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Not a documentary but I feel like this is the best place to put it. When I was a child about 9/10 I used to read my mum’s magazines, chat, take a break etc, a lot of it went over my head but I loved them. My dad went mad though when I asked to read one that his girlfriend had left behind and banned me from reading them, caused a massive row between my mother and father, so mum had to stop me reading them too. The problem was I really missed them, I cried and cried, I was weird not interested in the kids magazines whatsoever (TBF I think it’s a really awkward age, too old for kiddie magazines too young for teen magazines - not sure Take a Break is the stopgap tho lol) so mum gave in eventually and let me read Chat It’s Fate, Take a Break Fate, the ’tamer’ versions with paranormal stories instead of true life ones. So off we went to the shop and I was Allowed to read Chat It’s Fate....

There was a story inside about two girls driving down a dark field/wooded area late at night. Something happened and I can’t remember what it was exactly - a small crash, a flash of light, something stupid like that - and the pair, dazed, slowly looked up into the rear view mirror to see a man staring back at them, I think they both sort of said to one another ‘wtf was that, do you see him too’, abandoned the car and ran for it. Sounds bloody stupid/obviously fake now — but the magazine had inserted a photo on the page of ’the man’ looking at the girls from the rear view mirror, with really horrible wide dark staring/leering eyes, and it terrified me. It was on the front cover as well and I couldn’t look at it - my mum had to cover it over with some paper. I couldn’t go past any store shelf if the magazine was there and I had nightmares for WEEKS about the man coming for me. That was the end of my reading of Chat It’s Fate! 😆

I always think about it because it affected me so much, I’ve spent ages trawling through back issues to see if I can find it, mostly because I feel as though I made it out to be much scarier than it really was!
 
Apple In My Pie said:
Not a documentary but I feel like this is the best place to put it. When I was a child about 9/10 I used to read my mum’s magazines, chat, take a break etc, a lot of it went over my head but I loved them. My dad went mad though when I asked to read one that his girlfriend had left behind and banned me from reading them, caused a massive row between my mother and father, so mum had to stop me reading them too. The problem was I really missed them, I cried and cried, I was weird not interested in the kids magazines whatsoever (TBF I think it’s a really awkward age, too old for kiddie magazines too young for teen magazines - not sure Take a Break is the stopgap tho lol) so mum gave in eventually and let me read Chat It’s Fate, Take a Break Fate, the ’tamer’ versions with paranormal stories instead of true life ones. So off we went to the shop and I was Allowed to read Chat It’s Fate....

There was a story inside about two girls driving down a dark field/wooded area late at night. Something happened and I can’t remember what it was exactly - a small crash, a flash of light, something stupid like that - and the pair, dazed, slowly looked up into the rear view mirror to see a man staring back at them, I think they both sort of said to one another ‘wtf was that, do you see him too’, abandoned the car and ran for it. Sounds bloody stupid/obviously fake now — but the magazine had inserted a photo on the page of ’the man’ looking at the girls from the rear view mirror, with really horrible wide dark staring/leering eyes, and it terrified me. It was on the front cover as well and I couldn’t look at it - my mum had to cover it over with some paper. I couldn’t go past any store shelf if the magazine was there and I had nightmares for WEEKS about the man coming for me. That was the end of my reading of Chat It’s Fate! 😆

I always think about it because it affected me so much, I’ve spent ages trawling through back issues to see if I can find it, mostly because I feel as though I made it out to be much scarier than it really was!
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Aww man I was obsessed with Take a Break when I was a kid. My gran got them (still does) for the puzzles and competitions but I would absolutely devour every story in those magazines. Of course a lot were inappropriate but I used to love the 73 year old women running off with some 22 year old Turkish waiter stories and often wondered if my gran would too 😂😂. I bought the chat it’s fate for myself when I was a bit older because I’m obsessed with paranormal stuff haha. My pals snapping up Cosmo and I’m at the granny mag section.
 
Lorny said:
Aww man I was obsessed with Take a Break when I was a kid. My gran got them (still does) for the puzzles and competitions but I would absolutely devour every story in those magazines. Of course a lot were inappropriate but I used to love the 73 year old women running off with some 22 year old Turkish waiter stories and often wondered if my gran would too 😂😂. I bought the chat it’s fate for myself when I was a bit older because I’m obsessed with paranormal stuff haha. My pals snapping up Cosmo and I’m at the granny mag section.
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😆😆😆😆 I’m glad I’m not the only one!
 
Apple In My Pie said:
Not a documentary but I feel like this is the best place to put it. When I was a child about 9/10 I used to read my mum’s magazines, chat, take a break etc, a lot of it went over my head but I loved them. My dad went mad though when I asked to read one that his girlfriend had left behind and banned me from reading them, caused a massive row between my mother and father, so mum had to stop me reading them too. The problem was I really missed them, I cried and cried, I was weird not interested in the kids magazines whatsoever (TBF I think it’s a really awkward age, too old for kiddie magazines too young for teen magazines - not sure Take a Break is the stopgap tho lol) so mum gave in eventually and let me read Chat It’s Fate, Take a Break Fate, the ’tamer’ versions with paranormal stories instead of true life ones. So off we went to the shop and I was Allowed to read Chat It’s Fate....

There was a story inside about two girls driving down a dark field/wooded area late at night. Something happened and I can’t remember what it was exactly - a small crash, a flash of light, something stupid like that - and the pair, dazed, slowly looked up into the rear view mirror to see a man staring back at them, I think they both sort of said to one another ‘wtf was that, do you see him too’, abandoned the car and ran for it. Sounds bloody stupid/obviously fake now — but the magazine had inserted a photo on the page of ’the man’ looking at the girls from the rear view mirror, with really horrible wide dark staring/leering eyes, and it terrified me. It was on the front cover as well and I couldn’t look at it - my mum had to cover it over with some paper. I couldn’t go past any store shelf if the magazine was there and I had nightmares for WEEKS about the man coming for me. That was the end of my reading of Chat It’s Fate! 😆

I always think about it because it affected me so much, I’ve spent ages trawling through back issues to see if I can find it, mostly because I feel as though I made it out to be much scarier than it really was!
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I remember so many "documentaries" with stories like this, one in which a couple were driving somewhere and somehow passed into the 1900s or something, all totally bizarre but at the time (around the same age) i believed it all!
 
Lorny said:
Aww man I was obsessed with Take a Break when I was a kid. My gran got them (still does) for the puzzles and competitions but I would absolutely devour every story in those magazines. Of course a lot were inappropriate but I used to love the 73 year old women running off with some 22 year old Turkish waiter stories and often wondered if my gran would too 😂😂. I bought the chat it’s fate for myself when I was a bit older because I’m obsessed with paranormal stuff haha. My pals snapping up Cosmo and I’m at the granny mag section.
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I love paranormal stuff and wondered is there a thread I can follow, does any one know?
 
emm said:
not a thread, but there are a couple of interesting channels that deal with (along with other things) paranormal things, one is Mr Nightmare and one is Mr Ballen
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Thank you! I’ll also pass them onto my mum as she loves these things.

found this that may interest some x

True ghost stories 👻

Following on from the conspiracy theories thread, has anyone got any true ghost/paranormal stories they have encountered? I don't want this thread to turn into a debate on if they are real or not, but if anyone has had any experiences I'd love to hear them
tattle.life
 
101d said:
Not a documentary but a true story, Believe Me on Netflix is a really great watch
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Watched this on Fri night, wasn't sure what it was about so didn't realise it was a true story until they showed her at the end!! Acting wasn't the best and would have liked more of a look into the previous murders and the entire investigation as they jumped quite quickly from zero to 100 but that's just because I like that sort of information. Good watch and not too long. What an absolute fighter 💪
 
Apple In My Pie said:
Not a documentary but I feel like this is the best place to put it. When I was a child about 9/10 I used to read my mum’s magazines, chat, take a break etc, a lot of it went over my head but I loved them. My dad went mad though when I asked to read one that his girlfriend had left behind and banned me from reading them, caused a massive row between my mother and father, so mum had to stop me reading them too. The problem was I really missed them, I cried and cried, I was weird not interested in the kids magazines whatsoever (TBF I think it’s a really awkward age, too old for kiddie magazines too young for teen magazines - not sure Take a Break is the stopgap tho lol) so mum gave in eventually and let me read Chat It’s Fate, Take a Break Fate, the ’tamer’ versions with paranormal stories instead of true life ones. So off we went to the shop and I was Allowed to read Chat It’s Fate....

There was a story inside about two girls driving down a dark field/wooded area late at night. Something happened and I can’t remember what it was exactly - a small crash, a flash of light, something stupid like that - and the pair, dazed, slowly looked up into the rear view mirror to see a man staring back at them, I think they both sort of said to one another ‘wtf was that, do you see him too’, abandoned the car and ran for it. Sounds bloody stupid/obviously fake now — but the magazine had inserted a photo on the page of ’the man’ looking at the girls from the rear view mirror, with really horrible wide dark staring/leering eyes, and it terrified me. It was on the front cover as well and I couldn’t look at it - my mum had to cover it over with some paper. I couldn’t go past any store shelf if the magazine was there and I had nightmares for WEEKS about the man coming for me. That was the end of my reading of Chat It’s Fate! 😆

I always think about it because it affected me so much, I’ve spent ages trawling through back issues to see if I can find it, mostly because I feel as though I made it out to be much scarier than it really was!
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Not one word of a lie but I think I rem that exact cover or at least something similar.

I used to buy this magazine it was kind of fashion and beauty/life a bit of a glossy mag kinda like a grown up version of cosmo etc. I cannot for the life of me remember it's name!!! It got discontinued.
They had a section every week about survival stories, I've never forgotten 2 of them well 3.
One a girl was a holiday rep type thing and was heading back to her apartment 1st floor up a flight of steps, she was attacked, raped and stabbed, either in her apartment or taken to one, she managed to escape and ran naked and collapsed inside a KFC.
Another was a woman and her car at broken down at the side of a verge, she was walking in the lashing rain to get help and a car pulled up and offered her a lift, she refused as trying to be safe etc, further up the road she was attacked and he whispered to her, should have taken that lift 😳 that gave me chills for weeks.
Last one a mother and young daughter asleep in bed, she heard what she thought was her husband coming home, it then said I saw the glint of the knife and she just knew! Awful he attacked her and her daughter. Stuff of nightmares.
Sorry to go off topic but just as you were saying about magazines the stories in that one were 😳
 
Comewhinewithme said:
Not one word of a lie but I think I rem that exact cover or at least something similar.

I used to buy this magazine it was kind of fashion and beauty/life a bit of a glossy mag kinda like a grown up version of cosmo etc. I cannot for the life of me remember it's name!!! It got discontinued.
They had a section every week about survival stories, I've never forgotten 2 of them well 3.
One a girl was a holiday rep type thing and was heading back to her apartment 1st floor up a flight of steps, she was attacked, raped and stabbed, either in her apartment or taken to one, she managed to escape and ran naked and collapsed inside a KFC.
Another was a woman and her car at broken down at the side of a verge, she was walking in the lashing rain to get help and a car pulled up and offered her a lift, she refused as trying to be safe etc, further up the road she was attacked and he whispered to her, should have taken that lift 😳 that gave me chills for weeks.
Last one a mother and young daughter asleep in bed, she heard what she thought was her husband coming home, it then said I saw the glint of the knife and she just knew! Awful he attacked her and her daughter. Stuff of nightmares.
Sorry to go off topic but just as you were saying about magazines the stories in that one were 😳
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I really remembered two as well. One was where a woman had a man hiding in her house, living there the whole time she'd been there. Another was a woman had a huge tumour removed and the tumour had teeth.
 
Apple In My Pie said:
Not a documentary but I feel like this is the best place to put it. When I was a child about 9/10 I used to read my mum’s magazines, chat, take a break etc, a lot of it went over my head but I loved them. My dad went mad though when I asked to read one that his girlfriend had left behind and banned me from reading them, caused a massive row between my mother and father, so mum had to stop me reading them too. The problem was I really missed them, I cried and cried, I was weird not interested in the kids magazines whatsoever (TBF I think it’s a really awkward age, too old for kiddie magazines too young for teen magazines - not sure Take a Break is the stopgap tho lol) so mum gave in eventually and let me read Chat It’s Fate, Take a Break Fate, the ’tamer’ versions with paranormal stories instead of true life ones. So off we went to the shop and I was Allowed to read Chat It’s Fate....

There was a story inside about two girls driving down a dark field/wooded area late at night. Something happened and I can’t remember what it was exactly - a small crash, a flash of light, something stupid like that - and the pair, dazed, slowly looked up into the rear view mirror to see a man staring back at them, I think they both sort of said to one another ‘wtf was that, do you see him too’, abandoned the car and ran for it. Sounds bloody stupid/obviously fake now — but the magazine had inserted a photo on the page of ’the man’ looking at the girls from the rear view mirror, with really horrible wide dark staring/leering eyes, and it terrified me. It was on the front cover as well and I couldn’t look at it - my mum had to cover it over with some paper. I couldn’t go past any store shelf if the magazine was there and I had nightmares for WEEKS about the man coming for me. That was the end of my reading of Chat It’s Fate! 😆

I always think about it because it affected me so much, I’ve spent ages trawling through back issues to see if I can find it, mostly because I feel as though I made it out to be much scarier than it really was!
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Omg I used to love reading my mums Chat magazine. I liked the stories where it was guilty or not guilty 🤣 and didn't dare turn the page until I read it all.
I used to get mizz for myself not really like Chat but was a good teenage magazine
 
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