To need another strange happenings/spooky things thread

[WellVersedInEtiquette]

I've been off work with flu. Between naps I've gone through the unexplained large threads that I haven't already read.
I've read some brilliant cf threads too.
Basically I'm looking for some entertainment whilst I'm off!
The only one I can think of is when ds was a baby. He would start the night off in his own room and invariably end up in with us on the floor above when we went to bed and he woke. One night we woke to him crying and dh jumped out of bed only for me to realise that the baby was in with us, latched on and out for the count. I know that they can cross frequencies or whatever but we are both convinced it was his actual cry and not a strangers baby. Plus we know everyone in the area we live and no babies! It was creepy.
Oh and just thought of another one. Back before we had children we were fast asleep and woken in the early hours by our bed shaking. We looked at each other and mumbled something about a ghost and went back to sleep!! Turns out it was a small earthquake. very unusual where we live. Instead of thinking it may be that the conclusion we came to was that it was a ghost

I don't believe in ghosts and think there is a rational explanation for all things but I do like these threads

The other night I was in bed, on my side facing the outside edge. I heard little feet pattering into the room and got a sense of DS standing next to the bed looking at me (he's a regular nighttime visitor) so without opening my eyes I said "go on then, in you get". He climbed over me and flopped down in the middle space. I rolled over to cuddle him in, he's a cuddly sleeper and will start bugging me to cuddle him if I don't, and he wasn't there. I reached across in case he'd shuffled over to his dad instead but all I found was DH who got a bit cross to be suddenly poked in the face by me groping around in the dark looking for DS. He was sent to check on the DC and DS was confirmed to be fast asleep in his own bed. I know it was my brain playing tricks on me, I was tired starting to drift and DS was on my mind so my brain filled in the blanks but it didn't half put the shitters up me! It was so real, I swear there was a child in the bed. Brains are weird.

@EwItsAHooman I used to do that when dd was tiny. I'd think she was in my arms in the rocking chair and I'd wake up in bed with her in her cot. That was definitely exhaustion though!
Spooky wise I've woken twice to dd stood over me in bed when she's had a bad dream. Scared the crap out of me!

Bump? Anyone?

I’ve a few stories but I don’t think I’ve told this one.

My husbands friend’s mother died after a long illness.
The night she died, their landline phone rang.
Friend picked up, said “hello”, it was an open line but nobody spoke. He hung up and dialled 1471. 1471 gave him... his own landline number.

Probably a weird coincidence but it always made me shiver a bit.

I love these threads but I've never posted any of my stories before. I'm an open-minded sceptic

This one happened when I was at uni. I was living in an on campus house at the time, on the third floor. I'd just got back after Christmas break and was the first one to arrive.

I decided to take a nap and locked my door. A while later I woke up when someone opened the door and walked towards the bed. I looked up expecting to see one of my housemates, but it was an old woman. She introduced herself (I remember her name but can't bring myself to write it down) then suddenly lunged towards me and held my arms down at my sides. I screamed, closed my eyes and when I opened them, she was gone.

Logically I know I was dreaming but I couldn't sleep on my own for weeks and I never locked my door again...

Aw god why do you people keep do8ng this to me. I will not be able to stop myself from reading this now!

Just before Christmas I was in the living room one evening and got up to go to the kitchen,leaving my two cats sleeping on the sofa. They're both young and daft so when I came back I wasn't very surprised to see one of them skittering past the open doors... Until I stepped back into the room and they were both in the same place I'd left them. Weirdly though, instead of being asleep, they were both sat up staring intently at the empty corner the mystery cat should have been in!

Love anything woo but alas I've never experienced it myself ... until last week I was at home alone in the day and standing in front of the kitchen window washing dishes whilst taking out loud to myself. Which may be woo to some but totally normal for me . Anyway suddenly I distinctly felt someone gently blow into my ear and at the same time I saw my reflection in the mirror and there as a distinct shadow behind the same shoulder as the ear IYSWIM. I even heard the exhale of breath as I felt it.

So odd. It didn't scare me but was very strange.

When I was about sixteen, my family went on holiday. It was going to be my mum's birthday during the holiday so she packed a few wrapped presents that friends had given her into the boot of the car.

Anyway we got to the holiday house and the presents had gone from the boot. It was really odd. My dad and brother aren't the kind of people to hide the presents "as a joke" and my mum was a bit upset and wondered if she'd forgotten to pack them, despite us all having seen them in there.

A few days later, on my mum's actual birthday, we were driving along a road. It was daylight. Dad and brother in the front, mum and me in the back. It was a completely flat road, but suddenly the lost presents dropped into the middle seat between me and my mum.
It was honestly the weirdest thing I've ever seen. They came from absolutely nowhere. We couldn't even kid ourselves that they'd been in the boot and had somehow been jolted over the partition and into our seats. It's not particularly ghostly but I still can't think how it happened.

About a month ago, I was toying with the idea of booking to abroad alone, knowing full well my boyfriend would be upset.

(we don't live together and for me, the relationship is on its last legs)

So I looked up and asked for someone to tell me what to do. As you would expect there was just silence. At bedtime I went up stairs without turning the light on, walked into my bedroom towards the head of my bed just as I do every evening and smacked straight into a large unexpected thing. Turned the light on to discover that my suitcase had moved itself 18 inches or so, turned at 90 degrees, then slid up about 5 and a half feet.

I did ask........

I love these stories.
I have none of my own, my mother has many!

Only one.
My sister was about five and I was about 13 and she was really ill. Like flu or something. She was laying on the sofa sleeping and me and mum were sitting beside her when her eyes suddenly flew open and she said "who is that man? Mummy I don't like that man make him go away" and she was staring right over my mums shoulder. Obviously no one there at all. But it freaked us out.
I know now she was probably hallucinating through the illness but freaked me out.

Oooh actually in the same house I used to hear the noise of a piano played really badly like a young child banging on the out of tune keys. But there was no young children living either side of us and I heard it maybe 4-5 times over the space of three years. Always in the middle of the night...

@MessyMummy15 I remember having flu as a teenager. I genuinely thought there were farm animals in my bedroom. No surprise about it. I was pretty laid back about the cow at the end of my bed!

@ChrisPrattsFace any you can pass on?

@dearohdearohdear9 are you going away? That's so cool

Well her favourite is of ‘the man and my brother’
He was about 2 or 3, and she woke in the middle of the night to him screaming and went to check on him.
He was in the wardrobe with a broom blocked through the handles! She got him out and he was crying and said the man put him there.
I don’t know if I believe her - very ott but she is adamant it happened!
She also said there was a lot of guitar playing, plate jingling and door closing in that house. She moved out when I came alone as she thought we were at risk!

@ WellVersedInEtiquette I booked a flight to agadir in september but have now seen a really good deal for a small adult hotel in turkey at the beginning of july........

I thought it was cool too but not until the next morning........Thankfully the timeshare dog was here so that helped at little. These things are not too unusual in my life but rarely have i experienced something that actually made sense at the time.

Nothing more to add except I was also once woken by the bed shaking and convinced myself it was a poltergeist... it also turned out to be an earthquake!

I was very close to my Aunt who died after a long illness 10 years ago.
The morning we received the news, I was sat in the living room alone in the dark mumbling memories of the two of us. Above the mantle piece was a huge framed painting she had bought for us that had been firmly on the wall for years.
As I said something like 'I'll miss you', the painting came off the wall and landed in the middle of the room breaking the glass and sending shards everywhere.The fixings were all still in tact and it cleared the mantle piece rather than falling straight down, as you'd expect if it had simply come loose.
Now logical me knows it could have been any number of things but it has always stuck with me as too much of a coincidence.

Ooooh the phone one has made me go cold.
My dad was in hospital, dying. The landline went at 11:45, my mum answered but no one spoke the other end. She phoned the hospital who checked on my Dad and said everything was okay.
Five minutes later the hospital rang to say he was struggling and we should go to say goodbye.
We arrived five minutes after he died.
There is no explanation!

Place marking for later 👻

I had a necklace that had 4 charms on it and I threw it out in anger after a bereavement. I mean, threw it out! In a bin bag then flung into a council wheelie bin.

4 years later I found it lying on my bedside table.

@dearohdearohdear9 well you can't say it wasn't a clear answer! And you did ask!

@Mammyloveswine probably the same one?! I'm trying to remember when it happened and I'm thinking pre 2006?

@TaimaandRanyasBestFriend I genuinely don't know what to say to that! That's bizarre.