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Creepiest thing that has happened to you that you can not explain?

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Snowcappedmountains · 28/04/2020 20:04

AIBU to ask about the creepiest thing that has ever happened to you that you cannot explain?

I realise threads like these have probably been done to death but I am super bored and struggling to find anything to watch/read.

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TheSkyWasDark · 29/04/2020 03:43

I once came home from school and all the posters were stacked neatly on my bed. The window was open so my mum said the wind must have blown them off the walls, but how would they have ended up neatly stacked up? And we're talking about 20 or 30 posters.

When I tell this story, people always say my mum must have been playing a joke but she's just not that sort of person, she's very serious and stoic. No one else in the house.

It really creeped me out for years.

Recklessrocket · 29/04/2020 04:02

@Thankgoodness1 she’s 10months. But when she’s in her sleeping bag she can never get herself up, when I saw her sitting up I almost screamed.

KTB19 · 29/04/2020 05:13

Does anyone have the link to the avalanche story, I would love to read it.

Casino218 · 29/04/2020 05:14

@notsureneversure I remember it said it in the thread as the op replied but just not immediately in the story.

AvalancheKit · 29/04/2020 06:32

The woodland story is the strongest one on MN, I recall that poster well but it was some time ago. It has four important and corroborative elements in my experience. The first is that it came out of nowhere, unexpected, no hint of auto suggestion. The second is the physical characteristic of light not behaving normally (the torch light in that story). Thirdly a sense of dread, overwhelming and of a type never felt before. Lastly, a counterbalancing presence of calm, strength and guidance. These two go together but the dread is there first.

Aposterhasnoname · 29/04/2020 06:57

Walking the dog up on likely moor, we started at the cow and calf and walked to the 12 apostles, which is an ancient stone circle. The stones are quite small, and if you didn’t know what it was, you might miss it.

Anyway, the whole area from the cow and calf is littered with rocks, and the dog was happily running over them, and sniffing round them. Until we got to the circle. He stopped dead, hackles up, growling and barking and refused point blank to enter the circle. As soon as we walked away he was back to happily sniffing round and clambering over the rocks.

Aocled · 29/04/2020 07:24

@AvalancheKit, what are those elements corroborative of?

Casino218 · 29/04/2020 07:33

@KTB19 it's been posted earlier on this thread by teapotcollection.

LordGarmadon · 29/04/2020 07:35

@TheFog my dd is similar... she was born on my deceased grandmother's birthday and was an incredibly early talker. She used to talk about being an old lady "before". One day we were driving and she said "I like it when you drive me, when you were a baby I used to drive you places". She's 3 now and hasn't talked about her life as an old woman for ages, I'm not a believer in the supernatural but I do like to think the bit of dna she inherited from my grandmother is strong!

Idroppedthescrewinthetuna · 29/04/2020 07:53

The woodland story, is that the one that is titles something like 'weird or not'
It was of the lady who had her friends come and stay, with the weird neighbours and the people who wanted to buy the property? Or is the woodland story something else?

Wavey123 · 29/04/2020 07:57

Does anyone remember a different post from the original woodland story thread, it was quite a long post about someone staying in a house where they could see a ghost, but it was only at the end where it he ghost noticed that they had been seen and screamed no! But the ghost had no eyes or something like that, it was ages ago so can’t remember details but it was a goodun. Sure it was posted in the same Savernake thread so hopefully someone here remembers it

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 29/04/2020 08:10

Upstairs in our house and we occasionally get a strong smell of cigarette smoke. It got so bad that I thought my dh was smoking again and he thought the same as me, although we have never smoked in the house

We have experienced that exact same thing. Both my partner and I have noticed it. Thought it was my son smoking out of his bedroom window but popped my head around his bedroom door and he was sound asleep. None of the neighbours smoke. Only ever smelt it at night or early morning and always when we are in bed. It lasts for some time too so can't be a person passing the house - we also live rurally on a very quiet road. Odd.

OfTheNight · 29/04/2020 08:17

My cousin was incredibly intelligent and especially good at maths. When it came to his A levels though, he wouldn’t do any work, he skipped classes and failed to turn in any assignments. When my auntie challenged him he said there was no point in him doing the work because he was going to die early.

My auntie was really worried and thought he was depressed and took him to the GP to get support. Irrespective of who he talked to, he just kept insisting that he wasn’t depressed or suicidal but he knew he was going to die early.

He was an out going and happy guy and didn’t outwardly exhibit any typical signs of being mentally unwell. He just had this knowledge of when his time was up.

He never took his exams, despite being so gifted. He continued to tell my auntie not to worry about his future because he wasn’t going to have one.

He died aged 19. He was queuing for a taxi when another young man (very drunk) started a fight. My cousin got involved and was punched in the back of the head. He then hit his head on the curb and the combined injuries killed him.

Nishky · 29/04/2020 08:24

I will keep this as short as possible

I had a flat share with 2 friends when a student. Ground floor flat.They shared a room, I had my own. Will call them B and L

Went out one Wednesday night, L didn’t drink but B and I consumed many cocktails. Back at flat we were all in B and L’s room. L went to the bathroom, B and I laughing about something.

We both felt someone coming into the room, we both turned to tell L what we were laughing about. No-one there. We looked at each other then felt it again.

L returned to find us hysterical. L tried to calm us down and tried to come up with rational explanations.

Went to bed, that night I felt someone walking round my room and sitting on my bed. The next morning we decided that part probably was the effect of the cocktails.

A few days later we went upstairs to pay rent to landlady who lived upstairs with her family- she was very excited to show us some magazines from the 1940’s. They were renovating the cellar and had found a bricked up room and these magazines were in it.

This happened on the Wednesday afternoon a few hours before our incident.

That weekend I went away, the floor in the corner of my room collapsed- it was directly over the bricked up room. So the builders bricked it back up.

Nishky · 29/04/2020 08:26

@OfTheNight how utterly tragic. Flowers

Laiste · 29/04/2020 08:40

I've had four or 5 freaky things happen to me during my lifetime. Some much more scary than others. The first thing was 'just' a premonition one. I swear this is true:
In the 80's when I was about 15 we lived in West London and i was looking after our house while my parents were on their annual holiday in Wales for 2 weeks. I'm an only child and had been allowed to have my best mate to stay with me for company. Had reached an age where i didn't want to go on hols with mum and dad! The house had descended into quite a mess (not surprisingly with two 15 year olds in charge for 2 weeks) and we intended to clean up on the last day. Sprawled in the middle of it all watching telly one hot afternoon at the beginning of the 2nd week i suddenly had the clearest image of my parents in their car traveling home at a certain point in the road about half an hour away.

I shot out of the chair and shouted to best mate ''start clearing up my mum and dad will be here in about half an hour!!!''. Friend was Confused but got up and began to help. I flew around like a thing possessed and we got the place looking .... ok. Sure enough my parents walked in about half an hour after i'd 'seen' them in my mind and said they were home early because it ha rained constantly and the holiday cottage was a bit manky. They joked they'd not warned us because they wanted to see how we were looking after the place ..... they were impressed we'd hoovered recently ...

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aquashiv · 29/04/2020 08:43

Savernake forest has many strange tails attached to it. Great story.
Though just like Scooby Do love nor money wouldn't let me go deep into a forest looking for a noise.

Wavey123 · 29/04/2020 08:49

I guess she didn’t go out ghost hunting though, she only went out to try and find the lost puppy that she thought went into the woods

Greeneyedminx · 29/04/2020 09:00

When I was 12 we moved to an old terraced house.
My mum was look after my younger sister who had been quite poorly with a very heavy cold, she wasn’t settling, so my mum put her into her bed with her so she could keep an eye on her.
During the night my mum woke up to see her standing at the end of the bed crying, she asked how if she was okay and told her to come back to bed.
At that moment my sister moved her leg in her sleep and touched my mum’s leg. My mum looked at the girl at the foot of the bed and then noticed she was dressed in old fashioned clothes and had her hair in rags, which they used to do to make ringlets.
She told the girl to go home and said she’d say a prayer for her.
The “girl” then looked at my mum, smiled and walked through the wall.
My mum is the most sensible and serious person in the world and still has no explanation for what she saw.

Katyy · 29/04/2020 09:04

Me and my mum were sat in my lounge just after Christmas, out of nowhere my Christmas tree started to shake so much two baubles fell off,I got up save it from falling, it stopped just as quickly as it started, we were both speechless.

anxietrist · 29/04/2020 09:13

Yesss this thread is even better than the lentil recipes one! MN on good form today

JammyGem · 29/04/2020 09:16

I was staying overnight at a London hotel on my own when I was 19. I woke up in the middle of the night to hear footsteps down the corridor and up to my door. I wad expecting them to go away or knock, but they continued as if the door wasn't there and carried on into the room and then finally stopped right next to the bed.

I daren't open my eyes, so just stayed curled up all tense. After a couple of seconds I felt someone sit on the bed and it felt like a hand placed on the covers over my leg. I suddenly felt completely at ease and drifted off back to sleep.

It's the weirdest thing and I have no idea how to explain it. There was no pause at all between the footsteps in the corridor outside the room and the one inside the room.

I googled the hotel but can't find any mention of anyone else that experienced similar.

Catloveisreal · 29/04/2020 09:20

I do sleepover shifts in a care home and the room I use is freaking me out. Firstly a red light appeared in the centre of the ceiling one night. There is no fitting there. Last night the bedside wall light came on by itself and the room lit up briefly. I did not sleep well after that.

Homestayer · 29/04/2020 09:22

Jammygem you were dreaming.

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