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

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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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DuvetHugger · 01/09/2022 22:54

Local cinema*

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 01/09/2022 22:55

I received an email from man in charge of Security at a Nigerian Bank who had found an unclaimed safety deposit safe containing 39 million or 49 million dollars/pounds (I can't remember the exact amount or currency) which he was going to give me the m'ajouterr portion of.
Regrettably I mislaid his email address and so have been lost the opportunity of being a multi-millionaire. Sad

Fortunately Adsa have introduced self-service tills so my day is not as arduous as it was. 👍👍👍

Quackpot · 01/09/2022 22:59

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 😂

You get dragonfly's that grow that big! They sound like a helicopter, I was chased by one! Territorial as fuck. As big as a jackdaw.

Frazzledmummy123 · 01/09/2022 23:04

Nobody ever believes me with this. When I was younger I had a vivid dream that I was playing with a group of kids in a housing scheme on a main road my dad drove past regularly. In the dream there were about 10 of us and a girl with short hair, glasses and a turquoise jacket was drawing or writing something on a notepad leaning on a younger girl's back. The younger girl had blonde hair in a ponytail. One day, not long after that (in real life and not in a dream), I was in my dad's car and going past that same spot, I saw the EXACT same scene from my dream, down to every last detail, including the girl with short hair and glasses wearing the turquoise jacket, etc 😳. The only difference was of course, I wasn't playing with them.

It freaked me out, and still does to this day, nearly 40 years on. I've never been able to explain it, or understand it. To my knowledge, nothing ever happened there of any significance which could have been a premonition or anything. Very bizarre!

Original poster
GingerAndLemonn · 01/09/2022 23:11

I’m going to ask for the thread to be deleted. Thanks anyway, the stories have been funny.

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Quackpot · 01/09/2022 23:32

GingerAndLemonn · 01/09/2022 23:11

I’m going to ask for the thread to be deleted. Thanks anyway, the stories have been funny.

Why?

Quackpot · 01/09/2022 23:33

It will be a good thread once it gets going properly. Get it moved to chat instead

IThinkYoullFindIWasHereFirst · 01/09/2022 23:36

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon
I was totally bitten by a ladybird as a child and it really REALLY hurt! Nobody believes me either!

clpsmum · 01/09/2022 23:40

GingerAndLemonn · 01/09/2022 23:11

I’m going to ask for the thread to be deleted. Thanks anyway, the stories have been funny.

Why?

Neverendingdust · 01/09/2022 23:40

QuebecBagnet · 01/09/2022 22:18

Someone got on the land train at Bridlington when I was on it with a guillemot tucked under their arm. They’d caught it on the beach thinking it was a penguin and were taking it to the zoo up the road. She’d even tied its beak up with a shoelace. I was silently howling with laughter. The poor bird was hissing like a cat!

Haha was this your story that’s on Classics? So funny

Quackpot · 01/09/2022 23:42

Neverendingdust · 01/09/2022 23:40

Haha was this your story that’s on Classics? So funny

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Do you have a link 🤣

SmellsLikeMiddleAgeSpirit · 01/09/2022 23:48

Don't delete this thread... just because a couple of bores have gone all "you're a lazy journalist" on it... wish they'd fuck off and let the rest of us enjoy it. If they think there's anything here against the rules they can report; otherwise go away and find a thread that they do deem worthy of their superior intellect.

I was going to start my own one of these threads: I was hoping that a poster from years ago would return with their WTF story. If they don't I'll tell you about it later! Will tell you my story too shortly...

HarrietSchulenberg · 01/09/2022 23:48

Oh, don't delete this, it's great!
My exH swears he saw a small pteradactyl at the side of the M6 once. Was just sitting at the side of the road. When he told his friend, the friend had seen one too, not far away but flying near his house.

My parents' first house had an ex-resident (deceased) still present. It shoved my dad into the coal house behind the kitchen and creaked the floorboards all round the bed when an aunt stayed overnight. They did a ouija board them that her name was Jo and kept spelling out, "Saw Frank kissing Alice". They had no idea what it meant until several months later when they learned that Jo was an elderly, bed-bound widow who lived there with her daughter, Alice, and lodger, Frank, who was separated from his wife but not divorced. Shortly after Jo died, Alice moved to New Zealand with Frank which caused local eyebrows to be raised.Jo was also a devout catholic who was buried in the local protestant churchyard. My parents arranged for a requiem mass (I think) to be said for her, after which she didn't bother them again so was presumably at rest.

Amybelle88 · 01/09/2022 23:56

Badger1970 · 01/09/2022 22:42

The day the dogs chased a roe deer into the kitchen was a wild one. I honestly think people didn't believe a word of it. We live rurally and often see them out walking, but the dogs found it in the garden (we've got 6 feet fence everywhere) and decided it would be fair game to chase. It must have cut a leg at some point as there was blood everywhere, I was screaming to DH upstairs to come and help.... and he came down to see this deer running round the ground floor trying to jump out of windows while I was trying to boot the dogs back outside. The mess was horrendous, and luckily he had the presence of mind to fling the front door open and the deer went leaping off up the road.

I have absolutely cried laughing at this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

SmellsLikeMiddleAgeSpirit · 02/09/2022 00:05

Mine is about a fling I had. I was 18, in the summer between school and uni. Upcoming pop band - not my thing at all - played at a nightclub in my town. Met the handsome singer who chatted me up, and I got together with and shagged him a few times. He was suddenly busy and away, but wrote me letters. Before long the band was HUGE, and contact had dwindled with him.
I told a uni friend about it, and she told our other friends at a party. None of them believed it!!! I was so embarrassed. I was quite a quiet, shy, nerdy goth - very unlike trendy fling - had never mentioned him or been an open fan or anything so was mortified that they thought I was lying.
I never told anyone again!

MiltonRoad · 02/09/2022 00:17

When we moved in there was a handprint on the landing at the top of the stairs, the house was built originally people building the railways.

it was small child sized and looked like it was coal print. Every time we cleaned it up it would reappear a couple of days later so we stopped removing it.

It was there when we came back from the hospital with our eldest, but at some point just after vanished (don't know the exact time- as first time sleep deprived parents) and it's never come back!

Hawkins001 · 02/09/2022 00:52

Nothing intriguing with me, just an average joe, that said, reading others with intrigue

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 02/09/2022 00:53

I was out with my friends and one of them had a real crush on this lad who kept a few spiders, and when we got the invitation to a party we couldn't contain our excitement, as I finally got the chance to meet his prize spider, whose name was Chris. He was a Tarrant-ula.

Hawkins001 · 02/09/2022 00:54

GingerAndLemonn · 01/09/2022 23:11

I’m going to ask for the thread to be deleted. Thanks anyway, the stories have been funny.

Then why ask ?

Fraaahnces · 02/09/2022 01:07

@Campervangirl - what if it was a fairy??? YOUR NEIGHBOUR’S CAT ATE A FAIRY!!!

Fraaahnces · 02/09/2022 01:12

@Campervangirl could it have been one of these?
british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/brown-hawker/

CuriousMama · 02/09/2022 01:16

Fraaahnces · 02/09/2022 01:07

@Campervangirl - what if it was a fairy??? YOUR NEIGHBOUR’S CAT ATE A FAIRY!!!

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SiobhanSharpe · 02/09/2022 01:34

I lived in Kuwait for the first part of my life, left for good when i was 17 or 18.
One day when i was a young teenager I was putting some rubbish in the dustbin in the garage when i saw a thing very similar to one of these, but thicker in the body. Incredibly ugly. It's a camel spider, apparently.
We lived just on the edge of the desert.
My brother, aged about 9, used to go out hunting insects in the desert and was bitten on the finger by a horned viper. It swelled up impressively and as part of the treatment he had to dip the finger into boiling or near-boiling water every day.
And on another occasion my DM picked up some jeans he'd been wearing and a scorpion fell out of the pocket.
Camel spiders aren't venomous, apparently. I didn't get near enough to chance it.
PS -- That's not my pic!!

To ask you “no one will ever believe that happened” story?
WtoB · 02/09/2022 01:36

Was with current partner
Was out one night, and realised the pub was getting set up for something,
Turns out it was a spiritualist night

Im very interested , go up first
I sit down, im young, early 30’s, woman looks up and says, ‘I have your mum with me’
Told me about my nephew who passed and what his name was,
Told me things my mum liked, who she was with and Mentioned loads of other stuff that she couldnt possibly know…
Said my partner wasnt for me, (wasnt but thought she was at the time)
That i would meet a new partner and move to the country (Was a London girl, and at the time, thought no way (Happened)
Told i have something unusual going on with my stomach … No i dont (Yep, afew years later a ct scan discovered my intestines are in the wrong place and round the wrong way and my appendix is on the other side)
Told a dark haired tall woman would cause major issues for me (She has done for the last 6 years)

Mothership4two · 02/09/2022 01:40

@Justanotherwinter ·

Mine happened when I saw a medium. i went With a friend who had a spare ticket last minute, wasn’t a believer myself but they said things about me and my family member no one could have known. Very personal and detailed things

I'm not particularly a believer either but went with a friend to a spiritualist church a few years back out of curiosity. The service leader (?) knew the name of a dead relative of mine and then said well Auntie Ann is happy now and she is with Paul which was a bit confusing as she had been married to a Martin but thought ho hum is obviously a load of balloney. When I later laughed about it with family members they told me that Uncle Martin's best friend had been called Paul and there had been a lot of suspicion/rumours that Ann and Paul had had an affair - especially as one family member walked in on them kissing once. So who knows?

Ann, Martin and Paul were not their real names