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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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Mrsjayy · 17/11/2014 19:59

troop my husband s grand parents died the same day too gm then gf later that day

BertieBotts · 17/11/2014 20:00

A stupid one - I had a song in my head, was singing it half under my breath but out loud and my sister turned on the radio, for the exact same song to be playing at exactly the same time Confused

I had absolutely horrendous crippling homesickness whenever I went abroad until I was about 18. I now live abroad and don't feel homesick at all.

As a teenager I once took cocaine in this dodgy, arse end of town pub and spent the rest of the night enthusiastically discussing with a guy I'd never met before who was at least twice my age, late 30s I reckon, that I was interested in having a threesome with him and his girlfriend. His girlfriend kept shooting dirty looks at me from the bar and he later said to me that she wasn't happy about it so they'd drop me home. I thought she was jealous, but later I look back and think Shock WTAF was I thinking. I look young for my age, so the dirty looks/refusal was probably horror due to the fact I looked about 15 and she probably got him to drop me home because she could see I would have gone off with absolutely anybody Confused Bit of a lucky escape there, I reckon. Once I'd sobered up enough to realise what could have happened it totally killed my curiosity/appetite for drugs stone dead.

DH has a completely hair raising story about his sister and BIL which is totally woo and I wouldn't believe except that all of these mostly rational (or at least too rational to believe this) relatives can cross reference various parts of the story Confused They were going to bed one night when they heard this rumbling in the distance, like thunder. Looked out of the window, no rain, couldn't see anything weird. The sound got louder and they started to feel really freaked out so went round turning on lights etc. They didn't live near to any train lines or major roads etc which might have caused the noise. They even went outside to see if it was a plane, but it wasn't. As the noise got louder the house began to shake or vibrate, like if a heavy vehicle goes past outside except the road was dead. The closer it got the more they could make it out, and it sounded like hooves - like a big herd of horses, and shouting. They couldn't see anything at all that could be making this noise and they were so frightened by it that they actually got into the car and left the house, which was on the market anyway because of other unexplainable, weird goings-on and never really liking the house. They stayed with another sister and didn't ever return to the house, they sent a family member to collect some immediately needed belongings and then left all of the furniture for the removals company. They found out later after telling the story to various people that the land had once been a battle site in the times when people used horses in combat (which to be fair, can't be that unusual for England) - but they couldn't have known that before it happened. It was too loud and too isolated to be a neighbour's TV and they have never been able to explain it - two people couldn't hallucinate the same dream, and the sister who received them hysterical late at night said that she had never seen two people so scared. Weird.

youbethemummylion · 17/11/2014 20:01

My grandparents lives in a remote bungalow next to a country lane no other houses for a long way. I was staying there when about 2am there was a huge bang we ran outside to find a car crashed into a tree, my Grandad dragged the driver out but said he was obviously dead (he was a medic in the army so knew about this stuff) he made us go in and he covered the man in a blanket. While we were waiting for the police to arrive the man suddenly got up and ran away across the fields. From the amount of blood on the roadside you wouldn't have believed he could live let alone run. The police were out for hours with dogs trying to find him. My Grandad always maintained there would be no way he could have been alive, horrific head injuries and no pulse!

CarcerDun · 17/11/2014 20:04

I accidentally bumped into the pope in Rome whilst wandering around St Peters Basilica. No one ever believes me. It was definitely him.

BertieBotts · 17/11/2014 20:08

Does anyone remember that thread on here ages ago where the woman drove past her friend twice, but somehow in the wrong order. Very confusing and weird and it took about 3 days before the friend confessed that she'd been playing a joke! Confused Shock

Debs75 · 17/11/2014 20:09

MAM48 My mum had that exact same dream! She also dreamt about Zebrugge happening as well.

When Diana died DD1 woke up hysterical in the middle of the night and would not settle. After a while I took her downstairs and put the tv on to be greeted with news reports about the crash. The time of the crash was almost to the minute DD woke up

mrspremise · 17/11/2014 20:14

My car was hit by a train going at full pelt on an unmarked, ungated level crossing in the middle of the countryside. I got out of the car shaken, but unharmed. Not many people can say that...

BertieBotts · 17/11/2014 20:16

Holy shit. What happened, did it push the car clear of the crossing or what?

chasingtherainbow · 17/11/2014 20:16

When I was a kid, maybe about 11/12 I was at home. I came over really weird, my neck and head and right side of my body throbbed like I was coming down with some flu type thing.. my nerves where shot and I was shaking. Very upset. My mum couldn't make any sense from me. Thought I was being a drama queen. I remember saying "something has happened" .. mum was like.. what are you on about!

An hour later after I first came over strange, my beat friend at the time arrived at my door in hysterics, our friend had been hit my a car.

No one believed that it was connected. I'm not woo but the weirdest part was how aa soon as she told me, I felt fine.

chasingtherainbow · 17/11/2014 20:19

Oh and this will out me.

Last month I took a pregnancy test and threw it in the bin in frustration after looking at it for about 30 seconds.. It was a bfn..literally thought nothing else of it.

That night I went to bed and had a dream that felt sooo real, really vivid. That I had gone into the bin and it was positive. Woke up and told dh. Went through the bin and sure enough it's positive.

Unfortunately I went on to miscarry.. but I don't think anyone believes me about the dream!

seagull70 · 17/11/2014 20:20

Many summers ago I was lying down on a picnic with a couple of friends.

A mole appeared from underground right in front of us and we hand fed it some watermelon.

It let us stroke it's head and then it disappeared back underground Shock

We all wonder if someone had slipped something into the humous that day but it really did happen.

mrspremise · 17/11/2014 20:23

I managed to get it into reverse and jerked back just enough that the train took the entire front of the car off, but left the seats and footwells undamaged...

BertieBotts · 17/11/2014 20:25

Wow. That must have been some shock indeed.

TallulahTwinkletoes · 17/11/2014 20:27

Once when I was in primary school, I woke up at 11pm ish, really sad and cried. The next day I went to school and we found out the head teacher had dies the previous night at about 11pm. I was especially close to her as all teachers hated me apart from her.

I was staying in the Britannia or intercontinental hotel in London (I was very young) and my dad and I got into a lift. East 17 at the height of their fame were in the lift. My mum also had a ding in her car and Louise from eternal came over and checked she was ok and had a cup of tea with her.

My gran was temporarily living in Ireland in the 70s (we are all in England) and whilst on a bus she saw her father clear as day. Obviously, he was in England. He died that day at that time.

Itsfab · 17/11/2014 20:27

I dreamt most of what happened when Diana died and felt the fact it wasn't an accident. Hours after waking up my boss rang and told me she had diedShock.

lollilou · 17/11/2014 20:27

I was visiting an elderly friend of mine whose husband was in hospital but he was getting better. She asked me to go to the shops for her, whilst there a thought popped into my head, when I get back she will be standing by the window on the phone to the hospital who will have rung to tell her husband had died. It was such a strong feeling I didn't want to go back but I did and she was stood by her window on the phone to the hospital her husband had died. I've never told that story before.
I can often tell who it is on the phone before I pick it up but only if I don't think too hard about it.

LumpenproletariatAndProud · 17/11/2014 20:28

Be suffered from (definitely suffered because it used to scare the absolute shit out of me) out of body experiences. I never tell anyone because I don't expect them to believe me and I don't blame them.

When I was around the age of 13 for about a year I would have dreams and they would come true days later, exactly and specifically how they were in my dreams, again I never told anyone because who would believe me?

I sometimes get a very strong feeling something bad is going to happen before a huge disaster, the tsunami for example. Although I appreciate that terrible things happen every day so people could say I could blame anything on that 'bad feeling.'

And also when my son is hurt at school I know. I just totally know. I will be pottering round the house doing my own thing and suddenly my stomach will drop through my arse and I know hes been hurt. Minutes later I will get a call to say hes bumped his head. There was one time I got it and I didnt get a call so I figured Im not that in tune after all! Then the first thing he showed me when I picked him up was a huge red bump on his head, he just hasn't bothered telling a teacher that time.
I know people will explain it away with 'you must think of him often and you attribute the phone call with thinking of him.' And they would be right I do think of him often. But I rarely get the 'stomach dropping through my arse' feeling and every time I have, hes been hurt.

In the grand scheme of things, I don't think its that unusual to have 'sixth sense' with regards to your child, its known that there is between animals in their natural habitat, so why wouldn't it extend to us?

Astromouse · 17/11/2014 20:29

Ooo...Queiro - I've had this too! A few years ago, I went through a phase of waking up at 1:06 every morning. It got to the point where I would not look at the ock as it was freaking me out. except when i would wake up, I would lie there for a whe waiting for 1:06 to pass before looking at the clock - but however long I waited, when I looked at the clock it was 1:06!! I actually then put something in front of the clock so that I couldnt see it, it freaked me out that much. Nothing happened at 1:06 though, so far anyway...

When I was a kid, I remember travelling in the back of the car with my parents. We were approaching a roundabout. I looked at the roundabout and I KNEW something was going to happen. Low and behold, someone rear-ended the car. No one believed me though.

ArtyBat · 17/11/2014 20:32

When the vicar asked 'does anyone know of any reason as to why these two people here present should not be married....etc......

I stood up and said............... yes......

....but I cannot tell the rest of it on here as it's a total one off!!!!!

LumpenproletariatAndProud · 17/11/2014 20:34

Oh I have another one, I love this one and Ive told it on here before.

I was in Thailand and rather than go 'travelling' I found one island and one bar and a group of friends and just stuck with them for a few months it was amazing.

After about 2 months I went down to the beach as I did every night and sat with a beer waiting for people to start turning up. I looked up at the bar and thought, Ive been here every night and Ive never seen or heard any of those coconuts fall on the bar roof (I was either working in or sat at the bar every night) and in that very second a coconut fell down, landed on the wood with this almighty smashing sound. Everyone crapped themselves. Wtf are the chances of that? I felt like my thought brought it down! I know it didnt but I still smiled to myself at my power of bringing down a coconut. Grin

LumpenproletariatAndProud · 17/11/2014 20:35

What do you mean a one off arty?

CornChips · 17/11/2014 20:36

The first time I saw DH, he was walking down the other side of the road and i was coming out of the shopping centre. I thought out of the blue 'There is my husband'.

I never forgot him, although we had not met. 6 months later, his wife had left him, my partner had left me and we were introduced at the pub. I moved in with him the next day,. :)

ArtyBat · 17/11/2014 20:44

@ lumpen
I mean the event that led up to it.

TigerTrumpet · 17/11/2014 20:47

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SoleSource · 17/11/2014 20:48

wonders if Arty is Christine Keeler

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