Everyone looks at me sideways when I mention that my worst nightmares were inspired by Edward Scissorhands! The movie was fine actually, but the next night after the slumber party, I noticed a shadow on my bedroom wall looked just like his scissor-fingers coming around my door frame. Turns out it was just the shadow cast by a tree, but it totally ruined the movie for me!

Ooooo scary! I believe in ghosts after weird experiences at an old house my friends used to flat in. One time there were 2 of us in the kitchen making a coffee and both of us heard what sounded like a child and an adult having an argument in the bedroom - only problem was we were the only 2 in the house. We thought that it was just some weird sound bouncing effect coming from the neighbours, but there didn't seem to be anyone around at the time. A few days later the cat was sitting in that same bedroom just staring at the wardrobe for ages, when all of a sudden it started hissing and going nuts the way they do when they see another cat. It ran out after that and hardly ever went back into that room! My friend who had that room spent a lot more nights on the couch after that.

One of my first flats was on top of an old derelict carpark building in town which you had to walk down a not very well lit alleyway to get to and up an intimidating staircase with dim lighting. After living there a while we convinced ourselves there was a poltergiest inhabiting it who watched us as we walked home and into the bathroom at night (as bathroom was right at the top of the staircase you couldn't help but look down it). I also used to be terrified when i was younger at night after watching the goonies that the creepy looking guy would be beside my bed if i took my head out from under the covers.

I have watched a slew of horror movies over the years and been ok I am to dismiss it as mindless entertainment.

No real paranormal experiences although a few very odd dreams featuring the recently deceased even one hanging out with a friend who had recently passed and he started crying when I asked why? he said "it’s because we can’t hang out after you wake up"..

I don’t know how I would handle seeing a ghost probably be petrified.

I don't beleive in ghosts myself, but that doesn't make creepy shadows and creeky noises in the middle of the night anymore comfortable!

I'm a total sceptic (but I love horror movies and scary stories) don't believe in any of it really... except for this one time...

Not sure if ghosties exist; I tend to try to find a rational explanation for everything, even when I had this horrible experience a few times where it felt like someone was sitting beside me on my bed while I was lying in it trying to get to sleep. I swear I actually felt the bed move just like someone sat their weight on it! That was hard to rationalise, I just convinced myself I was imagining things.

As a kid I used to get freaked out by Rolf Harris in the old paints ad; I think it went "Trust British paints - sure can!" or something like that. It had his head poking through this circle and he used to do this beat on a drum. Man, that used to give me the heebie jeebies. Every time it came on I'd either run screaming from the room or grab the first cushion to hide behide.

Absolutely love scary movies though! If anyone has got some tips for really good ones I'd be keen to hear them.

Eek.. I can totally relate to the scary (haha) horror jokes that were being told.

I had forgotten about the stark raving mad serial killer that broke into the old ladys house and nailed her dog to the bathroom wall. Each time the lady went to check the banging, she'd put her hand under the bed and the 'dog' would lick her hand. And the end sentence "written beside the dog were the words "humans can lick too"...AAAARGH!!!

Great to hear there are so many different versions of it. I have to say, I got a dog about 5 months ago - he's a big boy now and occasionally likes to sleep next to my bed at night. It freaks me out because the first thing I think of is that stupid joke and then I get tempted to dangle my hand over the side and see what happens!

My mother was fantastic at sewing. And she passed away quite a few years ago. I went to use my sewing machine, and it got to the stage when I walked away I had to switch it off, as the machine would start sewing on its own. I took it in for a service finally last week, and nothing wrong with it.

After a marriage split, I was living in a small unit on my own. Majority of appliances were new, including my electric jug. I used to get home after work, slide open the ranch door and before I stepped in the door, the jug would start boiling in the kitchen. Then I often would wake in the mornings, and then hear the jug boiling away. I could never leave the damn thing empty, and always had to have water in it.

Steps out of thread to music from The Twilight Zone playing !!

I have never seen a ghost. but I did have a dream how my father died, I had the dream the night after I found out he had passed, I was eight at the time, and It felt so real , that I call my grandma ( I was living with my mum and new step dad in malta, dad died in Namibia) and asked her where he was and how he died, and true heavens he died while making coffe at his work, i even got the decor of his surroundings correct, ever since then my dreams are exthremly detailed and I have a few different dreams a night, usually end up remembering them all.