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.

A friend of mine was killed in a car accident when we were 19. I went back to Kent from Poly in Newcastle for the funeral and met his cousin, who came from Humberside. The cousin was the best mate/school friend of my new boyfriend of several weeks in Newcastle. One of those "small world" moments.

A fair few things have happened to me especially as a child.

When older things have still continued; when I was 20 a creepy older male relative called at my parent's when they were 300 miles away visiting relatives. Against my gut feeling I let him in as I didn't want to be rude. When he knew I was alone he acted in a really strange manner and started to freak me out. He picked me up (he was a big man) and then when I went to the door would not let me move, grabbed my wrists and tried to take me upstairs after 'playfully' putting his hands round my neck. I was really scared and thought he was going to assault then kill me. At this moment the phone rang and he was so startled he let go of me. I acted nonchalently as if all horseplay and said that I must answer the phone. It was my mum -I ran to th bathroom and locked myself in and told her- she kept on the phone while y sister called the next door neighbour to come round to discuss a 'computer problem' with me and the relative reluctantly left. I don't believe in guardian angels, but was lucky that day.

A few years ago when still living at home I dreamt that I was inside the next door neighbour's bedroom in the middle of the night when they received a telephone call. It was from the wife's step mother to say that her father was dead in bed beside her.
My mother woke me up in the morning and complained thst she had a very bad night as the neighbours had been walking in their back garden where her window faces (my room is out front and i slept with the windows closed and earplugs in). Still not awake I told her that it was because her father had died in the night and knew because I had been there. Sure enough the neighbour came round in the afternoon and apologised and was just about to explain the death when my mum said that she already knew - I had dreamt it all. Wish she had not told them that - feel kinda freakish now in their eyes

More recently (Jan) I dreamt that I returned to my parent's house to find it cold, dark and empty and could hear muffled sobbing behind the door that my grandad had died. The phone ringing startled me out of my dream and I had just enough time to tell my husband that my grandad had died before I answered it to find my sister telling me bluntly that he was dead .

I KNEW the night I conceived and told my husband just after the act. It was nothing to do with the sex which was umm elbowey at best . I also knew it was a boy from conception and although we didn't find out the sex, only bought baby boy clothing.

Annoyingly enough I know when other people are pregnant, when they either don't know themselves or are still keeping it quiet. I just get soo excited and want to ask them about it but can't!

As a child, Used to live in a 'haunted house'. Used to get the sense of an old lady all the time.
Things went missing all the time and turned up in random bizarre places later. For example, a friend staying in spare room lost a shoe when t came to packing. Looked high and low, could not find it. When my mum came to change the bed, the shoe was in the middle of the bed - under the sheet.

I regularly heard someone walking in the attic room above mine, when the house was empty.

One day, I was compelled to lift some terracotta floor tiles in a walk-in cupboard/pantry. Under the tiles were two or three tiny wax animals.

Year later met a builder at a party who had worked on the renovations to the house (way before we moved in). His tools were always going missing and then re-appearing in odd places, and he said several times, he had gone into a room and started to talk to the lady of the house, before realising there was no one there.....

two of my dearest friends, who are not similar ages, or from the same part of the country, ended up sharing a room together in New Zealand! They had the sort of chat which goes ''so where are you from then?''
''Newtown''
''Wow, I have a friend from there called Ellie. How about you, where are you from?''
''Oldtown.''

''Wow! I have a friend called Ellie too, and she has a really good mate from Oldtown...''

Penny drops

pigeons, I recognise your story, I think I might have worked with you about 12 years ago. Did you ever work as a temp in a town beginning with L? If so I have never forgotten your story and always tell it when people are talking about freaky things happening.

From an early age I've had this feeling that I'll die before I'm 40. Have even mentioned it a few times to dh.

My mam was getting her lighter out of her coat pocket that was on the coat hanger. It fell out of her hand and she saw it drop into a box full of shoes. She searched through it and couldn't find it anywhere. Months later she felt something in the sleeve llining of her coat. She had to cut the lining to get it out, it was her lighter!

when i saw my sister when she was just pregnant with her DS, and she had not told me, i looked at her and said, you're pregnant and it's a boy. and i was right!

When we moved into our first house we had a neighbour with a certain name - he committed suicide the month before we moved out (i was always glad our for sale sign went up before the event - for his mother's sake).

In our new house we had a neighbour of the same name (but alot older) and he died within a month of us moving out too (car accident).

Luckily, where we are now there is no neighbour with that name.....although one is up for sale - so i'm really hoping not.....

DTs were born very prem and while they were in hospital we thought it was just a question of whether they would survive or not. When they were finally discharged and docs said they would be checking them every 3 months to see how they developed etc we were completely shocked and still had no clue what kind of thing they were talking about.

When they were still in hospital, about 6 weeks old or so I had a really vivid dream where ds was playing happily at dh's sports club and I came round the corner with dd and she was walking very strangely and I was holding her hands to help her and saying " look at XX isn't she walking well today".

It upset me terribly but I remember thinking (incorrectly) it doesn't mean anything because her brain scan was clear so I know she won't be disabled. Dd was by far the stronger of the two so it was odd to dream there was something not right with her. Also, I had absolutely zero experience of CP so I didn't really understand what I was seeing - but that is exactly how she walks and how I hold her.

I was struck at the time that although dh and I have both got very dark hair and so did both of the babies, im my dream dd had very light golden brown almost blonde hair - which has also come true now.

I sometimes think of things just a couple of seconds before they happen, e.g. thinking about someone just before the phone rings, thinking about someone I briefly worked with years previously and had not thought about since, then 10 mins later they walk past me in a shopping centre. Just coincidence I think mostly.

Ds (11) is cricket mad, last week I was watching him playing and he was bowling really well. A new bowler came in and just as he ran up I thought "oh what a shame that's a wicket" just before he released the ball and bowled DS out. Ds blames me and has given me positive thoughts to think like "wow what a shot", "fantastic 6" etc!

I know there's lots more like this but can't think of them now. I had a horrible realistic dream once that shook me up for several days and doesn't leave me and I hope it doesn't come true.

batting well sorry

mine - i was 14 and arrived back at my foster parents from school. Little 3 year old foster brother said 'jet, your bags are packed' over and over again. I didnt have a clue what he was talking about - only to find two hours later sw at the door annoucing i was to be moved to yet another kids home. Those 2 hours were very strange.

But, years later, said little foster brother died when he was 17, in a situation that we will probably never know the true circumstances. Then seeing his dad on tele with Mike Neville (legend in north east) - that was also strange

getorf I vividly remember that sensation when I had a fever, it is so hard to describe, but I used to feel like I was next to a huge blue whale and I was tiny. god so weird.

I had just started seeing a lad who worked in another office - a girl there was showing her holiday snaps and i was in the background!

We brought a house and discovered that my best friends husband's family has lived there for years - she died in the house about 7 years prior to us moving in - we still used to get post for her

getorf I also get that feeling, and I too can't describe it, in my odd 'dreamy' sensation, I feel as if I am in the playground of my primary school, but the marks in the tarmac are really big, and there is a single strand of hair stopping me from walking (when I was little I used to have really long hair). Really odd sensation, and always when I have a fever or when I am very upset.

My Daddy was killed in a car accident when I was 6, and I used to get this odd feeling a lot afterwards, and wake in the night screaming. I remember being taken to what at the time was a child psychiatrist, I suppose now it would be a counsellor, but I couldn't even explain it to him, and I remember trying to draw it, but couldn't really do that either.

Ooh how interesting that other people (a) knew what i was banging on about and (b) have had teh same sensation. I wonder what on earth it is?

Sometimes our bedroom feels very scary, sort of like an electricity in the air.

I don't know what it is but it stops me falling asleep, last night was a prime example.

Maybe it was the heat, but I couldn't rest and then ds2 screamed in his sleep (he never does that) and when I said 'what's wrong?' he said 'a person', then went back to sleep.

I was a bit freaked out.

GetOrf I have had that sensation too, only when very feverish - to me it always felt like everything was fluctuating uncontrollably in size and shape, so my arms and legs would be boinging about massive and stretchy, then suddenly tiny and stunted. I would turn my head to look at stuff but be unable to get a handle on where anything actually was, or where I was in relation to it. Very odd.

Cyteen - you are far more articulate than me and you have just described exactly what happens. How odd it is. It would be really interesting to find out what on earth it is - it must be something to do with temperatre affecting your brain or summat...

GetOrf - In the book Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee describes a fever in much the same way as you and Cyteen. It's an amazing piece of writing.

Sometimes I have flashbacks, I don't recall the events but I know its something that has happened iynwim? Its horrible - it makes me go hot and it feels like I'm going to be sick. It feels like a panic attack and I have to sit down, its always the same, I see people in white coats and the same names going round in my head.

Cyteen

In the Pink Floyd song 'Comfortably Numb' there is a similar description

"When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons"

Wonder if Roger Waters had the same experience??

I've got another wierd one,

DH and I were stood in the kitchen and the kids were in the livingroom, my DH is called adam, clear as ANYTHING we BOTH hear someone shout

'Adam?' in the living room it sounds exactly like DHs mum,

we both run in to find no one there apart from the kids,

immediatly DH picks up his phone to call his mum. as he dials she pulls up in the car outside!!

I was so weird, it as her voice! it was her!

OMFG!!!

I ma freaked out now!!

CYTEEN i used to get that when little!!

I would wake up feeling all hot and my thumbs would be massive!

They would feel huge and Heavy!

and i used to be trying to get to my bedroom door but i would be walking over huge cogs from inside a clock, all moving and clicking!

It seemed so real.

Something happened to me similar, latetly.

I woke up I must've had a fever and my head literally pounding... i felt like i owed thousands of pounds to someone and everysecond it was doubling.

I was thinking 'how will i pay it back'

I was fully awake and wandering round the bedroom, i felt like i wanted to start screaming but if I did then i would go mad?!

i really think tats what its likeo go insane, i went to the batroom and manageto wadeowstairs

as soon as i walkedihe livinroom and saw DH I snapped outof it nd colla[sed in tears,

its like i wasin some weird dam state.

it was the most frightening thing ever

sorry my keyboard is crap.

i also used to try and open my bedroom door when little but i would be tiny and couldn't reach.

it must have been dreams but then i would wake up next morning near the door,

so strange!