I am Not "Woo" at all but this just happened

[Tacsi]

so I'm in no way, shape or form "woo" buuutttt just been sitting on side of my bed texting on my phone and my soundbar for TV (which I've had for 4 years with no issues) just decided to launch itself onto the floor, has hit my foot and cut it, picked it back up thinking how weird 🤷🤷 went back to my phone and a bottle of water, tube of face cream and a lip balm on top of my chest of drawers then launched themselves across the room, pretty freaked out by this point but still being rational in my head, picked phone back up carried on messaging back a friend, looked up to think what I was trying to type and felt a big tap /slap and literally saw my phone fly in the air and land other side of room, trying hard to think rationally but feeling pretty spooked right now
😭there's a rational reason for all this, yes???

Could the catholics commenting please be a little more condescending please 😂😂😂

My first thought was earthquake: https://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html

second thought, were you really tired? Might have been a hypnic jerk with your phone?

You asked specifically and clearly for rational reasons so i am going to assume you actually wanted them.

With any and every tale of woo, there are 2 equally rational explanations.

1 the person telling the story is making it up.

2 the person is telling what they genuinely believe to be the truth but it is not objectively the truth eg they are having a medical episode, have carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty boiler, were having a very realistic dream or waking dream, were hallucinating etc etc.

There actually is a scientific reason for this but I can't remember the name of it! I remember reading about it in a science magazine when I was a teen. Whatever the force/phenomenon is causes things to levitate and fly across the room. Not very helpful, I know 🤣

if natural causes ruled out then I would think maybe it was a very acute psychosis or hallucination. Obviously you wouldn’t know if it was … as you’d have been hallucinating

Big magnet next door?

@RedDeer I think you mean carbon MONoxide (CO).
Carbon DIoxide (CO²) is what we breath out.

Hallucination: I thought the sound bar flew across the room but later I realised it hadn't moved.

Actual experience: The sound bar flew across the room and I had to pick it up off the floor.

OP is adamant it was the second case, isn't she?

Just dropping in to say that I do not believe you are “not woo”, because only “woo” people use this ridiculous term! Guilty by association, I’m afraid!

WTF?!! That's some screwy logic 😂

Plenty of non-woo people are aware of the term and use it to describe woo people!

Few year ago i've got 3 small corner shelves at the side of my kitchen cupboard with bits and bobs on and had a blender on next thing i hear while in the sitting room was a mighty crash goes to the kitchen theres the whole lot shelves included on my cooker and only me in the house totally freaked my boys out when i told them , but not bothered they used to smile and certain corners of there room when in there cots as babies and 5 yrs between them

I have thought about that a few times, wasn’t there an ironing board that went missing as well?

I have OCD (diagnosed) and hate losing things, my house is so well organised and I usually know where absolutely everything is.

DP is a typical man, if something doesn’t jump out at him he can’t find it. He insisted we had no cheese the other day despite me telling him exactly where it is in the fridge. He was so insistent that I went to check, it was there but he was just gazing intently into the fridge without actually taking things out and moving them!

With the AirPod it was driving me mad it was missing, I use them all the time so was desperate to find it.
We took every single thing out of the bedroom (we assumed it would be there as I hadn’t left the room with it in) and checked in drawers, inside shoes and clothes, we stripped the bed and took the mattress off, we spent days trying to find it but it never appeared.
This was a year ago and I’ve still kept an eye out but it was never to be seen again. What makes it even weirder was it was fully charged and connected to “my devices” on find my iPhone. I should have been able to track it and play a sound, it had worked just the day before but it never showed up as an active device again.

The ring was equally as strange, I wore it constantly for years and often took it off to do washing up but I have a little trinket bowl I put jewellery in for that purpose. I know that I put in there but it just vanished into thin air. We searched and searched again but it’s never turned up.

It’s like the age old mystery of odd socks that seems to affect everyone. It doesn’t matter if I count and check the amount of socks that go in the washing machine, a different count will always emerge.
Both me and DP have all our socks the same to try to avoid odd socks but we still end up with odd pairs!

I had a really vivid dream once that sounded like someone was chucking my dishes and cutlery around downstairs. It went on for a while and at the time I really believed I was awake. I lay in bed terrified until it went light . It was in the 80s so I couldn't phone anyone. When I finally went downstairs everything was how it should be. The dishes and cutlery were all where they should be. I was absolutely convinced I'd heard what I'd heard but it couldn't explain it other than I'd been asleep but it had been one of those dreams that when you wake up you you think it's happened.

Really? To me it’s like walking into a room and going “I have no association with Eton at all, but I heard the beaks were in a foul mood in pre-chambers divs today.”

The only people who I ever hear talking about “woo” are the people who are interested in spirituality / the paranormal at least at some level.

In my experience, most uninterested people just say “I don’t believe in ghosts” or similar. in normal English. ‘Woo’ is not an actual word, it’s slang that not everyone knows.

My money's on sonic booms from chasing off a jet that shouldn't have been around - they don't show up on the usual radar sites when they're doing something actually important like that.

Where is the evidence?. All that has been offered is just narrative at best and hearsay at the worst.

Old mineworks under your house shifting? Maybe ask local authority to check.

Fuck sake @Tacsi I can't believe you have not done the sensible answer...and...

CALLED THE GHOST BUSTERS!!

They are experts in this field.

HTH x

I blooming love that film, and Sigourney is great in it!

It's the pesky Welsh faeries

Does waving a packet of sage & onion stuffing about count? Anyone? 🤣🤣

I experienced quite a lot of poltergeist activity when I was pubescent. It lasted about nine months and then sort of faded away.

It changed my Dad's view of the world as we know it and he was as far from woo as you could get.

Shout 'go into the light' and then go stay at a friend's house. 🏠

Why wouldn't seeing something several times with your own eyes be evidence enough?

Why would you jump to 'oh i must be imagining my phone levitating' ? Especially if it then flies through the air and lands on the floor.

Surely it makes more sense that there's just some 'woo' shit we can't explain.

Some people will bend over backwards not to believe their own eyes. It's weird.

It could be an earthquake, or something to do with the quake in Santorini. In 2004, the evening of Christmas day, at about 6, a picture flew off our conservatory wall. It was of an eagle and our immediate thought was that the poltergeist was back.
The next morning we heard about the earthquake and sunami. Our picture flying off the wall was roughly the time when the earthquake hit and we concluded that it was the result of one of the shocks. The 2004 earthquake literally shook the whole earth.
It's also possible there was a small local earthquake near you. I remember somewhere around 1987 I was standing by my dining table in a midland town and it shook. A few moments later a friend living round the corner rang me and asked if I had felt anything. I said the table shook. She had been scared because her conservatory had shuddered for no reason. Both were the result of a quite small earthquake which made that evening's local news - they do happen here, but they are usually low on the Richter scale.
More likely either of those phenomena than a poltergeist, I think (unless you have teenage children - teenagers attract poltergeist phenomena).