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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 19, 2019 2:08:36 GMT
Nalkarj There's always that one guy … <sigh) It seems to be a requirement in the by-laws of on-line "communication". The stories you have posted have been purdy darn scary and entertaining. Majority here rules .. fagettabout that one DOOFUS over there !
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Post by theauxphou on Jan 19, 2019 10:08:28 GMT
One time I was cleaning a stain on the carpet with that foamy carpet cleaner stuff on the carpet and, some how, some way, when I looked at the foam, I had, inadvertently and totally on accident, created the shape of the country of Italy -- to perfect scale, down to the calf, the heel, the toe and the island of Capri. It was really quite an incredible thing, and I thought to scramble for my camera to capture it forever, but I realized that this unbelievable foam pattern was quickly dissipating, and I wisely chose to stare at the image and let it burn on my retinas forever. In a way, this was a minor thing, but in a way, it was freaking COOL!!! Not as spooky as your story, but I once ate a slice of beef that was almost the same shape as Iran. :/
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 19, 2019 15:30:11 GMT
I feel like I have, & yet memory of them seems to vanish like trying to recall a dream.
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Post by mecano04 on Jan 19, 2019 21:19:44 GMT
Yup, I experienced something straight out of the Twilight Zone. It might interest Nalkarj , since he writes sci-fi stories. Warning it can be a long read but you'll get it al. I happened 2 years ago, I can't remember the date but it was a friday, late September. The weather was slightly warmer than normal so I had the ceiling fan on and the patio door was open, only the mosquito screen was closed. I live in an apartment, so my couch is about 3' from the patio door. My building is located on a small street about 100-150' from the intersection of 2 boulevards. There are stores and restaurants nearby, so it's noisy, not including the other apartment buildings around and the local (small) airport traffic. It was a normal evening, I was watching TV after supper, laying on my couch. I can't tell you when it started but I can tell you when I noticed. Around 9pm I got up to get something in my room. My bedroom window let me see a good part of one of the boulevards despite having another apartment building right in front. Taking a quick look by the window, I noticed that the lampposts were not lit, the stores and restaurants didn't have their signs on. There was no light on the street. I thought it was unusual but nothing special since I know I'm not on the same electricity grid as them (knowing after a few power outages). I also noticed that the apartment building nearby didn't have its exterior light on. It could be burned or whatever but I didn't think much of it. So moments later, when I came back to the living room, I took a quick look though the patio door. Somehow all was shutdown outside. I saw the exterior light on my own building but otherwise there was nothing lit outside. It wasn't that it was pitch black, it just seemed like a power outage at night. I found it odd since some of the other apartment buildings I see out the window are also on "my" power grid. Still it wasn't the most disturbing thing. Getting closer to the mosquito screen, looking outside, I noticed that there was literally no sound coming from outside. I mean, no car noise from the nearby streets and boulevards nor the traffic noise from afar, no noise from terraces owned by nearby restaurants, no sound from planes taking off or landing to the nearby airport, not even the crickets! No wind, nothing, just silence. My lights and TV were still ON and I could still hear the TV perfectly but there was nothing from outside. Around 9:15pm I didn't hear the car roll nor the door close in the parking but I heard footsteps. I didn't hear the building door close or anything but I heard footsteps, like a lady wearing heels (there are women in my building) coming towards the door. I had the blinds partially turned, not completely covering the window but from my couch I couldn't see (or been seen from that angle) the person coming towards the building. From then until I got to bed, it was nothing but silence from outside. I didn't see lights or hear anything else. It felt weird and unusual but that didn't scare me per say. One thing got me slightly curious and scratching for an answer though. My ceiling fan had the blinds moving slowly in small back and forth movement, of maybe 2 inches. It was like a small "rotation" or "dance". But around 10 pm, at some point about 4 blinds just went of the patio door window. The blinds are about 2 inches away at most from the door and it was has if something just blasted through or got out of there in a hurry. They didn't split in half, they lifted from the base to about 2 feets, as if something crawled or moved from under. There was no noise, I didn't see or feel anything. I got up and looked around but I couldn't find what "came out" from behind the blinds. Anyway, at around 11pm I went to bed, still not hearing anything from outside. I laid in bed, conscious and all hears still wondering about when this phenomenom (or whatever you want to call that) would end. Then around 11:15pm, I heard a noise. The closest noise I know and that most people know, is the sound the tires make when you drive over a railroad crossing or an expansion joint on a bridge. You know that "Clack" or however you would spell, that noise is the closes thing to what I heard. Yet it happened only once (with your car you hear it twice) and it was loud. Not to the point where it would hurt of have me cover my hears but it happened as if you burst a balloon with a needle. That could also be another sound similar to what I heard. Anyway, even if it was loud, I couldn't find the source of it. It wasn't from my bed or the floor or my room or outside. It felt like it was "omnipresent" in the sense that it was heard all around but didn't seem to come from a specific source. So after I heard that noise, I started hearing the noises from outside again but they came back in a specific order. The cars, moving on the nearby streets and boulevards were the first ones I got, then far traffic and last I got the crickets. They came back one after the other, they didn't came back all at once. It felt like they were always there but it was only now that I was able to hear them. It hasn't happened since but it seemed that for a period of 2 hours (or more, since I can' exactly say when it started) my building was inside a zone or "bubble" of silence. I am a sceptic for most things and a firm believer in the fact we can find a reasonable explanation to most things but I haven't found one to this. Sorry for the long read. The first thing that comes to mind is a momentary ear canal blockage which only allowed you to hear close sounds and not distant ones. Then this blockage "bubble" pops or clears and you can hear again. I experienced blockage from an internal otitis once, in my right hear, eventually losing sound completely. I went to the doctor and got medicine to fix that.
From my experience, I would guess that a blockage would still alter how I hear close sounds but I'm no ear specialist though. I doubt a blockage would filter sounds depending on the distance. It would all be affected.
Still that night there was no alteration in how I heard close sounds and there was nothing different as far as hearing sounds from inside my own body either. And again, I don't do drugs or smoke but I drink socially yet that night I had nothing in me that could make me feel weird or alter my senses in anyway or range. I wasn't feeling more tired than usual either.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 19, 2019 22:15:42 GMT
mecano04 have reads your story several times now , still cool and spooky …. ear blockage ? Don't think so ! What caused it ? Prolly better not to know
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 19, 2019 22:47:37 GMT
At the risk of off-topicness, but apposite of my comment about Reddit above, I actually got a (based-on-a-real-story but fictionalized) story removed from Reddit, apparently for not being scary enough. Oy vey.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 19, 2019 23:07:01 GMT
At the risk of off-topicness, but apposite of my comment about Reddit above, I actually got a (based-on-a-real-story but fictionalized) story removed from Reddit, apparently for not being scary enough. Oy vey. What in the world determines "scary enough" ? Is scariness not something like "beauty" in the eye of the beholder-wise ? One person's "scary" is another's "ho-hum" .. kinda like thinking / saying "great classic beautiful actress" = "meh"
Off topic ? …more like a small excursion on an alternate (side) track
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 19, 2019 23:09:05 GMT
At the risk of off-topicness, but apposite of my comment about Reddit above, I actually got a (based-on-a-real-story but fictionalized) story removed from Reddit, apparently for not being scary enough. Oy vey. What in the world determines "scary enough" ? Is scariness not something like "beauty" in the eye of the beholder-wise ? One person's "scary" is another's "ho-hum" .. kinda like thinking / saying "great classic beautiful actress" = "meh"
Off topic ? …more like a small excursion on an alternate (side) track I know, right? Bah! There weren’t any jump scares or anything like that because (1) I don’t like writing that stuff and (2) it was based on a true story, so there was nothing too absurd in it. (Well… Lots of absurd things in real life, but I mean no vampires or monsters or aliens taking over the narrator’s brain.)
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Post by mecano04 on Jan 19, 2019 23:11:01 GMT
mecano04 have reads your story several times now , still cool and spooky …. ear blockage ? Don't think so ! What caused it ? Prolly better not to know Yeah, maybe I dodged a bullet by not going outside to find out!
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Post by Nora on Jan 20, 2019 4:02:12 GMT
some of these are pretty amazing and interesting. i never experienced any such occurrences. everything i once thought was supernatural or odd was sooner or later explained and was pretty ordinary.
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Jan 20, 2019 4:23:40 GMT
Similar to this one about the sound and sense of a person walking in the house. Me and my roommate lived in a two story, two family flat. With nobody living in the downstairs half. The back of the house had an indoor stairway leading up to the top level. With locked doors to both the outside and the first floor level. My bedroom was in the back of the house, so sharing a wall with the staircase. I not only heard footsteps walking up the stairs, but felt the vibrations, and almost felt the floor ever so slightly shifting as would an old house with this type of layout. Almost could sense someone on the other side of the wall, just 5 ft. from where I was sitting. I immediately ran out and told her "someone's coming up the back stairs!" In no time she had a high tech double barrel shotgun with a laser scope in one hand, and she handed me a .38 special and said "this is a point and shoot, you can handle it", then she called the cops. In no time they were in the front yard, hopped the fence, secured the yard, went inside, checked everywhere - and nothing. No signs of entry, no windows for anyone to use, only locked doors like always. I felt like an idiot. I mean, it's best to be safe - but in the specific area we were in, it was best to not be a cause of police presence on the street. Wasn't the best of areas to live.
3 UFO's:
First one I was about 8 years old, spending a week at my grandparent's house, out in the middle of nowhere. Both grandparents, two uncles and my younger sister were there. They woke me up maybe around midnight and told me to get my glasses and come outside, because it was like Star Wars. This was 1981 or so. Me and my sister went outside with them, my teenage uncles were already out there. We all looked up and saw this ring of lights. Maybe 12 lights or so. I think alternating bright pink and bright blue. And if they were all connected, then whatever it was was very close. It was silent, and it was so still I remember thinking somehow it was more still than we were. We just stood there staring up at it. And when it left, this was the oddest part. For being the sole reason we were all standing outside in the middle of the night, and being the only thing we were looking at - nobody remembered it disappearing. One second I am staring at this thing in amazement, the next I am just looking at the deck we were standing on. In fact, nobody seemed to remember what we were doing outside. Then one person mentioned, "Hey look, it's gone", then someone asked "What's gone?" Then the first person answered "Those lights we were looking at". Then we all kind of shrugged it off and went back inside. Next day, nobody mentioned a thing about it. I told my parents the next week and they thought it was neat, but that was about it. We never talked about it with my grandparents or uncles for maybe 20 years.
Next one was in my mid-30's, on a warm spring night. I was outside smoking a cigarette throwing my dogs fetch toy, and talking to my neighbor who was smoking too. I noticed immediately it was a really, really clear night. All stars were visible, every airplane was visible, and I could even pick out a satellite or two. There was no moon, but a few planets were visible. And there was one thing, the brightest thing in the sky, right around where mars normally would be located. I kind of just assumed that was mars and didn't pay a lot of attention. Then it specifically caught my eye. It was really bright, and orange. And I looked right up at it. And noticed that it was getting smaller, and the orange was fading into a white. Now, the idea that an object was getting smaller reminded me of only one thing. Not sure if it's just my poor vision, but if I'm outside in the freezing cold and walk into a warm house, my vision will get blurry then start focusing. It's almost like the first half minute my eyesight will become perfect without glasses, then morph back into poor vision. Well as I watched this, it's almost like my mind was thinking my eyes were out of focus, and that blurry large orange ball was getting in focus and it was really a smaller white ball. But that wasn't the case, as it wasn't cold and my eyes weren't out of focus. And it wasn't getting smaller, it was getting further. I watched it for a total of 15 seconds or so. It went from large and orange, gradually turning white and smaller, then tiny and blue. Like those tiny blue stars. I watched it get further and further, getting smaller and bluer than those far away stars. It almost traveled straight away. Put your thumb and index finger 2" apart, and hold up your extended arm. At the position of your thumb is, that is where it was orange and large, and at the index finger, that is where it was blue and disappeared altogether.
Third UFO was like 4 years later. Walking my dog out on a clear night. To my right in the northern sky I saw what immediately looked like a meteorite. Thought nothing of it really, for about a second, until it didn't burn up and disappear. Kept traveling at a precise and crazy arc. After two seconds my mind said "that's not a meteorite, that's a crashing plane". It was a standard blue/white dot. But no it wasn't crashing. Once it got to the southern part of the sky to my left, it stopped. Just came to a dead stop without slowing down. Now, this object which I saw travel from one side of the sky to the other, was just stopped, and looking like nothing more than the other visible 20 stars in that area of the sky. So I watched it for maybe 5 minutes, and intended to remember it's position - because once I got home it would be clearly visible from my south facing deck and back windows. But of course the first tree I walked past on the way back obscured it for long enough to the point where I couldn't identify which one it was. Not sure if it had a light on it, or it was just high enough to be illuminated by the sun. Either way, I've never seen anything that stopped like that.
And the last odd occurrence I had. When I was in my 20's, my grandfather had a bad stroke. Like the kind where he would have and should have died. Unfortunately the family decided on life support and nursing homes. It happened one morning when I was at work. I was working at a large department store at a local mall, in the high end Polo clothing section as a retail guy. It was a simple college job to make some extra cash. It was a weekday morning when I had the opening shift in my department. So on a Tuesday or whatever morning, I was the only one there in my section. And all of the departments didn't have full staff on a weekday because the mall wasn't busy at all. It was right after the store and mall opened, maybe just after 10 a.m. It was odd when this happened, because nobody was in sight. This guy walked up to me, maybe early 40's. Random guy. He started talking to me. Now, what he told me, from experience I now know that it sounds like he was having an ocular migraine. A specific kind of migraine where your vision is interrupted by a slowly growing blind spot. I get them. Anyway, he walks up to me and starts talking, saying that he had nothing to do today so he thought he'd come to the mall and watch a movie. But, something is wrong with his head and he can't watch a movie. He was saying "I was going to see a movie, but it's like I can't see out of one eye. It's like I'm having a stroke. I always knew, or thought this. Ever since I was younger I thought that I would die of a stroke". He was very coherent, and just seemed like a socially awkward guy. I might have asked him if he's alright, and he may have just walked away. I didn't know much about strokes at the time. In hindsight it seems a little careless that I didn't escort him to mall security or just call 911. Nothing about him seemed off. Just that he was telling me how he always knew he would die of a stroke. Later that day when I got home my parents were panicked and immediately broke the news to me that my grandfather had a stroke that morning. Then I immediately thought about my encounter with that guy. And what stuck out was how weird it was that nobody was around while it was happening. Just nobody. Normally other departments' workers would be at least in sight. But during my 3 minute conversation with this guy, it was like the entire store was vacant except for me and him.
So that's it. I'm a skeptic and chalk everything up to coincidence or carbon monoxide; except aliens.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 20, 2019 4:32:31 GMT
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Jan 20, 2019 4:37:55 GMT
Thank you? I'm not emoticon literate. What do you mean?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 20, 2019 4:43:06 GMT
Pep Streebeck applause for a well written post that gave me plenty of chills
cheers
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Jan 20, 2019 4:50:24 GMT
Pep Streebeck applause for a well written post that gave me plenty of chills
cheers Why thank you very much. Appreciated! I like writing, and these mini-stories that are detailed in my mind - they just come out of my fingers faster than I can articulate them. Writing things I have experienced is fun for me, so I like the nice feedback. I'm currently working on maybe expanding and writing fiction too. Or, maybe reality inspired fiction.
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Jan 20, 2019 5:22:01 GMT
Yup, I experienced something straight out of the Twilight Zone. It might interest Nalkarj , since he writes sci-fi stories. Warning it can be a long read but you'll get it al. That does sound like an interesting experience. You should have called the power company afterwards and inquired if there were any reported outages. But I know, when the weirdness is happening, your mind would be saying "oh well, it's all back to normal now, whatever... I'll just go about my business". Like it's not until way later when you realize - that was just odd! Maybe whatever it was, the crickets were affected and silent. Then it wasn't until normalcy occurred that the crickets began to act normal too. And if it was some kind of power outage, maybe it was stopping traffic all around your area. Not sure if you lived in a big metro area or a small town; but maybe there were seriously malfunctioning traffic lights causing nobody to be driving down the roads they would have been.
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Post by mecano04 on Jan 20, 2019 21:45:35 GMT
Yup, I experienced something straight out of the Twilight Zone. It might interest Nalkarj , since he writes sci-fi stories. Warning it can be a long read but you'll get it al. That does sound like an interesting experience. You should have called the power company afterwards and inquired if there were any reported outages. But I know, when the weirdness is happening, your mind would be saying "oh well, it's all back to normal now, whatever... I'll just go about my business". Like it's not until way later when you realize - that was just odd! Maybe whatever it was, the crickets were affected and silent. Then it wasn't until normalcy occurred that the crickets began to act normal too. And if it was some kind of power outage, maybe it was stopping traffic all around your area. Not sure if you lived in a big metro area or a small town; but maybe there were seriously malfunctioning traffic lights causing nobody to be driving down the roads they would have been. I live in a metro area.
A power outage could explain the lights being down outside. It would also explain why nobody were on the restaurants terraces or at any shops nearby. As for the traffic, it would have to be a really major shutdown/outage to have the authorities make sure the cars would use smaller streets. The 2 boulevards that makes the nearby intersection are (big is a relative word but for where I live in Canada) 3 lanes in each directions so the flow isn't usually small.
As for the crickets, there might have been a cold draft or whatever.
I get that those are all possible explanations, the only thing is , what are the odds that all those factors just coincide in time and space? Well, I made it through but it seems that despite the extraordinary odds it wasn't my lucky day because I didn't win the loto that day...
Or, if you believe in God, it could have been Gino, the angel in charge of the ambient sound, who got caught sleeping on the job and he dropped the needle on the disc/record when he woke up?
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Post by theshape25 on Jan 21, 2019 0:01:18 GMT
Back around 1990 some friends and I used to talk to each other on CB radios. Mostly it was just us, but every once in a while someone else would pop into our conversation. One night this dude comes on with the handle Dr. No. He told us he was a truck driver and that he drove around Ohio (the state where I live). He had a woman with him and she got on and was talking to us. The next night we were talking and Dr. No pops back on. This time he had a different woman with him. We all chatted for a bit and that was it. He came on again the next night and the night after that. Every time with a different woman. Then he stopped getting on and we never heard from him again.
A few years later I was watching Unsolved Mysteries and there was a story about a truck driver who drove around Ohio picking up prostitutes and killing them. The killings occured in the 80s on into the early 90s. They said that the killer used the CB handle Dr No. So for a week me and my friends may have been talking to a serial killer and his victims.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Jan 21, 2019 2:20:01 GMT
Back around 1990 some friends and I used to talk to each other on CB radios. Mostly it was just us, but every once in a while someone else would pop into our conversation. One night this dude comes on with the handle Dr. No. He told us he was a truck driver and that he drove around Ohio (the state where I live). He had a woman with him and she got on and was talking to us. The next night we were talking and Dr. No pops back on. This time he had a different woman with him. We all chatted for a bit and that was it. He came on again the next night and the night after that. Every time with a different woman. Then he stopped getting on and we never heard from him again. A few years later I was watching Unsolved Mysteries and there was a story about a truck driver who drove around Ohio picking up prostitutes and killing them. The killings occured in the 80s on into the early 90s. They said that the killer used the CB handle Dr No. So for a week me and my friends may have been talking to a serial killer and his victims. Holy crap, you may have been. Did the Unsolved Mysteries episode say if he had been apprehended? _________________________________________________________________________________________ Edit: I went to their site and found the following from the episode description - And in the comments section found this - And yes, I know, I've seen too many episodes of "Criminal Minds"...
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 21, 2019 3:38:04 GMT
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