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Daygloboo · 2026-01-12T00:53:41+00:00

Not AIBU. Just curious. Have you ever experienced anything either publicly or privately that just didn't make sense or seemed bizarre or you just couldnt fathom in some way. I was in a small cafe looking out on Trafalgar Square about 10 years ago. ..Alan Yentob walked in through the door. .I kept an eye constantly on the door because I wanted to get a good look at him when he walked out again but I didn't want to stare while he was in the cafe. I was by the window seat looking out on Trafalgar Square. After about 15 minutes i turned my head and looked round in the cafe and he was nowhere to be seen. It was a small cafe !! He wasnt sitting at any of the tables and I'd had my eye on the door the whole time so I know he couldn" t have slipped past me. There was no other exit and only some toilets. It was a really bizarre experience that I can't fathom to this day. I KNOW I never took my eye off the door. I just dont know where he went.

AmandaPomander · 13/01/2026 02:04

I once had a tape of The Orb's Aventures In The Ultraworld. One evening I put it on to play and it had turned into Elton John's Greatest Hits! True.

Keepingittogetherstepbystep · 13/01/2026 01:58

Once went into the bathroom to find a frog in the toilet that was weird.

Moved house and went into the kitchen to find a bat clinging to the door. I quickly turned the light off thankfully have a stable door so opened the top part of the door and left the kitchen. It had gone next time I went in. I shut the door and blocked the cat flap as I didn't need it.

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Daygloboo · 13/01/2026 01:55

Queenoftartts · 13/01/2026 01:47

My 30th we were all out having a meal with all the family. I spilt my drink I heard my mum’s voice like when she used to tell me off. Me and db were sat accross from each other at the table. It seemed to come from the space between us. DM had passed away about 6 months before. Everyone went quiet I never said anything thought I was hearing things. Then DB said I could swear i just heard our mother’s voice telling Jane off. Everyone else heard that was wilth us heard it. 😳

Maybe someone in your group mimicked your mum telling you off for a laugh when you spilt your drink, and then got embarrassed that they'd fone it and didnt own up to it when you and your brother said what you'd heard.

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Popadomorbread · 13/01/2026 01:55

Years ago I had been out with friends in Leeds and we had parked in one of the multi-storey car parks. Had my ticket ready. Got to the barrier and could not find the ticket. We all got out of the car and literally searched every inch of it. Could not be found anywhere. Luckily the very nice parking attendant not wanting to deal with 4 crying 18 year olds as we couldn’t afford the fine for a lost ticket, let us out.
A few weeks later, having used the car many times after the car park incident, I got in and the ticket was there just sat on the dashboard. It was like it had been placed there very nearly. Where had it been? So bloody weird. I’m still confused by this all these years later.

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Queenoftartts · 13/01/2026 01:47

My 30th we were all out having a meal with all the family. I spilt my drink I heard my mum’s voice like when she used to tell me off. Me and db were sat accross from each other at the table. It seemed to come from the space between us. DM had passed away about 6 months before. Everyone went quiet I never said anything thought I was hearing things. Then DB said I could swear i just heard our mother’s voice telling Jane off. Everyone else heard that was wilth us heard it. 😳

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Daygloboo · 13/01/2026 01:39

lilybit2025 · 13/01/2026 01:24

back in lockdown, prior to me moving out with my DP, me and my mum were sitting downstairs in the lounge watching TV - must've been 9PM summer time as it was just getting dark and we heard this bizarre noise coming from upstairs, it was so loud you could hear it above the TV and we are tone deaf as it is. I went to investigate and the minute I spoke it stopped. The noise was like someone sawing wood.

Anyway, the next day completely forgotten about it. This time it was late at night (maybe 12am) and the same thing happened again. We paused the TV went into the hallway and it carried on. It was SO loud, I genuinely thought someone was on the upstairs landing sawing a bit of wood. The minute we both whispered to each other, it stopped. We went to bed and the same thing happened again but was happening above our heads (in the attic) and I obviously froze to death from sheer fright. I opened my door and whispered to mum along the hallway (she slept with her door open) and she said it was coming from the ceiling above her head. I went to her room (the house was pitch black) and it was so intensely loud and the minute we both stood still listening it stopped.

We got my dad (they are separated) to go into the attack the next day in case it was a trapped bird or something. NOTHING. It wasn't until after this we figured out the noise was the same as someone sawing wood. It never happened again after that. I even went to the neighbours to ask if he heard it and he said no. We were convinced it was him chopping up his ex wife.

it's something we both have never really forgotten as it was so so bizarre and we know we weren't going crazy as we BOTH experienced it.

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It might have been him( neigjbour) doing DIY and not wanting to admit it to you because it was late. Years ago i lived next door to a bloke who was a very heavy drinker and drug taker. I used to occasionally hear really terrifying violent noises coming from the other side of the walls..sometimes st odd tines like 4am. Like furniture being hurled about and things like thst. It was terrifying and i never knew if he was alone or if there was someone in there with him. O moved eventually and was so glad to get away.

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lilybit2025 · 13/01/2026 01:24

back in lockdown, prior to me moving out with my DP, me and my mum were sitting downstairs in the lounge watching TV - must've been 9PM summer time as it was just getting dark and we heard this bizarre noise coming from upstairs, it was so loud you could hear it above the TV and we are tone deaf as it is. I went to investigate and the minute I spoke it stopped. The noise was like someone sawing wood.

Anyway, the next day completely forgotten about it. This time it was late at night (maybe 12am) and the same thing happened again. We paused the TV went into the hallway and it carried on. It was SO loud, I genuinely thought someone was on the upstairs landing sawing a bit of wood. The minute we both whispered to each other, it stopped. We went to bed and the same thing happened again but was happening above our heads (in the attic) and I obviously froze to death from sheer fright. I opened my door and whispered to mum along the hallway (she slept with her door open) and she said it was coming from the ceiling above her head. I went to her room (the house was pitch black) and it was so intensely loud and the minute we both stood still listening it stopped.

We got my dad (they are separated) to go into the attack the next day in case it was a trapped bird or something. NOTHING. It wasn't until after this we figured out the noise was the same as someone sawing wood. It never happened again after that. I even went to the neighbours to ask if he heard it and he said no. We were convinced it was him chopping up his ex wife.

it's something we both have never really forgotten as it was so so bizarre and we know we weren't going crazy as we BOTH experienced it.

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MarriedWithCauldron · 13/01/2026 01:15

Dollyfloss · 12/01/2026 18:51

Was the sleeve not the leaflet type with several different photos and someone had changed it over?

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It was a single, not an album, so it wasn’t a booklet; just a single leaf sleeve with the cover art on one side and the track listing on the other. The track listing for the other edition was different, so what I ended up with wasn’t the original.

Barney16 · 13/01/2026 01:08

About six months ago on a Saturday afternoon my DP and I were pottering about when all of a sudden we heard voices. No one in the house except us. We couldn't work out where they were coming from, seemed to move around the ground floor. TV was off, all our devices were off. We went outside and we could still hear them, there was no one about. It was so frightening I cried. Then all of a sudden it stopped. We decided the only thing it could be was some sort of weird Alexa thing. It was really scary.

Cattenberg · 13/01/2026 01:08

More than 15 years ago, my boyfriend and I had a two-day stopover in Marseille. We took a taxi from the airport to our hotel in the Vieux Port and it travelled along a main road, through some flat countryside. In the distance, on the right-hand side, I saw a quaint, grey-stone village with a little windmill. I wanted to ask to the taxi driver what this village was called, but by the time I'd remembered the right words in French, it was no longer in sight and the driver didn't know what I was talking about. Never mind, I was sure to be able to find it on a map, so I just noted the time. This showed that the view of the village was about a ten minute drive from our hotel. My boyfriend later said that he'd seen the village and windmill too.

We spent the rest of the day sight-seeing in Marseille. That evening at the hotel, I tried to find the village on Google maps but had no luck and the hotel receptionist hadn't heard of it either.

My boyfriend and I were intrigued enough to hire a taxi to take us back along the route to find the village. The taxi driver used by the hotel didn't know what we were talking about either. This time, the journey out of Marseille into the countryside seemed to take longer and was more industrial-looking, but that was probably my imagination. We went far beyond where the view of the village should have been, but had to give up. My boyfriend joked with the taxi driver about the crazy English people chasing windmills.

We decided to be dropped off at an out-of-town shopping centre and enjoyed looking round. It had a great perfumery - I bought a bottle of Narciso Rodriguez and tried on a sample of Jean Patou's Joy - one of the most expensive perfumes in the world and apparently worn by Queen Elizabeth II. While waiting ages at a bus stop to get back to Marseille, we got chatting to a lovely young French couple, one of whom was from Mauritius. The man was a talented artist and showed us some of his drawings. So, it was quite a nice day in the end.

On our taxi journey back to the airport the following day, there was still no sign of the village and windmill. It's possible that I mistook a water tower or something for a windmill, but I'm sure I didn't imagine a whole village!

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Daygloboo · 13/01/2026 01:07

Something else i find bizarre in an entirely different way....not spooky or anything but just weird....was Cilla Black's funeral service. I think i remember it was on TV. I remember watching it at the tome and thinking ...what on earth is cilla's funeral doing on tv. Ive only ever seen royal funerals on tv. Does anyone else remember it ? I found it utterly weird. I cant think of any other celebrity who had a funeral on tv. Whenever i thonk about it i ssl myself...did that actually hsppen ?

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TremendousThirst · 13/01/2026 01:00

Someone once left a turtle in a large rubbermaid tub on our front step along with a jar of turtle food. No note. I nearly tripped over it as I was taking the DC out the door for school.

We are tortoise owners, so someone must have known this and thought we’d be a good home for this unwanted wild turtle, but it’s been years and I’ve never pieced together who it was.

Tamtim · 13/01/2026 00:56

AncientMarina · 12/01/2026 17:18

I live in an old cottage which we've spent the last year completely renovating. Everything is damp proofed, freshly decorated and cosy. I was making mince pies in the kitchen just as the dusk was falling on the recent winter solstice. I'd lit a few candles around the room, all the decorations were up and I was feeling really Christmassy. The radio was playing carols to get me in the mood for the carol service I was going to that evening.

All of a sudden the room filled with an old church smell. That kind of musty, damp, old hymn book smell you only get in old churches especially in the crypt or back rooms. It was really overpowering in a way I can't adequately describe.

I just talked myself into the fact that I'd imagined it because I was feeling so 'Christmas/churchy' when my DH came in from the other room and said, 'Blimey, it smells of old church cellars in here, what have you been doing?'. The smell went as soon as it came. We even went outside and came back in to see if it was there - it wasn't. Haven't smelt it since.

Our house backs onto the church yard. What's that all about?

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The dead folk were passing through to get to their service. 😁

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Daygloboo · 13/01/2026 00:56

RollMeAway · 12/01/2026 22:29

After staying away for a night in a hotel in Aberdeenshire, one single marble appeared in my make-up bag. I knew 100% it hadn't been in there before I went as I packed specific makeup in to an empty bag. I was completely confused but felt compelled to keep the marble and did so for years after. Weird.

Maybe someone went into your room and put it in there. Someone who cleans the rooms or has access ? Maybe someone who deliberately did it to people because it amused them to think that the person wouldnt know how it got there. There's no other logical explanation really.

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Migrainedays · 13/01/2026 00:48

I see fairys.

StabbyCat · 13/01/2026 00:40

PurpleLovecats · 12/01/2026 23:06

Things I have to do. Can’t talk about them on here as they delete the posts.

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MissHelenSweetstory · 13/01/2026 00:37

My late-DM's jewellery box was stolen in a burglary. 12 years later DF died. I was going through one of many many boxes of his paperwork and at the bottom was DM's engagement ring. After she died DF threw out pretty much everything of hers. It's one of the few things I have to remember her by and I treasure it everyday.

Also, a couple of months ago I became strangely fixated on an ex for no reason at all. We split up 30 years ago and I've had no contact with him since. I just knew I would hear from him again. When I returned from the Christmas break and checked out my LinkedIn account I had a notification that he'd looked at my profile.

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Daygloboo · 13/01/2026 00:34

petermaddog · 12/01/2026 22:16

all building in usa have to 2nd doors exit incase fire

Yes i reckon it must have been something like that. But it felt very odd that that might be what he did. As if he was cutting through. It all felt a bit ' spy novel'.

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TheWibble · 13/01/2026 00:19

TheBewleySisters · 12/01/2026 12:36

I was sitting quietly reading one evening when Alexa started to laugh, really loud guffaws. I turned my head slowly to look at the speaker and the laughter stopped. 'She' then started to speak in Chinese. I was so freaked out I unplugged her. It never happened again.

It's because of stuff like this I won't have a alexa. My 7yo has begged me to get one for a few years now, bit I'm not putting up with shit like that from an electronic device!

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Daygloboo · 13/01/2026 00:18

MyLittleTrojanPony · 12/01/2026 23:56

I’ve posted about these before…

I was wearing my AirPods to sleep one night and woke up and one had gone.
I hadn’t left the room and we spent weeks literally gutting the bedroom to find it but never did so I had to buy a replacement.

A few weeks later I had new carpet fitted so there was nowhere it could have been hiding when the room was completely emptied. My Dp had been awake reading and said I didn’t leave the room wearing the AirPods but surely even if I had we’d have found it anyway after 2 years?!

My dad used to wear a distinctive aftershave that stopped being made in this country so I ordered it from the US for every birthday and Christmas for him until he died in 2014.
My mum was diagnosed with cancer a few years later and the night she died there was me, my mums cat and my sisters dog all alone in the room. It wasn’t a nice death and my mum was hanging on but they upped her morphine and the last few hours were kind of peaceful.

The cat was lying on her tummy on the bed and the dog was curled up on the sofa opposite with me.
I’d been awake 22 hours and very drowsy when the smell of my dads aftershave filled the room and was so strong and distinctive so I was confused, suddenly the dog let out a howl and the cat started whining and my mum took her last breath.

I didn’t believe in anything supernatural and very much of the mindset that if we had no proof or scientific explanation then there must be a logical reason behind things, I’ve never found one that fits that night though.

I live very rurally on an old road where there have been a lot of accidents over the years.
I was walking home one night from the gym which is about 5 minutes from me in a hotel, the hotel and my house and a neighbouring one are the only buildings for miles. The road is unlit with no pavement and pretty scary but my car was in the garage.
I was nearly home when I heard a strange scratching noise behind me and when I turned to look behind me there was what looked like a man dressed in black but his body was like a shadow, he had a luminous white face with black eyes and I don’t recall any other facial features because I was just drawn to the eyes.
I can’t properly explain better then that because we made eye contact for a split second then I turned to look in front of me to see if anyone else was around or any cars passing and when I looked back the figure had gone.
The road was straight and it was so quick there was nowhere anyone could disappear to.

I ran the rest of the way home almost hysterical with panic and I don’t know if my Dp would have believed me if he hadn’t seen the state I was in.
I have walked a few times since but never seen the figure again and I’ve tried and failed to come up with an explanation but reading some of these stories I guess there will always be things we can’t find answers for, maybe we aren’t meant to know everything?

Woooo that is really scary. Could it have been someone playing tricks.

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Daygloboo · 13/01/2026 00:13

MistressoftheDarkSide · 12/01/2026 19:27

I used to work casually at the weekend at a framing business.

It was over two floors in an industrial unit on a modern estate. Upstairs was where the heavy equipment and mouldings were kept. As a side thing, the boss ran a badminton club, and sold shuttlecocks so sometimes I would have to go up and get them for regular customers.

On one occasion, I was fulfilling this task so jogged up the metal stairs and went towards the "shuttlecock section". At the end I could clearly see a large carboard box, around 18 inches square and about 3 feet high slowly rocking from side to side, fully on its edges if you see what I mean. I stopped in my tracks, there was no noise on the creaky metal floor, and after a few seconds it came to a halt. I approached it, trying to think logically that it had maybe been empty and fallen off the racking, perhaps due to vibration from me coming up the stairs. However it was two thirds full of tubes of shuttlecocks, and I couldn't fully lift it. It would have made a hell of a thump if it had falen, and due to the netal infrastructure, I would have heard it without a doubt. Also, it couldn't have fallen in the position it did, as these boxes were kept lying down with the end open so the cocks coyld be accessed.

I grabbed what I needed, high tailed it down the srmtairs, served the customer while trying to explain why it had taken a bit longer, who backed out of the place obviously thinking I was completely insane.

It is one of the most bizarre yet mundane things I have ever experienced.

Thats spooky

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Daygloboo · 13/01/2026 00:11

heretowin · 12/01/2026 23:04

Alan Yentob has left the building.

He certainly did

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NotMeAtAll · 13/01/2026 00:08

I found myself in a group photo of Facebook. I wasn't in the group. I showed it to several people and they all said it was me. It was several years before AI photos.

7catsisnotenough · 13/01/2026 00:07

DH & I removed a set of internal glass doors between the lounge and dining room. Both doors held by a pair of 3" brass hinges. We removed the first door, no problem, DH unscrewed the bottom set of hinges on the 2nd door whilst I held it, all good...I was still holding the door, DH unscrewed the 2nd hinge and it fell to the floor - I moved the door outside and we looked for the hinge...
Let's just say that the hinge (heavy, large and brass) was nowhere to be seen.
We have completely stripped the room to redecorate and refloor (separate occasions but room completely emptied each time) and the hinge has never been found...