Bizarre things you couldnt fathom

Probs Christopher Biggins. He always loved her off. God knows why

But a phone can’t get up and walk to the shed and lock itself in can it?

So the only explanation is that someone put it there. Or somehow when your back was turned your dh got it and was playing a trick. Maybe you misremember exactly what happened and you were out of the room for a minute.

The butternut squash - someone came in the back door and nicked it whilst her back was turned, playing a trick. Stranger things have happened.

Weird things have happened to me in life but they can always be explained. People just want to believe it’s something “woo” as they are susceptible to it. The day after my df died I got up in the morning and turned the radio on and his favourite (quite random song) came on the radio. It did give me a start but obviously it was just a coincidence. If thinking you’ve seen your dead relative or they’ve sent you a message from beyond etc brings you comfort then that’s nice, it’s no harm to anyone - but obviously you didn’t actually see them or smell their aftershave or whatever!

Occam’s razor.

That’s terrifying! 😫

House fairies. They pinch stuff all the time in our house. Usually they return them when you ask them nicely :)

Chap who took me to a party when I was young and gorgeous ended up with another girl sitting on his lap. Never got to the bottom of what happened there.
My small, perfect kitchen knife disappeared last year. Not seen it since.

Do you have a cat? Or, if no cat of your own, do you have a cat flap?

It was just on the radio as I read this! Radio 2 …

When I was a kid,I lived with my grandad

On the wall behind the sofa was a painting of wild horses running away from a fire

It always bothered grandad as it had been painted on the wrong side of the canvas

It was just a picture in a cheapy frame-you wouldn't think anything of it if you saw it

Every so often,it would crash to the floor (all hangings wouldn't have been touched-nail still intact) and grandad would say 'there's been a death'

Within 48 hours (normally less than half an hour) the phone would ring and the person would be saying 'such-and-such has died'

Human or animal,it didnt matter-this picture would lift itself off the wall and make a racket as it hit the floor

This was totally normal when I was a kid!

Sadly,my father's sister dumped the picture in the skip (along with everything I owned) when he was put in a home

Another one was years later and someone gave my then young dd a victorian doll on a stand

It had a green hat and dress/blonde hair/ringlets and weird blue eyes

I swear I used to feel her eyes follow me around and it creeped me out really badly but dd loved it so I couldn't get rid of it

We came to move house (horrid neighbours) and my sister in law helped to wrap it in newspaper and we binned it in the old houses wheelie bin-we agreed to tell dd that it had been lost in the move and she swore shed never say different (id never normally bin anything without the dcs permission,but this thing was starting to scare me)

I put the bin out and we moved house

A few months later,having unpacked ages ago,id gone into dds room to get some bits sorted before she went to school and myself to college-nothing out of the ordinary and the doll wasn't there as I would have seen it

Came home after a shattering day and she went into her room-there was the same doll sat either on her windowsill or bedside cabinet (I cannot remember) just staring at us

I fucking hated that doll until the day it just vanished again

Dd swore it had been in her room when she got up to go to school,but had vanished when we got home again-nobody else had been in the house all day

I've never been able to explain either

In my old flat in London, around 7 years ago, it was a very hot day but I didn't yet have a window open as I had just got home. Very still day, no wind. Very quiet street, no large vehicles thundering past, nor any train stations nearby.

I had a freshly filled salt and pepper pot set. As I walked into the kitchen, both pots fell forward in unison. Just, clean fell down flat. I literally saw it happen. I was nowhere near the counter, nor had thrown down my bag or anything. Just, wham, both fell down.

Other odd stuff happened in that same month. A mirror fell off the wall but didn't break, and all the fixtures were perfectly intact. It could realistically only have come off like that if someone had taken it down - but it happened in front of my eyes.

I asked my sister to put a message out on her Facebook page and it turned out that my house stood on the exact spot where a children's asylum used to stand.

Please get your hubby to pick you up late at night from now on. Please.

How? There is no further “help”.

I love the uncanny and the unexplainable. I’m sure a lot of things could be explained and answered and that a 1 in a billion coincidence is more likely than spirits, but… I come from a family of spiritualists and believers and was just brought up to accept that weird things happen and we just don’t understand it now.

After my grandmother died lots of things disappeared and reappeared in impossible places in the house. They would appear in the middle of a room or on the sofa, you could never have missed them. I’d rather think that my grandmother was just telling us she was ok from beyond the veil than we had someone in the house playing tricks. It was only me and my parents so it would have had to be them and it physically couldn’t have been.

I posted above about losing a knife, I’ve now asks out loud for it to be returned / found. Not dissimilar to praying to st Anthony!

I also grew up attending a church where people would stand up and tell people about their experiences with angels. Again, it was treated not as normal but completed accepted that angelic intervention happened.

We’d just come back from holiday, I was unpacking and I couldn’t find my wedding rings anywhere. I hadn’t been wearing them on holiday much as they were a little big and I kept thinking they’d slip off in the sea or on the beach. Our home was small and clutter free, easy to find things, dh and I looked everywhere. Every drawer, bags, including make up/toiletry bags, pockets, pots, shelves, under the bed, etc I even emailed the apartment we’d been staying in on holiday (even though I’m certain I didn’t leave them)

Anyway, 2 weeks past, still no luck finding them. I was naturally feeling quite sad about it. One morning, I’m getting ready in the bedroom, our little one was 18 months old at the time, she was playing with some of her toys next to me whilst I was doing my make up. I went out of the room to wash my hands, came back a minute later and dd is now stood up playing with something near the window, something shiny caught my eye, I get closer to see what she’s playing with and it’s only my engagement and wedding rings!

I still have no idea where/how she found them. They were definitely not on the widow ledge, it was empty apart from one plant and I’d dusted it a few times since coming back. The weird part is, I had jokingly asked my late nana and grandma for help finding them the day before when I was having yet another look around for them.

@Daygloboo according to google this did happen but I can understand being confused as to why it did!

If you read my original post; I was scrolling on my phone while I was cooking the kids tea, I put it down to dish up after I had dished up and put the plates on the table and the kids sat down to eat I turned to pick my phone back up and it was gone. DH wasn't even in the house at this point.
Anyway you remind me of Dr Ciaran O Keefe. Bending over backwards to explain things and reaching! I know it's a scary prospect to get your head around but sometimes weird things do happen! Hopefully one day something unexplainable will happen to you because until it does you won't believe it's possible x

Oh I do hope so. I like to think of all the people who've lived in our house before and hope they'd approve of what we've done to the dear old place.

While everything you say can objectively be true, it can't be denied that weird things do happen. And when it's something utterly mundane like my rocking cardboard box, or vanishing vegetables where the room is effectively seaked, it does beg the question how stress, or grief or tiredness could be the most obvious explanation when these things were not a factor in the moment.

We are wired for survival by pattern recognition, so when something occurs that disrupts our "normal" it sticks out. Yes, we should exhaust all logical possibilities, but sometimes things absolutely do defy explanation.

I often find the more mundane stories far more believable - the vanishing butternut squash for example - hardly the most riveting way to spice up your life.

Even the ones about passed loved ones I won't discount, given I saw my late DH about 5 weeks after he died, and the circumstances were such that I was not asleep or dreaming or mistaken. Obviously can't prove it but there we are.

Haha! No, I didn’t have a DH at the time and I talked to the barmaid and she showed me where it was written down in their notebook. Customer name (not me), customer number (my number).

She was having an affair with your dh and wanted to check she had your number right? Maybe he was sat with you and it was to put the frighteners on him?

I’d be thinking something like that tbh!

Maybe he already had it though? Unless you know for certain you used it whilst he was out of the house it seems obvious that he had it. Maybe he had snuck in and got it? Maybe he got one of the dc’s involved in playing a trick on you?

Really, almost all of these are easily explainable and they pretty much all involve someone lying/playing tricks.

The glass bowl getting smashed whilst the ds was home alone for instance. He obviously just didn’t want to own up to it.

Objects can roll under kitchen units and down gaps in the floor. Or again, a partner playing a trick.

Jewellery boxes being stolen and then turning up in the Df’s drawers - well obviously it wasn’t stolen was it? (gambling addiction or the like maybe). I know someone who’s employee staged a theft in the office to steal money when she was “there alone”. She even had an injury and claimed to have been hit by one of the thieves. It was all a set up and only found out about by complete fluke.

Some people lie all the time. Even about seemingly stupid things.

Another thing I’d like to point out is that it’s a trait of narcissists/covert narcs/people with personality disorders is to hide belongings from their partners. They enjoy the other persons confusion and sense of panic and the feeling of power it gives them.

Hearing’s noises - noise can carry very far, especially if you’re in an attached house. We’re in a detached house and last night I heard voices in my room and when I investigated it was coming from outside quite far away but sounded loud. The wind was carrying the noise.

When we’re walking home alone late at night/have just woken from a deep sleep we our imagination can do all sorts of tricks on us. Night terrors can be very realistic.

We can often convince ourselves that something definitely happened when the reality is quite different. Tiredness/stress etc can be a big factor.

Obviously it could just be poltergeists but I’m
pretty sure they don’t exist.