Ever get that creepy feeling...

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I'm not sure where to post this, but I figured this forum may be best. As I type this, I'm sitting in my den with my bud, Max. A half hour ago, I heard a car door slam, and for some reason, that sound sort of echoed inside me. Max felt it, too, because he raised his head up and let out an odd, suspicious woof...

I live in an area where all the lots are one to one and a half acres. Not rural, but not quite suburban, either. A nice mix. Even allowing for the distance, it's not uncommon to hear neighbors car doors slam shut, especially on a still night. For some reason, though, I just got an odd feeling... like we were being watched. I was particularly glad for my CCW license when I took Max out to sniff the bushes and tour the yard looking for "his spot".

Does anybody else get that odd feeling sometimes, or is it just me? If you do, do you listen to it? Or do you just ignore it?
 
Except when I KNOW I'm being paranoid (that is, just finished a scary book at 0200 or something similar :rolleyes: ) I normally listen. I figure those heebie-jeebies are hardwired from back when we humans had to be a little more alert.

And I trust my big dog, especially when it's the I'm-not-kidding bark.

Now, if I could just keep her from acting like the Taliban is invading everytime the neighborhood stray passes the house...
 
I had a beagle once that would get "that" look now and then, and then she would want to go out.

I have no idea how she knew a squirrel, cat, or rabbit had come to visit her yard, but it was really creepy sometimes.
 
not creepy at all. to get all mystic/natural for a second, i think our body is significantly more aware of whats going on than our higher brain function is sometimes. i make a real effort to try to listen to my body and my instincts. if i get a creepy feeling, i pay attention to it!

thats just me though :)
 
Just because you are paranoid it doen't mean somthing is not right, or someone isn't out to get you.

Remember Murphy's Law and remember he was an optimist.
 
Had the feeling before. Sense of impending doom, but I hadn't heard a sound. Swung open the door, and got spooked by a piece of cellophane that fluttered down when the door opened - jumped back a few yards and brought the gun up to level... finger off the trigger the whole time, though, which was good.
Turned out to be a sense of impending doom over nuttin'. But better safe than sorry.
 
I think most people have a type of low level radar. Have you ever came home to a quiet house, but you right away can sense if a family member is somewhere in the house?


A sixth sense is good to use in public with people as well. You can usually get a good "read" on people as you see them. Body language and the eyes alone can give away if someone is up to no good. Always keep your radar on- especially when getting in and out of your car in a dark parking lot.

I agree with this:

One ignores thier sixth sence at thier own peril.
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Your body perceives an incredible amount of information, then filters out most of it before you conciously think about it. Just consider what you're doing right now: reading some text, while ignoring the plethora of peripheral visual information pouring in.

There's a long path from initial sensory input to being able to articulate a particular perception. Just because some of that information doesn't make it to articulable form doesn't mean the partial processing and alarm bells going off as a result isn't valid.
 
Animals always know. And if you think dogs can tell, you should see cats. Dogs are always activly checking out their environments. Cats, however, are more passive. So when they get interested in something, you know its important. The worse is when your cat AND dog get interested in the same thing.

This is a true, and unnerving story.

One night, about 3AM I was downstairs in the kitchen making a sandwich. My dog was thuroughly interested in the sandwich, and my cat was asleep on the counter a few feet away.

I am making my sandwich, and decide to give the pup a piece of salami. I look over at him to get his attention, and suddenly he stops paying attention to me.

Also, my cat is now awake, and her and the dog are BOTH staring at the same bare spot on the wall in a "get the :cuss: away from here" look, hackles up and tense. They both carefully follow the same path across the room with their stares, still tense as can be. Finnaly their staring both stops on the same exact spot, also on an empty wall on the opposite side of the room from where they started.

It was like somthing walked into the room through the wall and slowly walked straight out the other side. Whatever it was they were seeing, they did not seem to like one bit.

The episode lasted about 10 seconds and afterwards my cat fell asleep again and my dog ate his salami.

I am not religious/spiritual/superstitious in any way. But to this day I can't explain that night, and I am not ashamed to say it scared the heck out of me!
 
I get that feeling, the feeling that something really interesting is going to come in the mail today, the feeling that 8 is going to hit on the roulette wheel next, the feeling that the man in line is going to hold up the bank, etc. So far, none of them have been right. Glad yours wasn't either.
 
That feeling

I have had it happen a few times, usually it was racoons or such (once a bear!) or very often, absolutly nothing. but one night it was a couple of fellows who had come over the low back fence at my place in town. Being o'dark hundred, I light them up and asked if I could help them. I am always amused by the lies some people tell under stress.... broken down car, use the phone, sorry to bother you, etc. Unfortunatly, as they came from a creek up a steep slope I found it hard to gove any credit to the story. They took off when I called the cops, but I wasn't going to chase them, I know they will leave my neighborhood alone for now.
 
I usually listen to my gut. I remember years ago, when I lived in Hawaii, I was surfing outside Waimea Bay when all of a sudden I got a major case of the creeps. There was no reason for it but I couldn't fight it off. Finally, I paddled back in and went home.
Later, I saw on the news that a Tiger shark had taken a surfer's leg off below the knee at the same place I was surfing an hour after I left.
Coincidence? Probably...

Biker
 
Woof in the Night

I'ver learned to trust my dogs' senses and instincts even more than my own.
Many people come and go here...some of them strangers to me. Whenever a first-time visitor comes, I watch their reaction. If, after 10 or 15 minutes, the Collies haven't approached him/her to say hello...I know that there's something about that person's agenda that isn't quite "right." I usually pick up on it...and I generally find that my suspicions were spot on...but every so often, one will slip in under my radar. The dogs haven't been wrong yet, and treats won't cloud their judgement...if they even take'em.

Pay attention to your dog. Learn to tell the difference between the: "Hey! What's that squirrel doin' in my yard?"? bark, and the "Boss! Somethin' ain't right out there! Get off your duff and check it out!"
 
Just because you are paranoid it doen't mean somthing is not right, or someone isn't out to get you.
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+1 on that. Wasn't it Henry Kissinger who famously said that "even paranoids have some enemies", or something to that effect? Checking things out and finding nothing, while being prepared for trouble, beats presuming nothing is wrong and letting the trouble come to you on its' own terms.

Also another +1 to all those who have said to trust your dogs. Mine may alert for nothing once in a while, but that's rare. Almost every time they do there's a reason, and the "this is not a drill" bark is always taken seriously around here. Good dogs!
 
Near death survivors always say they have a weird feeling right before something happens.
 
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Some scalawag abandoned a dog here;

Now, if I could just keep her from acting like the Taliban is invading everytime the neighborhood stray passes the house...and develop her
"this is not a drill" bark ,life would be better. I have since childhood allowed my dogs to determine my aceptance of strangers, dogs are ever a good source of sixth sense, there is a reason for the codependency .
robert
ps the above non attributed stolen quotes were too good to pass up ; thanks y'all!
 
My senses are attune to noises, sights, events that are out of place or uncommon. For example, If I were to hear a car door close at 2am, it wouldn't be cause for concern. But, because of how my place is laid out, if I didn't hear someone walking by or voices, then that would raise concern because that would be out of the norm.

Always go with your gut feeling though. It may be a false alarm, but that just gives your senses a chance to get honed further.
 
I am a huge fan of the "dog alarm". The old pooch always lets us know when somebody is around that doesnt belong. Although before I had the dog, and still lived alone there was one late night I was lying on the couch half asleep watching T.V when suddenly something just didnt feel right at all. I got that kinda sick to my stomach feeling, and your skin gets all tingly, that feeling you get when being watched by some unseen person. I went to get a pistol (Glock 22) and on the way back to the living room heard a sound comming from outside my kitchen door. I walked slowly to the door, and heard a clicking sound. When I flipped the back porch light on I heard foot steps running and the neighbors dog went nuts barking. Looking out the window I didnt see anything but I believe somebody was trying to get into the back door. They likely saw me in what appeared to be a sound sleep on the couch. The point is always follow your gut. When you first meet somebody, when you just feel like something isnt right. Humans evolved survival instincts over millions of years, and they havent left us we just ignore them too often today.
 
Unpreparedness Only Happens Once

Unpreparedness Only Happens Once

My first thought is: It's better to be errantly prepared 100 times, than to be errantly unprepared once.

My second thought is: If your dog reacted, there was "something". What something? I don't know, and in such unknowns, see thought #1.

Doc2005
 
I probably get "that feeling" a bit too often. Trained by the kids who would show up at the wrong house for the party, the ones who decided it would be fun to climb my fence into my backyard, or just hang out on my porch drinking. Then add to that all the drug busts and family disputes that have taken place in the neighbourhood...

Although these things haven't happened in quite some time (now that I have said that I wonder which one will happen tonight), I still pay attention to "that feeling". I would rather be safe than sorry.
 
Big believer in a 6th sense...

Humans evolved survival instincts over millions of years, and they havent left us we just ignore them too often today.
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This sums it up pretty well, IMO. I think we all have a little bit of a sixth sense. Mine has saved my butt quite a few times - once I was at a small get-together at a friends house, and got the overwhelming feeling that I should just leave. I couldn't explain it, but it seemed to get stronger with time, so I found the first excuse I could to get back home.

The next morning I got a call that there had been a drive-by shooting in that complex, and my friend was shot through the wall. The bullet passed through his leg without hitting anything important, and he was released from the hospital the next day... but had I been there, maybe I would've been the one who got hit - and maybe not in the leg.

Now dogs and cats - IMO - seem to have a super 6th sense which is ALWAYS worth listening to.

Later, I saw on the news that a Tiger shark had taken a surfer's leg off below the knee at the same place I was surfing an hour after I left.
Coincidence?
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Biker, I'm glad you packed up and left , my friend. Something tells me having a shark pop your leg off like a piece of chicken probably isn't much fun. Don't know if I could call that a complete coincidence though. Sounds to me like one of the better reasons to always listen to your "little voice" when you notice it's telling you something.

That would have freaked me out.
 
It did freak me out. It didn't help when "Jaws" was released a couple of years later.:eek:
In truth, we were all used to seeing the occasional shark, but this time - even though I hadn't actually seen anything - I just *knew* that it was time to Take The Train.

Since then, I've learned to listen to that "little voice". Who knows how many times it has saved my big, pale, pimply Scandanavian butt?

May The Schwarz Be With You...

Biker
:)
 
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