Bizarre things you couldnt fathom

I wish we could all remember it if that was the case 🤣

Visited the old plague village of Eyam once with my mum. We walked up a road to a field where the Riley Graves are. It’s all pretty famous and we covered Eyam at school.

Anyway, we’re walking up this country road with no cars about Mum jumped out her skin, covered her ears and gasped. She’d heard a woman screaming so loud it was like she was stood right next to her. She was astonished no-one else heard it, but we hadn’t.

Also, our house isn’t old but mum saw my dad once, very clearly, when she was making dinner. She assumed he’d come in from work, but then he walked in the front door. So we think it was his deceased dad? She saw him so clear!

Finally, when my aunt and uncle bought their very old cottage and redecorated, a pattern that looked like a face was in the plaster under the layers of wallpaper. Turned out it looked like the previous deceased owner.

Once came downstairs on my own to find a picture had been taken off the wall and was propped up against the opposite wall.

In the same room the ironing board, which was propped up against the same wall, randomly fell over when no-one had touched it.

Another time myself and other family members were all stood in the hallway and heard three very loud, clear knocks on the front door. There was no-one to be seen through the frosted glass of the door, and the security light didn’t come on outside in the dark to indicate movement.

We reckon we have a ghost, but a friendly one.

Many years ago DH, DD and I stayed in a hotel which was a converted coaching house with a newer part added on. We stayed in a room in the original part of the house. DD didn’t like the room at all from the moment we walked in, we just thought she was frightened by the old pictures and decor. Anyway, we went for something to eat then back to the room to go to bed. DD made us cover up some of the things in the room she didn’t like and leave a light on (she’d never even had a nightlight as a baby). She went to sleep but had a very unsettled night which is not like her at all.

Next morning we were all getting dressed to go to a party and my DH was taking a while to get ready. I told him we needed to get a move on as it was almost time to leave and he replied that we had at least half an hour. I checked the time again on my phone and said we definitely only had ten minutes. He showed me his watch and it was 20 minutes slow 🤷‍♀️ This is a watch he’d worn for years. It’s an expensive, reliable brand and had recently been serviced. It had never lost a minute before and hasn’t done since then, it’s always kept perfect time. We don’t know if DD had sensed something in that room that we hadn’t but we can’t think of any logical explanation at all for the watch having seemingly stopped for 20 minutes overnight and that being the only time it ever did it.

Something explicable but such honestly weird timing
My parents lived in their house for over 40 years, and had known the previous people who lived there for maybe about 15 before that, it was a pretty old house.
The family has just come back to the house after his funeral, it was during lockdown so couldn't have a gathering afterwards so we were just getting ready to have something to eat. My children were in the kitchen preparing the food and I was just about to come into the kitchen when there was a sound of breaking glass, I rushed in and presumed that some china has fallen out of a cupboard or some such accident. But no, it was a football that has that had come through a tiny window on the side of the kitchen wall. Beside the kitchen wall was a brick outbuilding, and behind that was a wall, and behind the wall was a flower bed full of shrubs etc and a car park.
In all those years I had known the house, going back over 50 years that had never happened before. Behind the outbuilding there were no footballs. To actually kick a football from the car park and hit the window was a several million to one chance, you could hardly see that there was a window there, a professional football team could have tried to kick the ball through that window and couldn't have done it.
It was almost as if someone/thing thought that Dad's presence needed to have an exit, it was wintertime and the doors or windows hadn't been left open because of the cold.
Completely explicable but so odd the only time it happened in living memory had been after his funeral.
He didn't die in the house. He was taken to hospital when he was taken ill and died there.
If Dad's spitit had chosen to break a window it would have been the kitchen door window, as that's where 99 per cent of the time he (and everyone else) would go in and out of the house. When he left the house that last time alive he was taken through the front door.as that was the easiest way for the ambulance crew .

Nope, I own it, and bought it off plan so it has no previous owners or keyholders.

My then 1yr old used to watch the baby sensory videos on YouTube. Went to bed one night around 11pm, after locking up/checking everything is off as usual. Around 2am, I hear a strange noise and go downstairs to find the laptop on and the baby sensory video playing! Son fast asleep in his sleep bag in his cot, and in his bedroom, so not a chance he could have turned it on!

OP> I didn't know about this before reading your post, but just checked and found out that yes, weirly, Cilla Black's 2015 funeral was televised (in full on Sky News and possibly other channels too)!

all 2.5 hours is still available online - see

Omg you’ve just reminded me that’s happened to me too! Not at 4am thankfully but a couple of times when I’ve been asleep in the day but my DH was in and he’s looked at me like I was mad when I asked who was at the door!!

Nobody else notices it! 😉

I still listen to all the old XFM broadcasts. The very birth of Monkey News, Rockbusters, and Educating Ricky.

About 6 months ago the remote control went missing in our living room. It’s silver so slightly easier spotted than a black one. There’s only an L shaped sofa ( on legs so you can see under it easily) an armchair and tv stand in the room so it’s not very cluttered. Anyway searched high and low for days and nothing, took all cushions off the sofa etc. Then a few days later I walked in in the morning and there it was in the middle of the floor on the carpet!

Omg what a blast from the past your user name is 🤯😂

My husband was in the bath, about to doze off, so his eyes were closed.
Then, in his ear, he hears my voice really annunciating his name. Which obviously startled him and woke him up sharpish.

I reckon he just fell asleep and dreamt it.

When my mum was in labour with my brother, her twin suddenly developed terrible back pain.
Which disappeared as quickly as it arrived.
It was only afterwards, when my Nan told him that my mum had had the baby - they thought wooh - sympathy pains!

Complete coincidence, of course, but weird all the same.

I’ve also had things simply disappear from this house. Christ knows what’s happened to them.

This sometimes happens in our house when a large articulated lorry goes past the main road at the end (which is quite far away) or it would be construction groundwork somewhere in the neighbourhood - both these can “shake” the house and sound really loud.

Was it rented?

All these stories of things going missing from your flat - if they were rented it could be your LL or previous tenants or maintenance people who have copies of the keys maybe?

I know someone who is a LL who sometimes (illegally) goes into their tenants flats whilst they’re at work to check on certain things. I don’t think they take or move anything but their excuse is that the tenants never get black to them about doing maintenance checks so they just go in!

Many years ago when I still lived at my parents we had nice colourful large clock on the wall in the kitchen- think large kids style clock.
The clock faced a large kitchen window and garden.
One afternoon around 5pm in the winter- so dark outside I popped outside into garden to put something in the shed.
I saw the kitchen clock through the window and they showed 6.30pm.
I thought its weird..
Got back into kitchen and clock showed correctly 5pm.
Really weird ...

I bloody hope thats true
Thank you-i really thought the house was going to cave in
Nobody else heard it but it was so loud

I would guess that because you had the washing machine and the shower running it was a 'water hammer', its an air bubble in the pipes that makes a loud bang. I don't think it's a cause for concern.