What is the strangest thing that has happened to you?

[dejavuaswell]

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.

I was on a business trip and staying in a hotel in Birmingham. I opened the drawer of the bedside table and found a letter written by a couple in Washington (America) addressed to my mum and dad who live near Washington (England), trying to find out about family history/distant relatives.

Had gone to rural Pennsylvania with my ex boyfriend for Christmas.

We were sat in his sister's and brother-in-law's kitchen drinking coffee and playing poker when both the front and back doors, both of which were locked, suddenly blew open.

When I was about 10 a group of mates and I had a sleepover at my house, and my mum said we could all walk to the village shop to buy some sweets for our midnight feast.

We lived in a small rural village that didn't have streetlights (still doesn't actually), and it was around 7pm so it had just started to get a bit dusky. We were walking down the road towards the shop when a car drove past us quite slowly, then pulled up at the kerb about 10 metres ahead of us, but no-one got out.

For some reason we were a little bit freaked out, and no-one wanted to walk past the car. We all laughed that we were all being silly, and walked towards the car. When we got alongside it I looked in. There was absolutely no-one in it at all. I remember staring into the windows, thinking someone was just bent down in the chair, but the car was totally empty.

We literally shat ourselves and sprinted back to my house screaming like 10 year old girls!

I am the biggest sceptic ever but have had one experience that made me question myself for a few minutes. Before my mum died if cancer she asked that at her funeral White doves be released as the coffin was lowered into the grave. We did this but one refused to fly away (they were White homeing pigeons) and instead it flew into the grave and sat on her coffin cooing for ages. Anyway a few months later I was visiting the grave with a friend of my mums who said "can't you just feel your mums presence as you stand here". Sadly not I replied, I believe when she died she went forever. Mums friend looked at the grave and said "Anne give Avocadoes a sign that you are watching over her". Nothing happened and I snorted. Just as I started to turn away a single White dove flew down and sat on a tree next to her grave.

I still believe that was a coincidence but I do think it was an amazing coincidence.

cyteen I do think it was the only thing that could have got them talking! They are still in contact now.

I used to having flying dreams too, but when I woke up (or at least thought I did) I was floating a few inches above the bed, would fall into the bed once I realised.

I got into difficulty in a pool in France when I was 8. Was pulled out of the water by a man who later turned out to an ex-boyfriend of my mother. She hadn't seen him in 20 years.

A group of us were heading to Thailand for my sister's wedding. We were travelling from different parts of the uk on different dates and had different ways planned for getting to the island from Bangkok for the wedding. Somehow, due to various delays, cancellations etc we all ended up on the same random tiny boat to the island. V freaky.

Also managed to walk straight to where my cousin was standing at a massive outdoor concert. This was before the days of mobile phones and we had intended to meet up at one of the meeting points but we were delayed. We just started randomly walking through the crowds and walked straight to him

I dreamed about George Harrison dying the night before he died.

I don't think of this as especially spooky or odd, though. He was a high-profile celebrity, and there are 6 billion people in the world, at least half of whom must surely have heard of him. It would be odder if nobody, on any given night, had a dream about one of the Beatles. Same with Princess Diana, and all the 9/11 "premonition" dreams (especially as the latter almost happened in an episode of "The Lone Gunmen" from 1999!)...

And a year or two before Harrison's death, if you recall, he was attacked by a knife-wielding intruder in his home. So the idea was already in my subconscious.

I'm not even a huge Beatles fan. But I did like George's solo work the best.

I used to do the flying thing too LaVache! It was brilliant - I used to really look forward to it. I had it lots in my early 20s but no more

Oooh good thread.

Years ago I was travelling in India and I was due to meet up with someone I had just started seeing after a few weeks of seperate travelling. I told him the name of the beach I was staying on and was due to email him with a meeting place/time. One night before I'd had chance to do this he turned up and out of hundreds of beach huts he kncoked on mine first. I will never to this day know how he knew I was there. I took it as some sort of sign from fate or something at the time. (We lasted less than a year, but it was good at the time!)

When I was a student I went home for easter and while getting dressed in my bedroom I dropped my nose stud on the floor and spent ages trying to find it, it just seemed to disappear. It was handmade and a present so I was gutted. The following October I moved into a new student house which had just been renovated, and while hoovering my brand new carpet found my handmade, one of a kind nosestud under the desk.

It spooked me but made my nan very happy, she was a spiritualist and believed it was a sign from my great grandma (her mum) who had died 2 years before. That kind of thing happened to my nan all the time, she would drop a piece of jewellery or misplace her watch or something, and the next day it would be sitting in the middle of the table. She liked it, it made her feel her mum was still with her.

Oh I've just remembered the strangest thing that's happened to me. It really makes no sense at all.

When I was in the Brownies (just joined, very small). I was told off by an older Brownie with a very distinctive name.

When I was an older Brownie living in a different town a new girl came in. It was her. I knew her name before I was told it (and as I say, it was really unusual).

Only - now she was younger than me. By a couple of years. And she said she'd never lived where I used to live. Very odd.

My mum and dad met when they were both living in London. He is from Ireland abnd she is from northern England. One night he was waiting for her to finish getting ready for a date, and flicked through some old photos...one of which he recognised. When he asked who the photo was of, Mum said it was an ex of hers...only to be told that the same man had met and married Dad's sister in Ireland.

I know someone who always had the feeling she was adopted. She was flying to north America and sat next to a man who got talking to her. They had a lengthy conversation about their lives etc, after which he asked her embarrassedly whether there was any chance that she was adopted, because she looked EXACTLY like a younger version of an acquaintance of his in Canada. Given her personal suspicions, she followed it up and found out it she had been adopted, it was her birth mother who had moved abroad 30+ years before, and they were reunited.

Also, I randomly saw a couple I knew on the first day of their round the world trip in a small town in India.

That's pretty coincidental in itself. But two years later, I saw them again, in a out of the way hotel in Bangkok. It was the last day of their trip. How mad is that?!

My mum has a deep guilt that keeps resurfacing but it's never been proved that it happened.
This was back in the late 1950's and my mum lived at the edge of the Cardiff marshes and used to regularly go for walks with her friends, she would have been about 10yrs old.
One day some gipsy children joined them and they had a great time playing by the mud banks.
That is until some older gipsy children came along and ordered my mum and her friends to in effect 'murder' a younger gipsy child.
They forced the kid into the mud and forced my mum's hand on top of the kids head and he disapeared under the mud

She told her mum and dad, but they did not believe her and the gipsy community never reported a missing child.
So to this day we don't know if anything did happen, but it is very real to my mum.

i have met all my exs in dream before meeting them in real life. Not sure why I am fated to go out with idiots

I have dreamt things in the past and they can happened later on in life. I hate it as i had a very, strong dream where a child was killed by a car. I really dont want that one to come true. The sound still haunts me months on.

Certain things i have wished for very hard but are totally unrealistic have actually come true but always for the price i was offering. Which means that i am doomed to be single and lonely as that was the price i was offering for the chance to have a child when i had been told i could never have kids. I have a very lively 5 yo. But relationships seem void and non-existant.

Be very careful what you wish for.

Loads of & tears at these.

Interesting all the 'psychic' children. Dd2 used to see/sense loads of things , weirdest was at a castle(somewhere in Wales) when she refused to go down a corridor cos 'too many people' , there was only her ,dd1& I. Turned out later it was where one of the fights had taken place with intruders.

Loving this thread!

When I was young, I had a friend who continually told me her house was haunted - which I never belived. That was until one day we were in her living room dancing to some music on her Dad's stereo when the volume suddenly turned up full whack!
This was well before remote controls, and we had to run over and physically had to turn the volume dial back round! Needless to say I believed her after that!

My brother & I each had goldfish when we were kids which lived in my bedroom. I got up one morning to find that my brother's fish wast in the bowl?!?
My Nana, was looking after us that day and was tidying up my bedroom and found the goldfish on the floor amongst the toys etc wrapped up in newspaper. My brother & I have sworn to each other that neither of us were responsible!

Longtalljosie, your one has really given me the heebie-jeebies!

The week before 9/11 I dreamt about an American Airlines plane flying into a tall building on an island. It gave me an odd feeling so I made sure to remember the details. The only thing was that in my dream the island was in the Carribean and was called St George. Still, it freaked me out!

Was mid laser treatment on my cervix. Dr has his head up my fanjo playing star wars. next thing he looks up at me and says, "i'm sure i know you from somewhere" I looked at him oddly given where he was looking.
then he realised that When i was doing a work placement at Uni i had helped organise his nan's move from hospital to residential care.

most odd.

Lots of spooky, sad and amazing posts on this thread.

Longtalljosie and Ripeberry - both your posts have really sent shivers down my spine. So much.

I have a weird feeling, right in the pit of my stomach that I have another story to tell on this thread but just can't get it to surface, iyswim? I know it's there but I'm having trouble remembering..