Spooky stories/blip in the matrix

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Does anyone want to share any of their stories? I love getting lost in these sort of threads even though I don't have any stories of my own.
My favourite are about places people have been that then turn out to not exist. The best one was a nook in someone's house that they realised years later never existed!

Nothing to add but placemarking

Placemarking too

See everyone needs some stories to creep them out on a Monday night!

I really need to try and switch off, so following with interest.

My favourite are about places people have been that then turn out to not exist.

I've never heard of this! I'd love to hear some of these too.

Here's the one I mentioned in my op copied from another thread.

I posted this on another thread a while ago but still can't explain it!

When DH and I first moved in together we moved in to a church/monastery that had been demolished apart from the outside and then nice apartments had been built in like the shell of this old building.

We had seen a few apartments up for rent in this building and always missed out on getting one, so when one came up on Rightmove we jumped at the chance to move in and just called the agent and said we'd rent it without viewing first. I know that wasn't a very smart move but this building was beautiful and but he apartments were all similar and we'd seen 5 before now.

We move in and everything is great. It was a duplex apartment with the bedroom and a bathroom upstairs. The downstairs was an open plan area with a big island in the middle with the oven and hob built in to it. At the back of the kitchen was a small alcove/corridor. Maybe about ten steps from the end of the kitchen to the end of this little part. There were two stone steps leading down to it and the floor was stone with old brick walls. We assumed it was just a bit of character left in from the refurbishment of the old building and loved it.

When friends came over we used to use the alcove bit to hang up coats. There wasn't a light there during the day the light from the big windows lit it up but of a night it would get quite dark. After a few weeks I started to feel uneasy being home alone, especially if I was standing in the kitchen part. The end of the island was where the hob and oven was and the alcove started directly opposite the end of the island. So if I was cooking it was behind me to the left. I had my back to it. I mentioned this to a few friends and they said that they always felt scared going to get coats and bags but just thought that was because it was dark. Another thing too, in front of hob was a sort of half wall that went from the island counter top all the way up to the ceiling so say if you were stood in certain parts of living room area you couldn't see the oven or see the alcove part.

One day, DH was sat on the couch and I was cooking. I could see him from where I was standing. I was looking at the pan and then suddenly felt someone grab my left shoulder. I thought it was DH so I turned but no one was there. I turned again and DH was still sat down. There was no way he could have done it. I told him what had happened and he said that had happened to him a few times while he had been stood there.

Our 6 month contract ended and we decided to move as I had a new job. The agents were showing someone around and we were on our way out when we bumped in to them in the corridor. They were showing a friend of a friend around so we had a little chat and hey later rented it out.

We bumped in to them a few months later and asked how they were enjoying it there and they said they loved it but asked if we found the kitchen drafty. I said no but always thought the alcove bit was a bit chilly. They looked a bit puzzled and asked me when I meant. I explained where I meant and they said "There's just a wall there. There's always just been a wall there." I asked if it had been put up perhaps after we moved and they said that it wasn't there when they looked around and that they would absolutely remember seeing that.

We went home and looked back through photos and in the six months we'd lived there all the photos we'd taken hadn't included that part. There were photos where the wall by the oven had covered where it had been. Nobody else seemed to have captured this mysterious corner of the apartment apart from one who had taken a photo from the front of the island but half of the photo where it would have been was just black.

I went on this persons Facebook to see photos and there was one of them sat on the island with their keys with the entire back wall of the kitchen behind them- no alcove at all. They moved in the day after we left so there wouldn't have been time to put up a new wall.

DH and I were so confused but then we thought about it more and realised that the entire inside of the building had been removed so why would there be an old brick and stone part?

We looked back st the pictures the estate agent had put on and there weren't any that included that area so couldn't tell if it was there or not.

I honestly don't know what it was or if we all imagined it. There is just no explanation for it at all but I'm just glad that my friends and DH had at least seen it too!

I was going to a place an hours drive away, main road all the way, but the road was closed with diversions in place. I ended up in the back of beyond, and no other cars on the road,not like your usual diversion ! I finally found my way to my destination 2 hours late and shaking like a leaf. It was horrendous. When I got home that evening I got up a map of the area I was in and none of the place names were where I’d driven through. So where the hell was I driving round for over 2 hours! (Pretty sure I was still in England 😁)

Ooh love these! Nothing to add, just placemarking

I've posted this before, we were driving in France and got pretty lost. Somehow ended up at the border to Switzerland, so thought we would see what that was like. Drove for half an hour on a straight road and somehow ended up at the French border going back into Switzerland for a second time. We were all very confused.

Robert Black and his capture always makes me shudder.
From Wiki.

Black was arrested in Stow on 14 July 1990. David Herkes, a 53-year-old retired postmaster, was mowing his front garden when he saw a blue Transit van slow to a standstill across the road. The driver exited the van—ostensibly to clean his windscreen—as the six-year-old daughter of Herkes' neighbour passed his field of view. As Herkes stooped to clear cuttings from his lawnmower, he saw the girl's feet lifting from the pavement; he then straightened himself to observe the vehicle's driver hastily pushing something through the passenger door before clambering across to the driver's seat, closing the passenger door, and starting the engine.[99]

Realising he had witnessed an abduction, Herkes noted the registration number of the van as it sped away.[87] Herkes ran to the girl's home; the girl's mother called police.[100]

Within minutes, six police vehicles had arrived in the village.[101] As Herkes described the van to officers, he observed it driving in their direction and exclaimed, "That's him! That's the same van!"[102] An officer jumped in the van's path, forcing it to halt. Police removed the driver from his seat and handcuffed him.[103]

One of the officers, who was the father of the abducted girl,[101] opened the rear of the van and clambered inside, calling his daughter's name.[101] Seeing movement in a sleeping bag,[104] he untied its drawstring to discover his daughter inside, her wrists bound behind her back, her legs tied together, her mouth bound and gagged with sticking plaster, and a hood tied over her head.[105]

En route to Selkirk police station, Black said: "It was a rush of blood to the head; I have always liked little girls since I was a lad. I tied her up because I wanted to keep her until I had dropped a parcel off. I was going to let her go." Black claimed he had interfered with his victim only "a little".[106] A doctor found the victim had been subjected to a serious sexual assault.[100]

The girl was able to pinpoint the lay-by on the A7 where Black had sexually assaulted her. Black's intention had been to quickly make a final scheduled delivery to Galashiels before further abusing and almost certainly killing his victim.[100]

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I googled my son's name and there was a photo og a cub group and a child with exactly the same name as my son and he was the double of him. It could have been a photo of him.

Was so bizarre i emailed the site it was on but i think the page manager thought i was a bit odd and took the photo down.

That's the thread I was on before with the story I posted. Would love s few more.
Really love all the unexplained things. Spooky☠️

Place marking (although not sure how the Robert Black story fits with the brief )

Love these threads

This isn't really creepy, more similar to the story a pp posted of being in France.

This was before sat nav. When me and DH go to London we usually park at the tube station in Redbridge. We've done it loads of times. One night we were back late from a gig. There is a big roundabout at Redbridge with multiple exits. We take what we think is our exit and off we go down the dual carriageway. After a few miles we realise we have gone the wrong way. We decide to just come off at the next exit to turn round and go back to the roundabout to find the correct exit.

We come off the dual carriageway, down a slip road and back onto the original Redbridge roundabout. We are both utterly confused as to how this happened. We didn't turn off after the original wrong exit.

We've always known we must have just made some weird mistake but I honestly still don't know how.

Long one sorry - in the summer a dark bruise appeared on my breast which obviously led to a lot of worry (thanks doctor google).

Anyway the GP had said I had to give it a week or two to see if it went away before he would refer me to the breast clinic. It was a worrying time for both DH and I.

So anyway one night I was doing bedtime for DS, laying on his floor while he drifted off (yss I know rod for back etc. etc.) when someone knocked on the door.

I heard DH answer - DS's bedroom is at the top of the stairs so could hear everything very clearly - and a man launched i to a speech about breast cancer. I assumed a charity collector and so did DH.

So anyway the man goes on and says how its amazing the breakthroughs they are making and how 'you' (as in DH and I) really shouldnt worry. Then he just pauses and says "So its all going to be ok" and then just says bye and walks off.

When I get downstairs I said to DH how weird it was that the man didnt ask for money and he agrees saying that he would have been happy to sign up given the current worries.

I asked if he had gone next door and DH said no he just watched him walk past all the other houses and out the street (we live in a culdisac and it would have been very random for us to be the first or last house approached).

Anyway a day later the bruise just disappeared as quickly as it appeared.

Its not as spooky as a lot of other stories but I do wonder who he was and why he seemed to be telling us not to worry. Was proobably just a crap charity collector though.

@BlueAvocet I know the roundabout you mean! Something similar happened to me years ago there!

A few years ago we had a car that was just a year old, and had had its first service the day before. Dd was only a couple of weeks old and had a cold so I insisted that exh take us to the chemist in the next town as I still couldn't drive. Anyway the engine burst into flames on the journey and the car was filled with smoke. Luckily we were fine, but if exh had of gone go work first, he would've been on the motorway and would've caused a massive accident as the street was thick with smoke.
That day, my mum, who was at work in another town, kept smelling burning. Her colleagues could smell it too, despite no fires that day.

Theres a youtuber called mortis media who did a compelation of these called glitch in the matrix stories he finds on redit. My fave one is a bloke and thw story goes:

Man lives in an apartment building and sees his girlfriend every day. One morning he goes out for a smoke. As he stands outside he watches a taxi pull up amd his girlfriend gets out. Shes wearing nice clothes but shes really angry. She approaches him and slaps him across the face shouting how could you do it to me. She then keys in the code for his apartmwnt and lets herself into the building. He follows her to his flat where she gathers up all her stuff shouting about what he has done to her and how she hates him. All the while he is shocked upset and confused knowing he hasnt done anything. So she storms back outside and he follows as she gets into her taxi and drives off. As he watches the taxi leave he feels arms wrap around his waist and guess who". His blood runs cold as he turns around to see his girlfriend in a tracksuit from her morning run grinning at him. He turns to see the taxi has vanished completely. He ends up telling her whats happened as he is so shocked and confused. They go up to his flat to find all her stuff has gone. So they call the police thinking maybe its a strange case of a look alikey intruder but when the police test the prints the only prints in the flat are his and hers and when they viewed the cctv in the lobby the videos of him are clear as day but all her face is corrupted...

Spooked me out

for anyone interested there is a whole reddit forum dedicated to these experiences! some amazing ones in here:

www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/

I read some on reddit. Some were good but some were so stupid and obvious.

I do but don’t have time to post until later so place marking for now!

I'm sure most are made up!

My one which I've recounted many times, is my gran died and funeral day there was a massive thunderstorm and lightening struck our house and blew out our aerial socket but not much damage, mum said it was her mum saying goodbye. Since then (1980) my mum always said she'd make it thunderstorm when she died - literally dozens of times we spoken of it and joked about it - literally 20 Minutes after she died (28 June 2012) a huge supercell thunderstorm hit the midlands / north where me / my brother live - like two stripes across the U.K. over the areas we live.
Very strange - made me believe!

I love stories like this but I don’t like the format of Reddit so that puts me off reading those stories.