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.

Was talking to a friend at the weekend about when she was trying to book a holiday over the phone; she got talking to the woman making her booking, whose name was Thea. Friend says oh, my middle son's name is Theo because if he'd been a girl he was going to be Thea, after a dear friend I lost touch with...

You can guess the rest. They had lost touch years and years ago, Thea had moved around loads and ended up working in a call centre in Merseyside, which my friend had randomly rung to make her booking and even more randomly come through to her. They've been in touch ever since

Thesecondcoming - that is quite scary - could you have been having an out of body experience though? Why do you think you died?

When I was about 17 I persuaded a boyfriend to do a ouija board with me. He was very non-plussed by the whole thing. 'This is boring' he said. We both took our hands off the glass and as we did, one of the letters in the circle moved very obviously out of its place in the circle and than span around by itself. I opened my mouth to say something to my boyfriend about it and he said 'Yes I saw it, let's not talk about it!!'

Oh I see - crikey!

Couple of years ago, we were trying to sell our house. Nobody interested, got fed up and took it off market. Next day had call from someone who heard thru a friend. Was couple called exactly our names, even spelt the same(slightly unusual spelling). We sold...I hope they happy there.
When I originally moved into house, some previous owners had left an ouija board, I put it outside door as soon as I found it. Vanished v quickly (mind you, was that sot of area..)

The brownie one is VERY puzzling.

longtalljosie - could you google her for us? I want to know if she is younger or older than you this time.

Loving this thread.

Thesecondcoming, that's fascinating, does that experience have anything to do with your name?

When you said 'swallowed your tongue' I thought I hadn't heard it for years. Used to hear it from Irish people years ago. Wonder if there's a medical term for it.

At the beginning of my third year at uni I came back to my shared house before everyone else because I had to resit an exam before the start of term.

It was a hot afternoon, I was in my bedroom in the attic and instead of revising I was having a nap on my bed. I briefly awoke, opened my eyes and saw a man in my doorway He saw me the same time I saw him and we looked at one another for a few moments.

The weird thing was my reaction. I didn't feel scared at all and after a moment or two I just closed my eyes and went back to sleep.

When I woke up the 2nd time I went downstairs and noticed I'd not shut the front door properly and it was slightly open. So it looked like it was an intruder.

I checked the house and the man had gone, everything was as it should be and nothing had been stolen.

It was very lucky as anything could have happened to me. My reaction was quite worrying and I don't understand why I wasn't scared [shocked]

Pigeons, that's a very scary story! Especially since the intruder could very well have had a knife or some such! Going back to sleep was possibly the safest thing you could have done

DH's cousin and her DS both have fairly unusual names - but let's call them Penelope and Fred for now...

She was showing her dad some holiday pics one day, including a close-up she'd taken of some interesting graffiti on a wall above a shop. He was almost sure he'd taken a pic of the same graffiti when he'd visited the same city a while before, so he dug out the photo to have a look. As they exclaimed at the coincidence of having taken a picture of exactly the same thing, they realised that her dad's pic was a wider shot, and had captured the sign above the shop door, which read 'Penelope's Fred'...

Spending Christmas in a house where some of us heard babies crying but all were asleep whenever we checked. We didn't tell each other for a few days because we thought we were being paranoid. The 3 baby monitors all stopped working on the same night too.

Seeing my mum grow young and turn to stare at me in a dream which I was woken from by a phone call telling me she had just died.

Dreaming of my grandad's death the night he died (hadn't seen him for 7 years).

Living in a house where a boiled sweet suddenly bounced down 4 flights of a spiral staircase and then onto the kitchen floor and up onto the counter where DH was making tea. Pound coins used to jump off shelves too.

Vulgar - no results for her at all, and she's not on FB either. That said - there are some people at uni I've often wondered about and googled and they're not on the web.

My ds is called Wilfred, he was diagnosed as profoundly deaf at the age of two and a quarter, the first man my late dh worked for when he left school was a deaf man called Wilfred!!!

longtalljosie- How disappointing!

Years ago an ex-boyfriend of mine had a flatmate called Amanda (he never really liked her because she was always miserable).

After we split up I went to live abroad to work as a nanny, the eldest child was 11 and had been on a school trip to London and was showing me his photographs.

His mum leaned over and said "God she looks miserable"

Right in the middle of one shot was Amanda, walking down Carnaby Street and yep, looking miserable!

Oh yes, the call centre one reminds me. I used to work for directory enquiries after I graduated.

I was in Gloucestershire but calls came in mostly from Birmingham for some reason. We would also get a scattering from other regions.

Someone called asking for the number of one of my best friends in Buckinghamshire. So I gave it to him straight away as I knew it (very distinctive surname but they also gave the address so I was sure).

Freaked them out! Then we had a conversation about how I knew it and who they were trying to phone. Was funny.

pedro! your story has just reminded me of a similar one. On another board I use, there is a woman who lives in NY state. Another member was going to visit NY and they talked about meeting up, but it didn't happen.

When the woman visiting had returned, she put a picture on her profile of her and her partner in Central Park. In background was the woman who lived in NY , she didn't even live in the city itself and had been there doing some shopping or something.

I know it wasn't a set up because I have myself visited the woman who lives there (went to stay at her house) and I trust her when she says they never met.

Weird, huh?

great thread! has sent shivers down my spine!

i have a few.

when i was 6 weeks old i was asleep in my cot in my parents room, with them in bed next to me. my dad was asleep but my mum couldn't sleep for some reason. she saw a figure come into the room and look into my cot. she wasnt scared or anything, she said it just felt peaceful. the next morning they got a phone call to say my nan had died and my mum thinks it was my nan coming to check on me and to say goodbye.

then when i was 17, my other nana died, she had been poorly in hospital for quite some time. at 4am the day she died, i was woken up by my stereo switching itself on really loudly, i sleepily turned it off but couldn't get back to sleep as i was suddenly overcome by a wave of sadness. i went to school that day as normal and when i got home my mum told me that my nana had died. at 4am that day. i have never told my mum what happened to this day.

i also think i saw a ghost once. as a teenager, i used to come home from school but no one would be in as my parents used to work till about 5 or 6. so sometimes used to have a fag at the end of the garden while no one was in (naughty supervixen ...i happened to glance up towards the house and saw a red haired figure standing in my brothers bedroom window, looking angry. my mum is red haired and i thought "oh shit she's home and she has caught me smoking!!" threw my fag and went sheepishly into the house expecting a bollocking. well. no one was in. to say i was freaked out was an understatement.

also, i occasionally have that sleep paralysis thing, i hate it and find it really scary, sometimes i feel like i can't breathe and i feel like i am going to have a panic attack. and the most scary episode was the first time it happened, when i was about 19 i was staying at a boyfriends house but he was at work, i was asleep lying on my side and suddenly my eyes were open but i could not move a muscle, i was terrified and then at the side of me i saw a man and to this day i do not know whether it was real or a dream and it still shits me up when i think about it now.

I lived in a spooky old house when I was a student in the 80s (though funnily I never felt scared to be alone there).

Anyway, my friend had a spate of things going missing from her room - a necklace, her uniform for the canteen job she was doing, a hat. Various bits I can't remember.

We all got very very drunk one night and were talking about Donna's terrible theft experiences and put it down to a light fingered ghost who had nicked all the things. We then drew a hilarious pic of the said ghost and pinned it on the notice board above the fire in her room. I didn't say anything at the time, but the final pic really quite freaked me out... it looked very real.

The next day, the necklace which was amongst the items missing, had mysereriously reappeared on the mantelpiece.

The uniform never turned up though. Ghost obviously had a fetish for the canteen look.

Marvellous thread. Can I have the rights to the book?

When I was about 7 i had german measles, and had a fever. I remember being in bed and feeling all hot.

I can barely explain this, but I had a vision of being in a torch lit dungeon somewhere. I felt like all dimensions were out of kilter, like some things felt huge but were really small, and other very odd physical feelings. I really can barely articulate how I felt but the memory is hugely vivid, and slightly sinister.

If I get a temperature again I sometimes briefly have the same sensation, for about a second, and it always freaks me out.

Sorry, that barely makes sense and I wish I could describe it better, and I would love to know what caused the sensation.

GetOrf - I had/have a very similar thing with fevers - have never tried to explain it to anyone in RL because it's so hard to describe! But I know what you mean

My freaky thing - leaving car park after a day's shopping, me, DB and DSSis in back of car. Stepdad turns around and says "everyone belted in?". On way home our car was hit from behind straight into the back of a Landrover. Police said we were lucky not to be killed. Strange thing is my Stepdad hardly ever wears his seatbelt (he has bad scar on collarbone which is painful) and has never before or after checked we had ours on.

Well I have posted this before under and old name.

I used to live in a German Garrison town with my first husband. The day we moved there we took our pet rabbit with us, a massive lop eared rabbit it was, and put him, in his hutch out in the garden. That night went to check on him, hutch was empty he had somehow got out. Never saw him again .

10 years later back in the UK my sister came to visit bringing with her a new boyfriend who she had met in the UK and I had never met before. It came up in conversation that we (me and sisters new boyfriend) had both been living in this garrison town at the same time, though unknown to each other, he was much younger. Somehow the story of my rabbit comes up and I describe what happened only for him to be looking at me like this . He then goes on to tell me the street that I lived on and where my house was and how he had found a rabbit in the field behind my house, took it home and cared for it although unfortunately it had died.

What on earth are the odds of that happening?

I found a piece of family jewellery (Dad had it made for my Mum when they where 'courting') which I had lost several years ago. I found it recently when I had to move the compost heap and it fell onto the ground out of a lump of compost.

Ooh, bicep, that reminds me of a friend of my MIL who took her wedding ring to a local jewellers to have a setting fixed and was given a plain wedding band to wear while it was being done (bit like a courtesy car I guess ). It was a second-hand ring and when she got home she noticed that the date engraved inside it was the date of her own wedding!