To ask whats the weirdest thing thats happened to you?

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Just wondering whats the weirdest thing youve experienced after remembering a very weird thing that happebed to me, I was in the park once a few years ago where I lived (quite a rough area) I was alone in the park except for my 2 children. I was pushing them both on the swings when 2 women and a couple of children walked past. As they approached where I was at the swings (they were on the outside of the park which is on the middle of a housing estate) One of the women stopped and shouted at me “Thats my baby!!” to my son in the swing, he was about 8 months at the time, I looked at her thinking it was some sort of weird joke, and said in a jokey way as didnt know what else to say “im pretty sure I remember giving birth to him” well she didnt react at all and just stood there with the straightest face and repeated “thats my baby!!” at this point I didnt respond. She then just stood there resting on the gate staring at me trying to intimidate me. The weirdst thing was she was with another woman and some kids and none of them said anything, I felt really intimidated and she was just glaring at me and I couldnt leave the park as she was by the gates, so I called my brother. Eventually the other woman and kids began to walk away which encouraged her to! It was the weirdest thing ive ever experienced and luckily never bumped into her again although I Did avoid that park after that. Anyone got any weird things that has happened to them?

As a teenager when walking home from school I was stopped by a woman in her car, telling me she had driven past me 3 times and needed to take me home. She told me I was being followed. I knew this. I'd clocked the man that was following me about half a mile back. I'm from a rural area and there were no other streets to turn off to. I mentally mapped the possible routes I could take home and came up short. None would get me home without the possibility of him intercepting me. I kept a tab on where the guy was behind me for a good 10 minutes after realising this. Then I lost him. We were surrounded by fields with no other roads to take, there was woodland and many places to hide. At that point I learnt what it felt like to be truly scared. I closed my hand around my keys with each one between my fingers pointing outwards, ready for shit to get real. That's when the woman stopped me. I was then faced with the choice of staying outside with what I assumed to be at the very least a rapist, if not a murderer, or get in a car with a stranger. I assessed the situation. I worked out she was a social worker from her lanyard, she was alot smaller than me and no one else appeared to be in the car. Unless she was armed, I could take her. And so I went against everything I was taught and chose the stranger. She was lovely, she confirmed she was indeed a social worker and dropped me off home. The first thing I did was call my parents, my dad then called the police. Now, as it turns out, the man that was following me wasn't just a creep. He was a convicted paedophile. This happened many years ago, I am now a grown woman and to this day my dad will not tell me any details of the man's crimes. None, not a whisper. I can only assume he'd done some unspeakable things. I'm as feisty as they come but I'm not sure what would have come of me had that woman not stopped for me. I have never been more thankful for a stranger in my entire life, and I still kick myself for not catching her name.

Thank goodness for that woman Mouse!

@Mouse my first thought reading that was that she was an accomplice!! So glad it didn’t turn out that way.

NarcolepticOuchMouse When I was about seven I was walking by a wooded area with a friend, a man stopped and asked if we wanted a lift home, we said no, he then went to open the car door. We ran as fast as we could. That man turned out to be Raymond Morris, the child murderer.

When I was 14 I fell ill while out at a family event at a local park with my mum and auntie.
We were sitting on the grass when I started to projectile vomit bright green bile. My mum told me to go to the car and lie down as she wasn’t ready to leave yet.
The car was a good 10 minute walk away and I barely made it to the car without passing out.
When I got there I just sat with the door open being sick into the gutter when I heard someone talking to me.
I looked up and a lady was next to the car telling me I was very poorly and I needed to go back to my mum and tell her to take me to hospital. I proceeded to tell her I was far to ill to walk back and wouldn’t make it, I asked her if she would go and find her to tell her and she told me she couldn’t and that I MUST go now.
I then fell sick again and was heaving into the gutter when I saw her feet walk off to the right.
When I looked up to tell her to stay she was gone and the road was a dead end. Literally no where she could have gone as it was an alley.
This shook me up and scared me silly so I managed to get up and drag myself to my mum to tell her.
She didn’t believe me and she aggressively packed up and drove us home, sending me to my room.
5 minutes after arriving I went downstairs, grabbed the house phone and called my self an ambulance.
I will never forget the anger on my mums face when she realised what I had done but they took one look at me and rushed me to hospital.
Within an hour I was on the operating table with a burst appendix.
Any longer at home I wouldn’t have made it as it was poisoning me.
When I came round from the operation my mum was apologetic and upset

I know to this day that the lady near my car was my guardian angel.

The strangest thing is, I can’t remember what she looked like.
Her identity remains anonymously

I have had lots of weird stuff that has happened to me over the years.

One of the more recent ones is that as a child I had a few pen pals. I still have some of the letters and photos they sent me. One in particular who I corresponded with over a period of about three years or so had a really unusual name and one day I randomly decided to look for her on Facebook. I found her straight away. It was obviously her, she hadn't changed all that much. She had the same name, lived in the same town and was the correct age. I messaged her saying I thought that she'd been my penpal when I was growing up and asked if she remebered me. She messaged straight back curtly saying no, it wasn't her and that she hadn't had any penpals as a child. I apolgised and said I must have been mistaken.

Except it WAS her. I'm convinced of it, and if it wasn't well it was a huge coincidence because it was someone with the same name, who lived in the same place and looked exactly like her. Maybe she genuinely had no memory of me? But I find that quite odd in itself, because as I said we exchanged letters over several years.

We lived near Heathrow in the 1970’s. One day we witnessed a VC10 fly over, to be followed by 4 RAF fighter jets, who turned it around and escorted it back in the direction of Heathrow again. Nothing on the tv News, or in the papers. It was 1976 - always wondered what disaster had been averted!

Someone I know recently combined Maple Syrup & buttered Popcorn thinking it would taste like caramel popcorn. It didn’t and they don’t recommend anyone else do it either.

I was involved in a huge car accident in the south east that killed a couple of people years ago.
This kind older man helped me to calm down and even shared his coffee until services dealt with me as they had bigger things to worry about. I had a tiny scratch and no other visible injuries.
I remember the man clearly but forgot to get a name or number. It was before social media or widespread mobile phones.
I regularly thought of him until pretty much 2 years to the day of the accident that I went to the theatre and he shows up sitting next to me. Or so I thought it was him.
I talked to him only to find out, he was the brother of the guy who helped me and he knew of my story. They looked so so alike. I manage to get the number and thank the guy who helped after all.

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I'll post my "unusual" thing later.

Placemarking so I can read them at my leisure later this evening :-)

@Apple0301 I posted on another thread about meeting my spirit guide. I knew who he was immediately, and instantly felt comfortable with him but I cannot for the life of me remember his face. I know I would recognise him again in an instant, but it's like his features are blurred in my memory.

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I was once on the underground and I had put my umbrella down leaning next to me, a middle aged man got on and picked it up, I said "erm, excuse but that's my umbrella" but his reply to was to swear blind that it was his umbrella and that I couldn't have it back. It was just so weird that I left it and bought another!!

@Villanelle123 yes that was my initial thought too! I remember thinking if she didn't take me straight home I was going to have to become violent to escape. I got in that car thinking there was a sizable chance I was going to have to fight for my life, but it would be the easier fight.

@Aprilsinparis that's crazy! Thank goodness you and your friend knew to run. Sometimes I wonder if I should try and find out who that guy was but my dad seems pretty determined I not know, so I usually just leave it.

@WolfhoundsoflLove c&p'd from the other thread

Not really scary or creepy, but I met my spirit guide when I was having hypnosis to help me pass my driving test.

I initially pooh-poohed it as mumbo jumbo and semi-joked I was expected it to be some sort of animal. It turned out to be an old man. No one I had ever met but I had the clearest sensation of knowing who he was. I'm not even sure I was even in hypnosis, but the feeling of being with him and entirely comfortable in his company was absolutely real.

@Flyaway78 Yes my dad said social workers are trained to spot situations like that and I was very fortunate she happened to be passing. He said the guy was known to the local police because they have to declare where they are and when they're travelling so I wonder if she recognised him. I'm not sure if the police went to have a word with him or not, my dad is very hush hush about it.

Iused2BanOptimist There is something about sitting on a tube train (or bus) when everyone else is po faced which makes incidents unbearably funny!

I've remembered a few (not train related):

Storm one: 2 years ago me, DH, our 3 gown up DDs their partners and our little DD went on holiday together. Dorset. There was a mahoosive electrical storm out to sea one night. We were all up looking at the lightening across water at one point. In the morning one by one we discovered all our mobile phones were out of battery. Some had been plugged in, some had been in the cars, some were on a full charge when we'd gone to bed. That's all 8 phones drained of every bit of battery power ... odd.

Dog one: When i was about 8 i'd left my friend's house and was taking the back alleys to walk home alone. It was Autumn, failing light, about 6pm or something (i was late). As i walked through the alleyways behind the houses i felt strange and looked behind me and there were about 5 dogs following me. All of them had dark fur, all of them were doing that low slung pack hunting walk. They froze when i stopped and looked. They were about 20 meters away. I walked a bit more and when i looked again they'd got closer. One started to bare it's teeth. I swear this is true! I knew about trying not to look nervous with dogs but this was too much for me and i made the decision to just run without looking back again. I was skinny and fit and i took off and ran like the clappers. I heard the dogs behind me. End of the alley and round the corner was my house and - and this is the amazing bit - i jumped clean over our garden wall without touching it and it was as high as my shoulders! Those dogs were still coming, and as i banged on the front door one of the big ones came over the wall after me. My dad (big bloke) opened the door saw what was happening and hollered at the dog and began going down the path. Dog jumped back out of the garden.

My mum then told me that she'd heard the neighbors talk about a bunch of stray black dogs which had banded together. (this was late 70s, more common to have strays back then i think) She reported it to the council. I lived in that same house till i was 19 and even at that age i wouldn't have been able to get over that wall like that again

Laiste, your dog story has made me laugh, I can picture the jump

Although, I imagined a 6 foot fence and an Olympic style high jump, done with grace . I'm guessing you were slightly smaller at 8! Glad you have lived to tell tale though, how scary x

When I was about 13/14, I was at home alone during summer holidays. It was a rare sunny day. My mum had asked me to hang out the washing. We had a fairly long garden, with trees at the back and the washing line near the bottom. I opened the door to go outside when I saw halfway down a big cat. I mean, a really big cat. About the size of a large dog, with a cats face. I thought it was a lynx or something like that. I really stared at it to try to work out what it was. It saw me and turned to go back down the garden and jumped over the fence into the neighbours garden before I had time to grab a camera. No one ever believed me. It was very odd but I promise it happened!

When i was around 15 years old I got off the bus from shopping with friends and it was dark but only around 5-6pm. I had a hill to walk up to reach my dad's house. As I started walking I noticed a man following and whenever I crossed, he did. I started walking faster and so did he. At that exact moment my Nan and Grandad happened to be driving by and told me to jump in the car and they drove me the rest of the way up the hill. It always stuck with me how bizarre it was that they just turned up and offered me a 2 second lift when they could have just drove by and waved 🤔

My second one happened a couple of years ago. DH and I were driving home from the cinema and it was pretty late. We came to a plain stretch down a country a lane and a car came up the back end driving really fast and flashing it's lights. It kept going as if it would overtake but didn't even thought it was clear to do so. It got to the point my DH got freaked out too and found a metal bar beside his seat and locked the doors. The car eventually did overtake with high beams on and then.... just disappeared! There is nowhere it could have gone! To this day I still have goosebumps when talking about it! 😆

Some of these are really freaky. @SecretWitch your story gave me chills too. Did your parents report what happened? Is anyone else wondering whether this bloke was, or went on to be, some kind of serial killer?

It's sad how many of these involve women or young girls being followed my strange men.

I was thinking that Itchy, it's frightening how common it is, and it's so often young women and girls.