To need another strange happenings/spooky things thread

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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 used to house sit for my older brother years ago and he lived in a house that was (I think) partly built in the 1800s, it used to be a school but had been split up into three houses and he lived in the newer Georgian part of it.

I took a friend along with me one time and we'd been shopping and brought food for the weekend and started carrying it inside. On the first trip in we dumped the first lot of shopping and some belongings on the side and turned the oven on as we had pizzas to cook. Went back out to get the rest of the shopping and the front door shut behind us with the door keys inside.

After much freaking out (with the over being on and being locked out) and a few phone calls my mum was able to get hold of my SIL's mum who lived nearby and she came down with the key to let us in. Got back into the kitchen and the oven was no longer on...no idea what happened but it was definitely on when we went out.

We had a few strange things happen in that house, the dog staring up the stairs at nothing and the odd bang, I always used to sleep with the TV and the lights on!

Apparently the previous owners had seen someone walk through the wall into the adjoining house on more than one occasion.

He doesn't live there any more thankfully!

I think the pets seeing things is really weird. My dog is so lazy that if she started going mad or behaving oddly like that I'd freak out. She's currently snoring/snorting next to me so all must be quiet here!

Anymore? X

I know this is a bit of an old thread but I love the woo stories so I’ll add mine, see if I can reignite it.

First night staying at a cottage in the countryside with my husband i saw a woman come up to the French doors, presumed maybe it was a neighbour and jumped up to open the door and as I got up the door opened itself, nobody there... no sign of anyone. The last night the dog toy squeaked in the night in the kitchen. The dog was in bed with us.

I also have regular ‘glitch in the matrix’ moments. Seeing the same person twice in minutes but slightly different... different dog or something like that. It sound silly, I can’t really explain it.

Also have seen my doppelgänger driving a car past me. We stared at each other and the world seemed to slow down. I was convinced something bad was going to happen. It was really bizarre and unsettling.

I was also once woken by the bed shaking and convinced myself it was a poltergeist... it also turned out to be an earthquake!

When drifting off to sleep on male friend's sofa the living room started shaking. Rather than think it was a poltergeist like you suspicious lot, in my sleepy state I thought he was wanking in his bedroom next door! Luckily he mentioned the earthquake first thing, before I had a chance to advise him to abstain or calm it down when he had guests

I love these threads. I am what I like to call a skeptical believer. I will always run through all logical explanations before settling on 'that's paranormal'. I'm not sure my typing finger has the energy to type out all my experiences over the years but I will try

I grew up in a house with 'something' in it. It gathered pace when I was in my teens and I now know that this was likely a poltergeist. Myself and my friends saw many things in my room move on their own, tvs turning over constantly, scratching on the walls, but my favourite was one that really scared me. I was home alone, went to the loo and the hallway window that I went past was fogged up. I drew a smiley face on it and went to the loo. On the way back past seconds later something else had written "Hello" underneath it. I flew down the stairs terrified and ran to a neighbours house.

My daughter and I were driving home one day and a car passed us the other way, in the passenger seat was a woman. As I glanced at her I thought her face looked really odd, white and pale with a wide open mouth, a bit like the painting "the scream". I got an incredibly strong sense of fear and foreboding. I glanced at DD who had also seen it and felt exactly the same - we both went WTF was that?!

Another day same DD and I were driving to an important school event and we're running late. It's a 45 minute drive and we had to be there by 7.00. We checked the time as we left and it was 6.30. We both knew this as we made a point of commenting that we were going to be late. We drove for about 20 minutes - I definitely wasn't speeding, and I know the timing is right as it's a road I drive a lot and it normally takes 20 minutes to get to that exact spot, and I asked her what the time was. It was 6.35. We were both like ??? Somehow we gained an extra 15 minutes, and we made it to the meeting on time.

Many, many years ago my late mum lived in a converted bus in a field after the war ( housing shortages etc..) my older sister was about 2. They had a deep well in the field where they got their water from. One day my mum was busy and realised she hadn't seen my sis for a short while.. she found my sis sat not far from the well on the grass absolutely soaked from head to toe! It was a dry summer that year and mum said it was obvious DS had fallen down the well but couldn't figure out how the hell in the middle of the country how she'd ever managed to get out.

@themouldneverbotheredmeanyway PMSL at the first thought being an over enthusiastic wank

@StormBaby I also now consider myself a skeptical believer after the lady at the door but I think your story would shove ‘skeptic’ out of me!

These are great. Perfect Sunday reading.

I live in an old hospital that’s been beautifully restored, the main building dates from the 1780s. We have a nursing sister who hangs out in the communal gardens. I often glimpse a black clad leg and sensible shoes disappearing behind a corner but of course nobody is there.

Our part of the building was a ward of some kind. I smell disinfectant a lot and occasionally urine or worse! We had a couple of men living in here when we first moved in. Friendly, not creepy but I told them that I would rather they didn’t live here and that it was time to move on. Not seen or felt them since, I think they’ve moved on to the next life now.

Catsoncatnip I have similar glitch in the matrix moments.
Time seems to slow down/ speed up but more often repeat itself. I'll pass someone on the street, then after a split second, it'll happen again. I'm back where I was, a step or so back down the road. It's not deja vu and I can't explain it but sometimes time will rewind and I'll experience something minor all over again. Also, if I've made eye contact, then the other person, when we pass the second time, seems to acknowledge that it's the second time. it's like a knowing look. This only happens with strangers, never people I know or recognise. Sometimes there's a weird buzz sound at the same time. Very strange and I'd love to know what it is. It happened more when I was young, and now, every two months or so.

One time when I was around ten, I was reading in the front room. We used to have a mini grandfather clock. I sat there and watched the hands spin round. It was around lunch time but time sped forwards, the hands moving round and round, until it was five pm and the clock chimed. It felt like five seconds had passed. It was five o'clock, my mum had just started cooking dinner. I don't know where those lost four or five hours went. I remember not feeling hungry as I'd just eaten lunch. I had a terrible headache and went to bed early.

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Also, just remembered. When I was younger some people's shadows were glowing red. I remember this distinctly. Again, not people I knew but strangers who would walk passed. I'd notice their glowing red shadows on the ground or on walls. I remember just knowing that I shouldn't look up at the people who had the red shadows. Not because I was scared, it just wasn't what I was supposed to do. I've not seen a red shadow for years.

There’s no explanation for some stuff that happens, there just isn’t. I don’t use the word ghosts but there is more than what we can see. I think we only see a tiny fraction.

I have a couple that have happened very recently.

My OHs dad died when he was a young boy, many years ago. My 2 year old has taken to going in to his bedroom and talking to Grandad. “Hi Grandad I’m fine.” Grandad you’re funny” Things like that. Explainable perhaps in that he has another Grandad and is just being imaginative.

At the end of 2016 when my son was 5 months old we had a house fire and lost both of our dogs. My son was obviously far to young to remember them. He has now started talking to them, using their names and telling them to sit down, lie down, get off the bed. I’m not really sure how to explain that away as we don’t have any pets now, although it makes me happy to think they’re visiting him and playing with him.

Iv told this before but when I was very young I had a crush on a boy at school. I thought it was my overactive imagination and normal to imagine him all the time, but always lying on the floor - one instance I really remember was during assembly, I could clearly imagine him in front underneath OHP projection. But he was in a strange manger.

Two weeks later he died playing football, no reason found other than sudden death syndrome. It was terrifying, I realised that it wasn’t a manger at all but a coffin 😱

My gran died when I was 12, and I was given an alarm clock she'd owned. I kept it on top of a chest of drawers next to my bed, so it was in reach.
Forward to my 16th birthday, in the morning, I was woken with a thump - the clock was upright, facing me, in the middle of the room (the alarm hadn't been set that morning). The time was 08:10, the rough time I was born.
Never been able to adequately explain that!

A few months after my mum died, I had a lovely dream about her (asked her what it was like to die, she said it was like stepping through a door) and told my aunt (her sister).

In response, my aunt wrote me a letter I treasure in which she said that from personal experience, those we love remain close to us for some time after death.

A few years later, that aunt died.

The day after she died, I was in the car when the time changed on the clock in the car, from something like 18:25 to 7 something, before my eyes, then went back to normal.

It's never done that before or since in the 8 years we've had the car, and I did wonder if it was my aunt.

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When I was around 6, I was up early one morning (must have been a weekend as my parents were asleep) and was hungry so I went into the kitchen for breakfast, and my grandad was there, sat at the dining table that was in the middle of the kitchen.

He said good morning sweetheart, what are you having? I said "please can I have cornflakes?!" (we weren't allowed them often, certainly not big bowls) And to my delight he said "yes! have a BIG bowl!" I remember carefully shuffling the cornflakes into a bowl and struggling to pour the milk in, concentrating really hard not to spill it.

I didn't notice my grandad leave because I was concentrating on my super huge bowl, then my dad came down, saw my cornflakes and said something like 'Marzipane! Who said you were allowed those?!' and I replied "Grandad! He's visiting. He said I could have a big bowl."

My dad started crying. It was his dad we called grandad, (we called mum's dad Grumps) and grandad had died suddenly a few weeks before but I'd never been told.

I'm as skeptical as they come but the memory is so vivid and I can't explain it.

@RingPiece yes! I can relate to the buzz sound. It’s like the sound of silence but not quite. Argh. I’m crap at explaining what I mean.

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These threads are always a good read. I’ve always been a lurker, and I remember one that was quite scary, a lady house sitting a cottage and eventually running through, I believe a wooded area. I can’t remember the username, but her story gave me goosebumps!