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

Ahh, it's quite dull really; I was driving home late one night, got to the ford and saw a large trout swim across the road. The ford is shallow, and I could see it clearly in my headlights.

When I was a child, we were getting the ponies in for the night, with a lady who rented one of our paddocks, and the three of us saw a small plane in trouble fly over and disappear past the hill. We could see smoke, and were waiting for the crash, but nothing happened. We scoured the local paper for weeks, but never saw anything. I think we 'saw' a WW2 plane, as there were a couple of planes downed in the area; tbh I can't think of any other explanation. We all saw it clearly, talked about it for weeks, but there was never any mention of a plane crash, and it was pouring smoke.

This is an awesome thread, Sole!

I want to read more about the fish.

I refused any testing whilst pregnancy also, I said I didn't care if my children had disabilities. I never answered "As long as it's healthy" either. I don't know if it was deep down I knew I had an invisible disability Dr's could not confirm or understand until recently, or something else. As far as everyone knew then I was ok. My children have more health problems than me.

This might out me if anyone I know is on here but cba to nc...

As a teenager I was friends with a girl who's bf was originally from another country. The bf went back to his home country for a holiday. During the holiday he suddenly became very ill, was rushed to hospital but died shortly afterwards. The boy's family had the funeral in their home country and a collection was started in the UK and sent to the boys family to help pay for funeral costs. A couple of years later my friend was on fb and decided to look up her bf's brother's page. In his friends list there was her bf (with a slightly changed name). He hadn't died at all, he had just moved back home and his family had told all his friends in the UK that he'd died . It's such a ridiculous story that I've never told it to anyone except for Dh (and now the whole of mn) because I don't think anyone would believe me*.

*And also because I lost touch with the friend so can't tell you what happened next.

No, I've been out riding on BigHorse, and heard that very distinctive 'cough' big cats give. BigHorse was fast, but steady as a rock normally, it's one of only two times I couldn't control him. Lots of big cat stories around, both where I live now, and where I used to live.

I once saw a fish cross the road in front of my car.

Got a couple of others, but my phone is being an arse, so I'll split them into individual posts.

I went to high school for a day in Hollywood when I was 14. It was just like the movies.

I saw a big black 'puma' type of creature in a field near Whitby. It was Boxing Day, 4 or 5 years ago, lots of snow on the ground so it was very clear. Only person I've told is DH, who thinks I overdid the Christmas sherry trifle. Never told anyone else as I know they won't believe it, but it definitely wasn't a large domestic cat or dog.

I once had a packet of M&Ms that had no yellow ones.

My dad has an interesting tale about a gypsy woman.

He used to own a pub and this gypsy lady used to come in and read palms/tealeaves/cards.
My dad always thought it was rubbish but one night asked her to read his tealeaves.

She told him that he would eventually have the longed for child they wanted, he would have only one but she could see four in his future. The child would be a girl, and she would bring great fortune. He would suffer a great tragedy, but there was a troubled woman who was not my mom that would help him heal, and he would spend the rest of his life with her, but not in the UK.

My dad thought it was all rubbish. They'd been trying for 8 years for me and had given up. My mom was the love of his life and he'd never even considered being with someone else.

9 months later I was born.
I am female!
The year I was born my dad won £10k on the football pools
When I was 3 my mom died
When I was 5 my dad met my stepmom , who had had a very hard life , and they married. She has 3 children
They now live in spain

Also, not long after my mom died, my dad saw her standing in the corner of their bedroom. She smiled and told him everything was okay now, and not to worry, then she disappeared through the wall. A second later he'd hea me talking to someone and when he went into my room to see what was going on, there was no-one there. He casked who I was talking to and I told him mommy had been there and she told me that me and daddy would be okay.

I saw her again as a teenager. I was ice skating for a friends birthday and got knocked over and my head hit the ice. I came round and was sat next to her in the seats at the side of the ice watching the first aider try to bring me round. My mom took my hand and told me I needed to get up cuz I was getting in everyone's way! When I came round, I was sat in the first aid office and they called an ambulance because they thought I was delusional saying I'd seen her!

Two. First one woo, second one not woo.
Mum said after DTD with DDad that she knew she would get pregnant with another girl and even knew what she would call me.

When I left home I rented a cottage in the middle of nowhere about a mile from the foot of a big hill with an iron age settlement on top. It is farmland as far as the eye can see apart from four cottages, one of which I rented and the other three were empty during the day. The hill itself is treeless apart from one lone pine. A hot air balloon came over quite low and headed for the hill. I watched as it was quiet and I could hear the two men talking and the burner going to try and gain height. They were getting closer and closer to the hill and started going up desperately but I could see they were going to hit the only tree on the hill. They were shouting furiously at each other as the basket hit the tree and as the balloon carried on in an upward sweep, the basket was displaced by the tree almost horizontally and the men were clinging to the rigging and hanging on as stuff was dropping out of the basket onto the hillside! It then swung the other way as it came free of the tree. I don't know what happened after that as they went out of sight and presumably landed among the trees on the other side of the hillfort. I assume they were alright as there was nothing in the papers.
I told my neighbours about it and asked my LL who was the owner of the farmland but I suspect I was the only one that saw it. I know I did see it though.

As a teenager babysitting for the eight-year-old across the road, I let him stay up to watch the winter Olympics on telly with me. I had a thing for an ice skater, and as we watched a live dance, I instructed his closest rival to fall.
He fell, instantaneously.
From that day on, the boy I looked after obeyed my every word, just in case I called upon my powers to be used against him.

Place marking to post in the morning; although I doubt I'll sleep. :/

I have never met my MIL- she died before I met DH.

DH and I were TTC.
I had a boring dream where a woman was just talking to me- like an interview. She said ' you will have a child but DH will need some help- it will not happen without help. You need to be the one to break the news to him that he needs help as it will be a shock to him'.

So told DH about the dream, described the person and clothes...his mum in her favourite dress.
At drs couple of weeks later, doctor told DH to get himself tested and found our lack of baby was a male issue.
Was very spooky but DH was prepared as I had told him weeks before he was told officially (and I had not even heard there was such a thing as male factor fertility issues!)

(And Dh was annoyed his mum had not spoken to him in a dream!!!)

When pregnant with DS2 (child no 4) I KNEW right from the test turning positive, that he was going to be disabled. No reason to think this, and my pregnancy was text book ... but I was right.

In a weird way it felt like I was being prepared.. which was very handy

At the risk of sounding crazy,i like to think we are each born with a guardian angel. Or maybe a relative who has passed away that looks out for us?

My SIL looked after DS1 when I went into hospital to have DS2. Next day, SIL asked me what time DS2 had been born. DS1, normally a very sound sleeper, had woken up crying at the exact time his brother was born in the early hours of the morning.

I have a couple

I predicted/'knew' the deaths of 3 relatives and 4 celebrities before they were announced. I also 'knew' when 4 friends were going to give birth and said to them when I saw them 'you'll have that baby on x day' I'm getting a bit of a reputation in my family now

Many years ago I was on the train to work and got a phone call from a cousin I never see and didn't realise had my number calling to check I was ok. I was, it was 8am let me go back to my coffee...minutes later my then partner rings to say they had been run off their bike by a driver without insurance and were on their way to hospital

Dianna dreamers, did you dream of her other times?

Ooh there's a few Diana ones here I see, glad its not just me!

I dreamt she was in our bath at home, naked, lovingly bathing a baby. Woke up the next morning to the news of the crash in which she died.

We moved into a house in 1999 that had a swing that was anchored into the low garden wall. We guessed it had been there a while because it was quite rusty. Four years later me dm and dsis were on a train to London (we live in Derbyshire) and the man behind the food counter said he used to live in our town. Then he said our street name. Then he mentioned our house number! Turns out his family had lived there since the house was built post war till mid 80s! He said the swing was as old as the house and was surprised it hadn't disintegrated!

not woo at all, but I remember being in my boyfriends room when I was about 16 or 17. There was a dartboard on the wall, and I never played before, or much since (because I'm rubbish and can't throw a dart to save myself) anyway, decided to have a go, threw the first dart which landed dead centre of the bullseye. really chuffed, no one around to show (think everyone else out, then boyfriend in the shower) so decided to throw another dart. This one landed right in the back of the first dart in the middle of the wee plastic things I was bloody delighted, only the weight of the two pulled them out the dartboard. I'm sure my boyfriend never believed me

I have a weird one.

I was out jetsking on a double jet ski in Wales with my mum. It was getting late and all of a sudden our jetski stopped (it had been playing up). We sat and waited for my Dad on the beach to realise we were missing and send help.

All of a sudden a large buoy which are usually anchored to the sea floor started moving towards us at a terrific speed, against the tide!!! Think the Jaws film when they tag the shark and it swims away. We were screaming and frantically paddling to move out of it's way before it hit us. It then went into the distance. 5 minutes later and it was whizzing towards us again in the opposite direction as before. Cue more screaming and paddling. This time we paddled towards a sandbank. The buoy went off into the distance and out of sight. We hit the sandbank and waited. A few minutes later a huge head popped up at the side of the jetski! It was the biggest seal you had ever seen. My mum panicked, tried to get off the jetski and sunk into the sandbank past Her knees. I managed to drag her out with strength I didn't know I had.

We were hysterical when we were rescued and no one believed what had happened. We still can't explain it.

Woohoo you have just reminded me of another!!

In my teens I did part time Au Pair work while in 6th form. Went downstairs to collect child from The Mum who had a bunch of friends round for a psychic medium reading. While in the basement kitchen with about 6 women the chap turned up and walked through to other room. He turned and saw a set of keys on a chair and said out loud "whoever owns those keys I want you to know your father is here tonight and wants you to keep an open mind"

They were my keys.
My father died when I was very young.

I was then encouraged to have a reading and almost everything he told me came true.

Number of children
Number of letters in DH name
Where I would end up living

I rack my brain trying to think if this mans name but cannot remember. I now live 200 miles away from where I grew up but would drive back in a heartbeat to have another reading.