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Posted: 16-10-2012 12:00 Post subject:

It reminds me of this song:

http://youtu.be/qohLlmTpwFM

Shocked

Posted: 16-10-2012 12:06 Post subject:

I see what you mean.... ! *Quickly turn the volume down*

Posted: 16-10-2012 12:27 Post subject:

Welcome!!

As the others have also said I love your avatar!

A really creepy tale, thanks for sharing!

Also, I read the title as "Giant crabs my father" Embarassed

Posted: 16-10-2012 12:34 Post subject:

LOL Cherrybomb Laughing

Thanks for the welcome!

Posted: 18-10-2012 14:02 Post subject:

So, a child out on their own, in the 1950's, large hands - maybe like the person had done a manual job as say, a miner or, crazy idea, a wrestler, and they had very light colored hair...

Wasn't the faint smell of cigar smoke present was there? Shocked

Posted: 18-10-2012 14:11 Post subject:

Posted: 18-10-2012 18:47 Post subject:

Now then, now then...

Posted: 18-10-2012 20:32 Post subject:

A second hand tale inspired by a half remembered event and we have two (count em, 2) pages of comments. Others come forward with first hand (Just the one, not two) accounts and faulty memory of the event is lauded as an explanation. Before you criticise me for this comment, go back, look at other posts, (not mine) and tell me what criteria determines a successfull post?

Posted: 18-10-2012 21:32 Post subject:

Posted: 19-10-2012 07:56 Post subject:

If there is anything wrong about the details of the story I have recounted here, the fault would be mine. My Dad was old enough to remember this event - and because of the fact it scared and shocked him so much, he seems to remember it very well. It felt like a significant thing to him.

I don't see my post as either successful or unsuccessful, and find it strange for it to be viewed in that way. I just wanted to share a strange story and see what people thought.

Posted: 19-10-2012 17:00 Post subject:

Reminds me (somewhat loosely, admittedly) of something an old friend of our family's told us years ago.

The chap concerned was a builder and was working on the spire of a church. One day as he was winding his way up the internal stairs he slipped and started to fall backwards. Suddenly he felt two hands on his back push him back onto the stairs.

He remained adamant to his dying day that he hadn't imagined it and he came to believe that 'someone' was looking after him.

Posted: 19-10-2012 20:34 Post subject:

Posted: 25-10-2012 03:18 Post subject:

That reminds me of something that happened in my freshman year at Oklahoma State University, in Stillwater, Oklahoma (circa 1978).

First year students had to live in dormatories, and the toilets and showers were down at the end of the hall. One night, maybe one or two in the morning, I had to -- er -- take a whiz. The long hall was dark, but the bathroom was light enough. I stepped into a toilet stall and let loose into the bowl.

Suddenly a long. muscular arm reached from under the partition from the next stall, and thick fingers clamped onto my right ankle. My reaction? I didn't really have one. I was only half awake, and my eyes were gummy. I didn't quite comprehend what I was seeing. I bent slightly to the right (still aiming into the bowl) and blinked to clear my eyes. I thought something like, "How very odd!" The arm was the hairiest human arm I've ever seen. Even as I stared, it slipped and then re-gripped a little higher on my ankle.

You know, I still had no reaction! I just edged to the left. Suddenly the big hairy hand jerked away -- I had the odd feeling it had realized it had made a mistake. The arm disappeared under the partition, the door to the next stall banged open, and the door to the bathroom itself was slammed open as whoever it was left.

I still don't recall doing anything but glancing both ways down the hall (didn't see anything) and hurrying back to my room. Maybe I was in shock.

I looked at a lot of arms that semester. There was only one fellow in the dorm building with arms that hairy, but I never confronted him. I still have the feeling he was expecting someone else. Confused

Posted: 25-10-2012 12:09 Post subject:

I'm glad it grabbed you hand. Confused

Posted: 03-11-2012 22:49 Post subject:

... george michael ? he is a greek you know ...