re: Need to Kill Time: What's a story that you've heard that still gives you chills

This thread wont die.

Has anyone else experienced Inception-ish nightmares? I had one that I remember incredibly clearly. I'm not going to write or voice what happened in it, but it was terrifying. It was scary enough that I woke up, except I woke up into another even more terrifying dream, was there for roughly 20 seconds, then finally woke up completely. Strangest single dream I have ever had. Most terrifying by far.

I have been dreaming A LOT recently. The other night I had 3 straight dreams, all of which I can remember clearly, instant by instant. Each seemed to go on for hours and was incredibly detailed, even partially lucid. Didn't used to do this. Not sure what is happening to me.

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Your homosexuality trying to come out?

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I'll tell one of my stories:

Strange things happen at my dad's house. He doesn't believe it, but my siblings and I all agree.

Out of the corner of your eye, you will sometimes catch someone walking through a room, one that you know was empty.

In the bathroom we all shared as kids, you could feel the presence of someone, or thing, watching you. It would be so bad that you would flee the bathroom, shampoo still in your hair. (to this day, that is the only bathroom that I have trouble showering in)

Doors would open. Not blown open, like from the wind or something, but actually unlatch and open.

The dogs were the freakiest. Especially Cleo, the great dane. Cleo would sit at the door to a room, wanting to go in. We'd open the door and she would take a step inside the room, then freeze. The hair on her back would stand, she would stare into the room, and then let out a low, menacing growl. She would then step back, out of the room, and wouldn't turn away till we shut the door.
This usually happened in what we called the play-room.

It was in this room that my story takes place. Here is the story of my encounter with the entity we call "Harold":

After my first year of college, I returned to my dad's house for the summer. Upon arriving I found that I no longer had a bed in the room my brother and I shared as his broke during the year (we had bunk beds and his was the top. One night it collapsed with him on it).

I would sleep the summer in the play-room. The play-room had all of our video games, t.v.'s, the pool table. It is where all of our entertainment was.

My friends and I would spend the evenings playing pool and drinking. At night I would crash on a pallet on the floor. It was during the third week of this that I awoke to see "Harold".

I had drunk alot, and readily admit that all this may be explained from an alcohol induced dream. I would like to believe that. If it wouldn't have been for the dog, I would believe it.

The Encounter:

I awoke from a good sleep. One that would have normally kept me out until the later hours of the morning. Why i woke, I do not know, but felt something was not right.

I felt as if something was enticing me to look, straight ahead. I opened my eyes and there he was. He was sitting in a fold out chair about four feet from my head, staring at me.

He was green. I remember this clearly. Green, yet not bright. More of a "booger" green. And his face. His face was clear as day. It was not a pleasant face. There was no good will in the face. He looked as if he meant me harm.

I drove my face into the pillow, so as to not see him anymore. I thought to myself, "This is silly. You just woke up. It's probably a dream or the alcohol." To prove this to myself, I looked again.

He was still there. And he looked even angrier.

I shoved my face back into the pillow, then I called for my dog, Holly.

A little background on Holly: Holly was one of those dogs that was a protector. She was sweet as can be until she thought that her family was in trouble. Then she would turn a switch and become the most fearless, vicious dog imaginable. She would take on a rottweiler, and did, if she felt it posed us a threat.

Back to that night.

I called for Holly and patted my side. Just having her near me would have been enough for me to be okay.

Holly was laying across the room, on the other side of the pool table. The shortest route to me would have been to walk in front of that chair, which she did all the time.

That night, as I called, she got up and instead of going in front of that chair, she walked all the way around the pool table, walked across my pallet and laid down at my head, between me and the chair. She faced the chair and stared at it, letting out low growls. She wouldn't budge, wouldn't let me budge, and wouldn't stop growling.

After about twenty minutes, she finally stopped. She let out a whine and then laid her head down to go to sleep. I didn't sleep for the rest of the night.

After that, I slept on the couch in the living room. I could deal with being woken early. I couldn't deal with spending another night in that room.

psychosis

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Someone please link the ghost story thread that went 20+ pages awhile back.

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As always, the lsutigerinbama demon story needs to be referenced. We never did get him back on the OT...he said he had a picture.

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anyway the weirdest incident was one night late at night....wife and i were in bed..both woken up...we hear a ZOOM noise downstairs....almost like there was a highway in my kitchen....every light in the house is on...brighter than usual....walk down the stairs...the carpet is soaking wet...get to the base of the stairs and down the hall to the right there is thing huge thing pearing around the corner staring at me and my wife.....we move into the kitchen....there is this black figure at the table....humanoid for sure....i cant see through it but it doesn't look solid either.....the thing down the hall is screeching loudly...the human thing is yelling at me....or feels like it...loud noises that dont sound nice directed toward me and my wife.....behind the human thing at the table its like there is a portal....again i can not put into words what i was seeing...its like i could see into another place but it was here....wife and i ran out down the road and didn't stop until we got to her parents house....went back the next day.....house was back to normal lol...didnt stay there another night.....

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Has anyone else experienced Inception-ish nightmares? I had one that I remember incredibly clearly. I'm not going to write or voice what happened in it, but it was terrifying.

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Well frick you...why even tell us about it?

This happened years ago but is a true story. When the movie Exorcist first came out, i promised more than one girl to take and see it. This happened after the second time. My home was in the country and you had to travel down a gravel road to get to my house. As I was getting close to my home a black cat came from the old house nest to ours and crossed in front of my car. You have to understand. My brothers hated cats and none that we knew of lived anywhere close. But that night, there it was.

Kind spooked me out a little but no problem. I was almost in my own driveway. When I pulled in, it was totally empty. My entire family was at our camp on the river and I was home alone. I went in and fixed a quick snack before turning in. Just as I get into bed. I hear this darn cat. It was on our front door steps meowing it tail off. First, I was just going to ignore it, but my luck it just kept making noises. I got out of bed and was going to just run it off. As I stepped into the hallway. This cat quit meowing and started making growling noises.

I went in my room and loaded up a shot gun and said to myself, this thing has got to go. As I walked back into the hallway, the growling became more intense. We had a screen door that was metal half way up. This thing started beating and rattling that door like it was trying to rip it off the hinges. I went back into my room and unloaded the gun. I got back in bed and prayed. God, I don't know what that is. But this gun aint going to help me. After praying for a while, the thing left.

Wow, so you got that scared of a black cat? You sound pretty superstitious

Damn, I closed the tab with the reddit thread and don't feel like scrolling all the way through it again.... I was almost all the way through it

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