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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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SoleSource · 17/11/2014 17:25

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. :)

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MrsCosmopilite · 20/11/2014 11:40

Oh, and last night, I was reading a book in bed, when there was suddenly a lovely smell of freshly-peeled orange. Checked the book but no smell coming from the book. We don't have any oranges at the moment.

elfycat · 20/11/2014 11:42

A Dcat1 was mortally wounded when I came home from shopping. We raced her off to the vet but after an exploratory operation she was PTS without waking. I knew she was going to die as she 'looked' wrong.

I was taking a course in a slightly more woo than some complementary therapy so I was probably seeing auras a bit (I can do it better now).

A week later I was lying in bed and I could hear her purring right next to my ear. If was her and not her still living sister as Dcat1 sounded like a cement mixer. I knew if I opened my eyes there would be no-one there so I said my goodbyes.

Years later Dcat2 was looking 'wrong' to me so I took her to the vet. She had a good set of testing done, with optional extras but nothing was found to be wrong. Under 2 months later she was PTS with a huge abdominal growth. The vet was amazed as hadn't shown any markers to suggest anything was wrong but my intuition had been spot on.

I also saw a colleague a long way down a hospital corridor and knew something dreadful had happened to him. Again I could see something wrong with his aura (literally I saw him under a dark cloud). I commented to another colleague who told me his house had burned to the ground the day before (thankfully no-one was hurt).

ihatethecold · 20/11/2014 14:33

I would love to be able to see auras.
Must be amazing.

LoafersOrLouboutins · 20/11/2014 14:57

I knew my ex-boyfriend would die. I knew he would crash his car in a nearby village which was flooded. I told his friend to tell him not to drive through said village, his friend said to me 'How did you know he was here?'. I just KNEW he was visiting his friend. I woke up at 4:32 that night (the same he died) and he walked into my room. My now dead ex-boyfriend was sitting on my bed and just gave me a hug then left. His mum called me later that morning. Nobody believes me that he came into my room nor that I knew it would happen.

Wowthishurtsalot · 20/11/2014 15:45

Smelling smoke is a sign of a stroke/aneurysm/migraine you may want to get that checked out

Catthiefkeith · 20/11/2014 16:20

Just remembered another. Back in the 1970's our local swimming closed for a whole week because they had a dolphin show there each night.

I was only 4/5 ish but I distinctly remember it and my parents have confirmed it did happen, but nobody has ever believed me, and I have been unable to find anything about it online ever

MrsCurrent · 20/11/2014 16:31

I always feel people won't believe me but ds1 started telling people mummy has a baby in her tummy around the time ds2 was conceived, and no, as a 2 year old he definitely didn't know what we had been up to!

A few months later my dm, ds and I visited db's flat in a v old house, there was a cold patch where the bottom of the original stairs would've come into the flat by db's room. Dm and I had previously found it eerie. Heard ds chatting away down there while we were in the lounge then he came in to tell us about the little boy in uncle x's house!

LoafersOrLouboutins · 20/11/2014 16:45

MrsCurrent Its so frustrating when you want to tell people these stories but know they would either think you're a liar or absolutely nuts! Does your DS say these things regularly? I would love to tell my ex-boyfriend's DM and DF that I saw him that night but they wouldn't believe me.

Yoghurtget · 20/11/2014 16:46

I was 38 weeks pregnant ( first baby) and about to have bath, as I looked into the bubbles I saw the Virgin Mary and had a very warm feeling all over. I had the bath and as I got out my waters broke. I didn't tell anyone as it's a bit like the Jesus on the toast story a while back. I eventually told my husband a few months later but I don't think I could ever tell anyone else in RL.

MrsCosmopilite · 20/11/2014 16:53

Thanks wow - I used to have migraines but not since having surgery for something unrelated. DH could smell it too at the same time, so likelihood of us both being about to have a stroke is low :)
However, as in post upthread, since I asked politely for there to be no smoking in the house, we've not had the smell. We have since had firework displays and bonfires locally, and not been able to smell either indoors, so it's not an outside smell permeating.

Thumbwitch · 20/11/2014 17:08

This thread is great - took me ages to read through it all but worth it! I've asked for it to be put in Classics (not sure if it will though)

greenapples · 20/11/2014 17:19

We moved to an area (due to DH job) where I had previously been on a summer holiday with my parents less than 10 years before.
On the family holiday, we did the well know touristy locations and on coming out from one such place I declared to my family, 'I'm going to live in that house'. (Big tumbled down neglected looking house) Cue great laughter and banter from sis and parents and told 'you can't live here without a housing licence'. Bla bla bla.
A few years later, DH got a job and accomodation was found for us. We had not seen where we were living until we met the estate agent off the ferry - who took us directly there. Large house I'd seen previously was still there but turned into flats... One of which we were to rent (and still do).

Welliesandpyjamas · 20/11/2014 17:26

catthiefkeith were your parents trying to avoid taking you swimming Grin or did you actually see the dolphin show?

FastWindow · 20/11/2014 17:54

I had my one and only panic attack on the morning of 7/7. Couldn't breathe.

Not quite as unbelievable as some, this, but I was walking back into the house from the car with my fairly newborn in my arms. I stopped walking for no reason. There was nothing in my way, I had heard and seen nothing to make me stop. At that exact moment, a magpie dropped a huge poo exactly where my newborn' face would have been had I just continued walking at the same pace. Thankyou, whoever is up there.

LoafersOrLouboutins · 20/11/2014 18:02

Yoghurtget that's AMAZING!

seagull70 · 20/11/2014 18:31

When I was a teenager I had this white pair of 'pumps' and when they were laced up tightly I could see the face of Faye Dunnaway.

Only on the right shoe though. The left one just looked liked a laced up shoe Hmm.

I used to try and point it out to random strangers to see if they could see it too but they were just Confused

I didn't have many friends Grin

Gunpowder · 20/11/2014 18:47

MrsCurrent my DD (also 2) told me there was a baby in my tummy too! I didn't get a BFP until a week later.

About a month ago we were talking about my friend, S, and DD said 'S got a baby in her tummy too.' S called me last week and she is pregnant! Shock Smile

Thinking of hiring her out to Clearblue for research... Wink

Gunpowder · 20/11/2014 18:49

Love this thread too, btw. For the woo and the weird and the stuff that makes me laugh like Seagull's FayeDunaway pumps. Grin

chasingtherainbow · 20/11/2014 18:53

gunpowder can I borrow her? I'm literally keeping clearblue in business these days..she'd save me a bomb! I promise to feed her.

Catthiefkeith · 20/11/2014 18:56

Wellies that is exactly the sort of thing they would do, but no, we actually went to see the show. I remember is quite clearly because I got my leg stuck in the flip up seat.Grin

I can't begin to imagine how they got all the chlorinated water out and the sea water in, but it definitely happened.

MarthasChin · 20/11/2014 19:23

As teenagers my friend and I were walking through the town centre to go to a certain shop. The journey normally took 5/10 minutes. When we reached the shop we had lost over an hour. Both of us were shocked as we remembered just chatting and walking as normal, but can't work out where that 'lost' hour went.

BertieBotts · 20/11/2014 19:45

It wasn't the day the clocks went forward and you forgot was it? Grin

My DSis can see auras, I don't know if she sees them all the time, we don't really talk about it much. I also remember there was a girl in my A level Philosophy class who could see auras, she said to the teacher one morning "Are you feeling OK, only your aura is really small today." Teacher was totally surprised and said "Actually I've got a bit of a headache." but she was really intrigued and asked who had the biggest aura in the class. Classmate looked around and then said "Bertie". I'd just started going out with XP at the time and was in that first-flush-of-love phase. There's no way she would have known that because we didn't speak and I also hadn't mentioned XP to anybody at college because I didn't really have any friends there.

Time slip stories really freak me out. There's a particular street where they're supposed to happen quite a lot apparently.

Darksideofthemoon88 · 20/11/2014 19:55

A few weeks after DD was born, my dad's aunt, in a rare moment of lucidity, asked "How's Baby Darkside?" My dad's aunt is in her nineties, completely deaf, mostly blind, has advanced dementia, and didn't even know I'd been pregnant let alone that there was a baby in the family as there was no way of telling her - and Baby Darkside has a fairly uncommon name, which is not shared with anyone else in the family, the home my dad's aunt lives in, or any of her (sadly few) friends.

WhatWouldFlopDo · 20/11/2014 20:27

My nan used to come to our house quite often when I was young, dad would collect her , we'd have dinner then he'd drop her home, because she lived quite a way away. My dad had never been close to his parents though, he was sent to live with his aunt as a young boy and the relationship really broke down after his dad died, this meant I never saw that side of the family from being a pre teen.

One evening, I must have been about 15, my parents had gone to the Labour club for a drink and I was home alone. I got an overwhelming urge to speak to nana. I got her number out of the book. When I asked if she was ok, she said she was but she'd got a bit of pain in her chest - she'd taken indigestion tablets and it wasn't shifting. I actually phoned the Labour club to tell my mum because I was so worried. They phoned dads sister to let her know. Nana had been having a heart attack, and ended up in hospital.

Next one - my parents used to take me on several foreign holidays year from being a few months old. They say that one time when I was 2 or 3 a man started chatting to them in the queue for security, being pally. Apparently I screamed the place down because I didn't like him and didn't want him near us. He got hauled off when it was his turn to go through security.

Last one - I'd been with my boyfriend, now DH, for a year or so. I woke up one morning crying hysterically, heard a screech of tyres and my angel poster fell off the wall. I knew I had to speak to him and ran downstairs to phone his work. He had been knocked off his bike on his way in.

All of those were years ago, not had anything since Grin

HugeFurryKnittingBalls · 20/11/2014 20:39

A few months after my dad died I had a dream only it wasn't just a dream. He was in a house with me and all our extended family who were grieving for him except I was the only one who could see him. He told me he was fine and I wasn't to worry any more. It was so real I could reach out and touch him and when I woke up it was heartbreaking yet comforting to have seen him.

I only told a couple of people at the time, it was 20yrs ago and they both said it was my grief talking but I know it was more. I haven't worried about him since, I miss him and love him but I don't have any concerns about where he is.

I haven't had anything similar about my mum who died 6yrs ago and I still stress about her from time to time.