Hi friends! Happy Friday :)
Update: I have uploaded a new story time YT video talking about some of these things so feel free to check it out if you like!
I feel like it's been a while since I've done a Freaky Friday Files blog post - but I find that if I do them every single week, I might get writer's block or just procrastinate and not be able to think of anything so I'd much rather produce quality over quantity BUT in saying that, I do enjoy writing these Freaky Friday Files and it kinda gives Fridays a bit more purpose if you know what I mean. But I do also like the stream of consciousness style writing too and I think you guys do too!
Anyway, for today's post, I thought I'd switch it up a bit and make it a personal one. And as you've probably guessed from the title, I'm gonna discuss the creepiest things that have ever happened to me (basically since I was a kid until now - I'm 28 and will be 29 this year). But I tell you what, I definitely feel like creepy things happen to me a lot (idk if I'm a magnet for creepy things to happen or what, but I'm exposing myself here and the wacky sh*t that's happened to me).
Let's just get right into it.
At my primary school back in CHCH, a lot of the kids were super into scaring each other about ghost stories and I got so scared of having to use the bathrooms because of what happened. One day one of my mates was telling me they could see ghosts and that we needed to go check out the girl's toilets because they've seen eyeballs in them and I literally remember going in and seeing eyeballs in one of the toilets. I was SOOOOO scared. But in reality - I think they were just playing a prank but when you're 8 years old, why wouldn't you believe it?
Once, I was walking to my high school from my mum's house and as I was walking past the river, there was a guy in a trench coat walking past me and I had headphones in but I got a weird vibe from him. Anyway, as I walked past he kinda opened his coat a little and I could see a knife and he was stumbling a bit. I stayed confident and just kept walking to school and nothing else happened. But I was like, was it a drunk dude coming back from a night out? Or was it a ghost? Or was I just really luckily? ORRRRRRR was I hallucinating? All of these things could be possible, but it was SO weird.
Another time when I was walking to school there was a d*ad body in the river near mum's house, where someone had dr*wned - that was scary af. And then the river got cordoned off for so long so the usual shortcuts we could take were all gone. It was really annoying.
After a really good family friend had passed away, I was home alone at mum's house and there were some baking bowls quite high up on the shelves (and it would be purely impossible for them to move). Anyway, as I went into the kitchen, two of these bowls started fly-spinning in the air off the shelves and me wanting to logically explain it, I googled to see if there had been any earthquakes that day, but none and I was like WTF and asked mum what she thought when she came home and said it could have been the late friend. So creepy.
One night in mum's house I was about to get ready to go out and have some drinks with some mates but as I was about to get into the shower, both mum's room lights AND the bathroom lights just start flickering on and off and we are unable to stop it. Didn't look like any fuses were blown and then 5 minutes later, they went back to normal. I think I might have a video somewhere, but I'd have to hunt it down.
One night I had gone to bed early at my mum's house and was home alone. I think I was watching The Bachelor on my laptop and I hear someone at the door. I immediately turn my sound off on my laptop but the lights are on so they can tell someone is home. Now, mum's house is at the back of a long driveway so it takes a while to walk down there and if it's past 9pm and dark and I'm home alone, I'm not answering the door UNLESS I absolutely 1000% am expecting someone. Anyway, Is stay quiet, but then this guy starts trying to open my bedroom window and I start freaking out and then he keeps banging on the door. I ask this guy to go away, he doesn't and keeps asking to be let in. I'm in freeze mode at this point and then he says my mum's name and I'm like NOPE NOPE wtf who is this? I didn't recognise his voice and then I say I'm calling the cops so he better leave. Turns out, this was I think an ex of mum's who didn't know she had an adult daughter and was coming to try and scare mum but got me instead. So weird. Ugh.
Again, in mum's house when I lived there, the front flat had a bit of a weird creepy guy who lived there. I've made a whole storytime youtube video on this you can watch "here" but the creepiest thing was when I had a shower in the middle of the day and heard the back gate to the garden open and he was walking down the driveway. I don't know whether or not he was in my house. Still weird.
I've spoken about most of these ones in Melbourne/Australia on my blog and my YT channel already but I've had a few times where I've felt pretty uneasy and think that these experiences may have been paranormal. The first one was in Tanunda in South Australia where I was in a cemetery and just felt a choking sensation like I couldn't breathe and then the other significant one was at Altona Beach where I felt SUPER unwelcome there and like someone was pushing against me to get me out. For more information, you can watch "this storytime vlog".
This one is just borderline awful but once an ex of mine HACKED all my social media accounts, my gmails, and even my reddit. They even showed all their friends my private messages and then denied it when I figured it out. It was so f*cked up!
Once I was also left in a park at 3am drunk with my phone on 1% - that was pretty freaky and then in that same night, a table was thrown at me. It's a bit of a long story but if you'd like to hear it let me know in the comments.
I've also had fireworks thrown at me (more scary than creepy).
When I flatted once in CHCH, I felt like the whole flat was haunted and kept seeing "orbs" but I explained it just as me seeing things because I was uncomfortable and then I kept seeing the same car around my house and while I was driving. I don't think I was being followed, but it felt like I was.
Another Melbourne one - I was going for a walk in the city with a friend and this guy (who we now know as a Pick Up Artist (PUA), tells my friend that she dropped something -I think his intention was to get her to bend over - anyway, she didn't because she literally didn't have a bag on her or anything and then she's like nah and he's like "Oh nah, it was a trick, my name is X and I think you're attractive" and tries to talk to us. I can't quite remember the whole conversation but I tell him to go away and he does at least. It was so weird.
Once I saw a man I didn't know peeing in mum's driveway at midnight when I came home from work.
When I was 14, there was a guy I was interested in and went to his house, he took my phone and texted my mum as a joke that I had been SA'd (so disgusting).
I've had a few dreams that have come true - it's not super common but one (not super creepy) dream was about a yellow scooter and then that yellow scooter was everywhere.
One night in our old house in Melbourne, the google speaker randomly starts talking about whiskey and literally nothing is connected to it. I was so scared. I checked everything. No clue what caused it.
Sometimes the TV randomly turns on and off in our house. So scary. Am I just haunted?
I've seen plenty of huntsmen (mainly baby ones) and one night I saw one on Benji's head and that was whack. We got rid of it straight away but he didn't seem to mind, he was just making friends.
In high school, I was sick one day and went for a walk around the river and I stumbled across a tree that had graffiti written on it that said "die"
But yeah I think that's most of the IRL creepy stuff that's happened to me specifically. I also wanted to just list here some examples of creepy things that might happen to people in general. Please, let me know in the comments below if you've experienced anything like this
Unexplained noises
Shadow figures
The feeling of being watched
Objects moving on their own
Apparitions (like ghostly figures)
Electronic disturbances
Unexplained touches
Sleep paralysis
Feeling uneasy at "haunted" locations
EVP - capturing strange audio that you didn't hear yourself
Doppelgangers
Creepy messages or signs
Odd animal behaviours
Recurring nightmares
Time slips
So as I said before, let me know in the comments below what has ever happened to you!
I also want to let ya'll know that I've got a new vlog out - it's got A LOT of Benji content (it's a weekend with Luke, Benji, and I so please check that out below too). I'd love it if we could keep up with the 3K+ views, that's amazing!
Much love,
Ash xx
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