Originally Posted By Spartacus:
OK this happened a few months ago. I'll post because this is "The Creepy" thread but I'm sure there's an explanation that's not paranormal.

So I was doing some work at a local high school. Daytime, sunny, hit AZ summer day. Late summer vacation time frame so no one supposed to be in the buildings. But it's not unusual for a teacher to pop in for some reason or other.

My supervisor told me to go to a storage room in one of the buildings of classrooms and get something we needed.

The building is a U shape. The U being the hallways with classes on both sides of the hallways facing each other. The middle lower portion of the U are student restrooms on one side and the storage room on the other. There are two classrooms each side of the storage room.

OK, so on with the Happening.

I walk down one of the hallways to the storage room and go inside. I'm standing there thinking, "what the heck did he want again?" I herp-a-derpped on what I was supposed to find. So I stepped into to outside the room to see if could recall what I was doing.

So I'm standing there head down in thought and I catch a movement from the right. I glance that direction and see a head looking out of a classroom looking in my direction.

I give a quick nod then look away hoping "he" doesn't want to Shanghai me for some BS task.

I remember what a was after, grab it and leave. Passing the classroom on the way. The door is closed, the lights off and the only thing I can hear is my footsteps.

Later I'm processing:

1. The classroom door was closed. If you open or especially close a door in this building you'll hear it. It will click or clunk but you cannot close a door silently in this building. I never heard a door open or close.

2. The lights are motion activated. Walk in the room, lights go on. Leave they shut off after a few minutes. There's a window in the door, there were no lights on in that room.

3. The head that popped out was a dark haired male. Other than that nondescript. The head was perpendicular to the floor. Not at an angle as one would expect from someone leaning into the hallway.

Now the good part.

Later on we were told that a teacher had suddenly dropped dead a couple of weeks ago and we needed to wait to work on the room until after the family came to clear out personal effects. When we were given the go ahead a few days later we went to work.

Same room where I saw the head looking at me.

I'm reasonably sure there's an explanation but I haven't thought of it yet.

Originally Posted By NostalgiaforInfinity:

I had no idea he passed

Originally Posted By stangwagon:
I hoped I'd never contribute to this thread, though I enjoy reading it occasionally.

For the last few months I've been working on a project in another state; my employer is renting a house there where I've been staying 3-4 nights a week, commuting most weeks from home. Place is nothing special, older house in a decent neighborhood. Been perfectly fine until last night.

About 3:30-4:00 AM I was listening to an Art Bell rerun, which I do basically every night. He was taking calls on the Weird Person line, and received a fax from a Satan worshipper.

I don't remember what it was about, but he read the letter on the air. I was mostly asleep during this. I distinctly remember the letter ended in "Hail Satan," because when he said that, the bed jolted, like somebody had been sitting on the edge and they jumped up suddenly.

Immediately awake, I threw the covers off and looked around; nothing was out of place except I noticed the bedroom door had been closed. The door was open when I went to bed, and had been open since July. I've never moved it. Didn't sleep for the rest of the night.

I'm writing this from the Hilton and will be going back to the house tomorrow to clean the place up and get my luggage. After that I'm leaving and not going back.

Originally Posted By 6gunfighter2:


Yeah, about that?

There's no scientific explanation for that.

A poltergeist stepped on the front door stop.

Originally Posted By exDefensorMilitas:
Not specifically creepy, more odd/weird.

Several times over the years I've had what would be called a "precognitive" dream, for lack of a better description. It's not a sense of "something is going to happen" shortly before "something" happens to make that clear.

These are distinctly different from deja vu and deja reve, as the dreams have always been of situations they I have never been in before, at any point in my life. The dreams happen roughly 6-9 months before I'm in that same situation and are so oddly specific and vivid. I don't get a clear picture of the people involved, but I do get roughly 5-10 seconds of the entire scene from my perspective. Conversations, actions(people, animals, inanimate objects) and full sensory information.

To describe it better, try to remember and picture 5-10sec of something you did early today. Focus on trying to recreate the 5 senses, conversations, what you and other people were doing. Basically an instant replay. That's what I get in one of these dreams.

One could argue that these "dreams" are really just my brain making an amalgamation of past experiences shaped by knowing I'm going to be doing something in the future a few months out and that it really is just deja vu/reve.
I can't argue against that being the case, but there have been a few that just don't line up with that.

For example:
A few months before I went to bootcamp, I dreamed of pulling up to a building in a police car, getting out with a rifle, walking into a big metal building, it was cold in the building and a giant thermometer on the wall showed -10F.

What this turned out to be, was me on one of my first days at Eglin AFB, going to the McKinley Climatic lab. The element of the climatic lab I might have known in some deep recess, as I grew up 45min away from Eglin. But that would have just been the name, as until the USAF, I had never been on the base or known the size of the building. As for the police car and gun, I can't think of a way I would have known that because I didn't join the USAF with the intention of being Security Forces or even carrying a gun. I was an idiot and accidentally marked Open General in basic, which is how I ended up carry a gun for my enlistment.

Next was two dreams, of jumping out of a slowing moving small SUV like vehicle, chasing and catching lizards, next to some trees along a road in the desert. First dream I didn't catch the lizard, second dream I did. About a month later, I get orders to Ali a Salem Air Base Kuwait.
Sure enough, about 6 months after those dreams, there I am jumping out of Kia Sorento chasing lizards at Kuwait International Airport, which incidentally has trees along the perimeter road, in a desert.

The thing is, aside from a deployment to Al Udeid, Qatar, I've never been to a desert in my life, nor have I chased 2ft lizards. No trees, lizards or Kia's at the base in Qatar either. I didn't even know I was going to be working at the Airport(with the trees in the desert) until a few days after being at Salem.
As it was, the first day of the lizard hunt was unsuccessful because the sense of familiarity and realizing I had dreamed this, threw me off. The next day was a success, because when I got that same feeling, I just went along with it.

There are a few more over the years mostly dealing with stuff in the military, but those two are the standouts. I still have them on occasion, but there is often enough overlap with prior experiences that I dismiss them. Every now and again I do get one that is novel and the sensation of realization isn't enough to jar me in the moment anymore.

As far as neurological/psychological conditions, I don't have epilepsy or seizures, not schizo or bipolar, no issue with memory or cognition. No history of those in the family either.

It's just weird, I can't explain it to myself.

Also, I've had these before and after being partially struck by lightning, so I don't think that has anything to with it.