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

My money's on sonic booms from chasing off a jet that shouldn't have been around - they don't show up on the usual radar sites when they're doing something actually important like that.

Really? To me it’s like walking into a room and going “I have no association with Eton at all, but I heard the beaks were in a foul mood in pre-chambers divs today.”

The only people who I ever hear talking about “woo” are the people who are interested in spirituality / the paranormal at least at some level.

In my experience, most uninterested people just say “I don’t believe in ghosts” or similar. in normal English. ‘Woo’ is not an actual word, it’s slang that not everyone knows.

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.

I have thought about that a few times, wasn’t there an ironing board that went missing as well?

I have OCD (diagnosed) and hate losing things, my house is so well organised and I usually know where absolutely everything is.

DP is a typical man, if something doesn’t jump out at him he can’t find it. He insisted we had no cheese the other day despite me telling him exactly where it is in the fridge. He was so insistent that I went to check, it was there but he was just gazing intently into the fridge without actually taking things out and moving them!

With the AirPod it was driving me mad it was missing, I use them all the time so was desperate to find it.
We took every single thing out of the bedroom (we assumed it would be there as I hadn’t left the room with it in) and checked in drawers, inside shoes and clothes, we stripped the bed and took the mattress off, we spent days trying to find it but it never appeared.
This was a year ago and I’ve still kept an eye out but it was never to be seen again. What makes it even weirder was it was fully charged and connected to “my devices” on find my iPhone. I should have been able to track it and play a sound, it had worked just the day before but it never showed up as an active device again.

The ring was equally as strange, I wore it constantly for years and often took it off to do washing up but I have a little trinket bowl I put jewellery in for that purpose. I know that I put in there but it just vanished into thin air. We searched and searched again but it’s never turned up.

It’s like the age old mystery of odd socks that seems to affect everyone. It doesn’t matter if I count and check the amount of socks that go in the washing machine, a different count will always emerge.
Both me and DP have all our socks the same to try to avoid odd socks but we still end up with odd pairs!

Few year ago i've got 3 small corner shelves at the side of my kitchen cupboard with bits and bobs on and had a blender on next thing i hear while in the sitting room was a mighty crash goes to the kitchen theres the whole lot shelves included on my cooker and only me in the house totally freaked my boys out when i told them , but not bothered they used to smile and certain corners of there room when in there cots as babies and 5 yrs between them

WTF?!! That's some screwy logic 😂

Plenty of non-woo people are aware of the term and use it to describe woo people!

Just dropping in to say that I do not believe you are “not woo”, because only “woo” people use this ridiculous term! Guilty by association, I’m afraid!

Hallucination: I thought the sound bar flew across the room but later I realised it hadn't moved.

Actual experience: The sound bar flew across the room and I had to pick it up off the floor.

OP is adamant it was the second case, isn't she?

@RedDeer I think you mean carbon MONoxide (CO).
Carbon DIoxide (CO²) is what we breath out.

Big magnet next door?

if natural causes ruled out then I would think maybe it was a very acute psychosis or hallucination. Obviously you wouldn’t know if it was … as you’d have been hallucinating

There actually is a scientific reason for this but I can't remember the name of it! I remember reading about it in a science magazine when I was a teen. Whatever the force/phenomenon is causes things to levitate and fly across the room. Not very helpful, I know 🤣

You asked specifically and clearly for rational reasons so i am going to assume you actually wanted them.

With any and every tale of woo, there are 2 equally rational explanations.

1 the person telling the story is making it up.

2 the person is telling what they genuinely believe to be the truth but it is not objectively the truth eg they are having a medical episode, have carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty boiler, were having a very realistic dream or waking dream, were hallucinating etc etc.

My first thought was earthquake: https://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html

second thought, were you really tired? Might have been a hypnic jerk with your phone?

Could the catholics commenting please be a little more condescending please 😂😂😂

If someone doesn’t believe in God or any kind of spiritual realm, then believing in ghosts or supernatural experiences becomes quite inconsistent. After all, if the material world is all there is with no God, no soul, no life after death, then how do spirits or ghostly phenomena fit into that? Many people who don't believe in God still believe in ghosts, thinking of them as the lingering energy or consciousness of the dead. But if humans are just biological machines, as strict materialism suggests, then consciousness should end at death. There would be no “ghost” left to haunt places or interact with the living. Belief in ghosts without belief in God raises other questions: If ghosts exist, where do they come from, and what are they made of? If people’s spirits live on after death, why would they be trapped in a house rather than moving on to an afterlife? If spirits can interact with the physical world (moving objects, making noises), what law of physics allows that, and why doesn’t it apply all the time? Our Christian perspective provides a more structured explanation. There is an unseen spiritual world, but it’s made up of angels (both good and fallen). What some people experience as ghosts may actually be demonic activity meant to deceive or disturb. The Bible never describes dead humans lingering as spirits on earth but it speaks of immediate judgment and an afterlife (Hebrews 9:27). So, in a way, belief in ghosts without belief in God is like believing in shadows without a light source. If the supernatural exists, then it makes more sense to explore its origin, and that ultimately leads to God.

Yea, cos demons are fuckin terrified of sage 🙄

That makes perfect sense to us who believe in God, because it follows that there’s a spiritual realm beyond what we can see. The Bible speaks often of both good and bad spiritual beings: angels, who serve God and carry out His will, and fallen angels (or demons), who oppose Him. Hebrews 1:14 describes angels as “ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation,” showing that they’re actively involved in helping and protecting people. On the other hand, Ephesians 6:12 reminds us that our struggles aren’t just against the physical world but against “spiritual forces of evil.” This suggests that unseen forces, both good and bad, are at work in the world, even if we don’t see or believe in them. From a Christian perspective, supernatural events don’t mean "ghosts" in the way people describe them. Instead, they could be interactions with the unseen spiritual world. The Bible discourages making contact with spirits (Deuteronomy 18:10-12) but acknowledges their reality. So, in a situation like yours, where things are moving on their own, a Christian would respond by praying for protection and asking God to bring peace into your home

Earthquake?

That could be behind your troubles?

Confused as to what being an atheist has to do with anything. Ghosts/poltergeist don't check religious preferences.

Anything else since, OP? I am also a non-believer but love a good spooky story!

And no-one mentioned Liverpool’s Bold Street time slip.
Many many tales in Liverpool of unexplained sightings.
I think keep an open mind. After all if you showed a computer to someone who lived in medieval times they would believe it to be the devil
incarnated.

I know you don’t believe in spirits etc, I was sceptical until I actually saw something on my sons’ video monitor and heard a voice on an earlier occasion. It’s not a WiFi one either that can be hacked by weirdos. We got two mediums in eventually and it was the most bizarre experience ever, but couldn’t be denied! Since then, my children sleep through and don’t complain of anything touching them! They weren’t aware of the mediums or what they found, so not as if they were “playing along”. Just a thought! Good luck ☺️

Danny Robins, where are you? This looks perfect for Uncanny