The Creepy Experiences/Ghost Stories/Conspiracy Theories, etc Thread • Page 68

Not directly happening to me but a friend and it’s irritating the fuck out of me that they haven’t done anything about this yet when all they gotta do is make a 30 second call. And they’re obsessed with crime and horror shit so this should be right up their alley.

They claim that an older couple that live down the block from her haven’t been seen for weeks and that their meth head son has been caught trying to break in a few times over the years. We haven’t had any snow until yesterday so there’s been nothing visually weird about the house besides, allegedly, only a basement light being on. Allegedly this friend has driven past a few times at different times of day over the last few weeks and no lights are ever on except one basement light. (Christmas decoration details added below).

apparently they also have a dog that she claims never usually makes any noises but was barking for hours one day constantly and then suddenly stopped and that was right around the time she realized the people were not seen anymore. Apparently the couple are grouchy and don’t get along with any of the neighbors so she thinks that’s why none of them have called for a wellness check.

I asked if she saw mail or papers piling up on the porch or mailbox and she doesn’t believe so, but believes the meth head son is living in the house so maybe he’s getting that stuff so it doesn’t look suspicious.

Since these are older people my first thought is maybe they’re on vacation in a warm state for winter like a lot of folks do when you live in Wisconsin. I don’t like the idea of immediately jumping to them being murdered. The dog issue I’m skeptical with because I have no way of knowing if she heard the right dog. If the dog is always normally quiet, how would you know that was the dog barking?

And she says it’s been since before Christmas and that usually they decorate their porch and this year was nothing which was what really got her attention, so you would think bills would be unpaid so lights and power may be turned off by now but I know a lot of older folks that do have auto payments so that could certainly be at play. And I also don’t think that if you miss your power or cable bill or whatever that anyone from those companies think you stopped paying because you were murdered so it’s not like that will kickoff a wellness check.

the biggest irritation I have is she says she lives like a block away or on the other side of the block and when I ask why she hasn’t called the non emergency like she just keeps saying she will “if it’s still like this in a few days”. You claim it’s been weeks! What the fuck. Quit telling all of us at work every 3 days about it and just call already or tell me the address and I’ll call.

best part - this person wants to be a cop. Well, they’ll certainly fit in since most of them don’t like to actually do anything helpful, she already has a leg up on the competition for ignoring something that could quite easily be figured out if it’s a big deal or not.

 

We have this too in my son’s room but the two attics are 100% different. The one in my garage is purely for storage while the one in my son’s room is like all insulation. My mother-in-law was convinced she used to hear stuff in his attic when he was a baby when she’d rock him to sleep. She figured we had mice or something. I’m obviously petrified of mice too and the thought of going into an attic to look for mice suffocated me with fear so I had my brother in law come check it out and he said no sign of anything.

 

There’s are no vents or windows or anything from the outside that leads directly into the attic. We have no nearby trees where an animal could feasibly climb up then jump onto our roof so I don’t think it could have been an animal (let alone an animal lifting up a door and moving it from the inside).

I walked the exterior of my house this morning to see if the wind caused roofing to be ripped of or something but everything appears normal.

Still highly doubt it was a person. Unless they brought a ladder or climbed a top my wife’s highlander, which is pretty tall. Also, our garage is so tight that it’s not easy to walk in and out of when both of our cars are in there. I didn’t check for footprints on top of her car but it’s been raining nonstop and she had already been driving this AM before we noticed so even if there were, they probably washed off.

but that’s so unlikely of a scenario.

I texted my brother in law about it because his family owns a construction business and he’s very knowledgeable about homes and construction and I asked if wind could have lifted and moved it and he said :”It Could, attic's have a dormer to allow air through. With this wind, very likely that is why” but then quickly followed it up with “or someone is living up there”

 

It’s ok. Sometimes I feel like one day I’ll be on the news because someone’s secretly been living in my attic

 

I couldn't cope with having an attic like that. We had one that you needed a ladder when I was a kid in my room and I was petrified of it. Then when I got older and we moved, the house had an attic with stairs but they were super narrow and steep so if you had to run for your life down them you'd probably trip and fall.

Attics are way creepier than basements imo

 

I check my attic a few times a week because of the movie Black Christmas

 

What’s crazy is the house that I grew up in (and my parents still live in) had an upstairs attic in my bedroom. Literally, my bedroom closet had a sliding back door behind where I would hang my clothes, with stairs that led into a huge walk-in attic that was finished. It was like a hidden room with carpet.

It was connected to the attic above the garage but - above the garage was all insulation and if you were to try and walk through it, you probably would have fell through the ceiling and there was no wall or anything to separate the sides of the attic I never went up there much and it didn’t creep me out back then but the more I think about it, the more creeped out I am.

 

My dad just used to grow weed in our attic wasn't scary as a kid just smelled funny lol

 

When I moved into this new apartment a few months ago I started experiencing sleep paralysis for the first time in my life. And holy shit it was fucking awful. I saw a figure right by my bedroom door that would just stand there and then eventually slowly approach. I was able to move and started screaming in like a fight for my life mode one time but nothing was there obviously. Maybe it was getting used to this place but it stopped after a few weeks thankfully. Was fucking awful tho I was like dreading sleep

 

I haven’t had it happen in a while thankfully, but yeah back when it happened on a regular basis I too dreaded going to sleep. I was under a lot of stress at the time and was not sleeping well so that definitely contributed. It does still happen on occasion and my god, I think the worst part about it now after all these years is the familiarity. Like, when it’s happened however many times, you start to know when you’re in it and that’s the part that fills me with the most dread now. My brain wakes up, and immediately has my eyes shifting around the room like “oh shit, it’s this again. Where is it? Where’s the thing gonna be? It’s definitely in here somewhere so let’s just get this out of the wa - ohfuckohshitthereitisfuckmeohmygod”

I remember people telling me online years ago that you have to figure out what works best for you to get out of it, whether that’s focusing on trying to wiggle a finger, or speaking openly to yourself as calm as you can to walk yourself through acknowledging that this isn’t real and will be over soon. I never believed that could work for me, but over time I have learned to get better at it. It still scares the bejesus out of me when it happens, but it also isn’t as overwhelming as it used to be.

 

yeah I've had sleep paralysis exactly twice in my life, and both times it was terrifying as hell. thought there was a legit demon in the room lol

 

The only time I’ve ever had it it was a guy in a chicken suit coming to kill me. I was screaming but like suffocating at the same time. I was letting out a legit scream that sounded like someone had their hands around my throat

 

I can’t remember if it was here or back on ap years ago that I posted about this but the one that still stands out in my mind as the most terrifying god damn thing that also, years later now in retrospect, kind of makes me laugh and sounds really funny when I say it out loud, was when I saw something move in the room and then couldn’t see anything at all and THEN suddenly heard this deep voice from the closet across the room from me counting down from ten. I was in full on panic mode, sweating and screaming to wake myself up from it, and my wife was able to pull me out of it. When she did I was in full on hysterics and shaking and she asked me what was going on and all I kept shouting was “what’s it counting down to? WHAT’S IT COUNTING DOWN TO?!?” Like on the one hand, that’s scary as hell, but on the other I’m imagining the dark recesses of my brain being like “…you know what would be really funny…”

 

I know what you mean about laughing about it. I’m like why was this guy in a chicken suit

 

lol exactly. I mentioned another one in here at some point where I heard this metallic noise and saw bright lights through my window and I was staring at my clock next to the bed the entire time. It was dark in my room and I still remember the clock read 4:16. I felt the lights on my body lifting me and the noise got louder and in my mind it was all “oh shit oh my god oh no they’re abducting me this is it” and then WHAM my body snaps out of it and my eyes are still wide open as they’d been just seconds ago and I’m still staring at my clock but now the room is light and the clock reads 8:22. Now rather than seriously consider what actually just happened here, I remember springing out of bed and googling for like a solid thirty to forty-five seconds what alien abductions are like before my rational thoughts kicked in with white hot embarrassment like

“….what the fuck are you doing.”

I’ve wondered for years since how many people who think they’ve been abducted were actually experiencing sleep paralysis.

 

I get sleep paralysis a lot. But it's mostly just me trying to get up or call out to someone and being unable to move when something is attacking me. Usually at least. I give my bf a near heart attack sometimes because I'll wake up gasping for breath or breathing super hard

 

Jesus

 

So it’s common to have a person there with you trying to murder you when sleep paralysis occurs???

 

I've been there and that time jump is the worst because it feels like you lost four hours of sleep

 

I never had this thankfully, but yeah yall got attacked by demons and / or abducted by aliens and it’s all a cover-up

 

When I get it there is something like a shadow hovering above me and it slowly drops down on me.

 

Yeah and that’s what had me so rattled. Staring at my clock and then suddenly snapping into reality and still staring at my clock but everything is totally different was such a surreal experience and I was acting out of fear on top of everything else. The whole experience is so jarring. You feel so unrested afterward because of it. I usually have my eyes open the entire time and it scares the hell out of my wife because she won’t know what’s going on at first. She always tells me it makes her skin crawl because she is desperately trying to wake me up and I am staring up or dead ahead at something that she can’t see while I’m moaning and making these other worldly noises from my throat because I’m trying to form words that won’t come.

 

I think you're supposed to wiggle your toes too get out of it

 

Yepppp. My wife has said the same exact thing about me trying to yell while it's happening.

 

I get sleep paralysis a few times a year and luckily I never see anything, just feel/hear something. The worst times were when I was in a cabin alone in the middle of nowhere and I couldn’t move and I heard someone yelling “I’m coming in!” And another time i felt somebody pushing against my back (I usually sleep on my side/stomach) and I thought I was being r*ped.

the trigger for me is definitely too much alcohol. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced it on a night I didn’t drink. Too much alcohol + sleeping on my back seems to be the trigger, which makes me wonder if it’s some sleep apnea thing.