Saw someone who wasn't there

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Walking back from the supermarket this evening with OH and DD in the pram. OH was pushing the pram up the hill on a bit of pavement that is wide enough to walk 2 abreast and I was walking beside him. The road is busy so you can't walk in the road to pass someone coming the other way (relevant).

I looked up and saw a jogger coming down the hill towards us. He was wearing a white polo shirt and white shorts and had a white sweatband on his head, I thought to myself he had a strange gait. I quickly moved behind OH into single file to let him pass us and OH was like why are you going behind? I said I'm letting the man past. He said "what man?" I looked up and there was no one there.

Really weird but I 100% saw him.

It was Dominic Cummings performing another optical experiment, specifically could he make it to Cornwall in time without being spotted because his former BFF left without him. Your dh must be a leading Tory, hence his refusal to acknowledge him somewhere he shouldn't be.

Love this so spooky 👻

Ah, String Theory - someone slipped through from a parallel universe.

(Which explains ghosts btw )

Ooohh . . Spooky

@DentonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat Tell me more! I have also had something like this happen to me and distinctly saw someone walk past but when I spoke to my work friend they said they never saw anyone there. The idea of parallel worlds fascinate me!

Who goes running dressed entirely in white? Fashion faux pas!

I find the strange gait bit spooky!

Google Charles Bonnet syndrome, it usually happens if you have an issue with eye sight though. Not sure if you do, but lots of people have visions which they believe are real.

I had something similar years ago. A man on an old fashioned heavy pushbike cycled past a bit too close. I looked round to comment and there was nobody there.

Same thing happened to me when I was a passenger in my mums car a few years ago. Driving in a narrow country road with no path. She slowed down to pass the lady in the blue dress. There was no lady in a blue dress but my mum saw her!

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away.

I think the telling thing is you were walking uphill.

Could be a blood pressure thing.

I reckon there is a logical explanation. Were you like headed, how long post partem

@fortifiedwithtea

I think the telling thing is you were walking uphill.

Could be a blood pressure thing.

I reckon there is a logical explanation. Were you like headed, how long post partem

I totally read this as how.ling post mortem

*how long

I once saw what I described as 'living ghosts'. I def saw several different people (all still alive) but when I blinked and blinked - they didn't have any legs…

It was a bit scary at the time… but it made me realise that your eyes can play tricks on you… but I definitely SAW them.

@MargaretThursday

Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away.

I read the title and said the poem to ds1

THEN I SAW YOU’D SAID IT AS WELL 😱

He probably turned into his front garden at the end of his run. He sounds like a 70s McEnroe!

So glad I read this at nearly 12am in the dark, at home on my own

Aniseeeds
I don’t think I can adequately explain the physics of string theory and the multiverse, but I read about it in New Scientist a few years ago, and remember at the time thinking - parallel universes might be leaking or bumping into each other and that would explain why some people are adamant they’ve seen a ‘ghost’. It’s a really interesting theory but there’s plenty of physicists that don’t accept it.

I thought the same at @Tempusfudgeit
Perhaps your OH was not paying attention up ahead so did not see the person before they entered their front garden.

@fortifiedwithtea

I think the telling thing is you were walking uphill.

Could be a blood pressure thing.

I reckon there is a logical explanation. Were you like headed, how long post partem

Nearly 2 years!

I had just had my Covid jab about 2 hours before. OH thinks it was this

@Tempusfudgeit

He probably turned into his front garden at the end of his run. He sounds like a 70s McEnroe!

No front gardens there at all. The pavement is bordered by a tall stone wall. When he didn't actually pass us I looked over the road to see if he'd darted over there but was surprised to not see him there either.

The pavement also borders a number of old houses, all grade 2 listed behind the stone walls.

It was really strange.

No light-headedness, wasn't feeling puffed. I'm a relatively fit 33 year old

My sister had this on a dog walk in the middle of a bushy field. She moved to one side of the long path to let an old couple pass who she saw ahead. But as she stood there, only the old lady walked past her - the man had disappeared.