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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. :)

OP posts:
chasingtherainbow · 20/11/2014 20:44

Bertie I totally just Googled that street. So interesting!

RachelWatts · 20/11/2014 20:51

My parents have a print of an ultrasound of me in-utero.

As I'm 40, and ultrasounds were not routinely done in 1974, no-one ever believes me when I tell them. Some people have actually been very rude about the way they've told me I must be mistaken.

However, during her pregnancy my Mum had to go and see a consultant at a hospital which happened to be attached to a University so had lots of state-of-the-art equipment. The consultant had just had his new ultrasound machine set up and was itching to use it, so told my Mum not to say anything about her pregnancy, then told her how many weeks pregnant she was and estimated her due date, then got a picture for her as a souvenir.

BertieBotts · 20/11/2014 20:59

DH and I always used to pick up the phone to text/call each other and immediately receive a text/call from the other, was weird and happened really, out of proportion, often. Actually it still happens except we barely ever text or call one another any more so it seems like a legitimate coincidence now. I also kept seeing the sequence of numbers 13:37 when we first started dating, which stands for "leet" ie elite or really good in "leetspeak" which is a sort of spoof geek "language".

sallysparrow157 · 20/11/2014 21:54

I saw what I thought was a ghost when I was about 4. My bedroom window was directly above the flat roof of the porch. I woke up and saw the curtains blowing open and a man outside the window wearing a broadish brimmed hat and a long coat that was blowing in the wind. His hands were on the window frame. I screamed out for my parents and they ran in turning on the lights. I was convinced it was a ghost, it definitely wasn't a dream, but my older cynical self wonders if it was someone trying to break in, his hands were at the bit of the window that opens so I wonder if it was a bit open and he opened it, waking me up and making the curtains billow out in the wind so I was able to see him. A tall bloke probably could climb onto the flat roof via the porch window, and it was definitely a windy night, I spent the rest of the night in my parents bed and remember seeing the shadow of the trees blowing in the wind

As a kid once the sheer terror wore off I was quite excited that I'd seen a ghost, as an adult the idea that someone may have broken into my bedroom and what the hell he would have done to me if I'd woken up... That scares me much more

sunflower49 · 20/11/2014 22:05

Bertie, I see that sequence all the time, too. I had no idea what it meant!
I also see loads of car registrations with 'XCP'. I've never known anybody have it, and have no idea if it means anything but it does freak me a little how many I see.

BertieBotts · 20/11/2014 22:11

My mum and a friend I used to know reckon that seeing the same sequence of numbers multiple times means that the angels have a message for you. The idea being that they "nudge" you to glance at a clock, etc, at particularly those times until you think "Hang on, I keep seeing this time, it must be significant" and then it turns out to be related to something. 11:11 is the most common one apparently, but there are others. If you notice doubles like that (22:22, 33:33) then you can google because those are more generic messages and Diana Cooper (who, TBH, comes across like a total fruitloop in my opinion) has "translated" some of them.

hooker29 · 20/11/2014 22:14

One saturday, the winning lottery numbers were the exact numbers I had as a Lucky Dip the week before......

sunflower49 · 20/11/2014 22:15

I often see 07:07 on the clock or on my satnav (even if there's no 'real' reason for me to look at it at that point), microwave/cooker etc. That was the time I was born.

sunflower49 · 20/11/2014 22:16

Apparently 'XCP' means 'copper'. I wonder if it signifies that I should slow down Wink

VulvaVoom · 20/11/2014 22:18

I met my mum for a coffee today and we were also meeting her friend who I'll call Jane. I took 2 year old DD along and as Jane walked towards the cafe and through the door DD shouted excitedly 'it's Jane!' We hadn't discussed her name or when she was coming and DD had only seen this acquaintance once before when she was tiny. Me and my mum were Shock

Doubtfuldaphne · 20/11/2014 22:35

A celebrity asked me out once. I hadn't long been with my now Dh so obviously I said no. I sometimes wonder how different my life would be now.

womaninthewildsofwales · 20/11/2014 22:36

I once drove a police car over the drink drive limit dressed in a primark rabbit onesie with the full blessing of the copper in charge of said squad car Grin he was stuck in the snow outside my house, knocked on the door for help so I got it unstuck for him- never found out if he's ever retold the tale to his colleagues!

Doubtfuldaphne · 20/11/2014 22:41

Also when my grandad died, we all went to stay at his house the night before his funeral as he lived a long way from us. We all set up for the night in his living room. Late in to the night I could hear someone walking about around us and I instantly thought it was him. I felt them lean over me and felt as though I was being watched for a while before the footsteps went over to my sister then faded away.
I was terrified and looked around but everyone seemed fast asleep.
My sister said the next morning she had definitely felt the same as me and heard the footsteps.
I like to think my grandad was saying goodbye to us all.

BertieBotts · 20/11/2014 22:52

I once took a dare to run up and down a street naked - in January Hmm

A few years later I totally by chance - and no choice, I was desperate - ended up living in the directly adjoining street. If any of my new neighbours had seen my streak three years before, they didn't recognise me Grin

JeremyKylesEyebrow · 20/11/2014 23:07

When I was a child, I had this painting in my room. It was two children, a boy and a girl, playing hide and seek around a tree- sort of chasing each other around the tree trunk IYKWIM? You couldn't see their faces.

Those children used to move. The boy would disappear behind the trunk of the tree, as if he was catching up on the girl, then he would take the girl's place and she would disappear. Then they'd go back to normal. This wasn't a corner of the eye thing, I used to sit and watch them do it. The painting hung in my room for years, and the children would move probably once or twice a month. I kept mentioning it to my mum, and eventually I think she got rid of it, because she was freaked out. I've never seen a copy of it since

Other stuff happened in that room too- my door would open and I'd see a shadow move, as if my mum was coming in to check on me, but then nobody would appear, and I'd hear both my parents coming up the stairs ten minutes later. And I always felt that someone was standing at the end of my bed- I could almost see them, you know when you can tell someone is standing in the dark, because the darkness looks sort of darker?

Years after we moved out of the house, we found out that a friend's aunt had lived in the house for years. In the 50's, her only child, aged 5, had died in the night- an underlying heart problem I think it was. In my room.

I've told DH and a few friends about that bit, but I've never told anybody about the picture

dimdommilpot · 20/11/2014 23:26

I got home from work late 1 night and was walking up the drive at my mum and dads. I looked up at the sky and said (out loud) something is going to happen up there tomorrow. My brother was due to fly to america to meet his girlfriend who had been working out there for the summer. I woke up the next morning to this on the news... news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778575.stm
He got to his girlfriend 48hrs late!

Sabrinnnnnnnna · 20/11/2014 23:37

dimdom, I so remember that. We were due to go on holiday on the Saturday, with young children - and you couldn't take food or liquids through, we had to take all our shoes (and the kids shoes) off, all mobiles had to be in hold luggage - and at security there was a massive bin with dozens of people's mobiles in - because they weren't allowed to take them through.

Sabrinnnnnnnna · 20/11/2014 23:38

Ds2's nappy cream was even confiscated!

Scottishcrumpets · 21/11/2014 00:58

I was pregnant with ds1, and living in Australia at the time. We had gone to bed fairly late (for oz time, where everyone is in bed for 10 and up before 6) and dh was asleep. I was reading, and had the light on and the alarm clock beside me. I was wide awake and can remember glancing at the clock a few times. Once it was around 11ish, then all of a sudden it was 45 minutes later. I was completely bemused. turned off the lights soon after and went to sleep, got up in the morning and there was a dried in spot of blood on the sheet, around where the base of my neck would be. I examined myself and got then dp to do the same again, but I had no cuts or nicks on me at all Shock

Wealldancelamacarena · 21/11/2014 07:10

Bridge over trouble water

One Dh and I were going somewhere in the car. On the radio was that song : Bridge over trouble water by simon and garfunkel. I remember saying : very cheery song, it feels like we are at a funeral ! And sure enough, 30 seconds later, a funeral convoy crossed our path ! It was really bizarre !

murmuration · 21/11/2014 12:32

jeremy, ooh, that picture is creepy.

MackerelOfFact · 21/11/2014 13:09

Sometimes I have days where I find that I read random words at the exact time that I hear someone saying the same word. Which doesn't sound THAT weird, but it'll be uncommon words.

So I'll be reading the paper and listening to a song, for example, and at the exact moment I read the word "carousel" or "escape" or "chaos" or something, the word comes up in the song (or movie, or radio, or the conversation of someone nearby).

It always freaks me out slightly because it might be the only time I read/hear that word all day/week/month.

Degustibusnonestdisputandem · 21/11/2014 13:23

MackerelOfFact I do the same thing! It used to happen a lot more when I was a teenager - it unnerved people Smile

OooLalala · 21/11/2014 14:00

I once dreamt the lottery numbers.
When I woke up I wrote down the ones I could remember (four numbers), guessed the others and bought a ticket.
The four numbers that I remembered all came up.
I live in hope that I dream the numbers again, but this time remember them all!

Greyhound · 21/11/2014 14:21

A strange coincidence but not really unbelievable - some years ago I went to sponsored trek in the Far East to raise money for a charity that is personable to me because it supports research into the illness my late sister died of.

I made friends with another lady on the trek and was amazed when she mentioned her sister's birthday (her sister was ill with the same disease as mine but has since recovered) and it was that same as my sister's birthday - same date, different year.

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