Creepy Stephan King Moment

[Trixie]

Today we had a popup monsoon, the kind that looks like the end of the world. And it took out my power. After waiting for a bit to see if it would come back on I decided that I should probably do stuff that didn't require power. (I also discovered I'm not cut out for becoming Amish.)

I go outside to throw some garbage in the dumpster. The rain was gone by this point but the sky was in this weird thing of really sunny in one area and really cloudy in another. It's really quiet and there's nobody else around even though the parking lot was still filled with cars. Kinda strange since it is a Saturday. I thought people left their houses on weekends, even in the rain.

Anyway, it's eerily quiet. Then out of nowhere I hear Pop Goes the Weasel. It was very loud. At that moment I felt like I was in a Stephan King novel. Super creepy.

It was just an ice cream truck over in the housing development. As I was walking back to my apartment I did see some actual people and felt better.

But damn, I'd rather read the books than live through something like that ever again.

[Jay 2K Winger]

We all have moments like that sometimes.

A friend of mine in Louisiana (not Nawlins) related to me his experience around the time of Katrina. By happenstance, he'd been watching "The Ring" before the hurricane hit, and when it hit, it took out his power.

A few days later, he's walking around his house when the power comes back on, and his TV snaps on to show static, and he about jumped out of his skin.

[Aragarthiel]

One time on my school bus in high school, we drove down a dirt road that was covered in fog so thick you couldn't see the trees on either side of the road until they were right next to you, and the trees were still grey and dead-looking from winter so it felt like driving through a graveyard. It didn't help that since I live in a rural area, the buses run so early that it was still just before dawn- you know, that point where the sky's just barely lit up- and most of the kids on the bus were asleep, the rest were half-asleep, so it was quiet and incredibly eerie.

[Kittish]

I love the times when because of the weather or time of day or some combination it feels like I'm the only person left on earth. Though, I'll admit that thick fogs sometimes makes me a little twitchy. But that's because of a story I've read a few times by Larry Niven, "For A Foggy Night". Makes just a little too much sense for my comfort.

It gets incredibly quiet out here at night (and I'm on a night schedule since the boyfriend works nights), to the point where you can hear cars on the (paved) road 4 or more miles away. I like to stand outside and just breathe in the silence. It's quiet enough that I can almost make out conversations in the parking lots of the brothels half a mile or so away. I'm sometimes tempted to talk back at them. Heh, I get a fair bit of amusement imagining the reactions to this voice drifting out of the darkness when there's no place nearby for anyone else to be.

[greek_jester]

When me and my sister bought our house I took some time off work to do some bits that couldn't be done at weekends. I was walking back to the house one day and there were no people or traffic (being mid-week). As I was walking the council was testing the flood siren (previously used during the Blitz for air-raids). That sound is eerie enough as it is. When you're walking alone on a slightly misty day, so you intermittently hear the fog-horn as well? Creepy as f*ck.

[Trixie]

Yeah, it's pretty creepy driving in the fog when you really can't see anything. There was one foggy Christmas Eve I was driving home long after everything was closed. I was the only car on a road that's normally pretty busy anytime of day. I may have driven a little faster than normal just to get off the road.

[greek_jester]

Yeah, it's pretty creepy driving in the fog when you really can't see anything. There was one foggy Christmas Eve I was driving home long after everything was closed. I was the only car on a road that's normally pretty busy anytime of day. I may have driven a little faster than normal just to get off the road.

That reminds me of another incident. My first week of work after we moved counties we had the Annual Fog(TM). I was driving home and heard the most hellacious noise from directly above me. Turns out my commute home goes past the local helipad for the oil rig, and a helicopter was coming in to land as I drove past. Really, really scary!

[pudddykat]

A year or two ago something went cablooey in a major electric plant. This resulted in a huge (couple counties wide) power outage. Since ALL the lights were now four way stops it took at least 3 hours to complete what is normally a half hour or less commute. The eerie part was the absolute lack of ambient noise, save for the freeway near my place and even that was quieter than usual. I didn't realize how much ambient noise there is in a house until there wasn't any. No AC, no humming fridge etc. Also the absolute darkness because the electronics were off, no cable box light, no street lights etc etc. That was definitely eerie.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Re: creepy fog.

A few years ago, my family had a sort of mini-reunion when my Dad's brother and his family came down from upstate NY and we went up to this ski resort or something in Pennsylvania. It was springtime, so no snow, but on the last day, I had to drive home separately as I had to get to work that afternoon. So I'm driving down this mountain in the early morning, which is shrouded in fog. I felt like I was driving into Silent Hill. Was very glad to get out of the fog.