To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

About 20 years ago I was borrowing a car from my boss and had it parked outside. Me and my friend went and got in it but the key wouldn't start it and we sat there confused for a while until noticing it wasn't actually the right car and that my car, identical colour, was parked right behind it. Anyway I get left with a funny story I have told plenty of times

Couple of weeks ago and a friend said "hey do you remember that time..." And described the above story. Except it's 110% not the same friend as in my crystal clear, often repeated, often remembered, memory. And it's not the same car in her version, and it happened at a different address. We're both absolutely sure of our stories 🤔

Object permanence and ADHD isn't a thing. If you lose you phone you still know it exists even if it's not in sight. Unlike Object permanence in babies when something disappears they think it's gone forever.

I'm sure there's some kind of psychological explanation for this, aside from the fact I was just a weird child in general but I've never been able to explain it.
As a small girl I went through a phase of semi-believing I had psychic powers, as children do, and my friend and I spent many hours attempting to move things with our minds, read each other's thoughts, and so on. Eventually I told my mother I was psychic, and that I went out of the room and she hid the key to the dresser, I would know where it was because I was able to watch it in my mind. I suppose she was bored or something because she humoured me.

And I did.

It was in the drawer of the dresser clock. I saw her put it in there in my mind's eye from outside of the room, with the door closed. And I found it with no hesitation.

It never happened again and I've never been able to explain it.

It's nowhere near as odd as some of the posts on here but when I was about 17/18, my dad went on a trip to Prague, he brought me a pair of beautiful earrings as a present when he came back. They were really unusual and my favourite pair - my dad was really happy when I told him this. I loved them and wore them all the time.

When he died (about 10 years later), I decided that I'd wear them at the funeral. I'd last worn them about a week earlier and had put them, as I always did, back in the box where I keep all my earrings.
There was only 1 of them in there.
I searched every where, I even opened the hoover bag and went through it, checked everywhere in the house when I came to move out a few months later (and again went through the hoover bag just in case I'd hoovered it up when I cleaned the rooms after the furniture had been taken out but I never found the earring. I've kept the one I have though. I don't really believe in ghosts or the afterlife but a teeny tiny part of me hopes that he's got the other one with him.

10 years ago, a workplace dispute had led to me raising a tribunal, my union and solicitors were involved. I was still working there and the situation was intolerable- I was having panic attacks, had lost loads of weight and was in a pretty bad way.

My partner and I had decided to try for a baby about a year before, but in a pretty half-hearted way- I was totally consumed with my work situation and I was not looking after myself properly.

I'd just been offered a crap financial settlement, and had instructed my solicitor to refuse it so I would leave and claim constructive dismissal. This would have caused loads more stress, uncertainty, leaving with no reference etc. but I was resolute.

On this Friday morning, I work up at 5am and immediately a voice in my head (my voice?) said "you are pregnant". I thought it was a bit weird but eventually got back to sleep.

On my way home from work that night I bought a pregnancy test and sure enough, it was positive! I'd never been pregnant before (or since), nor had any voice given me information like that before (or since!)

Maybe it could be explained away somehow, but I honestly feel there was some external hand in the timing (the universe, or what?), giving me a shove off the damaging path I was on and presenting me with a new life. Within 5 days, I had left that career for good. Today I have a 9 year old child who is the light of my life.

A happy glitch. x

I was going to a work conference, attended by 1,000s of people, and saw the name of a previous colleague as a guest speaker up on the board at the entrance to the conference room. I froze because something inside me said that if I met him, I would marry him and my whole life would change. I didn't want my life to change, had never particularly liked that colleague or been terribly friendly with him. He had been married anyway when we had been colleagues and I assumed he still was. I went to the loo and thought for about five minutes about leaving, so strong was my feeling that I didn't want anything to disrupt the life I had with DS. Then I realised my employer had paid £500 for me to attend so I had to attend unless there was a really good reason not to. Sure enough, three years later, we were married. 13 years later, still very happy.

When I was struggling to conceive me and my mum kept hearing the 1970’s song Sing Baby Sing randomly. It was the song my parents had as my song as a baby. I found out I was pregnant within a couple of weeks. I’ve not heard the song since. I had complications in the pregnancy and lots of bleeding. Every time I went for a scan we heard Alive and Kicking😂. I had a girl

We were renovating the front of our house, it had previously been a shop for nearly 100 years. My husband found an old button as he was passing it to me he dropped it, and it just disappeared. We looked everywhere for it but never found it!

I was listening to a radio 4 programme, (well two of us actually which makes it feel even stranger). A David Mitchell panel show, and I was very tuned in & aware, not at all daydreaming etc.

I was listening in the kitchen & left the room, & as I came back in the programme repeated the section I heard. Literally repeated. Time stood still, felt incredibly strange. I went down the rabbit hole a bit, spent quite a lot of time searching for a solution, researching if there had been a broadcasting issue by Goggling Radio 4 outages/issues for weeks. Couldn't find any proof of a broadcasting problem.

Since then, I've got back into reading Robert Sheldrake. If you don't know of him, he did the research on experiences of knowing someone is watching you, (when you're facing away from them) and dogs who know when their owners are returning home, even if it's always different time of the day. I don't believe in woo, but maybe keeping a slightly open mind on quantum entanglement.

Also this guy!! Wonderful Carl Sagan explaining beautifully the mystery of space - time & how interacting with other dimensions, may work. It's such good thought experiment fun.

My mother is the one person in our family who has experienced what you might call the paranormal.

Many stories to tell but one was when she was first married, my dad’s older siblings rented an isolated house down in Sussex for weekend breaks, which was built near a weir and was very, very damp. She and my dad used to stay there sometimes. My mum had a newborn baby (my brother).

One night my mum was woken up by the sound of small children laughing and giggling. She says it was a if they were daring each other to do something naughty or forbidden - the tone of the voices was whispered and hushed. But then she heard another, grown up voice which sounded like an adult saying ‘no, no, no, no, no!’ as if chiding the children. These noises continued for some time and realising that there were no children in the house and therefore the voices couldn’t possibly be ‘real’, she knew there and then that she was hearing some kind of ‘recording’ from the past.

The next day, having spoken about her experience to my Aunt and Uncle who told her, ‘you must have heard the ghost’ — lovally, the house had a reputation for being haunted.

About 11 years ago. Staying in a holiday flat in Gran Canaria. By way of background, I was pregnant, still had PND from my first child. There was lots of weird weather the locals described as "hurricanes" and very near to our building was a helipad for sea rescue helicopters, which would come and go intermittently.

One day, I felt a tightening on my ring finger where I wear my wedding ring. I looked down and my wedding ring had completely warped into an oval shape and was now pinching my finger. I wan't touching it with my other hand, rubbing it, it wasn't warm. It's a substantial, hard, gold ring, perfectly round, yet it had, in an instant warped into a different shape. I have no explanation, other than perhaps something atmospheric/electrical/vibrational was able to warp it. Or perhaps it was the power of my emotional turmoil, if you believe in that sort of thing! I am no Yuri Gellar, that's for sure!

When we returned to the UK, I took it to a jeweller, who could not understand how it could have happened without applying considerable external pressure with pliers or something similar. Very, very odd indeed.

I also will suddenly be thinking of some really obscure actor, film or song, and hours or just minutes later, the song will come on the radio, or an advert/listing will come up for the film or the actor. I guess it is just coincidence, but it always gives me a start, as it will always be an obscure/ non mainstream thing I am thinking of.

Fans of this thread might enjoy the Uncanny podcast on BBC Sounds. I am not a believer in woo stuff, but it is very entertaining if you enjoy a good spooky story, which I do! Some of the stories on the thread could be submitted to this programme, the host is asking listeners to recount their own strange experiences.

Uncanny

Does anybody remember Birdie Friend, the pandemic predicting badge?

@mumsiedarlingrevolta She hadn't found it by the end of the thread. That was really bizarre!

When I was 5 I was in hospital having surgery. Whilst I was in, my parents took my brother and sister to look at our new house. I dreamt about it and even though I didn't go, had never been and not seen any pictures or visited the town I was adamant I had. I described it in detail, including the lay out of the estate to my gob smacked parents.

Once I accidentally knocked a mushroom off the chopping board and onto the floor, whereupon it completely disappeared. I'm saying the floor but I didn't actually see it land.

There was nowhere it could have hidden - no gaps, no space under the fridge, no open drawer, not in my apron pocket - vanished!

This isn't a glitch but spooky. My friend was walking along a coastal footpath two weeks ago and felt something brush against her leg, hard enough to make her leg buckle. She thought it was a dog or a child on a bike and looked around to give someone a lecture about being more careful but there was no one around, literally not a person in sight. I asked her to describe the spot it happened: it was EXACTLY where a young man was brutally murdered two years ago. I half jokingly said his spirit has been trapped there and to be careful it hadn't latched onto her and followed her home. She mentioned feeling a 'dark presence' in her bedroom - someone standing at the end of her bed, shortly after the incident by the beach but before I told her about the murder, she's now freaking out