To ask for your woo tales?

When I was a kid,I lived with my granddad
We had a picture of white horses running away from a forest fire
Cheap picture in a cheap white frame-nothing that would catch your eye-it wasn't by a famous artist or anything-but grandad always said it had been painted on the wrong side of the canvas
It lived on the wall just above the sofa (and had done for years-grandad refused to move it)
Every so often it would lift itself off the wall and drop to the floor with a crash
'Another death' my grandad would say as he'd pick it up and put it back-undamaged and the nail intact every single time
Within 20 or so minutes the phone would ring and someone would be telling grandad that such-and-such had died
Human or animal-it happened every single time-i remember it happening (just missing my head) and within a minute,the phone rang and my mother was telling him our pet dog had been put to sleep
It was 'normal' and we just lived with it!

I don't live there but we get down when we can, my ILs have lived in the same house since 1975 and it backs on to the forest which can make your imagination run wild! The New Forest is stunning but there's something very strange about it. I meant to add there are supposedly big cats roaming the area which makes me nervous when I took their dogs for a walk the other week, I wouldn't fancy coming face to face with that, I've not seen one btw.

@Wintersgirl Oh that's horrendous human activity, rather than woo. Must be very unsettling to live near there 🙁

I think it's to do with witchcraft in the area, strange lights coming from the woods in dead of night, someone found pigs hearts surrounded by candles as if it were a shrine, sheep and horses are maimed, that sort of thing, the place has got a creepy vibe I must admit

When my friend got married we stayed in a lovely little B&B with some friends in the other rooms. Until the night when the en-suite shower kept turning itself on and off and then a picture fell off the wall. We also thought our friend was moving around for most of the night in the next room, like really noisy clunking around turned out she hadn’t slept in there because she’s hooked up with her ex boyfriend staying on the floor below 🫣😳

the next day we read something in the bar about it being haunted and spent the second night shitting our pants

@Wintersgirl ooh, what have they seen?

Oh yes, I think everyone was a bit scared, I would love to do something like that even if I am terrified! My ILs live near the New Forest and they say very strange things happen there, lot's of witchcraft in the area apparently

For someone who missed the grandfather clock missing chains story... can the OP/anyone tell it? 🤓

I adored that story, I talked about organising a trip out there for MNers! In reality it would just be me and no one volunteered to drive the getaway car!

I still like to think there's something out there...

I love threads like these but what I REALLY love is tales of strange creatures that have been seen in the UK countryside, anyone remember the poster who was driving in the countryside at 2am with her DH when they saw something weird cross their path? She said it looked like a Goatman, ok I get it's highly unlikely there is a mythical creature wandering around the Northamptonshire countryside but even so!

I was mildly amused one day when the clock in my classroom started going backwards then got stuck on 12:06. I was telling my class that they obviously weren't going to get lunch that day.
Took it off the wall, took out the batteries, left it to have my lunch and sort it later.
Ten minutes later, I got a call saying my dad had just died suddenly. About the same time as the clock went wonky.

I’m so disappointed 🤣 I tell that story to all my friends.

Oh sorry @Didimum I didn’t
see your reply!

Yes me too! I’d love to know

The poster updated on this thread. No they weren’t!

I grew up in a ‘haunted’ council house so have had so many strange things happen.

used to put things down and then they’d disappear and reappear in the same spot you’d left them weeks later, like on the bed where you know they definitely couldn’t have stayed there

footsteps, crying and seeing someone walk downstairs or past a door was a weekly occurrence

one night I was 15 and home alone and I heard the beeping of an old Nokia like when you used to text you’d hear the beeping so I went downstairs where all the old phones were kept (out of charge from years before) and had a look and of course none of them made any noise but I heard someone whistling by my ear and could even feel their breath - that was probably the creepiest one

a few weeks ago we had our dog put to sleep and my husband was in the living room alone quite upset and the living room door which was shut burst open - no one there but our dog was a staff who regularly used his head like a boulder to open doors, we took that as a sign that he’s still with us 😊

Oh my god, yes!
We're they ever found??

Am I allowed post a FB link? There's a creepy Orb video from someone's empty room, the family apparently are on holidays

It's on "Supernatural, Myths, legends, Ghosts, Paranormal & Superstitions" from about 2 hours ago Kendra is the poster if that helps

Years ago (we where talking about it yesterday) we where in a shopping centre in Hull (i think it was called the prospect centre)

My sons decided they needed to go to the toliet,so we walked round and found them

I sent them in with the warning of 'muck about in there lads,and you'll be in big trouble'

(they where at the age where they where too old to be taken into the ladies with me but would mess about knowing I can't just walk into the gents-id normally have checked for any other gents and kept my foot on the door to keep it open a crack,but their baby sister was being a pain and i had to see to her)

Both said they went into the toilets rather than the urinals and did what they needed to do

Both where washing their hands when they claim to have seen 'an old man,wearing old army uniform,standing using old crutches and was missing half his leg-he smiled and faded away'

They shot out of there-straight into me-both white as sheets,both desperately telling me what they'd just seen and both where as white as sheets

I calmed them down and we googled the history of the bulding/its grounds

It used to be a hospital in one of the world wars (can't remember which one)

It was used for soldiers who had been injured during the war-quite a few had limbs blown off

They both swear that's what they saw even all these years later

We used to take a short cut past a graveyard in our village. One evening we got to the end and the gate was locked and an old man was shouting at us saying we shouldn't do that when someone had just died. He really frghtened us the way he was shouting.
Everyone in the village went this way as it was the safest and shortest route.
We went back home and my dad came back with us to talk to the man. Man wasn't there and gate wasn't locked.
Dad went over to the man's house to talk to him. And saw him through the window lying on the ground.
Apparently he had been dead for at least 12 hours...we had definitely just had a conversation with him.

Oh no now I'll have to go onto youtube 🙈

Their faces were just grey/cloudy. No features discernible.