I am Not "Woo" at all but this just happened

that would really scare me! Do you live with anybody else? I live alone and this would freak me out.

@Minimili your AirPod is in or under your bed - if it's not there anymore you've accidentally got it tangled with bedding or clothes. You can say you fell asleep with an AirPod in and then it got lost and blame it on a ghost, come on now.

Friday night our clock started to chime.
Hadn't worked for the past 2 years.
Still going off every hour.
No one had been near it as it's in a corner behind the sofa.

@Tacsi you sound great, and very grounded, please let us know if/ when you discover what it was but assuming it wasn't a ghost (it wasn't) it may be something actually harmful either externally or internally so be mindful of taking care pf yourself for the next few weeks.

One of my friends was and is an atheist but they got a priest in to bless a house after weird shit happened. The weird stuff stopped but they now consider themselves agnostic.

I keep having similar things happen and I’m not woo at all either.

I live in a very very old house and when my DP moved in he kept mentioning things suddenly falling over or falling off things that had never moved before. I kept telling him it was a load of nonsense and that he just believed the people who said the house must be haunted as it’s so old and he was now looking for signs.

We were sitting watching tv the other night and the remote control was on the bedside table right in the middle, the remote suddenly moved like it was being pushed and fell on the floor quite a distance from the table.

There have been a few things like this happen but more annoyingly things also go missing. I once fell asleep with my AirPods in, I had an audio book on timer and fell asleep in the first 5 minutes, I woke up when it went off only 30 minutes later and DP was still awake reading and swore I had hardly moved. One AirPod was missing and we tore the house apart looking for it but never found it. I was convinced DP had moved it at first but he helped look for it for days and would have preferred to fess up if it was a joke rather then spend that much time searching.

I took my ring off to wash up and it was never seen again, there have also been many other things but they were the weirdest as they disappeared so quickly never to be seen again.

We live in a very remote area, the house is surrounded by woodland and you have to go down an unlit country road to get to it. I was once walking home (which I hate and try to avoid) and was using my phone as a torch, it was so dark despite the torch and I was walking fast to get home quickly.

I was nearly home when I heard a rustling noise behind me and swung round.
There was a figure behind me that looked like it was all in black, all I saw was a pair of eyes in a pale white face, it was almost just eyes in the dark that locked with mine.
I was absolutely terrified and turned to see if anything was in front of me or to see if any cars were coming, I looked back a split second later and the figure had gone.

I ran all the way home and collapsed in the house panting and in shock, I don’t think DP would have believed me if I hadn’t been in such a state.

I try to avoid walking home now but I’m still trying to find an explanation. I’m like OP, despite seeing these things with my own eyes I’m not convinced they are supernatural.

You will probably never get an answer OP, my only conclusion from these events is unexplained things happen and there is probably a logical reason behind it or maybe we are just skeptics and are being targeted by sort of spirit or ghost (what’s the difference?) but refuse to believe it.

I almost drove myself mad trying to think of what caused it (and I did get a carbon monoxide alarm) but now I just accept it. If it is a ghost I wish it would piss off, it’s often valuable things that go missing and it’s very irritating!

FWIW, I was with a group of friends when we had a similar experience. No one could give an explanation for what happened, and it was over 30 years ago.

These kinds of experiences appear to be common, but the mechanisms are beyond human understanding at the moment.

Children have not had time yet to get adult’s preconceptions that ghost and paranormal activity do not exist.

They see things adults have trouble understanding.

My DD was a baby when she was looking towards the front door wanting to go to someone but she was only with me and I had her in my arms. So yes, children see things that adults can’t

Oh well in that case, it’s probably this, or otherwise dodgy foundations, or dodgy floorboards.

Equake more exciting though

(See, I didn’t say sinkhole? Or even mineshaft 😁)

Have never experienced anything like this, but I completely agree.

I'm a totally rational person with a science degree, but I don't understand how people can categorically rule things out just because they have no evidence for it. Think about how many things people believed or didn't believe in the past because there was no evidence for it that have now been disproved.

It's highly unlikely that we've reached the pinnacle of all knowledge.

OP if you have gas appliances in your house you need to open your windows and get out. Carbon monoxide poisoning can produce symptoms that mimic hauntings.

I think most people are joking

Have you checked your carbon monoxide alarms are working??

Speak out loud, politely but assertively and ask them to leave you alone.

North Wales does get a lot of seismic activity https://museum.wales/articles/1283/Earthquakes-in-Wales/

however, when I was on holiday once there was a minor earthquake and the building wobbled slightly, nothing got knocked out my hand or flew off cupboards!

What does god have to do with the paranormal? You can absolutely believe in one and not the other?

Until the phone I was going to say mouse.

Not woo either but had the weirdest thing happen to me also this week. Moved into a new house, invited my sister and niece over (5) to see it. Niece goes into dining room/makeshift playroom and starts screaming literally about the angry old lady in there. We calm her down, nothing more said.

then three days later. Friend comes with her little boy who’s 3 and he starts saying and crying while playing in there pointing at nothing about the lady and she has a sad face! 😬😬😬 it’s literally an empty dining room with some toys I’d set up for them! They’ve never met each other my niece and friends son! So now I’m scared to go in there 😂

1. Ghosts
2. Mental illness
3. Drugs
4. Earthquake
5. Shit that never happened