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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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SeaWitchly · 02/09/2022 01:42

I saw UFOs whilst on a beach in Australia. Have never seen anything like it again although I often look up into the night sky to see if there are any orange lights flying around at warp speed :)

ShirleyJackson · 02/09/2022 01:56

Anyone else dying to know who the handsome lead singer was?

squashandrun · 02/09/2022 02:00

Not mine but my friend once swore he saw a panther in the fields behind his garden (in SW England). This was back in 2008 and he'd taken the grainiest picture of it on his Nokia, but it definitely looked big enough to be one - or some sort of wild animal! No one believed him and he was gutted, bless him. I told him I did, though.

Merlo · 02/09/2022 02:02

Can’t believe I’m actually typing this, as I never admit it in real life as everyone would think I’m nuts, but every time someone I know gets pregnant, I always dream they are. Every single blooming time! Always very, very early stages, to the point where my sister had no idea and I forced her to do a test. I don’t even have to be close to that person or have seen them recently. I can’t explain it and I’m a massively cynical person. Yep, I realise how completely and absolutely crazy I sound 🤦🏼‍♀️

IdiotCreatures · 02/09/2022 02:05

I once saw a flock of waxwings in Haringey London.
Last place I would expect to see them, they are truly beautiful birds

Mothership4two · 02/09/2022 02:16

@IThinkYoullFindIWasHereFirst ·

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

Back in the 70's there was one year when the UK had swarms of ladybirds (1976?) and some did bite. I was with my aunt in the garden when she was bitten and it left a small bloody dot. Apparently they weren't actually biting but plucking out a hair (why?). So they can and do.

Water boatmen apparently don't have the right mouth parts to bite (it's a bit like a straw, again apparently) @TheLightSideOfTheMoon but there is a very similar insect called a water backswimmer that can give you a painful bite

So I believe you both :)

EverythingHeadinSouth · 02/09/2022 02:32

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!!

I'm sure it was a camel spider that was the subject of a news story / urban myth back in the 80s.

The story was that a woman had been out in the gulf and had been "bitten" by a camel spider. The bite kept growing in size and no amount of antibiotics or other treatments would sort it. Anyway, one day she was having a bath when the bite, by now a massive swollen carbuncle, burst and out crawled hundreds of baby spiders.

No idea if it was true or not but just thought all the arachnophobes would enjoy it.

stillvicarinatutu · 02/09/2022 02:40

I've told this one before, but when I was I slept with curtains open .

I saw an orange dot in the sky moving quickly - I got out of bed and opened the window to watch it until is went out of my line of sight .

A few moments later a large orange triangular craft was hovering above the trees opposite my house - it was totally silent , it wasn't a solid triangle- the shape was but it had a column down the centre and two columns off to each side which formed a cross shape in the middle of this thing .

It hovered around 30 seconds then twisted in mid air and went at warp speed into the horizon.

I had a horrible stepfather so I didn't dare go downstairs to tell anyone but I told my mother the following morning- she insisted I must be dreaming however that evening in the Yorkshire evening press on the front page was a tiny headline entitled "black magic " - the workmen coming out of the chocolate factory had seen the same thing ! They reported it to police and the paper got the story .

Definitely wasn't a dream !

Mothership4two · 02/09/2022 02:48

@Merlo? Maybe you are ultra sensitive to how they smell which does change in pregnancy with altered hormone levels? Apparently you scent is different if you are carrying a boy or a girl.

However that doesn't explain the ones you hadn't been with - that is weird but also cool and quite a talent! The comedian Michael Bentine said he could tell if someone was soon going to die (saw a type of skull shadow over their face). During WW2 when he was in the RAF, he said he could see who wasn't going to come back from their missions and in later life he said he knew that his son was going to die soon. I heard him being interviewed and he was very convincing and it would be an odd thing for a famous and successful person to make up. I'm generally pretty cynical but I've had foreknowledge of things before and I wonder if it is less woo and more an animal thing that we had once but unevolved?

SeaWitchly · 02/09/2022 02:52

stillvicarinatutu · 02/09/2022 02:40

I've told this one before, but when I was I slept with curtains open .

I saw an orange dot in the sky moving quickly - I got out of bed and opened the window to watch it until is went out of my line of sight .

A few moments later a large orange triangular craft was hovering above the trees opposite my house - it was totally silent , it wasn't a solid triangle- the shape was but it had a column down the centre and two columns off to each side which formed a cross shape in the middle of this thing .

It hovered around 30 seconds then twisted in mid air and went at warp speed into the horizon.

I had a horrible stepfather so I didn't dare go downstairs to tell anyone but I told my mother the following morning- she insisted I must be dreaming however that evening in the Yorkshire evening press on the front page was a tiny headline entitled "black magic " - the workmen coming out of the chocolate factory had seen the same thing ! They reported it to police and the paper got the story .

Definitely wasn't a dream !

Ooh stillvicarinatutu, sounds like you saw my orange light in the sky at close range!

Mothership4two · 02/09/2022 03:01

@EverythingHeadinSouth I was told the spider was from South America back in the day and the swelling was on her neck and she caught it with a scarf and the babies burst out. Yuk!

You can get a fly maggot laid in your skin from a type of fly from Central or South America (a botfly/botflie?) that forms a bump and you have to squeeze it out which is probably has a connection to the spider urban myth. Shudder

AiryFairyLights · 02/09/2022 04:01

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. 👍👍👍

I’m sure I had the same email @GingerAndLemonn but honestly having all these millions isn’t all it’s cracked up to be ….. 🤣

AiryFairyLights · 02/09/2022 04:03

Sorry that was meant to tag @TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

Richielogic · 02/09/2022 04:22

My mate was self pleasuring himself in bed and for an extra thrill had got a pair of his girlfriends knickers to put on his face.

Anyhow, when he had finished his business, he noticed his mum had been in his room whilst doing this and left him a cup of coffee and some biscuits on his bedside table.

@GingerAndLemonn Did this situation make you laugh?

APJ1 · 02/09/2022 05:06

Anyhow, when he had finished his business, he noticed his mum had been in his room whilst doing this and left him a cup of coffee and some biscuits on his bedside table.

It's funny just how many users of various online forums over the years have had that same friend. 😉

XelaM · 02/09/2022 05:57

When I was in my 20's I had a brief affair with a married colleague who pursued me continuously over text, but asked me to delete the texts in case anyone saw them, which I did. He was such an incredibly popular guy in the office with an impeccable "nice guy/family man" image that no one would ever in a million years suspect that side to him. When it ended, I told friends of mine about it (who also knew him) and no one believed me and I had deleted all the hundreds of texts he had sent me, so couldn't "prove it". It just seemed at complete odds with his public persona. He sadly died of cancer in his early 40's so I never spoke about it after that.

QuebecBagnet · 02/09/2022 06:31

@Girliefriendlikespuppies they didn’t biopsy it but looked at it under a magnifying glass and declared it wasn’t cancer.

QuebecBagnet · 02/09/2022 06:35

Neverendingdust · 01/09/2022 23:40

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

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Yes, that’s me under an earlier name.

FangsForTheMemory · 02/09/2022 06:45

RiftGibbon · 01/09/2022 20:30

I remember massive spiders when I was in Australia many years ago. Massive and harmless. It's the little ones that are the problem.

I equally remember huge chunky black house spiders in a holiday cottage in Wales a couple of years back. Had to put a pint glass over one to trap it, and it only just fitted!

I brought a box in from the garden shed once and ten minutes later found a spider on the floor that was so HUGE I had to get a pudding bowl to put over it. My usual technique with spiders is to put a sock over my hand and pick them up but this monster would probably have bitten right through a sock.

Fluffygreenslippers · 02/09/2022 06:56

Just the other day I was sitting in the living room and a large centipede or millipede just appeared and dropped down from the ceiling and fell behind the tv. I haven’t seen it since…😐

Thinkingblonde · 02/09/2022 07:00

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

It sounds like a Damsel Fly, they are big but usually harmless, will only bite if attacked or scared. The colours, body and wing all fit with your description. We have a garden pond and sometimes see them skimming over the water dive bombing insects for food.

clpsmum · 02/09/2022 07:00

ShirleyJackson · 02/09/2022 01:56

Anyone else dying to know who the handsome lead singer was?

Yes lol

passport123 · 02/09/2022 07:10

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.

Of course. because blocking him instead of, say, just immediately deleting the message was the sensible thing to do.

Thenose · 02/09/2022 07:43

In my first year of senior school, I was walking home alone down a long tree-lined lane adjacent to the sports pitches. Two men walking towards me stopped and asked, "Which way to the computer room, love?", and I proceeded to give them very detailed directions. The next day, the police were swarming around the building because around 60 PCs had gone poof in the night. I tried to tell them what I'd seen and they completely ignored me.

Another time, I was walking home at the crack of dawn after a night shift. We lived in a new build estate surrounded by fields. An absolutely massive hare hopped ahead of me on the road for at least 5 minutes, stopping every now and again to turn and look at me. On all fours, it was as tall as the top of my thighs. I've never seen one so large. It looked ethereal. Anyway, I don't think anyone believed me.

DoctorManhattan · 02/09/2022 07:44

Many years ago I was at a seaside town with my then gf for the day. As it progressed into evening, we had fish & chips sitting down outside and then - suitably full up - lay back on a grass embankment and stared up at the sky as we chatted, sitting amongst the many other people around us.

The sky was totally clear and it wasn’t long before the stars were on show, and as I stared at them I noticed what looked like one moving across the sky. It was too fast to be a helicopter, too slow to be a shooting star, so I reasoned it must be an aeroplane. I remember pointing to it and making an offhand comment to my gf about it being strange that it was a solid light and not the usual blinking one you get with aircraft. About 3 secs later, it stopped abruptly in the sky with no deceleration and hovered there for about 10 secs as we watched. Then it it immediately shot off at a right angle and went in a totally different direction. It didn’t seem to accelerate or move like a normal aircraft, it went from hovering to full speed instantly. I wonder to this day what it was.