I left my house and didn't see a single person in my road, only cars but I couldn't hear them. This in itself is unusual as it's a cut through road to a busy main road with shops and leads to A roads, there's always someone outside and you can often hear chatter. Everything was silent. I put it down to EV cars having not heard vehicle noise and didn't think much more of it.
I was driving for the school run and again, no one walking along the roads, they were unusually empty apart from the people in cars, driving them and even then there was no traffic which is unusual. I couldn't hear any road noise and had to check I could hear by turning the radio on (which I could hear). Got out of the car when I parked and I panicked that I was extremely late. You can always hear the kids or parents at pick up time and there's always someone else walking along the road at that time. I couldn't hear a thing. If there weren't people driving cars, I'd have thought I'd missed a world event today whilst at home.
Got into the school gates and it was quieter than usually but it was like a 'click' of noise from the school as soon as I walked into the playground itself and as soon as we got out (5 minutes after let out as DC was busy doing something before coming out but there were others still in the playground and walking home), the noise stopped again and all I could hear was DC talking. There was one other woman and child but they weren't talking to each other anyway.
Got in the car, and thankfully DC was chatting away as, by this time, everything felt really eery. I went to McDonald's Drive Thru to get a coffee and it was dead. The car parks for surrounding shops had cars parked in them but no one walking outside. No background noise at all. I heard the person on the speaker and when I got to the window, could hear the noise in McDonald's but when they closed the windows, everything was silent again.
Got home and DH was home earlier than usual, we all went inside and I've heard a car or two go by since but no people and the doorbell camera hasn't picked up a single soul this evening.
I know it sounds absolutely bonkers but I'm sitting here scratching my head as to what it is I've experienced?