It's nearly Halloween!! Where are your creepy stories? Please share!

I am really not of fan of radios, stereos or lights turning themselves on and off and especially not a fan of doors opening on their own - (shudder)

Thank you for sharing.

Anyone have any "black-eyed" kids stories?

Those are exceptionally creepy.

Yes, interesting.

I fear all these suicide videos are encouraging other young girls toward the path that death is the way out.

Funny, how most I have seen are beautiful, thin and socially attractive young women.

Sad.

Yeah me too.

I don't see spirits as much as feel the energy.

Funny how that energy comes from places you'd least expect it.

Okay, that was creepy!

Bumping for creepy stories, duh.

The following is true - it happened to me....

I'm an amateur astronomer, and I regularly take a telescope way out of town to avoid urban light-pollution.
One night I was at one of my usual 'dark-sites' - a clearing in the woods ('Stang' forest in Northern England). The clearing is about 50 yards across, roughly circular, and gravel-surfaced, with a fence around the perimeter, and trees beyond, all the way round, apart from the entrance. It is 100% pitch-dark in there if there's no Moon, and there's no people, apart from an occasional farm, for several miles around.
The night in question was around the time of New-moon (that's the best time for deep-sky astronomy) and all around me was VERY dark.
Anyways.... about an hour into my observing session, I hear rustling in the undergrowth, beyond the fence, maybe 30 yards to my right.
"Just an animal" I think - I hear them up there all the time, and just dissmissed it.
But then the noises keep coming, more regularly, louder.... And then I hear a low growl...
By now it's getting to me a bit, but trying to stay calm - thinking sensibly, I know it's nothing to worry about.
But alone, in pitch-dark, with no-one for miles around....
You start to imagine things.....
In the end, I got out a white-light torch (flashlight) - astronomers usually use dim red light so as to avoid losing my dark adapted vision, so if I was using white-light - that shows how spooked I was.
I shone it in the general direction of the noises - and over at the edge of the clearing I could see the reflection of a pair of eyes, maybe 5 feet up from ground level...

I nearly crapped myself....

For what seemed like forever, but was probably only a few seconds, I just panic-froze.
Do I run? Do I challenge the intruder?
I had half a pool-cue in the back of the car, did I have time to get it if I was rushed?

I was on the point of jumping in the car, and leaving two-grand's worth of telescope and eyepieces behind, when the 'eyes' dropped to ground level, and I saw the culprit.
A flippin' cat, with a field-mouse in it's mouth (explained the noises) had been sitting on top of a fence-post.

After that experience, I now always take my dog with me if I'm observing alone - he's a big softy, but looks mean (Pitbull crossbreed)


OK - I know it's not really a story about spooks....
But I WAS spooked to hell for a couple of minutes - LOL


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Last Edited by Karlos on 10/29/2012 06:49 PM

Great story! And as I hear the wind on the east coast - even better!

Thanks for sharing

Bumping for more creepy stories on a cold, windy night.