Did You Ever Experience Something Spooky When You Were A Kid?

[Doc Tinker]

Strange things happen, especially in the eyes of children. Did you experience anything profoundly strange as a child?



I remember a blimp flying over the house once. It was skimming the trees. It scared the bejeebers out of me.



Another time, when I was four, I was walking home from a friends house when there was a sonic boom. I ran home and nobody was there. I thought we had a rapture and my family was taken to heaven without me.



Doc

 

[TORQUE THIS]

This one time, at band camp, Oh, wait a minute...



We used to play tag in a cemetery with head stones from the 17&18 hundreds. One night, we saw what we think was a ghost. Never went back to find out. It was just like the ghost in Ghostbusters when they were in the library. A woman just floating in mid air with a lantern and a book.

 

[Teacher]

Weird??

Had a few "interesting" and unexplained things cross my paths.

I once saw my exact double. He not only looked exactly like me, but was dressed exactly in the same clothing and colors! Was too amazed to say anything.

Several years ago my wife and I stayed up to watch "Close Encounters of the Third Kind. " We went to bed and sometime hours later we were both awakened at the same time to the sound of the musical notes the space ship made. We looked at each other and said, "Did you hear some music?" "Tell me first what you heard. We both described the same thing!"

 

[QRTRHRS]

I might have walked home from my grandmother's house nearby. No one else was home which had me wondering. I was just sitting quietly when this two visions came to me. The first was my parents coming home with a bicycle for me and the second was my dog getting run over. Both came true.



Next thing is easily explained. Being the youngest of five, my brother and sisters would put this bearskin rug complete with head on and terrorize me. I still have nightmares where the bear is after me and my legs won't work. Good thing I always wake up just before he eats me.

 

[RonaldLarson]

I had..

the advantage of growing up before television, so we had entertainment which tested the mind and the imagination. My buddies and I would gather around the radio at one of our homes and listen to the afternoon half hour mysteries. Honest to goodness, we got so scared, we would sit in a corner or at least against the wall to keep "someone" from sneeking up behind us.

Such great actor voices and plots! Weekends, IF we got our chores done, we could go to a Saturday matinee of westerns, followed by at least three cartoons. Cost a whole dime to see them!

That's why they are called the good old days.

Ron

 

[lgibson]

Here are some of the strange ones I had.



I lived in a house in Houston, Tx. At night there was this brownish fog that was only in the house. Also at night the water came out of the facet green. If you spilled water, at night, it would all run to the same corner of the house. Spill water in the daytime and it did not run anywhere.



Once a friend and I was using a Ouji (sp?) board and nothing much was happing, so we quit. I went into the kitchen for snacks. When I stepped back into the room my friend was white as snow. He asked me to turn around and tell him what I see. I was so freaked that he said that and it took me about 5 min. before I got brave enough to look. And on the wall was a shadow of a battle axe, with something dripping from it. I almost crapped my pants right then. It just vanished right before my eyes. :--)



A few years I was one Lake Mead Bld. on the other side of Sunrise Mtn. in Las Vegas. I could see this very brite star over Nellis AFB. Only thing was, this star would move around very slowly. I saw two jets take off and go towards this star. The jets looked like they were getting close and the star just shot acrossed the sky and stop. I could see the jets turn and take off after it, only to see the star shoot off some where else. This went on for about 15 or 20 min. before the star just shoot off and never came back. One other thing that got me spooked in Southern Nv. was, twice while camping at Lake Mead I heard a strange sound. It sounded like a car passing at a high rate of speed without engine noise or road noise. Just something splicing through the air at a low altitude. I jumped out of the truck and saw nothing. Other campers also got up asking what was that. No one saw a thing and we had a 360 degree view.

 

[Motorhead]

I like Teacher had a look alike experience when I was in High school. I was at a basketball game at a rival school and came around a corner and this guy and I about ran each other over. He was my height,had blond hair, he looked like my twin, was wearing a blue turtle neck sweater and brown cords... the same thing that I was wearing! We stared at each other for a few seconds and never said a word. We just walked away. A few years later at a J. C. that I was going to, My girl friend(my wife of 25 years now) walked up to this guy thinking that it was me and squezed his butt! She was shocked to see that It wasn't me. The other thing that got me was a friend of mine had this God awful fast Kawasaki motorcycle. We always told him to slow down on this thing. I was asleep one night and at about 2:30 AM, I was startled out of bed. I felt that someone or something was in this tiny apt that I lived in. I found nothing and went back to sleep. Later that afternoon, another friend of mine came by the shop that I worked and told me that Scott had been killed on this bike at 2:30 am that morning. He was getting on the freeway at about 85mph, lost the bike, and was run over by an 18 wheeler fuel truck.

 

[Jim Fulmer]

I was asleep one night and at about 2:30 AM, I was startled out of bed. I felt that someone or something was in this tiny apt that I lived in. I found nothing and went back to sleep. Later that afternoon, another friend of mine came by the shop that I worked and told me that Scott had been killed on this bike at 2:30 am that morning.



Sounds like a good friend was just saying good-by. I was talking with my Mom the other day about her retiring from Pendelton Or. and coming home to Medicine Mounds Tx. to our family farm, she was at work and is a little worried about her lack of knowledge of the farm house and surroundings and just how everything works (even though I'm on 3 hours away) said she wish she had daddy's knowledge of the place, she walked into another room then back in that one and could smell his pipe tobacco lingering in the air (always had that pipe in his mouth or hand). I think all of us have had some odd exsperiences in the past if we will just think about it.



Jim

 

[illflem]

When I was about 6 or 7 mom sent me next door early one morning to borrow a cup of milk. The neighbor lady answered the door without her usual 12 pounds of makeup on, besides being spooky it was downright scary. I still shiver at that picture today.

 

[TBarrett]

Bright light

In my teens I was with my Dad and friends and out Deer hunting. We were sitting at the camp fire and was about 11 to 12 pm, I looked up and saw a star that was very bright and white. It looked very close to be a star and a big star at that. I told all who were sitting at the camp fire to look at that. They all saw and agreed about it so we all got our rifles out and started to look at it thru our scopes and it took off, No sound at all and very fast. This was back in the early 70's.

 

[ISBPilot]

Had to borrow this one from a friend......

A college buddy of mine used to share this story from time to time and I laughed harder each time I heard it. Here it goes... ... .



Him along with a couple of buddies would go and coon hunt at night on some land owned by a neighbor. This piece of land had a road down one side that they would walk in on and branch off into the woods from there. One night they had walked down the road a good piece and his two buddies went into the woods to get the dogs and meet him back on the road. While he was waiting he had the feeling he was being watched but was to scared to turn around and look. So he justs stands there and waits... ... ... ... ... ... then something breathes a warm breath on the back of his neck. He falls to the ground face first and was trying to run but could only scratch the ground with the tips of his fingers. Finally he calms down enough to turn over and is laying there looking up at the landowner's pet donkey, which had followed them down the road from the house.



Todd... ... ... Oo.

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Finally he calms down enough to turn over and is laying there looking up at the landowner's pet donkey, which had followed them down the road from the house.



Holy $. it, LMAO that is a great story that he would never live down, bet he got grey hairs out of it.



Jim

 

[BFC]

Strange things happen, especially in the eyes of children. Did you experience anything profoundly strange as a child?

Does it count if they happened while "self medicating" in high school? They sure felt real to me! Anybody got some Doritos or cookie dough... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...



Glenn

 

[Motorhead]

Another story

I had moved out at 20 with my oldest brother and a school friend. We rented this three bedroom apt... nothing unusual about the place. I awoke one morning, close to the left side of my bed and when I opened my eyes, there was this little Troll like person staring at me about two feet from my face! I closed my eyes,re-opened them and He was still there! I closed them again and He was gone. Scared the s#!t out of me. No, I wasn't high!! never saw him again. Swear to God. Chris

 

[Champane Flight]

In 1967

In 1967 my best friend and I were driving out of the mountains in the early morning hours. The sun was up and the whole valley was laid out in front of us without a cloud in the sky. At this point I saw a mettalic disc come out of the sky and hover over the valley below, then it moved very fast to the left and then the right. I slowed a little and blinked my eyes thinking I was seeing things. But when I looked over at Larry, he looked at me and at the same time we said"Did you see that"! It hover and moved for awhile then shot between two ridges about 10 miles away. I knew there was a road over there and told Larry to hold on and watch to see if it took off again.



I drove like an idiot ( which I did alot of in those days ) and within a few minute we were on the road between the ridges. As we went over a bridge Larry said " We have to be getting close".

At almost the exact time we heard a loud BOOM . Looking in my rear veiw I saw a cloud of dust from a grove of pinon behind us just off the road. I stopped and the disc was hovering about 500' above the grove, then it went straight up and dissapeared! We turned around and went back to that grove of trees. There were three burn spots on the ground.



The funny thing about those burn marks is that even a year later they were still there! Nothing would grow in them.

 

[MJawsman]

I used to live in the UP of Michigan in a turn of the century house. I was about 14 at the time babysitting my little sister. She was in her room playing when I heard her talking. There wasn't anyone in the house except for us, so I went in to see what she was doing. She was all alone, so I asked her what she wanted. She said she was just talking to "that nice lady". She described seeing someone that I didn't know and obviously wasn't there. To this day she can describe her as if she was real. For a while I tried to discover more about the previous occupants and maybe find some photos. I was unsuccessful, but I never doubted her mystery friend.

 

[nickleinonen]

just reading these posts is giving me the chills. .



i have had some real strange things happen but they are not so interesting.



one thing that i am bad at is watching movies. i tune out everything when watching movies. . i watched the omen 1 2 & 3 and after watching those [finished at 3:00am or so] i could not sleep in my basement room. i was scared sh**less. . this was like 2 years ago. i watched the exorsist for the first time ever like 6 months ago... and i could not sleep in that basement for another 2 months... creepy!!

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Here is another one, in the summer of 90' I was at the lake close to my hometown one day around noon time, we had been there partying the night before and I was a little hung over, as I chatted with some friends another gal I knew came flying up in a boat going to the phone, her husband was by the dam looking for a drowned girl so we hauled ass over there to help! Upon reaching the dam I saw her husband exhusted from looking for the girl so I jumped in and swam to the point were I could stand up and walked along the bottom then ran into her so I grabbed her from the bottom and pulled her up and carried her to the dam and with the help of the woman (in the beginning) gave her CPR till the ambulance came, we loaded her up and off to the hospital were she was pronounced dead after 20-30 min of CPR, I balled like a baby and life goes on! The very next summer I was on the same lake inter tubing and wyped out, waiting on the boat and tube to come and get me I got the worse case of the cold chill's I've ever had, all the hair on my body stood up and I was in full chill bumps, so I thought wow what was that, I turned around and I was at the same point of the dam were she died, the boat pulled up and I frantically jumped on board and never went back in. I have been back since then and it is always on my mind but it's better now as I realized I did all I could do.



Jim





Mike Ellis that is a great story, but it's spooky!

 

[Mike Ellis]

Update

I searched out this old thread to give an update after an interesting coincidence this fall. My original post talks about the old house that produced the strange chill on entry. As luck would have it, at work I ran into a girl who lived in a house right across the road from the old abandoned place.



We were talking about old times, and I mentioned that their former house was up for sale again. She told me that they had hated that old house because of all the weird stuff that had happened to them over the years there.



Now this was interesting and perked up my ears, because it was out of the blue and we had never discussed the weird place across the road from her house before. I asked her to elaborate, and she had a long list of things that had happened:



- cabinet doors opening and shutting in the kitchen

- doors opening while the family was sitting watching TV, but nobody there to open them

- furniture and other items being moved around without a sound when they were out of a room

- an event that happened in front of one of her friends spending the night, they were watching TV and a chair slid across the floor like somebody pulled it up to watch. Friend would never spend the night again



The house she lived in was built in the 1960's just like ours, I knew the previous residents and there were no murders or Indian graveyards or anything - just a surly teenager or two. Perhaps the old presence from across the road wandered in to check out the modern living?? Interesting stuff

 

[parcher]

When I was about 12 I was riding my Schwinn Varsity at a pretty good clip. I went to pass a friend who was travelling a little slower. To pass I had to squeeze between him and the guard rail which was post and cable. In the top of tenth gear with my hands on the lower part of the bars my front brake cable got cought on something sticking though the guard rail. I catapulted over the bars and saw myself, from above, struggling to my feet. As soon as I was standing my view changed back to normal as if I were looking though my own eyes again. My instant recollection of this was that I got to my feet quickly, my friend says it took me several minutes to get to my feet. A few cars had stopped to see if I was ok.