Ever get that creepy feeling...

[bthest86]

I got the feeling all the time while I was living with friend's family in Mexico.

Its really amazing how much your "feelings" come into play when you can't understand what the people around you are saying.

Anyway, at one point I was staying with another family for a week in Aguascallientes, and the whole time I was there I felt this sense of dread that I've never felt before in my life. The whole house we stayed in just didn't feel "right at all" (I can't even explain it).

One day, I was very bored and decided to take a stroll around the neighborhood. (I carried a sheathed 6" blade on me all the time while I was in Mexico) It was about noon and it seemed like the whole neighborhood was deserted. Hardly no cars or no people. I was virtually the only person out taking a stroll. The whole neighborhood just gave me the creeps.

The strange thing was the rest of the Aguascallientes seemed normal. Unusually flat compared to Zacatecas or any other city in region, but still normal. It was only this house and this neighborhood I was in.

I was glad when we left that place.

Back at my friend's house I called home and found out that my Grandmother had had a stroke and was in the hospital and that this had happened while I was in Aguascallientes. I figured it was "just one of those wierd things" that you read about.

But in hindsight, I could never shake the feeling that it was that house and neighborhood in Aguascallientes, and not my Granma, that got me all creeped out.

 

[bthest86]

And speaking of dogs "seeing" things "that aren't thre" the earliest memory I have is when I was a little tot back in 1989, being in my mother's bedroom with a little poodle barking its head off at the top of the stairs in halway. Scared the crap out of me.

When I was older my mom explained to me that the poodle did that every night in that house. Besides that she mentioned sometimes there where the sounds of footsteps on the stairs.

At one point she was so scared and convinced that someone was coming up the stairs that she retrieved and loaded my dad's H&R .22 revolver and was sitting there on the bed thinking she was moments away from shooting someone dead. But the footsteps stopped and the dog calmed down and went back to sleep.

Apparently I also would see things that weren't there or so my older brother says. He told me sometimes I would freak him out by pointing at the end of the empty halway and ask "who's that?"

 

[ChiBears]

Hunting feelings

I had two experiences while hunting:

1)
It was shotgun season for deer hunting here in Illinois last year. While walking to my deer stand in the pitch dark, I had a overwhelming urge to turn on my flashlight...(i try to never use a flash light because I know where my stand are and don't want to alert any animals of my presence, if I can help it at all), I stopped in my tracks, turned on my light and standing not 5 ft. away from me was an 8-point buck looking at me. I could have reached out with my shotgun and touched him. We looked at each other for a about a minute (seemed like 10 minutes) and then he just walked away...no blow or anything.

2)
A couple years ago, while muzzleloader deer hunting, I had just gotten to my stand in the morning and was organizing myself and things when I had this god-awful feeling that something was wrong. It was a feeling that almost made me want to puke it was so strong. I sat there "on alert" and the feeling passed after a while. Later after after the hunt, I had found out that during the time I had this horrible feeling, My father had fallen out of his deer stand, broken a leg, some ribs, and was knocked unconscious for about a half-hour. Talk about freakin weird. I will never ignore any of those "feelings" again.

 

[mainebear]

The wife and I were in bed, asleep, at 3:00 a.m. not too long ago when I heard the knob on our kitchen door rattling. I really got scared because if someone was rattling that knob that meant that they had already got inside our house through two other locked doors in the sunroom.

Talk about an adrenaline rush! Grabbed the P97, chambered a round. Amazing how that calmed me, and enabled me to think. Now, were pretty far out in the country and response time by the P.D. is just terrible.

Proceeded up the hall and into the kitchen. couldn't see anyone through the window in the door, but the darn knob is jiggling like no tomorrow, wife is wild with fright. Snuck up to the door, unlocked it, jerked it open and went into a weaver stance. (In retrospect, maybe not the smartest thing to do) There stood Thumper our 21 lb. Tom, mad as heck at being left in the sunroom. Everyone had a good laugh, but boy did it take a hike out of me.
Thought about that a lot. I think next time I'll just wait in the kitchen, or whatever, and wait for the guy, (If there ever is one) to come to me. Other than that, great training. Taught me a lot. Best of all though, was the feeling that I at least, had some control when I knew that I was armed, and could at least take some action other than to call for Police and wait like a cornered animal.

 

[iamhistory]

You can make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up just by thinking about something spooky. I know, I've done it.

Yes....it's happening to me right now from reading some of these stories.

I have had that feeling several times as we all have. One story I'll share here is when I had the feeling when I was about 12 years old.

It was late at night, summer time.....my bedroom window was open for a breeze. I was asleep in my bed right next to the window and woke up from a noise outside...........my back was to the window and I was scared to death, frozen in my bed not able to muster the courage to roll over and see what the noise was. It seemed like I laid there for 10 minutes with that feeling like I was being watched. I finally just pretended to be asleep and rolled over slowly to see what the noise was..........I looked at my window and there was someone standing there looking in.


I almost crapped my pajamas............I was REALLY frozen now. The face turned away and walked out of sight. I jumped out of bed almost in tears and got my Dad. He never did find anyone.

There were several weird happenings at that childhood home. Someone tried getting in the front door one time late at night and the faint sound of the screen door knob turning woke my mom.........she looked out the blinds of her bedroom window just in time to see someone run off our front porch and into some trees next to our neighbors house. Then there was the time that a mentally disturbed guy from the next neighborhood was sneaking around at night looking in windows and stealing clothes off the line. My mom was at the sink doing dishes and got "that feeling" when a pair of eyes peered over the windowsill at her from outside. She acted like she didn't notice while trying not to freak out and she calmly turned off the sink, left the kitchen and then ran to her room and retrieved a S&W Chief's Special .38 snubby my Dad would leave for her when he was at work.

I've had plenty of those feelings and I never like how they feel.

I'm going to go hide under the covers now..........

 

[Kaylee]

Not necessarily local either. I have a friend who for a full year prior to 9/11 started to become almost afraid to turn on the news. She kept saying "Something big is going to happen -- something world changing and bad."

Just so happened she was visiting that morning in September and I got to go wake her up and say "you that thing you've been talking about happening, well...."

 

[crofrog]

One day, I was very bored and decided to take a stroll around the neighborhood. (I carried a sheathed 6" blade on me all the time while I was in Mexico) It was about noon and it seemed like the whole neighborhood was deserted. Hardly no cars or no people. I was virtually the only person out taking a stroll. The whole neighborhood just gave me the creeps.

When this happens in third and second-world countrys I use that as my clue to get he hell out of dodge. It might mean the locals know something that you don't. Like someone getting ready to rob or kidnap you.

Chris

 

[Ed Ames]

I'm still confused about why the OP needed a CCW to check out his private property.

As far as I remember from basic psych. most people remember events differently depending on the type of emotion (positive, negative) and its intensity while the event occurred. So if you are going along thinking mild happy thoughts and an event happens, you are more likely to forget the emotion and the event than if you were having an anxiety attack when the same thing happened. As a result, people remember a "premonition" pattern ("I remember having foreboding thoughts and then something bad happened") that doesn't actually exist if you look at all of the events in their life objectively. This false pattern can lead to overcautious risk-avoidance behavior when people are under emotional stress and is one of the precursers of obsessive-compulsive disorders and the like. It's also apparently a major contributor to the mental disorders that lead to compulsive gambling and the cause of a lot of really crappy "ESP-based" popular fiction.

 

[FilJos]

Our Use of Force instructor refers to this as the "etheric experience" and suggests that you pay attention. It is the same thing that tells you that you are forgetting something sometimes. Generally if you feel like you are forgetting something, you probably are. And you should take a minute to figure it out. Sometimes your life can depend on it.

 

[Optical Serenity]

My "sixth sense" has saved my butt more than enough times that now I listen to it. Good thread. That being said, this is my 666 post. Ooooh eearie...

 

[Blackfork]

I absolutely knew that my brother had been killed in Vietnam at the time of the action he was killed in.. Two days later when the army showed up at the house it was totally expected. I was just a high school freshman at the time.

 

[Curare]

I do not deny the existence of a "Sixth Sense," but there are other explanations.

People want to believe.

Phenomena like the "Sixth Sense" and the full moon can be reinforcing. When you get the feeling and then something happens--to you or someone else, you remember, and want to believe that there was a connection. You might even reexamine how you felt and read into it. Bad stuff happens all around us and we don't feel a damn thing.

With the full moon "phenomenon" scientific studies have shown no statisical significance (if you do not know what statisitcal significance is please learn about it before replying). What it has shown is that when weird stuff happens and the moon phase is full and people notice it, they often attribute the event to the full moon. Or they know the moon is full and look for evidence to reinforce their beliefs. The problem is that when it's a new moon, or a 13/16 waning, no one pays attention.

 

[ceetee]

I'm still confused about why the OP needed a CCW to check out his private property.

Florida statues state that you can openly wear a firearm in your residence, or your place of business, but not in the public areas thereof. AFAIK, this only applies if your residence is an apartment building or suchlike, and the public areas are the sidewalks and parking lots there. My yard isn't fenced in, and as such the property isn't properly considered "private".

If anything ever did happen, and I had to use my firearm while outside in my yard, I don't know for sure whether or not I could be charged with openly carrying a frearm. I am sure that I wouldn't want to be a test case. With the CCW, and carrying concealed, not only do I have a tactical advantage, but I'm positive that I can't be charged with illegally carrying a weapon.

 

[FilJos]

With the full moon "phenomenon" scientific studies have shown no statisical significance (if you do not know what statisitcal significance is please learn about it before replying). What it has shown is that when weird stuff happens and the moon phase is full and people notice it, they often attribute the event to the full moon. Or they know the moon is full and look for evidence to reinforce their beliefs. The problem is that when it's a new moon, or a 13/16 waning, no one pays attention.

Funny, my mother swears up and down that the fulll moon effects childrens behavior. She has run an in-home child care business for about 26+ years. My dad was a cop too, so his stories reinforced this belief. Anyway, it started out with her claiming that the kids got more rambuncious and problematic on the day of a full moon. Then it was the day of, and one day before or after. Then she began to believe that the new moon had effects as well. Then the effects of both moon extremes extended to a week before or after. Now it has gotten to the point where I have actually heard her say that "for a week before and after a full or new-moon, the kids go wild."

So the entire lunar cycle then, ma? One week before and after the new is two weeks (14 days) plus two weeks for before or after the full moon, equals 28 days. :banghead:

 

[auschip]

Wow I'm convinced. Now I know what my cats are doing when they stare at a spot on the wall. It's a supernatural spot!

Funny you should say that, but I was walking through the house the other evening and my cat stared at a spot for a second then immediately puffed up to full bottle brush tail and body. He turned sideways towards the blank spot on the floor to increase his body mass and laid his ears flat. He stayed that way for a couple seconds, calmed down, then puffed again. Never did figure out what got his dander up. Finally he walked over sniffed the spot and walked off.

 

[Ed Ames]

Ceetee... that's weird, but so are most laws I guess. In California you don't need a license to carry in public provided you reasonably believe you are in immediate, grave danger. Though now that I think about it I doubt a dog bark would qualify as reasonable so yeah, good thing you had the CCW.

 

[.357 magnum]

The Dog Knows

I always check out my creepy feelings or noises I hear etc. Because you just never know. One thing I have noticed is that if only me and not the German Shepherd hears it, then it is nothing. She hears everything that could possibly be a threat to the house. I will admit she does have her more serious come and get me to go see routine and that always involves a person near the house. If she growls that is also more serious[sales person most likely] As someone posted earlier though, you cannot get her to stop trying to jump through the window and kill the dog that dares come into her front yard. She took out my wifes 75 pound planter one Sunday morning because another dog walked in front of her house [hell it was across the street] It is just their instinct I guess, but I would rather have her over-sensitive to things -then to be a blundering sleepy dog like my Lab [God Love her]

 

[Ex-MA Hole]

I ALWAYS listen to my dog- she is my 6th sense.

Actually, I have two. One barks when a leaf blows by.

The other ONLY barks if a stranger is in sight. I live in a remote area, so I have learned to trust her.

If an animal is outside (deer, tukeys, etc), she whines and paces.

 

[HCfan]

I've had those feeling, most of the time something bad does happen (even if it's just getting yelled at by the bossman).

I've learned to trust those instincts also. When my cat or dog gets riled up then I know something is up.

Also use my cat as a people meter. If she likes you then I know you're okay (my best friend hates cats, my cat loves him (and she has him wrapped around her paw)), if she won't go to you then I know something is up and if she hisses at you then I know you're a no good.

The two people that she has hissed at, one went to jail for robbery (robbed one of his friends house) and the other went to prison for murder (of one of his friends).

I believe that the 6th sense is there, in both humans and animals.

 

[Waitone]

I've had a number of those events but none as clear as my wife's experience. We were freshly married and she was a neonatal intensive care nurse at a regional hospital. She had been working for a while assigned to a premee named Brian. She unfortunately developed an attachment to Brian. One night we were dead asleep in bed when she sat bolt upright and said out loud "Brian just died." We eventually went back to sleep. She went into work the next day and found that Brian died exactly when she said he did. We were told neonatal intensive care nurses didn't last long. I fully understand why.

 

[Tokugawa]

waitone, you tell your wife thanks from me. I have been on the other side (parent) and those nurses really put thier hearts into it. I don't know how they can do it.

 

[expvideo]

Got a weird feeling yesterday. I was at Safeway and there was a creapy guy on the sidewalk outside, and from that point forward, everything was setting off red flags. I could have sworn everyone around me was packing, and my "thug-dar" was going off. I just kept having this weird feeling that something really bad was about to happen until we were a couple miles away. Only later did I realize that it's the first weekend of the month AND a full moon, so that's probably why. So basically my spidey-senses were tingling off the scale, and I'm guessing it was just the full moon. My girlfriend felt it too, though.

 

[ripcurlksm]

Good thread, certainly great discussion. Nice to hear there are a few surfers on this forum too

In regards to a definition of a sixth sense, I have found one quote that made a lot of sense to me:

Six senses feeling five, around a sense of self

- Dave Matthews "Typical Situation"

In regards to CA & firearms:

Ed Ames wrote:
In California you don't need a license to carry in public provided you reasonably believe you are in immediate, grave danger.

Ed do you know of any online resources or books for California law on topics such as this?

Respect,
Kevin

 

[AndyC]

We used to have to travel around Iraq collecting personnel and equipment; as you can imagine, it wasn't exactly a drive down to the local mall, so we always carried our rifles in condition 0 (cocked and safeties off), finger off the trigger but ready for a bunfight with the locals.

This worked well and we were able to respond very quickly, smoothly and rather effectively to a few nasty incidents - until we got a new commander who insisted that we carry in condition 2 (mag in place, safety off and an empty chamber) under threat of dismissal.

We complied rather ungracefully and of course it wasn't long till we had a driveby-shooting that killed the rear-gunner and two other lads in the same vehicle because they were busy cocking the weapons when they could have been shooting.

Still, that wasn't enough for our muppet who insisted that the dead men were just too slow (which pleased us no end) and that we were to continue carrying in condition 2.

A few days later we were en-route from Tikrit to Baghdad, me acting as vehicle-commander in the second pickup. We'd just passed Taji, a horrid little town just north of Baghdad and my spidey-sense started tingling. I was getting unhappier by the mile but couldn't pinpoint anything - the locals were as surly as usual, nothing was out of place but I couldn't shake the feeling we were about to hit a contact, so I got on the mike and told the convoy "Heads-up - gotta bad feeling about this" (which was not normal procedure) and cocked my AK, the two boys in the rear doing the same.

We entered a section of the freeway known as the Vortex - once you're in there, there's only one way out which is dead ahead because the sides are barriered and too high, too steep to get out. That's when we got hit with everything short of the kitchen-sink but just kept going, returning fire when we could see someone to shoot at (the buggers were on the high-ground to our flanks and on a bridge crossing above us).

The driver of the first vehicle started knocking civilian cars out of the way to create a hole for us, driving with a flat tyre and the rear of the truck-bed hanging off from a grenade-blast. We felt both of our right-side tyres pop about the same time, so my driver corrected for this then pointed out a small explosion in the dirt to our front left and said very matter-of-factly "IED." - I said "Bollocks, grenade" and we started to laugh because we sounded like little old ladies bickering - at that stage I almost dropped my spare AK-mag into the foot-well during my reload because I got the giggles so bad.

Anyway, we drove for about another 5 km's or so (some wit on the radio singing "2 wheels on my wagon...and I'm still rolling along...") before turning onto Route Irish, what we called the BIAP (Baghdad International Airport) road and waddled our way into Camp Victory, safe and sound.

Nobody was hurt, but we pulled a 90-grain 9mm bullet from the roof of one vehicle and told the shooter sitting under the entry-hole that he was lucky that old Ahmed only had a .380 and not an AK.

The muppet was replaced shortly thereafter by someone we respected and who let us go back to condition 0 and I completed my year there with no other deaths in the team (can't say the same for our opposition, but hey - it sucks to be you).

That was the only time I've ever had a bad feeling which turned out to be on the money

 

[.357 magnum]

AndyC-Thank you!

Thank you for your service to our country! You gentlemen did quite a job! Very sorry that one CO of yours was such a poor leader! His decision cost some lives!
I would see the same thing ocasionally in LE. That's when I figured it payed too be a quiet rebel! Again Thank you!!!!

The Best to you and yours!