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

[crochetmonkey74]

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?

Do you remember when this was? I ask because someone I know was one of the actors in this and I seem to remember they were at Waterloo. news.sky.com/story/wwi-soldiers-appear-across-uk-in-somme-tribute-10331127

When I was young, we were on a camping holiday in the UK. On the site there were several lakes. On the largest lake (which was still fairly small and circular in shape) you could hire a rowing boat. There was a small sandy bay at one end of the lake where a couple of empty boats were tied up. We had carried the oars to the lake from the Reception where we’d just paid.
There was nobody on the lake or anywhere around - it was eerily quiet. We got into one of the boats and rowed across this lake when I accidentally dropped one of the oars. For some reason my brother and I found this hysterically funny as we watched it sink to the bottom of the lake. We rowed back to the bay with our one oar - my mum was rather irritated by the fact we found the situation funny when we might be charged for loosing it!
Imagine our utter surprise when we pulled up on the little shore to find the identical oar laying there on the sand. It 100% was not there when we got in the boat nor did we see anyone in the entire vicinity whilst we were on the lake!
We visited the campsite a couple of times during my childhood and there was always a funny atmosphere there. My whole family felt it but never said anything at the time. I did read as an adult they had a couple of people drown in the lakes there 😨

@QuestionableMouse - I lost a pair of scissors as well! DH and I had just sat down on the floor to trim a tangle off our dog. He was holding/distracting him, I'd picked up my brand new shiny grooming scissors and was about to snip the tangle when the doorbell rang. I clearly remember putting the scissors down, either on the arm of the chair I was sitting next to or on the floor alongside it. I went to the door, picked up a parcel that the Amazon man had left on the step, came straight back in and they were gone. We absolutely turned the place upside down and inside out looking for them. It drove me mad because I blooming hate losing things. Two years later they've still not turned up!

in that case you may have seen a real soldier in some kind of parallel time line!

I also apologise if anyone here had a ghostly experience at Donnington Castle in Newbury way back in mid summer in the early 2000's.

I was in the Sealed Knot, we were doing a thing, I had been drinking at the little pub in the village and decided to go up to the castle and clear my head a bit. It was just getting to the dark part of twilight and I came across a couple dog walking as I rounded the old tower. They jumped out of their skin, I realised I was still in 17th century kit, so, drunk and embarrassed, I decided the best course of action was to disappear back into the semi darkness and hide 🤣

I feel your pain! I have a big living room and was sitting on the floor in the middle of it. Nowhere for them to go, and yet I've never found them! We emptied the entire room about six weeks later to get some new carpet down and they were nowhere in sight!

So that's where Fotamecus grabbed some time from for someone else!

(it's a chaos magic servitor that can be used to expand or compress time)

Excellent story!! (My DH was a Roundhead in the Sealed Knot!)

I may have done the same thing to some walkers on Dartmoor a few winters ago!

I was "starring" in an Iron Age film for one of the film festivals. It was January and freezing cold and I was walking back to the cars from Scorhill circle in full Iron Age costume with a friend ( dressed as a Victorian gentleman but that's another story). We passed quite a few walkers but no one said anything. I often wonder what they were thinking though

I've posted about mine before, but I have two, I think.

The first I was about 12 and had a necklace very proud to me. I'd travelled to a different country to see family and we went camping. I was staying in a tent trailer, with beds that hadn't been made up yet as it was our first night there. I went to the wash room wearing my necklace, took it off by the sink and managed to drop the pendant. I was so convinced it had gone in the plughole my uncle undid the u-bend but it wasn't there. I shook my clothes out, looked in my wash bag and all around but nothing.

We got back to the tent trailer and my aunt had made up the bed I was sharing with a cousin, putting on the sheets and sleeping bags etc. The next morning we got up, got dressed and pulled the sheets off the bed, only to see my lost pendant on the mattress. Clearly there's a radical explanation, but I can't see how my lost pendant ended up under a neatly tucked-in sheet while I'd been wearing it in the wash room a short walk away.

The second was about a decade ago. I was standing on a street corner having a phone conversation. I watched a man walk past me with two boys, one in a red top jumping on the white lines on the road as they crossed. About 5 minutes later I swear that the exact same 3 people came past, following the same path with the boy jumping on the white lines as they crossed the road. I even said it to my friend on the phone at the time, that I was sure I'd just seen them. Technically, yes, they could have looped around to come past again. But it looked so exactly identical.

ellyfinsmum I completely believe you as the same has happened to me. I also thought I was going mad. It was 5/6 years ago and I was walking my dogs through fields behind my house. I decided to extend the walk and went a field further than I usually did. At the bottom of the field there are some woods with a small waterfall, the usual foliage, trees (obviously 😂) and the dogs were really enjoying the walk. I followed them to the edge of the woods and came to a 5 bar gate. Beyond the gate I could see a long track, a farmhouse and a van. I remember thinking ‘gosh I’ve lived here years and never realised there was another farm here’ (we’re very rural). I stood at the gate and got one of the strangest feelings I’ve ever had. I truly felt like I’d gone back in time. I can’t explain it. All of a sudden the sun seemed to shine really bright, I looked at the van and realised it was one of those little old ones from the 30s. It was just a really bizarre feeling and I started to feel scared. I turned and walked back. A few months later I was with my DH and I told him I’d show him ‘the farm’. We got to the gate. No driveway, just a paddock. No farmhouse, just the ruins of where something had been. I felt like I was going to throw up. I really believe something strange happened that day, what I do not know.

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.

I was about ten weeks pregnant with my second. Felt the baby moving, and thought that’s far too early to feel that, it must be twins. Didn’t say anything to DH though because when I googled it it said you can’t feel twins any earlier than one baby so thought it was my imagination. The following week DH started to say ‘when you have the twins….’ Then stopped and said I meant baby and carried on the sentence. Next week was 12 week scan, twins. So strange we both knew it was coming!

Celebrities send out thousands of pictures to fans, and quite a number of those fans have the same name.

I am sure there is a logical explanation to all this (military perhaps).
Happened in autumn 2005 (we didn't have mobiles) Me and my brother were walking home from school about 1 mile and we lived on the very outskirts literally next to miles of countryside. We are walking in that direction so away from the town center. We are on our street and it was dusk. We see in the sky 4 lights slowly falling to earth through the clouds very very very slowly.
We both carried on walking when we noticed but we realised they were "falling" so slowly that it was not fireworks etc. We stopped and stared for about 10mins before we lost sight of them.
They were all in a row next to each other "falling" at the same rate. We were so freaked out we couldn't talk to each other and never mentioned to our parents. We never spoke about it after that day.
But I mentioned it to him a few years ago and he was still freaked out about it and ended the conversation.

UFO? Military? I say Military as we are surrounded by many bases well within a 15/20mile radius.

One morning about 8-10yrs ago, I woke up to find the bed (and myself) soaking wet from my lower back to my mid thighs - as if I'd wet myself. But I hadn't wet myself because it wasn't wee (there was no smell or odour to it at all) and the amount of 'liquid' was way too much, it had gone all the way through the mattress and absolutely soaked the carpet under the bed - there was a puddle under the bed.

It freaked me out and to this day the only explanation I can reasonably fathom was that it was some sort of somnambulistic 'female ejaculation' phenomenon. It's never happened since.

I felt my son at 10 weeks - First time Mum and first pregnancy.
It was confirmed with a scan. They asked me to do some star jumps to move baby into a better position as he was asleep and they couldnt get certain views. So as soon as I stopped jumping it felt like a bag of snakes lol and on the scan he was freaking out flalling and kicking rolling about.
Then the midwife was annoyed the baby was moving too much.
Can't win.

But I am glad it was confirmed in real time as I had many Mums patronising me calling to "gas" 😂

Yes, I experience 'the hum' (or 'the drone', as I call it) where we live. It's a constant source of fascination on the local Facebook page. My husband can't hear it.

Bill Bailey investigated it in this podcast:

@MixedCouple I know I definitely felt them move but never said anything and I didn’t feel them again till about 20 weeks. DH had done a plan for if we had twins on his phone as well, for what work I could do before we knew. He definitely knew some how, I knew from the movement but he definitely had a sixth sense about it!

I've heard a humming noise a couple of times. No one else could hear it. It was a really deep droning, like a large vehicle idling in the distance. I could hear it on and off for a few days (at all hours) but then it went away. It did return for a day or 2 sometime later but not heard it for a year or so now.
I live a couple of minutes from a railway line so I just assumed it must be something to do with that, but it was weird that none of my family could hear it, only me.

I wonder who opened your present and thought you'd given them a pair of used scissors?!

This really isn't the explanation- I have an unusual name- the message mentioned a combination of 3 proper nouns (names of places and people that had been in my letter) It wasn't Mum, Dad, Sister etc

It was actual names

This sounds like flares. Helicopters and planes use them to confuse missiles. I've seen it happen around my dads house and spent a good 30 seconds thinking asteroids were about to hit the earth 🤣

I remember telling my Midwife at the start of the appt and she looked at me like I was crazy then when it happened and I told her I can feel he has woken up and then she scanned she was in stunned silence. Then said every one is different but first time Mums don't normally feel anything until 24weeks.

I am not special I know others who have said the same.

Also I have IBS so I know what gas feels like 😂

It just goes to show sciences has not uncovered everything about the human body and mind. Some people are very intune with their body.

Someone mentioned poltergeist and teenagers...

We had a poltergeist is a student house. Old Victorian place, 8 girls living there. We had a plate jump off the table for example. (As in one minute in the middle of table, next smashed on floor)

We never felt uncomfortable there... but always felt if something else lived there.