Creepiest thing that has happened to you that you can not explain?

Last year I was due to go into hospital for open heart surgery.

A couple of weeks before I had a dream, I’d had the surgery and had woken up feeling better,and all my family were there but I couldn’t get to them. It was completely vivid, I was there,up and about,and everyone else was there but when I tried to get to them I couldn’t.

I told my DP a few days later that I knew I was going to die. But obviously I couldn’t exactly turn down the surgery on the basis I thought I’d had a premonition...

So I went into hospital on the day of the surgery (they’d had no beds the night before),And the surgeon came to speak to me before the operation and said that he’d looked at my scans and in his opinion my heart was too weak for the surgery and I would be unlikely to survive it so he was cancelling it.

He sent me for some tests to see if I would be eligible for a different,less invasive procedure and I crashed during one of them and ended up in ICU, and very nearly did die.I spent six weeks in hospital,two of which were in ICU, apart from the earlier crash I also had a cardiac arrest. But I did have the lesser procedure and am still here to tell the tale. Am not out of the woods and I need a transplant but am well enough not to be on the list just yet.

But it’s been made very clear on a couple of occasions since that if I had had the surgery I wouldn’t have survived it.

If anyone's interested, there's this too.
www.loftushallafterdark.com/the-rooms

I don’t find that forest story scary - it’s too ‘big’ and unbelievable- the subtler stuff is scarier.

A few things over the years, can probably all be explained:

My mum’s house is opposite a hill in the midlands that it known locally for a body being found in the hollow of a tree - the basics of it is true, but a bit of urban legend has grown up around it. We used to spook each other out at school about it - lots of autosuggestion. I was sat up there behind a tree with my boyfriend at the time and we heard footsteps come up behind us and stop - there was no one there - we ran away super quick!

In the South Bridge vaults in Edinburgh somebody held my hand - again, lots of autosuggestion going on. Dh swears it wasn’t him, but I think he could have done it without realising.

I’ve had the sensation of someone standing over me in bed lots of times, screamed and thrashed about and woke with my heart racing - it’s night terrors. The first time it happened I was sure I’d seen a ghost - we were on holiday, so a different bed to normal. But it’s definitely night terrors.

@tazzy73 check out the Ghost Adventures episode at Loftus Hall, it's fascinating

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I used to work in a care home and was assisting an elderly lady to eat one evening.
It came to pudding and she told me no thanks I don't like that one, but olive does. I asked who is olive and she said the lady sitting next to me! The weird thing was there used to be a resident called olive in that room and she had passed away, the lady in there didn't become a resident until a few months later so couldn't possibly have known.

After i got married i moved in with inlaws. FIL,MIL, SILs,BIL and ex were all verbally and physically abusive towards me. I left one night with a few belonging.

The following day i went back to get the rest of my things. I had a friend drive me there, we parked in front if the house, in full view. As i walked up the small grassed front garden I could see my ex and and BIL changing the locks on the front door (obviously because if me, didn't want me to get the rest of my things).
Even though there were two huge muscled men changing the locks. I walked straight through the door that they were changing and got half way up the stairs before they noticed me. I managed to unlock my bedroom door with my hands shaking uncontrollably while they chased after me, I remember dropping the key at one point too.

I have reflected on that moment often and wonder how I got past the door so effortlessly, while they were going to the extreme to keep me out, it's something that I still can't comprehend. I like to believe I was being watched over by an angel or something.

Mine's not as exciting as others but when I was a teenager I had a new boyfriend and we were hanging out by a tree. I was just telling him about the time I had lost my hair clip in the tree a year earlier (when I was trying to climb it). All of a sudden a hair clip fell out of tree and bf picked it up and said this one? And it was that hair clip!

I love weird and unexplainable things, scary not so much. I am loving this thread though.

My DP scared the shit out of me twice now. I don't know if he genuinely has seen these things or it's just some sort of dream while he's half awake. I try to convince and rationalise the both of us it's the latter.
We were both asleep in bed and DP woke up as he was uncomfortable and turned to face the opposite direction. Next thing I'm jolted awake by DP jumping out of his skin. I just remember his face drained of colour and he had this look of pure terror. He said as he was turning over he saw a glimpse of a tall figure, dressed in black stood in the bedroom doorway, he says he closed his eyes tightly instinctively and when he opened them again it was gone. There was absolutely nothing hanging on the door or on the landing that he could have mistaken it for either.
Another incident was when I woke up in the middle of the night to use the loo. Dp was fast asleep when I left. When i came back however he was awake. I apologised thinking I woke him up and he said it wasn't me who woke him but it was one of my DS's, but unsure which one. He said he heard one of them come into the bedroom and felt DS put a hand on his head gently. He turned round to ask the DS if he was alright but he just saw a glimpse of DS leaving our room so assumed DS was looking for me. I hadn't closed the bathroom door so I would have not only heard one of the DS get out of bed (bathroom next door) but seen them leave their room too and would have 100% seen them enter and/or leave my bedroom for where I was sat. I actually had a hard time convincing DP that it wasn't my DC that woke him up, he was utterly convinced that it was.
Both incidents spooked me into not being able to fall asleep again the nights they happened!

My BirdieFriend saga

I love the woodland story!

When I was five my great grandmother passed away, but I always remembered the perfume she used to wear, LULU in a blue bottle. I was staying at my grandmothers house I was around 10 years old, as I got into bed and pulled the cover over me I could smell her perfume as if it had just been sprayed above me. I told my grandmother and we both felt comforted.

Another time I stayed at my grandmothers, I was younger and was sleeping in her bed, the phone rang in the middle of the night, as my Nan left the room to get the phone she closed the door behind her, there hung her bright red dressing gown on the back of the door BUT there I also saw huge brown eyes peering back at me. I screamed and cried until she came running back up stairs and it disappeared!

Last week I dreamt I had bitten my tongue partly off, yesterday I bit my tongue so hard that it split open and was pouring with blood just like in my dream.

About 2 weeks after my dad died, very shortly after the funeral... My best friend and I decided to go out for a cream tea at a nice country hotel near us, as part of "Operation Cheer Up".
We had literally just been seated, when my friend announces she's just going to pop to the loo. She gets up and leaves, and then a song comes over the sound system. It's an obscure piece by Enya, my dad's favourite, which we'd had played at his funeral...
It was like a little message. Kinda creepy timing, but I found it quite comforting.

Was at a youth concert aged about 7 when this woman came on stage to talk about her mission work (it was a Christian thing). I looked up and just felt my entire body reel - like stomach turned over, wave went through my brain and felt the blood leave my face.
I left the room and threw up and felt ok, except every time I saw this woman it happened again.

A few months later it was discovered she'd been sexually abusing the children on her mission locations.

Hasn't happened since or with other abusers I've met (teachers etc).

I love that 'woodland' story! It's a great ghost tale and really well written.
I hoped someone would post it here.

But it's obviously not true!

@Homestayer

Never had a dream like it before or since, where I felt the bed physically move.

It's clear you're a bit of a sceptic, so why not just let people enjoy this thread in peace without your snarky comments.

I lived with an ex-boyfriend in my early 20s. It wasn't a great relationship - he was bullying and controlling.

I was thinking of ending the relationship around Christmas time when strange things started happening; hearing footsteps and children laughing in the hallway (no children lived with us), feeling a 'presence' - I remember loading the washing machine and stepping aside as if to let someone pass me, Christmas decorations moved of their own accord - a string of bells moved as if someone was pinging the string - I checked for a breeze/open window but no logical explanation.

One night in bed I was reading a book and I saw a ghost (yes I know how that sounds), it was a hooded monk at the end of my bed and I was scared and felt cold then all of a sudden the most amazing warmth came over me and I didn't feel scared, the ghost then disappeared through the wall (again I know how that sounds).

I felt as if someone was telling me I needed to leave and we split up a few weeks later.

I've not experienced anything like it since.

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Jammygem you were dreaming.

I do sleepover shifts in a care home and the room I use is freaking me out. Firstly a red light appeared in the centre of the ceiling one night. There is no fitting there. Last night the bedside wall light came on by itself and the room lit up briefly. I did not sleep well after that.

I was staying overnight at a London hotel on my own when I was 19. I woke up in the middle of the night to hear footsteps down the corridor and up to my door. I wad expecting them to go away or knock, but they continued as if the door wasn't there and carried on into the room and then finally stopped right next to the bed.

I daren't open my eyes, so just stayed curled up all tense. After a couple of seconds I felt someone sit on the bed and it felt like a hand placed on the covers over my leg. I suddenly felt completely at ease and drifted off back to sleep.

It's the weirdest thing and I have no idea how to explain it. There was no pause at all between the footsteps in the corridor outside the room and the one inside the room.

I googled the hotel but can't find any mention of anyone else that experienced similar.

Yesss this thread is even better than the lentil recipes one! MN on good form today

Me and my mum were sat in my lounge just after Christmas, out of nowhere my Christmas tree started to shake so much two baubles fell off,I got up save it from falling, it stopped just as quickly as it started, we were both speechless.

When I was 12 we moved to an old terraced house.
My mum was look after my younger sister who had been quite poorly with a very heavy cold, she wasn’t settling, so my mum put her into her bed with her so she could keep an eye on her.
During the night my mum woke up to see her standing at the end of the bed crying, she asked how if she was okay and told her to come back to bed.
At that moment my sister moved her leg in her sleep and touched my mum’s leg. My mum looked at the girl at the foot of the bed and then noticed she was dressed in old fashioned clothes and had her hair in rags, which they used to do to make ringlets.
She told the girl to go home and said she’d say a prayer for her.
The “girl” then looked at my mum, smiled and walked through the wall.
My mum is the most sensible and serious person in the world and still has no explanation for what she saw.

I guess she didn’t go out ghost hunting though, she only went out to try and find the lost puppy that she thought went into the woods

Savernake forest has many strange tails attached to it. Great story.
Though just like Scooby Do love nor money wouldn't let me go deep into a forest looking for a noise.