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.

After my grandma died my mother took a lot of her furniture in including a display cabinet which had various family momentous in it and my grandmothers alarm clock.

Approx 3 years had passed and one night we heard an alarm going off in the house, we initially thought it was the house alarm but then discovered it was the alarm clock, the logical explaination was that after 3 years of the front door closing the alarm handle had dropped fractionally each time until the alarm had gone off, brilliant logic but the only problem was you had to push the alarm arm up to set it off, to this day I have no idea how it could have happened.

Several times at my Parents home we’ve found cigarette butts of the brand she used to smoke in the garden where she sat, no one is able to access the garden without family knowledge but I suppose birds could have dropped them?

Whilst working in a local pub there were several strange occurnaces, whilst on the bar we could hear footsteps moving around the owners flat directly above however the owner and his partner were in the kitchen cooking....
Just after closing time I saw someone walk around the snooker table, when I shouted they needed to leave there was no reply, I went to look and there was no one where but I definitely saw someone walk that way.

Come to think of it there were a lot of strange events in that pub, which happened whilst sober!

My grandparents moved into a flat after they married in the 1930s. They took up the limo in the kitchen to replace it and under the lino were sheets of newspaper from 20 years previously and smiling up from a photo on one of the pages was my Grandma as a child.

eee ScarletSienna that's so creepy!

I don't think this is paranormal per se but I've never been able to explain it...

Before she had me and when she was pregnant, my DM lived in a little village. There was quite a large fairly fundamentalist religious community nearby and the ladies would sometimes knock on doors selling wool, craft things etc. Mum isn't religious but regularly bought wool and had a nice chat with one of the ladies. A couple of weeks after I was born, the lady arrived at the door. DM said "oh would you like to see my baby?" and invited her in. The woman looked into my cot, apparently started screaming that "she is not one of us" and legged it from the house. No one from that community ever came back.

It was a mildly funny story I got told when I was an older child - ha ha, devil child - kind of thing.

years later I had moved to a city in a different bit of the country. One of my new neighbours mentioned that there was a community of the same religion that did "door to doors" a lot. One afternoon I was at home, someone knocked, it was a woman who held out the religion's pamphlet, then looked up at me, gasped, said "you're not one of us" and started backing down the steps. I was freaked out for weeks.

DP reckons they do that to freak out anyone they just don't like the look of, but it hasn't happened to any of my neighbours as far as I know! When I told my DM she just said "well when you were a moody teenager I always told you that you were spawn of satan"

If anyone has any explanations I'd love to hear them!

Scary I wonder if the line runs from St Luke’s church? Next time I’m there I’ll be looking at Bold street with a very fresh eye!

@marriageoftrueminds I’m not sure if anything else happened and I was just unaware of it but those three things were so unmissable and unexplainable (well they were)! I owned the flat but I did call the leaseholder and builders to check no one had retained a key before I knew that entry wasn’t being gained using one. It was actually nice to get unbiased confirmation from the locksmith that someone had been going in and doing it rather than me imagining it. Wax I didn’t realise it was so easy to get in to new builds!

I do wonder sometimes how they knew when I was out as it happened. The flats backed onto woodland and my imagination puts someone up one of the trees as they’d then have a direct view into what was my bedroom. To the front were super expensive town houses and only one could see into mine.

Since my mum died, I've attached significance to the 3 digit number of a bus we used to get when I was younger.

This year I was very upset during the penultimate night of our stressful holiday and had a proper cry. The next day we booked into a hotel (already arranged, not a "right! We're leaving!" sort of way) and the number of our room was my significant number. Nice coincidence, made me feel like she was saying "I know, I'm here.

This summer we stayed in a 14th century farmhouse in Normandy. There were nine of us staying there and a couple of us shared a wardrobe that was built into the wall of the hallway outside our bedrooms. I hung a couple of summer dresses in there on the first day when I was unpacking but most of my clothes I kept in my room.

One evening I was in my bedroom getting ready to go out and grabbed my blazer off the back of a chair. I only own one and had no other jacket with me and I'd been using it regularly. I was about to leave the room with my blazer and my bag when I remembered my phone charging next to the bed. Chucked the stuff I was carrying on the bed and unplugged my phone, put it in my bag and gathered up my things - except my blazer was nowhere to be seen. I searched that room high and low but couldn't find it - I was baffled but I was being called by the others so had to leave without it.

The next morning I sat in bed completely confused about where the blazer might be and had another search - it was nowhere to be found - something in my head told me to look inside the waredrobe In the hallway - my logical brain was thinking it couldn't possibly be there because I'd only used the wardrobe once on the first day. But I checked and there it was, my blazer neatly hung up on a hanger in the waredrobe, to this day I've got no idea how it got there.

There was one other incident. The house was situated in its own grounds miles from anywhere and so we never bothered to lock the front door at night. One morning my OH and I came downstairs and my OH was complaining that the front door was locked and couldn't work out how to unlock it. I wasn't sure either but eventually we found the key hanging up on a key board in another room. We had been the last ones to go to bed the night before and had barely known about the existence of the key so we were absolutely certain we hadn't locked the front door. But maybe someone else had got up in the night and locked it. It seemed unlikely as why would they? No one had locked it previously and most of our fellow guests were our teenage kids - not generally known for their concern about security especially in the middle of the night. We checked and indeed, everyone was certain that they had remained tucked up in bed throughout the night.

I guess if you're going to have a ghost it's better to have a tidy and security conscious one.

Wax I didn’t realise it was so easy to get in to new builds!

One of the external doors in my house had the handle fitted so the screws were on the outside not the inside, very quick job to simply unscrew the handle, lift the opening mechanism and walk in...

That's without looking up youtube on how to remove a cylinder lock.

Caoraich you are a changeling.

Just read that article on Tarare like this! I can't stop thinking about it. He sounds absolutely gross

Sounds like he had some kind of endocrine disorder/disorders and maybe other conditions too.

I guess there was documentation that the story is based on due to the contact with the military and the hosptial etc?

No wonder he had the skits constantly if he was eating out the bins and gutters, regardless of his condition.

scarletsienna your story gave me the creeps. I live in new build and have heard a lot of stories about trades people who retain keys to use the toilets and in my experience on our estate there was an incident where someone thought it was their right to ransack the show home and take what they pleased when it was sold. Could.it be a neighbor who wanted your plot and trying to wind you up?

@velvet I lived in a block of 9 but in 3 threes above and below friends. There were 2 police officers in the building too which made me feel better.

Bold st, Liverpool - time slips

I lost plenty of time going up and down that street (Mardi Gras club, specifically Wednesday-student-night) but I think it was more to do with the drink than actual time slips! I never made Thursday morning lectures :(

I've just remembered when I left
my iPod on holiday. Was gutted as it was fairly new and this was pre the iPhone days so I relied on it for music. I'd searched my suitcase inside out just to double check, (there was only one very shallow pocket in there and it was empty) and put it back into the loft.

Months later I was pulling the suitcase down and straightaway heard a rattle. Opened it and there was the iPod. It was the oddest thing, there was just no logical explanation.

I've told this one before.

Years ago I was helping out with a Hallowe'en event at a local(ish) park. I'd written a spooky story based on the names of people whose house had stood on the site some 200 years or so earlier. After we'd had the story, we went out for a walk to try to find some bats, etc.
Standing outside in the courtyard, waiting for everyone to gather round I felt a distinct clip around my ear. Checked the ground to see if anything could have fallen from a tree, but no - in fact no tree overhanging the area at all. Nobody was standing close to me, and I can only assume it was some very strange bodily tic, but I've never had it since (nor had I ever had it before).

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I have one kinda like scarletsienna my sister and a group of 10 mates hired an amazing holiday villa in Spain a couple of years ago. It was in a very remote location I think she said it was 30 odd min drive to the nearest town. Anyway they decided to go out clubbing one night and came back to the whole villa ransacked. it had obviously been done over by at least 3-5 people and they had taken everything toiletries, passports, clothes, laptops,phones literally everything, food in the kitchen. The weird thing was that she kept thinking she could see someone in the distance that day. The surrounding area was like hilly mountain/ rocky area and the sun was so bright she said it was hard to really see but she swears she could see someone like you on the hill. Whoever burgled them must have been watching them. Gives me the chills.

Love this thread!
I have a couple that aren't very exciting but I'll tell them nevertheless.
One is a doppelganger too. Ever since I was about 15 people have said they saw me in places where I wasnt. The first time it happened I went to see a friend and he looked at me and just went "huh? You had red hair when I saw you this morning and you ignored me!" Obviously wasn't me and I told him that but he was absolutely adamant it was! My neighbour told me a few months ago she had waved at me in the street but i hadn't acknowledged her at all but nope, wasn't me. Even yesterday a man in the queue behind me at the garage asked if I went to a particular gym and I said "no but I do apparently have a double so it must have been her" he told me I definitely have a double. I'd love to see her, I suspect she doesn't really look like me either but it's weird to think there may be someone local who looks just like me!
Unrelated, in a house I lived in with just myself and my daughter a few years ago a lot of strange things happened. Mostly paranormal so I will leave those out, but two things stand out. One was the time I walked into the bathroom to see an intact bathroom tile right in the middle of the floor. It hadn't fallen off the wall, I hadn't ever seen it before and my daughter was staying at her dad's so it wasn't her either. Never could explain that one! Also in the same house, when I lived with my ex I had a complete set of Harry potter books. When I left him, I could never find one of them. Moved into new house with just me and dd. About a year later I was lying on my bed and needed to get a document out of a file under the bed when right at the edge of the bed was the missing HP book.

About a year later I was lying on my bed and needed to get a document out of a file under the bed when right at the edge of the bed was the missing HP book.

Love that. It's like the ghost found it like an old library book: Whoops, better give that back.

Not really the same as all of yours! But I have always thought it strange. I am a first born daughter. My first born daughter was born on the exact same day as me and we both had the exact same due date.

Not really strange but a nice coincidence one.

When I was little I always wanted a pet rabbit but was never allowed as we had lots of cats. We went to mother Shipton caves one holiday, where there is a wishing well and stuffed toys getting calcified www.mothershipton.co.uk/the-park/petrifying-well/ and I wished for a rabbit at the well.

I think on our journey back in the car I pronounced this to mum and she said something along the lines of “well it won’t come true now you’ve told your wish” and a short while later a rabbit ran right out into the road infront of us. We slammed the brakes on and watched it for a few seconds and then from round a blind bend came a massive lorry going really fast, which mum said would probably have hit us if we hadn’t stopped, what with us being on a narrow country lane. It’s quite a hazy memory, but we always thought it was a nice coincidence of my wish coming true 😊

I had a dog who was great in the car, used to go 2hr trips to the beach quite a lot, never any problems.

One night, driving back from the beach, he started going mad, crying and barking. Thinking that he needed a wee, we pulled up at the next turn off and let him out, where he did nothing and just stood there looking at us.

So we got back on the motorway and he was ok again, but not even 5 minutes down the road there had been a massive crash!

He never did it again. Ok, it could be a coincidence, but it's an amazing one!

Placemarking for midnight feeds!