To ask for your creepy, unexplainable happenings

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I know this type of thread has probably been done to death, but someone on fb shared a daily fail link yesterday about the creepy things children sometimes say. It got me thinking about strange goings on.

My eldest dd at about the age of 2 was sat playing in her room while I was putting washing away in my room. She suddenly started screaming so I ran in thinking she had hurt herself and she was wide eyed with fear. I asked her what was wrong and she said while pointing I should add " there's a man with black eyes and a hat holding a baby"

I've never walked out of a room so quickly ( backwards I should add so I didn't have to see the man) my cat also used to refuse to enter that room at all. Lots of other little things when she was pre school age.

For myself I kept smelling "death" I work in a hospital environment and do believe death or pre death to be more specific has a certain smell.
I was still living at home and for about a week everytime I walked in the front door I could smell death.
I still remember DM face everytime I announced it. Ha.
Towards the end of the week the smell was so strong. That evening I had a dream that I was in bed fast asleep and the whole house started to shake. I got up and looked out or the window to see an aeroplane about 12 feet away with people screaming at the window getting closer towards a block of flats ( there are no flats nearby)
The next day was September 11th.
I remember watching the news and thinking FUCKING hell. The dream.
Weirdly enough after that happened the smell of death went too. It still weirds me out when I think about it.
I also dreamt about the London/Birmingham riots a few years nack 2 days before they kicked off.

Do you have any odd stories to share?

Theres so much we dont understand.My mam died 18 years ago and the day she died i was due to visit her.But i couldnt.I just couldnt go to the hospital that day.

Just thought of another thing. My OH parent's died recently, within a few months of each other. My husband wanted his father's watch, which was old and valuable, but didn't work. So he took it to the jeweller's to be fixed, and it took a while as it needed to be sent to a specialist. One night , his parents appeared to him in a sort of semi dream state , and his father said crossly ' the watch is ready to be collected, you know'. He phoned the jeweller the next day, and found that it had just come back and was fixed.

Also, his Dad was on holiday in France once, and had a dream that his mother was about to die. He insisted they return home early, to find his Mother had just been taken ill, and died very suddenly.

My daughter was staying at a friend's house in Wales. Part of the house was very old, the other half had been built on. One evening the friend's parents went out, and she went up to the bathroom in the old part of the house to use the loo. She saw a girl in old fashioned clothes standing in the room, who gradually faded away as she looked at her.

A couple of mine.

A few years ago, at the time I had one DS age 3 and had a MC a few months earlier. I was overjoyed to discover I was PG again and visited my Nan to give her the good news. She went cold, didn't congratulate me, asked me lots of questions about ante natal testing etc. I was pissed off with her for being less than enthusiastic but put it down to her quirky ways. My DM spoke to her later about it and Nan told my DM that she had a really bad feeling about it. Again we dismissed it and carried on with life.

Sadly my 20 week scan showed anomalies and my baby died at 21 weeks. My Name was distraught and apologised but said she had a feeling all along. I got PG again a year later and she was so excited for me, despite me being over 40 by then she knew this baby would be fine, sure enough he is climbing over me watching Paw Patrol 🙂

Another one, I traveled 300 miles to attend my best friends funeral. dS1 was only 2 at the time so he stayed at home.with DH. At the exact moment the funeral started he turned to DH and said 'mummy is crying'

Love things like this. I have a bit of a sixth sense. One night when I was younger I couldn't settle and told my mum I felt like something was going to happen. My brother ended up being rushed to hospital with breathing difficulties. I know when people are pregnant before they are and always have a feeling when close friends go into labour. I keep thinking about my grandad recently who has been poorly and has just gone to Thailand for a couple of weeks, I keep trying to put my mind at ease by saying it's because he's away I'm worried.

When DS1 was about 2 I was making him laugh rocking him on my knee and singing “you are my sunshine” to him. Suddenly we both went from feeling very very happy and laughing to feeling so sad. For some reason as I was singing the thought came into my head that he was a young man going to war in WW2 and I knew I wouldn’t see him again. He also just suddenly looked really upset out of nowhere and stared intensely into my eyes and said “Mum.....” as if in desperation.

It was horrible and I had to suddenly stop the song and go downstairs with him to watch Thomas the Tank Engine to change the mood.

That was about 12 years ago and I can remember it like it was yesterday. Very odd.

I suppose it can be explained away though. The expression on my face as I was thinking of wartime mothers bidding their soldier sons goodbye could have given away the fact I was feeling sad, and rubbed off on him. But it was strange and came out of nowhere and our connection felt so intense.

My cousin died a week after my daughter was born. She died by suicide and it really rocked the family. She loved children, would have played with them all day long and was very attentive to babies.
When dd used to sit in her high chair in the kitchen, if my back was turned she would go into fits of laughter. I'd turn around and she would be staring up into the corner of the room. If I tried to film it in my phone, she stopped! The minute I put my phone down, she started again!
I believe it was my cousin playing with her!

A few things; when my younger dsis was in the first year of high school, a girl in her year, but not in her classes told her some things about our family that we didn't know. She told dsis that she always had a man with her and described our grandad, including the zip up cardigan with elbow patches he used to wear. She also said that he was with a black dog with a blue tongue. I asked my mum later whether her childhood dog had a blue tongue and she said that he did.

A couple of times I have seen someone out of the corner of eye and seen the clothes they are wearing, but on turning around they weren't there.

Shortly after my nan died, I was lying in bed thinking of her, I felt someone stroking my hair. Even though I knew DH was in the bathroom, I still turned around to check whether it was him.

This involved my mobile and if anyone can explain it, I’d be grateful.

DH walks the dogs early morning across the fields before work while I’m usually still in bed.

He was still out with dogs one day when I woke up, checked my phone and saw I had a voicemail. It was a man saying ‘mumble mumble .... this is a secret’ slight pause then a woman said, ‘can’t talk, catch you later.’

It was from my DH’s number but it was definitely not his very distinctive voice! Yet the woman sounded a bit like me.

When DH got back I asked why he’d phoned me, he said he hadn’t.
Freaked me out a bit but I still can’t understand how it was possible to get two voices on the voicemail and who they could have been?

Is there a call record on dh s phone for that time?

Most likely explanation is that he bum-dialled you in the presence of one or more people speaking

That’s what I thought too. His phone record showed he’d called me. But the likelihood of there being two others nearby at the time are remote.

As is the location he walks the dogs.

This was about three years ago and nothing like it since.

I have another! Not sure what happened but it was a bit weird!
A few years ago I was walking through Cardiff city centre with my mum, we'd gone relatively early for some shopping. There wasn't that many people about as it was a weekday too so most people were in work. We cut through past the side of the stadium and there was nobody around but us and I honestly believe I heard the national anthem being sung and a crowd cheering. Except the stadium wasn't in use and there was nobody else around. I asked my mum did she hear but she didn't and looked at me like I was going mad so maybe it was me hearing things...

This one popped into my head as we are playing today and I'm sat with my mum as I type this, c'mon Wales.

As a teen on holiday on a Greek island with my family, I visited lots of ancient ruins (amphitheatres, temples etc.) In one of them I suddenly had a very strong 'memory' of pouring wine over a stone as a libation to the gods.

It's almost certainly because I was obsessed with the Iliad, in fact anything to do with the Trojan War, and had devoured all the Mary Renault books about Greece. But at that precise moment I would have sworn I was recalling something I had actually done before. It was a very physical sensation of heat, the smell of wine, the texture of stone, etc. The mind is a very strange thing.

I was 9 weeks pregnant when I woke up in the middle of the night and I knew I wasn't pregnant anymore. I miscarried exactly 24 hours later. The two days before that feeling, my dog had been strangely agitated.

Some of these are very touching.

I had dreams about the Arndale Centre and people running before the Manchester bombings too (I spent a lot of time in Manchester as a student).

I often think of people/know I'll see them just before I do.

I had a dream of fil, he had been taken into hospital before for several small strokes. I dreamt I came downstairs and saw him outside the kitchen window, he seemed younger and was standing (I had only seen him sat in his wheelchair). It seemed a very peaceful dream. The next day, dp was called to visit him in hospital as his condition deteriorated and he died that day.

My grandfather told me that he was about to die. 1/2 an hour later he was dead.

I've had so many it freaks me out!

I "hallucinate" almost every single night. It's never anything specific, I just see things like random shapes or pictures that appear in the same place each night and every so often it'll change. While they aren't scary, I always get an uneasy feeling from them and either hide or try to snap out of them. I can remember clear as day each time. Anyway, one night on holiday, I started hallucinating (I hadn't for a good week or so this time round) and for the first time I felt peaceful. This bright light which turned into an angel shape rolled its arms and placed a baby infront of me. It then crumbled away and the light disappeared. I remember being absolutely fascinated by it, and 2 days later when we got home I took a pregnancy test which was positive! Unfortunately a few days later I started bleeding and lost the pregnancy (the crumbling away part coming in to it maybe?!)

I've had a vivid gory dream that our cat had ripped its stomach open. The next day he didn't come home for ages and we found him at the bottom of the garden. He'd got stuck trying to get through somewhere and it had cut his tummy open! We got him to the vets and all was well thankfully after an op.

I also have "feelings" about certain places and people. The most bizarre random one was one time we were driving through a different part of town and we drove past this random nursery. I got a strong feeling an old friends child went there (no where near where we lived so no reason to think she'd send them there). About a year later we got back in touch and after a day out I went with her to pick her dd up from nursery - the nursery we drove past!

I also remember when I was a child we once were on a day out I think? Or a holiday in this country, and we drove through this town. Never ever been there before but we passed this old fancy building and I had a really strong sense of being there before. Even though I never had. The strange thing is I can still now 20 odd years later picture that building clearly in my mind. I couldn't tell you where it was anymore but it's so odd that it had such a memorable feeling to me and the image has never gone

I have one too;

Me and my friend walked the same route every day too and from primary and in the later primary years we walked without our parents. One day for no reason at all we walked on the opposite side of the road (never done this as friend wasn't allowed). At that moment a car came too fast around the corner off the road and crashed straight through the front wall of the garden. Exactly opposite us.. it would have been fatal if for that odd thought we had to cross over

I love these threads!
A dear friend of mine passed away a few years ago... I caught a glimpse of her in my living room out of the corner of my eye, I think she had come to say goodbye.
The next night I had a very vivid dream about her... she told me in the dream she couldn’t find two of her college friends. I told her to try in such and such place... she thanked
Me and I haven’t had any more dreams of her since.

Another thing that happens to me at home, is that I hear children running around upstairs... I always think ‘oh oh the children are up!!’ When I go check they are always fast asleep!!!!

Also, when I was in my early teens my auntie (mum's sister), uncle and cousins, who were a little younger than me, lived with us. One day we went on a day trip somewhere, taking two cars. My cousins and I went in my parents' car and we had a whale of a time singing along to the radio.

When it came time to go home after a lovely day, I thought we'd all go in our car again and sing and have a laugh again; but my cousins, silently and with sombre faces, went to their parents' car instead. I was a bit hurt and disappointed as I'd been looking forward to it.

We got home and the phone was ringing off the hook (this was years pre-mobiles). A family member had been trying to get hold of my mum or auntie for ages. Their mum, my and my cousins' nan, had died that day.

This was years ago but I can still see my cousins' faces and feel the weird atmosphere as they went to their parents' car. They didn't quite look at me, and although I was disappointed I didn't try to ask them to come with me or anything. I couldn't have said why at the time.

My dad heard a knock at the door at about 6.30am. He opened it to find no one standing there but a trail of drops of blood down the garden path. He looked up and down the street but found nobody. He told his dsis, who was a police officer but she found no records of any violent crime reported in our area.
I have a creepier one but it will out me and I know SIL is a MNer!

Could that have been from an injured animal @MissEliza ?

About 20 years ago, an ex partner and I went away for a long weekend to a European city. I'd never visited this place before, had no connection. I remember walking down one of the streets and having a sort of quiet train of thought that I wasn't really paying attention to, looking around and enjoying the surroundings. I remember catching myself thinking "oh it's going to be brilliant when I live here". I just dismissed it and didn't think much else of it.

A few years later I met my now dh, friend of a friend type circumstance. He happened to be from the same home town as me, but lived and worked in the European city I'd visited a few years before.

And wouldn't you know it, I've lived here for 15 years now, my kids were all born here and I'm totally settled! It IS brilliant living here - I knew it

I had a terrible nightmare about seeing burning and people banging on windows to be let out of their houses. It was very very graphic and vivid. I was so shaken when I woke (early hours) I browsed the news. Grenfell has happened that night while I was asleep.

I like to think I've had premontiitons, but there's a rational explanation for them.

First time I was stationary on my moped and a nanosecond before a driver ploughed into the back of me, I knew it was going to happen and braced myself.
She said she didn't see me. I was wearing a yellow hi-viz jacket and the back box was bright red, blue and white. The pizza in the back made a right mess 😄
Rationally, I was in stationary traffic, perhaps she really didn't stop in time. But I call it premonition.

Another time, I'd been out for a country walk with friends of my boyfriend. I was pushing my friend's buggy. As I did so, I knew I'd have a baby.
That night I conceived (had accurate dates).

As a child, I took my younger sibs for a walk in the woods adjacent to us and got us lost for several hours. Suddenly a stern man on a horse appeared in the middle of the woods, and in the distance I could see a bunch of noisy kids playing in the dusk. The kids freaked me out, this wasn't one of those forestry commission woods with playgrounds and car parks, no adjacent roads, no reason for them to be there. So I turned back direction away from them, which got us home.

I later learnt as an adult that a poor family lived in those woods, (this might out me!) and the mother was heard to yell, 'Whip 'em, Dell!' to her husband to discipline them. Which also gave name to the woods.

Well I'm hoping that my dream from last night doesn't come true! An ex colleague (left over a decade ago) came and told me the CEO had died!