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To ask you “no one will ever believe that happened” story?

253 replies

GingerAndLemonn · 01/09/2022 19:49

This will probably rile up the troll hunters but Aibu to ask if you have a story that people are like “yeah, sure that happened!”

I’ll go first.

I was chatting to a guy on WhatsApp, we had met a few times and I was really into him. I was replying to a message to him and was sat on the toilet at the time. I dropped my phone and in the scramble of grabbing it before it fell on the (tiled) floor I had deleted the message I was typing and pressed the little microphone button next to the text box. So instead of sending him the flirty message asking for date number 3, I sent him a very panicked fart int he form of a voice note. I blocked him and never saw him again.

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heymammy · 01/09/2022 20:45

My own unbelievable story is this, circa 1998, walking down a busy shopping street in our home city my dp at the time and I walked past an older wee lady lighting up two cigarettes. One for her and one which she passed down to the small boy who was with her (her grandson maybe) who looked around 7.

Not one single person believed us.

Mojomarvel · 01/09/2022 20:47

My first date with my DH I climbed onto a bar stool and let out an absolute ripper, then proceeded to laugh so hard I did another. He says he knew I was a keeper in that moment 😀

PuttingDownRoots · 01/09/2022 20:48

I had a "card reading" once.
She told me that I would shortly be together with my then-fiance in a place starting with G.

The next day my fiance was told his job was moving to Germany in a months time, straight after our wedding. It had not even be mentioned before this.

However rational I want to be... it was freaky.

Thethreecs · 01/09/2022 20:51

Years ago I worked for a large retailer, often the food staff /deli were last to leave as there was lots of cleaning up to do, this is where I worked. I was getting ready in the loos as I was going out and went into the canteen to get a drink from the vending machine, I'd no change in my purse and I asked the woman sitting at the back of the canteen if she had some, she didn't answer me, her head was bowed slightly, I thought 'how rude', I went back to staff room and grabbed my bag and was leaving, the security guy said I was last and to have a good night. I told him I wasn't last and there was a woman in the canteen, he looked weirdly at me and said everyone had signed out but he'd check, he let me out and the next night when I went to go home the security man said he'd checked the whole building the night previously and there was no one there.

Freedomfighters · 01/09/2022 20:52

Campervangirl · 01/09/2022 20:41

Ooh when I was a teenager I was in the garden with my mum and this huge flying thing like a dragonfly but bigger than a bird kept flying kind of dive bombing us, it kept swooping past, going away and coming back.
My mum said "no-one is going to believe this, try to catch it"
It flew off and never came back and my mum was right no-one believed us that this huge flying monster was dive bombing us.
About 10 years later I was telling my childhood friend who lived at the end of the street about it and she started screeching "I saw that, it was dive bombing us too so my mum hit it with a tennis racket and the cat ate it"
Vindication at last 😂

I want to know what it was. Can you remember what colour it was? The only thing I can think of that might be reasonably big is a hummingbird hawkmoth.

Greenbks · 01/09/2022 20:52

@Jojobees I am impressed! But how did the lady know that you were a nanny and were after a miracle baby?!

balalake · 01/09/2022 21:01

If you told someone who had lived on a desert island for the last ten years about the political events and Boris Johnson being Prime Minister, they would not believe you for one second.

Fivecluckyhens · 01/09/2022 21:01

Well I contemplated starting a similar thread after a bizarre experience the other day.

I happened to look out of my sons bedroom window and saw a huge bird on a dead branch of a large oak tree. It was reasonably close so I was able to get a good look at it. I shouted my daughter straight over to see it and asked her to secure our hens. She instantly recognised it as a golden eagle. My instant thought was eagle too, although I don’t have her knowledge. It only manoeuvred out of the tree when she got to the bottom of the garden. Its takeoff looked extremely awkward due to the huge wingspan and limited space. My cat has previously been stuck in this very tree so I can gauge the sizing. It was a huge bird and had all the identifiable features of a golden eagle. I posted in a poultry group and got laughed at. People assumed that I was mistaking it for a buzzard or kite; far too small and different features. I’ve reported it to a bird spotting website and have not come across any missing birds of prey.
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i live in an English town. I’m so annoyed that I didn’t have my phone at hand to video it.

Campervangirl · 01/09/2022 21:02

@Freedomfighters

I think it was brown and blue but iridescent (oil on water, shimmery?), kinda like a dragonfly, looked like four wings on each side, 2 big, 2 small, an oblong body, I'd imagine a hummingbird flying upright or is that when they hover?
It was flying like a dragonfly but it was really fast.
I'll never forget it and I'd love to know what it was

Charlie86T · 01/09/2022 21:05

sayanythingelse · 01/09/2022 20:16

Oh dear, that's unlucky 😂

People never believe me when I tell them about a spider that was in my kitchen a couple of years ago. It was the middle of the night, DD was unwell so I'd gone downstairs to get medicine when I came across a spider bigger than my hand on the wall. I'm in the UK but this was a straight out of Australia spider. It was HUGE!
Unfortunately, DH was on nights and my phone was upstairs, so I have no evidence. I cried, sucked it up with the hoover and chucked the hoover outside.

Everyone says "yeah of course it was, you're over exaggerating" but it genuinely was bloody massive.

That is terrifying. Was it like a tarantula or just a huge huge sized house spider? I believe you. Maybe someone's pet spider escaped? My xhb used to get huge ones in his childhood home and he told me that one spider was on some blinds and it covered the length of 5 slats down. I've heard from someone that worked down in drains that spiders can get very very big down there and he saw an abnormally massive one.

Campervangirl · 01/09/2022 21:05

@Freedomfighters
I've just googled hummingbird hawk moth, it didn't look like that.
We lived in South London btw

Nugg · 01/09/2022 21:10

Chatting to a guy from OLD. Both happened to be travelling by rail for work one day. He was from hundreds of miles away but a really good match otherwise. We were messaging all morning while travelling as until that day we didn't know we both were.
I had to change trains. I'm standing at Costa on the platform while I wait for my connection and receive a photo of myself in the queue from the guy "hang on, is this you!" Neither of us realised we were going to be there 😆 he wasn't getting off but asked me to meet at the train door to say hello! Was a really romantic sliding doors moment ❤️
We are not together, the distance was too much but we've met platonically and we are such good friends still to this day 😊

Charlie86T · 01/09/2022 21:15

@Thethreecs I love woo stories. That is spooky. Hopefully there'll be more like these in this thread 🙏🏻

Orla32 · 01/09/2022 21:21

dandyviolet · 01/09/2022 20:36

When I met my partner I told him stories of my childhood and how I lived in a very very old cottage from early 1600s in a sea side fishing village. The village was very old and had a big smugglers history. Some of the smuggling tunnels still existed and I used to explore them as a child. I entered them though a secret passage in my basement. Very very dangerous. But very cool. My partner told me this year that he thought that was a lie when I told him all those years ago and I was taken aback. There was more to this story about the cottage but it would be too revealing. There were amazing parts of it's history that sound like they're from a wild story book. I didn't realise the story sounded so unbelievable. I read the famous five as a child so I didn't realise my experience was so unusual. I cried so hard when my parents sold that place.

Is this Hastings?????

Beepbeepenergy · 01/09/2022 21:31

@GingerAndLemonn because they are all keyboard warriors and half of them wouldn’t dare stay stuff they do on here to your face
I wouldn’t have blocke the guy tho just have a laugh about it, he might not have even heard your fart haha

alongtimeagoandfaraway · 01/09/2022 21:35

My mum used to tell a story of the one time she used a ouija board as a young woman. She used the story as an example of how ridiculous the idea was that ouija boards could give information of any kind. She was definitely not a believer.

Anyway, her friends asked the board what would be the name of my mums oldest son and were given the name - eg Albert. She had no children at the time.

None of my brothers were subsequently called Albert so clearly the ouija board was talking nonsense.
except
the man I married, who became my mum’s son in law, was older than my brothers and was called Albert.

Jojobees · 01/09/2022 21:41

She couldn’t have known. Who knows. I’m eternally grateful to her.

chinuptitsoutonwards · 01/09/2022 21:43

I walked past my Dad in Manchester City centre about five years ago. Only problem is my Dad has been for two decades.

Down to the outfit he was wearing it was my Dad but by the time I had realised what I had seen and turned around whoever/whatever I saw was gone.

No one ever believes me but 100% that was my Dad I cannot explain it.

ChicaneOvenchips · 01/09/2022 21:43

sayanythingelse · 01/09/2022 20:16

Oh dear, that's unlucky 😂

People never believe me when I tell them about a spider that was in my kitchen a couple of years ago. It was the middle of the night, DD was unwell so I'd gone downstairs to get medicine when I came across a spider bigger than my hand on the wall. I'm in the UK but this was a straight out of Australia spider. It was HUGE!
Unfortunately, DH was on nights and my phone was upstairs, so I have no evidence. I cried, sucked it up with the hoover and chucked the hoover outside.

Everyone says "yeah of course it was, you're over exaggerating" but it genuinely was bloody massive.

I also have a spider one!

I was working in a well known (now defunct) mother and baby store, unpacking the delivery for the toys department. I opened up a box of Mattel barbies that had originated in Taiwan or some such. A black widow (googled so know it was) was alive inside the box. I tried to phone the shop floor from the stock room, but no one answered. Tried to call staff room and cash office, again no reply. Totally panicked and not wanting to die or release into our stock room, I ran outside to the rubbish container and threw the box, black widow and all onto it.

Luckily not heard about any infestation in the local area!

Seriou · 01/09/2022 21:52

About 14 years ago I was lying on my sofa (in Wales) and it had gone dark so I got up to close the curtains and I saw what I thought was a low flying plane on fire with fiery bits falling off it. I opened my front door and I was only a massive and SO LOW meteorite flying past my house ! I can’t tell you how low and big it was, and it was almost in slow motion with no sound.

No photos, no video, nothing on the news but some on Twitter reported the same thing from Ireland.

Still the best thing I’ve ever seen 😁

Ziggyisthebestdogintheworld · 01/09/2022 21:53

alongtimeagoandfaraway · 01/09/2022 21:35

My mum used to tell a story of the one time she used a ouija board as a young woman. She used the story as an example of how ridiculous the idea was that ouija boards could give information of any kind. She was definitely not a believer.

Anyway, her friends asked the board what would be the name of my mums oldest son and were given the name - eg Albert. She had no children at the time.

None of my brothers were subsequently called Albert so clearly the ouija board was talking nonsense.
except
the man I married, who became my mum’s son in law, was older than my brothers and was called Albert.

A girl at my school took part in a ouija board,one rainy afternoon in r.e-she’d drawn it on a bit of paper

there was 3 of them joining in and we went to a very lax school,so it wasn’t noticed what they where up to-in fact I think the teacher may have been half asleep at her desk-that kind of school

anyway,it came over the paper cup that they used,saying she would get to 21 and fall out of a window and die

they where freaked out,so tore the paper up and never mentioned it again-one of the other girls told me but we laughed it off as only 14 year olds could

we left school,lost touch and it came up in the local paper,not long after my 21st (she was a month older than me) that she had been cleaning an upstairs window and either the glass or the frame had given way

she fell to her death

i was (and still am) so freaked out that I drilled it into my dc that they must never,ever touch one let alone use it

Phos · 01/09/2022 21:53

When I was about 11, I went camping with Guides and being naive kids we were doing ouija boards. We were supposedly communicating with some spirit or other and asked if it was in the tent with us. Apparently yes. We asked if he could prove it. Yes again. There was a sweater hanging up at the other end of the tent. I asked if he was really there to throw the sweater on the floor. Immediately the sweater crashed to the floor.

We all ran out screaming.

WhenDovesFly · 01/09/2022 21:55

I absolutely believe you...a couple of years ago there was a spider in my eldest dc's room that a pint glass wouldn't fit over so I also had to hoover it up and leave the hoover outside all night! 🤮

I couldn't do that. When I came home I'd be jumping at shadows, wondering where it went. If something tickled me in the night I'd probably have a coronary!

ScurryfungeMaster · 01/09/2022 22:01

@Fivecluckyhens Was that recently? Warwick castle had one of their eagles go missing at the end of July and there have been a few sightings of it Link

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 01/09/2022 22:04

I was bitten by a water boatman as a child.

No one believes me. Everyone says they don’t have mouths.

I had a swollen finger for ages.

Why would I lie about that? Why?