A different sort of paranormal thread...

[BertrandRussell]

I thought it might be interesting if we shared experiences we've had that we could easily have thought were paranormal but which turned out not to be. I've got loads- but I think the best few are

1. A geeen man that only I could see that terrified me for about 6 months in the kitchen when I was about 3.
2. A man in black clothes riding a penny farthing I saw turn down a side road near where I live, and who had vanished when I looked down the road he took.
3. A white translucent figure of a woman in a bonnet sitting in the passenger seat of my neighbour's van early one morning. Ds and I both saw that.
4. My cats flying in every night for a week fluffed up and seriously spooked, and staring out the window at something I couldn't t see.
5. My selling 5 items on eBay and them all going to towns that held significance for me.

I've remembered another one...

Near DS's junior school there's a small strip of land between four roads, kind of like a mini park. You could cut down one road and through a gulley to one end of this land or you could go down another road and walk the length of it.

On a quiet, still afternoon DS threw an almighty tantrum because he didn't want to go through this park "because of the noises". It was silent. He was really crying that he wanted to walk all the way back up to the school and back the other way....

Now I admit my initial thought was "Wow! Is he picking up stuff from long ago??? Is this something paranormal???"

Sonic pest repellers. Audible to some young children. And of course the way the roads are laid out this little area is surrounded by back gardens.

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We drove past Stone Henge once to avoid traffic. I have seen it many times, but I woke Ds as he had not ever seen it. He opened his eyes and uttered 'they filmed a Power Rangers episode here' and promptly went back to sleep. He obviously does not have a woo bone in his body.

I used to "see" a man with dark clothes in the gap between the wardrobe and the bedroom door when I was 8. I take it this was just a shadow.

I "saw" something fall in slow motion when I was 19. I was exhausted and stressed.

In my early twenties I used to see faces flying at me just before I went to sleep.

I used to hear voices when I was little.

A few years ago I was sick so I went to bed in the afternoon. I woke when I heard the door opening and I heard DH come up the stairs and sit on the end of the bed. He hadn't come home at all.

Dd at a friends yard one night, very insistent we must also bring in the big bay who was apparently getting upset on his own, and she had to make us understand how important it was not to forget him.

The big bay had been pts 6 months earlier, and no other horse vaguely fitted the description. And dd had never known of its existence, or the owner, who luckily wasn't there.

Explanation, it was the imaginary eventer dd at the grand old age of 4 owned. Important because she was apparently doing the Olympic cross country next day on it. Colour just a coincidence.

Bertrand We think GoJetters was the most likely culprit!

A tall man in Victorian top coat and hat standing over my bed in university halls (very old building). Was my greatcoat and floppy velvet hat.

Woke up on the morning of my Grandma’s funeral with a really strong smell of her perfume. Split second later I remembered what day it was. Obviously my brain knew just fine what day it was and furnished me with quite a comforting olfactory nudge before the rest of me was properly awake.

Many years ago my friend and i were part of a coach trip to Hampton Court. DF mother was one of the organisers and we went to make up numbers, so we're a good few years younger than most on the trio. Also they were all friends and knew each other well - think WI.
We did the tour with a Hampton Court guide, all good. When we got back on the coach our own guide asked who had felt the cold atmosphere as we walked along one of the corridors as she had been chilled to the bone 'and of course that's the spot where Catherine Howard's ghost is seen running to ask Henry's room, begging for forgiveness and to be spared'
she added for good measure.
In moments all on the coach were nodding and agreeing that they had experienced a cold atmosphere, a distinct cold spot etc.
Pretty soon, everyone was convinced they'd 'felt' Catherine's presence.

Until .... the larger than life coach driver leaned forward and said into his microphone 'of course, they could just turn off the heat along that particular corridor' ... suddenly his explanation made the most sense !

Had a friend who refused to get on a plane once. She had a really bad feeling, she couldn't explain it there was just something telling her she musn't get on that plane. Her travelling companion tried to persuade her, but she couldn't. In the end they both missed the flight.
Her travelling companion was understandably rather annoyed.

Then, a few hours later they found out that the plane they should have been on had in fact.........

....Landed perfectly safely 15 minutes later than planned. (Spooky eh?)

Was it the left falange Squishy?

We had ethereal music around midnight every night for about 4 months in our bedroom. Long single notes, sometimes dropping into another note.
At first only I heard it then one night DH was awake and heard it too. We emptied the bedroom looking for the solution and found nothing.

A few weeks later DH happened to be in the loft one evening when he moved a box and heard the notes start. There, wedged under one of the beams was DD's old Disney Piano. As the house warmed and the beams swelled the notes pressed and played spookily.

I'd spent 4 months being haunted by Winnie the fucking Pooh.

When I was a little girl I thought I saw a witch in the changing rooms of the local swimming pool. I am now sure it must have been a lady wearing a hijab or something similar. I grow up in the least diverse area of the country. I’m quite embarrassed now.
One time I had a really really sunstroke and I was sure Rio Ferdinand was sat at the end of my bed! My friend had the same and was sure a bear was in her bedroom!

"I'd spent 4 months being haunted by Winnie the fucking Pooh."

I've just remembered working in a hotel in Scotland and hearing an ethereal sounding piper at 7.30 every morning in the kitchen-then finding an abandoned digital watch at the back of a drawer with Scotland the Brave set as an alarm....

Once when I was at school I swapped my pencil case for the tin ones you could get and as I was walking to school I heard someone walking in high heels I thought I was being followed and turned to see who it was and no one was there that creeped me out so I ran and then it sounded like a someone was running after me and heels
It was my pencils and pens clinging around in the tin that's what was making the high heels noise

Age 2 ds stood near the back door shouting "man man man!" Cue me staring into the garden trying to find the man and wondering if there was either a burglar or a ghost out there. Until he picked up the book on the shelf next to the door and said "there man". The book was Stickman!