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

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Tacsi · 09/02/2025 20:05

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???

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LouDeLou · 10/02/2025 20:47

If you’re white go investigate.

If you’re black leave immediately, you won’t survive.

🤣

JustSawJohnny · 10/02/2025 20:54

Sage. Match. STAT!!!

Then ring Danny Robbins 😁

EBearhug · 10/02/2025 21:01

potatopaws · 10/02/2025 19:30

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.

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I'd have thought most people who have been on MN a while will know what woo is, whether or not there are themselves.

celticprincess · 10/02/2025 21:08

Could you have mice?? They could knock things of shelves and they move quickly. They could have run into you as well. As a student we had a mouse problem. I even moved bedrooms as it was found in my room. But then it followed me downstairs. Found it sitting in my jeans pocket on the chair!! It was fast though and trying to catch it took a while.

LynetteScavo · 10/02/2025 21:13

It doesn't sound like a earthquake - I'm not sure sage will save you, but I'd be wafting it around my house anyway Grin

celticprincess · 10/02/2025 21:13

Minimili · 10/02/2025 19:24

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!

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Our missing AirPod, earring and several other little things, often get found in the washing machine filter or rubber seal.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 10/02/2025 21:36

Sodthesystem · 10/02/2025 20:31

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.

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As someone who has in the past been hospitalised and put on anti-psychotics I can absolutely assure you that seeing something with your own eyes is evidence of nothing.

Pippyls67 · 10/02/2025 21:42

Apparently you’re supposed to say “In the name of God, can I help you?”. Saw a priest on tv years ago advising this. I’d be terrified though. Not at all woo either - but that’s definitely unnerving.

Rummly · 10/02/2025 21:54

Some of the answers on this thread are comedy gold.

Toothicktounderstand · 10/02/2025 21:55

Thereislightattheendofthetunnel · 09/02/2025 21:09

There are some smudging sage kits in TK maxx at the moment.

I also heard that black tourmaline is a stone for protection. You might want to have one close.

I would be freaking out by this event to be fair.

I bought one. Not sure what I’m meant to do but I must have a try. I just fancied wafting it round and seeing if it smelled good. It’s still sat on the sideboard.

Elphame · 10/02/2025 22:01

Toothicktounderstand · 10/02/2025 21:55

I bought one. Not sure what I’m meant to do but I must have a try. I just fancied wafting it round and seeing if it smelled good. It’s still sat on the sideboard.

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It does not smell good! It just smells of burnt herbs.

Personally I would save my money and just use bramble as the old folk in the UK used to prior to this new-fangled American idea of sage.

If I was really worried I'd use asafoetida and rotten fish guts ( as recommended in the Apocrypha). That smells bad enough to shift anything!

LynetteScavo · 10/02/2025 22:08

@Elphame - what do you do with the bramble? Burn it?

I think that it would be more effective in getting rid of UK poltergeists, whereas sage would see off those Native American ones.

Elphame · 10/02/2025 22:21

LynetteScavo · 10/02/2025 22:08

@Elphame - what do you do with the bramble? Burn it?

I think that it would be more effective in getting rid of UK poltergeists, whereas sage would see off those Native American ones.

Exactly! Smoke cleansing is a pretty universal practice with each culture having their own variation depending on what grows locally. Sage ( or more correctly, white sage) is a Native American herb and it's been watered down via the internet to also include the culinary sage in Britain.

Take a few lengths of dried bramble, tie them together and set alight. It also doesn't smell great but it's cheap and readily available everywhere. The old name for it is a witches whisk.

The Scots have their own practice of "saining" for which I believe they use juniper

Pippyls67 · 10/02/2025 22:21

Plggybacker · 09/02/2025 20:44

Good grief there's some nonsense suggestions on this thread. Whatever is going on, whether there's a scientific explanation or not, no amount of sage, priests or prayer circles is going to make a tiny bit of difference.

We’ll to be fair, I’m massively sceptical but in all honesty you can’t know that. Just being pedantic here but you honestly can’t be sure of something just because you don’t believe in it. We didn’t ‘believe in’ plenty of things until science was advanced enough to prove to us otherwise. Just saying.

WeCanOnlyDoOurBest · 10/02/2025 22:24

Tacsi · 09/02/2025 20:28

15 years, nope nothing at all before this, the elderly lady died here before we bought house, was told it was haunted, but I don't belive in all that!! 🤔

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You don’t believe in all that… righty ho. Well the evidence is staring you in the face.
My DH never believed in all that until in our previous home we had a ‘visit‘ which he didn’t see, but I did, it was a white fuzzy figure beside the bed. I left the bedroom like a marathon runner and he probably still wouldn’t have believed me were it not for the stench of cigarette smoke which was not only overwhelming but it was on my breath too. I’ve never smoked, DH doesn’t smoke, and no one is allowed to smoke in our home.
His sister had died of lung cancer the week before, she’d been a chain smoker. Make of it what you will, but I got someone in to do a spiritual cleansing, it shit me up.

Pippyls67 · 10/02/2025 22:34

Amaranthasweetandfair · 09/02/2025 21:12

@StMarie4me have you just asked someone for their evidence that something isn't paranormal? How about you give us the evidence it is and we'll go from there?

Ah but because you can’t prove one thing it doesn’t mean there’s no need to prove the other. Both assertions are equally unprovable in reality. Moot point I think.

MrsSunshine2b · 10/02/2025 22:39

Crudd99 · 10/02/2025 19:28

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.

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That sounds like sleep paralysis. My ex used to get it and wake up terrified.

WeCanOnlyDoOurBest · 10/02/2025 22:42

Thereislightattheendofthetunnel · 09/02/2025 21:09

There are some smudging sage kits in TK maxx at the moment.

I also heard that black tourmaline is a stone for protection. You might want to have one close.

I would be freaking out by this event to be fair.

Yes, a black tourmaline crystal removes negativity and protects, it only needs to be small. Easily sourced online, there’s even jewellery made from it.

Orangeandpinknails · 10/02/2025 22:48

My sound bar regularly vibrates itself off thr top of a surface..first time it did it I shit myself then realised the sounds were making it vibrates slowly toward the edge of the table...not sure on the other things though? Lol sorry!...

Plggybacker · 10/02/2025 22:53

Pippyls67 · 10/02/2025 22:21

We’ll to be fair, I’m massively sceptical but in all honesty you can’t know that. Just being pedantic here but you honestly can’t be sure of something just because you don’t believe in it. We didn’t ‘believe in’ plenty of things until science was advanced enough to prove to us otherwise. Just saying.

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Point taken.

Booboobagins · 10/02/2025 22:56

After my hubby died, I was in a call with my mum and my phone just slipped out of my hand. I knew I had a good grip of it, but if fell, hit the mop bucket - she called whilst I was mopping - and when I picked the phone up it had switched off and I couldn't get it to work.

I took the sim out and put it in my old phone. As the phone was registering a message from my hubby popped up saying 'Hi babe'. and the iPhone I couldn't switch on started working too. Spookiest thing ever.

I'm sorry to say, I think it may have been a ghost @Tacsi but if you don't believe in them let's hope it buggers of to play with someone who does. I don't believe in ghosts either, but I was visited several times by my hubby after he died.

MaddestGranny · 10/02/2025 23:28

Not mutually exclusive. Nothing says there can't be atheist ghosts.

Calmomiletea · 10/02/2025 23:53

I want to know how far the items were moved OP!! 😅??

PearlClutzsche · 11/02/2025 00:03

LynetteScavo · 10/02/2025 22:08

@Elphame - what do you do with the bramble? Burn it?

I think that it would be more effective in getting rid of UK poltergeists, whereas sage would see off those Native American ones.

Golly, poltergeist anthropology!

I have seriously no idea whether some posters are joking or not on this thread.

PilgriminProgress · 11/02/2025 00:03

Sodthesystem · 10/02/2025 20:31

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.

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What I meant was, what they're saying is narrative. Where's their evidence? Photos videos witnesses? Saying so doesn’t make it so.