Page 17 | Can we have a thread where we share unlikely but true stories?

BrownEyedGirl80 · 10/04/2021 19:36

I have 2 friends who are sisters.I once rang one of them and I could hear them both having a telephone conversation about me! (Nothing bad) obviously a cross line,I've never had one before or since.it was like I'd hacked into their call.

ohnonotyetplease · 10/04/2021 19:52

The night after my sister got married, I woke in the early hours of the morning having had a nasty dream that involved her having been hit by a car just outside our family home. I went back to sleep.
Over breakfast the next day, I told my other siblings about the dream, and my dad and brother's mouths dropped open in disbelief - my older brother had had the same dream which he had awoken from by the front door as he was prone to sleepwalking! In his dream he was trying to get to her to help her!

Nettie1964 · 10/04/2021 20:48

When I was 18 went round to a friend's house (in my 50s now) they had been having a lot of renovation work. We were a bit drunk and stoned. We where listening a music in his bedroom I needed the loo went to the bathroom v quietly at the head of the stairs used the loo then tried to open the door couldn't open it panicked couldn't call for help 3 in the morning tried pushing and pulling no luck the door was stuck. Eventually sat against the loo and pushed with all my might against the door. The whole wall fell down the stairs!!! Ps it was a sliding door. Mortified

TheIblisHasspoken · 10/04/2021 20:52

@Johhny4fingers

My great grandfather was in the merchant navy during the war, the boat he was on was sunk by a German U-boat! He survived and was picked up by another boat!

My partner is from a eastern European country and her mum married an Austrian man when she was young, we went over to visit a few years ago and I met her step granddad, he was an officer in the German navy during the war and served on a U-boat, he was a very successful lawyer after the war and spoke very good English, so we got chatting and I told him about my great grandfather, he asked me the date of the day when he his boat was sunk, told him, he pulled a diary out of a box, and he confirmed on that specific date, the U-boat he was on, sank 3 boats that day, so there is a good chance my partners step grandad sank the boat my great granddad was on!

He passed away last year, and he left me all of his navy/military stuff, some really interesting stuff in there! He had a picture of one of his brothers in uniform, he never put the picture up because the uniform he is wearing, he was part of the SS totenkoph division, and they committed quite a few war crimes, one of the famous ones being the Warsaw uprising, and his brother was certainly alive when this happened!

Sorry I have rambled on!

This is amazing!

LastRoloIsMine · 10/04/2021 20:59

I know a woman who went to Cyprus to get married and was there for a week. She contracted encephalitis and was in a coma for 3 months. She woke up with some of her memories so for example knew who her adult children were but couldnt remember about the last 5 years. She had changed personality wise.

She was a 50 year old white women who came out of a coma a racist. She never was before.
The unbelievable bit is the reason she was in Cyprus was her wedding to a black man she had dated for 5 years! It was awful. She just wouldn't accept him and was disgustingly racistly abusive towards him when he cam to visit.

StarryStarryArm · 10/04/2021 21:00

When I was a waitress in my late teens I served some time travellers. They asked me if I’d ever been regressed (as in, past lives) amongst other weird questions. They paid with money we didn’t recognise (my manager said to accept it) that they swore was legal tender, with windows in it, like notes do today, but this was 18 years ago. They didn’t tip.

FreudMayweather · 10/04/2021 21:04

@Ratched

My dad was killed when I was four years old, in the Far East. When I was getting married, my mam gave me her wedding ring, which needed adjustment to fit me. I took it intoma back street jewellers in the north east, only for the chap to say ' oh my goodness.....Singapore late 50s, early 60s???'. When I said yes, he told us he had actually made the ring. He made the ring my mam had, in Singapore in 1959. He adjusted the ring for her daughter to wear in 1977 in Sunderland .

I have nothing to add, but I love this. Having spent most of my life in Sunderland, the coincidence seems even more extraordinary - given that the large number of jewellers is, perhaps, disproportionate to the size of the city. What are the odds! Fascinating.

ilovesushi · 10/04/2021 21:16

@Whenigrowupiwanttobea I love this story! It reminded me of a story my mum used to tell about my great granny. She was the oldest of several children. When she was a teenager she woke up suddenly one night to the sound of her younger brothers and sisters screaming. She woke her parents and insisted they took the horse and cart or whatever transport it was and rode out the cottage in the country where her sibling were staying with relatives. As they approached they could see the whole place had gone up in flames. The story gets a bit hazy here but I like the version where she runs in and saves them all.

SmashedAvocado · 10/04/2021 21:18

DD was 4 when we found out almost 8 months into my long awaited 2nd pregnancy that the baby had an unsurvivable abnormality. She was left at home with my younger sister when my parents came to the hospital to support DH and I when I went into labour a few weeks later. At that point we’d only told her the baby might not be able to stay with us as she wasn’t able to grow properly.

My sister had read her a story and was laid beside her on her bed when as she was dropping off, DD suddenly said ‘my sister’s gone now’. This was at around the time that I’d given birth (DD2 died immediately at birth). I asked my sister if they’d been discussing the baby before DD fell asleep but she insisted they hadn’t. DD had been at nursery when I went into labour and had not been told that the baby was being born or that I was in hospital. I was a complete sceptic, as was my sister, on all things woo before that!

kelliefaggle · 10/04/2021 21:19

When we were kids my nans brother used to come over from Ireland to England for the summer, he'd bring his grandson Graham and they would stay in our house. When my nans brother died this was the last we saw of Graham.

Fast forward 25 years and my mom and her siblings are in Ireland for a boozy weekend and make the trip to the cemetery to lay flowers on their fathers grave. They can't find the plot, so split up to find it. My uncle approaches a grave digger and asks the where abouts of the plot, the grave digger will show him. When they reach the plot my mom is standing there "Bejesus!!" -the grave digger exclaims -it's Graham.

QueenOfCakeandCoffee · 10/04/2021 21:20

@KinkyFink me too!

UnlikelyStory · 10/04/2021 21:25

I’m pregnant after being told my husband had a zero sperm count. I found out I was pregnant the day after he told me he wanted to do another round of IVF.

Purplealienpuke · 10/04/2021 21:31

@Eminybob , I know a Tracey Tracy. Is she still with Mr Tracy? The one I know isn't, I believe she is getting/has got married again.

BigPyjamas · 10/04/2021 21:37

My husband shares a birthday with his grandfather, and my great uncle.

My daughter shares a birthday with my grandmother.

My other daughter shares a birthday with my brother as well as my husband's brother.

Happytobejabbed · 10/04/2021 21:57

We were invited to a friend’s wedding. We only knew her and a few others.

Earlier in the week my 7yo daughter had had appendicitis - consequently we were in and out of hospital and needed to do a shop.

There was a Asda between the church and reception so we left After the Church photos smartish, went to Asda and then to the reception. The road from the Church sort of joined onto Asda car park entrance. Greeting line still going strong when we got there.

Sat down for meal - no best man and his gf. Obvious gap although we didn’t know him or what had happened.

Part way through the meal he turned up - bit of a fuss.....’I’d been following this car from the Church, then it went into Asda and I got lost’

We sat quietly.

Amiable · 10/04/2021 22:08

In my first job I worked with a woman who had spent several months in Gt Ormond Street as a baby. We found out that one of our bosses had been a nurse at Gt Ormond St... in the same ward... at the same time as my colleague had been a patient! Our work was nothing at to do with medicine, our boss had changed careers a few years before.

NewSong · 10/04/2021 22:12

@Apple1971 I have a feeling I was on that train as well but got off before the crash happened....

FatCatThinCat · 10/04/2021 22:17

My 2 older sisters were both born on a Friday 13th, years apart. I was born 5 minutes to midnight on a Thursday 12th. Which may explain why I'm normal and they're both screaming banshees.

ForwardRanger · 10/04/2021 22:24

@BrownEyedGirl80

I have 2 friends who are sisters.I once rang one of them and I could hear them both having a telephone conversation about me! (Nothing bad) obviously a cross line,I've never had one before or since.it was like I'd hacked into their call.

Ha! Similar happened to me. We were away on holiday and both my children had become unwell. I'd spoken to our GP about sending a prescription through to a pharmacy near to our holiday home and phoned back late afternoon to check it had been done. I was put through to the nurses' office where my call was connected but no-one actually said hello or seemed to realise I was on the line. I could hear two nurses talking - about me! They were saying, oh poor Forward is away and both the children are sick so we'll get scripts through to xx pharmacy near where they're staying. And the other nurse was all "Aw, what a shame, OK.." So I had my answer without having to speak to anyone and the added bonus of finding out they were just as nice behind the scenes as on the front line.

CuckooSings · 10/04/2021 22:25

I grew a toe when I was 6 :-) My mum had been born with 11 fingers so when I was born I was checked carefully by a doctor and had no extra digits. Aged 6 I started to struggle to walk and balance so my mum took me to the GP and I had started to grow an extra toe. It was actually pretty serious and I had to have an operation and use a wheelchair for a while so I could relearn how to walk. People don't believe me now!

Tomasinabombadil · 10/04/2021 22:37

[quote JustNotFunAnymore]**@Eminybob* My friend has a cousin with the surname “Tracy” and his wife is called Tracy so when they married she became Tracy Tracy and kept it and goes by that name!*

I used to work with a Tracy Tracy many years ago![/quote]
Back in the mid 90’s I worked in the travel business, one of my colleagues was called Michael Michael.🙂

multiar · 10/04/2021 22:46

My Dad was born at home in 1940, 10years later a new family moved into that house and my father in law was born there to.

Baxterbear · 10/04/2021 22:48

@letsgowiththat

I'll start.

My (non English speaking) DGF received an email (in English) from the solicitor of a man who claimed to be the son of a long lost relative from Africa claiming he was basically of princely status and there was an inheritance waiting for my DGF and his siblings.
So basically like the Nigerian prince scam.

Except it was all true and it was a relative who escaped my DGFs home country as he did not want to be drafted into the war and ended up never contacting anyone again and building a small empire in Africa, getting married (multiple times) and having DCs. He willed a small part of his accounts to my DGFs by then deceased mother who was his cousin and then it got passed down and split between my DGF and his siblings by default. Not life changing money but one of our favourite stories to tell!

The majority of the emails was done through google translate as well

Does anyone have any "sounds like a lie but is true" stories they'd like to share?

Can someone please explain what DGF actually stands for? I thought it might have been "Daughter's Girl Friend" but the reference to "his siblings..." makes me highly doubt I'm right!

19thNamechange · 10/04/2021 23:00

@gerbilfur

In 1985 I went to a nursery school down the road. I remembered there was a little boy there who always wet his pants, like literally every day 😆

Fast forward 28 years, I met a nice man and we got serious quickly. On talking about our childhoods, I told him about the boy at my nursery school who always wet himself.

Dh asked me the name of the nursery and then went very red. He was that boy!! We've been married 3 years now and sometimes I still call him pantwetter 😆

I thought you were going to say you knew it was the same person because your DH also wet himself every day!

Baxterbear · 10/04/2021 23:03

@daisychain01

I'm mistrusting of threads like this. Call me cynical but it's just a collection of far-fetched story ideas for someone to harvest and turn into new scams.

Hello Cynical....