To ask for your woo tales?

[Tellmeyourwoostories]

I understand this isn't for everyone but I love a good woo story. Even if you've seen/experienced something but aren't 100% sure and are on the fence, I'd love to hear your stories.

I've had a few experiences myself, nothing majorly scary just in my old house I'd often hear loud clear footsteps when nobody could be there and often saw a shadow figure, sometimes right infront of me and other times in my peripheral so can understand why people think they've seen something but can't be sure. I also worked in a pub that had some poltergeist type activity and various figures had been seen by staff and customers. I'd love to hear yours!

I think I've told this before on MN, OP, but it spooked me!

We had a lot of what would be called poltergeist activity in our house when our daughter was about 14. Lots of things, but this is something which made me wonder about her...

Context: my husband had a number of 'Cornhill Magazines' from the inter-war years which he'd bought from charity shops. The Cornhill was a literary magazine with short stories, poems and articles - pretty highbrow and academic. I think it was discontinued in the 50s?? Anyway...he'd enjoyed a story called 'Winterwood' in one of these, by a completely obscure author. This was when the children were a baby and a toddler and of course we didn't mention it to them. The old magazines were stored in the loft and the kids had absolutely no knowledge of them.

One day he was sitting at his laptop in the living room when my daughter was about 14. She was also there, looking at her phone. He told me that the story came into his head (after more than a decade) and he was wondering what had made him think about it when my daughter looked at him from across the room and said 'Winterwood!' He was really unsettled and asked her why she'd said it. She had no idea - the word meant nothing to her. Telepathy?

I mean this affectionately - but we've always wondered about her! There've been other instances where it has seemed she's got powers etc beyond the normal, everyday ones.

Nobody saw a thing! It’s just weird that twice it’s been said with exactly the same description.

I wasn’t very far along, I’d suspected I was but my relationship wasn’t in a good place, so although it was sad for me, I just had to get on and appreciate the children I had x

I'm just catching up on this thread.
It seemed to be tootling along quite nicely on its own without the need for prompts.
OP are you collecting the stories for something or other?
I'll give you a minor glitchy one 😉
I was sitting in a cafe & thought of my friend who I hadn't seen in ages. I suddenly thought if I look up she's going to come round the corner into view of the only window. I did and she did. She walked on past with some people & I was too freaked out to get up & go out after her.

@gotmyknickersinatwist hi, no it didn't. The thread kept going quiet, hence why I bumped it. Not sure what's wrong with that or what the big deal is, and no I am a spiritual person and enjoy reading woo stories on mumsnet. There hasn't been a woo thread in a while so I decided to make one.

This I think is a bit Woo apparently if you're thinking a lot about someone, chances are they are thinking about you!

Here's another from my haunted flat collection lol.

Just to recap the flat was over a shop in a Victorian shopping arcade. The kitchen and sitting room both had windows looking out into the arcade so during the day it was bright due to the glass roof and you could clearly hear the hustle and bustle - adding this in to explain that when this incident happened it was a bright normal day and there was no spooky atmosphere or anything.

So my Mum had a part time job in a little art gallery opposite our flat, and it became her habit to get an earlier bus so that she could pop in for a cuppa and a catch up as I was usually at home due to caring responsibilities.

It was somewhere between say 9.30am and 10.30 as that was when she opened up.

So we're sitting in the front room, nattering away when one of our two cats, the more timid one, suddenly started stalking through the door and across the floor. Low down, ears back, the full "hunting" posture. We both clocked him as it was unusual for him to show his furry face, but carried on chatting as it was so unusual and we didn't want to spook him.

Now on one side of the fireplace was a stand on vibrating machine contraption which my ex DH had acquired as it was supposed to be good for his back damaged in a bike accident years ago, before my time. Periodically he'd engage in some short lived regime supposed to help, and this contraption had been one of those things. It had a new purpose - our cat igloo was on it as the base was about 6 inches off the floor taking it out of potential draughts. Obviously the cats hardly used the igloo....

Anyway, Timid cat stalked very slowly across the room until he was about two feet from the igloo.....then Mum and I both heard what could only be described as an electronic sounding demonic laugh from inside the igloo.

We jumped, as did Timid cat who did a manoeuvre similar to a Harrier jump jet doing a three point turn and fled the room at such high speed I swear his paws didn't touch the ground till he landed on the stairs.

Trying to be rational I examined the cat igloo, expecting to see one of my son's toys inside it or something - but it was completely empty, and an investigation of the surrounding area turned up nothing that could account for it.

Now my Mum was one of the least "woo" people ever, and wasn't afraid to scoff and eye roll when I told her some of the oddness that occurred in that flat. But that day she admitted she was stumped and yes, it was very strange indeed.....

@MistressoftheDarkSide that is weird! I know what you mean about cats when they're spooked and the harrier jet lol, mine are timid and jumpy too 😂 that laugh sounded terrifying though.

It was very weird and very unsettling indeed, given it was such a "normal" situation. Animals operate on different frequencies to us and at one point I had five adult cats and 11 kittens in residence at a different flat, (long story lol) but it was still unnerving when 5 or 6 would simultaneously go into high alert and start watching something or following it around the room in unison. Sometimes there'd be the tiniest insect in history, sometimes there was nothing at all....

I've been thinking for a while the stories are wanted for more than just reading on here.

Then there was the little boy.....

Again, both these incidents occurred in the daytime.

The first time I saw the little boy, I was carrying a basket of washing into the kitchen part the sitting room door. Out of the corner if my eye I saw what I thought was my son dancing in front of the TV which was in the corner directly opposite the door. I took two steps back to say "Cool moves dude" or some such thing ..... and there was no-one there and the TV was off. It was literally seconds, one or two, and there was no scope for my son to have got past me without bumping into me. He was about 7 or 8 at the time and not exactly ninja like at the best if times.

The second time I was sitting on the sofa just inside the sitting room door reading a paper with a cuppa and saw my son crawl past me into the room at speed, again out if the corner of my eye. This time I got a clear impression of a white shirt and grey shorts....and possibly braces which he didn't wear of course but that was the image I got. I looked up to ask him what he was up to and again the room was empty.....

A third thing that happened was upstairs. In my previous post about the lift incident, I mentioned a tiny "corridor" leading into my son's bedroom. It was just enough space to put a tall Argos book case in where I kept my shoes and boots (I was a bit of an Imelda when my feet were younger lol). So I was sitting in this corridor having a bit if a dust and sort out if my collection and I knew ExDH had popped out to do a bit of shopping and my son was at school. I suddenly heard, clear as day footsteps coming up the stairs which were old and creaky despite carpeting '- you know how you get familiar with the sounds of a staircase when you live somewhere avling time - it was that. I also heard a few loud coughs, so assumed ex-DH had returned. As he didn't appear I called out, but got no reply and it has gone silent again. So I checked to see if he'd gone into my son's room behind me unseen - nope, nobody there. So I went down to the first floor which was deserted. I was a little freaked out at this point but doubly so as I went to the top of the stairs down to the hall and front door jyst in time to see it open and exDH wrestling several bags of shopping in. He wasn't terribly fleet of foot due to his bad back from his bike accident and used a stick so I could rule out him playing tricks on me. I think it took a full 24 hours for me to stop feeling jittery about that one....

@BirthdayRainbow for goodness sake, they aren't. I am genuinely interested in stories, I am neurodivergent and love and have a big interest in all things unexplained along with being spiritual as I stated earlier. If this thread that started off nicely, is going to turn into some people ruining it with their little theories, I'll ask for the thread to be pulled 🙄

@MistressoftheDarkSide wow did you get unnerved at all about seeing the boy, or no? I've heard disembodied footsteps before, too. It really creeps me out and sounds eerie doesn't it? I can understand why you felt uncomfortable

Please don't pull it . Loving it . If people want to be skeptical then that's up to them . Until it happens to them .

@Makethisrainstop thank you, it's a shame it's started having negativity when it was a nice thread. I'm all for skepticism and understand not everyone will believe, but I do wish people would at least be respectful

It's funny but the flat had a really nice atmosphere in general, except from time to time, and even the it wasn't really sinister more unnerving.

With regard to the little boy, yes, it did unnerve me, but more from the point of view that after the fact I realised something weird had happened not during the events. If I hadn't had a son of a similar age and size my answer would probably be quite different though lol x

From a spiritual point of view I try to adopt the thought that fear feeds anything negative or weird, which takes practise for sure but nothing "bad" ever happened and I'm sure it was because we just behaved as if we had (mostly) invisible lodgers.

I think disembodied sounds are definitely the creepiest though.

If you like paranormal shows I recommend a YouTube channel called Ghost Theory. The two guys on it are pretty funny but also serious about their investigations often debunking themselves. However they've caught some pretty interesting stuff, especially in their latest episode 😊

Placemarking so I remember to come back and write mine - I'm one of 'those' people who this stuff happens to all the time 😂🙄

@MistressoftheDarkSide thank you! I'll take a look at that. I've been listening to paranormal podcasts lately including Uncanny (although I prefered the British based stories, the latest season is US based) and Yvette Fielding's one. I enjoyed reading your stories, that place sounded very active x

@Amybelle88 I can't wait to hear your stories!

My Dad, who died in 2010 and my eldest daughter were very close. He died when she was 17 and moments after he died she thought to stop the time on the watch he was wearing. Some time after I gave the watch to her to keep, she put it away safely in an old glasses case of his in a drawer in her bedroom. A few years later she went travelling on her own for a month. I was delighted for her but worried at the same time. She rang me one day and asked me could I check the glasses case for the watch. When I asked her why she said as she had dropped her room key into her bag, she heard it clink off something. When she looked in her bag to see what it was, it was Dad’s watch! There was no way she had brought it with her for fear of something happening to it. I double checked the glasses case in her room for her as she thought she was going mad and there was no watch there. I like to think it was Dad’s way of keeping an eye on her when she was far from home :)

@SoLongandGoodnight aww that's a really sweet story 🥹 sorry for the loss of your DF it's amazing the way spirit looks out for us and the signs they show x

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Oh OP, my post was nothing more than a gentle ribbing, don't take it to heart, there was no negativity or disrespect intended.

I suppose I found many of your posts & responses a little strange or stilted. You also seemed very keen to keep up the momentum of the thread. It didn't seem entirely natural. I enjoy these threads too when they come round but surely you can accept that they run out of steam.

Besides, my glitchy post was genuine & it & your responses have helped keep the thread running.

I find it interesting that so many sightings are of children. Do you think it's because they passed before their time?

Loving this thread some very interesting posts.
Not sure what to think of mine and I don't tell many people because I feel I sound mad tbh 😂 anyway I lost my mum 6 years ago which I still haven't truly come to terms with especially as she was so young. We were extremely close.
On her funeral day a white butterfly came over, obviously didn't think anything of it at the time.
However we then all saw it again at the wake and it stayed for a few hours circling around.
Since then whenever I am upset, really worried about something, or me and my children visit her grave, there is always a white butterfly. I like to believe it is her telling me everything will be ok.

This got a bit more weird a few days ago, myself & my partner are currently trying to conceive, 18 months so far & nothing, now this week I am extremely late for my period so having been testing far too much, getting myself really worked up, upset etc, a few days ago I was sat in the garden crying, trying to pull myself together. The white butterfly flew round over me for a few minutes then went again.
Same the night after, I was sitting out but this time there was a white butterfly and a brown one following it, I lost my brother 5 months ago too, but definitely found some comfort from this even if I do sound mad

That's lovely.

I wore my dad's FitBit for a while after he died as it felt like a connection, particularly as he was so into weights, running and fitness.

I had extremely lucid recurring dreams when I was tiny, like 3 years old, that I remember to this day, and also in my late teens when I was going through some awful family stuff. I remember feeling both times that each had huge significance and had led to something protecting me, or letting me escape from something that could in real life have harmed me. Such a strange feeling!

A few years ago I was sleeping home alone, and I thought I was awake (I'm assuming it was sleep paralysis/night terror, which I've never had before or since), and suddenly a small child appeared and ran around to my side of the bed, which was totally freaky. The little kid was really hazy, almost like a TV with really bad reception. I just stayed awake after that.