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

852 replies

fruitysmoothie · 15/09/2016 23:31

As the title says...

OP posts:
Runny · 28/11/2016 12:50

Regarding hearing weird stuff on the radio. In the mid 90 s when I was a teenager I was listening to the radio on my stereo one night, when a helicopter flew directly our house. I then very briefly heard the pilot talking to air traffic control on my radio, in the bedroom! It was like interference, and as suddenly as it started it stopped and went straight back to the radio station I was listening to.

Im sure there is a really logical scientific explanation or this. But it was still veey weird.

LilQueenie · 28/11/2016 12:54

Runny that happens when the radio frequency is the same as pilots use. Happens with police radios too or at least used to in the 80's. It became something of a family past time at my grandparents. We would tune into police radios to find out what was happening locally. Blush

Runny · 28/11/2016 13:03

I must admit even my story isn't as strange as the poster who heard a police radio through her lava lamp! I can underdtand how my stereo picked up a helicopter going over, but a lava lamp?! That is just insane!

LilQueenie · 28/11/2016 13:15

I haven't read that one yet. I'm going to read the whole thread later.

SusanTrinder · 28/11/2016 13:25

Well, this thread has taken years off my life.

2/3 of the way through and feeling creeped out already when a bloody magpie decides to try and get in the bedroom window!

BigBlink · 28/11/2016 13:31

I've had a few things happen to me over the years. I won't bore you with them all but here are a couple...

The first one was when I was about 4. I don't actually remember this happening but my mum, my dad, my uncle (mum's brother) and my aunt often spoke of that day.

My uncle and aunt lived in an old vicarage in a small village in Humberside as it was then. It was a beautiful Georgian house and it was reportedly haunted. They never had children of their own so had a menagerie of pets, dogs, cats, goats, peacocks...you name it, they rescued it. When we used to go and visit, one of the dogs, a border collie, was my shadow. He was the most gentle dog you could imagine but he would not go upstairs. He would sit at the foot of the staircase and growl. One day, my dad and uncle had gone into the nearest town and I stayed at home with my mum and aunt. My aunt went for a nap and I went upstairs to get some of my toys. A few minutes later, mum heard me walking around and singing to myself. She went to the foot of the stairs to listen to me singing and she saw the collie there, shaking with his tail between his legs. She cuddled him to calm him down and then heard someone start to sing with me. My aunt was fast asleep and there was nobody else in the house. Then she heard me talking to someone and two sets of footsteps come to the top of the stairs but she could only see me. As I came downstairs I asked my mum who the lady was that was stood next to me...but there was nobody there. My aunt and uncle decided to look into the history of the house and they found that one of the previous vicar's who had once lived there, was married with 9 children. One year there was an epidemic of some kind (possibly influenza) and all of their children died. Every single one of them. The lady who I saw, had and has been seen many times since and it's supposedly the mother of the children who died.

My uncle never actually saw the lady but he did hear her a few times. One night, one of the cats had got upstairs into my uncle's bedroom (they weren't allowed in the bedrooms) and he felt the cat jump up on his bed. He decided just this once he'd let the cat stay there but in the darkness, this voice said 'get down from there, you're not allowed in here' and the cat jumped down and went downstairs. It wasn't my aunt because she was snoring away oblivious to it all.

One of my cousins also heard her. He was a few years older than me and was messing about, running and vaulting over the landing and generally making a lot of noise. Suddenly he came tearing downstairs looking like he'd seen a ghost. He said he'd been about to do something a bit dangerous when a lady spoke to him in a very stern voice and said 'get down from there you stupid boy'. He was convinced it must have been his parents or my aunt and uncle but none of them had left the room. He never went upstairs again either.

My dad who didn't believe in ghosts, would wake my mum in the night to go with him to the toilet in that house and would insist on every light being switched on because he was so spooked...yet he was adamant he didn't believe in ghosts.

I also had a very strange dream which I can still picture in my mind now even though I was 6 when it happened (I'm 38 now). In my 'dream' I saw my Grandad, he was stood in a pub drinking a pint and he had his hat on (he always wore a hat when he went out, very similar to a trilby). As he lifted his pint he fell to the floor and I woke up screaming. Mum and dad rushed into my bedroom and I was sat upright staring straight ahead looking at my grandad and absolutely terrified. They couldn't see him and it confused them because my Grandad was alive. The settled me back to sleep and an hour later, just past midnight, the phone rang...it was the hospital. My Grandad had been into the pub for his nightly pint and had suddenly collapsed and died just as he lifted his pint, about an hour previously.

LilQueenie · 28/11/2016 13:35

I tend to wake up abruptly with a strange feeling of peace/awareness then fall asleep again at the time people have died. I'm an insomniac at the best of times and when I wake up I normally cannot get back to sleep.

LilQueenie · 28/11/2016 13:56

The same voice that told me to 'get out of bed' was the one I heard years later too. I had been in constant pain for months and thanks to doctor negligence ended up in A&E and under surveliance of a cancer specialist till they could book me in for a laparotomy. Thankfully not cancer in the end but I did have an ovarian cyst that shadowed most of my uterus on the scan. I had to wait a few days and in that time was told I may have the left ovary removed due to damage. I lay in bed thinking and worrying. The voice I believe is my spirit guide and I asked for a sign that it was going to be ok as there was still at that point a chance of cancer being found. also asking if the ovary will be removed. I heard plain as day 'No they will take the other one' Confused I honestly did not expect to hear anything but took it as a comfort and a then dismissed it as the specialist clearly knew better than spirit.... Hmm they always prove me wrong. Me nil spirit countless points! The day arrives and I wake up and the surgeon goes over what happened. Then says he removed the right ovary. I sat bold upright despite clips and stitches and panicked. As it turns out they did left the left one in as the cyst was attached to the other but had swung around the back of my uterus and envoloped the other side so on scan it looked like it was growing on the opposite side. half an hour later I remember the voice and what it said. It had been right again.

There were a few other things happened to me around this event too.

BigBlink · 28/11/2016 14:19

I've just remembered another one although it didn't happen to me, it was my Aunt (the one who lived in the haunted vicarage). The previous house they lived in was an old 17th century converted inn, also haunted (they moved before I was born so I'll have to ask my mother for the stories in that house). She was driving on her way home from work one evening when she passed a friend going in the opposite direction at quite a slow speed. She waved but he didn't see her and she said he looked right through her. They were going slow enough for her to see that he was soaking wet and had water dripping from him and his hair was stuck to his head and he looked deathly pale. When she finally got home, she phoned his house to check he was okay because she was worried that he didn't look well at all. His wife answered and said he hadn't come home yet and she was getting very worried. The next day, she phoned my aunt... he had drowned in a tragic accident an hour before my aunt saw him 'driving home'.

seastargirl · 28/11/2016 14:47

We drive past a cemetery about once a month. We've never been in it and never talked about it although I'm aware my grandparents who I never met and their 2 year old little boy are buried there.

One day driving past my 3 year old son says he doesn't like it in there (pointing at the cemetery) it's always cold and the lady won't stop crying, it really freaks me out!

Clankboing · 28/11/2016 17:18

When I was a young girl during the late '70s me, my younger brother and a small group of neighbouring children, were playing in the street. It was twilight. We noticed a light high above us, and it was moving along above us, parallel with our street. We all followed it laughing, running up the street. We stopped at the top of our street and the light stopped. We went down the street and it followed us. This happened a few times. My dad arrived home from work and got out of his car. We showed him what was happening. It continued for another 5 minutes. It was too high to be a helicopter and completely silent. Very mysterious.

Tropezienne · 28/11/2016 18:02

I was at a madrassah in West Africa when I was a girl. Horrible, oppressive environment and I hated every minute of it, so much. This was 1977/78.

At dusk one, very exceptional evening, we were allowed to go for a walk in the grounds. There was about 30 of us. We were running and messing about (big taboo). About 6 of us we're a bit more excited and rebellious than most and we ran to the small river that ran behind the school, we waded in the water and were splashing each other having a great laugh - when I noticed one girl that was as still as statue and staring straight ahead.

Above the water, ahead of us about 20/30 meters there was an oblong object, shaped like a paper envelope and glowing different colours. It was about 5 meters wide and 2 in height. It was thin and shining and it was hovering silently and rotating slowly. We watched for about 3 minutes and were just totally stunned silent. I remember as we started getting more scared and unnerved a couple of girls started preying out loud we were getting out the water and as it started rotating quicker and quicker and after about a minute of that, it went up, up slowly then and away at really lightning speed .

I know it sounds crazy and I wouldn't believe it either. But we thought it was sent from God or a message from the Prophet or some shit like that. We were crying and emotional because we knew that we dare not say anything to the teachers for fear of punishment. Its hard to describe the fear and confusion when you are in such a place as that school. We never spoke of it.

We didnt tell all 6 of us, saw it. We just ran and we were so amazed because remember this was a incredibly strict environment .

Tropezienne · 28/11/2016 18:04

Oh wow just seen Clanks post. How odd the coincidence? That's a bit wwooo in itself no??

Tropezienne · 28/11/2016 18:06

'Praying' not - preying out loud - sorry

Clankboing · 28/11/2016 20:41

Too many coincidences there Tropezienne!

ApollO88 · 29/11/2016 08:08

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Fintress · 29/11/2016 08:29

I don't belive in supernatural stuff or ghosts but Sunday past was the 4th anniversary of our little dog being PTS. Anyway, we were dog sitting a friends' little dog for a few weeks and on that evening at 9pm she started growling, barking and jumping back from the kitchen door, she wouldn't go in. Every night for a few nights she started doing the same thing at exactly the same time, taking to hiding behind the wall and peeking in, growling etc. Eventually I said out loud 'it's okay M, she's only visiting' (felt like an idiot!) and she never once did it again. Even my husband said it was spooky.

Halle71 · 29/11/2016 09:40

Last October DS (then 2) woke screaming and crying his heart out at about 3am. This was (and still is) completely unheard of as he's either dead to the world or creeps quietly into our bed, so we ran to him, hearts pounding. Between sobs he told us the aeroplane crashed. He was completely inconsolable.
When we got up a couple of hour later we saw the news and the Egypt Air plane had crashed in the early hours.
I don't even know where he got the concept of a plane crash - we fly a lit as my husband is kiwi so it's the last thing we would talk about.

TheDollyLlama · 29/11/2016 12:12

Ooh I have a strange one. I currently live in my partners nans place (she is in a home, doesn't know who she is and I've never met her). His cousin and his family lived in here before us.

His grandad has passed and his nan hasn't lived here for years.

The week after we moved in, we were due to go on holiday so I asked my 2 best friends to just swing by every now and again to check the place was ok.

I came back, all was fine. About 3 weeks later, quite sheepishly they mentioned something had happened while I'd been away. They'd been sitting in the living room having a chat when they heard a blood curdling female voice scream from somewhere in the house. They knew full well it was empty as they'd just checked and ran out as fast as they could!

They weren't sure whether to tell me or not, but I've had no strange occurrences happen in the 6 months I've lived here (but had some very strange incidents elsewhere which I may mention later once I've read through the thread) and I believe them as they looked terrified when they told me!

I wonder who, or what was in my house Hmm

Flowerfae · 29/11/2016 13:38

I was with a paranormal investigation team and there have been a few things which were very strange, mostly in a big old house in north wales we used to run public investigations at. The strange things that happened included figures being seen, curtains (which are very heavy velvet curtains on the four poster beds) moving like someone is lifting them a bit to peek around. One of the team I was with was setting up tech equipment in one of the upstairs room and heard a voice right next to him telling him to leave the house. Another night (actually the week after Most Haunted had been at the house, so I blame them :P ) we were packing the equipment up after a public investigation, there were a few people left who had been on the investigation with us and we were talking to them as we were packing up. We heard a woman sobbing, it was also like it was echoing, it was loud enough for us all to stop talking and what we were doing and listen. We went into the hall way as it seemed to be louder from upstairs, the wooden stairs all started creaking, not normal creaking of settling of wood but a lot of loud creaking at the same time and the sound of someone on the landing area upstaires. We did go and have a good look around the house just to make sure it wasn't anyone that had got hurt, but we didn't really think it was because of how it sounded. Didn't hear it again though.

There is something in our house that we see very often. I don't think its bad but it does very odd things. I was sat on the landing folding washing years ago when my eldest DS was 4. I saw his feet and started talking to him, he didn't answer but that was normal then as he was mostly non-verbal (he has autism) I looked up slightly at him so I could see he was there, then looked down again to carry on folding things whilst talking to him, looked up again really quickly and he wasn't there. He was downstairs. Whatever it was, was exactly like him, down to wearing the same clothes. This is not usual behaviour from what I know from (the very very few) mediums that I've worked with and actually do trust have said. Ghosts don't disguise themselves because they are just a recording on repeat and Spirits don't usually disguise themselves unless they are up to no good :\ I think if I would of just seen it as it is, it wouldn't of scared me as much, even though it was really close to me, it was that it was exactly like DS that gave me the creeps.

We have been sat downstairs and have heard someone walking around upstairs and also heard the door handle which is really stiff and creaks when its pulled down on one of the bedroom doors, go down and then flick loudly back up again.

We don't talk about what happens much to the children but they are aware, I don't want to scare them otherwise they would never go to bed.

This morning DD (who is 11) was getting ready for school and she was in the bathroom upstairs, she shouted down the stairs 'mum there's someone in my bedroom he's looking at my bed' :\ I just said 'oh.. ok .. it might just be your imagination as its quite dark in your room with the curtains shut..' She said 'no. I saw it .. I was looking at it' so I've just told her not to worry and that it doesn't mean any harm. Fingers crossed she goes to bed tonight. She should do though, she didn't seem that fussed.

murmuration · 29/11/2016 15:48

Regarding picking things up in strange items, we used to be able to pick up cable TV via the TV antenna. No idea how, but it clearly was cable-only channels and how you moved the antenna affected the reception. They were pretty grainy but they were there. My only guess is that it was in a block of flats, and maybe so many people had cable that it was somehow being transmitted. I don't know enough about radio waves or the cable signals to understand how, though.

And oh, regarding kids and past life memories. I've said this elsewhere, but I actually remember these from my childhood. I think there is at least one other person on MN (perhaps two), who does as well. I remember a different family and a different home; at this point they are only small snippets, but I do remember my mother fussing at me to stop asking to go to the relative's with the swimming pool as we didn't have one! And they are all little-kid perspective memories, like adults legs around the swimming pool but no faces because they were too high up and table tops at eye level. No clue, really, what to think of it. It was only watching a TV programme about these type of memories as an adult that I was suddenly able to categorise these 'false memories' as I considered them as this.

lilyb84 · 29/11/2016 20:52

I'm still only on about p15 of this but will share some of my own before carrying on reading!

Has anyone else experienced heightened sensitivity or maybe just weird perception of things while pregnant? I had a lot more coincidences occur than usual, eg suddenly thinking I should tell DH - who never loses anything - to look after his keys, not saying anything, only for him then to lose his keys somewhere between home and work. I also constantly saw stuff out of the corner of my eye. What really freaked me out though was coming home one night last winter when I was probably about 7 months pregnant. I was on a bus, at the back of the top deck, no one else upstairs with me. Rang the bell to get off and started walking down the stairs, glanced at the CCTV as I did so, and it clearly showed someone else getting up from the back of the upper deck and walking towards the stairs. And it definitely wasn't a delayed image of me as they were dressed completely differently. Then as I walked down the street towards my house, the streetlights started going out one by one.... I was proper scared by the time I got home but nothing seemed to follow me into the house thank goodness!

When I was very young, probably around 3 or 4, I lived on the south coast, near Pevensey. One night I was in bed and my parents were downstairs watching TV. I heard footsteps coming up the stairs and got up to see who it was - I saw a soldier marching up the stairs and was so terrified I ran straight back to bed and hid under the covers. I was aware of him standing at the door but when I looked there was no one there. I wish I remembered more details of his uniform etc but the area has seen a lot of battles so I guess it could have been from a number of different eras! Or just a very vivid dream but since I also remember very vivid dreams from the same time, this experience felt real.

In the house I grew up in from 7 years old to 17, there was a lot of weird activity which was experienced by my whole family. Even my mum says she often saw stuff out of the corner of her eye and she's probably the least woo person I know! Things would go missing and turn up in the same place weeks later, we all at times saw stuff in our peripheral vision, figures walking into rooms only for the rooms to be empty etc. One night when I was around 10 I was in the bathroom getting ready for bed. I heard computer sounds - beeping and tapping - and papers shuffling coming from my dad's office down the hallway and thought I'd say goodnight to him. As I walked towards the room I realised something was wrong - the light was off an it was empty! On another night I was lying in bed, feeling quite scared as I was scared of the dark. Suddenly this light appeared in the doorway, like a column of blurry white light, and started moving towards me. I felt this total calm come over me, rolled over and went to sleep!

My MIL was a conservator for the National Trust and used to live in one of the properties for a while. She's decidedly non-woo (I take it back about my own mum - MIL is definitely the least woo person EVER) but apparently in one particular bedroom she'd go in and make sure it was all tidy and ready for the days visitors, only to go in again shortly afterwards to find the bed all messed up! No one else in the property and this was before visitor times. Frankly if something like that has happened to her I'm inclined to believe there might just be something in ghost stories after all...

lilyb84 · 29/11/2016 20:58

Like other posters I've also had what felt like prophetic dreams. When I was 13 I dreamt that Princess Di died and so did my mum as she had the same name. Needless to say when Di did actually die a month later I was terrified my mum was in danger too.

I've experienced sleep paralysis and it's absolutely horrible so sympathy to those who get it regularly. Fortunately I've not had it in a while but every month or two I have a horrible nightmare, the details will often be different but the main element is what I can only describe as an evil entity. In my nightmare it will be controlling me, either throwing me around the room or holding me down, and I'll be screaming but no sound will come out, and am completely powerless. I always wake in absolute terror. I wonder if it's actually sleep paralysis and I'm just experiencing the end part of it as I wake up?

lilyb84 · 29/11/2016 21:13

One more!! Not woo per se but I have two sisters, the youngest is quite a lot younger than me. I guess I was always very protective of her in more of a maternal than sisterly way so as a child/teenager would often be scared of anything happening to her.

Anyway, after I'd left home I went back for Christmas one year - I'd have been 19 I guess. I was staying at my dad's house where I'd probably only slept about twice so it was a bit of a weird nights sleep in a strange place. I dreamt about my little sister's death as a young child and woke really sad, thinking it was cruel of my memory to go over the whole thing again at Christmastime. It wasn't until a good half an hour later when I was having breakfast with my dad and he mentioned my sister that I remembered she was of course very much alive and a healthy child of 9! I couldn't believe how a dream had totally altered my perception of reality.

PinkyPie2012 · 30/11/2016 00:26

I got a spooky story too. It happened about years ago before me and my DH had kids.
We moved in together into new house. Few months after that we had a massive argument and we didn't talk to each other, my husband (we were not married yet back then) stayed at his parents house for a couple of days (they live near by). His parents were away on holiday at that time so they had no idea. I had to go to work for a couple of hours in the evening so I thought I will have a nap during the day. So I was sleeping upstairs and got woken up of the noise in the house. I knew my boyfriend has come over to house, I could hear him walking downstairs, doing stuff ect. Then I heard him talking on the phone, from his conversation I understood that his mate has invited him to come over to the pub for some drinks in the evening, he said ok I will be there at 6. Then I heard him leaving, locking the door behind him, getting in the car and driving off. Then I went to the window to have a look, his car was gone and I started to get ready for work.
So next day we exchanged some messages and decided to stop this fighting, finally met each other, started to talk again, everything was ok. Then somehow in conversation I mentioned that I was at home and awake when I heard him speaking on the phone and heard conversation about him meeting his friend at the pub at 6. He looked at me very confused like he didn't have a clue what I was talking about. Turns out he was never at the house that day at all, he was staying a his parents house all this time and went to pub at 6 and then met his friend there. I said no I heard you, how would I know then where he was and what time? He checked his phone thinking maybe he is going crazy and don't remember doing stuff, he didn't even had any incoming or outgoing calls that day! To this day he thinks I was asleep and having a dream but I know that I was wide awake.

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