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50 Real Glitches In The Matrix That Might Freak You Out, As Shared By People Online
Human brains have a way of noticing patterns. Indeed, it’s a pretty important part of our survival. So it probably shouldn’t be any surprise that most of us notice those interesting little incidents that seem too convenient to be real.
We’ve gathered stories from people who had their “glitch in the Matrix” moments, when some weird repetition or coincidence all came together to make them think twice. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own stories in the comments down below.
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#1
I met a man while working that I thought was really handsome. Had a bit of love-at-first-sight. We talked and I secretly wished for a sign to pursue. The next day I walked outside my apartment at a time I normally am relaxing after work - my crush is parking his car across the street. I suspiciously ask “what are you doing here…” he said “I live here!” We had lived RIGHT across the st from each other for 3 YEARS. We are now married.
Λjvo 3 months ago
They missed each other for three years, it's like an antifate or something.
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Crystalwitch60 3 months ago
Fate at work ,you asked it delivered , IT WORKS , tried tested and proven ,
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#2
When I was like 3 months pregnant with my first child, I had a vivid dream about standing in a bathroom and hanging up shower curtains and a little boy walked into the room and asked "what are you doing Mummy?" And I replied back with an explanation. I remembered his face, his blueish green eyes and curly dark blonde hair.
About 3 years after I had my son, I moved across Canada and got a little apartment unit, my mother went shopping for supplies to stock up with and one of those items was a dark green plastic shower curtain. I didn't think anything of it, and went to the bathroom to hang it up. My son walked in, looked up and said "what are you doing Mummy?" And before I could stop myself I was reciting word-for-word what I said in my dream. To my son, who has blue-green eyes and curly dark blonde hair.
Ace 3 months ago
Quite. The feeling, or genuine belief in this case, that something happening 'now' ha already happened before. Can be quite convincing, as here.
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Lee Gilliland 3 months ago (edited)
It's called deja vue and it's happened many,many times to me.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Have had this happen several times in my life, most often a conversation with someone who I had never met. Several months later..BOOM! They it is!
WubiDubi 3 months ago
Deja vu is memory glitches from fatigue that mess up the brains understading of time. Parenting is exhausting, so I guess OP was very exhausted. The brain sucks at reality and is perfectly capable of making reality up to fix issues - so I can utterly believe OP believes it.
OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
I call this the momma dream. We've all had it. Mine was when I was some 3-4mo along, can't remember which but I didn't yet know the gender of my kid. I had a realistic dream where I opened the front door of our apartment and a small blond haired blue eyed boy ran in followed by my husband. Now, both my husband and I have dark hair, almost black, and green eyes, but sure as hell our son has blue eyes and had blond hair (now it's a bit darker) and the situation happened on many occasions - after their walks, our son is the first one through the door, running at me
Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
Why do people feel the need to use "like" in sentences like the above?
Carrie B 3 months ago
Why do people feel the need to correct everyone's grammar?
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#3
One day I was walking home, and a random old “homeless” man jumped in front of me. I stood, frozen in fear as we both stared each other down until he finally says “hey..don’t go that way. Turn around” for some reason my entire soul said to trust him, so I did. When I turned around to thank him he was gone. Literally vanished into thin air..I Got home to find out a girl was m**dered on that
Very same street I was supposed to take at the exact moment I met the man.
XenoMurph 3 months ago
People believe this stuff is somehow their "guardian angel" but for some reason only they deserve one. The m******d girl for some reason didn't deserve to live.... it's twisted reasoning.
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Ace 3 months ago
You have a fertile imagination. And "Exact moment"? No, you would have no way of knowing that, nor indeed the exact location, unless you were scouring for that level of information.
#4
Newborn stage dreams are vivid. One night I had a nightmare my baby drowned in his bassinet, which was right next to my bed. I woke up in shambles and took him out immediately. held him in the rocking chair. “He’s safer in my arms “ is all I could think in my head. About 20 minutes later I woke up panicked because I realized I had dozed off with him in the chair. I went to lay him back down, and his bassinet was filled with water from a leak we didn’t know about that was right above it.
Lily bloom 3 months ago
Perhaps they heard dripping while sleeping that infiltrated their dream?
Jenny Lind 3 months ago
Maybe just water resistant and a big leak? Like a pram type bassinet?
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#5
One time I woke up in the middle of the night to what I thought was someone calling my name. I could’ve sworn it was my deceased grandma so I knew I had to be dreaming and went back to sleep. The next morning my sister told me she had the weirdest dream that our grandma had called her name from downstairs and it felt so real. I told her I’d experienced the same. Later that day my daughter who never met our grandma said “I dreamed an old sweet lady was lost in our house and I helped her”.
Moana Manana 3 months ago
As a teenager I had a dream one night that my parents were in a car crash and my father died. It was so real that I cried in my sleep. Waking up I told my sister about it and she said, that she had a dream were our parents were in a car crash and our mother died. Luckily, nothing happend, but that was still weird.
#6
I’ve lost things, only to find them somewhere else. Like in another state, or somewhere I’ve never been. I once lost an engraved pocket knife and looked everywhere for it. I gave up and two weeks later I went to a house party of someone I just met that night, and when I got out of the car I stepped on something in the dirt. I bent down to scrape it off of the ground/dirt and it was my knife. Dried mud and all. I opened it and my name was on the blade. Wild.
Billo66 3 months ago (edited)
Every mundane event gets turned into a paranormal experience. Rule #1 The most rational explanation is usually correct. I watched Ancient Aliens 3 years until I realized it's not a comedy.
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Tricia Neville 3 months ago
I sometimes buy secondhand books from a company, situated on the other side of the country, that gave discount if I bought 6 or 8 of them at a time. I was about to meet my friend for coffee and I was amused that one of the books had her (fairly common) name written on the fly leaf, so I took it with me. When I showed her, she was astounded! It was her book! She had lent the book to a friend in Essex who didn't return it about 20 years ago. She moved to Wales, and met me, and it had been posted among other books to me.
#7
I once received a voicemail from a friend, asking if we could get together and catch up over a drink or something. Except there were two problems. 1) I was 16 or 17 and definitely not old enough to drink (or at least outside people’s basements where I’d actually “get drinks” with a friend. 2) The voicemail came from me. It was distinctly, without a shred of doubt, my voice. But I never made that call or left that voicemail, for anyone.
Paige Merlin 3 months ago
Rip in the time-space continuum to set you on a path investigating that very scientific principle and save the world someday
Saber4 3 months ago
Time slip. Haunted Liverpool series, mentions these quite a bit.
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Marnie 3 months ago
One day, my Mom told me that my old college roommate had called to say hi and left her phone number. I called her, and she said she had never called me. We talked for over an hour and never talked again. It always kind of spooked me. But I just now (decades later) realize it could be as simple as that she'd been drunk when she called and didn't remember.
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
A result of using a friends phone during one of those basement drinking binges?
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago
people get together for coffee or tea, matcha, etc. Maybe in a few more years this will make more sense to you. I mean you might have sent it to your self later in this life.
#8
Year 2000. I was pregnant, coming home from my best friend’s funeral, was off balance and wearing heals… bad combination. Got off a bus, walked behind it to cross the road straight in front of a truck going about 80kms. Felt like I got shoved or thrown backwards. As though someone threw me out of the way of the truck. Landed on the ground on my bum. Then walking up the stairs to my apartment, still shaken up, I lost balance, fell backwards, hoovered in the air, was pushed forward to safety. 25 years later I still think about that day a lot. I assume it was my best friend watching over me, or some sort of glitch in the matrix, or I wasn’t fated to die that day.
Decided against wearing heels for the rest of the pregnancy.
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago
Hoovering in mid-air is impressive. That would be an easier way to keep the top of the wardrobe dust-free.
Ashtophet 3 months ago
I think that more often than I would care to admit. I had the hood on my car open recently and it shifted, I def saw the whole scenario in my head for a second…
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#9
The day after my mum died in hospice, I was in her room gathering her things. I was about to bend down to pick something up when a whoosh of pure light and energy flooded straight through me. It was mum. I know it was.
Jenny Lind 3 months ago
*I wish more relatives dïe and you feel them pass on* what a weird thing to say 🤣🤣🤣
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Chrystina Sumpter 3 months ago
I was a 20-year-old college student and my Mom had metastatic breast cancer and had been hospitalized for some time. She came to me in a dream and walked to me and took me into her arms. My Mom hadn’t been able to get out of bed for a long time and seeing her walking and looking great was such a relief I burst into tears and told her how scared I had been. Mom comforted me and told me I didn’t have to worry anymore, that everything would be all right. I woke up with such a profound sense of relief, until I realized what the dream really meant—that Mom was going to die. Which she did a short time later. Like your Mom, my Mom found a way to show me her love.
#10
I had a dream I punched a friend in the eye, odd but didn't tell anyone. The next day I was hanging out with that person and they just brought up out of the blue that they had a dream where I punched them in the eye.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Don't tolerate anyone who steals your dream. Punch them in the eye.
#11
My big one that I always think about is that once or twice a month I’ll be reading a word at the exact second someone says it on tv or in real life. Out of the billions of words in the world, how does that keep happening.
Saltypepper 3 months ago (edited)
When i was younger listing the radio id saying myself or a friend if one was there i hope they play this song next and that song would play it happened so many times my friends thought i was psychic.... So weird.
G A 3 months ago
I heard a song on the radio also play on TV at the same time-Stand by Me-Ben E King. That was freaky.
azubi 3 months ago
Once I switched channels on TV and both channels played Highlander. Even more spooky because there can only be one (ta-da)
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Rick Murray 3 months ago
I had a song stuck in my head all day. Didn't know who or most of the words, it was the tune and how it was performed. Get in the car to go home, turn on the radio and... guess what. Uh huh. I think it was called something like "Black" by Pearl Jam. I have no idea who PJ are, and the song was just "okay", not really my thing. So... why was it stuck in my head to then turn up on a French radio station, that I practically never listen to (my phone needed charged)? I drove home *really* carefully in case it was some sort of warning, but, nah, I just think it was an utterly bizarre coincidence.
Little Bit 3 months ago
That sort of thing happens to me quite often. I can be listening to the radio and I randomly think about a song i haven't heard for ages, or even years and if the next song they play.
LillieMean 3 months ago
I do a lot of crossword puzzles so this probably happens to me more than average, but it's always fun. Or my husband says something and I just wrote down the synonym for the word.
#12
Before he was born, I vividly dreamed of dying during my c-section with my son, I saw my son swimming in blood in my belly. I told my doctors that I was going to die and to make sure they had my blood type on hand. I told my doctor of my dreams. She ended up severing an artery during my surgery, I crashed. Four blood transfusions. 16 days in hospital. my son was in nicu/picu for over two months. I know that my dreams were just a premonition of what was to come.
#13
I left my house to walk to work one day, completely on time to be there 5 minutes early to unlock. I lived less than a 5 minute walk away through a neighborhood. Nothing unusual happened on the walk. I arrived twelve minutes late to work with a bunch of upset coworkers waiting for me. I’ve never been able to explain that unexpected time loss.
AtMostAFabulist 3 months ago
I would swear there is a rift in the space-time continuum between my front door and car. I always seem to lose time at that point.
#14
I was 12 when my mom passed away. It was just us two in the house.
That morning, I decided to sleep in late. I woke up to the sound of my door knob turning as if someone was trying to get in my room.
The coroner said my mom had passed early in the morning but I think it was her spirit waking me up.
That night, I don’t remember falling asleep but suddenly I was in a field with her. She said bye and that I would be okay.
azubi 3 months ago
She must have been so mad how she materialised right outside your room instead of inside. You could have met.
#15
Shazam was a movie that Sinbad starred in and was released in the 90s. Now people are saying it never existed.
CPooh 3 months ago
And of course all black male actors are fully interchangeable because they are secretly all the same person. 😂
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Mike Barrette 3 months ago
Calm down, everyone. The movie ya'll thinking about is Kazaam with Shaq.
Gen X Feral 3 months ago
It is. I took my daughter to see it at the dollar movies.
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Brian Droste 3 months ago
I googled this what the internet came up with is that Sinbad never starred in a Shazam movie.
Alex Mosby 3 months ago
This is the wildest thing that so many of us swear the movie exists. I think our little brains created a 3rd movie because we all remember Kazam with Shaq and House Guest with Sinbad as distinctly separate movies.
#16
This is not something I’ve shared publicly before. One day, I was walking with a friend who was worried her boyfriend was about to call it quits, and as I’m listening, a completely unrelated thought flashed in my head and I burst into full, heavy tears. I said, when my dad dies, my boyfriend won’t be able to be there for me.
Two weeks later, my dad died in a sudden accident. My boyfriend broke up with me the day after his funeral because he wasn’t emotionally equipped to handle my grief.
Jan 3 months ago (edited)
It takes some self awareness and courage to not only know your limitations but to admit them. No where does it state that they were in a deeply involved relationship. No judgement here.
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I was 13 (1973) my mom was driving us from Phx to Scottsdale. It was 12:30 as we left. As we rounded the curve going E all of a sudden we were going W & it was 2:30. She looked at me white as a sheet. I said “Mom! What the F just happened. Mom?!!” She said, “I know. I know. I have no idea. We are going home.” I said, “Mom! We lost 2 hours! WTF OMG!” She said, “Shhh, we are okay. idk honey but we are okay. I am okay. Are you okay?” I looked at my body, checked in with myself. “I am ok” Two hours?
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 months ago
I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens...
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I call bs only because nobody who is in their 60s would write like that.
G A 3 months ago
Agreed. Going E and W would have been beaten out of you at school. Lack of paragraphs. These things were ingrained back then. Acronyms were not used.
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DramaDoc 3 months ago
I've experienced lost time twice: I was with a friend my senior year of high school doing the college tour. We were on are way back when we stopped for gas and some food. Here's the sequence of events: Got gas (self pump), paid, drove across the street to a Wendy's. Went in ordered, got food and sat down. The whole area had a really creepy/weird vibe, so we didn't finish our food and ran back to the car. We stopped around 11:30 am. When we got to the car, it was close to 3:45 pm. No way what we did took 4 hours. My 2nd lost time was a lot less dramatic. I was home from college and just puttering around in the kitchen. It was summer and nothing was on tv except soaps. I distinctly remember watching Another World--around 11:50 am, while waiting for DoOL to start. AW cut to commercial. When it returned, DoOl was on and seemingly half way through the episode. I looked at the kitchen clock and just over half an hour had passed. I never saw the whole "Like sands through an hourglass..." bit.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago
if it was 12:30 when you left and 2:30 when you realized that you lost two hours, you were already at your house.
John Fowler 3 months ago
If you’re going east and round a curve - you may be going west if the curve was big enough.
#18
Lived in NYC for 30 years, through blackouts and terrorist attacks but never felt scared of other NYers. One day during morning rush hour, I'm on the platform, the subway pulls up and I step aside to let people exit the train before I get on. One guy steps off and I'm paralyzed with fear. He didn't even see me, but my brain screamed, "He **lled me." Past tense. I couldn't get on the train. Just watched this benign nondescript man walk away, oblivious to me. Never felt that before or since.
Paige Merlin 3 months ago
Maybe the victim’s ghost was screaming it loudly and OP has the sense…
Rick Murray 3 months ago
Hasn't happened yet, but he will k**l you, because he's the guy that's going to decline your medical coverage...
Jp@nda 3 months ago
So I have obviously never thought"he killed me" but I have been on the subway with this guy who looked like a mix of the bad guy from sin city and the weird hand guy from scary movie 2. Every single cell of my being was screaming this guy is pure evil. He has the trench coat and long dirty finger nails with the long but balding greasy hair and I just remember asking God to k**l this thing. Idk what that was but I know that thing was a living nightmare that every primal instinct I had told me this guy had done very bad things and to not just stay away, but someone had to k**l it cause it was pure evil. I've never felt that way before or since and can't explain it but he wasn't human. I know what I experienced and it still makes me uneasy
#19
11/6/2024 I seriously felt like I shifted timelines when I saw those horrid results of the election. I never felt so off in my own skin. I felt a real physical shift. It was 4am & I walked over to the window to look outside & it looked omnious & I was in Hawaii at the time. I will never forget it. 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️😩
Mojavedog 3 months ago
American here and I approve your comment. Please send help!
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Luke Branwen 3 months ago
Definitely feels like a wrong timeline is happening. The whole [gestures at everything] in the US. That nonsense censorship law in the UK. Europe voting fasc!sts into their governments. Genocide on the Middle East. This isn't gonna end well, heed my words.
Roni Stone 3 months ago
This is a feeling I had, as well. I kept looking at the states fall like dominoes and it just could not have happened. It really does feel like a parallel space every day now.
Nikole 3 months ago (edited)
100% Edit: Oh good, today he called for “Chipocalypse Now.” Get the fúck out of my city.
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#20
The same person walked past me 3 times on a street within 5 minutes from the same direction there’s no way that was possible
Cat 3 months ago
There's twins that work at opposite ends of a shopping street near me. I realised they were twins pretty quickly as I'm also an identical twin and I'm pretty good at finding the small differences (or knowing to look for them, I guess?) but apparently so many people get really confused about how the same person can be working in two shops at the same time
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Rika 3 months ago
The triplets that starred in Lady Gaga's music video are identical and once talked about how much they loved doing that kind of things just to see people's reactions.
#21
We lived in a house that had a friendly ghost. We moved into this house after our medically fragile daughter was born. She was on infusions up to 12 hours a day and every day she had a 50/50 chance of survival. Her fairy mobile above her bed would dance, she would coo at the ghost, our Siberian husky would “talk” to it, etc. We later found out the neighborhood was built on an indigenous burial site (BOO!), but we are grateful for the love these ancestors showed our family during a horrific time.
Lil be lil 3 months ago (edited)
Yes it is....also slave burial ground. To this day Native girls killed and 'disappeared' in the U S.
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Tricia Neville 3 months ago
It's not just the US. We unearthed a king, fallen in battle in 1485, in a UK car park. Goodness only knows who is under our feet right now!
SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago
Why is always an Indigenous burial site that these houses are built on? You never hear of a so called haunted house being built on... I dunno, a "honky" burial site!!! 😄
Lil be lil 3 months ago
Because 'honkey' burial sites are gated, they're called cemetaries.
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When I was in 3rd grade (2004) I was outside at recess with my friends and suddenly everything went pitch black like God switching off a light. You couldn’t see or hear a thing. I thought in that split second I was the only one who experienced it but then it was like the lights got switched back on and my friend’s immediate reaction was “WOAH!!.. you saw that right!?” It felt like a long blink while also being deaf.
SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago
There were two partial solar eclipses in Canada in 2004. One in April, one in October. So that might have been it 🙂
Lily bloom 3 months ago
They said they were outside. At recess so likely during daytime
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Déjà vus are by far the most interesting glitch-like feelings ever.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
If you've met someone before but forgotten their name, that's déjà who? If a cow greets you after not seeing you for a while, that's déjà moo. And if you have to wait in the same line you waited in before, that's déjà queue.
The Majestic Opossum 3 months ago (edited)
If you are trick or treating and accidentally go to the same house twice, that's déjà boo.
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Michael Danhauer 3 months ago
Once I had Deja vu about having Deja vu which wound up giving me Deja vu. Yes, 3 separate layers of simultaneous Deja vu. I know it sounds crazy and that's how my brain felt for about 15 seconds. I try not to think about it
Stephanie Fay 3 months ago
There's an interesting V Sauce video on what makes deja vu happen. I don't really remember much of it right now, but I do remember watching it and being like, "Hey, that makes sense.."
#24
My friend and I, in college, waiting for a tech to unlock the door to the studio. The tech arrives and reaches for the keys attached to his belt and the next second he is holding the door open. 3-5 seconds disappeared - time skipped the part where he should have used the key to unlock the door and open it. All 3 of us saw it happen. It’s was such a strange moment.
#25
Onetime/2002, I was driving from LA to our home in SF for the weekend w/my dog. About 7hrs, normally…stopping once to let the dog out & get gas. Well, after driving over the grapevine maybe 2hrs, there was something in the sky that caught my attention. Watched it. Then, I was suddenly near the Bay Bridge. Left late around 4pm. Got to SF at 8:30 without stopping. Don’t think about it too often. It was strange. Still had gas, and my dog slept the entire ride. Home before dark.
#26
Leaving a parking lot after making a delivery, this old woman was leaving the lot right ahead of me. i had passed her on the way in, big chunky colorful earrings and a blue patterned shirt, silver sedan. she turns right, goes around the corner onto the side street we were next to. same moment her car vanished, the same car driven by the same woman turns the corner on my left side, turns into the parking lot, parks in the spot she had just left. i felt like i was insane the rest of the day 😭
#27
I was bathing my 3yo, with my back to the door. I see his eyes move like he’s looking at something behind me, so I turn around but see nothing. My son says “Daddy’s home!” I’m like no, no one’s there. Then I hear my 1yo who was in another room call out “Daddy!” I call their dad and he’s still at work. So not a ghost… but also not in the house with us
#28
I stopped in at a truckstop in Louisiana and went inside to get a sub sandwich, When it was my turn to order the fella says- Oh hey man you back again for another sub? I said no I just got here. No you were here at the start of my shift. A girl comes out from the back and says- hey you're back again. You must've loved the sandwich I made earlier. I told them that I was in Georgia earlier. Buddy says, unless you have a twin who works around here, it was definitely me they served in the morning.
Stephanie Fay 3 months ago
Ppl do that to me all the time except I'm the store worker. Customers will be adamant that I was the person working "yesterday" when I was in fact not working. Ppl look similar. This one is the least weird IMO.
#29
I once made an hour’s journey in 30mins despite being UNDER the speed limit. Even my partner in the car with me said “where did 1/2 that journey go?”
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Old riddle: You're on a trip of 120 miles. If you drive the first half at 30 mph, how fast do you have to drive the second half for your speed to average out to 60 mph?
Brian Droste 3 months ago (edited)
I live in Indiana, a friend and I plan on traveling to visit couple of friends in iowa. It is a six hour drive, wish something like this would happen to me. Instead of six hours only three hours. Maybe on the way home the time gets cut in half.
megabeth 3 months ago
At least the way home always always feels shorter! For me at least...
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I was like 13-14 probably and was talking to this strange homeless guy at a bus stop once. He started giving me all this random unsolicited life advice. I didn’t know how to respond so just kinda agreed with him. At one point during the convo I turned my head for like a millisecond to see if the bus was coming- and when I turned back this dude vanished into thin air. There was nowhere he could have ran to fast enough to be completely out of my line of sight that fast. I thought I imagined him..
Brian Droste 3 months ago
Did you listen to his advice after that? Could have been good advice.
#31
i put a broom & dustpan away @ work, few minutes later the dustpan was in the middle of the floor. i said to my boss “the universe just glitched.” when she went home that day her bf said “idk what it is but i feel like the universe glitched today.” she texted me immediately like WTF!
Squirrel Chaser 3 months ago
Just reminded me of a video where someone finishes sweeping, tucks the broom under his arm, grabs the dustpan, then spends several minutes looking for the broom.
LinkTheHylian 3 months ago
(Insert Vincent Vega looking around confused GIF here)
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An ambulance came straight at our car at full speed when I was a kid with zero way of not getting hit head on since there was no way around us, we braced when they reached like a foot away from our front end and in less than a second the ambulance was behind us as if you just paused time to swap our vehicles
#33
Had a dream I was playing with this toddler , light skin, hazel eyes. I loved him so much and was sad when I woke up. Three years later, i was playing with my nephew, light skin, hazel eyes and it clicked. I just smiled and hugged him.
#34
When I was eight or nine, I had a bad dream and went to my mom’s room. When I got there, she wasn’t in the bed, but her boyfriend Don was. I asked him where my mom was, and he pointed silently to the light under the bathroom door. When I went over to to tell her I had a bad dream, the first thing I said was that Don let me know she was in the bathroom. She told me Don wasn’t over that night.
Harry Gondalf 3 months ago
My mother's way of dealing with uncomfortable things is denial. i suspect your mother was lying. "Don's not here, go back to bed. (And stay outta my bedroom.)
#35
I was in the back of a cab and something exploded right next to me. Literally the air next to me went “bang”. Loud enough for me to freak out and loud enough for cab driver to stop the car. We both looked around for the source of the explosion, including inside my handbag (such as a lighter) but nah we never discovered what it was. Very odd.
#36
No one will believe me, I barely believe me and I lived it, so no worries.
When I was in 4th grade, I dreamt I was attacked by a little girl. I woke up with scratch marks.
Could’ve been me, whatever, I move on with my day. Her face keeps popping into my head though, so angry.
Later that day, I’m on the playground and climb up high enough to see the pattern of her face in the grass.
I had friends confirm I wasn’t seeing things. Everyone talked for days about the creepy face on the field.
#37
Once, I felt like time really stood still. As I was walking home, I was crossing a bridge, and for no reason whatsoever, all 4 of the cars that were on the bridge with me stopped, maybe for 30 secs. They were in different lanes, had no stop sign, stop light, nor traffic. Then, they all resumed driving at the same time. To this day, I wonder if I was being pranked, but I remember it how dead-silent and eerie it was (usually I could hear radios and engines, and the creek under the bridge).
#38
I was in Amsterdam with a friend just casually walking around and suddenly I hit an invisible wall and fell backwards and down! My friend just said, well I guess we’re not supposed to go that way!
LinkTheHylian 3 months ago
Muggles cannot enter Diagon Alley. I believe. Trying to remember the parody videos on YouTube.
#39
I was listening to music on my iPhone through the car. I wanted to listen to ‘Jet’ by Wings, but I had this deep feeling of knowledge that I didn’t need to ask Siri to play it because it had just started playing on Gold 104.3.
I switched to the radio and it had just started.
Papa 3 months ago
I have switched from one radio station to another one, and they're both playing the same song, and both were at the same point in the song.
G A 3 months ago
A lot of national stations are owned by the same corporations and use the same 'blocks' of music and the same advert 'blocks' and break times. There is very little variation.
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Almost every day. Things like:
thinking about something then seeing something related to it 5 minutes later.
Parking my car and when I leave the store, somehow the exact same car is parked next to mine?
When I get Deja vu (happens a lot) I feel like I’m in a foggy state and my words aren’t my words, I’m just following a script.
I have what I call “epic dreams” where it’s like I’m watching a movie and sometimes they continue in another dream another night. Or the same dream for a long time.
seanpar0820 3 months ago
A have a lot of continuous dreams as well. Sometimes multiple nights. Dreams are so interesting.
Ashtophet 3 months ago
Ever since I was little, I have had recurring dreams that come back, days, months or years later. The bad news is that now they’re mainly about work stuff, or home issues…
Load More Replies... Little Bit 3 months ago
I have psychic dreams where whatever I've dreamt about will play out in real life the next day or a few days later, even down to what people are wearing and what they're saying. Sometimes I will randomly think about someone i haven't seen for years or even decades and the next day I will run into them in the street or in a shop or somewhere
Harry Gondalf 3 months ago
Are you a near-death experiencer? Spontaneous mediumship / psychic abilities often emerge after an NDE. You NDE could have happened as an infant.
#41
One morning I woke up in a panic thinking I slept through my alarm set at 9AM. I sleep with my phone under my pillow and reached for it to check the time. 8:42. Perfect I go back to sleep. For a WHILE. I wake up thinking hours have passed and I reach for my phone but it’s not there. Weird. I get up outta bed and my phones on the floor. ? Ok it fell. I pick it up and check the time. 8:42AM.
HeavyMetalHeart 3 months ago (edited)
Looking at the phone the first time was actually a semi-waking dream. This happened to me all the time, with an alarm clock, when I was younger.
Michael Largey 3 months ago (edited)
So OP's phone broke when it fell out of the bed - at 8:42 am.
#42
I'd wished to have a daughter my whole life. After my second son was born, I was discussing with my husband still wanting to try for one someday & my oldest, who was about 4 at the time, overheard. He walked up to me, gave me a kiss on the lips and said, "There Mommy, now you'll have a girl." (he thought kissing made babies) A few months later, I found out I was unexpectedly pregnant - with my daughter. 😁
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Wow, what were the chances of that happening? Maybe one out of ... two?
Pseudonym For An Author 3 months ago
Some of these stories I think were just posted here by people who wanted to share them but couldn’t fit them anywhere else
Devin Schmitt 3 months ago
This is how my mother ended up with three sons; she really wanted a girl.
#43
I was asleep one night and a man’s voice yelled my name really loud. So loud I jumped straight up out of my bed. It sounded like he was downstairs. The way he called my name was familiar so it didn’t scare me . The fact that it was so loud is what startled me. I walked through the whole house and everyone was asleep. 3 days later my uncle was found dead. He died the day the man woke me up but nobody knew. He was deceased in the house all those days
michael reid 3 months ago
Yeah! Crazy how they didn't realise for 3 days, right?
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Don't know if it's a glitch in the matrix but I had a friend move to New Zealand and he was always telling me to move down from the UK and give NZ a try. Long story short the printing press I worked on was sold to a NZ company and they needed someone to run it. It was going to a place in NZ called Upper Hutt. I called my friend to see if it was anywhere near him, we couldn't believe it, it was 5 minutes down the road! Unbelievable
#45
My best friend came to tell me goodbye in a dream before I woke up to his mom calling to tell me he was dead.
When my mom got the news my brother passed away, I suddenly couldn’t breathe. We were 13 miles apart at 2 different schools. I was in third grade and she was a teacher at a school in a different district.
#46
When my sister died a peacock showed up and lived on our property for a full year. I lived in Northern NY, they are not native.
When a year was up it disappeared as quietly as it arrived.
Also my sister had premonitions she was going to die even tho her death was a “fluke”
Lil be lil 3 months ago
Need more information here. Was she a fan of peacocks? Was she Indian descent? Did she believe in reincarnation?
#47
I swear I learned in primary school that a year is 364 and a leap year 365. Somehow that changed to 365 and 366. Ironically I know more people who remember this.
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 months ago
I had the same Mandela effect of days in a year. Perhaps it's common?
Stephanie Fay 3 months ago
I swear I learned that thunder is created when warm and cold air collide. Now I read that it's created when the lightening disperses the air molecules and thunder is the air collapsing back on itself.
Toothless Feline 3 months ago
What you say you were taught was once believed to be the explanation. Science knowledge changes and advances over time. (And sometimes retreats.)
Load More Replies... #48
duolingo dutch kept aligning situations and statements with my life on the day they would happen. I know some things can be generally common coincidences but it was always very specific, non-recurring things. The amount of times I said “no f**king way” in the last three years of using that app…
Silje Olsen 3 months ago
Same here, i told my husband it's recording..because it's just too on point
#49
I was merging onto the 134 going
East at the 134/5 split in moderately busy but slow daytime traffic, so I was paying attention to my surroundings, obviously, but I looked down at the passenger seat for a second to secure something that was rattling around. When I looked up again a moment later, I was all the way past Glendale. Before anyone says I zoned out, here’s the thing: the song I was listening to on the radio didn’t miss a beat. No skip in continuity whatsoever.
Harry Gondalf 3 months ago
I just KNEW the op was from Los Angeles, where they preface highway numbers with the definite article: THE 134.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Maybe, but my daughter and SIL got hit by a merging car on I-40 in NC, my response "I HATE THE 40"
Load More Replies... LinkTheHylian 3 months ago
Plot twist: Homie was listening to Skrillex and there was no skip because all the songs sound the same.
#50
right after my car was repossessed, everyone i love pooled money together to “free” it lol i kept thinking of how blessed i was, that that many people cared, and that it could be done in a timely manner. driving my car back, i was stuck in traffic but was too over-the-moon to be angry about it. then i realized there was a tow truck in front of me, and to the right was a car. the license plate? “LUCKY U”
#51
Things that I know I put in specific places end up in other places.
Also, Fruit of the Loom having a cornucopia and then not still weirds me out.
joann fielding 3 months ago
For the undies thing, it's called the Mandela Effect. Google it, pretty interesting.
d b 3 months ago
The logo used from 1978 to 2003 did have a sheaf of wheat behind the fruit that could be mistaken for a cornucopia....wonder if this is the source?
OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
No, I am certain there was a cornucopia for one reason - I asked someone to tell me the name of that thing under the fruits and they told me so
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#52
I once had a letter I’d sent returned for insufficient postage. When I opened it up, someone else’s letter was inside.
#53
One night I sat on my grandma’s bed and she described how my future house would be. She said I’d have a big, beautiful home with lots of rooms. I was surprised because we’d never really talked like that before. The next day my mom said she died in her sleep after she had been asleep for days. I said, “I just talked to Grandma last night.” Nobody believed me. Now I live in a big, beautiful 5bed home with a pool in the back just like the one she described.
highwaycrossingfrog 3 months ago
I'm thinking OP was quite young at the time. GM was living with her family and being taken care of by OP's mother. Bedbound and out of it at this point, possibly comatose, but mum didn't tell OP how serious it was, to protect them. OP went to chat to GM and had this "conversation". Next day mum tells them the truth about GM's last few days and death. That's the only way I can get it to make sense
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When I was a kid I had a dream I was talking the phone to my great uncle who lives in another province, 21 hours away. My Grandma told her sister who was shocked as her husband had a dream about talking on the phone to me.
Harry Gondalf 3 months ago
You know, this stuff happens from time to time. For some, it's more often. Definitely not uncommon. I'm tired of holding this in, not writing: Mind (not brain, not activity of brain, but mind/consciousness/the unconscious) is outside space and time. No separation in space and time. Past present future are the same instant. (Just ask the Trafalmadorians of Vonnegut's Slaugherhouse Five.)
Kim Steffen 3 months ago
There is no present- there's only the recent past and the immediate future.
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My friend and I were staying one night at a mysterious airbnb on a national tour, in the middle of the night, we saw the same cat walk by twice, and stretch its back exactly the same way, just like that scene in the actual Matrix
#56
About 6 years ago I was at work alone in the afternoon. I'm a massage therapist and I was getting ready for my next client who hadn't arrived yet. I keep the doors locked for safety reasons, so the person has to knock to be let in. I have a mirror in my massage room facing out of the door and into the hallway. In the mirror I saw the backside of a bald man. He was facing the wall of the hallway, but when I turned around there was no one there. The doors were still locked.
#57
I met someone that drove a used Subaru. I meet them again but they are driving a red Honda covered in stickers. I asked about the Subaru. "What Subaru? This has always been my car."
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Being wrong does not constitute a coincidence. A pattern for some people perhaps, but not a coincidence.
#58
My game cartridge slipped and fell through solid carpet while I was taking it out. I looked all over the floor, under the bed, inside shoes, on top of the bed, and didn't find it for years later until we moved. And yeah, I literally watched it fall through. I don't know what else to say
#59
I came home and said hi to my husband who was sat working at the dining room table. After i walked past him and into the kitchen he called me on my cell to ask me where I was. I said I just said hi to you, as I walked through the dining room. He said ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about, I haven’t seen you and I’m working in the attic’ I went into the dining room and he wasn’t there.
Harry Gondalf 3 months ago
I wouldn't be surprised if he had been thinking of working at the dining room table at that sme moment
#60
I was 15, riding my skateboard over a freeway overpass. My wheel got caught on the expansion crack and I fell. My board went into the street and without thinking I stepped out after it right in front of a garbage truck. I looked up and saw the truck coming at me, the next moment I was on the sidewalk watching the truck drive by. I froze, but somehow ended up on the sidewalk. I have no recollection of moving, just a weird time jump. I was there, now I’m here.
DC 3 months ago
Most likely, yes. I had such situations too, people risking your life happens a lot on motorbikes, but after recollecting myself for one or two breathes, I could always re-remember it.
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me and my mom strongly believe we have this spirit in our house that finds things for us. like smth will go missing, we’ll tear the house apart looking for it, and not find it. then hours after we had given up, we’d find said object just lying on top of smth like it had just been sitting there the whole time. super weird but convenient
Mimi M 3 months ago
They may be thankful, but it might be the same 'thing' that is making their stuff go missing in the first place.
UKGrandad 3 months ago
'like smth will go missing' Wouldn't be 'o', 'e', 'i', 'n', and 'g', would it?
Pseudonym For An Author 3 months ago
Thanks for the grandad joke!!! Made me laugh 🤣
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#62
One time while out in the country, I got a work box truck stuck in a red clay driveway b/c I made a wrong turn and needed to make a u-turn. Soon as I hopped out, a truck with a winch turned the corner and stopped in front of me.
He just said, “hmmmm,” hooked up his winch, dragged me out, and got in his truck went out the way same way he came in.
He didn’t even continue the down the street he turned on.
Stephanie Fay 3 months ago
20 years ago I was stuck in a snow bank after swerving off the road in a decent snow fall. It was before cellphones so I was thinking I'd have to go to someone's house to use the phone. A snow plow (like a civilian plow, think Mr. Plow) came thru. I flagged him down to ask for help. He said, I do this for money, I can't just pull you out. And he left. D**k.
#63
Chick-fil-A was called Chic-fil-A, now it’s changed. IDC what anyone says, it was Chic-fil-A! A lot of ppl tell me they remember that too.
Harry Gondalf 3 months ago
nah, 'chic' is just something glitzy, like hair salons named "a cut above" or "curl up & dye."
Load More Replies... Bartlet for world domination 3 months ago
It was spelled "Chick-Fill-a", though, from 1960-1963.
UKGrandad 3 months ago
'Chick-fil-A Inc.' has been the name since it was first registered in 1961.
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#64
I feel like deja vu is a glitch in the matrix, and that happens to me a ton. When I notice it, I just start going with the flow more so than normal and everything usually works in my favor.
G A 3 months ago
It's explainable as a brain function. Maybe you need to speak to your doctor. You may have a medical issue.
Stephanie Fay 3 months ago
Have you seen the VSause video explaining how deja vu possibly works? I don't remember the details but it's pretty interesting.
Load More Replies... OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
I have 2 kinds of déjà vu - the good and the bad. I can "see" the good, but not the bad - it's just like a gut feeling, a sense of what will be, but I never know what it is until it happens
#65
Every night at 8pm a double-tanked milk truck speeds down my rural village street toward a dead end and doesn't come back out and doesn't park down there. It's not seen again until the next night at 8pm.
#66
Once I was about to text my good friend who’s Mom died recently and as I looked down at my phone to type, the words “Mom OK” were already there.
Stephanie Fay 3 months ago
After my dad died his cell phone called both mine and my sisters phone a couple of times. Of course it could have been his wife...but we did Not get along and there wouldn't have been any reason for her to call. It was obviously her, but it was still eerie.
#67
I had an extremely vivid dream where I had an entirely different life, career and historical things happened differently. When i woke up i perused my day like i was in that life, only hrs later realizing it wasn’t real. this was 15+ years ago now. still think about it. was so strange. to this day i’ll sometimes think that things that happened in the dream are real and have to check myself
Brian Droste 3 months ago
Yes, I have had dreams where I think it is feal then wake up and found out I was only dreaming.
#68
I had a dream about an apartment fire.I went to the apartment and confirmed that some kids made it out safe. After the kids made it to safety a man went back into the burning building. I yelled and screamed to stop him. I was yelling its to dangerous. I woke up and felt off and kept googling dream meanings. A week later my cousin called to tell me someone has set his grandkids apartment bldg on fire. They made it out safe but a man passed away 🥺.
#69
About 20 years ago I was driving north on I-75 in Northern Kentucky. Suddenly a large gray object appeared in the sky above me and to the left of the highway. Almost a blimp or cigar shape, but much larger than a blimp. It took up the whole sky. It was there for a few seconds then it was gone. It shook me so much that I called my dad on the phone to talk me down. We just kind of left it. It was probably a hallucination of some kind but always am reminded of it years later.
#70
I was sleeping and I had a dream that my mom and her ex came to my room and woke me up to tell me my grandfather died. Seconds later they woke me up, and told me using the exact words they did in my dream. It’s the only thing I remember from that night.
#71
One day my son father and I were sitting in his car talking. It was around 3AM. Two white men, looking like zombies (ripped shirts, disheveled hair) randomly popped up crossing the street in front of us. We looked at each other like "wth?!" because we were in a black neighborhood. By the time we looked back out the window, they were gone. The street we were on had long blocks. There was no way possible they could have walked that fast. They literally disappeared.
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 months ago
I agree. I mean, sitting in a car talking at 3 am? Who does that?
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#72
One time I flew from Buffalo to NYC/JFK. Sat sorta close to the front next to a young kid. He was maybe 11 or 12.
I went to my friend’s house in BK to ditch my bags and we went straight to our sightseeing list…we were over in Harlem going to Sylvia’s from the Apollo and BOOM the kid I sat next to on the plane comes walking out the door from a brownstone.
We both stopped dead in our tracks and pointed like “NO WAY” bc it was so weird.
Nizumi 3 months ago (edited)
Coincidences happen. Going through a station with literally thousands of people milling around getting in each other's way. People coming - people going - people just meeting other people. No way to know. I have to squeeze past a kid who proceeds to call me rude names on their language. Finally get on my train, just one of about 10 others leaving around the same time that all carry anywhere from 500 to 1000 passengers, and who do I get to sit next to? You guessed it. Sh!t happens. You chuckle and move on :)
#73
Thinking about how a passenger car has 2 seats in the front and a center console. This vehicle fits in a lane of traffic.
Now consider how large a transit bus is. Two people on each side of the center aisle, essentially 5 people wide. And yet this vehicle fits in the traffic lane.
That’s a glitch imo.
Bec 3 months ago
We live on a relatively wide street - wide enough for traffic both ways + cars parked on both sides, but there are lots of drivers who have no sense of the size of their cars. They either drive in the middle of the road out of fear of hitting the parked cats, or pull over and come to a full stop when another car is driving towards them.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 3 months ago
Seats in a car are wider than seats in a bus. Meanwhile, buses are wider than cars. Not really a mystery.
#74
I was running to be Miss of my city many years ago. As I was sitting on a bus, I heard a metal thing behind me drop on the floor. It was a crown pendant. I asked a girl who was not so close of it was hers, she said no. There was not many people on the bus. No one was walking or standing where it fell.
#75
My brother & I saw a black cat underneath the dining table randomly. I remember pointing at it quickly to show my mom but a few seconds later it disappeared.
#76
At my fav reggae spot out on the patio with a friend, this girl comes up and says a whole incoherent sentence that didn’t sound like any type of human language…Then nervously laughs while walking away. We both looked at each other like wtf just happened. Both convinced she was an alien
#77
My mother died at 6:45 am on October 17, 2015. My nephew was camping and texted me this photo. The timestamp was 6:47 am.
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 months ago
It's a photo. Someone died. Obviously a glitch! Or something....
Load More Replies... michael reid 3 months ago
Once I dropped a sandwich at 3.41pm. At 3.43pm the same day my friend texted me a picture of his new canoe.
#78
In the 90’s I worked in DC. I mentioned to some friends of mine one day at a restaurant about some Trump policies. Immigration and the southern border wall. For a few moments I did not feel like myself and everyone and everything looked fake like AI. Then It got loud and we all laughed. Trump…President?
#79
My father died years ago and my stepmom kept his large urn. Years later she brought it to me and asked if I wanted it and I said sure. This was last year.
That same day my television in my room (a Samsung) stopped working. I went out and grabbed the cheapest one I could find. It was a Phillips.
Can you guess what my father’s name was?
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Usually it's the male child who's addressed as "Sony".
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What do you think ?
Börje Strömming 3 months ago
What a load of 🐎 💩, post brought out the loonies, especially Crystalwitch
SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago (edited)
I wanna scare ya all!! 😄 Not really! It's that there's some things that we can't explain, scientifically. The building I live in is really old, the nearest we can date it to is the 1800s. It used to be a Salvation Army hospital. Which explains why when the housing team come over to check the electrics, sockets and other things? There's one in my flat that they can't find. It's somewhere and yes, we've moved all the furniture etc! But other things have happened in front of friends. A spoon one day decided to clatter into the sink just as, I've pint glasses that have thick stems on them, one of glasses? It looked like it had been cut straight through the thickest part of the stem. Neither of us had been near it or the spoon. It was a cool day temperature wise. Basically my friend got super freaked out and left, don't blame him! I found out a few years later that someone had committed s*****e in my flat. I know where, it's the hallway. I just kept saying after finding that out?
SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago
I kept saying out loud "I believe in you and I'm so sorry for you... Hope you can hear me! But stop destroying me things!!!"... I just talked to "Eric the Ghostie" as I call him and things stopped... I think maybe he just needed recognition?... Before you all go calling the bonkers ambulance team on me? 😄 Yeah... It's not something we all talk about but there's been some weird things happen in various peoples flats that noone can explain. If I was the only one? I'd have checked meself into the psychiatric unit ages ago! 😜
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Terri Robinson 3 months ago
When my dad was dying, my mom and my sister were in the ICU room with me, I looked at them and told them I have already been here. They asked what I was talking about and I explained that I had already lived this, explained to them in detail what was going to happen and when and they couldn't believe it; well everything happened as I explained it. I miss my dad. RIP!
Mimi M 3 months ago
Here's a very strange and well-known one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/30t9kd/repost_a_parallel_life_awoken_by_a_lamp/
Mattie Beckert 3 months ago (edited)
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Börje Strömming 3 months ago
What a load of 🐎 💩, post brought out the loonies, especially Crystalwitch
SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago (edited)
I wanna scare ya all!! 😄 Not really! It's that there's some things that we can't explain, scientifically. The building I live in is really old, the nearest we can date it to is the 1800s. It used to be a Salvation Army hospital. Which explains why when the housing team come over to check the electrics, sockets and other things? There's one in my flat that they can't find. It's somewhere and yes, we've moved all the furniture etc! But other things have happened in front of friends. A spoon one day decided to clatter into the sink just as, I've pint glasses that have thick stems on them, one of glasses? It looked like it had been cut straight through the thickest part of the stem. Neither of us had been near it or the spoon. It was a cool day temperature wise. Basically my friend got super freaked out and left, don't blame him! I found out a few years later that someone had committed s*****e in my flat. I know where, it's the hallway. I just kept saying after finding that out?
SkippityBoppityBoo 3 months ago
I kept saying out loud "I believe in you and I'm so sorry for you... Hope you can hear me! But stop destroying me things!!!"... I just talked to "Eric the Ghostie" as I call him and things stopped... I think maybe he just needed recognition?... Before you all go calling the bonkers ambulance team on me? 😄 Yeah... It's not something we all talk about but there's been some weird things happen in various peoples flats that noone can explain. If I was the only one? I'd have checked meself into the psychiatric unit ages ago! 😜
Load More Replies... Terri Robinson 3 months ago
When my dad was dying, my mom and my sister were in the ICU room with me, I looked at them and told them I have already been here. They asked what I was talking about and I explained that I had already lived this, explained to them in detail what was going to happen and when and they couldn't believe it; well everything happened as I explained it. I miss my dad. RIP!
Mimi M 3 months ago
Here's a very strange and well-known one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/30t9kd/repost_a_parallel_life_awoken_by_a_lamp/
Mattie Beckert 3 months ago (edited)
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