Bizarre things you couldnt fathom

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Not AIBU. Just curious.
Have you ever experienced anything either publicly or privately that just didn't make sense or seemed bizarre or you just couldnt fathom in some way.
I was in a small cafe looking out on Trafalgar Square about 10 years ago. ..Alan Yentob walked in through the door. .I kept an eye constantly on the door because I wanted to get a good look at him when he walked out again but I didn't want to stare while he was in the cafe. I was by the window seat looking out on Trafalgar Square. After about 15 minutes i turned my head and looked round in the cafe and he was nowhere to be seen. It was a small cafe !! He wasnt sitting at any of the tables and I'd had my eye on the door the whole time so I know he couldn" t have slipped past me. There was no other exit and only some toilets. It was a really bizarre experience that I can't fathom to this day. I KNOW I never took my eye off the door. I just dont know where he went.

Might have been the water from goodnightssleepbenice's fish tank three posts above yours?

I had this with two rings

One was the birthstone of my late fil and the other just a cheap ring I liked

I left them on my bedside table (for a few days as i was at work) and kept seeing them as I went to bed/got up but didnt take much notice,just that they where there (they only other things on there where my lamp and a book)

Went for them on my day off and they'd both vanished

We've ripped that room apart and neither have been found

We have a back gate and dp was holding the key,put it on the side (I saw him do it) and when he came back,it had vanished

We hold it in place with the bolt now

There was a thread on here years ago where the Op could not find her ironing board in a fairly small flat
I would love to know, especially if the op is still here - did she ever find it?

Eaten by ironing board goblins

I think it was on top of a wardrobe but could be wrong

DH and I were visiting his best friend and I took some photos of the two of them larking around. We had a laugh with the pictures, shared them on facebook etc. Only a few weeks later, the friend was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer and died very shortly afterwards. Almost immediately, the friend disappeared from one of the photos. I know this sounds mad but it's true. He is in other photos taken that day but the one that everyone found particularly funny, now just had DH alone - and he's standing in a pose which very much looks like there is a person missing from the picture.

The original is still visible if I scroll back on facebook, and when I go into gallery mode on my phone and see the thumbnail previews of pictures, the friend is there - but when I open it to full size he has disappeared.

I normally hunt for logical explanations to all these types of stories but this experience has baffled me.

My daughter and I were in a car on the motorway in slow moving traffic. On the hard shoulder was a car, AA van and two men. The AA man bent his head and the other man rubbed his (the AA man’s) bald head. Both my daughter and I saw this and for the rest of the journey we mused on what had been said for that to happen. I am still at a loss to explain this interaction. I should say neither man was laughing or acting like this was some kind of weird banter.

Applying suncream?

But why would a stranger who had broken down apply suncream to the AA man’s head? Surely you would just give him the bottle to apply himself? It seems a curiously intimate thing to do to a total stranger…unless the A A man had oil on his hands I suppose that might make some sense.

😂😂good one

Could an animal have swallowed them or fallen on floor and gone up hoover

Maybe he'd knocked his head and asked the man if he could feel a lump

Yes I think the AA man had black oily hands and the broken down person was being kind. Awww. I like this version.

No
We dont have any animals nor had dp hoovered up in our bedroom as he was at work on those days (I dont hoover bedrooms-its his job)
It's really odd but replaceable as they where only cheap rings

I have a feeling it was on top of a wardrobe or something?

I lost a massive japanese knife and a hot water bottle with an icelandic wooly outer jacket thing in my flat.
One day the knife was on the magnet above the cooker and the HWB was in the kitchen cupboard, and then they were gone.
I have no explanation as lived alone at the time.

Edit - this was 2 separate occasions of there one minute gone the next. They didnt vanish at the same time.

When I was a kid, we had a nice, extremely sharp pair of scissors that were kept in the kitchen drawer and used for everything that required scissors. One day when I was about 14 or 15 I went to get them out of the drawer to cut something out of a magazine and they weren't there.

My mum, dad and I couldn't find them anywhere. It drove us fucking insane for AGES trying to find them. Obviously scissors are easy to replace but we just got really annoyed trying to work out what might have happened to them. We were the only three people living in the house at the time. Eventually we gave up, bought some new scissors.

About a year later my dad was doing some DIY in the kitchen and took some stuff down off a shelf he wanted to replace, including a bright red teapot we'd had for years and which was purely ornamental. We never, ever used it for making tea because it had an annoying dribbly spout. It had been sitting on a high shelf for years, largely out of reach, just looking jolly and decorative.

Anyway - the scissors were inside it.

None of us had put them there.

It would have required standing on a stool or something to even reach the teapot. Deciding to take down a teapot nobody had even touched for about five years in order to place a pair of scissors in it for no fathomable reason was simply not something any of us could possibly have done without noticing/remembering, because it would not have been something you could do without being very conscious of it. It would have been a very active and conscious decision and would have entailed going to get something to stand on and probably wiping a load of dust off the teapot too. What I'm saying is that it wasn't the sort of thing that happens when you're holding something and get distracted and put it down in a weird place without really noticing - not like when you (eg) lose a TV remote and then eventually find it in the fridge or something and realise you must have still had it in your hand when you went to grab a snack while watching TV.

35 years later, if I'm visiting my mum and she says 'Oh, where's my glasses / keys / book / pen' I will invariably say 'Have you checked the haunted teapot?' and she will instantly know what I'm referring to.

This happened at about half 9 this morning

I have a day off work (I work odd shifts) and had been putting off having my morning shower as it is so cold

Anyway,I dragged my arse upstairs and got in

I'd just washed my hair and was starting with the soap when I heard a bang that shook the house-i genuinely thought the house was going to cave in

I ran downstairs (naked!) and nothing

The house is intact,the washing machine was doing it's final spin,everything was normal and im dripping soap and water everywhere

I've only just stopped shaking-it was so loud but nobody else heard it,only me

God knows what It was

(Edited for typo)

I’ve had that happen to me several times, in different houses I’ve lived in. It’s happened during the day if I’ve been sleeping as well as at night. It’s scary!

I would guess that because you had the washing machine and the shower running it was a 'water hammer', its an air bubble in the pipes that makes a loud bang. I don't think it's a cause for concern.

I bloody hope thats true
Thank you-i really thought the house was going to cave in
Nobody else heard it but it was so loud

Many years ago when I still lived at my parents we had nice colourful large clock on the wall in the kitchen- think large kids style clock.
The clock faced a large kitchen window and garden.
One afternoon around 5pm in the winter- so dark outside I popped outside into garden to put something in the shed.
I saw the kitchen clock through the window and they showed 6.30pm.
I thought its weird..
Got back into kitchen and clock showed correctly 5pm.
Really weird ...

Was it rented?

All these stories of things going missing from your flat - if they were rented it could be your LL or previous tenants or maintenance people who have copies of the keys maybe?

I know someone who is a LL who sometimes (illegally) goes into their tenants flats whilst they’re at work to check on certain things. I don’t think they take or move anything but their excuse is that the tenants never get black to them about doing maintenance checks so they just go in!

This sometimes happens in our house when a large articulated lorry goes past the main road at the end (which is quite far away) or it would be construction groundwork somewhere in the neighbourhood - both these can “shake” the house and sound really loud.

I was once woken by the doorbell ringing at 4am. I woke up with my heart racing. To this day I don t know if i dreamt it or it really happened. Bur thw fact my heart was eaci g made me think my eara ans brain really heard it.