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. :)

In 1998 I went on holiday with my mates and had a video camera. I was filming a night out and randomly filmed a couple of girls I didn't know. We were all drunk and they were asking where a certain bar was. One quoted a line from a film (although I didn't know that at the time)

A few months later, it was my first week at uni and I was walking back from a night out with my new roommate and some other people. My roommate said a quote from a film, that I have never seen, but knew the quote from somewhere. Realised I had filmed my roommate on that holiday months before actually meeting her. Looked at the video when I was next home and it was her!

I had 2 out of body experiences as a child, both while having a routine operation about a year or so apart. I didn't realise what they were until many years later.

In a meeting where there was a raffle and I knew without a doubt that I would win it (I did).

When I conceived dc3 we only dtd once and I knew immediately that I was pregnant.

My Dm is quite woo - had "funny feelings" when things have happened etc. never quite believed her but I had a boyfriend at uni, went out for a few years then he dumped me for someone else. My Dm said "I hope one of his balls falls off, that will teach him." Few weeks later he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and had to have one of his testicles removed! (He's ok now I think but really scared dm and she has sworn never to "curse" someone again!

Not woo, but highly unlikely.

I was on an Intercity train, going at full speed. I happened to bend forward to look at something in font of me. There was an enormous "crack" and a perfect round hole appeared in the window right where my head would have been if I'd been upright. The woman across the aisle started screaming, and another guy on the carriage said it must have been a bullet going through as those windows are several layers thick. The conductor came as he'd heard something from further along the train, and also thought someone must have fired at the train.

So, I dodged a bullet, for real!

Two from me.

When I was about 13/14 I told my Mum that I had a memory of being in my cot in the bedroom in our house and seeing a clocked figure at the end of it. So I was looking at the end of my cot. The cot had a solid end and there were pictures on it. I can't now remember them as clearly but at the time I managed to describe them in such detail and the room that my Mum went white. I was out of that cot and in a new one due to an issue before I was old enough to remember the detail I gave.

I was also able to describe in detail the street we lived in 200 miles away from where I grew up. We moved before I was 1.

Two things-

1- my father (who is very woo) tells me that when I was younger I would tell him about being a princess before I was born and that this was on the other side of the world. I am very not woo, I can remember telling these stories and remember making them up because I loved the attention it got me from him. He doesn't believe I made them up because "no one remembers being that young and you just want to prove me wrong"
2- years ago I was a teenager still living at home I looked out the bedroom window early one morning the sky was crisp and clear not a cloud in sight, I saw what I can only describe as a flash of bright white light descending through the atmosphere it looked almost like a comet streaking across the sky. I almost reached for my phone to enjoy take a photo and called my mother but knew it wouldn't last that long. No one believes me and it wasn't in any newspapers later that day.

A few years ago DP and I were driving on a remote single track road in the Trough of Boland. To set the scene, our car was on the crest of a hill, the road dropped down ahead of us into a dip that wasn't visible from where we were. On the opposite side of the dip, the road rose up to another crest and then round a corner. It was late afternoon on a winter day so it was beginning to get dark. As we reached the crest of the hill, before the dip, we both saw a vehicle come round the corner on the opposite crest coming towards us. We both saw the headlights and said "car" at the same time. I pulled up on the crest of the hill and waited for the other car to pass. It went down into the dip but didn't come out again. I waited for quite a while, maybe a minute or so, and there was no sign of the other car so I assumed it had stopped in the dip to allow us to pass. I drove down into the dip but there was nothing there. No vehicle, no side roads, no parking/passing places, nowhere to go, just open boggy moorland on either side of the road. Nowhere for a car to go. If it had gone off road we'd have been able to see it. I stopped the car and we just looked at each other, baffled.

I don't believe in supernatural stuff, I believe there's a scientific explanation for everything, but I have no explanation for a car that disappeared. If it had just been one of us that saw it I'd believe we'd been mistaked but we both saw the same thing. Several years later we're still baffled by it.

I'm called motherofallhangovers because I had a dream that it was my mumsnet name.

In the same dream I also dreamt I was called threefeethighandrising and I changed it fourfeethighandrising etc as DS grew, and so I used threefeethighandrising on MN for a while too.

(I'm sleepyelectricsheep usually at the moment)

It would seem my subconscious is much more inventive than my conscious mind!

I've mentioned it a few times on mumsnet threads and no one ever comments, I assume they don't believe me? Or maybe they think i'm a freak for actually dreaming about MN?!

I have memories of flying at around age 4. Flying down the stairs. Not falling but actually jumping from the top step and floating to the bottom.

I also have a memory that apparently didn't happen with my mum but i do remember clearly. I was in hospital, had had an operation. There was a fire and the nurse evacuated the childrens ward. My 'mum' carried me downstairs to the emergency exit and we were all huddled in a dark corridor. The door was sealed with something and the nurse took off a red stiletto to break the seal and got us out that way. We all stood outside for ages.

Oh and DH freaked his family out. As a 6 year old they went to visit a local castle, him and his parents and older sister.

He then announced that this was where he was stationed when he was a soldier. And then showed them secret doors hidden behind ivory that the people running the castle didnt even know were there.

I had gone to the beach with some friends one day when I was working at a hotel just outside Galway. I was pootling about in the rock pools while the others were off playing some game, and I saw a hermit crab scuttle up to a bigger shell, and swapped himself over to the new one! Totally not the most scintilating story on this thread but it was definitely a 'did I actually just see that?!' moment for me! It was really frustrating that the others were running about so there was nobody I could ask if they just saw it happen too...

I went to see Philomena when it was out at the cinema and I talked to my DH at length about how one of my cousins had been given away during a similar time in Ireland because my aunt wasn't married. I then asked my DM to tell me about what happened again. She went white as a sheet and swore on her life that she would never, ever have told me that and that even some of her younger siblings didn't know and demanded to know how I knew. I said 'I had no idea, that you must have told me' but she refused to accept that. I rang my DF to say 'word of warning, I may have landed you in it with mum, did you tell me about my cousin? Were you not meant to tell me?' [my mum and her family are bizarrely secretive] and he said he had no idea what I was talking about and had no idea one of my cousins had been given away.
I have no idea to this day how I knew but I was at the hospital when my aunt died and my DM said that her and her sisters felt like my aunt's first daughter had been in the room. Weird.

When I was little, I had a recurring nightmare. In it, my family drove to a shopping center. My parents were going in but my mom asked if my older brother and I wanted to stay in the car. We said yes and sat reading and playing with toys in the back seat until a man approached the car and started talking to us through an open window. He was a different profession every time (baker, fireman, etc) but I was really scared and would wake up screaming. When I was about ten, my family went out for a drive and pulled in to the exact shopping center from my dream. My mom turned around and asked if we wanted to stay in the car. Of course I said no! I never had that dream again.

We got Val Kilmer's autograph outside the theatre in Chichester after he'd been to a play starring the woman by dad was writing the biography for.
Still my most closest celeb encounter - and I've met Patrick Moore

i worked with someone who had the same first name as me and the same last name as me.....what was really weird was we even had the same birthdate, although not the same year....was odd!

One night I was locking up downstairs and there was a presence by my feet, the blackest black I have ever seen. I can't explain but it just felt evil, I physically jumped back when it appeared. It was sort of small dog sized and absolutely terrified me

The women in my family have been known to feel and see things, I often see my nan and our dog, they appear as light and a feeling washes over me as I turn and then I see the light. Our dog is in certain places and low down, my nan is in 2 places and high up.

I have 100% success rate with predicting genders of babies, some cases I have been the only person saying boy/girl and still been right. I sort of think about the person/couple and give them a blue blanket and then a pink blanket and one of them just feels right

Lastly, I sometimes see something and can say "now he drops that then she says xxx then he says xxxx" etc and be right. I don't know when I see these times, but when it happens I feel like its an old memory and has happened a year+ ago. It's sort of like déjà vu but one step stronger in that I can predict what comes next

My whole family were in hospital surrounding my grandad in his final hours. He'd been unconscious for 2 days not so much as a murmur, then all of a sudden he fully opened his eyes gave my nan the biggest smile ever and went back to as he was before. He passed away not long after.
Second one is a couple of months ago I was running a bath just stirring up the water with my hand with my thoughts wondering when I suddenly had the thought my nan was going to die, she was fighting for so no reason to think this. About 5 mins later I got a call to say she'd had a massive stroke and wasn't going to make it.

I woke up at 6.30am and about 3am knowing I had just become pregnant with my sons. I had a premonition during pregnancy with son2 of two similar looking boys walking through a doorway and then realised they would be my sons...

Pressed post too soon!

Lots of dreams about pets long gone. One where dog 2 was running around and so happy to see her mother (who had died months before). Only dog2 and i could see dog 1. Have also woken up to feel the weight of my old cat on my legs. I know if i open my eyes, she won't be there.

I also dreamed Princess Diana died. Woke up and put tv on to confirm.

Finally! Did an emergency stop and narrowly avoided a pedestrian. He sprawled over the bonnet of my car. He stood up and waved thanks to me. It was Robert Plant.

not particularly woo, compared to some of these stories but.... (trigger warning for anyone who has had a loved one pass from cancer)

(bit of a back story)

in july this year my nan was poorly with vomiting and a sore back...the gp diagnosed a tummy bug and osteoporosis pain. forward a few weeks and shes still the same and losing weight, so my Dmum asked for her to be sent for tests. she was then found to have a huge liver tumour.

a couple of days later, she was transferred to hospital as she was losing too much weight, and it was found that the tumour was inoperable.

The consultant explained to her that she wasnt going to get better, and asked her if she had any questions or thoughts on the matter.

She said I cant....i WONT, go before i have seen everyone...all my children, grand children and great grand children....at this point the consultant said that she had maybe 4 weeks left, so we put wheels in motion to get the entire family to visit (no mean feat as there are 3 children, 8 grand children, 21 great grand children and 2 great great grand children who all live across the north and north west of england and north wales.

the next day we found out that she had less than 2 weeks to live, so it was probably going to be impossible for everyone to be able to get to her house to see her before she passed. (she asked to be sent home so she could pass at home.

anyways, over the next few days, family managed to get there in dribs and drabs, making long journeys to sit and hold her hand for a while, or chat to her....she was in and out of consciousness.

exactly 5 days after coming home, (and just 2 weeks after her MRI scan and diagnoisis of liver cancer) there was one remaining great grand child who hadnt managed to get to see her. She managed to get a half day from work, and her dad brought her all the way to nans, although at this stage, nan was no longer conscious at all)

She walked up to nan, and held her hand and said 'im here grandma, i love you.....nan, from having been unconscious for a day or two, murmured. I love you too....then she made a big sigh and passed.

We said afterwards that she must have somehow been mentally checking off the family members in her head, and knew that one was missing, and the minute she had 'seen' the last family member as per her wishes, she finally let go and went to join my gramps.

She was a stubborn old bird my nan, and I dont think, as ill as she was, that she was off to be with my gramps until she had seen every last one of her family!

As a child, our family moved into a new home. My room was always freezing cold even in summer. Mum would hear me cry in the night and go into my room, to find me sound asleep. She mentioned it to a neighbour after this went on for weeks and the neighbour said that the family who lived there before us has a baby who died in my room .

I grew up in northern Ireland in the height of "the troubles"

My dads best friend was in the security forces, we were always round at his house and I was flower girl at his wedding.

My mother didn't drive and wanted to head to nearest bigger town one Saturday to get school shoes for my brother and I. My dad was at work. As we were about to leave to catch bus - this guy popped in for a cuppa and chat, which he often did at weekends. He offered to drive us and as was the norm in those days, checked under the car for bombs. All clear.

We went shopping, got our stuff and all headed to car park. I tripped up and fell, grazing my knees and was howling. This guy went ahead to get the car and bring it over.

I remember watching him approach it and saying to my mum, "its gonna blow up". She was looking at me funny when this huge "wave" lifted us off our feet and flung us backwards, followed by the boom. His car exploded when he opened the door and got in.

I don't know why or how I knew, but I just did. My clumsiness probably saved my brother, my mum and me.

I was a skint student out for a pint with my then boyfriend and we had £1 left. He wanted me to give it him for a video game which he'd already had a go on so I said no and popped it in a fruit machine I was passing. I have never been on a fruitie before or since so I have no idea how to play them. Anyway it went jackpot jackpot jackpot and money started pouring out! We had enough money to go for a meal in a restaurant and get a taxi home!

I had my divorce costs (totalling just over £33k including solicitors fees) paid off by somebody I only know through the Internet after I made a post about the stress it was putting me under.

The same person also sent me an expensive gift from Harrods when I remarried 4 years later and has also paid for mini breaks in 5 star hotels for myself and new hubby on 4 occasions since we got married.

I have still never met the person, we just email.

A story that no-one seems to believe but is utterly true-

I once sat on a metal coat hanger and the curly bit went right up my bum, and I ran around in a panic until my mum removed it for me. No-one believes me that the curly bit could go right up there, but it did.