In the spirit of things, a thread for any weird experiences you've ever had, from ghosts to ufos to deja vu to dreams etc, whatever. I have no real belief in any of this stuff but it's always fascinating to hear stories from people which they can't easily explain.
Me: A few years ago I was talking to my mother about when I was a kid and I had met my grandparents for the first time. I was about 4 or 5. I was talking about something or other when I happened to mention talking to my grandfather, who I talked to various times during that first visit. My mother informed me that I had never met him as he had been dead for a few months by that time, his being alive one of the reasons we had never visited before, lol. I'm sure there's some rational explanation such as me confusing memories with stories or photos but it's still weird as I can remember him very clearly.
Anyway. More.
Weird stuff.
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Ah, c'mon. Tell us a story.
Ok. When my Gran (on my mothers side) died quite a few years ago (I didn't know her. She lived in Australia and I'd only met her once as a small child), I had a dream where she appeared all sort angelic and otherworldly looking (in a Hollywood sort of way). She stood and smiled at me then said, "Tell Margaret I'm fine." Then the dream faded and I woke up.
Margaret is my mother
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That's more like it! Excellent.
I was in India with my father on a trip a few years ago. Probably my favourite holiday ever, saw a lot of things. I did see a lot of strange things, but the strangest was probably when we went to this temple, and my father and I went to see this guru (or something, I don't remember exactly what he was). We were in this very weird room with pillows everywhere, and started telling things about our past that nobody possibly could know. Then he told us that we would need some help a couple of days from then, but we were not to worry, "a red woman will help you". I was like "riiight" when we walked out of the place, "what a weirdo".
We left that city the same day, and took the train to a completely different part of the country. Two days later we were on our way to the airport. When we got there, we were going to show our passports, when my father noticed that his wallet was gone. We'd just used our wallet in a store on the airport, and went there to look for it. Nothing. As we was thining about what to do, a woman in a red dress came up to us and said "hey, is this yours?" It was his wallet with our passports.
Weird. :/
A 'guru' in India told me the colour of my mother's car. I didn't know what colour it was myself so I couldn't verify.
Also, I was in Birmingham once, and there were absolutely no attractive girls there. Being from Norway I am used to turn my head pretty often while out at night, but in B'ham I turned once, but I think she was a tourist or something, so doesn't count. Pretty supernatrual, if you ask me.
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Happy halloween!
Scary.
Ahahahaha.
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In my previous job as an accountant I had an awful run in with a number of spectres. One night (just before Christmas, so not strictly Halloween related) an ex colleague of mine came to visit me. I say ex colleague because the old fella had kicked the bucket not 24 months before in a car accident on his way to buy a shredder from WH Smiths. Anyway my ex colleague, James, came to visit me and told me I'd be visited by three other spectres who would teach me the errors of my ways. Each showed me a different story, although the only one that really spooked me was the last one (the first two were fucking boring and involved seeing some crazy ex again and some family of benefit bludgers). the last story basically went like this: it was a cross between the 'this is your life' speech from Trainspotting and a series of numbers like in the Matrix. Basically being an accountant meant my entire life was doomed to boredom. I quit the next day and sent a present of some ham to the benefit family.
I'm going to be working 40 miles south of Area 51 soon, I'll go see some UFOs for you all.
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Contribute!I love all things UFO and paranormal.
I've seen a few odd things in the sky that I couldn't explain with one case in particular standing out.
I've never seen a ghost but knows lots of people who have told me interesting stories. We had a medium in our family, a great great aunt or something, so there's always been a bit of a spooky vibe in the family. I went with my gran once to the spiritualist church. interesting experience.
I have a cousin who lives in London and through his work as an electrician has spent a lot of time in the London underground tunnels. He has all kinds of creepy stories from down there, though mostly second hand.
Though recently he had an interesting experience of his own...
He was going through a tough time with his wife. He was on a busy tube train where an old lady was sitting across from him staring at him. She freaked him right out. He got off the tube and she followed him up the escalator before finally tapping him on the shoulder. He turned and she told him that things would work out between him and Lisa. She handed him a card, she was some sort of medium. Lisa was his wife's name.
Elm, do keep us informed of any Area 51 shenanigans.
I will. I get an American military ID, maybe they'll let me just randomly visit.
Mediums etc fascinate me. I've studied science for years and I'm a total skeptic, but it frustrates me when you get told something that you can't explain away with the usual cold reading randomness. My mum loves that kind of thing, and I remember her telling me some surprising things she'd been told by a medium about her sons that were remarkably accurate.
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Contribute!The spiritualist church was weird. I went very much with my skeptical hat on, waiting for crappy cold readings and the inevitable collection plate. But nothing like that materialized, no money exchanged hands at all. Just people who went there in the hope of receiving a message from someone they had lost. A woman in front of us had lost a child. When the medium said the spirit of the child was standing beside her I was leaning back thinking "fuck this..."
As a long time subscriber to the Fortean times, all this sort of stuff is enthralling for me, without ever being a need to know whether it's true or not. The fact that people report these things is enough in itself.
You obviously have a few more stories, Scout. Let them out.
I had a dream last weekend that I was travelling around India in an ice cream van. A few days later I had a dream that I told my brother about my dream in which I was travelling around India in an ice cream van. The next day I told my brother that I'd had a dream in which I told him about my dream of travelling around India in an ice cream van. I am no longer sure whether I am awake or not...
Nothing interesting has ever happened to me.
Jimmy_The_Lips wrote: A hairy baby with a hole in its head that you want to stick your poky stick into. Yes.
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Came into work and it's partially flooded. Reckon the spirits loosened the dishwasher hose.
Oh come on now, you've surely seen a Yowie?
Black & WTF's collection of Hallowseve duds of yore is quite rich in weird.
Hah. "My father dressed up as a bird for Halloween"
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Nothing too amazing but...
My brother's fiance works in HR for a call centre company. Before it was closed she worked in a call centre right beside Ibrox stadium in Glasgow. The security guards kept getting pissed off and creeped out at night when doors inside the building were continually opening themselves. Doors that needed a swipe card to open. They then apparently noticed a figure sitting at one of the desks. Interestingly the building was built over the stairs where 66 people lost their lives in the Ibrox disaster of 1971.
About 10 years ago I was treated to daily updates from a college pal who was seemingly going through all manner of paranormal madness. It was great. Even though he was completely terrified. It all sounds like something right out of a crappy movie but seeing the state he was in I knew he wasn't making it up. He lived in a small flat with his mum in a highrise in Springburn, Glasgow. Started with hearing someone moving around in the living room and sitting on a noisy old armchair. He knew it wasn't his mum, who had been in bed for hours. The next night he said he lay in bed listening to footsteps as they walked along the hall way and stopped outside his door. That sort of thing went on for a few nights. Next thing he's in the bath when a large mirror pops off the wall, bounces glass-down on the edge of the sink, before flipping round and shattering on the edge of the bath, showering him in broken glass.
By this point, about a week into the "activity", he's absolutely shitting himself and slowly unraveling. At the time we were doing a course that gave us access to all kinds of audio/visual equipment. I did my best to encourage him to set up a digital net of ghost hunting paraphernalia but he wasn't having it.
It came to a head when he says he's lying in bed about 3am when he starts to hear a tapping/scratching on his window. He's about 10 floors up. He eventually gets out of bed and opens the curtains. He claims down on the ground below there was a boy on a trike, going slowly round and round in circles. He went back to bed and lay there until the sun came up. After that night it all stopped as suddenly as it had started.
Like I said, it all sounds a bit OTT but I was there every morning in college waiting like a salivating dog for the latest update and the guy was really going through the wringer. So he was either having some kind of mental breakdown or he really was experiencing something strange. We're still good pals and he still stands by every word.
I also love hearing about strange coincidences. My uncle had one a few years ago. He works for a hearing aid company. He was fitting a hearing aid for an old lady in a London suburb. As they chatted it turned out the woman was the midwife who had delivered him at the family home in Glasgow around 50 years ago. I thought that was amazing. The first person he ever set eyes on and there she is, 50 years later, at the opposite end of the country.
This is pretty much where I am with the whole paranormal/unexplained thing. I've always had a fascination with it and I too used to be an avid reader of Fortean Times. But I've drifted away from it over the last few years. I do find it really interesting, but I can't escape the fact that, from my point of view, it's a load of old rubbish. Lately I've gravitated more towards exotic physics and the startling possibilities of what really might/does make out universe tick.
I did have what I guess could be described as a vague premonition once. Years ago when I used to live with my parents my brother and I were in the house alone one day. I was in the bathroom shaving when the doorbell rang. My heart instantly sank and I knew with absolute certainty that something was wrong. My brother answered the door to be told by a neighbour that they had seen a cat lying by the side of the road. We took a walk up there and it was ours. She'd been hit by a car and had died.
I think that fact that, for example, thousands of people claim to have been abducted by aliens, and maybe millions believe in the existence of aliens visiting the planet, without a shred of decent evidence, is an interesting enough occurrence in itself.
I used to read Fortean Times years ago as well - always found the cryptozoology bits the most interesting TBH, reminders of the consistently weird shit/creatures out there that was verifiable by science, rather than stuff wot some drunk hillbilly claims happened once when he was DUI on an isolated road in the middle of nowhere and can't account for several hours where he was passed out in a ditch.
TBH, stuff like the night terrors/succubus explanation, temporal lobe epilepsy and the like convinced me that the vast majority of the genuine reports (i.e. the ones not made up for shits and giggles or profit) were due to weird misfirings of regular cognitive functions. That or chinese lanterns. The whole "small, close and slow" vs. "huge, distant and fast" distinction seems to pass a lot of people by.
Also find the sociological thingy interesting - back in the day it was angels and devils, post X-Files it's all UFOs and aliens / govt conspiracy.
Mild mass hysteria.
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