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

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As the title says...

Eeek! Thanks for telling the story desertmum so scary!

OneOneOneOne the comfort and sense of peace it brings is indescribable. One day I was particularly struggling after she had died, I was in an absolute mess, and the most beautiful complete rainbow with the sun breaking the clouds in stripes (I don't know how else to describe it) beneath it appeared outside my kitchen window. I wept like a child, but I knew she was there.

This is what I was trying to describe with the sun:

That's lovely, aye.

Both my dad and my partner were the type to drive the point home if they knew they were in the right - although they never met each other, I do have a chuckle to think they have formed a gang somewhere and are saying "for heaven's sake girl, what's it going to take for you to accept that we know what we're talking about?!"

What the heck, here are the rainbows, too (not the best photo but have cropped my street out!)

What a beautiful thought One. I remember being comforted by the fact that a good friend of mine who'd died years previously would take BF under her wing. Probably silly, but it helped me no end. When my Mum was told she was terminal (thankfully surgery has changed that diagnosis) she asked if BF would get the kettle on for her.

Place marking as it fell off my threads

forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1376448

Digital spy has a good woo thread.

Random and entirely boring, but last night I was in the kitchen and had just taken some rice out of the microwave. A few minutes later I looked at it and it still had ten seconds on it, despite it having finished and beeped before I took the rice out. I set it back to zero again and then, while I was watching, turned itself back up to two minutes. I have no idea how it did that!!

Mine are more sad than scary I think!

Years ago my mum had a dream that she was woken up by a phonecall. In the dream it was a Sunday morning and the light was streaming in to the room in a very specific way. The phonecall was her sister, distraught because her baby daughter had just died. Mum woke up and was obviously very freaked out. Everything seemed fine with her sister and the baby, and she didn't want to discuss it with anyone - what an awful thing to dream! - but she did confide in a friend. About two weeks later, she wakes up on a Sunday morning, and the light in the bedroom is identical. She thinks "oh god, the phone's going to ring isn't it". Sure enough it does, and unfortunately it's true, her sister had lost her baby to SIDS.

My mum and dad were having marriage problems at the time, and she had to try and get hold of my dad (it turned out he was with OW) - she said that if she hadn't been fore warned about her sister she would have struggled to get through the day. As it was she says she managed to go onto autopilot and it was as though she was being guided through the day.

When I was about 11, I had a dream that my pet rabbit had wanted to go and play with a new friend, a black rabbit. I hadn't wanted him to, but he'd insisted - and the dream ended with them floating over the garden wall. Woke up that morning and told my mum we needed to check on the rabbit before school (we usually fed him on evenings), so we did and he had died in the night. I knew before I got to the hutch really. He was only a couple of years old and had seemed fine, although he was always a dreamy, sensitive slightly otherworldly rabbit. Dream obviously heavily indebted to Watership Down!

I'm sure there are things we don't understand about time and intuition - these things don't necessarily have to be supernatural.

and weirdly, while in the horrible haunted house a friend asked me to look after her dog for a week while she was on holiday. The dog hated the house, wouldn't stay in alone and managed to open the windows and get out - the neighbours would see her and put her in the garage - she was OK in there. Poor dog was totally terrified - so I had to take her with me everywhere.

I love these threads and have just wasted hours reading this one!

I don't have any really woo stories of my own, except that I'm certain my dog sees things! She's a large Doberman - but she's a total gentle giant and has never ever been aggressive towards people. Except one time. We were in the local pub, where I usually let her off her lead to go and say hi to everyone because they all knew her. This time, for some reason I kept her on her lead, and we were all sitting around having a drink when she suddenly flew at a man at another table, snarling and barking at him. Luckily I was able to restrain her and calmed her down. The poor man had done nothing wrong, but he's a well known schizophrenic and seriously mentally unwell. My dog could sense something in him and didn't like it. It really spooked me.

She has recently started staring at something at the top of the stairs, when we're all sitting around watching TV in the evening. She will look up at something, and sort of cower. She does the same thing in the bedroom, looking at something in the corner of the ceiling. And then when she's asleep she'll suddenly fly off her bed as though something has poked her. Freaks me right out.

The smallholding story - I've been going over it in my head since I read it earlier. I guess you could explain away the chickens getting freaked out - could have been a stoat or something, although I've no idea how quickly they settle themselves back down again after something like that.

The black thing running past - is it possible that the pup did escape, but found its own way back to the house before they got back?

The goings on in the woods - well I suppose it's possible that it was people getting up to some sort of nasty goings on, and they wanted you out of there.

The dogs freaking out - perhaps they could hear the people, and picked up on your fear and were protecting you?

Doesn't make any of it any less terrifying or utterly freaky and weird. But there are non-woo explanations for all of it I guess.

I think I've posted about this before (probably under another MN NN). It isn't 'woo' - but it's really odd.

For background, I live in an Inner London borough - but in a very quiet residential road.

I think it was about 5 years ago. It was a weekday afternoon - about 2.30pm - in February. The day was very dull and dank - but neither raining nor windy. I was sitting on a chair in the sitting room - sideways on to the windows - reading the paper. For some reason I saw, out of the corner of my eye, something moving across the sky. There was no noise - so not a helicopter (quite normal round here) nor was it a plane (going the 'wrong way' in 'our' flight path).

I stood up to see what it was. It appeared to be a parachutist (no way would that happen round here). As I looked at it I realised it wasn't a human, it was absolutely solid and rigid. It looked like a cylinder - something that might contain supplies to drop into inhospitable terrain or drop behind enemy lines.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing so I got up to stand on the sofa, directly under the window, to get a closer look. It was moving from my left to right - above and beyond the roofs of the houses over the road.

Suddenly the cylinder 'detached' from the parachute and plummeted downwards. Of course, it disappeared behind the roofs. I was tempted to go and grab my camera, but continued to watch the parachute itself. Once the weight of the cylinder had gone, the parachute finally collapsed and drifted downward too - also behind the roof line - a bit further on.

I was expecting to hear, fairly quickly, the sound of sirens from the emergency services. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I watched the 6pm and 10pm news. Nothing was reported.

The following day I was meeting a few local friends for lunch, so told them my story in the hope/expectation that one of them had seen it too. No, they hadn't - in fact I came in for a fair amount of teasing!

Over the next days/weeks/months I continued to Google local news websites and forums. Still nothing.

Logic tells me it must have been some sort of meteorological recording device which had been wildly blown off-course.

But there are a few things I can't get my head around. (1) why did the cylinder suddenly detach from the 'chute? (2) the cylinder (and, subsequently, the 'chute) must have fallen somewhere 'built-up' - a road or a building (3) even if either of them fell in a garden or on the park then (4) why was there no mention of any of this in local news or on local forums.

I felt then, as I still do now, that I was the only person who saw this. How?

Love threads like this, shamelessly marking my place in case there are any more stories

Fru maybe it was some sort of top secret thing - and the Men in Black visited the folks who's garden it landed in hence no newspaper reports

I certainly think certain relatives or friends do make themselves known and sometimes the ways aren't the ones we'd usually think of!

I have heard people say if you suddenly dream about eg your dad who's died, it means they're thinking of you in heaven, no idea if that's true!

I was 14 and in my bedroom I had a top bunk bed with a sofa that turned into a bed underneath. So always slept on the top bed.
For many months I cried to my mum that a man sat on top of my wardrobes that were level with my top bunk. He sat and smoked and just looked at me every night.
I was so scared I started ripping my wardrobes apart and my mum thought I was being stupid.
Anyway after weeks of convincing my mum there was somebody sat on my wardrobe every night she agreed to take them out and put fitted wardrobes in my room. After this I remember my videos being flung around. My mum even took me to Cahms because of how distraught I was.

6 years after this we moved out and we were unable to sell our house. I was 21 now and was curious why we couldn't sell and moved out before selling. She admitted to me that the whole time she experienced things such as things moving around the house, she was locked in the bathroom that had no locks, she smelt and saw smoke when home from work. And she told me that one day she heard banging in the kitchen and went in to see every single cupboard door open.

It took her 14 months to sell the house because when people were looking round they had a bad feeling and one couple felt ice cold when in my old room.
I still feel like this old man follows me.

Placemark for nighttime reading session :)

Another really odd event that I can't really explain happened about 25 yrs ago when I was around 17 years old. My parents had a caravan so would often go away and leave me on my own for the weekend as I was working. One summers evening I went to bed as usual around 10:30 PM but I woke around midnight and slowly realised I could hear strange noise. I had left the bedroom window open as it was a warm night and from outside could here what can only be described as a cacophony of jumbled sounds. I got out of bed and looked out of the window but couldn't see anything so I went downstairs and opened the front door of the house. The sounds were really strange all jumbled up noises sounded like people screaming, animal sounds mixed with white noise, car alarms, people talking and shouting all sorts of sounds just carried on the air. Just like a radio not quite tuned in. It was really unnerving .
I couldn't work out the location of where it came from. It was just 'in the air' around me. I stood there on the doorstep for 15 minutes or so, hoping a neighbour would come out of their house too but no one did and eventually the noise just died away.
We lived near a large petrochemical plant and a busy motorway so I did wonder whether the noise was being carried on the works tannoy system or whether there'd been an accident on the motorway and the noises were being carried on the warm summer night air.
Nothing was ever reported in the local papers and no one else said they heard it.
I'd love to get to the bottom of it.

Lizmay12. Did you feel the presence was sinister? Why do you feel like it's following you?
If your mum was experiencing things why did she put you through a Cahms?

Sorry your story has given me the right heebee jeebees, so naturally, I must scare myself more

Have been reading this thread for a few days and something very small, but unexplained happened yesterday.

Expected parcel arrived yesterday in safe place outside as requested. I picked it up, unlocked the door (this is important) and went inside. There may or may not have been post on the mat, I can't remember. Go in kitchen, put parcel on table. Go back out to car to collect stuff, but stop at front door (on inside) to see the courier card, folded badly, wedged between the edge of the door and frame on the hinge side. Not through the letterbox, not in the opening side of the door. This was not visible from the outside of the door. How the hell did it get there? It's a new house so door fits tightly and has those rubber seals all round the edge of the frame. And if you could actually push a card through the hinge side of a front door so it wasn't visible from the outside, why would you when there is a letterbox? And the card wasn't at all mangled, just folded once.

It half occurred to me that the door had been opened and someone had stuck it in there from the inside but the door was locked. Am really spooked...

Any ideas how it got there?

Place marking as I'm loving this thread but keep losing when it gets bumped off the active page.