Tell my mates the worst you've seen posted.

[Catworrier]

I'm sat with two child free friends explaining the wonders of Mumsnet.
I've shown them a couple of posts, but what's the weird and wonderful you've stumbled across on this site?
Grace us with your stories

@ThisSistineWontScreamAtItself

Love the name, great thread!

Bracelet missing fromNursery http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/3845557-Bracelet-missing-fromNursery

I don’t have kids and I LOVE this site. The crazy stuff, the advice, the silly stories, the drama ..the support and compassion. It’s all there! .. and a wonderful way to pass a couple of hours on an early-ish Sunday evening with a glass of wine. Thanks everyone; keep up the good work! X

I'm looking forward to Mexican house thief!

Tell your mates that you don't need to have children to be on Mumsnet! There are lots of us childfree people here. They should come and join us.

Mexican House Thief is a real treat. I wonder if the OP is still around?

Not neccesairy something funny but I read a story here on a thread about a MN-er who was looking after a friend’s home somewhere rural with many pets in the home. One evening a puppy escaped and she started looking for it in a dark forest nearby with another dog. There she saw something frightening.

I still get shivers from that story.

Mexican House Thief was simply

Honeybee85 same here, it really gave me the chills.

Yes the weird things happening in Savernake forest was a very creepy post! Was it the same thread with the poster who went to the TOTS nightclub and saw a creepy bloke, then went back decades later and the creepy bloke was still there and looked exactly the same?
Don't forget Marmalade Twatkins and her crazy bake sale. I believe it's in classics, something like AIBU to pelt this mum with my cakes tomorrow?

@CigarsofthePharoahs

I don’t remember that story (though it seems also remarkably creepy) but I do remember another one on that thread was about a MN-er who was thatching a roof also nearby a forest and appearently she and the man she was helping heard gun shooting sounds coming from the forest and assumed it was deer hunting or something. But it was from a nearby village where someone had killed several people by gun and I believe they were random strangers. The MN- er mentioned in her post that if he would have choosen to go to another village nearby, it might be the one where she was working and she would have been the first person the killer saw there as they was working near the beginning of the main road.
That one also gave me goosebumps 😰

Tell them it’s like the rest of the Internet, boiling with highly creative fantasist trolls, the gullible, the introverted, the lonely, the ill- and well-informed, the mentally ill, preppers entirely delighted that Coronavirus has come along to replace Brexit shortages as a reason to stockpile and prepare ‘bug out’ bags etc. And some excellent advice too.

And perhaps most importantly at the moment, it’s one of the few online spaces in which women can express the view that the ‘feelings’ of a tiny category of men do not reinvent human biology or language.

@Honeybee85, did this poster give the date of this mysterious village massacre? Remarkably bad taste to piggyback off the back off a mass shooting which might have involved a poster if the killer had done something different, don’t you think?

@Pondlover

It didn’t read like a sensation seeking post to be honest, and with all the details it also seemed like a genuine story to me. I think I remember the poster mentioned that it happened in the 1970’s but I am not entirely sure.

I just searched on ‘thatching’ but couldn’t find the thread. I think it was one about most creepy things that MN-ers have experienced.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_unexplained/3695627-Where-has-the-Savernake-Forest-post-gone

Here’s the link to the Savernake Forest story.
Don’t read it in the evening/ during the night.

Household objects that are pricks in Classics. A wondrous gallimaufry of creative swearing.

Garda Olaf
Mexican House Thief
Cistine Chapel
I’m trying to remember the one that they’d moved to a hamlet and all sorts of weird goings on, finding objects in garden etc

I think this must have been in chat when they used to get deleted after 90 days or the thread itself may have been deleted altogether but does anyone remember the OP that for some reason got stuck on the kitchen counter and couldn’t get back off and was asking whether they should ring their husband from work to come home and help them down? I never did see the outcome of that one.

The worst I've seen was the poster whose new bloke wanted her to get rid of her very young son so they could have their own kids. And she was considering it.

The best was the support I got immediately following a bereavement.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2017083-He-has-eaten-a-fat-ball

Brilliant.

But @Honeybee85, don't you think we would all have heard of a village massacre which had caused multiple deaths in England in the 1970s? And if the poster was talking about Michael Ryan's murders (as seems possible), that was in the late 1980s, and mostly in the town of Hungerford, with some victims in Savernake Forest.

And yes, I do think it's in poor taste to do 'Ooh, it could have been me' over something that actually involved the deaths of other people.

Again, you get it a lot on forums like Mn because it's as unverifiable as 'mysterious evil things chased me and some dogs in Savernake Forest' -- every time there's a 'creepiest thing that's happened to you' thread, there's always someone who is offered a lift by a man they later recognise on the news as Fred West.

@Stonefancier

I am not from the UK so I have no idea if it happened or not...not really familiar with the news from the 1970s/1980s . I do hope the Savernake Forest story was written by someone with a great talent for writing horror tales because it’s a really scary thought such things would actually exist

@MashedPotatoBrainz

Christ that is a shocking thought the mum must of been in a very dark place to even nearly consider that.

I also found a lot of help when my DH suddenly died , Someone that I hardly knew told me to post how I was felling on MN , I had no idea how to use the site or where to post things so ended up posting in the litter tray some kind MNers told me how to move my post , that bit of kindness stuck with me , something so small that took two random strangers to write had me crying for hours .

the support and advice and general chatter i got and still do get 3 years later makes things more bearable

It's a wonderful place for random queries (I'm currently debating my electricity bill with others making suggestions), humour (Spicy Foof), and those thoughts that wake you in the middle of the night. Because it's world wide there is always someone awake, somewhere in some time zone if you need a sensible word in the middle of the night.

It's knowing there is always someone out there, listening, even if you have noone else to talk to.