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

[GingerAndLemonn]

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.

A couple of bug related ones:
I was about 15 when I found the biggest, coolest bug I've ever seen. It was huge, had orange patches on, sort of fluffy but had wings, it was more beetle-like than a hornet and simply unlike anything I'd ever seen before. I ran inside to get a pot to catch it in so I could show my Dad but when I came out and returned to the spot a few seconds later, my cat was there licking his lips and the bug had met an unfortunate ending. I tried to describe the bug to my Dad who called it my "imaginary bug", I've never been able to find anything similar online. I promise it existed though!

My other one. I was around 18 when I was in my bedroom one evening, chilling in bed on my phone. Suddenly, I heard the acoustic guitar which was leaning against my wall STRUM. I looked over - nothing there. I don't believe in ghosts but the hairs on my neck stood up on their ends. As I was looking at the guitar it strummed again. At this point I was so petrified I couldn't move. As the guitar strummed a third time, I finally saw the house spider which had been "strumming" the strings crawl out from behind them and fall onto the floor. I had no idea spiders could make that much noise with a guitar but I kept the guitar downstairs after that!

These flowerpots were 12cm for size comparison... insects are amazing!Gave me a shock when I came across her in the garden centre though.

Cripes1- that is a truly wonderful story. Congratulations on your little miracle.

mam0918- thank you for your post; very insightful. I’m not too far from the countryside and I live on the edge of town, so by what you say it can happen. It is really sad that people go into pet buying without fully exploring what it entails.

MsFannySqueers- what a lovely bird spot you made. I’ve just seen this on blue robins

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4092353.stm

Kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was obsessed with my mum's cassette recorder and was always taping myself reading, or recording music using the old style cables etc. I had dozens of cassettes (regularly rewound them using a biro!) and played and taped over them many times. I'm saying, I used them all the time and they featured a lot in my 10 year old life!

When a tape was wound to the beginning, on the front face of the cassette the empty reel was on one side and the full reel on the other. One day, I started a tape from the beginning but it kept stopping. I was baffled and tried everything. Eventually I called my brother in and he said, "You've got the tape the wrong way around, it's at the end."

He turned it over and sure enough it played, but the music was garbled (backwards). I insisted that it had always played perfectly well from left to right (or the other way I forget now, but definitely not the direction he was saying). He said no, it had always played that way. I said why is the music garbled then and he just shrugged.

I involved every member of the family, and the more they stared blankly at my insistence that the direction of play on the recorder had reversed and messed up all my tapes, the more frustrated I became. I got very tearful and yelled that IT'S THE WRONG WAY ROUND and they all thought I was deranged.

I remember it so clearly and 40 years later I'm still salty that all my tapes were playing backwards yet nobody considered for a moment that anything other than ME was wrong. 🤣

@kedavra Omg this is absolutely hilarious and an unbelievable coincidence! 😂 😂 😂 wow

I've had a couple of weird things. The first was a kind of premonition I had in my dream as a child. It was quite a boring dream, just me and my sister playing in the street next to our house as we often did and her having a bit of a strop about a toy (as she often did :D). But she stropped off into the road and got hit by a car coming around the corner. A few days later, we were playing in that spot and the scenario actually started to happen. I realised we were even wearing the same clothes as in the dream and I knew what she was going to say. Then we got to the part where she was going to have a strop about not being given a certain toy. I was really freaked out and thought "if I don't do something, she's going to get run over" so I changed my response and gave her the toy. A moment later a car of same colour/shape came around the bend. Nobody believed me and I don't really believe in premonitions so I can't blame them!

I saw what looked like a panther when I was in labour with my second child. I was in slow labour so my partner and I decided to go for a walk around the nature reserve nearby. As we were waking there was a huge flock of canada geese walking around, which I'm quite frightened of, and within the flock was a huge black cat. The birds didn't act as though it was unusual for it to be there. We were terrified! My partner took a photo but it was grainy and phones weren't so good back then. We ended up making a run for it. I was convinced I was going to mauled whilst in labour. Nobody believed us but we both saw it with our own eyes.

A clown in a mini also threatened me when I was a teenager. I was walking home with my friends and either stepped into the road without looking or we were jostling each other near the edge. A car was coming and beeped at me, so I stepped back and said sorry. The car slowed down and I realised it was a mini with a clown in it. He was swearing at me loads and doing loads of gesturing with his creepy clown face on. Then he did that finger across throat sign as though he was going to slit my throat before driving off. So creepy.

And one where I was bloody vindicated! A small black cat got into our house and was there for quite a while, but I was the only person who ever saw it. We were having the house rewired and a new kitchen fitted so there were no lights and lots of boxes in the kitchen. I could have sworn I saw a little black cat jump behind some of them. I looked everywhere but couldn't find it. My husband was convinced it was just a shadow. Later that evening, I was sitting in the living room watching tv when I turned my head and noticed that it was sitting in the living room doorway, just watching us. I said my husband's name and it ran off before he saw it. He was absolutely convinced I was going mad. I was looking everywhere in the house calling for this cat. I eventually just stayed in the kitchen nice and quiet and kept calling it and it jumped out from behind some boxes and ran over to me! I was so smug.

This also sounds very similar to what I saw in my earlier post on a beach in Australia in the early 90s. I saw a formation of four orange lights moving across the sky, they suddenly stopped and began darting in different directions and then around 30 seconds later all shot off together in one direction leaving a trail of light behind them.

It won’t be Limahl, he was Too Shy

Years before they were caught, my ex boyfriend's mum lived on the same street as a well known serial killing couple.

There MO was to pick up women and offer them lifts.

They pulled over when she was stood outside her flat and asked if she needed a lift anywhere. Her boyfriend then turned up for their date.

Another big cat one. About five years ago, I was out to collect my DD from a late music performance, about 11pm in November, so pitch black. Driving up a very twisty turny hill on the way home, came round a sharp bend to see an animal, about half way across road, lit up by headlights. It was going quite fast and disappeared in to the woods on that side of the road very quickly. I was taken aback and exclaimed ‘WTF was that?’, DD in passenger side confirmed she’d also seen it. It was extremely big, sandy coloured (but not gingery). It most certainly was not a fox (got four in my garden atm, I know what they look like 👍)and in any case was much too big. It definitely was not any kind of deer, too stocky and movement all wrong. And basically, bottom line is, it was definitely a cat shape. Both me and DD agreed that was the only explanation but that the size of it put it firmly out of domestic cat range. Actually, with regard to no one believing us, it’s the opposite, pretty everyone we told did believe it because so many people have seen similar things that they can’t prove. Thing is, now, five years later DD works for a zoo, and we now know just how many animals do actually escape that you may never know about (even though they are reported to the correct authorities - most of them are caught or sadly destroyed). For instance there is currently a cat that has escaped but hasn’t been caught, it has been reported but as it isn’t subject to DWA licence (it is on the IUCN Red List though), it’s being left to its own devices which is 😮. So, who knows?

Two spring to mind, first one woo the second just WT actual F.

I’ve told this before on here, but it still really plays on my mind. My husband and I stayed at a premises in Lyme Regis, the entrance to it was through a gated little courtyard and then through it’s French doors. We were told that sometimes the neighbour used this courtyard to access a part of their property, so were expecting potentially see someone at some point.

On the first night we were sat in the kitchen, me opposite the French doors on a sofa, my husband perched on the kitchen surface. We decided to put some music on and open a bottle of bubbly we had been gifted. Whilst we were sipping our first glass, a face appeared at the door. I immediately thought “that’s the neighbour, maybe the music is too loud” and acknowledged them with a little wave and got up to open the door. Except the door opened itself before I got there. I went to speak but there was no one there. My husband who has watched the whole thing freaked out. I ran into the courtyard, no sign of anyone, and no time for them to have gone anywhere. I rang my mum, I was so confused. She just thought we were drunk and hysterical. But we weren’t. Although my husband proceeded to down his drinks after that!

We stayed in the property for a week, and didn’t see the neighbour once. So we assumed they were away. Nothing else happened until the last night when we were in bed, door shut, with the dog and from outside the room, in the kitchen the dogs squeaky toy pig “oinks” then we hear it drop the floor.

We’re not people who generally believed in ghosts, but we have never been able to explain this and no really believes us.

The second one was when I used to run my old business we had a small quiet car park round the back. One day I was walking through when I heard voices singing “Dreaming of You” by The Coral. Perfectly harmonising, really brilliant. I looked around to locate where it was coming from and it was 5 of our local teen troublemakers all in there trackies, no one watching them. Just having a sing, and they were REALLY good. I used to live next door to one of them and, although you shouldn’t judge a book, I was not expecting to ever witness this. He had actually been quite vile and intimidating in previous experience, so I tried not to make eye contact and scuttled away.

Brilliant.

I think the band the previous poster mentioned might be Bros. I had a huge crush on Matt back in the day so super jealous if it's him

Thanks @Fivecluckyhens that’s a really interesting article regarding the blue robins it was just so strange to see the red replaced with blue.

The robin was possibly a migrating bluethroat, seen a few in the uk.

Oops i did RTFT but missedthat someone beat me to it 😁

I’ve said this one on here before but 🤷‍♀️ When I was about 13, my mum, sister and I were driving down a country lane and we came across a naked man who had been hog tied. I got out, untied him and he ran off without saying anything. We never found out if it was a kidnap/stag do/some sort of initiation thing. So weird. I’m just glad my mum and sister were there to verify it because no-one else bloody well believes us!

Was it Kurt Cobain?

I was in the UK in the summer and went for an evening walk in the countryside and saw something at the other end of the field that was a sandy colour and big and cat-like. It was too far away to see properly though. But it was in a field right next to a field full of sheep and it wasn't attacking them so probably not a big cat...

My friend saw a lynx in her garden, that might have ended up as a story no one would ever believe but she had her phone in hand and got several photos before it left (it was having a good wander around)

Their.

I swear I'm not an idiot!

@KyaClark I noticed the same grammar mistake in mine as soon as I posted it, but my post was so long, I thought best not pop up again. 😂

Didn't think you were an idiot for a second! But wondering if you're being a little more considerate than necessary protecting the serial killers' identities!

@ThatThingOverThere

I think I was going to write "the" and "their" and got it completely wrong.

@PieceofKate

I'm a stickler for grammar (to the point of being a dick) so I've shown myself up!

I'm actually protecting mine, even though it's pretty obvious who I mean 🤣. If someone AS me and read my posts, I think I'd be identifiable!

I'm a grammar and spelling dick too. I know I annoy people... and yet. This morning's long post is littered with errors. I'd just woken up!

Just before I started going out with my now DH, we’d all been out drinking the night before. My best friend was up for the weekend, we’d gone a bit mad. We decided hair of the dog was a good idea so headed to a bar. I was trying to be cool-failing miserably and got out my Zippo, which I’d overfilled. I lit up a fag, thinking I was all nonchalant and my entire hand was suddenly on fire from the Zippo being over full. Only the fuel burned, I wafted it out very quickly so wasn’t even affected. Kind of ruined my trying to be cool vibe 🤣

I saw a panther, just turned out of a country lane through woods, it was just opposite, loping along. I’m sure there’s all sorts out there given the Big Cat Sanctuary not too far and multiple zoos/big cat parks around.