Spooky
My dad lives alone in a little bungalow on an ex-council housing estate. The close he lives on is for over 60s, and the previous tenant of his bungalow left in a box.

A number of odd things have happened over the years. A few times the dog would jump up and start growling, at the same part of the room, which would be icy cold. Things would go missing - my dad would be using a pencil, or a screwdriver, put it down for a second, and it would vanish. One day he shouted 'RIGHT - I've had enough - BRING IT BACK' (when his comb went missing). Nothing happened. Later, he opened the pantry cupboard and found all of the missing pencils, pens, screwdrivers and his comb in a bag of potatoes. No-one else had been in the house. There would also be regular hammering on the door, when no-one was there.

The worst bit (well for me) is when I stayed over at Christmas few years ago. I woke up to the hammering sound and tried to get up and go into the lounge (I am a scaredy cat girl). I couldn't move. It felt like I had hands of ice around my throat and I couldn't move a muscle. I opened my mouth and couldn't cry out. I must have stayed like that, paralysed, for only a minute, but I was petrified. I never told my dad because I didn't want him to worry, but I never stayed in the room again, choosing to sleep on the sofa.

I had a few drinks a few Christmasses later and admitted to my dad why I wouldn't sleep in the room. I thought he'd call me daft.

He said 'that happened to me, once, last Christmas. I never told you because I didn't want to scare you'.

Turns out the old guy had died in that very room, the bed was in the same place, and it was the same night - Christmas night.

I gave my dad a minidisc recorder and a room mic to record each night for a week, so we could hear the bangs. Each night, my dad would switch on the minidisc recorder and go to bed. He would snore continually, then something would walk up to the minidisc recorder and turn it off. Every night for seven nights.

He was so frightened, he hung a cross on the wall. There have been no hauntings since.
(Northern Lovely, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 0:37, 3 replies)

Did this
really happen?
if so then z,ndz.,nvd.,znd.,nz,.z ngnggg
:(
(Freddles, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 5:50, closed)

The immobilisation thing sounds like sleep paralysis.
When you sleep your muscles go into lockdown to prevent you acting out your dreams. When this fails you get people sleepwalking. Sleep paralysis is the reverse - your muscles are still in deactivation mode for sleep, even though you've woken up. It's often accompanied by feelings of terror by people who don't know what's happening to them.
( Bob Todd whee, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 10:15, closed)

Yep it really happened
And yep it could well be sleep paralysis - it's just strange it only ever happened to my & my dad once, on the same night...plus all the other freaky stuff happening, just freaked us right out.
(Northern Lovely, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 22:42, closed)