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[arh25]

Has anyone had any woo experiences, particularly if it's something/someone you've seen? I know that not everyone believes, just I've had some odd experiences myself and it makes me wonder. Especially with Halloween next month and it being a little while since we've had a woo thread. Would love to hear your stories!

@Worried198423 I know what you mean in regards to the "minds eye" thing. I used to live in a flat and never physically saw anything but I had a "minds eye" vision of someone and it matched to what someone actually saw

@arh25 that's being clairvoyant. Not many mediums 'see' like looking at us. They get what you got and symbols etc.

Pack of large bandogs? What country was this ? They’re banned in Uk, why were they in a pack? Where was there owner? ! Awful experience, it’s a blessing you and dog survived

Like some other poster, I have a banal, unexplained domestic one. I live in a house that was previously owned by an elderly couple, Maggie and John. It was a probate sale and some of their things were still in the house when I moved in, and my neighbours knew them and talked of them, so I think of them fondly as if I knew them too. Last week, I came into my bedroom and one of the coat hangers I’d left on the bed was hooked over my drying rack; and I thought, ah that’s Maggie.

Also, a comforting one… I was close to my grandfather; and he died in the October. In the November, his Christmas card to me that he’d sent the previous year, but had been lost in the post, was finally delivered. As if to say all was well.

@YumYa it's only happened on a few occasions for me. I wish I was "gifted", I always wanted to be

Name changed in case this is outing, but a few years ago I was filming on an old mill estate in Yorkshire. Most of the filming took place at one end of the estate and at the other end, through a short woody path was an old mill building converted into townhouses and flats, where some of the cast and crew stayed. I was sharing the end townhouse with another actor, directly over the wheelpit, and in the dead of night, I could hear the mill wheel turning down underneath us, and feel the vibration as it rumbled away. The only thing was, the wheel was no longer there. The caretaker has taken us down to the basement to show us and it was just an empty wheelpit.

Some other strange things happened too, someone's telly kept switching on in the night, even after he'd unplugged it, and someone on the other end whose kitchen was above the bedroom kept hearing footsteps walking about in the night above him.

You are. You need to meditate and ask your guides to help. Write everything down. Also find a spiritualist church with an awareness or development class. It takes time for most but it's a beautiful thing to do. Also there's good teachers on YouTube.

Spirit are amazing.

I was in my bils house for a communion .
We were in the kitchen,but it's open plan.
I kept l99king in to the sitting room,I was convinced someway there.
It was a woman that's all I could tell.
Anyway they took loads of pictures with the communion girl,and in a good few there was orbs.
Turns out the dil mother had passed away a few years prior and they were convinced it was her.

Another one from the same day.
I was going to use the bathroom and I heard a noise from the attic.
I didn't go up because I felt something not nice was on the stairs.

I mentioned it to sil and she said she had her 2 girls up there but she had to take them out.
They couldn't sleep,kept saying something was bothering them.
Plus she used to hear walking all through the house.

So she took them down,gave them another bedroom and all was good.
No noises and the girls slept better.
She says it's fine in the house as long as don't go near the attic.
She got the house blessed but she says it didn't really work.

I love a woo thread

About the deities. Just curious and open minded.

I used to work in a very old building in Chester that was said to be haunted. It was an alternative clothes shop at the time, with a record shop at the back. Customers often said they'd felt someone blowing in their ear and one morning all the shoe boxes that I'd sorted and arranged the day before were thrown all over the floor.

Name changed because I have told a few people about these in real life. I have had a few experiences. When I was a young child I remember seeing my favourite Sindy doll fly floating inside an orb and leave my bedroom. I was a keen reader of Enid Blyton books at the time so thought it was my toys coming to life. The next morning my sister woke me up asking why my Sindy was on her bed when she woke up. A few weeks later my sister had gone to bed and I was downstairs with my parents, she came running downstairs screaming that she had seen a man at the end of her bed. She described him as having long white hair and looking like a wizard. My parents didn’t make a big deal out of it but we later found out that my uncle who had been staying in that same room saw a man fitting that description before my sister had been born. That was initially my bedroom and I apparently told my parents that I had a friend who lived in the wall. I have no recollection of this. I often wonder if people who have lived in that house since have had any similar experiences. When my DDs were about 4/5 they came running into our bedroom to ask us to come and look at the fairies in their room. We were staying at my mum’s house at the time (different house) they said they could see lots of fairies at what seemed to be a carnival on the end of the bed. They both saw exactly the same thing and remember it vividly today. We couldn’t see anything!

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I don't have truly woo occurrences to share but dreams have been mentioned a few times and in my case, I'd say I've had quite a few 'powerful' dreams over the course of my life - from very little. They all 'feel' and 'look' different - especially vivid even though they're not always hyper-realistic. Someone upthread mentioned 9/11 and a few days before the events, I'd had one of those. Not as much detail or context as what PP described but it was an extremely vivid dream of a long line of people walking through ash. Sound was bizarrely muffled, almost like you'd feel after hearing something deafening. I still have goosebumps writing this. It's by far not the only instance and not always related to world events. It's always been very random. I can't say I particularly enjoy having those dreams or 'flashes' in my sleep. I've been reading up on shamanic dreams and it's kind of like that but without the help of any psychoactive substances. My theory is that something goes on in my brain chemistry that somehow alters my perception and enhances my intuition...

This has happened to me twice. One when I was alone and the second time with someone present, in my kitchen. The items didn’t move like something would ordinarily move if it was rolling etc, it’s like it’s been shoved very hard so it goes flying!

Mines not so much a woo story but a universe aligning the stars type story. I’ll have to change details but the gist will be the same. I work for 2 partners. They bought a second business that had short term staffing issues. I was asked to cover for 2 weeks. One day a new client came in, I recognised his name and asked him if he’d ever been in the forces. He looked me straight in the eye and said “you’re newname71 aren’t you”. He was my next door neighbour in a foreign country when I was 3!! He had moved around the world, as had my family and we ended up living 7 miles apart! If he’d come in any other time we’d have missed each other. It was weird.

@Newname71 wow!

I always think it’s interesting how people respond to a woo thread. Some believe in ghosts/spirits or similar. It’s a belief. They are entitled to believe in whatever they want to. I don’t know why others feel it’s their right to mock them or ‘prove them wrong’. Would they mock someone in quite the same way who believes that a man died and came back to life 3 days later? Why are some beliefs more acceptable or respected than others? I hope it’s not that because groups of men champion certain beliefs then they become acceptable.

I’d love to see a ghost - I mean in full daylight and stays beyond blinking (but must be a lonely ghost).
I have a room in my house has a presence. I’ve never seen an actual ghost but I’ve experienced things that I can’t dismiss.
i have very vivid dreams that have all sorts of animals weaving through them.
I have spoken with deceased loved ones in dreams. They come to my at their best - they look happy and strong.
I am not a mad delusional fool. I have only shared this selectively.

I think the problem is that so many “woo” things are very easily explained, and it’s frustrating when people would rather accept the paranormal explanation and dismiss the simple non paranormal one.
Also, so many people have been frightened, misled and cheated by purveyors of woo that some of us are keen to offer an alternative explanation.

Who's looking forward to the new series of Uncanny?! 👻

So excited! Love Danny.

I am! I love it!

Have you been following Danny's Halloween Advent calendar on BBC Sounds? He's been doing a 1 min spooky story from listeners every day in October🎃

Me!!! I went to the live show a few weeks back and loved it.