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

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Tacsi · 09/02/2025 20:05

so I'm in no way, shape or form "woo" buuutttt just been sitting on side of my bed texting on my phone and my soundbar for TV (which I've had for 4 years with no issues) just decided to launch itself onto the floor, has hit my foot and cut it, picked it back up thinking how weird 🤷🤷 went back to my phone and a bottle of water, tube of face cream and a lip balm on top of my chest of drawers then launched themselves across the room, pretty freaked out by this point but still being rational in my head, picked phone back up carried on messaging back a friend, looked up to think what I was trying to type and felt a big tap /slap and literally saw my phone fly in the air and land other side of room, trying hard to think rationally but feeling pretty spooked right now
😭there's a rational reason for all this, yes???

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MusicMakesItAllBetter · 11/02/2025 21:22

I'm a woo woo if that's what you want to call it. I absolutely believe in spirits and have experienced unexplainable situations since I was a child.
I know that my baby loss is with me and I also know when my nan and aunt are near me and communicating to me.
I ask them for guidance and support when I need it and I ask the universe to help with whatever I need and in some way I receive my desire.

WOO, WOO lol

Definitely sage the shit out of your home.

I am Not "Woo" at all but this just happened
I am Not "Woo" at all but this just happened
I am Not "Woo" at all but this just happened
MusicMakesItAllBetter · 11/02/2025 19:10

Shera12 · 09/02/2025 21:14

…how is it ok to just say you’re anti-catholic?!

Shes not just anti-Catholic though.
She's an atheist.
It's ok.

Riverswims · 11/02/2025 13:04

Pssst “I see dead people”

jellyfishperiwinkle · 11/02/2025 12:50

Feelinghurt2 · 11/02/2025 10:34

"Is there anybody theeeeeere?!" 😂

Seriously OP, I believe you. A few years ago I had a cleaning job, cleaning the house of an elderly lady. I was standing in the kitchen there one day, and the vacuum cleaner nozzle, that I'd put at the very back of the kitchen counter, launched itself into the air and landed on the floor. I couldn't believe my eyes. I didn't tell the lady as I didn't want to freak her out and I really liked her. The following week she told me that she saw an ornament in the front room fly off the shelf. I then told her about the vacuum cleaner nozzle. She was very funny and just shouted out in her inimitable cockney accent, "Piss right off, whoever you are!" It seemed to do the trick! 😂 🤣

Heh, I love this.

When I was up at night working in a corner of my kitchen I saw apparently, two shadow people come in through the patio door. My reaction was to say "WTF now, seriously?" out loud, more at what my ridiculous and overtired brain was doing than anything else.

raspberrieswithchocolate · 11/02/2025 12:42

@Tacsi
How is everything at your house? Has anything strange happened since? I hope your foot is better.

Elphame · 11/02/2025 10:54

lazystar · 11/02/2025 00:15

If your going to smoke cleanse, you need to start from the entrance and work your way around the house, in every room and every corner jntil your back at the exit.
Windows must be open.
You need to do it with intent or your just wafting smoke around.
Your intention is to clear out negative energy, so tell the house what your doing.
Ps tourmaline and obsidian are good crystals for protection but you need to cleanse, and charge them with energy and intention or they are just pretty rocks

I prefer to close all the windows and drive the energy out of each room like you would with sweeping. I close and seal with salt behind me. At the final door it all goes out together and the entrance sealed.

Once you're done make sure you refill the space with something nice, favourite scent, music etc.

Nature hates a vacuum and you don't want to suck everything you have just sent out back in!

Feelinghurt2 · 11/02/2025 10:34

"Is there anybody theeeeeere?!" 😂

Seriously OP, I believe you. A few years ago I had a cleaning job, cleaning the house of an elderly lady. I was standing in the kitchen there one day, and the vacuum cleaner nozzle, that I'd put at the very back of the kitchen counter, launched itself into the air and landed on the floor. I couldn't believe my eyes. I didn't tell the lady as I didn't want to freak her out and I really liked her. The following week she told me that she saw an ornament in the front room fly off the shelf. I then told her about the vacuum cleaner nozzle. She was very funny and just shouted out in her inimitable cockney accent, "Piss right off, whoever you are!" It seemed to do the trick! 😂 🤣

Goodtogossip · 11/02/2025 10:21

Even if you don't believe in ALL THAT STUFF go see a medium & ask if anyone is trying to get a message to you. Don't let on what's happened & see if they can shed any light on it. I'm sceptical about things like this but if I'd had something launched across the room right in front of me I'd be trying all ways to figure out why it happened & try anything for an answer. It all sounds very weird

DevilledEgg · 11/02/2025 09:39

LoganberryWay · 10/02/2025 10:19

That isn't as daft as it sounds.

Having a pylon in your garden isn't very healthy and neither is being close to a substation. Some experts recommend being 300+ feet away from one.

I mean I was joking 🤣

caramac04 · 11/02/2025 09:33

I’ve spent far too long reading the full thread with nothing to offer.
I‘m not sure what I believe, mostly I think there is always a logical explanation until I read some scary shit and then I’m scared silly.
There are things we don’t know/understand. Maybe it’s spirits, maybe it’s not. We might know in the future.
In the meantime I would be protecting myself woo style as it won’t harm anything. Unless I set fire to the curtains 😱😂

ProseccoOnSafari · 11/02/2025 07:41

OhMyGollyGoshGosh · 09/02/2025 20:49

Exactly.

But these threads seem to draw apparently grown adult MNetters like seagulls to a bag of chips 🙄

And almost every thread starts with "I'm not at all woo but..."

If there's been no earth tremor, distant explosion or anything similar then it's far more likely to be a mental health issue developing, than Ghostly Gary chucking lip balms around.

Didn’t want to be the first to say this, but I reckon OP might have to lay off the hallucinogenic substances for a bit. Definitely more than a little “woo” 😁

AllFurCoatAndFrillyKnickers · 11/02/2025 00:20

https://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recentukk_events.html

AllFurCoatAndFrillyKnickers · 11/02/2025 00:18

@Tacsi
There was an earthquake in Knutsford Cheshire on Sunday 9th Feb at 14.25 magnitude of 1.5.
How far from Knutsford are you?

lazystar · 11/02/2025 00:15

Toothicktounderstand · 10/02/2025 21:55

I bought one. Not sure what I’m meant to do but I must have a try. I just fancied wafting it round and seeing if it smelled good. It’s still sat on the sideboard.

If your going to smoke cleanse, you need to start from the entrance and work your way around the house, in every room and every corner jntil your back at the exit.
Windows must be open.
You need to do it with intent or your just wafting smoke around.
Your intention is to clear out negative energy, so tell the house what your doing.
Ps tourmaline and obsidian are good crystals for protection but you need to cleanse, and charge them with energy and intention or they are just pretty rocks

lazystar · 11/02/2025 00:07

You need to tell them to leave ,that they are not welcome in your personal space.
Imagine you have a light surrounding you, a cloak whatever you feel the most comfortable imagining, and that it is your protection.
We're you doing anything that was different that may have triggered this to happen ?
After you have eliminated all the mundane possibilities of course.

PilgriminProgress · 11/02/2025 00:03

Sodthesystem · 10/02/2025 20:31

Why wouldn't seeing something several times with your own eyes be evidence enough?

Why would you jump to 'oh i must be imagining my phone levitating' ? Especially if it then flies through the air and lands on the floor.

Surely it makes more sense that there's just some 'woo' shit we can't explain.

Some people will bend over backwards not to believe their own eyes. It's weird.

What I meant was, what they're saying is narrative. Where's their evidence? Photos videos witnesses? Saying so doesn’t make it so.

PearlClutzsche · 11/02/2025 00:03

LynetteScavo · 10/02/2025 22:08

@Elphame - what do you do with the bramble? Burn it?

I think that it would be more effective in getting rid of UK poltergeists, whereas sage would see off those Native American ones.

Golly, poltergeist anthropology!

I have seriously no idea whether some posters are joking or not on this thread.

Calmomiletea · 10/02/2025 23:53

I want to know how far the items were moved OP!! 😅??

MaddestGranny · 10/02/2025 23:28

Not mutually exclusive. Nothing says there can't be atheist ghosts.

Booboobagins · 10/02/2025 22:56

After my hubby died, I was in a call with my mum and my phone just slipped out of my hand. I knew I had a good grip of it, but if fell, hit the mop bucket - she called whilst I was mopping - and when I picked the phone up it had switched off and I couldn't get it to work.

I took the sim out and put it in my old phone. As the phone was registering a message from my hubby popped up saying 'Hi babe'. and the iPhone I couldn't switch on started working too. Spookiest thing ever.

I'm sorry to say, I think it may have been a ghost @Tacsi but if you don't believe in them let's hope it buggers of to play with someone who does. I don't believe in ghosts either, but I was visited several times by my hubby after he died.

Plggybacker · 10/02/2025 22:53

Pippyls67 · 10/02/2025 22:21

We’ll to be fair, I’m massively sceptical but in all honesty you can’t know that. Just being pedantic here but you honestly can’t be sure of something just because you don’t believe in it. We didn’t ‘believe in’ plenty of things until science was advanced enough to prove to us otherwise. Just saying.

Point taken.

Orangeandpinknails · 10/02/2025 22:48

My sound bar regularly vibrates itself off thr top of a surface..first time it did it I shit myself then realised the sounds were making it vibrates slowly toward the edge of the table...not sure on the other things though? Lol sorry!...

WeCanOnlyDoOurBest · 10/02/2025 22:42

Thereislightattheendofthetunnel · 09/02/2025 21:09

There are some smudging sage kits in TK maxx at the moment.

I also heard that black tourmaline is a stone for protection. You might want to have one close.

I would be freaking out by this event to be fair.

Yes, a black tourmaline crystal removes negativity and protects, it only needs to be small. Easily sourced online, there’s even jewellery made from it.

MrsSunshine2b · 10/02/2025 22:39

Crudd99 · 10/02/2025 19:28

I had a really vivid dream once that sounded like someone was chucking my dishes and cutlery around downstairs. It went on for a while and at the time I really believed I was awake. I lay in bed terrified until it went light . It was in the 80s so I couldn't phone anyone. When I finally went downstairs everything was how it should be. The dishes and cutlery were all where they should be. I was absolutely convinced I'd heard what I'd heard but it couldn't explain it other than I'd been asleep but it had been one of those dreams that when you wake up you you think it's happened.

That sounds like sleep paralysis. My ex used to get it and wake up terrified.

Pippyls67 · 10/02/2025 22:34

Amaranthasweetandfair · 09/02/2025 21:12

@StMarie4me have you just asked someone for their evidence that something isn't paranormal? How about you give us the evidence it is and we'll go from there?

Ah but because you can’t prove one thing it doesn’t mean there’s no need to prove the other. Both assertions are equally unprovable in reality. Moot point I think.