Do you have a 'nobody would EVER believe me' story? No matter the subject or how daft, unreal it seems, please share :)

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I have two. I told a friend totally out of the blue that Michael Jackson would be dead six weeks from now, he was. I pointed at the screen and told a friend whilst watching Loose Women that Linda Bellingham would die soon of cancer.
I dunno why i felt compelled to say those things but i felt i needed to.

No criticising, hairsplitting or arguing pleae.

Be brave and tell. :)

I swear my brain picks up radio waves : I quite often have a tune in my head and when I turn the radio on its not just the same song, but at exactly the same point in it as I am singing.

I have similar skills with picking up mobiles to phone someone to find they are calling me.

Wooooo indeed.

My mum works in a very old National Trust house as a guide. The house dates from 1710. Some of the furniture and decor is original. She knows vast amounts about the history of the place plus it's contents.

One day my mum was stewarding in one of the upstairs rooms when a couple came wandering through with their little boy. He seemed about 8 years old.

His parents were busy looking at a painting when the boy approached my mum and asked where the other sofa was, and gesticulated to the beautiful old rose coloured chaise lounge by the fireplace. My mum was and said 'well love, it got all burned in a fire here about 100 years ago' .... (!)

Quiet.

Then the boy said:

'They used to be by the window. Why is it not blue anymore?' and then 'where are the ladies?'

Mum said ... 'well, it's here now because we thought it looked nice by the fireplace, and it's not blue anymore because after the fire it was reupholstered. What ladies love?'

'The ladies who used to sit and sew by the window'.

There is no record of these facts on display to the public, but the blue chaise lounges are recorded in an inventory from back in the late 1700s, and that one was lost in a fire very much upset the then lady of the house.

Sabrinnnnnnnna peahens are mainly brown. Could you have seen one of those?

I was at my cousin's graduation BBQ and had been drinking. I'd been dating my boyfriend for about 3 months but had been telling my relatives that although things were fine and he was a nice bloke, he just wasn't what I wanted in life and I planned to finish with him the following weekend

Conversation moved on and an hour or so later my Aunt said "I know that somebody is pregnant, but I don't know who" of course we all thought she'd had a few too many and she went on to explain that all week she'd been quizzing the girls at work, so much so that one had actually done a pregnancy test (turned out negative). She went on to say that she was still convinced somebody close to her was pregnant. I was stood next to her and did a comedy leap about 2 feet away!

The next day as I lay hungover in bed, I remembered the conversation and recalled 2 weeks earlier having unprotected sex with my boyfriend (although we had used the oh-so reliable 'pulling out' method ) and I half laughed at the idea that I was her pregnancy premonition .

The following week,with my period 2 days late I took a test. Positive. Totally unplanned, completely unexpected. Aunt was right, I'd actually been 3 weeks pregnant and not known!

She tells everyone who'll listen about her premonition and has 4 or 5 family members who clearly remember her story at the BBQ.

I think it might have been, Asheth.

It sounds silly - but this was years ago before the days of google. I've just googled peahen, and it did have those exact tufts on the head. It was just so big - and I couldn't think what it was doing on my neighbours house! We weren't rural then - I might expect it now, but this was in a very built up area.

When my son was two ...

Dh went to work and left me £20 on the stairs as I needed to get some bits from the village ..

I went up and down stairs that morning as did ds ... When it came to going and getting the bits we needed .. Went to get the £20 .... Nowhere to be seen ... Looked everywhere ... Ds(2)kept saying man took it ...man took it ... I looked everywhere .. Rang husband .. To check he had left it .. Even though I had seen it .. And he was like you know I left it ...

So I said to ds .. Come on then let's go see your papa and get some more money ... And guess what ... The money was back on the step .. Exactly where husband had left it ... I looked at ds ... And he just said man brought it back ...

Freaked out was an understatement ...

When he was 3 .. He sat on the toilet .. And he pipes up ... I didn't like gods garden you know ... It was too messy ... Jesus's garden was much better .... I was like oh really ??

What CAN you say???

Pandsbear not to piss on your woo story re pregnancy test (excuse the pun) - it depends on the brand...some are pink!

My first husband and I lived in a home built around 1700. We had several odd occurrences. Several times, when I was sleeping alone in the house, I felt as though my soul was being pulled from my body. I knew I was asleep and fought to wake up before my soul was pulled away. I was not particularly frightened, I just knew I needed to awaken. I still wonder what would have happened if I had chosen to sleep instead..

My husband was working in the kitchen of that house, I believe sanding the window. My ex is totally non woo..an engineer, not given to flights of fancy. Gloaming was occurring and he had the distinct impression he should leave. He fought with himself for several minutes and went into the next room to get another piece of equipment. He said he was gone less than a minute, when he returned, every cabinet in the kitchen was open. He decided to call it night and quickly left.

I had a dream just before my A level literature exam about two questions I was asked on the exam paper. When I woke up, I remembered these in clear detail. I composed answers for them during my revision.

They were the exact questions asked on the actual exam paper. I got an A for my literature A level, and got into the university of my choice.

I still feel like I cheated

In my early teens (I think, might have been preteens) two friends and I drew up a ouija board. Started off fine, random questions and answers, and then it started spelling out IPL and NINETEEN. It did it four or five times before we were thoroughly freaked out and tore the board up and burnt it.

When I was 19, I had DD. Her initials are IPL.

On the subject of DD, she and I are 19 years, 50 weeks apart, to the hour.

Bloody hell Betrayed I actually got goosebumps reading yours. Is your DD ok now?

My Mum used to work in supported housing for people with learning disabilities. One of her clients would ask name/DOB/siblings/children of anyone new he met.

About 5 years later I was working in an unrelated public service in the same area (not usually where I worked but we were very short staffed). A man came in and asked me the above information and I told him. Within 10 seconds he reeled off the related info he'd gained from my Mum years before, down to the DOBs of my siblings and hers.

I was driving along the outside lane of the M11 late one night with my ex (between Bishops Stortford & Harlow if anyone's interested), when I saw something dart out from the grass at the centre of the motorway & seem to go right under the car.
To me it looked just like a black panther sized cat, but it had a human face!!
I didn't say anything to my ex but he saw me looking worriedly in the rear view mirror.
He turned to me & said

"Did you see the big cat with the human face too then?!"

Early one morning I found a seagull standing on the side if the road, completely still. Cars were having to drive around him as he wouldn't move. A passerby picked him up and put him down on the pavement. Still no movement. I squatted down to look at him and he moved his eyes to look at me (so not dead) but otherwise stayed completely still. I was very tired heading home from a night shift so I went to bed, and when I woke up he was gone.

I actually do believe the guardian angel theory. Mine saved me a couple of times but only the first one really fits this thread:
I was cycling to school and had at least 3 options of which roads to use - I'd taken my second most common one that day. Got to the T-junction at the top of the road, looked both ways, went to set off and my chain fell off (it had never done that before), so I didn't move - which meant I wasn't halfway across the road when the nutter swept around the blind bend going far too fast, and would have hit me if I hadn't been stuck at the junction.

I never answer the telephone with the number, mostly because I default to my parents' number as a matter of course. But 3 times I have answered the phone, in different houses, and started to say my parents' number - each time it was my Mum who had phoned me.

Celibacy. Did you still finish with your BF the next weekend ?

Germgirl. Thanks for sharing, that's me not sleeping tonight. Cheers.
(Makes mental note to never, ever go anywhere near Bishop Stortford).

My Nanna, & Great Aunt, both of whom I loved dearly died in 2010, within 5 months of each other. In December of that year I fell pregnant (unplanned) with our DTDs. All through the pregnancy I felt such a strong sense of this was 'meant to be'...probably hormones, but there you go

Sorry DirtyOldTown it was years ago, and I've googled several times since to see if anyone else has ever reported a similar thing & no one has.
But it was bloody scary at the time, I was fully prepared to believe I'd been seeing things & then he said that!

This happened very recently. I woke in the night to go to the loo and as I was using it I noticed drops forming on my PJ top. I put my hand to my fave and realised I was crying, proper big fat tears and I didn't know why. When I woke in the morning I was overcome with a feeling of intense sadness.

10 minutes later my Mum phoned to say my Grandad had died unexpectedly in the night. At the same time I went to the toilet.

It freaked me out as it had never happened with previous relatives who have died.

Hmm maybe this thread is woo or maybe making the readers more conscious of unusual happenings...but a couple of nights ago (after a couple of days of enjoying quick visits to this thread) we had just turned the lights off to go to sleep and heard the sound of DS1's feet landing on his bedroom floor and some footsteps, as if going to the bathroom...but then he didn't come out of his room and the steps stopped. We waited then DH went to check on him but he found DS1 so deeply asleep in his bed that he couldn't possibly have moved. Then when we tried settling down again for the night, the tv switched on by itself , and neither of us were anywhere near the remote.

Love this thread!

Oh I have another one - when my sister was about to have her first baby in Oz, I had an incredibly restless night, dreaming about her (despite not having done so previously), & almost being there/linked with her IYSWIM. I woke up around 4am, just knowing there would be a text from my mum to say she'd had the baby, and she'd had a hard time having him. Lo and behold, there was, & she had! Strangely enough it didn't happen when she had his brother, but that was an ELCS.

A very minor thing.

We moved about 6 months ago. The previous owners were moving out of the area, and had bought from the original owners, who'd lived here since it was built. All are still living.

The house is really welcoming. A few odd things though. For a period of three weeks, I kept finding toenail clippings (gross) on the upstairs landing. There is no reason for any to be there, and they were definitely not mine, nor DP's. Far too big to be DD's. One day, removing one, I muttered something about it not being very nice, and there have been no more.

A few weeks ago, I kept getting the smell of cigarette smoke in the lounge. We don't smoke, there were no bonfires, and our neighbours don't smoke either. For a good few evenings, I'd get this smell wafting under my nose. Told DP and he went around the house sniffing, but couldn't locate anything. He suggested it might be a smoky smell on one of the hallway walls, but as the previous occupants were non-smokers too, and had redecorated when they moved in, we couldn't explain it.
It happened about a fortnight ago when I was home alone. I said out loud that we didn't smoke, and didn't like the smell. If anyone wanted to smoke could they please do so out in the garden. No smoke smell since.