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To ask what's the weirdest/strangest/creepiest thing that has ever happened to you?

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fruitysmoothie · 15/09/2016 23:31

As the title says...

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IveGotCheese · 18/09/2016 18:14

This happened to my dad.He was walking home from the pub with his mates one morning in the early hours. There was a Mini parked at the bottom of the playing fields and it was rocking a bit and the windows were steamed up. Being teenage lads they had a quick glance as they walked past and chuckled to themselves at the couple having sex.

A day or so later two policemen were knocking on doors asking for witnesses to a murder. Turns out the couple were not having sex. A bloke had kidnapped a young woman who looked like his ex wife who had left him and he was actually murdering her by stabbing her to death and then chopping her head off with a Stanley knife. My dad still feels guilty and thinks he could have perhaps saved her if he had looked closer.

HeirOfNothingInParticular · 18/09/2016 18:35

I've had quite a few, but the one I remember (and have posted about here before) happened on the even of Princess Diana's funeral. For background, I wasn't a massive fan, but the whole country was taken up by this... On the night before her funeral the removal of her body from St James's palace to Kensington Palace was televised on the news. I remember people shouting 'Diana, Diana' and thinking what they heck it was all about if this could happen to such a protected person. A thought came into my head 'if you see three stars then you will know there is something'. I rushed to the door and looked out into the sky expecting to see three stars, saw nothing. The next day I woke up and the light was shining into my bedroom and projected three orbs of light onto the wall. Do doubt it was a trick of the light, but at the time it really frightened me and I was definitely pulling the duvet over my head!

Janey50 · 18/09/2016 19:47

Not exactly 'woo',but I am prone to premonitions. A week before Princess Margaret died,back in 2002,I dreamt that a newspaper headline said 'Princess Margaret dead'. A week later,the newspaper had exactly that headline. When David Bowie died back in January this year,a few days before his death,I was reading a review of his last album. As I was reading,a thought flitted through my mind,saying 'He is going to die very soon'. Sure enough,3 days later,I heard his death announced on the radio early in the morning.

Taygirl · 18/09/2016 20:04

When I was about 6 or 7 my sister and I had an old wooden doll's house that our parents had got from a flea market. It sat in the corner of our shared bedroom by the door. One night I was asleep in my sister's bed (late bedwetterBlush) in the opposite corner of the room when I was woken by a series of knocks on wood - they sounded like they were coming from the doll's house. I was so scared I didn't want to turn round and look so I just clung onto my sister until I went back to sleep.
I didn't tell my mum about it until I was a teenager. She said that my Dad had been mixed up in some heavy occult stuff before they got religious when I was 4 and when he took up religion instead he had a lot of 'difficulties' to do with the occult. She wouldn't go into detail but said he had some 'issues' with the doll's house.

SnakeWitch · 18/09/2016 20:26

DH and I went to Hever Castle a few years ago. As I was going round I started to feel really sick and had to get outside. I was pregnant at the time so put it down to that even though it wasn't a sicky pregnancy. A while later they did a Most Haunted there and the exact same thing happened to Yvette Fielding Shock Yes I know it was likely pregnancy related but I prefer to think it was Anne Boleyn making herself known! (sorry, rubbish story compared to some)

cockadoodledoooo · 18/09/2016 20:35

Taygirl, did your parents become religious because of the occult stuff? Did they get rid of the dolls house? So intriguing!

Taygirl · 18/09/2016 20:42

Cockadoodle - I think it was more that my Dad had been looking for 'something' and the so tried out a few things before settling on the religion he ended up with. But not certain because he never talked about it to me. I honestly can't remember how long we had the doll's house but I didn't play with it again after that night!

cockadoodledoooo · 18/09/2016 20:56

Scary!!

When I was a toddler my parents had the house exorcised due to lots of activity. My dad had recently converted to Christianity and not so long ago told me that a black foe human shape very reluctantly walked out the front door after lots of demonic screaming and swearing.

I never settled at night and am still terrified of the dark. I wonder if our guest wax why?!

Degustibusnonestdisputandem · 18/09/2016 21:02

I have loads... But one that comes to mind is my nanna seeing her sons motorcycle accident a week before it happened...and despite trying to prevent it, it still happened, she knew where he would fall and how ... (Uncle survived being hit by drunk driver but suffered brain damage, which he largely overcome..)

ItsNiceItsDifferentItsUnusual · 18/09/2016 21:04

I stayed in a hotel last year, very old building. Was kept awake large parts of the night by bloody loud footsteps overhead. Wondered what the hell the guests were up to, but didn't think much of it. Until we went for a walk in the grounds the next morning and I looked at the hotel and realised there wasn't a floor above ours. I asked at reception when checking out and apparently it's only a storage attic up there. It was definitely footsteps I heard, they were clear as a bell and had the right movement to them. I wonder whether the attics used to be the servants quarters and I was hearing some sounds from the past.

MarklahMarklah · 18/09/2016 21:04

Remembered another.
Used to work in London and was on an early shift, so got off the train around 7.30am. I walked up the steps from the underground and walked along the road parallel to the one I worked on (You had to go down a side turning). As I was walking, I glanced along an alleyway and saw a strange 'spacecraft' hovering above the tower of a building a little way off. The thing I saw was black, L-shaped and had white lights under it. It was just hanging there in the air. It wasn't the right shape for a plane or helicopter (the latter of which were commonly sighted overhead in this area) and it was silent. I glanced at my watch, and when I looked back, the thing had vanished.

kaitlinktm · 18/09/2016 21:05

You'd think that if there were "issues" with the dolls' house your Dad would have thought twice about leaving it in his daughters' bedroom.

Degustibusnonestdisputandem · 18/09/2016 21:09

Or overcame, even...evidentially my knowledge of grammar has deserted me..

Crystal15 · 18/09/2016 21:23

Oh I've got quite a few.

When my Dad died he kept flat lining. We was ringing my sisters hysterically to get bk upto the ward and each time we tried to ring his heart would beat again. Like he was holding on. Shortly after I was laid in bed and I herd him speak to me clear as day. He was advising me about the anxiety I suffered bless him.

DH and I booked a hotel in Wales to stay over for a funeral. I was in the bath and the sink tap just turned itself on! It was a spooky old house too. As we slept we kept hearing something clear as day rooting through our bags too. As soon as we switched the light on thr rummaging stopped.

Another- DH's Dad commit suicide when he was 18. We was once discussing this and we herd whispered in between us "I'm sorry". Scared the crap out of me!

Oh and as my Dad was dying he saw something, he knew he was going to die. But for some reason he refused to tell us what it was. After he died I cleared his house of the family photos and brought home one of my late Nana, we will call her Nana Betty. My youngest who was 2 at the time had never seen a photo or herd of my Nana as she died 14 years before he was born. Well anyway he came into the room and sat next to the framed photo excited saying "nana Betty, Nana Betty". I asked how he knew of Nana Betty and he said she Sat on my bed and spoke to him!

g1nthemystery · 18/09/2016 21:27

Got one or two things!

Weirdest thing was definitely when I went into labour. Fiancé bundled me into the car at 2 in the morning (I was literally about to drop the baby and was having very strong contractions). Nervous he asked if I wanted the radio on to distract me. I said yes and we barrelled down the road towards the hospital at lightning speed to... Flash Gordon, no jokeConfused. We laughed about it later, joking that it was foreshadowing of our son's very quick and unexpected entry into the world. Our sons's initials even spell out "BAM" Grin

featherpillow · 18/09/2016 21:59

Wow! I've read up to page 7 and now I'm too scared to go to the toilet.
I knew I shouldn't of read some!

g1nthemystery · 18/09/2016 22:00

Accidentally posted before finishing oops

I have one woo creepy thing, and one non woo - when I was 8 years old I used to stay over at my grandparents once every week. One night, before heading up to bed, I suddenly got really upset. When my nan managed to calm me down and ask what was wrong, I said: "I don't want Sam to die." Sam was their dog, who I was very attached to as he'd been around before I was born. At the time Sam was getting old, but had nothing obviously wrong with him. My grandparents convinced me he was okay, showing me that he was curled up by the fire in the front room. I went to bed, only to wake up in the morning to find that he had unexpectedly become so I'll in the night, that he died. It really unnerved me and my grandparents at the time.

As for my non woo - my fiancé and I used to live in a very small flat when we were at uni. It was the best we could afford on loans and part time jobs, but it was our place and we were glad to have our own living space unlike our friends. Being on a tight income we were naturally in the smallest flat in the building (which was a converted georgian house), and were actually living in part of the attic that had been converted. At the top of the house you could barely hear anything, unless the guy who lived in the attic flat opposite started singing as he was cooking.

Anyway, in the middle of night, you couldn't hear anything from inside the building as no one came up that far unless it was our neighbour, and joking aside he was very quiet. Really, you could only hear a few drunkards at the pub down the road if you had a window open. So, when I woke up at 3AM one night I wondered what had woken me. I lay there trying to get back to sleep when I realised what it was - a very quiet, gentle knocking on our front door.

I immediately freaked out, as the main door to the building - despite being an old, heavy Georgian style door - does not close properly if you let it close to. You have to purposefully shut it. As newer and newer tenants had moved in, I had been finding the main door being left open more often than not. This really freaked me out, mainly because our landlords were so cheap that the front doors to each of the flats inside was simply and indoor house door with a Yale lock - yeah, you know those flimsy, hollowed out doors you have as bedroom doors?!

In my semi-awakened state I deduced that someone had let themselves into the building, and was knocking on doors to see if anyone was home. I checked this by creeping around the bedroom door to see light coming out from under our front door - only to see two gaps in the light WHERE SOMEONES FEET WERE STANDING. I tried to wake my fiancé but he sleeps like the dead, so I went back to the hallway, only to see whoever it was had gone. I went back to bed, only for the whole nightmare to reappear another time. I didn't sleep that night. When I finally woke my fiancé whoever it was was no longer anywhere to be found.

I found out at 7AM the next morning it was actually our neighbour below us, trying to tell us our pipes were leaking at 3AM :/ (they weren't, a glass of water in the kitchen had spiked over and dripped into his kitchen). Who on earth does that at 3AM? Surely you'd wait until morning!

Taygirl · 18/09/2016 22:04

I'm not sure of the timing so it could be his experiences with it were after mine. Too long ago to tell now!

BillyDaveysDaughter · 18/09/2016 22:14

I've told the one before about a flat we rented for a while which was built on the site of an old nursing home - the in-laws came to visit and we donated our double bed while we spent the night in the small room where we had bunk beds.

During the night I was woken up by FIL opening the door and stooping down to look in on me in the bottom bunk. I figured he must need something but was irritable at being woken, so I opened one eye, wondered what the hell he could possibly want and went back to sleep.

In the morning I asked him if he'd come into the room and had he needed something? He said he hadn't even woken up in the night and hadn't left their room at all.

Another weird one - my DM is a christian but doesn't believe in life after death, she thinks spiritualism is the work of the devil! My DSD died 10 years ago and she has flippantly told me vague tales of seeing and hearing little things which might suggest he is around, but quickly dismisses them. Anyhow I make a bit of jewellery occasionally and made her a pair of earrings which she really loved, but managed to lose completely. She kept on about these earrings and wanted me to make her another pair - she was sure she had carefully put them away as normal but they were simply nowhere to be found.

One day, ONE of the earrings turned up in the middle of her living room floor. Out of the blue, months after they had gone missing. Just sitting there on the carpet. We joked that it was a sign from DSD that he was around her, I promised to make her another one to match it, and forgot all about it.

Fast forward a couple of years, DM has moved house and started a new life nearer to me, DH and I are on holiday in Scotland and I'm looking at daft little sentimental gifts in a gift shop for DM. I picked a soppy sheep fridge magnet with "I Love Ewe" on it, bought another couple of bits including a cheap shoulder bag, paid for everything, shoved all the bits in the new bag and went to find DH. As we leave he asks what I bought, so I reach in the bag to show him.

"Oh, look what I got for mum," I say, pulling the I Love Ewe sheep from the bag...and attached to the magnet is the solitary, missing earring...

onecrazycook · 18/09/2016 22:19

Place marking. Ace thread

Cellardoor23 · 18/09/2016 22:36

Just remembered another one.

I had a strange dream a few years ago. I was on this wooden raft thing in the middle of what I think was the sea with my DM, and I had my ring on (which my DM had given me)

While we on this raft, my ring fell off and went into the sea and I lost it. Then my mum fell in and i lost her too.

A few months later I lost my ring. To this day I still don't know where it is. And about a year later I lost my DM.

OVienna · 18/09/2016 22:36

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Ilovemygsd · 18/09/2016 22:38

Came home to a box of chocolates been posted, on the hall floor, the box wouldn't of fitted through the letter box :0

suspiciousofgoldfish · 18/09/2016 23:26

Page I am so glad you came back, that story is just brilliant (IYKWIM), horrible for you, obviously Blush

It's my go-to ghost story for girls nights in, never fails to put the shits up people.

Thanks for finding it again.

Taygirl · 19/09/2016 07:18

Cockadoodle- that's a scary thought. You may have seen or heard something you don't remember.

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