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

[SoleSource]

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. :)

[Luciferbox]

My DH worked in the same place for yrs. On the way into work I had a bad feeling, told everyone something bad will happen. My DH was made redundant that afternoon.

[BertieBotts]

Oh my god! I've just remembered something weird that happened to my mum when I was about sixteen. A bloke came to the door to sell something or other, but instead of giving his sales spiel he instead totally changed his tack and started saying he had a message for her

I can't remember exactly what happened but I do know he ended up phoning her later on and told her to do some odd "magic" shit like burying a £20 note in the garden and she was supposed to take off her knickers and bury them too (She did say to him "I hope this isn't one of those dirty phone calls!" at that point.) She had to chant some nonsense as well. Anyway after doing this everything was supposed to turn out wonderfully, he also told her that her eldest daughter (me) would disappoint her. I don't think I did disappoint her particularly, but I did get pregnant at 19 years old which is immediately what she had jumped to, because I had my first boyfriend at around this time.

I was totally sceptical about the whole thing and reckoned he was just trying to charm her into bed, but he never ever called again after the weird phone call about the magic spell.

[whats4teamum]

I remember the flixborough disaster very clearly. Blew our front door off.

My mum worked with someone whose husband worked there. Early in the afternoon before the explosion the colleagues 4 year old daughter turned to her and said "daddy's work has blown up"

[ArtyBat]

@ solesource

Me? Christine Keeler* ? definitely not.

[HangingBasketCase]

When I was about ten I was looking out through my bedroom window one day when I saw a blue and white budgie sitting in one of the trees in our garden. It flew off before I could tell anyone and no one believed me, my mum said it must have been a Blue Tit but it was exactly the same as my friends pet budgie. I'm 100% certain of what I saw.

Also when I was about 17 I worked in a branch of well known clothing change. A very strange woman used to come in frequently and would without fail pinch the staffs arses. She pinched mine one day and it really hurt! We always treated it as a joke, but I look back now and think how bloody creepy it was. She was obviously mentally ill, but it was sexual assault!

[PinkOboe]

I was in an earthquake. In Germany. No one believes there was an earthquake in Germany :(

[TrousersSchmowsers]

When a student, my boyfriend's house-share had taken in a kitten from a feral litter some years previously. The cat was well-cared for, but had a reputation for being odd, and for "messing with people's minds" by doing weird things that no-one would believe.

Once at a small party, I found myself alone with this cat in the living room during an odd moment when someone was in the loo, someone else was in the kitchen, someone smoking outside, couple gone off for a snog, etc. Everyone had popped out so briefly that I hadn't really registered that I was on my own IYSWIM.

Cat was sitting in the middle of the floor with all her legs tucked under. She fixed me with her eyes. Then in a flash, she jumped about 3 feet into the air, did a little roly-poly with her front paws, and landed back exactly as she was with all legs tucked under in the same spot... just as 2 people came back in through different doors.

[MissBattleaxe]

carlywurly- are you Albus Dumbledore?

[AlwaysHoldingOnToStars]

Once I had a dream that I met Michael Stipe from REM. He sang one of their songs (Driver 8) and then shook my hand and said goodbye.

Next day REM announced they were breaking up.

I was a huge fan of theirs when I was younger, but hadn't thought much about them for a few years, so no idea why I would suddenly dream that, it was such a vivid dream too.

[Four125]

This isn't a paranormal one but as a Uni student many years ago I worked one summer in a well known hotel.
One morning I went into one of the guest rooms to find a famous woman, a household name, in bed with another woman. That in itself was a surprise but this woman is one that the public would assume is heterosexual.
I've never really told anyone because I don't think they'd believe me.

[BertieBotts]

Oh hotel guests - mostly just comments he was totally shocked at. A lot of casual use of prostitutes, it was a cheap chain hotel in a not very touristy town, often used for conferences, so a lot of lonely businessmen. His colleague on the desk was so used to it he used to call and hire them for any guest who phoned down to room service and asked. Once somebody complained that the prostitute was too ugly :/

An incident of domestic violence where the police were called and he was shocked that the woman didn't want to press charges :( Not that surprising though sadly.

One man who bought DH a bottle of the hotel's most expensive wine and then said "I don't usually drink, but you know, sometimes you just have to. Like sleeping with prostitutes."

One night where his colleague decided to feel up a guest in a bathroom, and then got chased around the entire hotel by the angry guest who was trying to punch him. That was a bit of a drama. Colleague got fired for sexual harassment.

In the next hotel he worked in, it was much more upmarket and he had a very famous guest who was the lead character in a popular BBC programme. I won't say who it was because he had to sign a non disclosure agreement but let's just say this person was on my "list" if you know what I mean and I was totally and extremely jealous of him He sat down in the bar with him the entire night and acted like he hadn't noticed who the star was or that he was famous (he'd booked in under a false name too). Said he came across as quite arrogant/egotistical in person despite not flaunting his fame - he didn't tell DH who he was and DH reckons he didn't realise that he knew.

[catsmother]

I think I've told this before - but I had a horribly unsettling experience when I attended my son's school assembly - he was 5. As I filed in with all the other parents the children were already sat in the hall and this horrid thought suddenly came completely unbidden into my head, which was "if someone came in here now with a gun they'd all be sitting ducks and it'd be so easy to kill them" .... it actually made me feel sick and disgusted with myself, and I felt ashamed to have thought such a thing. But I couldn't get it out of my head while I sat there.

The news about Dunblane started to break not that long after I got home and I don't know, I felt very disturbed for a long time because my 'deja vu', or whatever it was, seemed far too much of a coincidence, especially given my son was the same year as those poor children. I don't know what happened, and nothing would have been served by me trying to 'alert' anyone because there was nothing I could usefully report. I think, looking at the timescale that my thought was at about the same time the tragedy was taking place. I still get very teary thinking about it - not "just" the tragedy, obviously, because that goes without saying - but that somehow, I genuinely believe I had some sort of 'warning', albeit a useless one.

[carlywurly]

Missbattleaxe I wish I could channel my powers towards something more useful

[murmuration]

No one believes this, but I had a can of shaving cream that lasted ~10 years. I had no idea it was odd, as it was my first can, until it ran out and I bought another and another and another -- all at several month intervals. I do remember thinking they should have rust-proofed the cans better, but I suppose that they weren't meant to last a decade. People always think of ways it could have been replaced, which maybe was true for when I lived at home, but not for last 7-8 years for sure, with exact same rust pattern? I used to stare at it in the bath, so knew it quite well.

[GertyD]

In 1989, my DF was an accountant. One day he and my DM invited one of his clients for dinner and told him to bring his partner.
His partner was Michael Barrymore! So, aged 9, I had a dinner with Michael Barrymore and his boyfriend. This was six years before he openly came out publicly.
I went to school the next day and told my teacher that Michael Barrymore had come to my house for dinner, with his boyfriend, and he was gay and my mum had cooked roast chicken in cream of mushroom soup.
I was told not to tell lies and kept in at play time as a punishment

[IAmNotATourist]

I met my DH when we were at school. He was in the year above and I knew who he was but didn't 'know' him, iyswim. We got together after I went on a date with his best mate which he got dragged along to. There were a whole series of events which preceded this date and the subsequent club night where I got together with DH which could easily have meant we wouldn't have ended up together including 2 deaths, several missed phone calls and visiting relatives from Oz.

Shortly after getting together we found out that our uncles (his mom's brother and my dad's bil) had been best friends since childhood (growing up in a different town to where we lived). His uncle had known my dad since he was 15 and I had met his uncle a few months previously at my uncles funeral. We'd had quite a long conversation but at no point had it come up who his nephew was or what school he was at.

DH's mom and uncle had lived in a street when they were children that is the same street that my aunt (dad's sister and my uncle's ex wife) lives in now - in the house exactly opposite.

Also DH's uncles's DIL is best friends with my cousin's SIL.

All of these connections are completely independent of each other yet involve the same people a family members. It's no wonder DH and I believe we're somehow meant to be together.

[SoleSource]

Thank you BertieBotts :)

[SingingSands]

About 4 months ago on my way to work I had to stop the car to let a ferret cross the road. In the morning rush hour, in Leeds city centre. Told my colleagues and they didn't believe me! I don't know why - this is Yorkshire after all!

[SoleSource]

Gosh people here already think i am a bit nutty so here goes.. When i was five years old I looked up at the sky and asked god to give me a blind child, because I had witnessed the children screaming abuse at a disabled man through he school fence and I felt that if I could care and love one disabled person better than most and protect him. My Son is blind.

[rosieposey]

Ok, when i was 15 (42 now) my school hiking club went to the lake district for a weeks youth hosteling. The girls and boys split up and us girls were allowed to be one day ahead ( and in another hostel ) of the two teachers that were accompanying us on our week away.

Anyway, we were supposed to be staying at Black Sail that night and we made it late afternoon. For anyone that doesn't know about Black Sail Youth Hostel - its very remote, in a valley if my memory serves me correctly and a good 8 mile walk from where the school mini bus dropped us off.

It was Winter so we unpacked our bits and there was a party of rock climbers there too - probably about 12 people in total maybe a couple more, it was just getting dark and a bit foggy, everybody was outside having a drink and a chat when out of nowhere a guy arrived sounding really panicked saying (in a really strong scottish accent) that his friend was injured in a gulley and he could not get him out, please, please could we help?

Of course the guys who were there galvanised into action getting all their ropes and bits and bobs, it was pretty much dark by then and we girls were feeling pretty hopeless as there were no phones or anything there ( or there wasn't back then I'm pretty sure) when suddenly someone said ' where's he gone'?

It could only have been a minute from the time he arrived asking for help to when all the boys had gathered their bits and no one noticed that he wasn't talking to them and had literally vanished! I think everybody was so busy getting their stuff that no-one looked at him or spoke to him and this place is so remote that we just couldn't figure out where he had gone or why?

So dissecting it around a fire a couple of hours later, jokes were made about Jeremy Beadle arriving in a helicopter or someone was really pulling all our legs. The thing that was really weird was that it was pretty much dark when he came out of the fog, he had no headlight on his head ( or helmet that we could see) and really and truly no one really saw his face or what he looked like just remembered the panic in his voice.

That night i had the bunk closest to the window, i remember not being able to sleep and dying for a wee but the loo was outside and there was no way in hell i was going out there! Jokes were being made about the 'ghost' before we went to sleep and i don't think i have ever been so bloody scared.

You have to stay at this youth hostel to realise how remote it is for someone to come and make up a joke like that - an 8 mile walk from the nearest road is quite a way.

When we finally caught up with our teachers a couple of days later at the end of the holiday - the story was still circulating and i thought they wouldn't believe us but we were a group of 5 girls and the rock climbers were still there i think so this was a thing that happened to a group of people - not sure why in hindsight we didn't think it was weird that he had nothing on him, no light, anything. Just sort of appeared out of the bloody mist!

[SoleSource]

[fluffyraggies]

soul - that's really moving.

[fluffyraggies]

Your last post not the shocked face, lol.

[in2theblues]

I went to a banger auction with Uncle Stan and enough cash to pick up my first car. We'd spied a Hillman Imp for approx. my budget.

I was looking in the antique shop window next to the auction house behind the haunted 'Orange Tree' pub in Altrincham whilst the other cars went through. Stan beckoned me over - the Hillman was up next. I took two steps towards him then the previous auction banger smashed down the wall and window where I'd been standing seconds before.

Didn't buy the Imp because it went over £120. Set your ceiling.

And there was the time, later in London, that my flatmate was offered cash in an envelope to put into his own bank account by a high profile ex MP.

I was on holiday, Isle of Wight, when Diana died. Young DC meant I was up when the news broke. There's our Vicar on television. Had to convince the others in the morning. The pressure the press put us under in our tiny village for weeks after was quite horrible. There were journalists from all over the world asking stupid questions in every nook and cranny.

[TrousersSchmowsers]

Okay, a weird one just happened to me on here! I started reading this thread earlier on at the beginning, first 20 replies or so.

Just now I scrolled back up, reading through the thread backwards as it were (on the ipad app), saw BertieBotts and BestisWest's posts about Flixborough and thought "that's strange, why haven't they mentioned the other poster who was talking about Flixborough earlier in the thread?"

...but there is none! Never heard of Flixborough until the first poster mentioned it (who doesn't exist)