AIBU to ask what is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to you?

[TheEighthMrsSK]

I had an utterly bizarre incident yesterday. For context DH and I are away at the moment, practically the other side of the world from our home country. DH and I were walking along a very busy street, it’s just getting dark, and I become aware of a woman who starts to alternate between walking a sensible distant behind me, to uncomfortably close behind behind me, to walking up right alongside me, with DH on my other side. We have a few repetitions of this, with her following me the length of the street, and then a flash goes off in my face. I am 100% sure she photographed me, it was at such a close range and there was no one else that could have been in the shot. I don’t say anything to her, because I’m not up for a confrontation in a language I only know a few words of. I tell DH she’s following me, and we move to stand in a shop doorway at the side of the pavement with the intention of getting out of her way. I was expecting her to pass us, but she walks right up to me and starts screaming in my face in broken English, the gist of it was: ‘why you look at me? You know me? You look at me! I hate you, you’re evil!’ DH tells her I’ve never seen her before I’m my life and to hop it, and she does. I’ve been trying to work out what the hell happened here since last night, and I’m a bit shaken by it, so please cheer me up and regale me with your stories of weird happenings.

That's a lovely story, Ribbon. I like that.

I have a quite unusual surname. When we were expecting DS, we chose not to find out whether we were having a boy or a girl so, as you do, we chose names to cover both outcomes. I really loved the female name I chose, it isn't a very commonly heard name, and was quite disappointed that we wouldn't be needing it.

Roll forward 5 years and I'm looking round the infant school that DS was to be going to, I look at the art work done by the current reception class and find there's a girl with my chosen baby name and our surname in the school. She now goes to the same junior school as DS, I've seen her work on the walls of the school hall, so that's 6 years of them being in the same, not overly huge, school, and yet I've never seen her. DS says he's heard her name but doesn't know her. It feels like I have a ghost daughter or something

RibbonAurora I would have to email him & say thanks

Wasn't exactly to me but was the weirdest thing I'd seen. When I was about 15 I skipped out on school and went down this public footpath that ran behind the school and consists of woods and lots of trees and is generally creepy. Anyway there was this old man standing up on a really high wall (about 7/8ft) with his back to me, just watching all the children playing football/sport up on the field. I asked him what he was doing, he ignored me and I asked how he was going to get down and he point blank ignored me and just carried on staring at the kids. I legged it pretty fast and never really realised how creepy and weird it was until a few years ago (I'm 25 now)

I went to an event a few Months back. There were about 30 of us there, that stayed there Monday-Friday. All from different parts of the UK.
Me and another lady there got talking about our Kids, I Mentioned my Child's name, and she said Oh that's my sons name too! So we got talking a bit more, I mentioned that when he was a Baby he got Treated in a well known Hospital a couple of Hours away from us, for a Medical problem he had, as we couldn't get treatment locally, And she looked at me and said Her Child was Also treated there for the same thing.
I then told her of the amazing way we managed to get him Referred to this Hospital (Joined a FB group about the medical condition and a Nurse in charge of the dept in the hospital happened to be on the group and gave contact details and had us there and treated within in 2 weeks)
She looked at me in amazement and said that's how she got her son there too, we opened the FB page and were amazed to see we had both been posting on the Page regarding our Kids, but were oblivious to each other!
It was crazy, and we live on opposite ends of the UK too!

First of all, I'm the least woo person you could ever meet. I don't believe in the supernatural or afterlife. However ... Many years ago I was on a training course for work. There was a v nice, much older, chap on the course. on our last night, drink had been taken and we were all having a really daft time. Older man takes me aside and tells me he is physic and that a particular thing that has happened in my life was not my fault and that I would damage myself and others if I continued to act as if it was. He detailed the occurrence (i had never spoken to another soul about it) and told me to get on with my life and stop carrying the guilt around. No idea how he knew in such detail, but he set me free.

Still don't believe in woo however

I was standing at the local bus stop, on my way into town to meet DH for lunch. A man who was walking by, late 60s/early 70s, normal looking, suddenly stopped in his tracks, turned to me and said “you’re going to give birth to a son, a gift from God, there you are, isn’t God good?” and went on his way. We’d been ttc for 9 years at this point so it shook me up a bit, but we never did succeed. Clearly the man was mentally ill.

I was watched this old and obscure documentary about a husband and wife tribute act of a very famous, dead singer on Youtube. This couple lived in a far away country where English is not spoken. They both appeared pretty bonkers.

The next day I went out to visit a nursery to see if it would be suitable for my child to attend only to find that the wife from this documentary was working there as a nursery assistant! Needless to say my child did not attend that nursery!

Bette Davis, a very similar thing happened to me, i had promised to call my friend, before mobiles, went into a phone box to ring her, the phone rang so i answered it, it was her
She had rung back the last number that had called her, it was her boyfriend that had called her an hour or so ago.
He was from another city, had ended up in our town and tried to call her it wasn't the local village phone box
Weird as fuck, but it saved me 10p
So i believe you!

Easynow too late now, he passed away a few years ago and as I said it was many years before that, pre email. I did consider writing to him c/o the newspaper where he had a column but it belatedly struck me after finishing the book that he might have thought I was a weird stalker or obsessed fan who had deliberately planted myself in that particular bar during that particular week. It was a purely serendipitous occurrence for me, I swear, but I wouldn't blame him for suspecting otherwise since he related in the book that he was in the habit of frequenting that bar when he was in that town to cover the conference for his newspaper.

babies and toddlers that i don't know and i don't know their mothers will smile at me,wave at me , put their arms out to me, say hello to me.
i've had babies crying in their mothers arms look at me and stop crying and smile.
it happens anywhere , on the bus in the supermarket at the bus stop.
i do smile back or wave back but i feel weird when the mother looks round to see who her baby is waving at.
i'm not a mother nature kind of person but it is strange

Probably not the weirdest thing to have ever happened but a strange coincidence.

My ds had a terrible accident when he was around 16 months. We were back and forward to hospital for quite a long time after. At one of the appointments we met another little boy who had had the exact same accident a day before my son but his scars were on the exact opposite side of his body, he had the accident the day before my son had his and they were both having difficulty healing in the same exact spot on their injury. They also both had the same name and there was only a few weeks between them age wise, although it looked like quite a bit more as my ds2 is a big boy.

Oh that is a brilliantly odd one Brandnewshit

And thanks. I'm relieved to discover that I haven't accidentally been lying all these years

I've seen doppelgangers quite a few times, always when driving and stopped at pedestrian crossings ... my sister (wasn't her!), my best friend (wasn't her!) But each time I've been convinced it was that person and beeped and waved, then had to apologise!

I was in my local high street walking back to my house that we’d just put up for sale so we had the obligatory agent sign up outside. A woman walking towards me said ‘hi, so you’re moving then, that’s such a shame, I was going to pop in and say goodbye.’ I had no idea who she was though but had to play along. She was carrying a parcel so I was trying to see the ‘return’ address so I could work it out, but it was concealed by her hand. Never worked out who she was either!!

When I stayed in my old flat numerous times a week I used to get calls asking for ruby (not me),when I was in hospital giving birth to my daughter my midwife asked for my home number, when I gave it she replied that's very like my mum's, guess what her mum's name was?yep ruby honestly couldn't believe it!!😃

Outing myself big time but lost the big diamond out of my engagement ring on a night out.
Was absolutely gutted looked everywhere, next day check the house all over in case I’d lost it before I went out nothing :( my Dh took pity on me and brought me a new ring as top expensive to replace the diamond.
Anyway fast forward 5 months and dd comes downstairs telling me she’d found some a diamond on top of her barbie house - it was my lost diamond!
Could not believe it how it ended up there no idea cant believe it wasn’t dusted away hoovered up in that time.

Met up with my friend from uni and met her other half both live up north near Manchester we live on south coast. Her other half started talking about a bloke he went to uni with who turns out my dh works with in Brighton totally bizarre coincidence!

Another weird one I remember I got a new job in 2004 and the girl I was replacing was going to study midwifery at uni in oxford miles from Brighton . Anyway about 6 years passes by and I've just given birth to premature twins and I'm in a room on my own and my twins are in special care and it's about 3am and In walks a midwife who turns out to be the girl I replaced in my job. She'd become a midwife in oxford but was in Brighton for a few weeks and that evening was her last shift and she came armed with a cup of tea and toast. It was so weird that I thought I'd dreamt it when I woke in the morning.

I've named changed as my other posts are outing.

When I was about 10/11 my dad had an affair with a woman he'd met online. She was from the other side of the country.

Turns out that my dad and her husband shared a hobby when they were younger and the husband has a photo of him and my dad having a joke together. They hadn't stayed in touch. It was literally one meeting a million years before my dad met the wife online.

@Polarbearflavour and @Heuschrecke

Sadly yes, I’m not trying to be woe is me but several specific things he said have absolutely come to pass so yes, it would seem I know my fate ;)

I had a dream years ago that my husband was holding changing a baby boy and I was holding a baby girl in our house when we were ttc. Said to my dh when I woke up that it was weird, then said it’s like I couldn’t figure out if I wanted a boy or a girl. We chuckled about it, and that was that.

Last week I had a sense of deja vu and my dream came rushing back - we now have boy/girl baby twins, and it was exactly like I’d dreamt, right down to what we were all doing.

I once went for a job interview that was being held in a conference type of place. I walked in and said my name and the receptionist took me to the interviewee. I sat down and he starts talking about the job etc and I have absolutely no idea what he's on about. At that moment the receptionist come back and say I'm with the wrong people. Turns out there was two pippops and we were having interviews at the same place same time, with two different companies!

My dd has a very unusual name, only half a dozen babies given her name in the UK in the year she was born (according to that govt list on t'internet). We have never met another 'Topsy' (not her real name, I'm not that odd). One day toddler ds pointed to a photo on the front of the local paper - it was a story about the opening of a new swimming pool illustrated with a photo of a girl about dd's age, though not one who looked especially like her - and said 'Topsy '. I say 'no ds that's not dd it's ' and have a look at the caption expecting to see Jessica or Hannah or whatever, and yep, the girl's called Topsy. Still never met one though.

DH and I were at home one day about 30 years ago when the doorbell rang. It was a friend of ours called Gary who lived at the other end of the village - he'd gone for a walk and decided to drop in and see us.

Just as he came in our door the phone rang and I answered it. Someone said "Hi, is Gary there?" I said yes, and handed our friend the phone.
He spoke to them for a couple of minutes and when he'd finished he said he was a bit confused, and said "By the way, how did you know I was here and not at home?"

Somehow the bloke had dialled a wrong number, and had called our house by mistake, just as the person he was trying to ring walked in our door.