What the bloody hell just happened?

[scorpiogirly]

I'm trying not to freak out.

In bed reading mumsnet as you do and all of a sudden I hear this almighty bang on my bedroom door which is ajar. It's one of those crap ones with a frame and perspex in.

Thinking something must have fallen, I got up to investigate. I turn the torch on on my phone as the bedside table lamp barely gives off any light. When I reached the door my phone went weird, the torch went off and a qr code came up on my screen as if trying to scan. I tried getting it off and it closed to reveal the screensaver I have of my daughter. All the icons had vanished and the phone was frozen except for the screenshot which was blurred and looked almost ghostly.

I put the light on and check around. Nothing apart from a coat hanger on the floor which could have already been there as it was behind the door.

Couldn't do anything with my phone until all of a sudden it restarted and now appears to be working fine!

If it's anal probing time I'd say the last thing you want to wear is your best pants!🤔

My son says he can hear really loud bangs when he is home alone. Not trying to scare you but he is worried he has schizophrenia. But dont worry unless it happens more often. He knows it cant be real.

Was about to say the same thing. Ghosts would be all over the place! Most houses/ families would have hauntings regularly anyway.

The two incidents - hearing a crash and phone going weird - may be 2 separate issues. If your torch app is a download, it may have installed a virus. Second-party apps are notorious for that. If the torch came as a resident app, then likely just coincidence.

interesting! Thank you for this information.

When I was 5 I lived in a large mid 19th Century house split into 6 flats. People used to hear knocking in the night - went on for weeks. Terrified people!

It was a little girl of 3-4 standing up in her cot and rocking it so it jumped from side to side. Then one night they heard her singing nursery rhymes too! Her Mum said, yes I know, it's her - that's why we have our bedroom at the front and hers is at the back. The relief was huge.

This got me 🤣

Slenderman hun. Usually preys on teens and manipulates their devices. Xoxo

Are you sure it was a QR code? Could it possibly have been more like one of these?

I didn’t believe in anything other worldly until recently. The things that have been happening since my mother died have changed completely the way I feel about the unexplained.

Oh bloody hell after reading this post we've just had a HUGE bang on one of our walls in our bedroom. Hoping it was the neighbours. Weird, they've never banged before...

More bewildered about what a perspex door in a frame is doing on a bedroom, honestly have no idea what this could be.

We have similar things happening in my flat and at my parents house. My mom passed 4 years ago, my dad passed a week ago. The old man down stairs from me passed over a year ago. I always say it's a spirit passing through. They don't hurt you, they just want to say hi. My dad even would say himself that he'd hear strange things and say it was my mom. We've had lights flickering, books fly off shelves, phones playing up, power supply being low all of a sudden.

I cannot explain the sounds, but the phone behaviour you describe matches precisely what I would expect if you accidentally hit the button to take a photo when you turned the torch on:
-camera on starts looking for QR codes. If it finds something that looks like it might be QR code, then it behaves for a few seconds as if it has seen one, even if it has not.
-"ghostly" or blurry picture gets taken if you take a photo by accident, while moving, in low light. I have taken many such a photo of my own feet while trying to do something with the phone.

The Daily Mail is reporting there was a sonic boom caused by RAF aeroplanes scrambling to deal with an air incident.

Could be an earthquake?! I only say this because I was woken up years ago by a huge crash and weird shake (no one else inthe house heard it!) Next morning, someone at the school gate mentioned it and said it was a quake and had checked a website which records these things! Since happened a couple more times. Doesn't explain your weird phone thing tho....

There was a sonic boom last night. Apparently heard around Leicester and further afield

Following my earlier post, in my previous rental home, my girl was around 7 yo and out with her Dad, we had split, when a red ball was thrown across the dining/ front room area, I was the only one home. When I was young, my Mum was in the bath, I was trying on her shoes in her room and as I was buckling up the ankle of her high heels, I felt the pressure of 2 fingers on my right shoulder, I looked up and nothing was there, that happened twice! When I was a teen I spent time looking after other siblings and whilst I was there, fell asleep on the sofa, woke up to the tiffany light swinging, freaked out, went to check on sibs, walked past kitchen and kettle was boiling and staff dog cowering in the corner! Also stayed at an exes house a few years later and had a picture swaying above me, went to say to then BF who was taking a shower and saw an apparition of a young girl in the hallway. Always had weird shit going on

Sonic Boom, RAF jets breaking sound barrier earlier this week ✈️
boom - RAF jets this week www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/04/large-explosion-sound-heard-leicester-oxford-northampton

Sonic boom

Holy, what? You have just won this thread for incredibly creepy.

Yep!! Our old farmhouse was haunted. We suffered it for 2 years & then moved. We used to see things as well as hear the noises and the smells. Never used to believe in ghosts & hauntings before we lived there but it’s real & probably more common than you realise. Some people are less sensitive to detecting it than others so might not even notice or sense it

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@BertaHoon
Tou dont hear it all the time because it only happens when they break the sound barrier. They are only allowed to do that in emergency situations which occurred the other night so they were scrambled at full speed hence the boom.
So no mystery there sorry.

😂You've got a clever sense of humor.