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

I remember telling people I'd seen an ostrich looking through the library window when I was about 4 or 5 - I can still see it in my minds eye. This was in outer London.

The only thing I can think is that maybe a kid was on their way to a fancy dress party wearing a mask & looked through the window?

My aunt had a teddy bear when she was a child. At some stage, it got a hole in it and before it was sewn up, she put a note inside it.

50 years later she saw a bear just like hers at an antique store. Except it was actually hers, note and all.

Deep breath...

So a few years ago, when me and DP were courting , we were at his place one night, very late, on the roof terrace. I went in to go to the loo and he shouted me back to say he could see a satellite I know, we're geeks so I came back outside.

While I was looking at the sky, a massive shape came across the sky right in front of my eyes. I said to DP, what's that? He said, what? I said WHAT.THE.FUCK.IS.THAT and he stood rooted to the spot with me while we watched it float silently across the sky for about a minute.

It was massive. Black, cylinder-shaped and completely silent. The silence was the scariest thing about it. It had a red marking on the outside of it, but I couldn't pay much attention, I thought I was going to pass out.

When it had gone, we were both stunned. We didn't speak for ages and then I cried. I didn't sleep all night long, and when I told people at work in the morning, I burst into tears again.

I've always wanted to see something, my whole life. But I wish I hadn't. It was the singular most terrifying moment of my life, and I'll never forget it.

When I was at middle school in the early 80s, we had a science teacher who ran a taxidermy club at lunchtime. It was a rural school, and he would pick up roadkill and freeze it for us to work on. There would be a handful of eleven-year-olds mangling small animals, while he put the finishing touches to a badger.

I still have my stoat.

Dalek we definitely saw it. Neither ex or I are remotely woo & I was happy to believe I'd just made it up in my mind but he said it completely unprompted.
I'm reasonably sure we weren't abducted by aliens though, if we were then the clever aliens completely wiped our memories of the abduction.
Those clever clever aliens... :)

Perhaps they were siblings- it's not unusual

DH and I were at the cinema and saw someone sat a few rows in front who looked exactly like someone we both knew. 5 minutes later the that person came in and sat next to the lookalike. We were

Got to bump this!!

I'm so glad this is in classics. It's far too good to disappear. It has really changed how I look at the world.

PigeonPie, it would have been around that time, although more likely 76ish as I was very small.

I'm from Essex originally, am starting to wonder if it was some kind of touring show that worked it's way around the country.

Catthiefkeith - I'm very late to the 'party' and still reading, but couldn't not comment on your post about the dolphin show at the local swimming baths.

We went to one at Gloucester baths which must have been between 1973 (when my little sis was born) and 1975 when we moved. I still remember it!

Great thread, loving canali psychic dog

Yay, we're in classics!

My gran - mums mum - died the day after my daughters 2nd birthday. She was an ill lady and had deteriorated rapidly but had promised she would come to DD's birthday party and wouldn't miss it for the world. She went out that morning and bought DD an 18th birthday present and asked me to keep it safe. She passed away next morning.
A year to the exact date, day after DD's 3rd birthday, I get a phone call to inform me my other gran - dads mum - had passed away that morning.

I saw my cat on the landing when I got up to go to the loo during the night last night. She was sitting outside the bathroom door and stood up and went in before me. As I went into the bathroom she snaked around my legs and went out.

She died 3 years ago.

I'm not woo, I reckon I was still half dreaming.

scan - that is indeed awful and does just show that our gut reactions to people are often quite accurate. Never a good idea to over-ride them.

Big bump!
Seriously, human faced big cats & possible alien abduction?

Scan that is so horrible

Still in chat :(

I think I should say trigger warning for my post.
I worked in a Village pub when I was in my early twenties. I came in one day and sat a? the bar was a man about 60ish who immediately gave me the horrors. How ever, over time I chatted to him during my shifts and thought he Seemed ok. He worked on a market and was employed by another customer and would bring me leftover fruit and veg.
His employer came in one day completely shaken up and really angry. The man who gave me free veg was in court for rape and was also charged with abusing and killing a baby. His employer had had no idea and was distraught.
On initially setting eyes on this man I had an inner wave of horror. At this time in my life I would probably have trusted him enough to accept a lift from him. Luckily I was never alone with him and have always known since not to ignore my instincts.

A mouse once popped out of an electrical appliance wearing a hat and said "Hi". I was only about 3 or 4 when this happened but I can remember it as clear as day.

Yes butterfly

butterfly, no don't 'tell', but couldn't you speculate a little about things that 'may or may not' have happened ?

I wish I could. There are times whenever I'm skint, I get the urge to run to The Sun- but oh no, no, no, will not tell.

I lost my dear Aunt to Cancer a few years ago. The day she died my Dad (her brother) started Chemo for the same cancer so everything was very very raw. As I sat in bed that night I had a bit of a cry and the last thing I said to DH was "I'll miss her phone calls and her cheery voice singing hello sisters down the phone to me".

I was on high alert with Dad being so ill, so when the phone rang about half 3 in the morning both DH and I jumped up. I answered it (the bedroom extension) and I got the dial tone. Puzzled I dialled 1471 and found my Mums number, from 8pm the night before. Both DH and I heard the phone, we'd both panicked yet apparently it hadn't rang. The DH reminded me of my last words the night before 'I'll miss her phone calls'.

I'm not woo in any way. I have no belief in God but to this day that threw me. I told my Dad and we discussed it all at length. He knew he was terminally ill and he'd joke he'd send me a sign. It never came. I'd like to think it was her saying goodbye, but realistically I know it was probably a phone line fault.

Thank you NormaCore she really was - she was a lovely border collie and she was honestly so smart and clever about things. We were very lucky to have her. She was the runt of the litter and apparently they were going to drown her so we just had to take her (despite the fact that she was very sickly and her brothers and sisters were bouncy bright things). I think she was just paying us back.