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.

Mr Yentob might still be there, stuck in the lavatory, waiting for someone to rescue him 😆

Maybe it was a solecism-activated lamp?

It was the 80s. I was 8 or 9 and we were building a school holiday den. It was circular under a yew bush with a sandy soil back wall curving around at about 4ft high. The day before we carved a nice arched alcove out of the bank to make a sort of shelf/cupboard.

Conforming to gender stereotypes as you did , I was sweeping the “kitchen” area with twigs, while my male friend J was setting up booby traps for invaders. I looked up and there was a hole in the middle of the alcove with an eye blinking at me!

I was only inches away so know what I saw. I turned to call J and when he came over the hole was there but the eye had gone. We ran home scared.

It rained for a couple of days and when we plucked up the courage to go back some teenagers had taken over the den.

The memory of the eye incident is so vivid to both me and J who is still a friend. I still ponder what it was - maybe a badger or a fox, but to us then it was definitely a goblin.

Years ago DD was watching a video by a well known YouTuber, out of nowhere she heard my voice shout her name. She played it back, it was in the video. I’ve watched it several times and sent it to my DSisters too, all agree it’s my voice. It’s like a proper glitch in the matrix!

Interesting. I shall check. So far new tea towel is still dry 🤞

Ouch

Showing my age here, but the year I started university, one of the big songs was “Don’t Speak” by No Doubt. When it came out there were two different versions of the CD single. I remember taking my copy to a friend’s party, and it turned out she already had the alternative version. Anyway, at some point in the evening I picked my copy up and I swear the artwork changed before my eyes into the other version 😳

Now, the obvious explanation was that I’d just been in a drunken haze, had picked up my friend’s copy by mistake and somehow thought I’d seen it change (looking quickly from one to the other). But when I went over the next day, she still had her copy, with the same artwork. And when I played my CD, it was the original track listing; just somehow with the wrong sleeve now. I’ve still no idea what really happened, even though there must be a logical explanation somewhere.

For my 18 my father bought me an expensive ring...too expensive to wear. A couple of years later I looked for it and it was missing, we assumed one of dad's carers had stolen it.

Dad died when I was 24 and the ring had been missing for about 4 years. The next day I visited his house and opened the draw in my parents dressing table where he kept his money and found the ring at the front of the draw. It wasn't there a couple of days earlier when I had got some money to give to dad in the hospital as he wanted some. He had never left the hospital. So I always think that my dad gave me the ring twice.

If you're wondering, mum died when I was 17 and still at sixth form. I had a Saturday job at WH Smith Do It All and at 11.05 (I looked at the time) on the Saturday morning felt really ill and had to kneel down on the floor I've never felt like that before or since... when I went home about 20, minutes later to find that mum, who was home dying of cancer, had taken a turn for the worst and had a possible stroke at just past 11am.

My tongs disappeared from the rack with all the other kitchen stuff like slotted spoons, potato masher etc. I bought another one from Amazon and went to put it on the rack when it arrived and lo and behold the old one was back! No explanation for this, just weird!

I live in an old cottage which we've spent the last year completely renovating. Everything is damp proofed, freshly decorated and cosy. I was making mince pies in the kitchen just as the dusk was falling on the recent winter solstice. I'd lit a few candles around the room, all the decorations were up and I was feeling really Christmassy. The radio was playing carols to get me in the mood for the carol service I was going to that evening.

All of a sudden the room filled with an old church smell. That kind of musty, damp, old hymn book smell you only get in old churches especially in the crypt or back rooms. It was really overpowering in a way I can't adequately describe.

I just talked myself into the fact that I'd imagined it because I was feeling so 'Christmas/churchy' when my DH came in from the other room and said, 'Blimey, it smells of old church cellars in here, what have you been doing?'. The smell went as soon as it came. We even went outside and came back in to see if it was there - it wasn't. Haven't smelt it since.

Our house backs onto the church yard. What's that all about?

Quite a lot of kitchen related ones ao here is mine. I lost a white y-shaped potato peeler. Was annoyed but assumed I must have chucked it out absent mindedly. A few days later was looking for something in the side pocket of the passenger side of the car and found a (used) black and silver straight peeler. It was during lockdown so only immediate family would have been in the car for months. No idea where it came from.

Also when DD was a baby (could sit but not crawl or walk) I used to wheel her into the house in her pushchair unstrap her from 5 point harness and carry her to the living room where i put her on the floor to play. No need to return to the pushchair and I was the only one who used it as i was on mat leave and DH always used a car seat. On several occasions I returned to the pushchair to find all 5 parts of the harness properly attached as you would when fastening a child in but with the pushchair empty. It was very odd as only me and DD in the house. Eventually I said out loud ‘Don’t worry I’ll look after her’ and it never happened again.

I keep finding little piles of super super thin broken glass in random parts of my house.

for context I have smashed a very thing wine glass and a couple of glass baubles but it was at least a week ago and cleaned up very well as I have a dog.

randomly at the bottom of the stairs where none of the glass was and on my dining table today.

Dropped a fork once. Heard it bounced but couldn't find it. Checked everywhere including the open bin. Fork never found again.

This will sound stupid and as if my husband's a cheater but
In 2024 my husband went to stay at his mum's after a really bad row we had. He had work all week and was going to work from her house early shift. I had dropped my son at work and went shopping and was driving home when my husband drove past in the opposite direction, didn't notice me staring or anything as our cars passed each others.
I assumed he had been to the house but there was no sign he had been. When he came home after 5 days and we made up I asked him about that day and he was baffled as he had been at work at that time, I saw his shift rota and Google timeline to prove it. He never lies so I've no idea what happened. I must have imagined it

Read mine above honestly I think they are getting hacked. @KimberleyClarkdefinitely not a lorry I don’t live near a main road.

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Ive had something like that happen to me. I guess it rolled under something even though you think it couldnt.

That cafe is the secret headquarters of BBC bigwigs and they can access their offices from the staff quarters? He knew someone who worked there and went into the back?

I had to Google who he was I’m afraid!

It's gone with the bag of sprouts I bought 20'years ago. I recall putting them in the car boot. But when we got home, no sprouts could be found anywhere.

Someone, somewhere is stealing enough grub to make a decent Xmas lunch 😂

I do this! If I've lost something, I'll say out loud, please give it back. Nine times out of ten I find it immediately afterwards

Was the sleeve not the leaflet type with several different photos and someone had changed it over?

So sorry for your losses.

Isn’t the obvious answer here that your dad took it back for some reason though?

DH has our box room for his x-box, stereo etc. The room has multiple shelves and pictures on the walls, the week before Xmas, a very large and heavy picture landed on the floor upright and the right way up, leaning against an armchair on the other side of the room - it had missed a shelf full of breakables and the stereo below it. The large picture hook was still in the wall, the fitting on the back of the picture was still in place. It could only be removed from the wall by being lifted off.
I’ve also lost 2 dryer balls, they aren’t amongst the washing.

I’ve name changed for this, but my Mum got cancer when I was 18 and the song the night she told my dad was Don’t Speak by No Doubt, which was in the charts then. Sadly she died, but that song will just show up randomly when I talk about her or think of her death. I’ll be thinking of her, turn the radio on & it will be halfway through. I had my baby & went into Next and thought “How sad mum isn’t seeing him, but if she’s watching me, that song will come up somehow” and the next thing I knew, it came on the speakers.

Even now! As soon as I read the title I thought “oh I must say something about my NoDoubt, Don’t Speak experience” and… @MarriedWithCauldron your story came up. Insane!