To ask if anything genuinely unexplainable and spooky has happened to you?

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I'll start. As a young teenager I wrote to a celebrity and received a signed photo with my name and a personalised specific message on. It was on my bedroom wall for years I went to uni and left it behind. While I was at uni, my mum remarried and moved house. I was not involved in the packing and moving . My things all went into boxes into the loft of the new house.
Fast forward to about 3 years ago (27 years after the house was packed up) I am unloading my laundry basket (recent purchase from dunelm) there's a cardboard stiffener at the bottom that comes away and under there is my photo. Not a photo, but the exact one. I was so baffled and a bit scared I actually cried. In the 27 years I have lived in 7 different homes, all small so I have regularly had to streamline my things. I know what I own. There was literally no way it could have been there. I'd never stored anything in the laundry basket other than laundry. It genuinely still baffles me. Anyone else had a similar experience?

Sounds horrible

Interestingly, there was recently something on the radio which was vaguely similar. A man was in a coach crash, woke up to the sound of a beeping machine and found himself alone in a small room off a hospital ward. It was all deserted, doors blocked/taped but he got out, and eventually found someone else. It got really complicated after that.
Turned out he'd been involved in a Derren Brown show, and part of an elaborate hoax using many actors.

I was more confused than scared, just trying to figure out why?

It was back in 2000 so before 28 days later came out which I think was a few years later (and I was a teen but underage at the time so couldnt have even seen 28 days later if it had existed).

Maybe my lack of horror film knowledge is why it wasnt scary but 9 years later watching the start of walking dead I was sat there like 'this all seems very familar' lol.

Im still more just confused than anything, I have questions... like its hard to explain but the layout meant the room I was in was in the 'toilet block' so they have baracaded and locked the toilets/showers to the whole ward in with me so where was everyone else going to the bathroom?

My name was written on signs posted all over the walls, doors and baracade bit too, just make shift signs out of A4 paper that had written on in pen saying 'private' then my name full name.

And like I said I can only assume it was a makeshift quarentine but I had already been in the general population for 2 weeks so IF I was contagous I would have infected the other already (and Im guessing no one else was sick because I was in there alone).

I would have just assume I was moved to the room for privacy as I was obviously high risk having been put into an induced coma state but that wouldn't explain locking me in and the baracade so just baffling.

I just want answers lol.

So weird @mam0918 did they explain to you what happened when you got to the main ward or when you were seen by doctors / nurses? I guess if it was that long ago there won't be any notes :(

@Alexiii, I’m intrigued about the hunger tree - I googled it but could only find hanging or hungry tree. Is it one of those? Or something different?

Not woo. Its very very common to have hallucinations when in ICU. It's often either a sign of serious illness, or the drugs used to keep you sedated and out of pain etc. It can be a combination of those things too.

Yes my FIL had hallucinations when he was on very heavy pain medication, and saw his brother (who had died many years before) - his brother was climbing up the wall and across the ceiling which is what made FIL consider it a hallucination. If he had just kind of been in the room or spoken to him, it might have seemed more like a ghost.

However I don't think everything can be explained in this way, e.g. when people know something bad is happening to a loved one in a different place, and many other things on this thread.

@Squiff70
Oh yes, I had many hallucinations and I'm sure it's explained away with the medication and illness but it was so scary.
With my second operation and second stay in ITU, I saw a young child climbing under the bed of patients towards me and I was luckily "with it" enough to realise that was definitely not happening. My nurse said "you'll be able to go to a different ward tomorrow" and I said good because my mind is playing tricks on me and I'm starting to see things and itu is a scary place. I told her about the girl and I remember instead of just saying "yes, there's no-one there" she said "how old is the girl?"
I would hate to work on those wards.

No I have never got clear answers and dont think I ever will (and what they did 'explain' to me at the time was a proven lie.)

The nurse told me at the time that they moved me there for 'my safety' (doesnt explain being locked in though) claiming it was because my 'appendix ruptured' (never happened, I lost my appendix 13 years later as an adult and my medical record showed nothing about my appendix prior to that).

It took years too find out the truth of what was wrong with me, turns out it was Meningitis and Septic Shock (which caused Accute Kidney Injury... strange title as its not actually an 'injury' but the name for sudden organ failure).

I don't know why they didn't just tell me that though, like why did they keep it such a hush hush secret?

Even my parent didn't know over half of what went on until seeing my notes years later, they didnt know about the Meningitis and Sepsis they thought it was 'just' Flu as that was all they where told by doctors.

I will also say that once as a small child I wandered off in a hospital (my mam was rushed in and no one was watching me as I was an oldly child of a single parent and I was 'forgotton' in the waiting room) trying to find my mam, I wandered into several wards looking for her.

I was eventually found wandering quietly around the dark end of life ward (think I scared the hell out of the unsuspecting nurse) so at least once the creapy pasty small child seen wandering quietly around the life support machines was actually real.

They just took me back down to the waiting room and called my aunt to come collect me.

I don't think anyone but the nurse saw me though, everyone seemed to be asleep and it was really dark on that ward.

Really surprised I couldn't find anything about these on Google. It's trees where someone dropped down dead of starvation during the famine, which are haunted. When you walk past them you feel really hungry, even if you've just had a big meal. Used to really scare me when I was small. There was a few nearby when I was small, I assumed they were dotted all over the country.

Not the right answer from the nurse!!!

Could it be that you were experiencing Delerium and extreme agitation (very common with acute kidney injury) and kept barricaded in for your own safety, especially if you had tried to abscond from the ward ? Iv seen patients with the level of agitation posing risk to others and themselves in that acute state and it can be extreme! Also none of which is remembered by the patient after they recover. Could be this and also as you say you were quarantined as high infection risk- even if you’d already mixed with other patients at this point the minute they discover your infective status they will quarantine immediately.
Hope that may possibly shed some light. Staff should’ve explained to you but often are reluctant to go into full detail of the level of agitation (hitting out screaming etc) as it can be embarrassing and of little use for you to know. I’m not saying this is defo what happened and I’m not trying to be insensitive I’m just trying to help answer what I think happened here after years of working the wards x

@Alexiii thanks for that - wow! I think these things are echoes of the past and more unsettling than apparitions…When my DC was very small, around 3 YO, we visited Auschwitz: One minute they were happy and excited but as soon as we went through the gates their demeanour changed completely and they clung onto me very quietly and kind of wary until we left. DC did not act frightened or traumatised, but sort of horrified and sad, almost a recognition of hallowed ground, IYSWIM.
it was the first time that I realised that some places have auras that can affect you - even if you do t have much understanding of why…

3 weird happenings one summer in the 70s when I was a child....

Parents were tidying up in the garden using a brand new broom which they stood against the fence in between. When they next turned to use it, it had been replaced by an old threadbare one. Never saw the new broom again.

Next, my mum planted some tomato plants and had been intending to stake & tie them up but hadn't got round to it. Came down one morning and they had been tied up but crudely with little strips of old rag.

Finally, my mum went to light a bonfire but couldn't find the matches anywhere. Suddenly, a brand new box appeared at her feet (not the box she was looking for).

We never found an explanation for any of it. It wouldn't have been easy to get into our garden but we quizzed the neighbours, none of whom were the type to play practical jokes.

I think this also.

There is a beauty spot we once visitied on the isle of Wight. People go to bird watch etc. We went and within seconds I started to feel dizzy and nauseous and just a most overwhelming sense of fear and dread. I ended up leaving and going to sit in the car to wait for everyone else. As soon as we drove away a haze sort of lifted from my eyes and I was totally back to normal. Later we mentioned in passing to the people who owned our holiday cottage that i had had a funny turn there and the owner said perfectly matter of factly 'Oh lots of people feel that there. There was a massacre there hundreds of years ago. '

Winter, do you know any more about the massacre? Been to the IOW a couple of times and was completely unaware of this. I know there is history of Romsn occupation, which may have resulted in some battles over land.

But I was in an induced state completely unconcoious during that time.

I was also completely paralysed, unable to move or talk before they put me under.

They did try to wake me at one point, I screamed, flailed and swore a LOT (it was agony but I must have regained movement) and they very quickly put me right back under again.

When they deliberately woke me that time my family and a bunch of doctors and nurses where around me and my mam tried talking to me when I started screaming they paniced and reversed it so it was clearly heavily planned action to wake me.

However the second time I woke up (when I tried to get out) I was completely alone and the beeping machine is what I assume woke me and I wasn't in pain anymore and got up and out of bed (perfectly calmly) to try and find people.

I assume I awoke naturally and maybe they weren't expecting it, was a little hurt my family weren't there tbh but I guess they just thought there was no point sitting around to watch me 'sleep'.

Hi @GimmeBiscuits yes I googled it just now. It's described below as a french raid, but certainly described to us as a massacre when we stayed there. I've never forgotten the feeling I had. Even writing about it brings up a sort of heavy queasy feeling.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown,_Isle_of_Wight

Oddly enough my dad did not feel anything at the time (he was with us), but when he visited a new development once that used to be a mental hospital he had exactly the same reaction and later described it as the 'walls holding memories'.

Thanks! Find these sorts of things morbidly fascinating. I think I need to get out more :)

There's always been something very, very wrong with the lane outside my Auntie's house. I hate the feelings it gives me, but have never told a soul. A few years back, got chatting to a taxi driver who mentioned he wouldn't do pick ups at houses on the same lane - because he was too scared to park there!

I felt really disturbed that we both sensed the same thing, but also relieved it wasn't just me (I'm totally non woo and taxi driver was an ex squaddie).

Me too!

@mam0918
Is it possible that your experience was a dream? When you were still in the coma?

No I was definately awake, my aunt was in another ward after an accident where she broke her leg and had to have a pin fitted and they brought her round in her wheelchair to sit with me because my mam wasn't there and they where trying to contact her.

Had this convosation just a few weeks ago and my aunt confirmed on the phone that it was definately the same time because she remember them getting her and wheeling her round to visit when I just woke up because they couldnt find mam too so unless we both misremember I'm pretty sure it was real.

Like I said it wasn't scary, creepy, supernatural or anything, I wasn't stressed or panicing just a bit confused and I was just trying to find someone because I had a machine attached to me that was beeping.

The hospital was built originally as a temporary/emergancy hospital after a blitz bombing but kept open after the war yet was always notoriously shite though, it was a historic building way behind morden time (was torn down 2 years later) so they tended to be a bit of a bodge operation in general.

I moved a few years later and now go to another hospital which is increadible and makes me wonder why the one where I grew up in the bloody 1990s was stuck in the victorian era of medicine and bedside manner.

Another one from me. The local vicar turned up, unannounced, at our house (an old farmhouse) one afternoon. My Mum was surprised because she'd never met him as we're not remotely religious, never go to church etc. The vicar told her that my older brother (about 10 at the time) had spoken to him after a school visit to the church, and told the vicar that he kept seeing the ghost of an old man in our house. My brother asked the vicar if he could come and tell the ghost to go away.

My Mum laughed it off and told the vicar that my brother was just messing about. But the vicar said he took my brother very seriously because the previous occupants of the house had also mentioned the ghost of an old man. He had also heard from the previous vicar that our farmhouse was a 'problematic house' but the diocese didn't advocate stuff like blessings and exorcisms etc.

What an absolutely bizarre thing for them to do!