When were you last really scared?We'd been watching the Shining. We were staying in an old church building. In hindsight, taking the shortcut home after midnight, in the mist, through the old graveyard was a bad idea.
I'm not sure what started it, but suddenly all the hairs on my neck had gone up and I was crapping myself. It was almost as bad as when, after a few cups of coffee too many and buzzing on caffeine, I got freaked out by my own reflection in the toilets.
When were you last really scared?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 15:43)
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Suspected PoltergeistNot me but a friend in Japan woke up his neighbour screaming in the middle of the night.
What had happened was that, after living in the country for a year and not experiencing anything odd, he was jolted awake by his bed shaking and things jumping off of his shelves at him.
He leapt out of the room and ran down the corridor (in, as I am told, his Homer Simpson print boxers) to where a Japanese work colleague lived in his block of flats, trembling with fear and muttering about ghosts and poltergeists chucking books at his head and levitating the bed off of the floor. He also reported a strange ghoulish voice and a dark shadow in the corner.
His workmate was tired (it was 3am) but luckily amused enough not to mind being woken up at such a ridiculous hour, and explained to him about a little known phenomenon that is actually quite common in Japan called an earthquake.
Embarrassed by the slight over-reaction my distraught friend went back to bed, but I heard he slept with the lights on for the rest of the week and still refuses to watch scary films...
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hanabanana, Wed 28 Feb 2007, 11:51,
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