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.

Do you live anywhere near an air force base? Could have been a pilot breaking the sound barrier? Or were you dropping off to sleep in your living room? If so could have been exploding head syndrome.

https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/exploding-head-syndrome

Or perhaps it really was someone shooting deer.

First place I lived as an adult, I had a new and quite expensive lip gloss. I put it on the dresser after applying, looked round to put in my bag but it was gone.

No one else was in.

It hadn't fallen in the bin. The furniture was heavy and I couldn't be bothered to move it but kind of assumed it would be there and remembered it when I finally replaced the furniture much later. Nope, wasn't there. Outright vanished!

I was sitting in the garden under a tree on a beautiful clear summer's day. Suddenly a weird mist appeared, making everything look hazy. It stayed for perhaps 10 minutes, then dissipated. There was no smell and it wasn't mentioned in the local news or weather reports.

I’m 52 now so quite some time ago, I’d have been about 16 or 17 and was home alone as my parents and younger brother were away. I woke in the night (hot summer) to a cacophony of sounds, mixed voices, screams, animal sounds, sirens, white noise - a complete mish mash of sound in the air. I got up to the bedroom window and looked out and the sounds seemed to be coming from outside so I went downstairs. I opened the front door and stood trying to find the direction of the source of the sound. I lived on a housing estate and expected to see others out because the sounds were so loud and frightening - it sounded like a really loud radio not quite tuned in. Eventually the sounds gradually faded away and I went back to bed. To this day I have no idea what it was, it was very unnerving and weird.

There was only me and DH in the flat and it happened overnight (as in between 11pm-7am). We could only think that one of us had sleep walked and submerged in a sink full of water in our sleep!

Yeah but that is the whole point of this thread, it can't be explained!!
The time elapsed between me putting it down and going to pick it up again was less than 5 minutes. There is no logical explanation. I really hope something weird happens to you one day!

What, MNHQ delete them? Or the angels?

I once lost a newt in the kitchen in that way

I have no anecdotes to add (though my childhood wish for Even More Cats hasn't materialised yet), but would like to say that I appreciate the mix of a bit of fun and rationality @Daygloboo and @Dollyfloss - usually these threads mostly attract posts from those who believe in ghosts and woo woo.

I know exactly what you mean - I used to just be vaguely aware of him (but wasn’t sure what he did) and now he keeps on popping up on prime time tv wearing loud jumpers!

Agapornis
I know, and do still enjoy reading these threads on a boring winters evening even though I’m an old cynic. I have a friend who regularly visits psychics and I love to hear her latest revelations even though I think it’s probably baloney. It’s like the old sitting round the campfire telling ghost stories isn’t it? I think The Mysterious Disappearance of Alan Yentob is my favourite so far, that and Flash the kamikaze fish 😂

Salt lamps ‘weep’ because the salt takes in moisture from the air, therefore it slipped off.

Gyles Brandreth is why you don't have to pretend to be religious to have a wedding ceremony other than in a drab registry office. You now have other options.

Only decent thing a Tory has done in many years, he was an MP for a while.

Mumsnet x

What a sad story. It reminded me of something I saw.

I watched an interview some time ago of a nurse who used to work on an aids ward years ago. Very very sad story of a little girl who had contacted aids through her parents. Both of her parents had passed. Every night a cat would come into the hospital and sleep on her bed. The night she passed, the cat got up, walked out and never came back. It wasn't the girl's pet as her grandmother said she had no pets. There is definitely something that cats/animals know. Maybe your mother sent the cat to comfort you.

I was with DD aged about 13 and we parked in a multi storey car park. I was in a middle row facing outwards on the second level. When we came back, we couldn’t find our car anywhere on the second level, we walked round and round. A man in what looked like a caretakers uniform seemed very keen to help, said he could go with us to find the car, etc. I got a creepy feeling and said no thanks.

We went up a level, just to check if we’d made a mistake. I found my car parked in the far corner facing a wall. I absolutely did not leave my car there and my DD agrees! All the way home I had such a creepy feeling, who had done this and why?

Glitch in the matrix?

When I was at uni my boyfriend and I, bored one afternoon, decided to visit the bars along a local road. They were all very empty as a Tuesday or something. As we walked into one of the bars a man was levitating a £5 note and the bar staff all watching.
We stayed half an hour and got him to do it over and over with a crumpled up bit of newspaper, a reciept out of my pocket, a bus ticket, remove shirt/watch etc.

We were 1 foot from him. 4 of us witnessed it all. No magnets, no invisible strings.

Never ever worked out how the hell he did it.

I "saw" my dad at his wake. He had a very distinctive jumper that he used to wear. I was facing a large mirror, could see everyone around wearing black and suddenly there he was in the mirror in his jumper walking round the room. I turned around to look for him but of course he wasn't there.

A drip from the ceiling ?

What was it ?

Years ago I was watching a horror movie in my room on Sunday afternoon. It was severerence (with danny dyer) so not like a super scary horror but plenty of gore and jumpy bits. All of a sudden my tom tom sat nav pipes up, full volume TURN AROUND WHEN POSSIBLE. Shit me right up. Id be not been anywhere near where it was (on my desk) and hadn't used it for about a week. When I went to look at it, it was switched off.

No idea how it happened!

It was wrapped in a carrier bag ready for me to pick up on my way to work 😫

Found it! There have been several threads that mention this since too as there was never a conclusion ….

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4884084-to-be-amused-rather-than-freaked-out-woo

Did an animal wee on it

Ooʻ that is weird. I think it was the dh.

Going back to a Friday night last August, my husband was away visiting family and there was just me and our adult son at home.

We had a set of keys which never needed to leave the house and garden. On it were the patio door key, utility room outside door key, garage door key and the key for the side door from the garden into the garage.
Late that night our son went into the garage for something, came back in and I heard him lock the utility room door and he put the keys down on the breakfast bar.
Just before going to bed I did the usual check around to make sure all doors were locked.

The following morning I went to get the keys to let the dog out and they weren’t there.
We searched high and low, even emptied the bins, and they never materialised.

We moved house a month later and I fully expected the keys to show up while we were packing, after all we were emptying the house out completely so they should’ve been found, but we never saw them again.