To ask what is the strangest/creepiest thing that has ever happened to you?

[JudgeyHotPants]

I have two strange/creepy unexplained events that stick in my head.

The first happened when I was teenager, my DF ran his business from our family home and we had a phone/fax machine in the living room. Whenever we picked up the phone we could always hear a radio station playing very distantly on the other end. I'll never forget the time I picked up the phone to ring a friend and could hear Penny Lane playing!

The other is slightly more sinister. My DM and I were at home alone one evening, it was summer and still warm and I had the bedroom window open. I can remember hearing a loud crash in the garden, thought maybe the cat had knocked something over and thought little of it. Then my mum suddenly popped her head around the door told me that she was going to bed and that she'd "locked all of the doors". Thought it was an odd thing to say, but thought little of it. That night I was kept awake by the next door neighbours security light going on and off, and when I got up the next morning my DM pointed out that the garden ornaments and solar lights from next to the fence had been smashed.

That's when she told me that she to and heard the crashing sound the night before, and got up to investigate and when she looked through the kitchen window she was convinced she could see a person peering through the window, as as if they were standing next to it with their back against the wall and peeing in from the side, but wasn't sure if she was seeing things or not! She was scared enough to lock all of the doors, but not to ring he police it seems! Still freaks me out now! I'm sure someone was in our garden for whatever reason!

[FibonacciSeries]

Freudian's story reminds me of my (happier) one: I dreamt that my best friend was giving birth and when I tried to call her in the morning, she was indeed at hospital! This was two weeks before her due date and she lives abroad and I hadn't seen her or spoken to her for a few weeks. Her mother called me a witch

[FreudiansSlipper]

yes he was thank you

I, my brother and niece were meant to be there but my dad was told not to travel due to having recently finished cancer treatment so we cancelled out trip but he then sneaked off there

he always says that if it had happened any other day the beaches would have been full and far far more people would have died but everyone was either at church or temple. he had been at the beach that morning apparently it had never been more peaceful

[airedailleurs]

here's another one...I was once riding my scooter up a narrowish road around a blind bend, going too fast, and at the speed I was going there was no way I would have been able to stop myself hitting the stationery cars waiting at the traffic lights around the blind bend. However, I felt "something" envelope me and carry me into the curb out of danger, an inexplicable power, so that I and my scooter were completely unscathed...a kind of guardian angel moment :-)

[londonrach]

Didnt happen to me but mums friend. She was in one end of The house and her body told her she had to go to the other end of the house and look out of the window. She arrived in time see a motorcyclist come around the corner on the road outside. He unfortunately didnt make it (not linked to too fast, driver error just became ill) but it turned out she had taught him x number of years ago and said he was one of the nicest boys she taught. His family found it helpful when she told them.

[airedailleurs]

stationary, arghhhhh!

[airedailleurs]

thank you for these by the way, makes me feel less of a freak with my "moments"

[FreudiansSlipper]

yes I caught the end of the programme and it reminded me of my dream

[Mummybashy3111]

Probably shouldn't be reading these before bed..

Me and my brother were walking home from school with our nan. We used to cut through the church yard and always ran ahead. This particular day we ran and stopped. Turned to look at the bench and there was an old lady in Victorian dress sitting smiling at us. I turned to my brother and said did you see that? He said yeh and ran back to my nan. When I turned to look again the woman had gone. still creeps me out now.

Another time me and my partner was sleeping. I had an awful dream that we were in his car and it was out of control. He was crying and the car crashed. I woke up and he wasn't next to me. Found him downstairs. He'd had the same dream and was suffering from stress at the time.

[TooOldForGlitter]

This isn't really spooky, just weird....

Some years ago I was on a bus going through a city centre and we stopped just outside a Laura Ashley shop. It has the locations of other shops on the front and I read it and saw Winchester. I thought, god my old friend Annie was from Winchester I've not seen her in years, must look her up. The city I was in was 300 miles from where I'd known her and she last lived. The bus moved off and we went up the street to the next stop where Annie was stood talking on her phone. I was shocked as hell!

[londonrach]

Both my mum and i knew when my sister gave birth to dd. we both woke at 2am at the same time bumped into each other in the toilet. I told my mum i felt my sister was giving birth now. My mum agree. We both couldnt go back till sleep. We just felt uneasy. Next morning my bil phoned with the news i was an aunty abd my mum was a gm!!!!

[BathshebaDarkstone]

I really shouldn't read this in bed!

[londonrach]

Too old that happened to a friend of mine in exeter. She was talking to her mum about her uni friends and mentioned one friend wondering what happened to her. Two minutes she walked around the corner and bumped into the friend she was talking about! Keep coming with the stories as they all great.

[NancyRaygun]

This is not on a par with some of these but this kind of thing happens to me every now and again. The other day I was driving out of a shop car park and the word "periscope" popped clearly into my head. I even said to my dd "do you know what a periscope is?" We went to mc Donald's for lunch (shoot me!) and the toy in dds happy meal was... A periscope.

[netty7070]

Years ago I was watching a documentary about haunted places and they did a section on Thetford Abbey. I had been there fairly recently and had found it oddly creepy (I'm not at all suggestible normally and love visiting historical sites). I was just telling my companion about this when a glass of wine several metres away from us both on a level surface slowly tipped over.

[TooOldForGlitter]

Londonrach - the city I was in at the time was Exeter!! The buses go straight through the city centre!!

[canterberry]

I remember your story, fluffyraggies!

I love these threads. They're like reading old Misty annuals...almost

[EthelCardew]

Ooh, good thread!

I was living with my long-term BF and when I got back from a friend's hen do one night and slipped into bed, my bf said (can't remember the exact name) "David Smith called for you at 11.30pm, who is he?" slightly miffed, obviously! Well I had no idea so I quickly called 1571 or whatever it is and took down his number. BF said he'd asked for me by name and when he said I wasn't in tonight he said "oh never mind, thanks. Bye."

When I called in the morning a woman answered the phone and I asked for the fella saying it was Ethel and he'd tried ringing me last night. When he came on the line it sounded like a really young laddish fella (just the sort I really wouldn't know or be interested in!) and he straight away said "agh yeah, Ethel, sorry I got the wrong number last night mate." And tried to say goodbye. I said "Umm, you dialled my number late at night and asked for me by my highly unusual first name, I'm not sure I believe you, who are you?" And he continued to say he was trying to reach his friend Ethel who lives in a completely different city miles away and must have dialled wrong. His number was from my town!

I was a bit freaked out and put the phone down at that point but it had me thinking for weeks how he got my number and what he wanted. I still want to know!

[londonrach]

Too old now im scared. My friend didnt live in exeter (she lives in bristol) neither did her friend. They both choose that day to visit!

[phlebasconsidered]

God, I loved Misty so much. I still have all my old annuals. They were such grim reading for kids, perfect! Bring back Misty!

[TooOldForGlitter]

Maybe the old city ghostie vibe helped us to do some witchy magic!

[EthelCardew]

Once I was driving down the M5 from where I live to my relatives when all of a sudden the Rhubarb and Custard theme tune started playing in my head really loud so I started singing it: "nah nah nah naaaaah" but then, for some reason, the words turned into "baaag of bones, baaag of bones" to the same tune, which sounded really creepy so I stopped and told myself off, half laughing.

A couple of days later, they found the bin bag containing Melanie Hall's remains beside the M5 in that exact spot. I am a freak!

[londonrach]

Too old was it near the cathedral near that department store? (Tries to remember what else i was told about this story)

[hiddenhome]

When my husband was in the hospice, a date kept coming into my head although a message was being relayed to me. The date was the 14th of January.

It kept happening and I 'asked' if that was going to be the date he died in and the 'answer' was definitely no. I tried to ignore it from then on.

My husband went on to die as a result of his illness.

The funeral directors were trying to arrange a date for his funeral and I asked them if they could arrange it for the Thursday because some of his colleagues and a friend were travelling up from London. The funeral came and went and I was lost in my grief.

About two weeks later I was at home just doing whatever and I suddenly realised that the 14th had been the date of his funeral.

[smugmumofboys]

This is a spooky one.

A couple of years ago me, DH and the boys were heading out on a Friday evening to a family get together in the Peak District. It was completely dark as we got within a few miles of the village where the party was and it was snowing lightly.

We were driving over the tops,as we call it; a few scattered farms, wild and windy when I saw a woman walking along the side of the road in the opposite direction. She was clutching a light grey shawl around her shoulders and was wearing a long grey skirt. She was staring ahead, no hat, walking through the snow.

I said to DH,'Did you see that woman?' He had seen her and we were both

Got to the party and told rellies but no-one had ever heard of a Grey Lady so I guess it must have just been a local, walking from her farm to a neighbour's, with no hat or coat, in the pitch black on a snowy evening, where everyone has a car.... or was it???

[TooOldForGlitter]

It was passed the cathedral, Laura Ashley is about halfway up High Street and the stop where I saw her was at the top end, near the crossroads for the bus station and the underground passages.