To start a new woo thread

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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!

@Verv I remember your story from another thread about the man. May I ask, was he wearing modern or old style clothing? Or generic that it was hard to tell?

@Verv I honestly think that you have to be careful when venturing into old buildings where there has been a lot suffering, physical and/or mental, I think there can be a lot powerful energy hanging around there. Not necessarily malignant or harmful, but powerful nonetheless, and I think it's important to respect that. I mean that in general, not just referring to your situation.

I have an idea as to the identity of who has caused the activity in our house over the past nineteen years, not going to go into detail, but I have spoken to "them" (singular) a few times over the years. Some people say you shouldn't, but I've never had any bad experiences as a result.

Yes Ive told it before!
Dark trousers, paler top and dark hair - there was nothing notably old style about him. Seemed quite normal looking, certainly generic enough for me to think he was current.

I do like a woo thread but I admit I prefer things such as UFO sightings, strange beasts and withcraft etc, remember the Northamptonshire Goatman? But crack on anyway, I'm sure someone will post something that takes my fancy!

@UnctuousUnicorns Agreed. We've always gone round quietly and respected the buildings. The only time Ive ever broken anything was the board when getting out of Birkie. Otherwise its leave the way you came in, dont take anything, and keep your voice down.

@Verv it's crazy how many MNers have commented on previous threads about walking past or seeing someone who wasn't actually there and there being no possible way for that person to be able to vanish anywhere. It makes you wonder who in life you've "seen" without realising they're not real.

@AbbeyGrange you're welcome to post anything woo you like I do prefer reading ghostly woo personally but this isn't a thread for just me - anyone is welcome to share their different stories of woo

My mother and grandmother saw my grandad walk through the kitchen and out the house. A moment later they heard the crash as he collapsed on the bathroom floor. Upstairs. He couldn’t possibly of walked past them. He was dead before he hit the ground.

I agree about energies staying within buildings. I went to a meeting with social services at their offices which were in a large converted house. As soon as I walked in I said to the social worker it feels like the walls are crying and instead of telling me I was bonkers she agreed and said it had been a children's home at one time

Thanks OP, I will!

That reminds me, when I was around 11 we went to look at a new house, I assume my parents had already been for a look and my siblings and I were then taken for a viewing.

the house was only 20 years old, not old, not new probably 60s build. Whilst walking around the house I just started crying. I was in the final year of primary so it was most unusual and I wasn’t a particularly dramatic child.

i just felt overwhelmingly sad and couldn’t control it. We were moving to a much bigger house and there was nothing strange or upsetting about the location or anything else. It just made me feel sad and heavy and a sense of overwhelm.

we didn’t buy the house and I remember my parents being terribly embarrassed and confused and apologising and ushering me out.

Yay, a shiny new woo thread! Thanks OP.

Just marking my place as I'm going out, but will be back with my own fairly modest woo later.

(hopefully the twonks who like ruining others' fun threads - scroll on by, FFS! - will have buggered off by then)

@AbbeyGrange "remember the Northamptonshire Goatman?"

Was that the one where the poster described seeing a figure in a window, with a horned goat's head, or another? I did wonder if it were just someone larking about wearing a comedy mask, possibly on drugs, but either way, the story sounded very creepy the way it was told!

Then go and provide your insight and reassurance on that thread?

This is one where people are sharing, expecting and enjoying woo.

Ooh no not heard of that one! This poster was driving with her DH in the countryside at 2am (after seeing family) when this thing crossed their path.....

I know they just can't leave us alone can they? Always have to stick their five eggs in...

Yeah but are you going to give a rational explanation for them as promised?

The house I live in now is my childhood home.
This house certainly has its moments but it's been quiet of late.
I've probably jinxed myself.

Anyhow when I was just going out with my partner,we used to housesit because my mam didn't like leaving the house empty.
So we used to enjoy our alone time.
Anyway one night we were sitting in and he said he was going for some chips.
So I started to hear noises,banging and walking around upstairs.
So I said that's my dp messing, I'll wait outside and catch him leaving.
Sitting outside my house I seen my dp walking down the road towards me.
Went in checked out the house nothing in it.

Same house, years ago dp got up to get a drink in the kitchen, looking out the back window, sees a shadow cross the kitchen units turned around no one there.

My kids have said randomly over the years about us checking in on them but it wasn't us.
They didn't feel scared.

@CoffeeCantata "That chap on uncanny does try his best, but quite honestly, his explanations are the wackiest things on the show!"

I don't actually mind Ciáran, I don't necessarily agree with what he says, but at least he's pleasant and good-natured with it. And it makes me laugh when Evelyn scoffs, like "Come on, Ciáran; that's pushing it even by your standards!" after he's come up with some particularly ridiculous and implausible "explanation "! 😅

OTOH it's Chris French I can't stand. He's a patronising cunt, and I'm glad they don't use him so much, favouring C O'K instead.

Another time I was cleaning something in DD3's bedroom upstairs. At the time there was one of those over door hangers with the multiple hooks hanging on the inside of the door (door was shut at the time). This had several old costume dresses hanging from it, that DD had outgrown, but that we hadn't yet got round to taking to the charity shop.

Anyway, I was listening to music on Bluetooth headphones and kind of dancing a bit on the spot as I cleaned, as you do. I then saw that the multi hook hanger, with all the costumes hanging on it, began to sway from side to side. I thought, wtf, and approached the door, slowly and carefully. The hanger stopped swaying, then started again for a second or two, then stopped altogether. I thought, "surely my dancing couldn't have caused that?" So to test it, I jumped up and down as hard as I could right by the door. No movement.

There was no movement or feeling of shaking anywhere else in the room. No hgvs go along our road, no sound of work going on or in neighbouring houses. DC2 was in the bedroom next door and didn't mention feeling any shaking. I even checked later if there had been any tremors recorded in our area at the time, absolutely nothing. It was like the whole thing was just shaking from side to side of its own accord. It was probably only for about five to seconds, but it was very strange.

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Yes - he’s a very nice man, and I think sometimes a little smile creeps across his face as if to say “ What!? How on earth do you expect me to rationalise that? Give me a break!’ 🤣

"five to seconds" that should read five to ten seconds, than a further couple of seconds after it stopped the first time.

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Love these threads. I often dream of when someone I know is going to die. I’ve ignored ‘the warnings’ at times and regretted it.

I’ve had a few “woo” experiences of my own but one that sticks in my mind happened to my ExBF - many years ago
My BF (who lived at home ) and I were at his parents home alone as they were away on holiday There had been long standing tales of a ghost that used to hang around one of the country lanes near the village cemetery. My BF and his brother dismissed this tale as nonsense and used to regularly walk the dog down said lane to prove that there was nothing in it .
On this particular winter evening , I stayed home to prepare dinner while BF took the dog for a walk . I was surprised to see him home sooner than expected, ashen, shaking and blubbering as he’d encountered a grey man who stared at him and then disappeared through the cemetery wall . Even the dog was out of sorts with its hair stood on end and shaking !
Who knows what he saw but neither brother walked the dog that way again !