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. :)

At the risk of sounding crazy,i like to think we are each born with a guardian angel. Or maybe a relative who has passed away that looks out for us?

When pregnant with DS2 (child no 4) I KNEW right from the test turning positive, that he was going to be disabled. No reason to think this, and my pregnancy was text book ... but I was right.

In a weird way it felt like I was being prepared.. which was very handy

I have never met my MIL- she died before I met DH.

DH and I were TTC.
I had a boring dream where a woman was just talking to me- like an interview. She said ' you will have a child but DH will need some help- it will not happen without help. You need to be the one to break the news to him that he needs help as it will be a shock to him'.

So told DH about the dream, described the person and clothes...his mum in her favourite dress.
At drs couple of weeks later, doctor told DH to get himself tested and found our lack of baby was a male issue.
Was very spooky but DH was prepared as I had told him weeks before he was told officially (and I had not even heard there was such a thing as male factor fertility issues!)

(And Dh was annoyed his mum had not spoken to him in a dream!!!)

Place marking to post in the morning; although I doubt I'll sleep. :/

As a teenager babysitting for the eight-year-old across the road, I let him stay up to watch the winter Olympics on telly with me. I had a thing for an ice skater, and as we watched a live dance, I instructed his closest rival to fall.
He fell, instantaneously.
From that day on, the boy I looked after obeyed my every word, just in case I called upon my powers to be used against him.

Two. First one woo, second one not woo.
Mum said after DTD with DDad that she knew she would get pregnant with another girl and even knew what she would call me.

When I left home I rented a cottage in the middle of nowhere about a mile from the foot of a big hill with an iron age settlement on top. It is farmland as far as the eye can see apart from four cottages, one of which I rented and the other three were empty during the day. The hill itself is treeless apart from one lone pine. A hot air balloon came over quite low and headed for the hill. I watched as it was quiet and I could hear the two men talking and the burner going to try and gain height. They were getting closer and closer to the hill and started going up desperately but I could see they were going to hit the only tree on the hill. They were shouting furiously at each other as the basket hit the tree and as the balloon carried on in an upward sweep, the basket was displaced by the tree almost horizontally and the men were clinging to the rigging and hanging on as stuff was dropping out of the basket onto the hillside! It then swung the other way as it came free of the tree. I don't know what happened after that as they went out of sight and presumably landed among the trees on the other side of the hillfort. I assume they were alright as there was nothing in the papers.
I told my neighbours about it and asked my LL who was the owner of the farmland but I suspect I was the only one that saw it. I know I did see it though.

My dad has an interesting tale about a gypsy woman.

He used to own a pub and this gypsy lady used to come in and read palms/tealeaves/cards.
My dad always thought it was rubbish but one night asked her to read his tealeaves.

She told him that he would eventually have the longed for child they wanted, he would have only one but she could see four in his future. The child would be a girl, and she would bring great fortune. He would suffer a great tragedy, but there was a troubled woman who was not my mom that would help him heal, and he would spend the rest of his life with her, but not in the UK.

My dad thought it was all rubbish. They'd been trying for 8 years for me and had given up. My mom was the love of his life and he'd never even considered being with someone else.

9 months later I was born.
I am female!
The year I was born my dad won £10k on the football pools
When I was 3 my mom died
When I was 5 my dad met my stepmom , who had had a very hard life , and they married. She has 3 children
They now live in spain

Also, not long after my mom died, my dad saw her standing in the corner of their bedroom. She smiled and told him everything was okay now, and not to worry, then she disappeared through the wall. A second later he'd hea me talking to someone and when he went into my room to see what was going on, there was no-one there. He casked who I was talking to and I told him mommy had been there and she told me that me and daddy would be okay.

I saw her again as a teenager. I was ice skating for a friends birthday and got knocked over and my head hit the ice. I came round and was sat next to her in the seats at the side of the ice watching the first aider try to bring me round. My mom took my hand and told me I needed to get up cuz I was getting in everyone's way! When I came round, I was sat in the first aid office and they called an ambulance because they thought I was delusional saying I'd seen her!

I once had a packet of M&Ms that had no yellow ones.

I saw a big black 'puma' type of creature in a field near Whitby. It was Boxing Day, 4 or 5 years ago, lots of snow on the ground so it was very clear. Only person I've told is DH, who thinks I overdid the Christmas sherry trifle. Never told anyone else as I know they won't believe it, but it definitely wasn't a large domestic cat or dog.

I went to high school for a day in Hollywood when I was 14. It was just like the movies.

No, I've been out riding on BigHorse, and heard that very distinctive 'cough' big cats give. BigHorse was fast, but steady as a rock normally, it's one of only two times I couldn't control him. Lots of big cat stories around, both where I live now, and where I used to live.

I once saw a fish cross the road in front of my car.

Got a couple of others, but my phone is being an arse, so I'll split them into individual posts.

This might out me if anyone I know is on here but cba to nc...

As a teenager I was friends with a girl who's bf was originally from another country. The bf went back to his home country for a holiday. During the holiday he suddenly became very ill, was rushed to hospital but died shortly afterwards. The boy's family had the funeral in their home country and a collection was started in the UK and sent to the boys family to help pay for funeral costs. A couple of years later my friend was on fb and decided to look up her bf's brother's page. In his friends list there was her bf (with a slightly changed name). He hadn't died at all, he had just moved back home and his family had told all his friends in the UK that he'd died . It's such a ridiculous story that I've never told it to anyone except for Dh (and now the whole of mn) because I don't think anyone would believe me*.

*And also because I lost touch with the friend so can't tell you what happened next.

I refused any testing whilst pregnancy also, I said I didn't care if my children had disabilities. I never answered "As long as it's healthy" either. I don't know if it was deep down I knew I had an invisible disability Dr's could not confirm or understand until recently, or something else. As far as everyone knew then I was ok. My children have more health problems than me.

I believe you Trinpy

I want to read more about the fish.

This is an awesome thread, Sole!

Ahh, it's quite dull really; I was driving home late one night, got to the ford and saw a large trout swim across the road. The ford is shallow, and I could see it clearly in my headlights.

When I was a child, we were getting the ponies in for the night, with a lady who rented one of our paddocks, and the three of us saw a small plane in trouble fly over and disappear past the hill. We could see smoke, and were waiting for the crash, but nothing happened. We scoured the local paper for weeks, but never saw anything. I think we 'saw' a WW2 plane, as there were a couple of planes downed in the area; tbh I can't think of any other explanation. We all saw it clearly, talked about it for weeks, but there was never any mention of a plane crash, and it was pouring smoke.

I was walking through Manchester city center and looked up at the high buildings to see a plane crash into one.
I knew it wasn't real but had to struggle not to run from the inevitable but non existent debris.
Twin towers happened the next day.
To be fair I used to have lots of premonitions when I was younger but not about world events.
They hardly ever happen now which is a relief.

DH and I on honeymoon in rural south- west France. Small town festival- food and dancing in town square in the evening. We were loving it all and having a dance when there was a tap on my shoulder and it was my boyfriend from university. I danced with him and saw DH dancing with a woman- who turned out to be his girlfriend from university and she was going out with my old boyfriend. Wierd. They did not know that they both knew us or that we were a couple. Just total coincidence. We ate together and had a great time.
They split up a few months later.

I was in hospital for ten days and on day one I had the same dream as the girl in the next bed. I dreamed that my baby was on a mahogany table, which had been polished and then it slid off down the back of a radiator, so not a common dream.

As the week went on we would write our dreams down and compare them at the Breakfast table, they were always the same. When I dreamed of my house she could describe it to me accurately.

Should say DH went to university in my home town and I went to university in his. His girlfriend came from his hometown but he met her at uni. My boyfriend came from my hometown. My boyfriend met his girlfriend in London - where none of us grew up or went to uni! They got chatting about where they had each gone to uni

I wonder if it's a child thing, I used to do it regularly, until about my early 20's. Completely freaked XH out one day, we were driving up to Scotland, just going through Cambridgeshire. I was asleep, and as we got to a bend in the road, I woke up, and told him to move into the other lane.

Went round the bend, and there was a van crashed int the back of a car. We'd have gone straight into it.

Earlier today my friend phoned me and said "guess what I brought today" I replied "um bongo um bongo"

She's a bit freaked out because that was exactly it. I'm not sure if I should tell her that the reason I knew she brought it was because I brought some today as well as the supermarket had loads in because its on offer and it took me back a fair to my younger years bit but weirdly we shop at different supermarkets in different towns.

Some really moving stories on here. Brilliant thread, OP.

MrsSantas that's really spooky.

Mine's nothing in comparison!

When I was born my Mum and Dad had a huge, abnormally huge Alsatian. When they learned they were expecting they were wary about the massive dog, who was 2 years old at the time, around me.

My Dad had a business selling garage doors at the time and one day one of his customers reacted to their pregnancy news by saying, never, ever get rid of the dog, your child will need him. Anyway when I was born Ddog was hugely protective (as they are). One night I became really poorly in the night, my Mum and Dad were downstairs and didn't know anything, but I had moved myself to a position of suffocation.

DDog probably saved me. He reached his nose through the bars of the cot and was moving me by dragging my clothes , into a better position, in between barking to alert my parents. They found him trying to shift me and I was taken straight to hospital.

When much later they looked again at his papers and details (had come across them as were moving house)they found that me and DDog had been born on the same day, at the same time. I have a very distinctive, sort of spooky if you believe in numerology , birthday and it seemed so did Ddog.

My parents were freaked out by me as a young child. I'd point at the 'phone and say 'Daddy' or 'Auntie Sonya' and sure enough it'd ring and it would be whoever I had said.

One day also, business was unusually tight for my parents and they were struggling. My Mum had gone to put a crucial cheque in the safe deposit box in the car, with me in the car seat. When we pulled over and she picked the envelope up I shouted 'No Mummy no!Not good idea Mummy!' Or something like that.

The safe deposit box was set alight that night by some teenagers, all monies and cheques were lost. I think they eventually sorted it out, but it caused their business a lot of problems at the time. She said she'd ignored me as I was just a toddler at the time and she thought it was a random thing to say, but when she remembered I'd tried to stop her it sent shivers up her spine!

I was often left out of guessing sort of games at school as I always knew the answer to where the treasure was hidden or whatever and teachers thought I was a cheat.

I wish I knew a way to work out how to get that level of psychic back, but I just don't!

I went for treatments at a "luxury spa" via a Groupon deal. It was far from luxury. Riot police raided it during my massage. We think they were either looking for drugs or thought it was a brothel. My unsuspecting friends in the waiting room at the time may have been mistaken for prostitutes!