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

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crochetmonkey74 · 15/11/2022 06:24

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?

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ThatWardrobe · 10/12/2022 07:32

What happened next @peaceandove? What did the vicar do? Was the old man seen again?

peaceandove · 10/12/2022 18:56

My brother went to stay at our grandparents, while my parents looked for somewhere else to live. I think we moved out only a couple of months later.

JudgeJ · 11/12/2022 17:24

I've written this before but here goes. When we lived in a Med country we would go to sleep with just a sheet over us, during the noght I would be aware of OH getting up, going to the loo and coming back into the room he would pull the blanket up from the foot of the bed, tauck it round my now chilly body and return to bed. In the morning I was covered with the blankef. A couple of years later we were talkng with friends about little acts of kindness and I mentioned this. He looked shocked, I was the one who had got up, pulled the blanket round him and tucked it in!
In another posting a few years later still we met a couple who we found had lived in the same flat and the wife's first words were Did you get tucked in every night?
Goose pimples now and it's not the cold!

Cuppasoupmonster · 11/12/2022 18:23

Alexiii · 08/12/2022 00:27

What did @Ellyfinsmum's post say? Can't scroll back, it keeps crashing. Why MN won't use nested comments like reddit is beyond me.

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That one day she left her house to collect her DS from nursery and the buildings around her had morphed into how they were many years ago - the ‘shop’ was a pub, her son’s ‘nursery’ was just a patch of grass etc - when she looked it up later it turns out that’s exactly how it looked a number of years ago, something like that!

pomers · 12/12/2022 16:38

HUGanALPACA · 16/11/2022 18:52

I only have one 'woo' story...

I went to the funeral of my ex-partner's mum. She was very popular and there were so many people who went on to the cemetery after the funeral service that I didn't get to stand close to her grave and pay my respects. I decided to go back to the cemetery by myself a couple of weeks later to have a bit of quiet time by the grave.

It was a lovely, quiet summer evening and there was no one around when I arrived. It's a vast cemetery but I have a good sense of direction and I thought I knew where the grave was. However, I just couldn't find it. I went back and forth, up and down the rows looking for it.

I was just at the point of giving up when a group of about 6 kids appeared on the far side of the cemetery. They were chatting and larking about, a couple of them were cycling and they were just making their way through the cemetery. I didn't pay them much attention as they were quite far from me. I just kept muttering under my breath 'where are you?', looking for this grave.

The kids stopped suddenly and the eldest girl started reading out the inscription on a gravestone. It was the only grave they stopped at. She read the entire inscription loudly and clearly like she was doing a performance. I can just remember standing transfixed. The gravestone was about 200 yards away from where I had remembered it so clearly my sense of direction had been off.

The group left the cemetery without stopping at another gravestone and I walked down to the grave in disbelief thinking 'what the heck just happened there?'.

But grave stones aren’t erected until up to a year later as the ground needs to settle

Alexiii · 13/12/2022 03:05

Cuppasoupmonster · 11/12/2022 18:23

That one day she left her house to collect her DS from nursery and the buildings around her had morphed into how they were many years ago - the ‘shop’ was a pub, her son’s ‘nursery’ was just a patch of grass etc - when she looked it up later it turns out that’s exactly how it looked a number of years ago, something like that!

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Cheers - it's always these woo threads that crash - her story is incredible. There is a part of Liverpool famous for time-slips, I was there but nothing happened to me.

PortiasBiscuit · 13/12/2022 18:47

I live on grounds of a stately home, I would love a time slip.

WisteriaLodge · 17/12/2022 20:20

PortiasBiscuit · 13/12/2022 18:47

I live on grounds of a stately home, I would love a time slip.

Me too but I'd be worried I couldn't get back!

Wouldlovetobeinthesun · 17/12/2022 22:56

Luckynumbereight · 15/11/2022 14:23

This sounds so utterly ludicrous that I hesitate to even mention it.

I live in a busy commuter town outside London, in a house with a large back garden. I was sitting in the conservatory one morning mending a favourite bra when a black jaguar came round the corner, paused, looked at me and disappeared down the garden.

Time stood still. I know it was a jaguar, but I also know it wasn’t really a jaguar.

We have big cat sightings where I live outside of London so it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

CaptaNoctem · 19/12/2022 00:51

pomers · 12/12/2022 16:38

But grave stones aren’t erected until up to a year later as the ground needs to settle

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Maybe she was interred in an existing grave with family members?

HUGanALPACA · 20/12/2022 09:54

pomers · 12/12/2022 16:38

But grave stones aren’t erected until up to a year later as the ground needs to settle

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You make a good point. The event took place nearly 30 years ago so I guess more time had elapsed between the funeral and my visit to the graveyard. I lived in a different city and so that wd make sense. For info, graves can be erected in a matter of weeks as I know from recent experience.

Are you going to Hercule Poirot your way through all responses on this thread, Pomers? 😁

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