn't remember anything about it, except that she saw a dream about being in church.

The other time, and this is what is the memory your story stirred, it was a Sunday morning, around 9 am, so we were still sleeping, naturally. All of a sudden, I feel her shaking me, for me to wake up, saying that she saw a nightmare. She described a giant creature with blue fur, chirping like a hundred birds, slowly making its way towards her.

Funnily enough, around three years later, long after I forgot about that case, I saw this really long dream (my dreams are, on opposite, very frequent and vivid) with a very complicated plot about a string of murders of girls and one old man, the common feature of which was that all victims saw a blue creature that chirped like a hundred birds...)

That's what I came here looking for, fucking hell!

More importantly, was it a good party?

Fuck this story, seriously. No sleep here.

Holy shit that is terrifying. I've started having dreams about people trying to break in to my house and it's so unsettling. I'm glad you guys got away. Did you call the cops? What came of the situation after?

This scares me more than anything else I've read in this thread. Crazy human beings are very much real and walking around every day in plain view.

Call me paranoid but this is the exact reason I always keep a knife/bat/lacrosse stick within arms reach anytime I'm alone or with only one person in a house.

The fire whistle would go off right as I end the story. I can say this story very nearly scared the literal shit out of me.

Initially thought there were three of you guys. Then reread it...something about there only being two of you would make me still scared, but if there were three. EH!

That's crazy. Did you go back to check for evidence of theft or damage?

fuck that shit right off

DAMN son

I always have bad dreams of this! I probably would have pee'd my pants. How old were you guys?

It might have been the caretaker chasing you down since you forgot your phone charger or something

So, you admitted to speeding? I think some tickets should be written...

Fuck. WTF was I thinking reading this at 1:45 AM?!?

Party was great, we got back to the house around 12:30

Wait seriously? Did you leave early or is this a normal time for a party to end?

This is the first one to make my heart race... That is terrifying

My A/C just turned on as i was finishing the story, scared the living shit out of me

The scariest part for me was when you said you SAW someone running up to you.

Squatters gonna squat :o

He was actually trying to warn you about the person in the back of your car

DUN DUUN DUUUN

That's when you grab your AR 15 and give them a 30 round greeting.

I have a similar story but it isn't anywhere near as terrifying as yours.

Okay yeah, this is one of the scarier stories in this thread. Never been frightened of monsters or anything as a kid, it was always the thought of someone coming into the house and robbing/killing me.

Got home around 12:30? The party wasn't THAT great.

if you dont mind me asking --- what did you take to the car with you? like tvs and laptops and stuff like that?

Why exactly did you think it was a good idea to not mention to your friend that you had in fact shut the gate and that someone had almost certainly opened it?

Why didn't you call the police?

Wtf is a "holiday town"

The thing that freaks me out the most about it is it seems like the dude almost had a death wish. He was making a lot of noise and chased after you like he wanted to first freak you guys out then get you.

Did you close the gate before you sped away?

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damn crackheads

This may be a dumb question but what do you mean by "the gate"? Like a picket fence around the property gate, or a driveway gate or what?

Was this in Ireland by any chance?

My spooky meter is going off the charts right now.

Perhaps it as a concerned neighbor thinking punk kids were squatting?

If it is rarely used it could of been a homeless man. Call the cops in these situations.

Wouldn't it be funny had it been the caretaker that was not given the memo that people were staying at the house, and chased after you guys because he thought you had broken into the home?

Owning a firearm would have most likely made this far less intimidating and scary. Just sit in the room with door being jimmied, as it opens, calmly explain that it wasn't locked for your protection.

Shouldn't be reading this at 2:30am :S

Jesus christ

That terrifies me. I'm so glad you two got out of there so fast.

Nobody thought of calling the police or checking out the house the next day? Right.

These are always the worst just because of how possible they really are thanks for sharing though

'legged it' ... well, that's new.

Hey, first not bullshit story here!

Why would you not warn your friends that you're walking them into a potentially dangerous situation?

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OMG, this is scary as shit. There's something oddly appealing about reading scary stories while you're locked up cozy and safe in your small apartment bedroom room. I loved this story!

Going to tell my parents to never do that if they become ghosts.

That story is sweet as hell. He's coming back to see the little man and showing his sensitive side and all, while the small chap can still sense him.

That's actually kind of sweet....He came back to see your son, assuming of course that it was actually him...

At first I thought he was just recalling memories, but that last part creeped me the fuck out

My young cousins said something like that after my grandpa passed, its crazy what little kids can see

My parents say I did the same thing as a kid but with my dead uncle. I was about 1/2 so I don't remember, but they said that I was sitting at a table alone laughing and when they asked what I was laughing at, I said my funny uncle.

That's not creepy. That's kinda nice.

Thanks for ruining my night's sleep.

Am lying in bed right now, SO sleeping next to me. I did plan on going downstairs to make some toast. Nope. I shall starve.

check out hypnogogic hallucinations on wiki - it may have been that your girlfriend was having one to begin with, and you just dreamt about one. Or maybe it was reallll.

This reminds me of a story in another creepy story thread where a guy said he had a nightmare which was just an aerial view of him, in his bed, nude, in fetal position and a feeling of immense solitude, sadness, and pain. He hears himself whimpering "oh god please stop" or something and then wakes up and he's in his bed lying next to his sleeping wife. He is thinking of what he heard himself say in the dream then he hears, as clear as day, the loudest, darkest voice come from all around him say something like "who are you to say god exists?"

Paralyzed with fear, he lays motionless and sleepless until morning. At breakfast, he is still on edge, pretending to be normal, but losing it inside. His wife is busy making coffee or something and he plucks up and says breezily "So, did you hear anything, er, unusual last night?"

She freezes.

"...honey?"

She turns around holding her hand to her mouth, tears in her eyes.

She asks "you heard it too?"

And they embraced and wept.

That's fucking terrifying.

O)_(O

My dogs sleep in my bed and like to readjust through out the night...this is not going to end up well for them

Reminds me of something that happened to me a couple weeks ago. I woke up and I was on my side facing the wall and I tried to push myself up but my arms were all like pins and needles like when they are asleep and I couldn't budge myself and then I could hear someone breathing right in my ear behind me, it was so real i'm not sure if it was a dream or not. By far top 3 scariest things ive ever experienced.

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Yupppp, I got all kinds of chills now. This makes me uncomfortable.

Oh you,..

And to think I really needed my sleep tonight.

Fuck everything about that. Brb, turning on every light in the house.

Goddamn that is freaky

/r/nosleep...

And I'm done with this thread.

Jesuuuuuuuuuuus

This shit scared me.

Something pretty similar happened to me, except I was awake and it was my mom having an out of body experience or something.

I was just about to sleep dammit

That freaked me out!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh my fucking god... You sir, just gave me the fucking chills...

goodbye, im out of here

Maybe it was The Rake.

I'm in bed and can't type it all out, but shoot me a pm and tomorrow I'll tell you about a shared dream my gf and I had.

So, uhh how deep into your lease are you because I'd be moving

The fuck is your problem? You cannot tell this just like that you son of a bitch.

FML dude. Today I'm going fishing so I woke up earlier. It's still dark here. I made a nice black coffee, so I can poop before leaving. I was like, yea dude let's check out reddit before pooping, that's a good idea. Wow what's that, real life creepy pastas? Awesome, let's read some of the... WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? I can't poop anymore, ever. Thank you my friend.

And here I thought I was safe reading this thread because I had my boyfriend to cuddle up to...

its funny you mention a story as such, I have a much prettier version of a reminiscent one myself. Twice it has happened that my aunt got pregnant. And both times me and my uncle had the exact same dream that I was stealing the baby from her while it was still in the womb.

See, that's why I use my comforter as my blanket. Shit's too thick and not long/wide enough to wrap a fucking ghost body.

Almost the exact same thing happened to me last December. I was traveling with a friend and I woke up to him one night saying "what are you doing?? Fuck off!" I woke up and said "Mikey what's up?" To which he pointed to dark corner in the room saying "tell him to fuck off." I knew he was dreaming and then I, not being able to see clearly into that dark corner started making images of a guy standing there and got really, really creeped out. Mikey sounded really angry adamant about whatever he saw, and as you say was very coherent as opposed to mumbling.

Anyway soon after I experienced sleep paralysis for the first time ever and then it was just fucking terrifying. If you haven't ever experienced this, pray you never, ever do.

I'm not easily creeped out and anything paranormal just bores/irritates me but this is literally just the two of your brains being eerie. Really got to me.

Holy fuck that gave me goosebumps. GG sleep.

I have something like sleep paralysis, this happens to me weekly. Terrible.

Recently my SO and I took a nap together after brunch; sunlight streaming in, holding hands and all. We woke up at the same time (give or take 3 minutes) his dream consisted of a car ride with him driving a white car, a garage drop off, the knowledge of it being a dream and trying to pull out of it, and a semi flying sensation. We had overlapping dreams. The only thing different is I was trying to go uphill on a motorcycle/scooter at one point and he had a similar-but-not-the-same trip problem.

IT'S THE RAKE.

GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE NOW.

"Question – Why is there no such thing as perfect hiding? Answer – How would you know? Logically, if evolution were to perfect a creature whose primary skill were to hide from view, how could you know it existed? It could be with us every second and we would never know. How would you detect it? Even sense it? Except for those moments when for no clear reason you choose to speak aloud. What would such a creature want? What would it do? Well? What would you do?!

Yes, you know sometimes when you’re talking to yourself? What if you’re not?

What if it’s not you you’re talking to. Proposition – What if no one is ever really alone? What if every single living being has a companion, a silent passenger? A shadow. What if the prickle on the back of your neck is the breath of something close behind you?

I think everybody at some point in their lives has the exact, same nightmare. You wake up, or you think you do, and there’s someone in the dark, someone close, or you think there might be. So you sit up, turn on the light, and the room looks different at night. It ticks and creaks and breathes. And you tell yourself there’s nobody there, nobody watching, nobody listening. Nobody there at all … and you very nearly believe it. You really, really try. And then …. There are accounts of that dream throughout human history, time and time again, the same dream."

I dunno man. Once my gf and I bumped heads in the middle of the night, which woke us up. we then discovered that we were both dreaming abuot pirates.... This isn't creepy, but I think things like this can happen without the power of suggestion.

Why do I always read these threads right before I got to bed...

I had a lot of dreams like this when my house was broken into a few years ago

(I had left the back door unlocked and the intruder ran away as soon as he heard noises, but I had dreams where I'd feel like I was asleep in my bed with an intruder coming in for years after)

Sounds like a sort of contagious sleep paralysis. People don't know fear until they've gone through sleep paralysis.

I've had it a few times and nothing parallels that feeling of terror.

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

My phone is blocking my view of the end of my bed and I'm not fucking moving. I'm still reading this thread though. I'm a fucking idiot

This happened to my brother a lot. He would wake up to see things at the foot of his bed. Sometimes scary looking things. He also used to see big spiders on the ceiling when he woke up. We chalked it up to dreams bleeding over into real life. Scary as shit.

My feet we're hanging off the bed

Jesus, this is the first story to actually raise the hair in my arms...

Holy fucking shit... So, my roommate in college talks in his sleep, quite a lot. I came back to the room really late two or three weeks ago, and my roommate was still asleep. I sat down on my laptop and a couple minutes later I hear him say surprisingly loudly "What are you doing?" Most of the time I ignore it but it caught me off guard and sounded like he was talking to me, so I said "What are you talking about?" He mumbled a couple things I couldn't understand then said "you sprayed me with something." I told him I didn't do anything to him and he grunted and fell silent. At the time it was really weird, but this comment is a very strange coincidence.

Why am I reading through this thread...

I finally managed to shut down civ 5 after four hours of one-more-turning to go to sleep. Now i think ill just power it back up because i dont think sleep is an option anymore-_-

Fuck you dude.

Sincerely,

Man with girlfriend, who occasionally sleep talks, asleep next to him right this second.

God fucking damn this thread

Whelp, I didn't need to sleep Tonight anyway.

Serves me right for clicking this thread, I guess.

I can't believe that. You had a girl in the bed.

Nightmares travel.

Did you watch Doctor Who the Saturday before last? There's a scene very similar to what you described in that episode.

Pretty typical stuff! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare

Halfway through your story my bedroom lights are now on. Thanks.

Annnnnd I'm done with thread.

Then your girlfriend had another dream and she dreamt that someone was fucking her in the ass.

THE DREAM PROGRESSES

I have a similar story.

When my gf and I first started dating, she was living in an old house converted into apartments. One night I had a dream that a pale old man was sitting in the corner of the room. He was so vivid and real that I immediately woke up and couldn't fall back asleep, which is unusual for me because I'm not usually so easily spooked. The next morning I told my gf and she went pale. A few months prior, her roommate had a dream where a man matching the same description had lifted her out of her bed and dragged her by her ankles down the stairs. She woke up at the bottom of the stairs screaming. She was so terrified that she went to stay with her parents for a few weeks.

Sleep paralysis is a fairly well documented state that most people find themselves in at least once in their lives. It's suspected to be the cause of many of the very sincere accounts of paranormal activity and alien abductions, which is understandable because the hallucinations (having experienced them myself, many times) are actually quite vivid and intense.

While most people enter this state by random chance (there are some factors that are suspected to contribute to it) you can actually induce it yourself via the "wake back to bed" technique commonly used to induce a lucid dream. Getting into a lucid dream using that technique actually requires you to go through sleep paralysis to get there.

It's also quite interesting how a lot of people who report having experienced sleep paralysis usually report similar behaviour, usually paranoia, the feeling of someone "sitting on their chest". Though on the contrary some experiences are not terrifying but actually happy experiences.

Similar story, I had a dream when I was younger where I would go to the toilet in the night. I would pass this hallway and at the end was the door to our porch. When I went to the bathroom I stopped in the hallway and looked to the door and could see a traditional small norwegian troll, staring intensly at me in the window, with huge eyes. And the second I look at him it's almost like I startle him, and he lets out this "gasp" sound. But the weird part is, I brought up this to my brother some years later and he told me he had the exact same dream.. Which was kinda creepy.

About a year ago I was staying at someones house in between moving houses. Probably should note that this house was right near the biggest cemetery and one of the oldest in Australia. One night I woke up and saw a bald man sitting to the left of my bed looking (not at me) the wall that was at the end of the bed. I said the same thing as you did, 'What are you doing?', and he had already disappeared by the time I had finished the question.

I wasn't scared though, I tend to hallucinate spiders, people, faces etc. after suddenly waking up from a dream.

Well, no sleep for me tonight. Thanks for that one.

This reminds me of right after my wife and I got married. We're both asleep and around 2AM, I wake up to my wife shaking me awake. I roll over, she is sitting up on one elbow with this huge grin on her face. I ask what's going on and she launches into a story that's a couple of minutes long, while speaking complete gibberish. When she is done, she lays back down and closes her eyes. Terrified, I did not sleep the rest of the night.

That was on /r/paranormal 5 days ago..

http://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/2h9e4n/what_the_fuck_is_terrorizing_my_boyfriend_and_i/?sort=confidence

I had something similar happen a few years back;

We're in bed, shes fast asleep and I'm mostly asleep. Suddenly she screams, and sits bolt upright. I turn around going "wtf, are you okay?" well she says there was this tall (shadow)man trying to strangle her, and her first words were "where did he go?" And yeah, we would have both put it down to a bad dream if I hadn't seen something matching her exact description when I fully woke up and looked her way. (Scared me too, though it had disappeared/retreated when I'd turned the light on)

Yeah, we slept with the light on the rest of the night.

Why'd you have to describe it so vividly ;-;

My gf says that regularly... wtf.

Wow I thought this only happened to me.

A few years ago I used to have regular dreams of their being someone standing in my room whilst I was sleeping. A tall dark figure. Occasionally this figure would press hard on my chest stopping me from breathing - I put it down to my brain trying to rationalise sleep paralysis. Anyway it wasn't something I told people about because it's not very macho for a grown man to have nightmares. It stopped when I moved out of the town I was living in.

Anyway, a couple of months ago I was in bed, in the new city I live in now, with my ex in deep sleep. At about 4am, I woke up suddenly and I felt the man standing at the end of the bed. I could see the silhouette from the corner of my eye but I was to afraid to look directly, I was now wide awake. The fear of seeing him after so long led me to become wide awake and I put my arms around my ex and held her close. The tall silhouette stayed there for about 10 minutes just watching me. It then disappeared, I fell asleep holding onto my ex.

The next day we were having breakfast together and my ex says she had a weird dream. I asked her to tell me about it and she said she'd dreamt that there was a tall dark silhouette of a man, that didn't feel like a man, standing at the end of the bed watching us. She said she was scared at first but then I held her and she was OK.

That was how it started.

Turned the lights on :c

Shit like this is the reason I sleep with a revolver under my pillow.

Aaand I'm never sleeping again. Do they make night lights for adults?

Its the power of sleep paralysis. It scares the living fuck out of you at first. Its extremely common to see someone or something standing on the edge of the bed or getting on the bed or even sitting on on you.

I'm glad I'm single then.

Shit... I have an end of the bed guys...

Having a girlfriend who talks in her sleep often and tends to see things (such as peoples on the room), I feel quite uneasy now...

I have to stop reading these now. That was too much for me.

Did you both watch a movie hours prior that could have influenced your dream?

Who are you running from?

now that your minds have melted into one, you can get married and have the most successful relationship in the history of man.

this made my nipples hard.

I work at the Myrtles Plantation and i have so many of these stories and events that visitors tell me. The creepiest is one in my opinion is that you can sleep at the Plantation kind of like a bed and breakfast, well we have a room that is filled with those creepy ceramic dolls. There is one doll though that was one of the children's favorite and always was in the bed with her at night. The child later died (to long to explain) and the doll stayed on the bed with her. When we started to house guests at the Myrtles we kept the doll on the bed in memory of the child. The first night when someone slept in the room they moved the doll to get more comfortable. In the morning the doll was back in the bed with the its hands on the guest's throat. She came out outraged accusing us that we did something in her room. No one went in or out of her room that night at all. The next guest moved the doll as well and when he was sleeping he heard tapping on the wood floors. He woke up and noticed the doll on the floor were the sound was coming from. Everyone who stays in the room and moves the doll, the doll will come and go back in its bed.

Ahh, I had something like that happen once. I was on a guided tour of the "haunted" old jail in Charleston, SC, and in one of the rooms, I suddenly felt as if I was losing my balance.. As if I was swaying on a boat REALLY badly. I clutched onto my SO who was thinking I was just spooked out. A few minutes into the talk, the tour guide mentioned that the room held a lot of old pirates and some people reported feeling like they were on rough seas.. I was beyond freaked out for awhile. Fuck that building.

Ooh, it's actually kind of comforting in a small way to have someone else witness the creepy event with you.

When I was a freshman in college, I was eating in the cafeteria with a couple friends, when suddenly, my cup (full of water) slid like 10 inches across the table, unprovoked. Out of the two people I was eating with, one saw what happened and was able to verify that I was not, in fact, insane.

most haunted places in the country

How does one determine the level of haunting of a place in order to rank how haunted places are? Is it similar to determining the top party school in the country?

Stayed there once, though not in the main house. Honestly one of the most beautiful house and property I have ever seen.

Nothing happened directly to us, however all of my pictures were saturated with "orbs". I don't really believe in any of the supernatural stuff, but it freaked me out. I have a degree in photography and took pictures every which way from sunday, both digital and film.. all of the pictures around the house were super saturated. I thought at the time it was probably dust and the flash. I did some super long exposures without flash and those were saturated too. I don't have many great pictures from that trip because they are all blown out.

ha we did the same thing in the 8th grade! I remember on our trip we found a cushioned bench that would have a butt imprint keep appearing even after we would smooth it out. Creepiest thing we had by far was on a girl's phone who had a picture of the trees and everything surrounding the mansion, but in one of the pictures you could see what looked like a little girl with black hair peeking from behind one of those creepy looking trees. Still gives me chills thinking about it

I love the lore surrounding Myrtles Plantation. I've always wanted to go.

Honestly expected the woman to be a ghost.

maybe is was a mass conspiracy planned against you

My hypothesis is that the room is set up with pinpoint speakers (similar to how lasers work, where only one person can hear the speaker) and plays a piano sound to certain people. Its convoluted but possible.

Was he playing Runaway by Kanye West because that's what I'm hearing in my head.

Twist - He says to his friends, "See that lady hears it too". His friend goes, "What Lady ??? "

I've had a similar experience. I was in 8th grade doing a night tour of the battlefields at Gettysburg and saw what I think had to have been a ghost. Several hundred yards down this trail I can see what looks like a solider on a horse. It was far enough away that it was pretty indistinct, but I could still tell that much. I figured it was likely a reenactor, since those guys are everywhere, but then two things stuck me. One I could see him at all, it was dark with just moonlight/starlight and he appeared to be somewhat illuminated, and two, he wasn't getting any closer as we were making steady progress towards him. I asked a couple of the people I was with independently what they saw and got the same answer, a soldier on a horse. This happens over the course of several minutes and as we keep walking, the figure still isn't getting closer. Shortly after that the figure appeared to just fade away.

the Myrtles Plantation is such a weird place, over the last 15-20 years it's had so many owners who figured they could buy it for cheap and turn a hefty profit, and you would end up with a lot of fake experience on the tours. One of the biggest things i remember hearing about was how they doused the rugs in the parlor room with perfume and then gave the bit about how people still mention phantom smells of perfume from time to time.

When people talk about experiences on the tour it always makes me a bit wary. There are things that go on at that house that i've experienced first hand, but the usual "faint piano playing and phantom perfume smells" they mention on the tour always leave me second guessing.

Myrtles Plantation tour has got to be the most disappointed I've ever been. They, literally, show you the foyer, living room, and a room they (current owners) added on to it after storm damage. Gotta love those authentic 1796 security cameras though.

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I'd like to think that there is a guy thats works there who plays a recorded piano sounds, and then tells one of the ladies who works there to pretend like she hears it too

If I was making money of a haunted attraction and ghost tours, a hidden speaker with some faint piano music would be pretty simple to organise. Spin a bit of patter about dead pianists and bam! Mo money.

Yea Myrtles.

Apparently there was a slave there who liked jewelry, and girls(and guys) will leave with one or two missing earrings that they were wearing when they came in.

I thought that was going to end with the woman who caught your eye disappearing, with no one else having ever seen her...

I'm from New Orleans originally and i remember going there as a kid and getting my ear pulled really hard. Fuck that place.

Hearing a piano at night is fucking creepy. I was at my girlfriends parents house one night, and it was her and I alone, nobody else. They live in this really old giant American Victorian house, and have this grand piano in the great room. We were watching Netflix around 11 one night and it was loading another show, and just then in the silence we heard three distinct high pitched notes played. Scared us shitless, so naturally we just got closer and kept watching Netflix.

When a business that relies on tourism make claims of super natural activity you really should automatically put your skeptic had on. Strange noises are very easy to fake.

Sounds like a good example for infrasound and the subconcious reaction to it

Playing you a private show?

Playing you a private show?

So, this is just me being cynical, however, there is such a way that allows audio to be beamed through a specific area. You can direct it as though you were directing a flashlight, and only those in the "beam" can hear it. Naturally, you cannot see the beam.

So, what if as an added effect or something, places would put these devices around in certain areas at average head height to enhance the visitor's experience?

My fiance's family and I are spending the night at The Myrtles in 3 weeks! I cannot wait!!!

The Chosen Ones.

Oh, I went on the same tour! Except I wasn't really listening. The tour guide was talking to us after it ended for a few minutes, and now that you mention I do remember her walking and leaving money for some dude at a piano. He was on the other side of the wall though, so you couldn't see him! Just thought it was a homeless person!!!

The one thing I've taken away from this thread is that Death is a dapper son of a bitch.

I've seen "Top-Hat-Death-Guy" and, believe me, it's not a pleasant experience.

Sounds more like Baron Samedi.

I have a similar story regarding a man in a tophat. It when I was a kid about 11-12 years old. We had a bicycle storage in the backyard along the side of the house which made a long and creepy dark hallway like path. Every night after being with friends I had to open the storage to put my bike in there... And every night I saw this man standing in that dark hallway with his tophat coat and cain just staring towards me. Everytime I saw him I just ran as fast as I could into the house and locked the door. Even told my parents about it only mom believed me and followed me back once only to find that he wasnt standing there anymore (of course). One day I actually managed to get this guy to leave me alone.

I was kinda angry that night and was fairly unreasonable to be honest.. I was locking my bike as usual when I saw him, and once and for all I countered my fears and ran straight to him only to see him disapear in the shadows behind him. I never saw that man again, and he haven't haunted me since. I had totally forgotten about him until I read your story. It still gives me chills when I'm thinking about it.

(Sorry for my bad english, it is not my first language)

Just noticed.. As I wrote my story the wind was quite heavy outside my window but completly stopped when I was done.. No sleep for me tonight.

It was Slash!

It was probably gman.

There's always something more horrific about a situation when your dad gets freaked out...

You know what? I'm really proud of your father and uncle for nipping that shit in the bud.

In the movies, in order to appear in control and pretend like everything is fine, they would just ignore it and say, "No, nothing happened. I don't remember that."

Most paranormal movies would be over in 15 minutes if people were just honest and took action.