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to think we just saw something supernatural??

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LilacWine7 · 17/04/2015 13:35

I went for a short walk with a friend along country lane, sunny warm morning, we were chatting away happily.
I should point out I've recently been really ill with HG so haven't been outdoors for weeks, also I'm on medication that makes me a bit drowsy, so if I'd been alone I would have assumed this was my imagination or a hallucination!

Anyway, we were walking along a deserted lane, pine woods either side, when 'something' came out of trees to our left, went quickly across the road and disappeared into trees on other side. I say 'something', it was more a sudden movement of air and light, more sensing than seeing, a bit like a shadow (but not dark like a shadow more like a heat-haze) and it made rustling sound in trees. It moved with the height and speed of a person crossing road.

My friend and I simultaneously froze, grabbed each others arms, and said 'what was that?' Thinking I was seeing things, I asked her what she just saw. She described it exactly as I had experienced it. We weren't particularly scared, more bewildered. We are both quite skeptical about this kind of thing but can't explain what this was.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? Is there some scientific explanation we haven't thought of?

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CapnMurica · 17/04/2015 13:39

It was a gust of wind. Sometimes they happen like that.

Ya dafty

HirplesWithHaggis · 17/04/2015 13:39

If it made a rustling sound, it wasn't supernatural. A deer, perhaps, moving swiftly?

FenellaFellorick · 17/04/2015 13:41

It'll be some animal or some weather thing. Probably some weather thing. You see all kinds of weird stuff. Ball lightening, that haze that makes it look like water, it's just been raining worms in norway

I wouldn't worry about it.

ShakesBootyFlabWobbles · 17/04/2015 13:41

I can't explain it but have seen something possibly similar, two human sized 'walking shadows' that were light rather than dark. The first one I thought I was seeing things, and then I saw a second.

ShakesBootyFlabWobbles · 17/04/2015 13:42

Or maybe I'm daft too

ADishBestEatenCold · 17/04/2015 13:49

In my experience, it is possible for a deer to cross my path (literally just a couple of metres in front) and for me to be aware of the movement, but not actually see it.

The particular instance that springs to mind was in very similar circumstances to your description and it was only when I crossed the verge and went looking for 'whatever', that I disturbed it into a (very slightly) clumsier trot, and was then actually able to see it.

I have a feeling you will doubt this, but your description describes my own experience exactly and (in my case) it was a deer. These creatures can be truly invisible ... even right out there in the open ... I guess their lives often depend on that skill.

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 17/04/2015 13:53

It was probably just a shifty young wizard in an invisibility cloak. Nothing to worry about.

Grantaire · 17/04/2015 13:53

You're not being unreasonable. You're being a tiny, wee bit daft.

It will be a weather or an animal thing. I lived on a farm for years and we used to have deer flit across the tracks and it was just as you describe. You'd see the movement but not the animal.

Brilliant that you're feeling better.

CiderwithBuda · 17/04/2015 13:54

Sudden gust of wind or one of those mini whirlwinds?

Where in country are you? I opened back doors this morning and got a faceful of dust/wind but it wasn't windy. Just assumed a mini whirlwind. I'm in south west.

ImNameyChangey · 17/04/2015 13:55

On here you're not "allowed" to believe in the supernatural. It's as though people are afraid of things they don't understand OP.

It reminds me of the time when people laughed at those who said the world was not flat. Just because something's beyond our ken does not mean it's not a possibility.

bobbywash · 17/04/2015 13:58

I would go with the deer theory, they are amazingly quick and very hard to see in dappled shade close up. Almost impossible to see in trees too.

Icimoi · 17/04/2015 13:59

It's not in the least a case of people being afraid. It's a case of people being logical. It is infinitely more likely that this was a weather thing or a small animal than that it was some piece of supernatural woo.

Grumpyoldblonde · 17/04/2015 13:59

It was probably just a shifty young wizard in an invisibility cloak. Nothing to worry about.

Thanks, that just made nearly choke on my coffee!

Grantaire · 17/04/2015 13:59

They was never a mass belief that the world was flat. That's a myth.

You can believe in the supernatural all you like. It's just when you talk about something easily explained, people tend to see the easy explanation.

If the OP had said a transparent man appeared from the wall of her rural semi, doffed his cap and then passed through the car, we'd find it harder to explain.

RichPetunia · 17/04/2015 14:07

OP and Shakesbooty do you live near to each other?I have had a few strange instances and they were always slightly off the beaten track. The first time I was walking home, but I had to go through woods when suddenly I had a terrible feeling that evil was nearby, and ran like to wind to the road. Second time I was walking with my dogs- again through some woods - we were walking through a part where there was a dirt path and the trees formed a natural canopy overhead. For whatever reason I looked back, and I swear to this day I saw someone looking at us who had stepped out from behind a tree. He/she/it stepped quickly back behind the tree again. I had the feeling it was not of this world (for whatever reason) and was quite unsettled for the rest of the walk.
A third time, I was again out walking with the dogs when we did a couple of mile loop. When we got to the furthest part away from civilisation, I was overcome by fear, for whatever reason. The person with me felt it too, and it's strange because we had walked there many times before.
Who knows what the OP saw, but it doesn't sound like a deer to me. More like higher technology that's not common knowledge.

SevTSnape · 17/04/2015 14:10

My bad, that was my patronus, just leaving a sword in an ice lake, don't mind me

DarylDixonsDarlin · 17/04/2015 14:12

On here you're not "allowed" to believe in the supernatural. It's as though people are afraid of things they don't understand OP.

Oh now that's not really true, is it. Remember a while back we had a woo thread, plenty of believers on there! Probably half of MN had a story to tell!

Could have been something supernatural, far far more likely to have been an animal or weather OP.

EmeraldThief · 17/04/2015 14:15

I used to go to a slimming club at our local community centre. One evening I saw a woman, who was obviously real, walking across the room and and right behind her was a heat haze in the shape of a person. It was completely strange and I can remember sitting there open mouthed unable to believe what I was seeing.

Maybe there was logical explanation for it, but I don't know what?

Grantaire · 17/04/2015 14:20

EmeraldThief, were you so hungry you were hallucinating?

Maybe the very real woman had very real super heated flatulence?

BuzzardBird · 17/04/2015 14:27

It was Predator.

HellKitty · 17/04/2015 14:31

Don't mind me, just place marking

EmilyCHN · 17/04/2015 14:31

I saw a similar vision driving on A12 which is lined with bushes and trees. I think it's pollen that you've seen, trees and bushes, in the very hot weather we've had, are releasing their pollen in clouds that look like what you describe..

EponasWildDaughter · 17/04/2015 14:32

I love it when an OP describes something in detail and then every one comes on and tells them it was something that looks totally different!

OP - ''I saw a bright pink cloud hovering for 5 minutes above my cupboard ...''

Answer - ''It was obviously a stray badger/lorry going by/homeless person living in the wardrobe ... no such thing as woo''.

EmilyCHN · 17/04/2015 14:36

Pollen from pine trees.. Did it look like this OP?

to think we just saw something supernatural??

Dr0pThePirate · 17/04/2015 14:38

Hmm, well if you didn't see a deer then I'm not sure how anyone else can be sure what you saw was a deer.

Could it have been a dust devil?

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