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.

I never locked the garage, but a buyer of the house wanted the garage cleared. Fair enough, I got the key, checked it worked, and clearly remember putting it on a keyring with other house keys inside the (empty) house. I told the estate agent I had done this. Later I got a call from her saying the garage key was not on the keyring. She and the buyer had searched everywhere for it. I was astonished, as I'd made a special journey to the house to do this, and clearly remember doing it. I have no explanation. Apparently the EA told an assistant I must have dreamed it, and now unfortunately I think the EA has me tagged as nutty.

I was in my kitchen scrolling on my phone while I was waiting for the kids tea to cook. When it was done I put my phone down on the side and dished up.
After I went to pick my phone up again and it was gone. I looked everywhere. Then DH got in from work went out the back door which he had to unlock, down the bottom of the garden to his shed which he also had to unlock, a minute later he came back in the kitchen with my phone in his hand saying "why was your phone in the shed?"

I used to work casually at the weekend at a framing business.

It was over two floors in an industrial unit on a modern estate. Upstairs was where the heavy equipment and mouldings were kept. As a side thing, the boss ran a badminton club, and sold shuttlecocks so sometimes I would have to go up and get them for regular customers.

On one occasion, I was fulfilling this task so jogged up the metal stairs and went towards the "shuttlecock section". At the end I could clearly see a large carboard box, around 18 inches square and about 3 feet high slowly rocking from side to side, fully on its edges if you see what I mean. I stopped in my tracks, there was no noise on the creaky metal floor, and after a few seconds it came to a halt. I approached it, trying to think logically that it had maybe been empty and fallen off the racking, perhaps due to vibration from me coming up the stairs. However it was two thirds full of tubes of shuttlecocks, and I couldn't fully lift it. It would have made a hell of a thump if it had falen, and due to the netal infrastructure, I would have heard it without a doubt. Also, it couldn't have fallen in the position it did, as these boxes were kept lying down with the end open so the cocks coyld be accessed.

I grabbed what I needed, high tailed it down the srmtairs, served the customer while trying to explain why it had taken a bit longer, who backed out of the place obviously thinking I was completely insane.

It is one of the most bizarre yet mundane things I have ever experienced.

Sitting in a close relatives house after their funeral, watching relative's favourite TV show when I heard a crash coming from their bedroom. Went to investigate and saw their bedside clock on the floor 😯

My Mum heard my voice calling her a few weeks ago. I wasn't there and live 10 miles away. She was so convinced she went downstairs to look for me.

She doesn't have an Alexa.

It's called Psychic Jukebox - me and my friend Tom have the same thing but with different songs. Mine is Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac and it comes on when I am thinking about people who have passed on. I lost a family member today and have come to the pub for tea as I didn't want to cook and to raise a glass. As soon as I sat down guess which song came on the speakers? You guessed it...

No because as I said I had been in the draw during the week dad was in hospital and many times before, there's no way dad could have put it back.

Plus it was my "insurance policy" dad knew he had a limited life expectancy and could die at any time. Hence he'd bought the ring so if I was really on my uppers I could pawn it, get £50 and as he put it "the way I brought you up, you'll turn the £50 into £100, the £100 to £200 and you're back in the game"... We were in a time and place where £200 was enough to sort a lot of things out... thankfully they he and mum brought me up meant that I have never had to cash in the policy. I retired at 55 and am ok financially.

Thanks for your kind words, strangely just lately I miss them a lot, I expect that is because of a little part time job I have just to keep myself busy working for a funeral director.

The only guess for this is and I've done this hanging a picture for a customer, is that the string/wire/hole for the hook was actually sitting on the tip of the hook. That is, the hanging bit hadn't gone over the hook and it was just balanced...some vibration knocked it off... door slamming etc

In my case just stepped back to see if the painting was level and it dropped, thankfully I caught it

Ah I missed that bit! That is really strange - sounds like your dad is looking over you 💐

Very similar but a golf ball. Partner got up had breakfast etc went to work. I got up had pottered round and had breakfast he phoned and asked me to drop him his gym stuff off as he'd forgotten it. When I came home there was a golf ball in middle of kitchen floor (back door was locked) the ring door bell hasn't triggered. The windows were closed and had not been broken. No one in house at the time (only us two lived there and I'd seen my partner at his work when I dropped his stuff off. Neither of us owned any golf stuff only time we played was crazy golf. To this day I don't have an explanation for it

What kind of missions?

Dutty bitch. Some nasty arsed people out there. 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Even more unfathomably, I used to be friends with Simon Le Bon and he wasn't at all interested in me 'that way'.

his loss, @GarlicSound, his loss.

My mother had a friend who claimed to be psychic

Anyway,one day she was enjoying a cup of tea with my mother when she suddenly said 'a baby will come into your life very soon-within the next month,if not fortnight' her paused 'and the babies name will start with a j and this baby has been here before'

My mother laughed,I certainly wasn't pregnant and my brothers where nowhere near the 'getting a girl pregnant' stage of life

She mentioned this (not about the name or the fact hes been here before) to us all and we laughed

About 10 days later,I had the worst backache I've ever had-it felt like my pelvis was going to snap in half and I was struggling to walk so my mother dragged me to the doctor (I hate going to the doctors)

Doctor-could you be pregnant?
Me-no!hahahaha!
Doctor-i need to feel your tummy,hop up onto this table feels tummy for 15/20 seconds yes,your pregnant and about to give birth
Me'almost faints
My mother-mary was right!

I gave birth 6 days later to a gorgeous boy who's name starts with a j,ive never met a baby quite like him (he really has been here before) and he made me a mil and granny last year

Same woman when I was pregnant with his brother-I had his name chosen-set in stone,no way was i going to change my mind

She was enjoying another cuppa with my mother and when she asked what I was planning on calling him,she shook her head

'She won't call him that name,it's not God's way,she will change her mind at the birth-this name will be Irish with an American connection'

My mother didnt say a word about this conversation for the rest of my pregnancy and just nodded at my name choice

I gave birth,changed my mind when I was pushing him out and choose a name that is Irish (its an irish surname of unknown meaning apparently) and is also the name of a baby in an American TV sitcom-it came to me as I was pushing his head out and it felt like I was going to call him this all along

Bloody weird-im not a believer at all but this woman has been right on a few other things about me,my parents,children and my brothers

We’ve lost a knife. It’s been months. It’s a huge silver chefs knife and it was my favourite. It’s a size that you would have noticed it going in the bin and we use a good waste caddy so the knives never go near the actual bin.

Where the hell is it?

Er… he died!

My DH is a calamity and always losing things, keys, bank cards etc. Two weeks ago on the anniversary of my wee MIL death we went for a quiet lunch and he had his wallet when he used the cash point. This was the Monday and he realised it was missing a couple of days later.

We searched everywhere, the car, van, called the restaurant, no joy. I checked all jackets, trousers even in shoes, nope. I asked wee Mum please where is this flipping wallet Mammy?! I walked back into the room where I had been searching and it was right there on a unit! I just stood and stared at it 😂 went out to ask DH if he had found it and brought it in, he said no and he was searching the van again.

Still no idea how it appeared but thankful it did. Weird

Disappearing Object Phenomena or DOP, your local poltergeist was making mince and had run of of onions obvs!

I had a radar key, which enables me to unlock disabled toilets. I wanted to take it with me on an outing, but although I emptied my handbag and searched several times it wasn’t there. It’s a big key, so not easy to lose in a bag. Later, I went to get something else out of the bag , and there it was, in full view!

all building in usa have to 2nd doors exit incase fire

Does anyone remember the missing clock chains thread?!!!! That was an awesome story. Don’t think there was ever a conclusion but that must be one of the best ‘most bizarre’! Someone link it if they can find it please! I don’t know how! I’d love an update!!

After staying away for a night in a hotel in Aberdeenshire, one single marble appeared in my make-up bag. I knew 100% it hadn't been in there before I went as I packed specific makeup in to an empty bag. I was completely confused but felt compelled to keep the marble and did so for years after. Weird.

Yew trees can have hallucinogenic effects if you sit under them for too long!

Young me was very in love with Brett Anderson. At a sleep over, age about 13, my good friend Helen read my destiny cards (free in More magazine) and would you believe, the cards said I was to marry Brett Anderson. And yet.. it never happened?? I tell myself there is still time

I feel like the only explanation for this one is your husband sneaked in and grabbed the phone while your back was turned so he could have a good look through it…