Bizarre things you couldnt fathom

[Daygloboo]

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.

@Daygloboo according to google this did happen but I can understand being confused as to why it did!

We’d just come back from holiday, I was unpacking and I couldn’t find my wedding rings anywhere. I hadn’t been wearing them on holiday much as they were a little big and I kept thinking they’d slip off in the sea or on the beach. Our home was small and clutter free, easy to find things, dh and I looked everywhere. Every drawer, bags, including make up/toiletry bags, pockets, pots, shelves, under the bed, etc I even emailed the apartment we’d been staying in on holiday (even though I’m certain I didn’t leave them)

Anyway, 2 weeks past, still no luck finding them. I was naturally feeling quite sad about it. One morning, I’m getting ready in the bedroom, our little one was 18 months old at the time, she was playing with some of her toys next to me whilst I was doing my make up. I went out of the room to wash my hands, came back a minute later and dd is now stood up playing with something near the window, something shiny caught my eye, I get closer to see what she’s playing with and it’s only my engagement and wedding rings!

I still have no idea where/how she found them. They were definitely not on the widow ledge, it was empty apart from one plant and I’d dusted it a few times since coming back. The weird part is, I had jokingly asked my late nana and grandma for help finding them the day before when I was having yet another look around for them.

I love the uncanny and the unexplainable. I’m sure a lot of things could be explained and answered and that a 1 in a billion coincidence is more likely than spirits, but… I come from a family of spiritualists and believers and was just brought up to accept that weird things happen and we just don’t understand it now.

After my grandmother died lots of things disappeared and reappeared in impossible places in the house. They would appear in the middle of a room or on the sofa, you could never have missed them. I’d rather think that my grandmother was just telling us she was ok from beyond the veil than we had someone in the house playing tricks. It was only me and my parents so it would have had to be them and it physically couldn’t have been.

I posted above about losing a knife, I’ve now asks out loud for it to be returned / found. Not dissimilar to praying to st Anthony!

I also grew up attending a church where people would stand up and tell people about their experiences with angels. Again, it was treated not as normal but completed accepted that angelic intervention happened.

How? There is no further “help”.

Please get your hubby to pick you up late at night from now on. Please.

In my old flat in London, around 7 years ago, it was a very hot day but I didn't yet have a window open as I had just got home. Very still day, no wind. Very quiet street, no large vehicles thundering past, nor any train stations nearby.

I had a freshly filled salt and pepper pot set. As I walked into the kitchen, both pots fell forward in unison. Just, clean fell down flat. I literally saw it happen. I was nowhere near the counter, nor had thrown down my bag or anything. Just, wham, both fell down.

Other odd stuff happened in that same month. A mirror fell off the wall but didn't break, and all the fixtures were perfectly intact. It could realistically only have come off like that if someone had taken it down - but it happened in front of my eyes.

I asked my sister to put a message out on her Facebook page and it turned out that my house stood on the exact spot where a children's asylum used to stand.

When I was a kid,I lived with my grandad

On the wall behind the sofa was a painting of wild horses running away from a fire

It always bothered grandad as it had been painted on the wrong side of the canvas

It was just a picture in a cheapy frame-you wouldn't think anything of it if you saw it

Every so often,it would crash to the floor (all hangings wouldn't have been touched-nail still intact) and grandad would say 'there's been a death'

Within 48 hours (normally less than half an hour) the phone would ring and the person would be saying 'such-and-such has died'

Human or animal,it didnt matter-this picture would lift itself off the wall and make a racket as it hit the floor

This was totally normal when I was a kid!

Sadly,my father's sister dumped the picture in the skip (along with everything I owned) when he was put in a home

Another one was years later and someone gave my then young dd a victorian doll on a stand

It had a green hat and dress/blonde hair/ringlets and weird blue eyes

I swear I used to feel her eyes follow me around and it creeped me out really badly but dd loved it so I couldn't get rid of it

We came to move house (horrid neighbours) and my sister in law helped to wrap it in newspaper and we binned it in the old houses wheelie bin-we agreed to tell dd that it had been lost in the move and she swore shed never say different (id never normally bin anything without the dcs permission,but this thing was starting to scare me)

I put the bin out and we moved house

A few months later,having unpacked ages ago,id gone into dds room to get some bits sorted before she went to school and myself to college-nothing out of the ordinary and the doll wasn't there as I would have seen it

Came home after a shattering day and she went into her room-there was the same doll sat either on her windowsill or bedside cabinet (I cannot remember) just staring at us

I fucking hated that doll until the day it just vanished again

Dd swore it had been in her room when she got up to go to school,but had vanished when we got home again-nobody else had been in the house all day

I've never been able to explain either

It was just on the radio as I read this! Radio 2 …

Do you have a cat? Or, if no cat of your own, do you have a cat flap?

Chap who took me to a party when I was young and gorgeous ended up with another girl sitting on his lap. Never got to the bottom of what happened there.
My small, perfect kitchen knife disappeared last year. Not seen it since.

😂

I k now. Just weird.

House fairies. They pinch stuff all the time in our house. Usually they return them when you ask them nicely :)

That’s terrifying! 😫

It's terrifying bit also very funny. As if Alexa is absolutely stark raving mad.

But a phone can’t get up and walk to the shed and lock itself in can it?

So the only explanation is that someone put it there. Or somehow when your back was turned your dh got it and was playing a trick. Maybe you misremember exactly what happened and you were out of the room for a minute.

The butternut squash - someone came in the back door and nicked it whilst her back was turned, playing a trick. Stranger things have happened.

Weird things have happened to me in life but they can always be explained. People just want to believe it’s something “woo” as they are susceptible to it. The day after my df died I got up in the morning and turned the radio on and his favourite (quite random song) came on the radio. It did give me a start but obviously it was just a coincidence. If thinking you’ve seen your dead relative or they’ve sent you a message from beyond etc brings you comfort then that’s nice, it’s no harm to anyone - but obviously you didn’t actually see them or smell their aftershave or whatever!

Occam’s razor.

I think it was on ITV. I know she was the Queen of Saturday night telly, but even so, I still find it bizarre that her funeral was.on tv.. I remember watching and thinking to myself ' what the hell am i watching ' and then years afterwards thinking did that actually happen or have i gone mad. It was so random. I think i remember Cliff and Paul O' Grady being there. I cant remember.who gave readings though....if it was showbiz friends or just the clergy people.

Probs Christopher Biggins. He always loved her off. God knows why

They are/ were both very very showbiz so....yeah

Often when I see Giles Brandreth I feel he is unfathomable. It’s less who is he and more why is he. My husband bumped into him twice on The Strand within a few months. I’m sure he thought he was being stalked.

I have skimmed this thread and now wish I wasn't home on my own.

Someone borrowed it to read when on the loo and accidentally dropped it in…

A recent one was a massive gunshot going off somewhere close to my house on a sunny Saturday morning. I was sitting in our living room at the time. I was petrified and honestly believed I was about to be shot. I went upstairs and looked out of all the windows but there was no one to be seen, no vehicles anywhere. There are fields all round us and it’s not unheard of for men to come and shoot deer, but I can’t even describe how loud and how close by this had to have been. I was terrified for my life. None of the neighbours or anyone else heard it.

I think it's coz he used to be a politician but now he's sort of showbiz.

I do think that people can have, and telepathic isn't the right word but it's near, a telepathic connection. I'm a man and had it with a close male friend who I grew up with in that we were on a night out and he was at the bar getting a drink when I had a sense that we should leave that bar. He came back seconds later and just said "we need to leave". We later found out that there was a big fight in the place after we left and several people were hurt for no reason... whether it was a change in the atmosphere of the place which I know I attuned to or whatever I was glad we left!