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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!

Ds was 4 or 5 and we were playing on the floor of the living room. All of a sudden I heard the sound “ring a ling a ling” like a toy old school telephone. It sounded like it was right next to me. Ds said, “what’s that” so he heard it too. He didn’t have any toys that made that kind of sound at all. I went upstairs thinking the cat was playing with a toy even though none of her toys sounded at all like that either. Cat was asleep on the bed. To this day I have no idea what it was! I kept it together because I didn’t want to scare ds, but I was kind of freaked out!

If you get a chance to go,please do

There's loads to see-cliffords tower (where the Jews died-i think it's every 100 years or so,blood starts running down the walls)
The railway museum
The castle museum (this one is very good)
Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate (longest street name but the shortest street)
The minster
The building where guy fawkes was born/went school/the old star inn where he plotted the gunpowder plot
Dick turpin grave/where he was hung
The golden fleece pub (the most haunted pub in york)
All the 'gate' streets
The dungeons
The theatres
The bar walls
Jorvik centre (that has a viking poo!)

So much to see and do-you'd need a weekend to see half of it

If anyone is going and would like to find out the best places to eat/which attractions are good value for money/the bits that are a bit of a waste of time please pm me

Ooh I loved the last thread! Glad it's back!

Bookmarking!

My 4yo has in the last few weeks said my MIL's deceased mum was by her in the kitchen. Last weekend I was lying in her bed with her in the morning and she said so casually ' mummy, there is boy over there (pointing to her chest of drawers). He has brown hair and is called Willy. It gave me the chills.

I believe I had a sign from my sister the night she died. I was putting my daughter to bed and was sitting on her bed, crying silently. My daughter's night light started gently flashing on and off for ages. It has never done it before or since

Oh my mum has flipping loads - in fact she had to sign the Official Secrets Act back in the day because of a UFO thing. I really need to record all of her stories. I'll try and think of the best and also non-outing one and post it. puts thinking cap on

Ooh I do love a woo thread! Just waiting for someone to come along with the Savernake Forest story! Scared the shit out of me the first time I heard it!

It was a creative writing exercise but still, very effective!

I don’t know if you watch Danny Robbins’s brilliant programme Uncanny, but frankly the most far-fetched and totally implausible things on that are the so-called scientific’ explanations for the people’s experiences!

Yes, when I was a child, probably only about 4. The family dog had died. We were all distraught. I can't remember how long after (as when so young time doesn't seem to be a concept) but I'd woken up very early in the morning. It must have been spring or summer as it was light. Everyone was still asleep in bed.

I went downstairs to get a toy from the living room. As I went to go back up upstairs there was a shadow of our dog walking across the hallway. It turned to look at me.

I was a bit scared at this so didn't hang around and ran back upstairs and got into bed with my parents.

Ever since I try and rationalise it as I've got older, but can't.

@Thewitchsong thank you, it's definitely on my list. Even more so now

@Arlanymor please share some of your mum's stories, would love to hear them!

I remembered another creepy classic about the woman who saw a hooded figure or something along those lines whenever her or her dc looked into a mirror for more than a few seconds focusing behind them. The alcove one also proved popular, I found it really bizarre

Everywhere is “steeped in history”……

That’s dust shapes and light shining through the window/blinds on the right of the picture. The faces are just the brain trying to make sense of the patterns.

Bookmarking so that i can join in and make up a story later

Thanks for your interesting input!

Disclaimer: I was/am a sceptic, but always interested to listen and not a sneerer. I think some of the things we think are supernatural will one day be explained by science - just as electricity and other phenomena have been.

Bear with me - this is hard to explain! My teenage daughter was not a happy person and in her mid teens we had a period of what would be termed poltergeist activity in the house. Lots of things - but the thing that sticks in my mind was, after the events had stopped for a few months, my husband said to me (because he knew how unsettled it had made me) 'Oh well, all that business seems to have stopped'. At that moment a big roll of sellotape, sitting on the kitchen table, whizzed very fast across the flat surface of the table and stopped. We both saw it....

Anyway, what I came on to say was, we concluded that as with most poltergiest cases, it was somehow connected with my daughter, not so much the house. I feel silly typing that - I'm not credulous, but honestly, if you'd seen and experienced what we did, you'd understand.

My husband had some old copies of a literary magazine from the 1930s, The Cornhill Magazine - a very esoteric publication with new writing, now extinct. In one there was a short story called Winterwood by a now-forgotten author (my degree is in Literature and I'd never heard of him - point I'm trying to make is that the chances of anyone knowing of this story are infinitesimal). We both read this story when the children were very little and then the magazines were stowed away in the loft. We didn't discuss it and I would have forgotten it completely except for this event.

When my daughter was about 14 she and my husband were in the living room, both on devices. My husband said afterwards that this story (that he'd read more than a decade earlier) suddenly came into his head. At the same time, my daughter looked up from her screen, looked at him and said 'Winterwood!'. He was stunned, and asked her why she'd said it. She looked blank and said 'I don't know - it just came into my head'.

Not the most exciting story on this thread, but it unsettled us. My daughter is adorable...but I have to say, we've always wondered about her....'powers', as it were! There is just NO rational explanation for that incident, but maybe there's a scientific basis for what we call telepathy.

So sceptics beware - keep an open mind! It could happen to you...

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Oooo I love these threads….so fun for this time of year! I don’t have any stories unfortunately! @CoffeeCantata your winterwood story reminded me of a story of my dads. When he was a teenager he shared a room with his brother. One night an image of a trumpet came into his mind. He said to his brother ‘your thinking about a trumpet aren’t you’ and he was! He also has a very good ouija board story. We are both big uncanny fans, whereas my mum and partner will both roll their eyes at the podcasts lol

I’ve namechanged as mine are outing because they are events I’ve told a lot of people about irl.

My relative lived in a house that had a really heavy and cold atmosphere. I’ve never felt it in any other house I’ve been in. I always felt nervous visiting her. I especially hated upstairs in her house. One day I was visiting her and was desperate for the toilet so reluctantly I went upstairs to use it. I sat on the toilet and left the bathroom door open because I wanted to make a sharp exit when I was done. There was a shut bedroom door directly opposite me. All of a sudden the handle of the door dropped down like somebody was opening it and it swung open (the handle needed weight to open, it wasn’t one that had any natural drop). There was nobody there but I got up and ran down the stairs as fas as I could . There was nobody else in the house with us, I looked for every logical explanation but there wasn’t one.

In my own house I was stood in my living room on my own because I had been tidying up. My then baby and toddler were both asleep in bed and my DH was washing the dinner dishes. Suddenly I felt something behind me and heard a strange almost impish voice shout something incoherent then a strange laugh, then I saw the strangest thing - it was like a waist height dark transparent figure running away from me. I wanted to find a logical explanation for it, ran straight to the kitchen and my DH was just washing the dishes, both children were still asleep.

There was also another time that me and DH were both in the kitchen and we both saw our 4 year old daughter walk into the dining room next to us with a sheet over her head. I said to my DH that I would just check what she was up to, then she breezily walked down the stairs. That sounds like such a stereotype and I wouldn’t believe it either if we hadn’t have both seen the same thing.

In a ruined castle abroad we couldn’t find the way out. We followed a man who was slightly ahead of us down some stairs, walked into the room the stairs led to and he was gone. There was no other way out than the stairs we had come down on.

Her first words to a stranger knocking at the door were ‘Oh, you’ve seen her then?’ Rather than ‘Hello’ or ‘Not interested in your political campaign/buying brushes/hearing about Jehovah’?

She just sits about waiting for passersby to knock on her door to tell her they’ve seen her sobbing child ghost?

Do. And at least do something that isn’t obviously sleep paralysis, or involves an imaginative small child behaving like an imaginative small child.

I remember that one. It was hair-raising!

My mum didn't like her flat but never told me why, except for having noisy neighbours. Anyway, I slept there for two nights while she was briefly in hospital. The first night, in her bed, I woke up with the horrible sensation that there was a man leaning over the bed, with his face close to mine. I just lay frozen with fear.
In the morning I went to see Mum and told her. She said she'd never liked the feeling in that room and that one evening when she was sitting in bed she'd seen a man walk across the room and straight through the wall.
The next night I sat up all night in the front room, shaking!

Perhaps she'd seen the OP outside, staring at the window.

I've had a few odd experiences - I was once at a friend's house, and randomly I started quietly thinking about my Grandmother who was quite 'woo' (I didn't tell my friend I was thinking about her) when my friend who was sat near me went "that's so weird! Can you see that?" and sure enough there was an art installation in the middle of the room visibly moving from side to side. It was a heavy thing (sort of like a wind chime/chandelier in appearance, but quite heavy with various things hanging off it). It was swaying from side to side, but was too heavy to be moved by a breeze or anything, plus we were in the middle of her living room so no explanation for the wind to have caught it or something! Super odd.

If ever I feel anxious or like I need my grandparent's support with something, I get an extremely strong smell of TCP following me around which their house always used to smell like. I haven't been near a bottle of TCP in years and wouldn't even know if they still sell it. But its unmistakably that smell and it's extremely strong. I've apologised to people in the past about the smell and they've looked baffled as they can't smell anything!

My DH (who is very very very sceptical of these things and not in the least bit woo) very clearly saw the ghost of a woman recently. He is an absolute non-believer but clear as day saw a woman walk into the kitchen and get a glass if water and started shouting after her thinking it was me, only to stand up and find there was nobody there. He was a real sceptic before then, but now he's really freaked out!