To ask you to reccomend or tell me true stories of the strange and unusual? Not paranormal....just strange!

[MrsOverTheRoad]

Please?

I love an "odd" story...things that are just a bit weird or unexplained but not really ghosty.

Also, husband knocks at the front door after work. I answer and turn around and walk back in to the dining room as he closes the door (as I walk back in I am facing our back door-- small Victorian terrace). I turn back around to him and we chat (I am now facing the front door and he is facing the back door). He turns away to chat to the dog, I turn around and the back door is wide open.
Now I know for a fact that he'd shut the front door while I was still walking towards the back door so I would have seen it open if it was one of those weird suction things that happen. Hubby swears blind it was shut when he was talking to me.
This is a double glazed glass door that we very rarely use (we have a kitchen door) with a lock that sticks and is difficult to unlock and is usually noisy to open. It happened silently in a split second.
One morning I came downstairs and could hear the outside as if a window was open. Followed the sound and found this door open again. It was open about an inch but it definitely wasn't like this the night before.
Other than this touch wood nothing weird has ever happened in our house. I wouldn't say it was spooky.

The story of Andrew McCrew is interesting if not woo.

Back in the 60s/70s there was a store in the states selling stuff bought at auctions and the like. A generally junk shop. They bought a load of stuff from a travelling fair that was packing up.
One thing was a kind of mummy. It was like a skeleton but with still skin on it.
They assumed it made from chicken wire and plaster.
It wasn’t. It was a man.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/don-mclean.com/2017/01/29/the-legend-of-andrew-mccrew/amp/

I had a very intense dream that I was standing in my kitchen, wearing a long white dress with a train on it and the train suddenly floated up in the air on it's own.

I was pointing to it as it hovered in mid-air to my DD who just smiled at me and nodded in a weirdly sage kind of fashion.

The train continued to rise until I myself rose...into the air! I remember feeling exhilerated as I floated...then I began to fly at speed across the room toward the wall and I shouted "I'm going too fast!"

Then I woke up with a sort of WHUMP feeling in my chest as though someone had punched me!

I was so shaken I had to wake DH up!

I heard this one only this week and think it's lovely. Earlier in the year my DParents went on holiday. Where they stayed was about to be hit with some extreme weather, so their travel company evacuated them in a hurry. They thought they'd packed everything, but on the way to the airport DM suddenly realised she'd left an expensive piece of jewellery behind in the hotel room drawer and a search through their bags whilst they waited for a flight home seemed to confirm this.

When they got home they rang the hotel who said it was not there. DM unpacked everything and all jewellery was accounted for except this one thing. It was incredibly difficult to prove, and as it wasn't in the hotel safe they didn't make a claim on their insurance. DM was kicking herself for months.

Fast forward to this week and DM was having a bit of a tidy out of a cupboard she's not seen the back of for a while, since well before the holiday, prior to some redecorating. At the back are some dusty old jewellery boxes, mostly bits that belonged to her DM that she doesn't wear as they're dated, so she opens them to have a look for sentimental reasons.

And inside one was the piece of jewellery she had been missing!

She has no idea how it got in the box, in the cupboard when her regular jewellery goes in a secure jewellery case in another part of the house.

My first reaction was to suggest she never took it on holiday with her, until she showed me her Facebook profile picture taken the night before they were evacuated - clearly showing her wearing the item!!! .

She doesn't believe in woo, but as it was with her DM's jewellery I suggested DGM may be behind it. She just laughed at me.

I love this thread.

I've got a weird coincidence one. A couple of years ago I became text/ phone friends with a guy on an online dating site. One night I was telling him about a school friend who had died of cancer aged 15 and he was telling me about his cousin who had also died of cancer. I noticed some similarities in the two stories so I asked what his cousin's name was. It turned out we were talking about the same girl and my friend was his cousin. He sent me some pics of her and it was nice to see her face again.

When we first moved into our current house, the shed key totally disappeared. It had been in the shed lock, so we assumed the kids had hid it outside as the they were outside and the door shut when the key disappeared. We looked all over, but there was no sign of the key.

A week or so later, I let ds outside and I go put my shoes on, he reappears seconds later in the doorway with the key, totally clean and dry even though it was raining. No idea where the key was, but glad he found it!

What the funfair hanged man 'dummy' that turned out to be a real body?

Elmer McCurdy

I also like the Kersey timeslip story. Debunked with the explanation 'it wasn't the middle ages, that's just Suffolk for you'

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-three-british-boys-traveled-to-medieval-england-or-did-they-35698485/

I collect old books, I bought one online and an old picture of a girl fell out. she's the spitting image of my daughter, if it was a modern photo rather than one probably from the thirties/forties it could be the same child.

The Spongebob creepypasta always freaks
me out. The whole thing would be classed as far too triggering for here. (Suicide, child death) so I’m not going to link it.

I read that Spongebob thing.
It’s just a load of nonsense.

I know it’s a load of nonsense, that’s what a creepypasta is!

When I lived alone, a few things happened that made me uncomfortable.

I once got into bed and something felt odd. I turned the lights back on and realised all of my pillow cases had been taken off and laid back on top of the pillows. I dismissed it thinking I must have done it the previous night in my sleep.

A few months later, I got home after being away for a week to find a vase belonging to my mum that I had borrowed in the middle of the hallway. I called my mum laughing that she had obviously gone to collect it but then put it down on her way out and forgotten it. She hadn’t been over. I wondered if I could have done it without realising so put it out of my mind.

The last thing that happened made me realise it was not me. To keep my electricity bill down, I would always turn all electrical appliances off at the wall before leaving the house except for the fridge/freezer. I got home one day after work, reached behind the tv and switched the plug back on and sat down with the remote. I pressed power but nothing happened. Confused, I looked behind the tv and the actual plug was out. I realised that all the plugs were out in the whole flat. I sat trying to think of a logical explanation when I got a text from my friend who lived below me. She asked if I was ok because she had heard me home from work earlier.

I called the police and they came over and dusted for finger prints. Nothing was taken and no prints were found but they agreed I was right to get it checked. I didn’t feel comfortable about it still so I got a locksmith to come out. I didn’t mention to him why I was getting my locks changed but he said, ‘can I ask why you’re changing them?’ I just said a few things had happened that made me not feel 100% secure and he said he thought I should see something. Around the handle and lock panel were lots of tiny scratches and dents. He looked at me and said, ‘someone has taken that lock completely out a few times’.

ScarletSiena did you ever have any idea of who you thought it could have been? That's so creepy

I had a very weird experience walking home late one night.
My old school dated back to the late 19th century, about 5 years ago the building was knocked down and the school relocated to a new building - the site of the old school now has houses on. I walked past the new estate in very murky weather this particular night and instead of a row of neat new houses I saw very clearly the side of the old school with the large distinctive windows and lights shining through from what would have been one of the classrooms. It lasted maybe 10 seconds, probably less and was obviously just me being very tired and seeing what I wanted to see but freaked me out a little!

It wasn’t even good nonsense though.

Scarlet that is proper creepy. Do you live there still?

Weird one happened this morning,

Around 7.30 was listening to Radio 2 and Chris Evans was saying ‘Adrian, Adrian, Adrian’ quite a few times as someone had text in called Adrian and he was being funny about the text. Not that strange, apart from, my husband died eight years ago this morning, he was called Adrian.

Demi and Hiding-no idea who it was but it stopped after I had called the police. Obviously the locks being changed alone wouldn’t have stopped it as they were getting in by taking it all out so I can only assume they were put off. Which also means they must have been watching what was going on and that is also a bit creepy.

I no longer live there but weirdly I was never that scared when I did-I didn’t let myself think about it too much which now sounds odd even to me!

I had very unnerving experiences with sleep paralysis, which I always thought were just bad dreams. As a child, I would wake up, unable to move, and hear an old woman muttering in my room. I would be terrified and try to scream but couldn't. I was convinced a witch lived in our house! As I got older, the experiences got worse - always starting with waking unable to move and hearing voices but then progressing to feeling as though someone was getting into the bed next to me or pulling my feet or hands or sitting on my chest/stomach. I would also get this bizarre tingling sensation at the same time. Anyway, one day I read an article on sleep paralysis and realised that's what it was! I don't get it so much anymore and now I know what it is I'm not as scared by it. I always wonder though if this is the root of some of the alien/supernatural stories you hear where people are convinced something really is harrassing them - it does feel very real when it happens!

We got a young skitty rescue dog who wasn't to be housed with children under the age of 8, this was fine as our children were older. The following year I fell pregnant. We worried about how Ddog would be, but we needn't have worried. From the start she adored Ds and was very protective of him.
As Ds got older he would go to the shops for me always with Ddog trotting beside him. He went one day and was back just a few minutes later. he said Ddog had got to the top of the road and refused to go down the next one. This was all very odd she had never refused a walk before and nothing Ds did would persuade her to continue.
So Ds went on his own, only to return a few minutes later very shaken. A car had mounted the pavement and smashed into the wall of a house down the road that Ddog had refused to walk down.

Scarlett, I think what the locksmith meant was that previous tenants have also replaced the lock a lot? As in they've been experiencing the same stuff you have and followed the same course of action by getting the locks changed?

I had the '" waking up bouncing" thing once Lana except I was on the floor not the bed. Turned out to be an earthquake ( I was in Tokyo at the time). Very strange feeling!

Ten-it was a new build and he said that it had been taken off and put back on a few times. Only I had lived there. He told me to update the police with the info and said he’d never seen anything like it.

These new build type locks are very easy to remove if you know what you are doing. There are youtube videos about it. We looked into it as we had a broken lock and thought we might be able to just buy a new cylinder and do it ourselves - it was quite shocking actually. In the end we got a locksmith out and he recommended a different type of lock (which we didn't get done).