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To ask for your creepy, unexplainable happenings

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Menarefrommarsitwouldseem · 06/02/2018 11:08

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" Confused

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. Hmm
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?

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Haudyerwheesht · 08/02/2018 04:07

About 15 years ago before we had our own kids we'd been away for the weekend And stopped in carlisle for lunch. On our way back to the car we were walking behind a woman aged about 25 ish. Suddenly I thought 'she should have her baby with her' and felt really sad and anxious. Was very weird. Anyways got to the car park and a lady shouted across to woman in front of us and came to speak to her. Only heard first bit of conversation ..

Other woman 'oh you've had your baby what did you have?'
Woman 'a wee boy but we lost him he wasn't ok'

I was so shocked and just felt really weird. Ive never felt like that before or since and wasn't even particularly paying attention to the woman when I had the original thought.

ginandbearit · 08/02/2018 06:04

Slightly weird one ...i follow a graffiti artist on facebook and he posted a video of him painting a beautiful piece of work on a beachfront wall . He didn't identify the beach or the house but I recognised a distant feature and it wasn't far from where I live .
In the video he paints six pebbles with his trademark image , a teardrop , and then throws them onto the v pebbly beach . I went down to where I thought it was and fiund the wall he'd painted , and started looking around .
Within 'something' - a voice or a directing force is all i can say directed me to a pebble ..it had no markings on the top but when i picked it up there was the teardrop on the other side ...I looked around for others ..not to take but just to let people know they were stiil some left ..and was firmly 'told' that i wouldn't find anymore..a very strange atmosphere for about two minutes .
First photo demonstrate show pebble looked on beach and second shows teardrop . the artist is called - my dog sighs - fab work

To ask for your creepy, unexplainable happenings
To ask for your creepy, unexplainable happenings
ginandbearit · 08/02/2018 06:08

Hmm no edit function ...first photo shows teardrop but second photo shows how pebble looked when I was directed to it.
And this happened within seconds of me arriving at scene.

Panicmode1 · 08/02/2018 06:26

My great grandmother went to a house party in a large country house when she was in her twenties. Before she went, she had a letter from a great aunt who told her under no circumstances to lock her bedroom door. On the first night, there was a terrible fire and my great grandmother was saved because they could get into her room to rescue her. Several of the other guests died.

My father was a military pilot, and one day I remember my mother, brother and I were having lunch with the wife of one of his friends. In the middle of the meal, she froze, and said that there had been an accident and she had to phone the base. She called, and the desk officer was incredulous he had only just put the phone down after a helicopter crash (although it didn't involve either her husband or my father).

I knew the second I got pregnant with my eldest child, and that he would be a boy. Didn't have that feeling with the subsequent 3 babies!

There have been lots of other little things that have happened, like knowing people have died before the news comes too.

Iwillstartagainonmonday · 08/02/2018 06:41

Best example is probably when my son bust into my bedroom and yelled “Mom there’s someone in my room and they’re not there but they are and THEY HAVE YOUR NAME WRITTEN ON THEM”.

I dont think I'd set foot in that bedroom either swarmofcats Shock

Glassofredandapackofcrisps · 08/02/2018 07:02

Have no story to add but I love this thread!

RibenaMonsoon · 08/02/2018 07:20

16 month old DS was in the bath the other day, he kept staring behind me as if he was looking at someone. Wouldnt stop staring and smiling to something /someone behind me.I eventually turned my head quickly and saw someone standing behind me, it was a few metres away and I wasn't paying too much attention so I figured it was DH, realised it wasn't. Turned my head again to double check and no one was there.

I was a little spooked. Its happened twice since as well. I can never see anything anymore but DS seems to still be seeing something.

emzaroo · 08/02/2018 07:25

The same daughter who said she died before she was born.... at my grandads funeral I had to take her and I sat at the back. When we was singing she kept turning to the side and smiling and trying to laugh- she was very very young and just learning how to do that. My grandad loved children and it warms my heart to think it was him and that she got to meet him

shouldnthavesaid · 08/02/2018 07:28

I sometimes think I have lived before in the 70s or early 80s as too much is familiar to me - food, fashion, TV, lifestyles.. I know places I've never been to. Went on holiday to west coast and I told my mum the names of islands I'd never heard of, there was a voice in my mind telling me they were the 'summer isles' and indeed they were. I'd never been there in my life.

There's a couple of people I'm incredibly close to , my mum being one, and I think if I were right I've known them before. I'm too scared to pursue it and too wary of the power of suggestion!

Imnotposhjustquaint · 08/02/2018 08:03

Dontfuckingsayit that’s exactly what happens to me! I will mistake a stranger for someone I know and then actually see the person I thought it was that day. Strange!

jitterbug5 · 08/02/2018 08:33

I've told this recently but I'll say it again anyway!

When I was about 5 or 6, my Nanny (great grandmother) passed away. Whilst my family was deciding where to scatter her ashes they kept them in a shelf in my Mum and Dad's wardrobe (myself and my sisters obviously had no idea) I remember having a dream that there was knocking coming from said wardrobe, and when I opened it my Nanny was squished on a shelf! She told me to 'tell them to get a bloody move on'. I told my parents at the time but they didn't tell me until recently about the ashes being there Shock

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PanPanPanPing · 08/02/2018 09:23

My Dad died when I was in my early 20s.

I lived and worked in London and my parents had moved to the south coast and I only went to stay for the weekend once every 6-8 weeks, by train. I had had a boyfriend (let's call him Mark) for about a year and, although Mum had met him on one of her trips to London, Mark and Dad hadn't met. Mum suggested to me that it would be nice on my next weekend visit that Mark could drive down on Sunday (no sleeping together under my parents' roof!) for Sunday lunch, so that he and Dad could meet, and then he and I could drive back to London together on Sunday evening.

Their local train station was less than a mile from their house, but sometimes I'd get the train (on a different line) to a station about 7 miles away because there was a nice hotel/pub close to the station where we'd sometimes have a drink/lunch. So it was agreed that I'd go to the further away station, Dad would come to meet me and we'd have a quick drink in the pub.

When I was on the train it stopped for a bit between the previous station and my stop. I was gazing out of the window over the fields when I had this strong feeling - not a voice in my head - but it said "it's too late, Dad and Mark will never meet, it's too late". The train started moving and the feeling just disappeared. Arrived at the station and Dad wasn't there, which was totally out of character. So I stood waiting expecting him to pull into the car park at any minute. Still no Dad, so I decided to go to the pub for a drink and to wait for him there - knowing that he'd find me in there.

Still no Dad. I went to the bar to buy a second drink and the barman, who had obviously seen me looking anxious and checking out everyone who walked in, asked if I was OK. So I told him that my Dad hadn't turned up to pick me up from the station and it was so out of character for him to be late. This was pre-mobile phones, so the barman offered the use of the phone on the bar to phone my Mum.

Mum was equally perplexed and said that Dad had left ultra early because he was going to the farm shop on the way to the station. She told me to stay put (rather than get a taxi).

It must have been just after she'd put the phone down to me that the police arrived on her doorstep to break the sad news that Dad had died by the side of the road. Apparently the car had broken down, he'd got out to look under the bonnet and (the PM confirmed) he had a heart attack and died.

I wonder if that 'feeling' happened at the same time he died?

MotherofaSurvivor · 08/02/2018 10:01

My Dad died in 2010, after a short battle with Heart Disease & subsequently Heart Failure. He died at home and before we'd got chance to say goodbye to him.

Shortly after, I had a dream that him, my Mum & I were all in my Mum's car. They pulled up outside his friend's flat (who had died 4 years earlier). Dad went in to 'get' him. My Mum & I waited & waited. No sign of them? So I went upstairs and into his flat. They were both sat there laughing and having a drink. Dad said "I'm fine Tracey! I'm with Brian, don't worry! I'm fine. Tell Mum I'm fine. I'm happy!"

I'll never forget my Mum's face when I told her the next day.

That dream played a huge part in helping me to accept my Dad's death. I was only 26 when he passed and single. Didn't get along with any other family and my Dad & I were close.

Fontella · 08/02/2018 10:09

I'm not very woo at all but have a strong feeling I was one of many people having to leave their homes in a mass exodus. Trailing away in a large line of leavers, carrying stuff, tired and hungry. It is probably imagination though - I read a lot as a child so it may have stemmed from something I read though I can't recall material like that from a book.

I get something similar hesterton. I get this 'memory' sometimes that I'm standing around a fire with other 'tribal warriors' the night before we go into battle. I can see myself and them around me as sort of sillhouettes, we are just standing there looking into the fire, and the 'recollection' or whatever it is - is moments long.

I'm not sure what sort of warriors we are, not African not American Indians or anything like that (although we do have markings on our faces) - so maybe ancient Britons/Celts - going off to fight the Romans the next day?

It's hard to explain but I feel like I was 'there' - but there's nothing else, just standing around the fire in the darkness with others. No battle recollections or any more detail than that. I've tried to enhance the picture - see more, 'remember' more, but it's always the same - just standing there - nothing else.

However, I do love my history including military history from all eras, so it is highly likely that something I've read or watched has fixated itself in my brain. The mind can play all kinds of tricks on us.

Still freaks me out a little bit though.

Shock
Boatsonthewater · 08/02/2018 11:29

I would say these are memories of past lives. Might be worth looking into?

Boatsonthewater · 08/02/2018 11:35

My great aunt was a water diviner. She could also predict winners in horse races, and had many other psychic abilities. I never met her, and no one ever told me this beyond a vague comment about the water divining. I then read her diary which she wrote about her life, and these things are casually mentioned, along with who she met and what she did. I wish I had met her.

hollowtree · 08/02/2018 11:46

Bloody hell Fontella I've wasted a whole morning researching Carl and now I'm all freaked out!

user1497863568 · 08/02/2018 12:16

Fontella: Same except we're Irish and have vivid family stories of exactly that.

Fontella · 08/02/2018 13:58

Bloody hell Fontella I've wasted a whole morning researching Carl and now I'm all freaked out!

I know! It's definitely the most WTF reincarnation story I've every come across and so widely documented and reported as well. He even looks a bit like the dead pilot - the nose and the colouring - just so, so very strange and inexplicable really. Plus his parents are so down to earth and working class/pragmatic you just know there's no way they've made this up for some weird attention seeking thing. Just spine chilling.

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user1497863568. I'm Welsh, so that's why I was thinking maybe ancient Britons (Brythonic Celts) - that's the only thing that would explain the face 'paint'. I know it's not American Indians - the Sioux or summit, nor African tribal or anything like that. I can't see what's around me - no countryside or anything like that, but the sense of the 'memory' doesn't conjure up the American plains or the heat of Africa. I just know we all have markings on our faces and upper bodies, but I can't 'see' anything else. It is so weird and frustrating and I'm sure could easily have come from something I've watched or read, but then why not more detail? Why just me stood by a fire and that's it?

Commuterface · 08/02/2018 14:09

I think past lives are a very interesting concept (have done ever since we did a project on it in RE in year 7).

When I was little, maybe 3 or 4, I can remember being absolutely terrified of a cartoon lion drawing in a children's book I had. So terrified that my dad wasn't allowed to read the word 'lion' out and eventually had to post the picture of the lion back to Africa Smile

Anyway a few years ago I was joking with my mum that DD1 was always a terror when I put her in a particular red sleep suit and my mum said that when I was a couple of months old she bought me a sleep suit and every time she put it on me I would scream and scream until she took it off. It had a little lion motif on the chest.

I often wonder if I had met my fate to a lion in a past life.

bobstersmum · 08/02/2018 14:21

I am going through a tough time at the moment and reading these feeling so emotional, because it sort of makes me think life isn't just me stuck here struggling, there is more to it and I'm not alone. I will keep reading this thread as it progresses because it's helpful in a strange kind of way.

whiteonesugar · 08/02/2018 14:23

My DS is almost 3 and often talks about when he was grown up. 2 recent things were while i was telling him about where Daddy lived as a baby (in the same block of flats his nan still lives in - we were on our way there) he said 'yes, and when i was bigger i used to hold daddy when he was a baby didnt i?' Weird.

The other one was when he was with DH and he was getting the train and told him 'when i was big i used to go to work on the train, it was black with steam'

Confused
Roomba · 08/02/2018 14:27

Not a woo happening (I hope!) but something really odd happened to me a couple of months ago.

I was in the house completely alone as my kids were both at their Dad's house for the night. I opened a bottle of wine and drank half a glass - didn't even finish that as it was a bit acidic. So I put one of those bottle stopper things in the bottle and I remember hunting for it in the drawer, finding it and also making sure I pushed it into the bottle really hard to seal it. So I definitely used it. Then I took my dangly earrings out and put them on the dining table next to the bottle. I actually moved them into the middle away from the edge so I didn't accidentally knock them off the table. Then I went to bed. Alone. Doors and windows all locked, no one else has a key at all.

Got up in the morning - still alone. The bottle stopper wasn't there in the bottle and there was only one earring was on the table. I've hunted EVERYWHERE and cleaned out my whole house multiple times since then, bit have found neither item.

WTF? Confused

I'm actually more worried that I'm going insane and forgetting stuff or that I've sleepwalker or something. I got a bit fixated on it as it was so bloody weird!

Boatsonthewater · 08/02/2018 15:05

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