What is the strangest thing that has happened to you?

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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.

Well if we're counting weird things that happened while stoned i think i'd break the thread

My Nan's friend, May, was ill in hospital with cancer years ago - she had bought me a musical box as a kid which my Mum had put on a shelf in our sitting room and hadn't been touched in ages. Me and Mum were having cups of tea one afternoon when the musical box suddenly started to play on its own. Mum said "May's died then..." and half an hour later we had a phone call from my Nan to tell us what we already knew. Musical box never worked after that either...

Have had several other spooky things happen like knowing someone's died before I was told... always feel a bit freaky about it...

Surreygirl - that is so similar to something that happened to me when I was 14.

My grandad was very ill in hospital. I was at home with my mum washing up before leaving to go and see him. As we were washing up I very clearly heard a clock striking a very particular tune. My grandparents had a clock that chimed this tune every hour - we were 60 miles away from their house and had no such clock. My mum didn't hear it but I turned to her and told her that grandad had died. 5 mins later the phone rang and it was my aunt telling us he'd just passed away.

DIL you have put the hairs on the back of my neck standing up.

Here's another - a friend of DH's started work at a new place. He was chatting to one of his colleagues and he said to her "my god, you sound just like my friend's girlfriend called X". I have a very unusual name and she said, "X Surname??" It was my cousin!

Hey Stripey, I was about 15 at the time too....

I also had my doorbell play "Oh, Susanna,Oh don't you cry for me..." on its own when me and parents were just about to set off for aunt's funeral a couple of years ago. Only thing is my doorbell doesn't have that tune on its list of tunes and hasn't played it since and when I opened the front door no one was there but I could smell her perfume....

Have also smelt oranges a bit at home when on my own and I didn't have them in the house-my great-granddad used to eat them all the time...

Oh I have another:

When I got married my mum leant me her pearl earings she had worn at her wedding,

when I got home the night of the wedding I took them off and put them on the windowsill in my bedroom.

A few days later i went to get them to return them and they were gone.

I searched high and low and was really worried about telling my mum I had lost them.

Weeks later I was lay in dhalf asleep, it was the middle of the night but I just couldn't sleep properly.

All of a sudden I jumped out of bed and had this vison of the earring being in the top of he kitchen cupboard downstairs.

I ran down there and looked through the cupboard -

Nothing. I was really disapointed,

as I went to climb down I slipped and went to grab the inside of the cupboard, but as I did i knocked over a mug that was in there,

It fell to the floor and smashed.

Guess what was in it... yup, the earings.

It was so bloody weird!

The best book I have ever read about this sort of thing is called True Tales of American Life.

www.amazon.co.uk/True-Tales-American-Life-Auster/dp/0571210708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books &qid=1275072250&sr=8-1

2 weird things have happened to me that I can recall now

1. On one of the first family holidays to majorca in the early 80s I was about 8? I vividly remember being in a coach crash, the transfer coach had crashed. Although I was asleep I remember being shuffled off a coach in dads arms and standing by the roadside awaiting a new coach turning up. I don't think it was "serious" we were sat in the front seats next to the steps and we were unharmed, I'm sure it was fine? Not sure then why parents consistently deny this ever happened?

2. I met this guy, and invited him to my place for dinner. I cooked a lovely dinner he never turned up. Around 11pm when it was ruined he arrived,apologising with a bottle of wine in hand. I had one sip of the wine & completely passed out, i vaguely remember him running away and I woke in the morning partly undressed on my bed.

2 months later i saw his name in the paper, he got send down for rape and murder he lurked in bushes near the university ( where I lived)

Not funny at all, just very scary that it could have been me.

Keep safe - from 1foot.

Just another one just thought of; I have a doppelganger I've never met in the town / city that I live in that has foxed both my husband and best friend.

I am relatively unusual looking (idyosyncratic and not av height/ build etc) however a few of years ago my best friend went to a works event and found herself chatting to someone who looked exactly like me. So much so that she reckoned if we were together she could not tell us apart.

A couple of years ago my husband asked me why I had blanked him when walking down a high street that day, when he had pulled over in his car. I was a bit askance as had stayed in work all day.

Only conclusion in that there is someone out there who really does look like me - either that or being a twin someone messed up big time in the hospital I was born! However there prob everyone has someone who is almost identical to them because of the sheer number of people who have been or ever been on the planet - we had a science teacher who was the image of John Major once

Mine's a coincidence. I was working as a PA and had invited someone to give a training course. This person had to travel from the north of Scotland to where I was working on the east coast, about 80 miles away.

During a break in the course, I asked her where she was originally from as she didn't speak with a Scottish accent. She said she was from north London and mentioned the exact area. I told her that my (then)husband grew up in that area too and when she then told me her (very unusual) maiden name I realised that they had lived next door to each other for years - in fact my MIL was her godmother - small world indeed.

I've also had prophetic dreams, mostly as a child though - I seem to have grown out of this as I've got older.

I occasionally experience the 'falling back into my body' as I wake up from sleep.

Oh, also, when I was in labour with DC3, I heard a deep male voice saying (in my head)"We are One" - very spooky (might have been the G&A though )

My niece was born 3 weeks premature, and my grandad died on her due date. My nan was convinced DN came early so my grandad could meet her.

This probably won't seem strange to anyone else but it freaked me out a little.

Dd was due on dh's birthday. I went into labour at 3am on her EDD but had a long labour and she was born at 12.20 the next morning.

Fast forward 3 years and ds was due on MY birthday. Funniily enough, I woke up in labour at 3am on the due date AGAIN and ds was born at 4pm.

'tis slightly perturbing

For weeks every time I walked my dog I kept recognizing a couple, they never seemed to be doing anything (no kids, dogs, bikes ) occasional though I was being followed. I thought they were dog nappers, my dog at the time was a very expensive pedigree.

When my Ex turned up on the street I had just moved into, I though When I then moved to the other end of the city soon after and again he turned up claiming he just happen to be driving past, the penny dropped they were P.I's they had been following me for quite awhile apparently even during our relationship. [anger]

No fucking wonder I could never get rid of him and why he always knew what I was up too. It made me realise how unaware I was of my surroundings. {thicko}

fluffyredguineapigs you've reminded me of something that happened the other week.
I was in Tesco and DH and I split up to get around faster. He came back and found me said you've got to see this, in on of the aisle there was a little girl who looked EXACTLY like my niece only about 2-3 years older. My DH isn't the type to notice that type of thing but the resemblance was so striking it was unbelievable the same eyes, hair and even the olive skin tone. Both sides of her family are white freckly scots so we always joke about her being some sort of changeling. Mind you she has her mothers sulk style down to a tee.
Called my sis (she lives about 60 miles away) she was a friend of her had been visiting the Zoo near by us recently and said she's seen a little girl who looked exactly like DN only a few years old too.

I love this thread, has sent some proper chills down my spine.

No spooky goings on personally but my uncle is very tuned into these things.

When my Nanna died he was on holiday with my parents in Spain and he woke in the night to see her at the end of his bed, telling him she was ok. The next day my auntie rang them to break the news and it was about the exact time he'd seen her.

Once he was visiting and we went out for the day with my mum and dad, he was driving my mums car with him, me and his girlfriend in and we were following my dad's car. The year before a close friend of my parents had died and had his ashes scattered at a beauty spot we were passing. I started to tell my uncle this, and a Ray Charles song we had always associated with the friend was on the tape in the car. The tape jammed so my uncle ejected it only for the same song to be playing on the radio - I have always thought of it as a message from the friend and been very comforted by it. Don't think it would have happened if my uncle hadn't been there to facilitate it though.

I don't know what happened to the grass - it wasn't just like it had bent over, it had flattened like something had walked through it

I always have something spooky happen at Alderley Edge and often "know" when it's time to leave but i have never been scared like that before.

I love the wierdstone of Brisingamen and the sequel - the name of which has escaped me (Moon of Gomrath?). I like it more because i live relatively near so all the places are familiar!

I have heard Alderley edge is a spooky place. Used to live near there but never actually went there.

keep 'em coming!

I've got a few:

The night my db1 was killed i distinctly heard him call my name.
When i was giving his eulogy he was standing next to me giving me one of his hugs and holdng my hand.
DS tells me that theres a ghost in his bedroom and its db looking after him.
DS found all his christmas presents that were in a cupboard with high handle which he cant open told me his uncle showed him where they were an dopened the door, i moved them to somewhere else and it happened again. DB always used to hunt for presents as a child.
As i was gettting my tattoo done 9symbol for myself and my dbs) as the 1 for db1 was being done the song that was played at his funeral came on the radio.
On honeymoon the lights in one of the pubs made the symbol of my tatto. DB was making sure i knew he was with me

My mum had a dream i was having a boy before i had a scan.

DS asked me earlier about the baby in my tummy so that could be quite interesting AFAIK im not pg :S

Just thought of another one. I keep hearing Terry Jacks season in the son. It was my grandads favourite song when he died. I never met him and my parents never thought of it when i was named. I think he's telling me that he is looking over me along with db

I wondered if anyone else has this. You know when you like someone, and can't say anything, and if anything you're trying to stop thinking about them but somehow you think about them 24/7.

Well, when I have someone in my mind like this I seem to see them everywhere.

It'll be any old day and some random time and I'll take my children out to a playground, or a shop or whatever and that person is there, in the same place, completely unplanned.

One time he even asked me if I had seen him going in, and I hadn't, it was just pure coincidence.

I don't live near him and definitely don't employ a satellite tracking system, so how, and why? mind you we did see someone else we both know this time, also in the same place, but usually it is just us, and I never normally see anyone else from school at those places.

We don't have a similar lifestyle or anything to indicate we would both be there at that time - in fact once we had both been to a different playground, found it was shut, and turned up at another one when we have the choice of about 5.

It's happened about 4 times now in the last few months. Can you actually draw a person towards you or vice versa, literally, by thinking about them?

I am a bit worried he thinks I am stalking him. I'm honestly, honestly not. I don't have the time or energy!

Lol Flight. I had the exactly opposite in uni. There was this guy and he loved himself though god knows why and I swear everywhere I went he was there. It got embarrassing and I think he thought I was stalking him but I wasn't and did not fancy him at all. Then to make it worse our lecturer made us partners for a project and then he didn't turn up on the day and left me to do the presentation alone!

When I was a child I used to remember my previous life quite vividly and told everyone about what I used to do when "I was a grown up".My parents thought I was just making it all up obviously.
I forgot most of it as I was growing up,but at that time it felt very real to me.

Bumping this because it's fab.