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Do you have a 'nobody would EVER believe me' story? No matter the subject or how daft, unreal it seems, please share :)

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SoleSource · 17/11/2014 17:25

I have two. I told a friend totally out of the blue that Michael Jackson would be dead six weeks from now, he was. I pointed at the screen and told a friend whilst watching Loose Women that Linda Bellingham would die soon of cancer.
I dunno why i felt compelled to say those things but i felt i needed to.

No criticising, hairsplitting or arguing pleae.

Be brave and tell. :)

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Sabrinnnnnnnna · 20/11/2014 23:37

dimdom, I so remember that. We were due to go on holiday on the Saturday, with young children - and you couldn't take food or liquids through, we had to take all our shoes (and the kids shoes) off, all mobiles had to be in hold luggage - and at security there was a massive bin with dozens of people's mobiles in - because they weren't allowed to take them through.

dimdommilpot · 20/11/2014 23:26

I got home from work late 1 night and was walking up the drive at my mum and dads. I looked up at the sky and said (out loud) something is going to happen up there tomorrow. My brother was due to fly to america to meet his girlfriend who had been working out there for the summer. I woke up the next morning to this on the news... news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778575.stm
He got to his girlfriend 48hrs late!

JeremyKylesEyebrow · 20/11/2014 23:07

When I was a child, I had this painting in my room. It was two children, a boy and a girl, playing hide and seek around a tree- sort of chasing each other around the tree trunk IYKWIM? You couldn't see their faces.

Those children used to move. The boy would disappear behind the trunk of the tree, as if he was catching up on the girl, then he would take the girl's place and she would disappear. Then they'd go back to normal. This wasn't a corner of the eye thing, I used to sit and watch them do it. The painting hung in my room for years, and the children would move probably once or twice a month. I kept mentioning it to my mum, and eventually I think she got rid of it, because she was freaked out. I've never seen a copy of it since

Other stuff happened in that room too- my door would open and I'd see a shadow move, as if my mum was coming in to check on me, but then nobody would appear, and I'd hear both my parents coming up the stairs ten minutes later. And I always felt that someone was standing at the end of my bed- I could almost see them, you know when you can tell someone is standing in the dark, because the darkness looks sort of darker?

Years after we moved out of the house, we found out that a friend's aunt had lived in the house for years. In the 50's, her only child, aged 5, had died in the night- an underlying heart problem I think it was. In my room.

I've told DH and a few friends about that bit, but I've never told anybody about the picture

BertieBotts · 20/11/2014 22:52

I once took a dare to run up and down a street naked - in January Hmm

A few years later I totally by chance - and no choice, I was desperate - ended up living in the directly adjoining street. If any of my new neighbours had seen my streak three years before, they didn't recognise me Grin

Doubtfuldaphne · 20/11/2014 22:41

Also when my grandad died, we all went to stay at his house the night before his funeral as he lived a long way from us. We all set up for the night in his living room. Late in to the night I could hear someone walking about around us and I instantly thought it was him. I felt them lean over me and felt as though I was being watched for a while before the footsteps went over to my sister then faded away.
I was terrified and looked around but everyone seemed fast asleep.
My sister said the next morning she had definitely felt the same as me and heard the footsteps.
I like to think my grandad was saying goodbye to us all.

womaninthewildsofwales · 20/11/2014 22:36

I once drove a police car over the drink drive limit dressed in a primark rabbit onesie with the full blessing of the copper in charge of said squad car Grin he was stuck in the snow outside my house, knocked on the door for help so I got it unstuck for him- never found out if he's ever retold the tale to his colleagues!

Doubtfuldaphne · 20/11/2014 22:35

A celebrity asked me out once. I hadn't long been with my now Dh so obviously I said no. I sometimes wonder how different my life would be now.

VulvaVoom · 20/11/2014 22:18

I met my mum for a coffee today and we were also meeting her friend who I'll call Jane. I took 2 year old DD along and as Jane walked towards the cafe and through the door DD shouted excitedly 'it's Jane!' We hadn't discussed her name or when she was coming and DD had only seen this acquaintance once before when she was tiny. Me and my mum were Shock

sunflower49 · 20/11/2014 22:16

Apparently 'XCP' means 'copper'. I wonder if it signifies that I should slow down Wink

sunflower49 · 20/11/2014 22:15

I often see 07:07 on the clock or on my satnav (even if there's no 'real' reason for me to look at it at that point), microwave/cooker etc. That was the time I was born.

hooker29 · 20/11/2014 22:14

One saturday, the winning lottery numbers were the exact numbers I had as a Lucky Dip the week before......

BertieBotts · 20/11/2014 22:11

My mum and a friend I used to know reckon that seeing the same sequence of numbers multiple times means that the angels have a message for you. The idea being that they "nudge" you to glance at a clock, etc, at particularly those times until you think "Hang on, I keep seeing this time, it must be significant" and then it turns out to be related to something. 11:11 is the most common one apparently, but there are others. If you notice doubles like that (22:22, 33:33) then you can google because those are more generic messages and Diana Cooper (who, TBH, comes across like a total fruitloop in my opinion) has "translated" some of them.

sunflower49 · 20/11/2014 22:05

Bertie, I see that sequence all the time, too. I had no idea what it meant!
I also see loads of car registrations with 'XCP'. I've never known anybody have it, and have no idea if it means anything but it does freak me a little how many I see.

sallysparrow157 · 20/11/2014 21:54

I saw what I thought was a ghost when I was about 4. My bedroom window was directly above the flat roof of the porch. I woke up and saw the curtains blowing open and a man outside the window wearing a broadish brimmed hat and a long coat that was blowing in the wind. His hands were on the window frame. I screamed out for my parents and they ran in turning on the lights. I was convinced it was a ghost, it definitely wasn't a dream, but my older cynical self wonders if it was someone trying to break in, his hands were at the bit of the window that opens so I wonder if it was a bit open and he opened it, waking me up and making the curtains billow out in the wind so I was able to see him. A tall bloke probably could climb onto the flat roof via the porch window, and it was definitely a windy night, I spent the rest of the night in my parents bed and remember seeing the shadow of the trees blowing in the wind

As a kid once the sheer terror wore off I was quite excited that I'd seen a ghost, as an adult the idea that someone may have broken into my bedroom and what the hell he would have done to me if I'd woken up... That scares me much more

BertieBotts · 20/11/2014 20:59

DH and I always used to pick up the phone to text/call each other and immediately receive a text/call from the other, was weird and happened really, out of proportion, often. Actually it still happens except we barely ever text or call one another any more so it seems like a legitimate coincidence now. I also kept seeing the sequence of numbers 13:37 when we first started dating, which stands for "leet" ie elite or really good in "leetspeak" which is a sort of spoof geek "language".

RachelWatts · 20/11/2014 20:51

My parents have a print of an ultrasound of me in-utero.

As I'm 40, and ultrasounds were not routinely done in 1974, no-one ever believes me when I tell them. Some people have actually been very rude about the way they've told me I must be mistaken.

However, during her pregnancy my Mum had to go and see a consultant at a hospital which happened to be attached to a University so had lots of state-of-the-art equipment. The consultant had just had his new ultrasound machine set up and was itching to use it, so told my Mum not to say anything about her pregnancy, then told her how many weeks pregnant she was and estimated her due date, then got a picture for her as a souvenir.

chasingtherainbow · 20/11/2014 20:44

Bertie I totally just Googled that street. So interesting!

HugeFurryKnittingBalls · 20/11/2014 20:39

A few months after my dad died I had a dream only it wasn't just a dream. He was in a house with me and all our extended family who were grieving for him except I was the only one who could see him. He told me he was fine and I wasn't to worry any more. It was so real I could reach out and touch him and when I woke up it was heartbreaking yet comforting to have seen him.

I only told a couple of people at the time, it was 20yrs ago and they both said it was my grief talking but I know it was more. I haven't worried about him since, I miss him and love him but I don't have any concerns about where he is.

I haven't had anything similar about my mum who died 6yrs ago and I still stress about her from time to time.

WhatWouldFlopDo · 20/11/2014 20:27

My nan used to come to our house quite often when I was young, dad would collect her , we'd have dinner then he'd drop her home, because she lived quite a way away. My dad had never been close to his parents though, he was sent to live with his aunt as a young boy and the relationship really broke down after his dad died, this meant I never saw that side of the family from being a pre teen.

One evening, I must have been about 15, my parents had gone to the Labour club for a drink and I was home alone. I got an overwhelming urge to speak to nana. I got her number out of the book. When I asked if she was ok, she said she was but she'd got a bit of pain in her chest - she'd taken indigestion tablets and it wasn't shifting. I actually phoned the Labour club to tell my mum because I was so worried. They phoned dads sister to let her know. Nana had been having a heart attack, and ended up in hospital.

Next one - my parents used to take me on several foreign holidays year from being a few months old. They say that one time when I was 2 or 3 a man started chatting to them in the queue for security, being pally. Apparently I screamed the place down because I didn't like him and didn't want him near us. He got hauled off when it was his turn to go through security.

Last one - I'd been with my boyfriend, now DH, for a year or so. I woke up one morning crying hysterically, heard a screech of tyres and my angel poster fell off the wall. I knew I had to speak to him and ran downstairs to phone his work. He had been knocked off his bike on his way in.

All of those were years ago, not had anything since Grin

Darksideofthemoon88 · 20/11/2014 19:55

A few weeks after DD was born, my dad's aunt, in a rare moment of lucidity, asked "How's Baby Darkside?" My dad's aunt is in her nineties, completely deaf, mostly blind, has advanced dementia, and didn't even know I'd been pregnant let alone that there was a baby in the family as there was no way of telling her - and Baby Darkside has a fairly uncommon name, which is not shared with anyone else in the family, the home my dad's aunt lives in, or any of her (sadly few) friends.

BertieBotts · 20/11/2014 19:45

It wasn't the day the clocks went forward and you forgot was it? Grin

My DSis can see auras, I don't know if she sees them all the time, we don't really talk about it much. I also remember there was a girl in my A level Philosophy class who could see auras, she said to the teacher one morning "Are you feeling OK, only your aura is really small today." Teacher was totally surprised and said "Actually I've got a bit of a headache." but she was really intrigued and asked who had the biggest aura in the class. Classmate looked around and then said "Bertie". I'd just started going out with XP at the time and was in that first-flush-of-love phase. There's no way she would have known that because we didn't speak and I also hadn't mentioned XP to anybody at college because I didn't really have any friends there.

Time slip stories really freak me out. There's a particular street where they're supposed to happen quite a lot apparently.

MarthasChin · 20/11/2014 19:23

As teenagers my friend and I were walking through the town centre to go to a certain shop. The journey normally took 5/10 minutes. When we reached the shop we had lost over an hour. Both of us were shocked as we remembered just chatting and walking as normal, but can't work out where that 'lost' hour went.

Catthiefkeith · 20/11/2014 18:56

Wellies that is exactly the sort of thing they would do, but no, we actually went to see the show. I remember is quite clearly because I got my leg stuck in the flip up seat.Grin

I can't begin to imagine how they got all the chlorinated water out and the sea water in, but it definitely happened.

chasingtherainbow · 20/11/2014 18:53

gunpowder can I borrow her? I'm literally keeping clearblue in business these days..she'd save me a bomb! I promise to feed her.

Gunpowder · 20/11/2014 18:49

Love this thread too, btw. For the woo and the weird and the stuff that makes me laugh like Seagull's FayeDunaway pumps. Grin