# Share something creepy **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 21, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026 "2014-10-21T14:11:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/21 "2014-10-22T03:08:02Z")
Well, besides the normal Night Terrors (paralyzed, Satan sitting on your chest…that fun stuff:) Once I was sitting in my room and heard the doorknob to the downstairs garage door turning back and forth. I just assumed my sister had been in the garage when I got home. After a few minutes, I realized that no one had come in. I went downstairs to look in the garage and no one was there and the outside garage door was locked. Another time, at my girlfriends house, late at night we would hear some tinny music-box song play every hour on the hour. It seemed to be coming from right in the middle of the room, five feet off the ground. She owned no radio. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/22 "2014-10-22T04:23:43Z")
I ran a club and a dumb rumor got started that the previous owner haunted the place. He was murdered on the property by an irate customer. We’ll call the ghost Bob. My nephew once shouted out for Bob to prove he was real and an 8 foot light fixture fell on him from the ceiling within a second or two. When I replaced the bulbs that were broken the fixture was easily put back in the ceiling as the only thing wrong was a bolt that had been unscrewed. Oh, Nephew had a lump on his head, no real damage. ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/23 "2014-10-22T05:04:40Z")
We were staying overnight at my grandmother’s house so that we could get an early start on a day trip the next morning. (I was 6-7 at the time.) I heard my name called, walked out into the hall, and saw a woman with dark curly hair, and wearing a plaid shirt and blue jeans, standing by the stairs. She told me it was time to wake everyone up so we wouldn’t be late. Which I did. Everyone told me to go back to bed as it was the middle of the night. Again at g’mother’s, I heard my mom call me. Except she wasn’t there. After my dad died, I spent a night in his room. I was awakened by the sensation of someone sitting down on the edge of the bed, just where he would be sitting when I took him cocoa. After my much loved pooch died, another sleepless night, and then came the familiar feeling of four paws walking across the bed and the settling down for the night pressure against my side. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/24 "2014-10-22T10:20:55Z")
I started [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=690954) thread about a series of inexplicable but similar illnesses while I was on a flight. I imagine today we would all have been quarantined after landing, but “groups of people vomiting” wasn’t a big fear a few years ago. I thought it was creepy at the time. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/25 "2014-10-22T17:34:52Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > creepy … basement set up as a bedroom with a washroom. The creepy detail was this - the room had a very substantial door, _with a hasp for a padlock - on the outside_ This wins the prize for creepiness!—Because, unlike all the other posts, this one is based on a physical fact that can be objectively verified. Most creepy stories (voices in the dark, etc) can be explained as just somebody’s imagination working overtime. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/26 "2014-10-22T19:54:31Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > WTF?! > Where are you riding the subway that people are their faces into other peoples crotches and vise versa? > [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Any one that has seats and standing riders… which, IME, is all of them. I’ve been on an NYC subway, a Metro North train and a Boston MTBA car in the last couple of weeks and had this [del]strange[/del] creepy occurrence on all of them. You’re not this poor woman, are you? (SFW but possibly not appropriate) [http://www.break.com/pictures/this-lady-had-to-endure-40-min-of-crop-dusting-2778406](http://www.break.com/pictures/this-lady-had-to-endure-40-min-of-crop-dusting-2778406) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/27 "2014-10-23T16:23:41Z")
About 10 years ago when I went house hunting, I told me realtor I wanted a ranch house with a work shed. We went way out into the sticks and looked at a house. The rooms were mostly empty, covered with ratty shag carpeting. One room had a single mattress, one of those striped kinds that looked like it came from a jail cell, and a portable B&W TV. The rest of the house was lit by strip lighting: 6’ long strips with 5-6 bulbs mounted. The realtor guessed there must have been a sale at Lowe’s. We went to look in the work shed, and and it had a single work table, a concrete platform joined to the back wall. It had been painted over with primer gray, but the paint was chipping away from the top of the platform, leaving a red surface. There was a little door next to the platform, which looked like it could have been a pet door, but built of solid wood. I wondered if this had been an organ harvesting outfit, and the door was for unseen deliveries. I’ve been living there ever since. Not. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/28 "2014-10-23T16:40:11Z")
My ex phoned me and asked me to get back together with him immediately after leaving the woman for whom he left me. AGGGGHHHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/29 "2014-10-23T16:55:01Z")
My Wife and I live way up in the mountains in Colorado. Our cars are not in a garage, just parked outside. It’s heavily treed and not so much a lot as the side of a mountain. We have two protective dogs that can see the drive and the cars from the upstairs floor to ceiling windows. It’s their watchtower it is. They never bark at us when we get home or leave for work. They can even tell the difference between our two cars. Always wanting to check for my Wife if I pull up in my wifes car (where is Patty?) The dogs do bark when they see animals in the yard. Deer, moose, bear. My wife leaves very early. Five AM. I leave at six. In the fall and winter it is cold and snowy and windy. And can be very dark. The trees are making noise as I walk to my car. Kricket, 70lbs of tough in a black and white pointer/collie mix likes to watch from the upstairs windows as I leave, and I always give her a wave goodbye. That’s not scary. What is scary is when I see that she is focused on something else in the yard, not me. ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/30 "2014-10-23T17:14:32Z")
**What is scary is when I see that she is focused on something else in the yard, not me.** Soon after our marriage, ex and I moved into the country and he left on an overseas trip. My dog, about 100 lbs dedicated to protecting her puppy, me, refused to come inside the house for the duration of the trip. Ex’s dog, mellow as they come, kept me company inside. When I was certain everything was locked, he got up, walked to the doorway of the dark bedroom, and growled. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/31 "2014-10-23T17:19:01Z")
I contributed to a thread on this exact topic a month or so ago and it vanished from the board with no trace or explanation. Creepy. ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/32 "2014-10-23T22:19:26Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Well, besides the normal Night Terrors (paralyzed, Satan sitting on your chest…that fun stuff:) > > Once I was sitting in my room and heard the doorknob to the downstairs garage door turning back and forth. I just assumed my sister had been in the garage when I got home. After a few minutes, I realized that no one had come in. I went downstairs to look in the garage and no one was there and the outside garage door was locked. > > Another time, at my girlfriends house, late at night we would hear some tinny music-box song play every hour on the hour. It seemed to be coming from right in the middle of the room, five feet off the ground. She owned no radio. Seriously weird…my brother and I had the same music box type music appear out of nowhere in our childhood bedroom…neither one of us spoke about it till years later…and it still gives us the creeps…the tune? “Santa Claus is coming to town” ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/33 "2014-10-23T23:10:43Z")
“_Normal_ night terrors”?!! ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/34 "2014-10-24T00:24:54Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > “_Normal_ night terrors”?!! I think they meant [sleep paralysis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis). ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/35 "2014-10-24T01:43:35Z")
[Where are your pants when you poop?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=738306) To me, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/36 "2014-10-24T01:53:30Z")
> [@BaldDudePeekskill](#): > > Seriously weird…my brother and I had the same music box type music appear out of nowhere in our childhood bedroom…neither one of us spoke about it till years later…and it still gives us the creeps…the tune? “Santa Claus is coming to town” Electronic Christmas card? I’ve heard stories about them getting one more gasp from their dead battery at intervals of weeks or months. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/37 "2014-10-24T03:28:06Z")
Years ago, when I was around 13, we were living in a house that is generally known to be, if not straight-up haunted, had some sort of badness about it. We lived there until I was about 20. Anyway, I was sitting at my dresser mirror with my bedroom door behind me, doing my hair and getting ready to head to the mall. My dog, Boots, a small/medium terrier mix, was laying in the doorway. Suddenly, she jumped up and started growling, full hackles raised, into a corner of my room, directly to my left. “Boots?” I called. “It’s okay, baby, there is nothing there.” She didn’t listen, instead, she started backing out of the room, growling ferociously. Yeah, I was right behind her, screw brushing my hair. Years later, same house, I was sleeping in my parents bed. When my mom moved out, my dad didn’t want to sleep in that room, so he took my room (now in the basement) I had their room, which had a waterbed. Fine. Whatever. Anyway, laying in bed one night, getting ready for sleep, my back is to the door which is closed, but not latched, or the dog or cat would howl to come in later. I hear a soft bump, and the door opens, because the light from the bathroom is now shining in. No biggie, I didn’t sleep in pitch black back then anyway. I feel Boots hop on to the bed, and the waterbed gently waves with the added weight. I decide to give her a scratch and roll over. No dog. Door is open. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/38 "2014-10-24T04:32:03Z")
> [@BaldDudePeekskill](#): > > Seriously weird…my brother and I had the same music box type music appear out of nowhere in our childhood bedroom…neither one of us spoke about it till years later…and it still gives us the creeps…the tune? “Santa Claus is coming to town” “He sees you when you’re sleeping…” Good to know that ghosts have a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/39 "2014-10-24T04:38:55Z")
Also the usual teeny tiny spaceships that only our pack of cats can see and chase around a house. No, it’s not a GD bug, it’s not a dust mote. And frankly it’s not even creepy really. The cats aren’t scared, they are either seeing fairies or are just fucking with us…probably the latter. ---
**Author:** ![JesterX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JesterX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JesterX)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026/40 "2014-10-24T04:44:37Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I think they meant [sleep paralysis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis). My mom used to call that the “witches touch”. Sometimes you wake up feeling like someone is on top of you and you can’t move to get them off. Creepy as hell. There’s also the weird thing where you fall asleep and one of your appendages is in an awkward position, doesn’t get enough blood, and goes numb. So you wake up and feel your arm or leg but the arm or leg has no feeling so it feels like some foreign object. And you’re like, “wtf”?! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-something-creepy/702026.md?page=3)