The ongoing creepy stories and unsolved mysteries thread

[JiriHrdina]

This is my personal story, which isn't that creepy but kinda fits in, though I think I've told it on this site before.

I think I was in my late teens, and I was shooting hoops outside the house. I lived up near Nose Hills in Beddington. I turned around and saw a silver cylander object come down from Nose Hill. It was moving fairly quickly and smoothly, and made no sound. It accelerated once it got over Beddington and soon was out of sight.

I have no idea what it was. A true UFO.

[surferguy]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

This is my personal story, which isn't that creepy but kinda fits in, though I think I've told it on this site before.

I think I was in my late teens, and I was shooting hoops outside the house. I lived up near Nose Hills in Beddington. I turned around and saw a silver cylander object come down from Nose Hill. It was moving fairly quickly and smoothly, and made no sound. It accelerated once it got over Beddington and soon was out of sight.

I have no idea what it was. A true UFO.

Cool - how big was it?

[Flabbibulin]

Originally Posted by iLoveLamp

Oooh Ted The Caver is a good one too

http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/

Ok, please tell me this has happened to others- my monitor went completely white with weird flashing lines about 10 minutes into reading this- lasted about 10 seconds. Didn't seem to be some weird trickery with the webpage to freak people out, as it wasn't confined to the web browser window.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Flabbibulin

Ok, please tell me this has happened to others- my monitor went completely white with weird flashing lines about 10 minutes into reading this- lasted about 10 seconds. Didn't seem to be some weird trickery with the webpage to freak people out, as it wasn't confined to the web browser window.

No. I spent a few hours reading that on and off and that didn't happen.

You're haunted.

[Flabbibulin]

Originally Posted by MattyC

No. I spent a few hours reading that on and off and that didn't happen.

You're haunted.

It actually happened yesterday, but was hesitant to post, thinking people would assume I was BSing. Just went through the site again and clicked on every link to see if it happened again- it is pretty old and there could theoretically be something that messes with the resolution on my monitor. Nothing.

Told my wife about it and then proceeded to freak her out all night by placing a couple items around the house right on the edge of a table or whatever so that they would fall off randomly at some point. Ha.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by surferguy

Cool - how big was it?

Honestly it was hard to tell. I had a difficult time judging how big it was and how far away it really was. My sense was it wasn't big by any stretch though. I would say the size of a barrel, but thinner.

[Frequitude]

Originally Posted by iLoveLamp

Oooh Ted The Caver is a good one too

http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/

OK. So I read this like an hour ago and have had this overwhelming sense of dread the whole time. WTF. Please tell me this has been debunked. It just ends like that?!

[Frequitude]

Whew. Fake. Well, an embellished story of a real cave adventure.
https://grahamjw.wordpress.com/2009/...caver-mystery/

To summarize the fact vs. fiction discussions about the story, let me just say the parts about the digging and passage through Floyd’s Tomb are, for the most part, true and taken directly out of my caving journal. I intentionally altered a few details of the cave, but as has been mentioned, it still accurately describes Freeway Cave, Floyd’s Tomb, and the passage now known as Gypsum Passage on the map. The supernatural aspects of the story are all pure fabrication. Even the rumbling that both Dale Green and Ralph Powers mentioned exist in the cave did not inspire the story. I simply used them later to add to the mystery! And that is that. Nothing mysterious happened while we worked on the cave. It was just an experience filled with challenge, hard work and lots of satisfaction. The feelings I mentioned while in Floyd’s Tomb were real. That’s what made it so fun to write.

Well written story. Very cool.

Great thread by the way. I almost never venture into this forum but glad I did.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Frequitude

Whew. Fake. Well, an embellished story of a real cave adventure.
https://grahamjw.wordpress.com/2009/...caver-mystery/



Well written story. Very cool.

Great thread by the way. I almost never venture into this forum but glad I did.

Well, that is disappointing.

[Fuzz]

Tech mystery!

http://fusion.net/story/214995/find-...to-wrong-home/

TLDR;
couple has angry people showing up at their house looking for their missing phones. "Find my phone" apps are pointing to their house, but they can be different OS's and carriers. No one knows why.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Tech mystery!

http://fusion.net/story/214995/find-...to-wrong-home/

TLDR;
couple has angry people showing up at their house looking for their missing phones. "Find my phone" apps are pointing to their house, but they can be different OS's and carriers. No one knows why.

Interesting story, but I lost all sympathy for the couple as soon as I saw the dude's man-bun.

[scotty2hotty]

My sister (let's call her Sally) had an imaginary friend named Veronica when she was little.

My parents went on a cruise and met another couple. Come to find out that they had a daughter named Veronica and that she had an imaginary friend named Sally.

True story.

Not exactly earth shattering ... just kind of neat and gives me the opportunity for the rare post.

[northcrunk]

Somethings been messing with my wife on our laptop. I can go on there for hours and no issues. As soon as she gets on the screen glitches and the machine will shut down or freeze. I get back on and it's fine. I think my laptop may be jealous.

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Interesting story, but I lost all sympathy for the couple as soon as I saw the dude's man-bun.

And leather gloves.......le sigh. He doesn't look like a credible witness.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Tech mystery!

http://fusion.net/story/214995/find-...to-wrong-home/

TLDR;
couple has angry people showing up at their house looking for their missing phones. "Find my phone" apps are pointing to their house, but they can be different OS's and carriers. No one knows why.

Maybe they should stop reselling stolen phones?

[jeep991]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

Somethings been messing with my wife on our laptop. I can go on there for hours and no issues. As soon as she gets on the screen glitches and the machine will shut down or freeze. I get back on and it's fine. I think my laptop may be jealous.

Same here. My wife gets on the laptop and the internet stops working or slows way down and then shuts down. I start it up and everything is working awesome.

[Hockeyguy15]

Weird, my wife tries to use the TV remote and it stops working. I use it and it works just fine.

[Fuzz]

Try working IT....

"can you come see my computer, it's not working" ...go over maybe try ti myself, or watch them try it... "oh, hey it works!" what did you do!??!!

Ugh.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by scotty2hotty

My sister (let's call her Sally) had an imaginary friend named Veronica when she was little.

My parents went on a cruise and met another couple. Come to find out that they had a daughter named Veronica and that she had an imaginary friend named Sally.

True story.

Not exactly earth shattering ... just kind of neat and gives me the opportunity for the rare post.

Not a creepy story but since you brought up pen pals this fits. I posted this story nearly 10 years ago on CP:

When I was really young my sister got a pen pal at school. I was apparently jealous so I made up a pen pal of my own named Paul Raisin and would talk endlessly about all the great letters he sent me.

Apparently my parents decided it would be a hoot to actually send me letters from him. Talk about frackin a kid up by merging his imaginary world with reality.

Somwhere along the line I became convinced Paul Raisin was real. In fact, my parents took it as far to have him call me one day. (got the neighbour's older kid to do it).

At some point they realized that the charade could have long-lasting impacts on my psyche and Paul Raisin sent me a letter that he would no longer be able to write to me because he was moving to Europe. I distinctly recall being very upset. A couple years later my folks revealed the fact that they faked his existence to me.

I still have all the letters. Great keepsake.

[Robo]

Oh goody I stumble into this thread just in time for my vacant buildings check tomorrow one of which was a mental health building filled with two way mirrors and other fun stuff. Gives me the creeps I pretty much just run through that building.