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?

@Backenette This woman can smell Parkinsons - she's more accurate than science! www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/meet-woman-can-smell-parkinsons-disease/

I have a had a reoccurring dream for as long as I can remember, I can smell petrol and my room is on fire, then my bed starts to catch, there's a lot of yelling and a huge man appears in my room and lifts me out of bed, everything is grey and there's a strong smell of leather and smoke (as in fire, not cigarette) we walk down some concrete stairs in what looks like a block of flats and then I'm outside, there's a motorbike. The man sits me on it and starts checking my arms and legs for burns. There is only one, on the back of my foot. The man is very angry but not with me. The police arrive and he hands me to them says something I can't quite hear and goes back towards the fire.

I often get a little waft of a leather smell mixed with smoke when I am scared or upset and a few times I have seen a man in leathers out the corner of my eye, he's never there when I look properly but its always when there's danger/something bad, like some people get a funny feeling.

I gather from my parents arguing there was a fire, I was a toddler, it was a deliberate fire but they get very very angry if i ask questions or mention the man.

backscratches what you described there (the 3 figures) is a known sleep condition, called sleep paralysis. It is caused by stress. I've experienced it a few times in my life, and if you'd asked me whether I was stressed, I would have said no, but when I look back, it happened when I was a) divorcing b) trying to sell a house that was a moneypit c) lost my job, and so on.

When my daughter was about four till she was five she would ask me when the other mammy would be coming back to take her home. I would tell her that I was the only mammy but she would be adamant that there had been another mammy before me.
Sometimes she would look so sad when she asked where the other mammy was.

Does anybody remember the story on a previous thread about working a night shift in a hospital and using a lift and the lift doors opening to a gruesome WWII hospital scene and the angry eyes of a nurse looking at them like they shouldn’t be there?

@Huskylover1 I thought that too, but I was sat up when I was switching my phone light off and on and they were right there, even when I had moved.

I had a September 11th dream the night before too OP. People in a city running away from silver ‘missiles’ which were flying into buildings, the same colour as United Airlines livery.

I had stupidly left my suitcase including passport and all on the train evening before flying to Australia. On the platform a guard told me to wait for the train to come back down the line and hopefully my suitcase would still be on it.

While waiting for the train, my mobile phone rang. On the line was an old friend whom I hadn't spoken to in 2 years. He said Hi GB17, have you just lost your suitcase? I said yes, how do you know? He said he was sitting watching tv when his landline phone rang so he answered it and all he could hear was me talking to someone about my lost suitcase!

The freaky thing was his landline or mobile numbers were not on my mobile phone, so there was no way I could have called him either accidentally or on purpose and he hadn't called me!

Polarbear that's time travel. It does happen. It's called a time slip. I'd be very interested to read that post.
My sister recently experienced a time slip, but at the time thought it was real. She only realised it wasn't after she stepped out of it and back into our time. It's caused by the earths magnets/or earths electricity or something.

Time slip? Wow crazy theory

My friend died 2 years ago. For the first year after she died, I was plagued by flickering lights anywhere I stayed. From time to time, I smell a woman's perfume near me. I don't wear perfume and I can never figure out where the scent is coming from. It doesn't always happen at my house either (has happened when I am staying elsewhere) and I can't find a reason for it.

My family home was an old terraced cottage. My parents bought it after the previous owner had been missing for 7 years. No one knows what happened to her, but there always a "feeling" in that house, not a scary one, just a "feeling", particularly on the landing.
Many of my friends commented on it too, again specifying the landing. They didn't know the history of the house at the time.

I found my two favourite woooo stories! If you scroll down the pages:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1239819-To-ask-if-anyone-has-had-any-paranormal-encounters-experiences?pg=6&order= The hospital one!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_unexplained/2161707-Give-us-your-eerie-stories?pg=2 The one by Shia with the boy in the disco!

I can tell you my sisters experience of the time slip but I doubt anyone would believe it?! Because they sound unbelievable right?! Who's interested and I will spill.. 😊

Time slip story please!

OP - I read a book by a forensic pathologist who said while working in A&E at the beginning of his career he found that death had a smell. He and other staff would smell it around certain patients. From memory, he either described it as a petrol or plastic type smell but it's been a while since I read it so can't be sure.

Cause of Death

I went to feed my friend’s cats when she was away over Christmas. All fine to start with - I was playing with one of the cats on the floor when I got a sudden chill like the door had opened but it hadn’t. The cat froze mid game and seemed uneasy but may have been feeding off of my feelings. I went to feed both cats and the Christmas lights suddenly switched on. Being the logical person I am (too scared to believe in anything woo), I assumed they were on a timer and went over to switch them off at the plug, only to find they weren’t plugged in. I was freaked out and left. Told my friend about it when she was back and she said that she’d felt the unexplained coldness several times and that more than once lights and other electrical equipment had switched on. Weird.

Yes to the time slip story!

@redwineallmine yes yes yes to timeslip story please!

This is an amazing thread. Here are my two stories:

The first, I was around 16. I used to spend a lot of time in town with my then bf and some friends. This day was no different to any other - bf turned up at my house and we went and met the friends. At some point, my bf asked me if I’d like to stay over his that night (nothing unusual, we did it frequently), and immediately I said “no!” with such force. He was confused and asked why not, and I just shook my head, I didn’t know why I couldn’t, I just knew I couldn’t go, and I had to get home to my parents’ house because something was wrong. I think he could tell by the expression in my face that I was really scared. Anyway, bf accompanied me back to my parents’ house and my mum was there and she said my dad had been out and the Dr called and he’d collapsed and was rushed into hospital. He was fine that morning when I left the house. It was such a strong, palpable feeling that something was wrong that led me into going back home. I couldn’t have ignored it.

Other story, was I was a few years older and I had grown incredibly close to a guy online. He felt like my soulmate (not romantically, it’s hard to explain but it just felt like he understood me deep down in a way nobody else ever had or would again. It was like we were the same person emotionally). Anyway, one day I fell asleep and I woke up and immediately logged online and opened messenger to talk to him. I was still half asleep and I said to him “how’s the red truck?” And he was like “how do you know about the truck?” And I told him I had just seen him with a red truck in my dream and I knew it was his. I described the setting, and the house nearby. He showed me a photo of his house (I’d never seen one before - we didn’t live close to each other) and it was exactly the same as in my dream. And he revealed he had literally, half an hour previously, purchased a red truck from someone I also described as being in the dream.

A few years later my friend unfortunately passed away from complications related to lifelong type one diabetes. I’ve never felt connected in the same way since. I still sometimes dream about the red truck.

Oh, and when I was a child I insisted I was a twin. It wasn’t just a passing fancy, I was adamant I had a twin. In my late childhood I was going through my mum’s memory box and here were two baby bands from being in the hospital both with “baby + surname” on them. I asked my mum why there were two. My dad said “don’t tell her” (me) and I was never given a correct answer.

Still don’t know to this day!

Oh that would really upset me @Writersblock2 I would have to go to the registry office and ask if there is death certificate with your surname and dob

Whyyyy am I reading this thread before bed?!
The past life stuff absolutely fascinates me. The children saying stuff they can't possibly know.... I think there's so much more out there that we just don't know about.

@RedWineAllMine come on! I'm keen!

Already started a thread with this story of mine but thought I would share.

DD (3) came downstairs earlier this week and said ‘mummy, there’s a man in my room and he knows my name.’

Cue frantic search upstairs through cupboards, under beds etc. Nothing.

I asked he what this man looked like, he apparently had a hat on and ‘bits of material from his trousers and over his shoulders’ which I assumed to be braces. He was old, very tall, with sticky out ears and had ‘a nice, squishy face.’

I told DH and he said that she’d described his DF to a Tee. DH’s DF would’ve been 110 had he still been alive, he was 40 odd years older than DH’s DM. He died before DH was born.

He dug an old photo album out and sure enough, loads of pictures of this old man with a very kind, soft featured face, very prominent ears, a hat, braces and very tall. DH sat DD on his lap this evening and went through the photo album. After flicking through the album she went back to one particular picture and said ‘mummy, that’s the man who knew my name.’

DH is freaked out but I think it’s quite nice