Dick Turpin
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There’s quite a few tales posted on this forum that genuinely gave me the creeps, but true or false, what’s creepiest fortean story you have ever been told / heard of.?
There’s quite a few tales posted on this forum that genuinely gave me the creeps, but true or false, what’s creepiest fortean story you have ever been told / heard of.?
... As far as this board goes, one of the ones that has always stuck in my mind was the youth hostel connected shenanigans related by, mmmm, JohnnyBoy?(Jonnyboy?...something like that, I think; a real world aquaintance of Pietro Mercurios, I seem to recall).
I lost track of the thread years ago - I'm not sure it exists anymore. But if it does, I would be eternally grateful to the person who can direct me there - if only to see if it's as good as I think, or if time and a fallible recollection has polished it up beyond recognition. ...
Thanks for that, EG. (How do you do that? My searches never turn up anything of any use?) ...
This thread?...
In this case, it turned out to be straightforward and didn't require any of my mod / admin 'powers' ...
There was a story, I *think* it might have been the phantom cigarette smoker thread, or one posted at that time. ...
Nothing like this appears in either the 'Invisible Smoker' or 'Phantom Cigarette' threads, and I can't locate anything remotely similar.
If I could afford it, henry, I'd go tomorrow. It's such a great story.TGS is the gift that keeps on giving, with board members irregularly undertaking elongated trips through backwoods mjolby etc ... in the hope of coming across a burnt out gas station, or even a square of scorched earth where one might have stood ... theres no greater exemplar of the depth and illusiveness of the ihtm, always just out of reach ... ive even considered a trip out there myself, in a man-without-a-past kind of way
For me it's the classic Transdimensional Gas Station:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-transdimensional-gas-station.23173/
I don't even care whether it's true or not. It's just such a good story, well told.
I find the ones that are totally outside our terms of reference creepy in that theypotentially shatter our grasp of the world. Cwos on hind legs talking to each other, giant spacehoppers etc. The sort of thing that is found in here - https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...hind-legs-other-cases-of-real-weirdness.4630/
I think we also had a 'Gibbering Insanity' thread but I can't find it now - it may have been merged or lost.
its that one, i just told the mods to merge it with another older and more obscure thread about the same subjectI think we also had a 'Gibbering Insanity' thread but I can't find it now - it may have been merged or lost.
There was a story, I *think* it might have been the phantom cigarette smoker thread, or one posted at that time. Handily, my terrible memory can't be more specific. The poster worked at an allegedly haunted office, and one Friday, being the last one out, called out "See you on Monday". Directly into her ear, someone quietly said "No you won't". My recollection is that the OP turned up at work on Monday and all was fine, but I always liked that one. It had so many layers of creepy, it just stayed with me
I cannot tell you how much finding this has cheered me, it's one that I often thought of
Pure belter, you star! That's the exact post I was thinking about in my first outing in this thread. Thanks.
It's delicious! Genuinely one that pops into my mind every so often - and I would never have connected your post, because I was convinced JB1968 experienced it in an office. I'm glad we're both sorted!
I find the ones that are totally outside our terms of reference creepy in that they potentially shatter our grasp of the world. Cows on hind legs talking to each other, giant spacehoppers etc. The sort of thing that is found in here - https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...hind-legs-other-cases-of-real-weirdness.4630/
I think we also had a 'Gibbering Insanity' thread but I can't find it now - it may have been merged or lost.
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Location. Cadgwith, Cornwall, England
Date: 1988
Time: late night
The witness had been staying at a local cottage when one windy and rainy night she was unable to sleep. She was thinking of going downstairs for a while when she looked down the hall and there, at the end of the hall, to the right of the toilet, stood a black figure. It looked like it had a hooded robe on. She just stared, frozen in bed. All of the sudden, the figure lifted slowly from the floor and extended its arms out on either side and proceeded to swiftly float right towards the witness. The terrified witness turned around and dove under the covers. She could hear a rustling sound right above her head. But before she knew it there was dead silence. She waited at least 15 minutes before coming out from under the covers, when she did this the figure had vanished.
HC addendum
Source: Pancake Perspectives issue # 17
Type: E
But what is ''Pancake Perspectives''?... The forerunner of Batter Aficionado magazine?
Jim Aho has published another issue of his Pancake Perspectives,
which he notes is named after a special event:
>One of Wisconsin's most famous UFO close encounters took place
>on April 18, 1961. Joe Simonton of Eagle River reported that he
>was given three pancakes by aliens. Since then, this story has
>been shared around the world, but if you think about it, the
>only reason we can even talk about it today is because he had
>the courage to tell his story in the first place.