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What is the strangest thing that has happened to you?

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dejavuaswell · 22/05/2010 08:23

My best friend at secondary school was abducted and never seen again. She vanished in a spell that cannot have been more than 3 minutes because that it how long it took to walk between our houses. I remember that the parents were (strongly) suspected but nothing was ever proved.

The young couple who purchased the house next door to us had lived there for less than 2 weeks before a removal van arrived to move them out again.

Dave M had worked in the dept for 3+ years but then took a new job in Liverpool. He gave all of us a new but false address and a fictitious phone number.

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4andnotout · 27/05/2010 21:58

Oh Killer that made me well up

KillerCleavage · 27/05/2010 22:02

And another.. my Grandparent's house was haunted. Much history with my DM and Aunt. I had lots of strange experiences, was and still am sensitive to spooky stuff, but it used to really scare me so I blocked lots of it out.

When I stayed there I used to sleep in the same bed as my Gran and her room used to be her parent's room. I had what I thought until a few years back was a recurring bad dream about a woman sticking her head in the fireplace in the room. I can remember sitting up in bed and watching the woman lean towards the fire with her head close to it. She wasn't scary, she smiled at me but I thought she was trying to set herself on fire which was what scared me.

It was only when I was watching the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice when Jane Bennett was drying her hair in front of the fire that I suddenly realised what I had seen as a child. It was my Great Grandma drying her hair. I've seen a photo of her since and it was definitely her!

MonarchoftheGarioch · 27/05/2010 22:05

Damn, just had to have a quick look at that Streetview link and freaked myself out!

I also have a strange Streetview story - BIL was faffing about on it one day and looked up my street. We're in a very narrow little road so the camera car hadn't come down it, but he claimed he could see me standing in the next road over, chatting to a neighbour. Curious, I had a look and despite the blurred-out face could see it was definitely me - quite heavily pregnant at the time, which fitted in with when it was probably taken - down to the clothes, hairstyle and a quite distinctive handbag.

Except it couldn't possibly be me, because the only reason I ever went down that road was to take DD1 to a playgroup, and she wasn't with me in any of the pics. Nor had I ever met or spoken to that neighbour. Still puzzles me to this day and I occasionally have a good look at the view from all angles to work out if it could have been me (and I've subsequently forgotten - not entirely unlikely given my absentmindedness at the best of times!) or if I have a doppelganger...

KillerCleavage · 27/05/2010 22:05

Still makes me well up 4andnotout. I don't care if it was a coincidence. It was a bloody good one if so.

And why did I put an apostrophe in parents?? Oh yes. Wine!

MonarchoftheGarioch · 27/05/2010 22:11

killer, but amazing too, must have been some comfort to your DM.

KillerCleavage · 27/05/2010 22:15

Absolutely Monarch and it still is nearly 20 years on.

Some very freaky stuff on here!

LovelyDear · 28/05/2010 00:08

Mine aren't creepy but they are odd/good.

My mum started married life by having 3 miscarriages. she was told by the docs that she'd never have children. In despair, she was taken by her aunts to visit the local healer. He put his hands on her (she said they felt unusually warm) and told her to go home, she'd now be fine. She went on to have 5 healthy children and no more miscarriages .

On a totally different note, i was sitting one saturday morning reading a letter (those were the days!) from a friend who was travelling in india. She wrote about how she'd been to Puri and seen the annual Rath Yatra festival, in which the temple deities (including Jagganath) are hauled on huge and elaborately decorated chariots through town. She commented that this is where the word 'juggernaut' comes from.

Finishing the letter I turned to the Guardian's 'Notes and Queries' section. Question 1: where does the word 'juggernaut' come from? Question 2. What was the biggest ever coincidence? .

third story - a few years ago we went away for the weekend with three other couples. bizarrely two of the couples (who we had known for years) had discovered that they both knew the third couple but through entirely different routes. We'd never met the third couple before this weekend. I immediately found myself drawn to the wife and really enjoyed her company. On the last evening we were chatting about the town she'd just moved to due to her dh's job, and which i'd grown up in. i asked her if she'd ever been there before and she said - only once, to stay with her best friend from sixth form. It turns out that girl was my best friend at primary school. Small world.

MrsFawlty · 28/05/2010 08:06

this is the best thread for ages.

Disenchanted3 · 28/05/2010 09:36

I am addicited to this thread!
More please!!

StealthPolarBear · 28/05/2010 11:28

yes bump

Cakesandale · 28/05/2010 11:41

OK I've got one!

OUr house usually has a lovely atmosphere, but a few times when I have been sleeping alone (usually because dh snoring ) I have woken to find lots of tapping going on in the room. If I walk around trying to find out what it is,it seems to be all around and I can't pin it down.

Early this morning, (dh was there this time) I woke at 3.20 to see our bedroom door (which is usually pulled closed but not latched) being very quietly but deliberately closed. It was not at all like when a door blows shut.

I was convinced it was either dd sleepwalking or an intruder so went racing out - dd fast asleep in bed, no intruder.

StealthPolarBear · 28/05/2010 11:44

that is a bit weird

All DD's socks from a particular set have vanished, apart from one pair

I bet that's sent shivers down some spines

MrsFawlty · 28/05/2010 12:07

Our tv randomly turned itself off the other night. A few years back we had a day where the radio turned itself on - twice - and then the tv came on by itself at about 3am. I've had this happen to me a few times, always in Victorian terraces.

DizzyIzzyLizzy · 28/05/2010 12:22

Just a few to add:

When I was around 9 my parents liked to walk on a Saturday afternoon and took me with them. We were following a walk that went through a clearing in a wood. We got to a small incline and I very randomly broke down in tears screaming that I couldn't walk through there. My parents thought this odd at the time but found out weeks later a woman a been brutally murdered in that spot.

When 12/13 my friends and I had a very scary experience with a ouija board! We asked if there was a spirit present and asked it to spell out its name! It went to D then E then V then I then L. Me being a cocky teenager (what was I thinking) said 'if you are who you say you are prove it'! Next thing you know out of nowhere HUGE BOOM (and I mean boom) of thunder, big crack of lightening and then lights were out across the whole city for 4 hours.

Have got loads more but often think about people I haven't seen in 10 years for them to walk round the corner or pick up the phone just before it rings. I do seem to 'know' a lot of things.

snowplop · 28/05/2010 12:30

I woke up in the middle of the night once, a long time ago and on the other side of the world, with horrendous stomach ache. I put it down to a bad prawn and went back to sleep...

...a few hours later my mum rang to say my sister had been rushed to hospital with a nearly ruptured appendix at the time I'd woken up.

and

When she was a tiny baby DD1 was rushed, blue lights and all, into hospital with exhaustion due to bronchialitis. I spent the day by her bedside and later DP took over so I could go home and have a shower. I stood in the shower for ages, completely numb with worry and became aware of a jingling sound, like tiny bells. I turned the shower off but could still hear them. The tv was off, windows closed and there was no-one else in the house. I was overcome with an overwhelming feeling of calm and I just knew everything was going to be ok. DD was fine

StealthPolarBear · 28/05/2010 12:57

DIL

CMOTdibbler · 28/05/2010 13:18

Mines just a coincidence. I was asked to chat to one of the engineers at work about miscarriages by her boss as she was struggling after hers, and boss knew that I'd had several.

So, just chatting about stuff, and she was saying they were away most weekends in the summer doing a sport, and I happened to say about my best friend at school who met her now husband aged 8 at the thing her parents did, and after marrying him aged 22, now took her kids doing the same. It's a very unusual sport btw.

She looks at me, and says, is your friend x ? She's my best friend. None of the people involved live anywhere near each other, or went to uni anywhere near each other.

DizzyIzzyLizzy · 28/05/2010 13:18

Never a dull moment StealthPolarBear.

Most recent experience was awful. I have these dreams that sometimes need to be tweeked to have meaning. For example I have recently started a new job and really enjoy it. Seem to get on brilliantly with colleague I share an office with however one night I had this awful dream that I was in work and the police turn up to tell me that my DH has been involved in an accident and unfortunately was killed. For some reason after I had the news I was sat at my colleague's desk feeling awful/upset/total despair but staring at her family photos (couldn't understand this). Woke up obviously horrified at the thought and had feeling in the pit of my stomach.

At around 11:30 of the same day I was sitting in work and the police turn up asking for my colleague (who was off for the day). Her partner had been involved in a fatal accident.

I found myself sitting at her desk. I glanced to the picture of her partner and it was like deja vu.

Alibobster · 28/05/2010 13:30

I had a m/c 3 weeks ago and was sitting on sofa crying when ds (3) comes up and strokes my arm and says ' What's wong mum, are you just wanting your baby?' He didn't know I was pregnant and nothing about a baby had been mentioned in front of him.

PigeonPie · 28/05/2010 13:35

My DS1 was due in November. We had decided that if he was a boy to call him after two of his great grand fathers - MIL's father first then my GF second (wanted to call him after GF first, but it's a name in Harry Potter and not one of the positive ones!). DS1 arrived a day early and was born on the Years' Mind of MIL's father whom we named him after. We didn't know at the time about the significance of the date.

I'm sure there are lots of others, but can't think of them atm.

snowplop · 28/05/2010 14:12

Oh Alibobster

MonkeyFunk · 28/05/2010 15:33

DH and I were walking in Alderley Edge when i suddenly had the urge that our walk was OVER and we left very quickly. As we stepped out onto the car park bit we heard a horrible and very loud noise like a cross between a bullfrog and a large dog barking. We looked at each other and turned round to see the tall grass by the side of the path we had just left flatten before our eyes

StealthPolarBear · 28/05/2010 15:49

what had happened to it MF??

DH's grandma lost her husband on her wedding anniversary, is also their sons' (twins) birthday and i think either his or her parents' wedding anniversary too

stripeyknickersspottysocks · 28/05/2010 16:20

Alderley Edge is a bit spooky. Have you read the Weirdstone of Brisingemen (?sp) - its set on there.

MrsFawlty · 28/05/2010 16:54

Oooh, we had a very weird experience at Alderley Edge as teenagesr, but we were stoned so I don't think it counts. But as we were legging it out of the woods, (stoned and scared to death) we ran into a group of people all looking like this.