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We humans are curious creatures, and our desire to know how everything works drives us to explore as far as we can see. But the universe isn't always willing to give us all the answers.
On the contrary, as one Reddit thread shows, sometimes we're left in the dark and simply have to accept the limits of our perception and cognition.
Created by platform user elibwell, it asked people the question, "What is the strangest thing that happened to you that you can’t logically explain?" and quickly went viral.
Since then, people have shared plenty of interesting stories, proving that life can easily be stranger than fiction. Here are some of the most memorable ones.
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#1
In 1996, I had just dropped out of University and was moving home to my parent's place. My tail was firmly between my legs, I had almost no money and no job prospects. Basically I was screwed.
I had an old Jeep Comanchee with all my belongings in the back and 200 miles to go. I borrowed $20 from a friend for gas and started the trip. I got to a point that was 30 miles from home and was on empty. I pulled into a gas station/rest stop and sort of cried for a minute in my truck. I needed $5 for gas to make it the rest of the way and had nothing. There was no way I could call my dad and ask for help...he was already so disappointed.
After a minute I started searching around my truck for change...anything...I opened the glove box and there were these paper 'loyalty bucks' for a gas station that I never used. It turns out it was the exact gas station that I was stopped at. $4.70 worth of bucks. I found another $2.00 in change, put $6.00 in the gas tank and bought a coke.
I made it home.
Fast forward 20 years, I had sorted my cr*p out and am a lawyer...that Gas Station hired me as their outside counsel...I got to tell this story to the President of the company.
Dr. M. 3 years ago
How sad that he could not call his parents because of the father's disappointment. Children should feel safe to aways seek help from their parents. Otherwise they can end up in dangerous situations.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Agreed - but imo I feel this was less of an “I can’t call him” than an “I feel too ashamed to call him”. OP’s feelings of shame are legit.
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Justme 3 years ago
Our children have both disappointed us, hurt us, stole from us, been downright mean to us and won’t speak to us - but if either one called to say they need help, we’d be there 100%. We let them know this at our last contact years ago. I hope they remember if they ever need us. No mater what - we will always be available to help. We miss them.
Hermione 3 years ago (edited)
Years ago my husband (then boyfriend) and I were driving across Easter Canada at night during a snowstorm. The car, an old Civic hatchback, wouldn’t heat up. We were cold and terrified that the car would stop running leaving us stranded and freezing on the deserted highway. Husband said if only we had cardboard to put in the grill it would heat the car but we realised the likelihood of finding card was almost zero. A few km on and we saw ahead a dumpster outside a cafe and pulled over. I got out to rummage through with the hope of finding card in there, hoping it wasn’t to disgusting. Opened the top and the whole bin was full of just cardboard. Husband slotted some in front grill, the entire car heated up and we were able to carry on the rest of our 16 hour journey.
𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣 3 years ago
That's quite a story to get to tell. And it's lovely because dropping out of school shouldn't be seen as a failure. About 70% of students change either their major or their school over the course of a 4 year degree. Not everyone winds up wanting to work in a field they thought was cool at 17/18, especially not after learning about what it'll actually be like. And sometimes life events just happen and we get set out on a different path than the one we started.
Monkey Spunk 3 years ago
I dropped out of Uni, my mum was furious, called me many names, we fell out, took many years to heal the rift. Cut forward some decades and this year I get a birthday card saying "you're a brilliant son and your father would be proud of you", there must have been someone slicing onions somewhere nearby when I read that.
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#2
I’m a firefighter and we got a call for an overdose around 3 am to a rough part of our district in the middle of winter. Unfortunately the patient was long gone and her dealer or whatever found her like that when he dropped some stuff. As we were packing up our stuff mind you this is a absolutely trashed mobile home, I hear something down the hall that said “lights?” I ask my partner if he said anything as it was just him and I cleaning up he said no. I walk to the far end of the trailer where I heard it and shine my flashlight I get a reflection out of the window. They have a small tool shed and it had a flickering light, it peeked my interest so my partner and I go out there. We hear crying and notice the door is padlocked. We cut it, and this little six year old girl was in there. She said her mom puts her in there when she gets mad at her. She said she got scared when she heard the sirens and didn’t know what to do. To this day I have no idea what happened or where the voice came from, but I’ll take the win on it.
Isa Trip 3 years ago
I think the mother is the one that ODd.. at least that is what i think.
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Sarcastic Cow 3 years ago (edited)
I think that this is something like 6th sense - your own brain picked up some information from the environment that suggested the presence of the child and its manifested like voice in this example...
C.Douglas 3 years ago
I agree. Our brains are constantly processing so many inputs at once that sometimes our subconscious picks up on something we didn't consciously recognize and that dissonance causes us to have funny feelings or hear/see things to draw our conscious mind to it
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jolie laide 3 years ago
Aaaaand this is why people should need a permit to breed. God love this guy for finding her.
#3
Was the 25th anniversary of my dads death. Was as always, thinking about it all day long. He was only 49 when he passed. Was passing a funeral home and got kind of sad, little more than normal. Was just hitting me hard. I was as at a stop light. Looked at car in front of me... License Plates read: LUV DAD
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
My late father does stuff like that ALL the time.
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Pamda Panda 3 years ago
The day my dad died, I order Chinese takeout for dinner because I didn't have the energy to cook. The fortune in the fortune cookie said "Family is very important to you."
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
I got a fortune in a fortune cookie once that read "a former acquaintance will unexpectedly resurface." I ran into an old classmate some time later :).
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Katie Coxie 3 years ago
They have the strangest ways of letting us know they are still there even though we might not be able to see them. I miss my dad so much but he sends me little reminders he's still around. And no one can tell me otherwise.
jolie laide 3 years ago
Seriously, I know people think I'm a fruit cake and that's okay. But these things DO happen, and they happen a lot... I have no frigging clue what they mean, if anything.. that's not the point. The point is, you see or experience something when you need it, and it helps you. I don't care what it is or what you call it, it helps, so go with it.
Mer☕️🧭☕️ 3 years ago
My dad planted a couple lilacs for me several years before he died. They were late bloomers but finally one bloomed...but I wasn't able to walk out to the bush at that time to see it so he very proudly brought me in a bloom. He died in 2020, and man it hit me hard. Later that WINTER, I happened to walk by that bush feeling all alone and missing my dad and guess what - there was one full, beautiful burst of lovely lilac bloom on it. In winter. Thanks, dad! a-lilac-62...ec-png.jpg 
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
It's my dads anniversary in two weeks, will be 5yrs. The only thing I truly wish for is so talk to him one last time
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Just concentrate on him for a moment and then tell him everything you want to say. You can also ask for a sign that he heard you on this upcoming anniversary. If you notice it then, whatever it is, please don't make the same mistake some people made here in the comments and tell yourself "This is only a coincidence!". There ARE NO coincidences, you only deprive yourself of some uplifting experience.
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Will Lanni 3 years ago
My older brother's spirit seems to leave pennies for me. I come across pennies in the craziest places, especially when his loss is really hitting and I'm in a dark place. I inherited his old toyota after he passed. Sat in it, going through the glove box and console storage. Grieving as I found odds and ends. Cleaned it, polished the interior, dusted, the works. Next day I'm driving to work and suddenly was overcome with his liss, had to pull over to cry. In the midst of it I look down throughteary eyes and there's a penny sitting there at the gear shifter. I had JUST cleaned the car and I never carry change. But lo and behold a penny. Pulled me right out of that grief. In other rough spots I've found a penny stuck to my shoe, sittjng in the walkway outside my office cube, and other strange places. Always as I'm being overcome by emotion.
Mer☕️🧭☕️ 3 years ago
Your brother is part of your soul and it sounds like he wants you to have a comforted soul that's at ease in the life you still live. So, "take the pennies and run with 'em"! He is still connected to you, so take him - and YOU - on beautiful, safe, happy, and ultimately fulfilling adventures whether it involves travel, a career you love, music, drawing, family... Your brother, your buddy, is still with you. Be at peace. And keep collecting those pennies.
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cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
A present to someone's kid from their father that helps another who lost theirs. That's heart-warming
#4
As a child visiting my Grandma's house (My Mum's - mum), whenever I left the house I'd wave next door to Ken who was always sat in the bay window looking out at the sea. They lived right on the coast off the North Sea in Hartlepool (UK) We'd never really talk, but just a little wave before I went to get into the car. One time I'm leaving my Grans house, I'm in front of my Mum who's stopped at the door to talk to my Gran. So I head down the steps and towards the gate. I turn back and see Ken in the window. Big smile as usual, waving at me. I give him a wave back. He stands up, gives me the thumbs up, and wanders towards the back of the room. My Mum comes walking down the steps and asks "Who are you waving at?" I replied "Ken". To this day, I can remember my mam's face. She just went white, but didn't say anything to me. It was only a few weeks later when she plucked up the courage to tell me, that Ken had died a few days prior to our visit to my Grans. I don't believe in ghosts, but I know I saw him. I can still picture his striped grey sweater with light stripes across it. Him waving and getting up out of his chair. There was no-one else in the house, he lived by himself. Brains are weird.
K- THULU 3 years ago
My mum alway swore that when she was seven she heard a knock at the door at 1 am and when she answered it , she saw her nan and said she'd wake everyone up, but her nan said" no I just came to see if you're all alright" and walked away. 2 days later they found out she died the night of her visit. My mum never believed in anything supernatural but always swore this was true.
jolie laide 3 years ago
Ahh bless. A cousin of ours, who was married and sleeping in the same bed as her husband, called our house at 2am (this was before I was born but heard the same story from both my parents) and she said, "Uncle Frank was just here at the end of my bed!" (Frank was my grandfather), my Dad asked her about it, and she said, "I asked him what Heaven looked like and he disappeared." I dunno what goes on, but something is, so yeah, I believe.
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Beth S 3 years ago
I don't think it is that brains are weird. We are energy, our spirits are energy, everything is energy - so to me it isn't surprising that we leave a thumbprint of energy behind us when we go.
ℙ𝕦𝕣𝕣_𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕕 3 years ago
Exactly! And energy doesn't die, it transforms into something else.
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Lollipop Girl 🇺🇦 3 years ago
Ooohhh, I would love to hear one of your stories!!
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Prism Dawn 3 years ago
"I don't believe in ghosts." 😂 Why are people such fundamentalist nonbelievers when we know so little about life and even when it means having to deny your own reality? "Does not fit preconceived narrative, must omit" is not how we progress in or knowledge.
HarperTheCentaur (they/them) 3 years ago
I mean, personally I’m religious and my religion contradicts the existence of ghosts. So it’s more of a faith thing than anything else.
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Brian Bennett 3 years ago
Brains are weird - but Ken gave you a final goodbye wave - that could be considered weird or wonderful!
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
Yeah. But people will believe what they want to believe or not believe. There's things in this world we're just not meant to know. Otherwise those things would not be such a mystery.
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GreenShoeLaces 3 years ago (edited)
My mom's cousin was in the hospital dying many years ago and we were at home a state away. My mom was taking a nap and all of a sudden she woke up and the phone was ringing. She told us to tell our aunt that she knows. Turns out in mom's dream he told mom he was scared and didn't want to go but she told him it was just like playing "mother may i" and to just take a step forward. He had died right before my aunt called my mom.
Dog Fanatic 3 years ago
I never experienced anything like this, only a dream about my Nana the night that she died.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
Sounds like this, but she visited while you were asleep.
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cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
He hung around for the rest of the visit because he knew it was one of the things you looked forward too and Ken did too
#5
When I was 10 years old I didn't want to go to school one day. I faked a stomachache so my Grandmother would let me stay home. Ive always been a bad liar, so my Gma tried to call my bluff. She told me if I was too sick for school then she would be scheduling me a Drs Appointment. 3 hours later I was rushed into emergency surgery. My fake illness was actually appendicitis and It was so inflamed that if I hadn't come in that day my appendix would have ruptured potentially killing me. I felt 100% fine that day. Faking sick saved my life...
Hex Gurls 3 years ago
depends on ur symptoms or something ig, cuz when i had it i was throwing up all night and had the worst stomach pains
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MellonCollie 3 years ago
Somehow, this person's subconscious knew there was something wrong, and made this child stay home. Our subconscious gives a lot of hints, we just don't always listen to them.
RenaMoonlight 3 years ago
This happened to me the other way round when I was 13 or 14. I felt incredibly sick and had a bad stomach pain, but my mom thought I was faking sick to stay home and wanted to send me to school, until I threw up - she immediately believed me then and rushed me to the doc with the suspicion it was appendicitis. I was then rushed to the hospital, and made it in time.
Becky Graybeal 3 years ago
I told Mom I was tired all the time (I wasn't) in Junior High, trying to get out of school. She took me to the Dr and we found out I had mononucleosis! First thing I said was "Mom! I haven't been kissing anyone!" (It used to be called the 'kissing disease')
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
Sometimes, when kids "fake" being sick there might be an underlying reason their subconscious picked up. Or something upsetting is going on at school.
#6
One morning I woke up and noticed my camera was on top of the sofa opposite my bed. I knew I didn’t put it there because it was a very expensive camera and it could very easily fall from this place. I had placed it in my cabinet. I went over, picked it up, and turned it on and clicked the button to view photos. There were hundreds of photos of me sleeping, all seemingly taken from the back of the sofa. I was literally so freaked out, I couldn’t stop crying. I lived alone. It was just photo after photo of me sleeping. The photos were taken in “quick snap”, where the camera takes approx one photo per second. I later realised the camera didn’t even have a “quick snap” setting so technically it was impossible for the camera to take the photos at all. The time stamps suggest all photos were taken between 2 and 3am. I’ve never figured out wtf happened, how the camera got to the sofa, or how it is even possible for a camera with no quick snap to quick snap, but I still have a USB with the photos on it and it still freaks me the f- out.
Suutashi 3 years ago (edited)
That and gotten a sleep study. It's possible she has a sleep disorder she's unaware of and has been sleep walking. If it is possible for me to put dry catfood into a coffee maker because of an inconsistent sleep aide then it is possible she could have been messing with her camera without being aware of it. (No, No one had catfood coffee the next day. Thankfully someone caught it before the coffee maker was turned on.)
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Molly Whuppie 3 years ago
Were they on an SD card in the camera? Sounds to me like someone took them with a different camera and then put them on the SD card in your camera to mess with you. You can probably open them in photoshop and look at the EXIF data to see if they were taken on the same camera. (There are websites that can tell you that too.)
Emily 3 years ago
I am a professional photographer. Basically all digital cameras have a “rapid shot” function that occurs when you hold down the shutter button. I’ve never heard of one not having it. I’d be curious to know what kind of camera this is, but TBH this sounds made up for that reason alone. Secondly - a USB? A USB what? USB is the type of connection. A thumb drive with a USB? A hard drive with usb? What?
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
OP means the port. Just the literal USB port. That’s where OP stores these photos XD
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Lance d'Boyle 3 years ago (edited)
BS. If it was an expensive digital camera (she/he reviewed the pictures so it was) than it has a rapid mulitishot function on it-- they all do; it's standard. Did she/he have a cat? They like to whack things and the multishot function takes many pictures per second, not one a second. This is a nonsense campfire ghost/bogeyman story or a cat that was goofing off at 2am. .
Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago
Sounds like someone has keys to your apartment. I hope you changed the locks and called the police, and if possible, moved.
T.Milly 3 years ago
Totally creepy. Perhaps the woman doesn't really live alone. She could have a drifter living in her attic or something. Wouldn't be the first time it's happened.
Jp@nda 3 years ago
Jesus, that might be worse. Ghosts are scary but humans are the absolute freaking worst
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When my daughter was little and she would get upset, something in the kitchen would randomly break. Happened way too many times to be coincidental and the things that broke did so in inexplicable ways. I clearly remember one instance very early in the morning standing in the kitchen, telling her she couldn’t have cake from the night before. She immediately looked angry and I heard a weird “plink” sound in the cupboard. Opened it to find the plate on the top of the stack was cracked in several places.
No signs of this in later years. She’s 24 now and I often allude to this and remind her boyfriend not to piss her off.
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
During a very stressful time in my life I had lightbulbs breaking inside their socket when I felt angry or overwhelmed. Very weird.
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Beck 3 years ago
When i was around 17 batteries in the remote would stop working, watches would not work and sometimes when I walked by the fridge magnets would slide down. Continued for well over a year. My mom likes to tell this story. She calls it may magnetic years.
June 3 years ago
I gave up on watches when I was ~25 yo. They never function properly. They randomly stop. The worst was a Swatch that started going counterclockwise 🤷♀️
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Dorothy Parker 3 years ago (edited)
Psychokinesis or telekinesis; doing things with mind, emotions.
SoozeeQ 3 years ago
Reminds me of Drew Barrymore's "Firestarter" movie. (Stephen King novel).
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Ray Martin 3 years ago (edited)
A number of years ago my wife, daughter, and I were in the lounge watching TV when we heard a bang from the kitchen and the sound of glass breaking. I got up and looked around but there was nothing, so I opened the kitchen cupboard to find shards of broken glass everywhere. Figuring temperature change had maybe caused a stacked glass to break, I set about cleaning it all up. However, when everything had been cleaned up, both my wife and I tried to see what had broken and there was nothing missing. Every glass, and every jar was accounted for and still whole. We never found out what it was.
Anna Taylor 3 years ago
Perhaps there was some odd aid pressure change. I've heard of glass shower doors spontaneously shattering for this reason.
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Enby.Minecraft.Bee. 3 years ago
I remember one time my mom was talking to my sister and i was mad at my mom for something. We had pans in the kitchen hanging on the cabinets and no glass in the house at all. We then heard something like the pans crashing down, glass breaking several times and a lady screaming. Me and my dad ran to the kitchen and everything was normal. No pans on the floor no broken glass nothing.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
Omg I had this happen once at home, I freaked the f**k out and thought I was insane but my roommate came out also and confirmed he also heard what sounded like a cupboard full of crockery falling and smashing.
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I've heard of this Phenomena. It's called Telekinesis. It's extreme energy currents emanating from the brain when someone is under tremendous distress, or when someone is unable to calm their mind but feels the need to suppress anger and upset in their thoughts. I've heard staff from youth group homes witness things breaking and moving on their own on a regular basis. I'm pretty sure I've had this happen when I was a teen. Got me in a lot of trouble because my folks refused to believe me, causing even more distress and anger. It's not controllable and it does either die down or disappear with age.
#8
Hubs and I going up to my parents’ house on Christmas Eve. Hubs is driving, we’re in the mountains, there’s snow on the ground. It’s just past midnight. I see a woman wearing shorts and a striped tee shirt, walking a dog, wearing no shoes. She has brown feathered hair- think Farrah Fawcet in the 80s. I turn to my husband to ask him if he sees this crazy woman... and she’s gone. Weirded myself out, but laughed it off. Next day, I tell the story to my parents. They give each other a weird look, and my Dad says... “I’ve seen her, too.”
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
Probably just too lazy to put pants on and just hurries up and takes her dog out. She’s probably a white northerner so she probably doesn’t give two shîts about the cold, and she just has nice hair.
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Alicia M 3 years ago
When I was 21, I got so drunk that I walked my dog, in the winter, wearing boxer shorts with bats on them and a t-shirt. True story. Embarrassing, but it's been a long time ago. I remember being so hot that the temperature didn't bother me.
𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣 3 years ago
Ahh, haha, I have a lot of those "impervious to cold" drunk stories. Best one was when my friend decided to strip down totally nude and run around the block (he lived right across the street). First off, I've never seen a grown man do a vertical leap the way he did that night but I'll be damned if he didn't scale that 6ft wooden fence without catching his balls on the little wooden spikes 🤣 Then he apparently forgot where he was going, ran past a few houses where some other kids we knew were partying on their porches, and wound up circling back to our place with a few stragglers who'd seen him running and decided to follow him back. It was a pretty funny night.
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YourNameHere 3 years ago
I lived in Boulder, Colorado. Seeing people like that in, the middle of winter, was a common occurrence.
emilyfrombulwell 3 years ago
is there anything more annoying than a person that refers to their other half as 'hubs'? possibly those people that use 2 capital letters to refer to their nearest and dearest but its a close call
Mer☕️🧭☕️ 3 years ago
Friend of mine and I were driving down a curvy, ill-lit road at night one time and saw a really tall man in an overcoat with a hat on walking toward us on the side of the road. NBD except, well, he had no face/head. There was just an empty void between where his coat ended and his hat started. THAT was creepy.
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Was up doing night/moon photography at Lake Wenatchee and driving out of the campground we saw a woman walking by the road at about 2 AM. It was very weird and not like there are a ton of houses near the campground and this was too early in the season for many but a handful of campers.
#9
Long story short, I lost a jacket at a roller rink when I was in 3rd grade. I had a lucky rabbit foot in the pocket that I bought at the skate shop inside. Months later, my mother, who is adopted, found her birth mother and her half sister. The first time I went to my newly found Aunt's house, she said she had a jacket that might fit me. It was my jacket, rabbit foot still in the pocket.
Marianne 3 years ago
That reminds me of the time I lost my jacket on the bus. A week later or so I took the bus to find the jacket exactly where I lost it. It was my exact jacket, but a size bigger.
XRaine 3 years ago
reminds me of a story. My mum had a friend when she was little (let's call her Patrice). Patrice had this one jacket that she loved very very much, but she eventually grew out of it and donated it to kids in Africa. Later, she went on a trip to Africa (I think to raise money or something?) and met this random kid. They chatted a bit, and she noticed he had a jacket that looked like hers. she checked the inside, and sure as hell, it had her name written in the collar. she wrote a book about it, I think.
J 3 years ago
What a crazy coincidence and a lucky rabbit foot. Not lucky for the rabbit though :(
Carrie Smith 3 years ago
Usually those "lucky rabbits foot" are fake. Just some plastic and fake fur or it would fall apart even if it were taxidermied correctly.
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Liz Rogers 3 years ago
More likely the rink donated the jacket to the thrift store and it was then bought by the aunt.
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Dadolwch 3 years ago
So does that mean your aunt just stole some random jacket at the roller rink?
Sue Hazlewood 3 years ago
Long story short someone picked my bike helmet up from the side of the road and rang my number written inside. Went to collect it and it turned out to be cousins on my fathers side and ended up getting to know them from there.
Nannychachi 3 years ago (edited)
My sister was wearing diamond stud earrings her son had bought her. It's winter and she's wearing scrubs, a scrub jacket and a winter coat. She is getting out of the car at work and catches the coat collar on an earring pulling it out of her ear. She looks everywhere in the car and on the ground and can't find it. She said she was just sick about losing it. After her shift she goes home, gets undressed and finds the earring in her scrub top pocket that was under the lab coat and winter coat.
#10
Time slipped by my friend and I one day. We got a contract in another town and drove out daily for 2 weeks. It was 1 hour to get there and 1 hour back but one day it took us 3 hours to get back to town. My friend realized something was wrong when his wife called him up asking why he turned his phone off and why he was so late. We left a little before 2pm and the call came almost at 5pm.
To this day we can't explain it, and to further complicate matters we both have receipts from a gas station we stopped at just before we got on the highway that are time stamped a bit after 2pm. My theory is that the aliens took us for 2 hours but who the hell knows.
Felix Feline 3 years ago
It usually takes me 3.5-4 hours to drive through Ohio. One time it only took an hour, but I didn't notice till someone asked how I got to their home so fast.
Karin Jansen 3 years ago
Was lying in bed trying to go to sleep, but it was insanely hot that night, so I couldn't. I had kicked my covers off of the bed, took of my clothes and suddenly I'm waking up four hours later, wearing pyjama's and tightly wrapped in my covers. So tightly and neatly I could barely wiggle free. No way I did or even could have done that myself. Still convinced the aliens borrowed me for a bit.
Ale Díaz 3 years ago
We usually drive from one city to another, it's just 1 hour drive, there is a small town with a bridge we have to pass through for that trip, it's just half way, at 30 minutes drive. One day we skipped the town and bridge, suddenly we were at our destination, i was chatting on the phone with my mom, she asked how the hell we reach our destiny in less than 30 minutes. It was very spooky and cool at the same time... sorry for my lousy english.
Bunzilla 3 years ago
Time slips. Apparently, the nature of our universe is not as concrete and linear as we'd like to think it is, however, our brains filter out the 'noise' so that we can perceive things as being linear and 'normal'. ... most of the time. There's tons of stories out there about people who've had similar experiences. Either missing time, or a journey that should take several hours takes them far less time. It's pretty weird stuff!
Crystal Anderson 3 years ago
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
Oh yeah and I really want to visit especially if Rod Serling is still there!
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Emmett O'Brian 3 years ago
The wife suspected they went to a bar or strip club but they really stopped at the rest stop and played an arcade game for way too long.
#11
So this still baffles me but when I was a kid we had moved into a new house and while the realtor was showing us around the house I saw a lady sitting at a white dresser in a pink room and she even waved at me but when I asked my mom who that was she just brushed me off because she was trying to listen to the realtor. The weird thing is that there were no rooms painted pink in the house and my family just played it off despite me being adamant of what I saw. Anyway fast forward a few years and I'm in high school at this point and we start renovating the house and while stripping the wallpaper in the master bedroom we found out it was painted pink at some point. Still low-key freaks me out.
June’s Very Own 3 years ago
I think the lady who lived there previously was just being friendly:)
MysteriousLegBruise 🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
Right? With my luck it would have been a distorted face screaming at me to get out
Load More Replies... Organic AutosMI 3 years ago
Doorway could have become a portal to alternate dimension where the owner of the Pink Room was still living there. This one kind of reminds me of the show Fringe.
Dana Ondráčková 3 years ago
I like friendly ghosts. My friend has a bad wibe ghost, he sometimes visits my flat, scaring my Guinea pigs do I Just play loudly "Smile song" by my little pony. She texted me her ghost is Back home with disgusted face planted on him 😂
cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
You were found worthy. You will live there until you die and then it will be your duty to find an acceptable guardian to protect the thing that should be forgotten
#12
Not to me, but to my dad. He would get horrible nosebleeds as a teen/young adult so he had cauterization, and they all but stopped by his late twenties. Fast forward 20+ years and he’s driving on the highway with my mom and sister, approaching an area where it drops to one lane. His nose starts hemorrhaging out of nowhere, hadn’t happened in forever. He pulled over for about 2 minutes to staunch the bleeding, then they were on their way. They were quickly stopped by a small line up of cars, dead stopped. No emergency vehicles were on the scene yet, but there’d been an accident. Turns out a head-on collision with at least 2 fatalities had occurred about 2 minutes prior. A bloody nose quite possibly saved my family’s life.
Tuna Fish 3 years ago
My dad was just like this. Turns out he has a condition called HHT. Check it out, your dad may have the same. It's hereditary so if he has it you got a 50/50 shot of having it too.
Bunzilla 3 years ago
Sometimes it's just dry air? Or maybe the dry air aggravates that condition? My dad used to get nosebleeds all the time until we started using a humidifier in the winter.
Load More Replies... Justme 3 years ago
I always try to remember that there might be a divine reason I’m stuck behind a slow car or hit every red light.
SoozeeQ 3 years ago
Huh. Hadn't thought of it like that. Usually, I'm frustrated and think "why me"? Food for thought, though. Thanks for posting it.
Load More Replies... cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
A spiritual shockwave travelled back in time and caused the nose bleed. The knock on effect would be that suddenly pulling over slowed the rest of the traffic enough to prevent anyone else crashing and turning it into a multiple car accident
Carrie Smith 3 years ago
Luckiest. Nosebleed. Ever. My brother suffers from nosebleeds like that. He has way too superficial capillaries so they bleed at the drop of a hat. They tried to cauterize them when he was tiny (about 2?) but didn't use enough numbing spray and it traumatized him for life. Hes almost 40 and it's rare for him to go a day without a nosebleed so he always has tissues to jam up to stop it.
GramDB 3 years ago (edited)
It was late and we were in a hurry to get to the freeway when our old friend Bill waved us down to say goodbye, which was strange, but we reluctantly spent 15 more mins saying goodbye. 5 mins later we reached the freeway and it was closed because of a head-on collision with an 18 wheeler and a small truck that had 2 fatalities…just 20 minutes before. Shocked, we realized Old Bill's chat had saved our lives. When we returned a month later we went to thank Old Bill for delaying us that night and why … but we were told that he had passed away a month ago! We always felt that Old Bill knew that was his last goodbye … but, did he know the 20 min. delay would save us from the 18 wheeler that went out of control at the exact time we would have enter the freeway?? Maybe so.
#13
When I was in college, a drunk dude fell from a 3rd floor balcony and got up and walked away like it was nothing. Seriously one of the weirdest/freakish things I’ve ever seen in my life.
Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
This has been researched. Drunks don't tense up the way sober people do, so they're less likely to be hurt or killed when they fall or are in a car accident.
Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago
a schoolmate was asleep and went through the windshield (not wearing seatbelt) when their car was backhanded. She walked away with one cut--doctors said the same thing.
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Alicia McVay 3 years ago
Can confirm, was sober driving friends in terrible storm. Did a 180 then rolled 3.5 times landing on the roof. I was the only person who got hurt. Broken neck and back. Then the er misdiagnosis me saying I'm fine. It was 3 months later I found out about the compression fractures. Scary. Someone was looking over us that night
Valerie Smart 3 years ago
Yeah that’s why most drunk drivers walk away while those they hit f*****g die
#14
I used to fence (the sport, not stolen goods). I was at a tournament and had just started a bout against a competitor. You win the bout by being the first to 5 points. I score what I believe to be first point, but the official indicates the match is over and I've won. I stood there confused for a second, but my opponent seems to agree and salutes and approaches for a handshake, so I go along with it. I check the scorecard and it says I've won 5-2. Totally lost probably 4 or 5 minutes of time. Hasn't happened since to the best of my knowledge, but it's been 20 years and I still wonder what happened.
June’s Very Own 3 years ago
You were so into the moment you didn’t feel the time fo past presumably
Ghosts 3 years ago
Yes, like when you drive home from work, pull up on the driveway and realise you don't remember the journey.
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Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago
There's also an--event where the brain erases time. It can be a few minutes, hours, and I believe the longest case was a few days. I can't remember what it's called (not a fugue state), but a friend had it happen. It usually does not reoccur.
Notyomama 3 years ago
Happens to me all the time but I have dysosmia. Certain smells, mainly soy, give me tiny seizures. I lose different amounts of time each time. It's really scary.
Load More Replies... Amy Sadler 3 years ago
When driving I often forget how I drove to my destination and am suprised when I suddenly arrive....it is common apparently...
Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago
I heard it's because you have fallen asleep! I hope that's not true.....
Load More Replies... cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
They were probably possessed temporarily by a legendary sword fight from centuries past who just could not resist the urge to have another go for old times sake
Nadine Debard 3 years ago
Very probably a transient global amnesia (TGA) or amnesia ictus. It can be defined as ‘a clinical psychopathological state with abrupt onset, of short duration, with diffuse, widespread, retro-anterograde amnesia of various depth’. Rather common, without consequences.
Vishy 3 years ago
I call it the zone. Been there. You are so involved in the sport that you forget time. You only come to tour sense when someone let's you know.
Swastik Kanwar 3 years ago
something like this happened to me its more of a blackout
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#15
I have a vivid memory of being at the Statue of Liberty as a child, on my dad’s shoulders, seeing the skyline of NYC. I remember what we ate for lunch that day, etc. I remember the ferry we took. I’ve always thought about this memory and talked about it, but my family denies I ever went to NYC. I didn’t go for the first time until I was 23, but strangely enough, when I went, I remembered everything just how it had been when I was there with my dad.
Blarrg 3 years ago
More likely a movie they saw, and the brain co-opted the memory as its own.
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Hedgeh og 3 years ago
Most likely a realistic movie or TV show - things like Sesame Street often show things from a kid's point of view. It's FASCINATING what our brains can incorporate as fact, especially when we're kids and still sorting out how to categorize and process things that happen to us.
Luke Andersen 3 years ago
This is called the Mandela effect, and actual thing where someone has memories of events that never actually occurred. Example: Ever heard of a movie called Shazam! featuring Sinbad as a genie? That movie never existed. look it up.
Jeremy Van Portfliet 3 years ago
I swear that it is a real movie, came out mid 90s.
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BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
Talk to people with certain disorders like borderline personality disorder. My sister has very different memories of our arguments. My dad would lie, know he was lying, then convince himself it was the truth.
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Mokayokok 3 years ago
* Can't really trust your memory, the even might have just been in a dream * https://thesciencebreaker.org/breaks/psychology/how-accurate-is-our-memory Our memories often feel like records of the past. But the dominant view among scientists is that our personal memories are highly prone to error and not to be trusted.
Ed Brandon 3 years ago
I don't believe in any of this sort of stuff, but I had the same experience in a town called Whitby, in North Yorkshire, UK. Its actually the setting for part of the novel Dracula, but still a pretty obscure place and unlikely to have been the subject of an extensive documentary or whatever. I knew where to go and what I'd find around each corner, went home and told parents about "going back again" convinced we'd been on a family holiday there. We'd never been.
#16
I was driving across the US and drove into Salt Lake City. For whatever reason, I got a craving for IHOP, so I punched it into Google Maps and followed the directions to a spot in the middle of town.
I walk in, and the place is....empty.
I don't mean like there were no customers. I mean there is literally not a person in the place. No wait staff, no customers, no cooks. Nobody. There was partially eaten food on all the tables. Bags and purses in the booths. TVs on everywhere. Burgers on the grill slowly burning. And there wasn't a soul in the place, like they all just vanished at once.
I was so freaked out I hopped in my car and drove until I hit the Nevada border before stopping to eat. Still have no idea what the f- happened.
Ka Se 3 years ago
Possible there was a fire alarm and everyone left to the safety place. (Maybe on the other side of the building.)
LRevello 3 years ago
yeah but you would take your purse. I don't know a single person who would leave their belongings behind...
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MagicJacket 3 years ago
I believe The Bible says that The Rapture will start in a pancake house.
NotTodaySatan!! 3 years ago
Hahaha! As someone who is also from a very small town, this would be hilarious!!
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Casey Mineer 3 years ago
It was probably on Feb 12th 2007. There was a live gunman shooting people with a shotgun and reports of a possible second shooter. IHOP is right across the street. I remember it well because I was actually on my way to have lunch there. I just met one of the police that was on the screen and they evacuated several blocks.
RafCo 3 years ago
It was the rapture. We missed it. Had to be at that IHOP at just the right time.
Emmett O'Brian 3 years ago
If you got the sign, you know where to be. Just expected a few more to show up.
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#17
I hit a patch of black ice in the dark going 60mph down the highway. At the time, I drove a 1 ton cargo van. It hit the guard rail and flipped. Not only did I walk away without a scratch, the car was drivable and I was only 30 min late to work.
Res Earch 3 years ago
My mom and I were driving ~2.5 hours to my grandparent's house one winter at night and there was snow and black ice. We hit a slippery spot and skidded off the road into the ONLY spot in the grass that had no trees for MILES. We took a second to breathe, pulled back onto the road, and kept going.
Mokayokok 3 years ago
How was it drivable if it flipped? How does one drive a flipped car since the chances of it doing a full flip is highly unlikely.
Memere 3 years ago
That's part of the "strange things people can't explain" - the van shouldn't have been drivable but it was. And it could have been a van that was reinforced for work use - my brother drives a work van that could be flipped & driven.
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#18
I had recently watched an early episode of criminal minds where an arsonist would lock people in their homes before lightning the house on fire. For whatever reason it kinda got to me. A night or two later I woke up out of a dead sleep and couldn’t get that episode out of my mind so I finally decided to just get up and check the front door. I swear I could not open the door. Unlocked it, but it was totally stuck. I woke up my husband because I was so freaked out. He also tried and couldn’t get the door open, and he’s a big guy! I ended up climbing out a window so I could push the door from the outside while he pulled from the inside. We finally got it open. I didn’t watch criminal minds for a long time after that.
Hedgeh og 3 years ago
Listen to them, for sure. But don't obey them blindly. People thinking they can choose their own facts is a large part of what's problematic about the world.
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Mokayokok 3 years ago
Yeah, I'd like to know too since it makes no sense.
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Cyndielouwhoo 3 years ago
I stopped watching that show years ago because of how much some of the stories freaked me out...even though I know it's fiction 😲.
Charlie Taube 3 years ago
They’re loosely based on real cases, sleep tight
Load More Replies... NotTodaySatan!! 3 years ago
I love crime shows, true, scripted... all of them. Criminal Minds has been the only one that truly gets to my brain psychologically. I can hardly watch it anymore. I dunno who writes their stuff, but it must be wild having their brain(s).
Jose Antonio 3 years ago
I remember that episode...that episode freaked me out, thats why i now have 2 fire extinguishers in our house.
#19
when I was younger we lived in a 110 year old victorian house. Everyone would notice weird things. I was home alone organizing the silverware when I dropped a fork on to the table only to have it bounce once and fly at the wall like someone slaped it. I still have no idea how you can drop something strait down and have it launch horizontal for 5 ft my parents when they first bought the house turned off all the lights (5 floors if you count basement and attic) My mom did the top 2, father did the bottom, the met in the middle, went to the first floor, left, got to the car and noticed not only was the 3rd floor light on but the blinds were now up. we had a seesaw, my mother turned on the light and saw it violently going up and down I was in the basement and felt a hand brush down my back. I jumped and turned and saw no one there. I convinced myself it was just my shirt moving weird. As I went up the steps I heard giggling. when I was older I was sitting on the couch and heard my dad say "What the fu waTCH OUT" right before a framed puzzel we had fell on me. My dad said he saw it lift it's self off the hook we had a Mastiff, A rottweiler, and a German Shepard. They refused to go to the attic. our entrence had two sets of doors. The front dors, then a small room, then the second set of doors. We never locked those doors as it was two large bolts that went into the floor and then a 3rd bolt that held the two doors together. Locking it was very hard with a key so you could only do it from the inside with considerable force. We came home one day and the door was locked with all 3 bolts. In other words our completly sealed house was locked from the inside. My mother flipped, grabbed us, and ran to a payphone to call the police because if that door is locked then there is someone in the house unless the left via a second or 3rd story window. 3 cop cars came, they unlocked the door with my mothers key and swept every last inch of the place down to one of them going into our crawl space. Nothing. Not only that my mothers gold necklace was laying on the table and all the windows were locked. We had a family friend who is a cop and one of my uncles who is a cop come spend the night. Next morning everyones is up and my uncle goes to leave only to see that the door is again locked from the inside. We removed those locks that same day. Mastiff was laying next to me while I was watching TV. Suddenly he jumps up and backs into me. He's growling and snarling while staring up the steps. The other two dogs run in and immediately have their ears go back and their mohawks go up. This went on for several minutes. Our german shepherd started inching toward the step and did a little lunge nipping at the air bearing his teeth. about a 5 seconds later I heard what sounded like someone full sprinting up the steps of the first floor from the landing to the second-floor steps, then the third. I called my mom from the house phone. While on the phone I heard what I can only describe as a wail from the the 3rd floor. Years later, parents are divorced, I'm with my dad for the weekend. I helped him clean the 3rd floor. We put the toys in a large toy chest from the closet they where in. While we our brushing our teeth I go pale. I'm hearing something so I shut off the water and ask my dad to listen. We both are completely quite. The sound starts again. it's the sound of clink clink but a bit of rythm to it. I couldn't place it at first then said "Dad I think that's the xylophone" we go up and the toy chest is open and the xylophone is on the floor.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
Well I'd be movein on up to the east side to a deluxe apartment thank you very much!
Load More Replies... Misstaken138 3 years ago
Super jealous you had a Victorian house. Not so jealous of your experiences tho. Lol.
Maisey Myles 3 years ago
I love that your dogs got their "Mohawks" up. I've never heard that before but I will use it from now on!
Carrie Smith 3 years ago
I have a golden retriever who raises her hackles when she's excited and it always looked like a mohawk when she was a puppy and we still call it that, lol
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Batgirl Kitty 3 years ago
By the first thing, I would have packed my stuff and walked right out. A definite nope.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
He said it's super difficult but not impossible
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Flash Henry 3 years ago
One of my friends lived in a house like that. They ended up having to move like a month after they bought it because the dogs would freak out like that non stop.
#20
Both of my lungs collapsed at the same time (almost over 50% collapsed) and I was walking around like I was perfectly normal. Until I decided to go to the ER for bubble sounds in my chest. None of the doctors could figure out why this had happened to me. They didn’t know how I was just up and walking around and laughing
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
Not sure that they would have, or could have if they weren't.
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Jeremy Pierce 3 years ago
In my early 20's, my left lung partially collapsed (35%), no rhyme or reason for it. I heard a "pop" internally. I joked, Oh sh*t i think i collapsed a lung. Three days later after being colder than i had ever been and not able to get warm in almost a pure hot water bath, i went to ER. Thats how i found out I actually did collapse a lung three days prior. Weird af. Btw me being cold, was me being in shock come to find out.
Squilmo 3 years ago
I had a spontaneous pneumothorax in my early 20's. Thought I was having a heart attack, but it was actually my left lung just spontaneously collapsing. The ER doc said that happens more often to tall thin people, which I was. It was super painful and I was in the hospital for about a week, though I only remember a few days of it. The weirdest part was the exact same thing happened to a close friend of mine the day before. Left lung too! He was in a different hospital, but it's so strange that this rare inexplicable thing happened to us within 24 hours of each other.
Jro308 3 years ago (edited)
I had same thing happen to me in my mid 20's but it was my right lung, two weeks later to the exact day it happened again to the same lung. The pulmonary specialist told me think of it like dish soap bubbles on the top of your lung and when they "pop" it lets the air out. Some people have the bubbles and it never happens, others have them and it can happen repeatedly. He also told me that it's more likely to happen to people in their mid to late 20's if it's going to happen at all and yes being thin can play a role in it. I was thin but short and female. In the end they sealed the top of my lung off so it wouldn't happen again.
Load More Replies... Lennart Rademann 3 years ago
This is actually not uncommon especially in more "asthenic" i.e. long and slim, young men. Sometimes you find some cysts responsible, sometimes , you don't. As a young healthy person you really need less then 50%capacity. If somehow there develops a valve mechanism it gets critical quickly
Hollie Marie 3 years ago
Yep my boyfriend 6'5 had his left collapse twice cuz of cysts and then his right had a cyst burst and then later on collapsed he's had two major surgeries and they had to glue part of his lung to the chest wall because skinning the lung wasn't working
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Lisa Shaw 3 years ago
I know someone who walked around with a collapsed lung for 2 days, doctors could not explain it. When he asked they told him of a phenomenon called "spontaneous collapse" happens most often with tall skinny men in their early to mid twenties and medicine does not know why.
blue_molly 3 years ago
I wonder if this was the drunk guy that fell off the 3rd floor balcony...
Lucretia Yuckmeister 3 years ago (edited)
Unusual that he was up and walking around. Pneumothorax is usually very painful, and the chest tube that are inserted to help decompress the chamber, are even more painful. Wowza!
abby smink 3 years ago
I've had a few patients with that up and walking around.
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Whodathunkit 3 years ago
Spontaneous pneumothorax is not uncommon in young healthy men or teenagers. Nor sure your gender or how old you are. But usually it's accompanied with a feeling of dread and shortness of breath. Your story is interesting!
#21
Several times a year I'll suddenly get a though that it's been a long time (usually months) since I last spoke with a particular friend or relative, then I will get a voice call or an email from that person within a few hours. Can't explain it. I never tell them about this because I fear losing this strange thing that I have. Anybody else have this?
Nopety 3 years ago
Yes!!! I'm sure we have a connection with people that is not yet explained by science
Scagsy 3 years ago
I think you're right. My spidey-sense starts tingling right before my wife rings. Weird. Doesn't happen with anyone else, only my wife, and the same thing happens to her when I call.
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AndThenICommented 3 years ago
Yes! All the time! Or I have dreams where we speak (particularly old boyfriends), then almost without fail I’ll get a message or call within a short time
Q B F T 3 years ago
Confirmation bias, more likely. Human beings are hardwired to spot patterns, so much so that we spot it in things that aren't there. During the day, you probably briefly think about lots of different people, unimportant thoughts that you forget. Then one of those people phones. You believe it is significant that you thought about them and they phoned. You see a pattern there. You ignore/forget all of the times in your life that you thought of that person and they *didn't* phone, or all the people you thought of that day that *didn't* phone.
Ed Brandon 3 years ago
100% this, you beat me to it. We don't notice the thousands of times we think about someone and they DON'T call, email, text, bump into them somewhere, etc.
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DorkLimester6000 3 years ago
Ok, so something different, but kinda similar happens to me. When I’m with my dad, and someone says something like, I’m still alive, ill think of the song I’m still standing, and then somehow, my dad starts singing that. Or when I’m thinking of a song, or a famous line, my dad says it sometimes. The weird thing is, when I think that its going to happen, it doesn’t, but when I’m just zoning, it does. Does this happen to anybody else???
YourNameHere 3 years ago
This happens with me, whenever I'm thinking about my grandmother. She will call me, usually within a couple of hours of me thinking that I need to call her.
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 3 years ago
Happens to me all the time. I'll also have dreams about that person. I have dreams that come true more often than not. I can also estimate when someone will come home and they'll get home around that time. It happens at random times. I can also tune in if I get seperated from someone at a store and I'll be able to find them.
Sarah Matt 3 years ago
I can do this too! The grocery store locating started with my mom. It was natural and eventually I noticed how i would take the most direct route and Bam there she is. Eventually I learned to kind of tune in my.. awareness to a sort of pull I felt in my abdomen. I have been able to feel that with a few people in my life. Its special to me.
Load More Replies... Marco Conti 3 years ago
That's been researched pretty extensively and it's a case of confirmation bias. You remember all the times you thought of a person and they called (especially if a good friend or relative) but forget all the times you thought of that person and they didn't call.
#22
I was in traction in hospital, a guy who said he worked maintenence came into my room to repair the light above the shower. I was in traction and could never leave the bed I was in, we joked sarcastically how the light would be so handy for me. He asked what happened to me, and he told me about the terrible industrial accident he was in. He said he would come back and visit me and bring photos of the injuries that the Dr.s said would leave him unable to walk (same diagnosis I had been given). He did come back with photos, we had a good talk, I felt very encouraged when he left. The next few days I told different staff members about this nice young man. They all told me no one with that name worked maintenence in the hospital. They had not heard of him and said maintenence was not working on our hospital floor that day nor the whole week.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
For those wondering - OP stated in the comments on the original Reddit thread that she did, indeed, walk again :D
Tunk 3 years ago
And out of all the hallucinations that they could of had, somehow the one they had is the one they needed the most. You know not everything needs an attempted explanation.
Load More Replies... Alicia M 3 years ago (edited)
I lost a lot of blood delivering my first child. I was lying in bed and someone came in to mop up the blood on the floor. Had an entire conversation with me. I realized later that never happened. (Of course the blood got cleaned up but not the way I thought it did.) I know it was the result of the blood loss and possibly some medication I'd been given but it's really strange to see something that wasn't there, especially when it feels so real.
KC Nordquist 3 years ago
Any positive word in that instance is an excellent thing, no matter how it occurred. I hope she still felt encouraged by him/his ghost.
Persephone 3 years ago
Weird s**t happens at hospitals, especially old ones. I have sooo many from the one I worked at.
Emmett O'Brian 3 years ago
I work maintenance at a hospital. This must have been one of those vigilante maintenance workers. Happens all the time, I go up and the problem is already fixed.
cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
Yet 50 years ago, a maintenance worker at the hospital had been found seriously injured. He was saved, and his injury fixed, only for him to die of a further compilation no one saw coming. He still repairs things without anyone noticing because who notices the guy in the overalls carrying a ladder and a screwdriver?
#23
I turned to the other person in the room, who I barely knew, and said "My sister is getting engaged right now," without having the intent of speaking at all. He politely asked why I said that, and I had to shake my head and say "I don't know." A few days later I found up that, sure enough, ah that exact moment on the far side of the world, she had said "yes" to Mr. Right. I hadn't even known she was dating.
Amaiya Intres 3 years ago
Me and my younger sister sometimes say that exact same thing at the exact same time and even in the exact same way! It’s really weird but really cool, we think it’s because we’re never away from each other for an extended amount time. (May or may not have separation issues)
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Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
Something similar happened to me. I was in the lobby of a theatre waiting for a play to start at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada. I suddenly turned to my friends and told them I'd catch up with them later. I walked out of the theatre, and directly to a sporting goods store, where I bought a soccer ball. I'd never been to Stratford before, and I didn't play soccer, yet I walked several blocks as though I knew exactly where I was going. I couldn't explain it to my friends; it was just an overwhelming compulsion. When I got back home to New Mexico, I found out that my little brother's expensive hand-sewn soccer ball was stolen just before I had the compulsion. He was absolutely ecstatic when that gave him the new ball.
Mer☕️🧭☕️ 3 years ago
You're a great sibling! Thank you for doing that for him!
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Will Lanni 3 years ago
My younger brother and I shared a dream one morning. I was in Arizona, he was in California. I was dreaming of the sedona desert, the hills, the landscape, and suddenly what felt like a movie screen dropped down into my vision. He was on the screen, beaten up and crying, asking me where I was: "they broke in our house and wrecked it and beat me up, where are you?" I woke up and texted him asking if he was ok. He told me about a dream he had just woken from when I texted where a huge guy had broken into our apartment, beaten him up and wrecked the place. He had gone to my room in his version of the dream looking for me, and instead of my room, I was in front of a two story building in the desert next to a painted wood sign. When I showed him the google street view of the motel I stayed in (two story with a big wooden sign out front) he tripped out. "That's it!!! That's where you were in my dream!" Like our dreams had a crossover episode.
Alice Teasdale 3 years ago
Indigenous Australians don't even consider this weird. Dad had a post grad from Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) in a tutorial in the early nineties (pre mobile phones). He suddenly withdrew, then excused himself. Came back later to apologise and said he knew his uncle had died and he needed to phone his family to find out what had happened.
Mer☕️🧭☕️ 3 years ago
I love that their culture allows for this kind of thing to be seen as entirely normal. Kudos to them!
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deadinside 3 years ago
my old best friend and i used to have similar experiences... we haven't talked in a while tho
#24
When I was about 12 years old I went up to Lake Tahoe with my friend and his parents who had a condo in Incline Village. One day, the two of us are walking to the bowling alley and cross a street in a crosswalk. Right before we get to the curb, a car comes really close to hitting us. All of a sudden, we're both up on the curb, like we were lifted a few feet. We both looked at each other strangely. "Did you jump?" "No, did you?" "No" We spent the next hour kind of dumbfounded. It didn't feel like a shove or any use of force. We were still in the street, then we weren't.
ℙ𝕦𝕣𝕣_𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕕 3 years ago (edited)
You learn a heck of a lot in the comments here in addition to the posts. You guys are awesome.
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OmMarol 3 years ago
that may be a sudden response we get when we're in danger, like people that are momentarily able to lift heavy objects to save someone that is getting crushed, etc. My sister and I when we were like 6 and 8 were chased down by an angry rottweiler until the dead end of the street. The end of the street has a dry water canal and then there are houses, but there's like a 2m wall or so. I don't know how my sister and I just jumped in one move, like a rabbit, and we found ourselves on top of the wall. The dog was finally caught by her owner, but then we couldn't get down because it was too high for us lol we had to be rescued
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
“Don’t question anything that happens just be a drone who doesn’t know shīt about the world around you.” - Val
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Ok, so it's not that I can't explain it, or if it even needs explaining really, but was just so bizarre I still recall it at least a few times a year. When I was about 18 I worked at a grocery store and one day this young man entered, that I sh*t you not, looked EXACTLY like me. Like, weirdly too much alike, he and I. This young man was wearing the same damn outfit as me, khakis, a blue polo, and a brown coat, though his coat was a little darker. When this gentlemen met my gaze we were just eye-locked at every point we could see one another throughout the store, both with the stupidest perplexed looks on our faces. The only difference I could tell was this person was a little older than I and had a goatee. I assume this was my evil twin. He left the store after buying his stuff and life went on. But...It doesn't end there. The next day a strange woman approached me asking "stupidd**kface, why are you here?!" I turn around to to see someone I do not know. "How do you know my name?" , I ask, "Do you know me?" She says, "Oh my gosh, I thought you were my son stupidd**kface, you look EXACTLY like him!" The dude even shares my f-ing name. This sh*t is weird. I confirmed with the lady that her son stupidd**kface did come in the day before and was home temporarily from college. Another very perplexed person from this oddity. So. I continue to ask her about her son since we look identical and she told me about his age(2 years older) and where he grew up(the town over) and he has two older brothers and a younger sister. I have two older brothers and a younger sister....I asked this womans name and of course, "Oh my name is Karen, nice to meet you." My mothers name is Karen... I didn't probe on any further, but I'm not even sure I want to know how far down that alternate universe me went. It was just so unbelievably strange, the circumstane overall. But the weirdest thing by far that is what sticks with me most is this weird a*s feeling I had when stupidd**kface and I were staring at each other. I assume he felt this too by the look on his face. A feeling I've never felt and still have since felt. A feeling that I can really only describe as knowing that the other person I'm looking at is me some how. I don't now, can't explain it fully. I wonder if identical twins feel that same stuff.
NinaRosario 3 years ago
For anyone wondering, the lady did not swear at them/her son, it's op's username. Probably just me who needed the explanation though lol.
Brandon Marlowe 3 years ago
So, the guy who looked like you was from the next town over? Could be your half-brother. Ask Dad.
Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago
Have you seen the documentary Three Perfect Strangers? Maybe get your DNA tested.
g90814 3 years ago
All this and you didn't stay in touch to figure out the connection? Maybe Dad got around a bit in his younger years.
Red 3 years ago
Not as freaky, but there was a girl at my school, same class as me, same height, body type and style. We could easily be sisters. One day I was checking the school's Facebook page, there were some pictures of a vernissage. I went check and was like WTF! That's me but I wasn't there that night. Looked again, showed my mom because I was shocked, it was her.
Amaiya Intres 3 years ago
I was watching this young woman being serenaded by two guys but she looked so much like me, just older. It freaked me out but also made me think that if she was bro serenaded I could just as easily be serenaded. Oh to have just one guy serenade me 🫠
Will Lanni 3 years ago
La la la laaaaaaaaa ladeedadada. Laa laaa dee dadadee dada.
Load More Replies... Brian Bennett 3 years ago
I would have gone and checked the next town over just for my own peace of mind!
#26
At friends house. Friend was in garage working on dirt bike. Driveway empty because parents left a while ago. Go inside to grab a soda but decide to look for his cat. Who I haven't seen all day. I walk into the office and as Im calling her name, a deep man's voice goes "Meow" right into my right ear. I jump and run around the main floor looking for who said that. Didn't find anyone.
Insono 3 years ago
I'd console myself with the thought that my resident ghost is apparently a comedic genius lol
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Carrie Smith 3 years ago
No. Get out. Leave now. Don't bother taking purse, just leave it at the iHOP
KindredKiller 3 years ago
Yea I'd probably not even look for the voice.. that's how people die in horror movies
#27
I had a sleep paralysis nightmare when I was a kid, where I saw a red-eyed dark figure standing in the doorway. It's always stuck with me, and I've called him the boogeyman ever since. One day I was browsing Reddit and somebody painted a picture of their "sleep paralysis demon". It was like the guy had painted my exact dream. And then a bunch of people commented that they had seen the same creature. It always makes me uneasy to think about.
June’s Very Own 3 years ago
I think that most of us have a pretty basic idea of what a “boogeyman” looks like, so it’s not that surprising that multiple people has the same image in their minds.
Ovata Acronicta 3 years ago
I have pillows at the foot of the bed - actually pillows everywhere, I sleep in a 'nest' - and there are things under the bed. At the time I had this bout of sleep paralysis, there was also a mass of stuff at the foot of the bed, so no room for a creature. The sun was shining into my room through the damnable curtains and I could see clearly this empty space there, when a huge hand shrouded in shadow reached up and grabbed my ankle super hard. Being "aware" of certain things helps me a lot, so I knew what this episode was, and shook off the entire experience, only to actually wake up later and feel a remnant of pain in my ankle. Probably twisted it under a pillow, but still. It was fun! and terrifying.
Peter Ng 3 years ago
I've had sleep paralysis a handful of times before too. If you google it enough, tons of people will have similar experiences. It is EERIE! one time: I clearly remember feeling a presence across the room but not seeing anyone. I was really tired so I took a nap feeling very paranoid that something or someone was still there. I kept waking up feeling like it was closer each time. Eventually, I woke up feeling like it was on top of me. I could not feel anything touching me but I could not lift my arms or get up. I still couldn't see anything but I felt a presence.
Sandra DeRosia 3 years ago
Could be something to do with the way the electrical signals in the brain are working the same way that a lot of people who are dying to see a bright light.
Enby.Minecraft.Bee. 3 years ago
I remember when i used to sleep in the same bed as my mom and dad, i woke up in the middle of the night and the room was completely dark(Which was weird because we had left the TV on and my nightlight they might have just turned off on there own though) As i was about to wake up my mom a black figure came in. And i mean i could see it because it was darker than the room was and the eyes were glowing red, and it just waved at me and turned around and left. Then my sisters cradle turned on and started playing music and rocking with the little mobile spinning around (It might have had a timer idk)
Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago
apparently, this is very common. There are research papers about it--
cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
The door opened and he saw the dark room. He walked in slowly and stared at the child lying in bed. That was when he noticed the eyes open and staring with a white glow. The glow struck fear within him, and he backed off, his paralysing aura recoiling as he backed into the closet. His red glowing eyes fading. He stepped back into his infernal doorway, took out a list and wrote 'Protected, try again another night' and then drew his finger down to another name. He waved his hand over the doorway and stepped through into a different dark room with a sleeping child. 'Perfect' he thought, 'I can drain some of this one's innocence and be away without anyone noticing'
#28
My dad owned a small garden shop, so I'd stay behind the checkout after school till the shop closed. This was until I see a tall man wearing all black, like a trench coat, walking past my dad and smiling at me before going into a staff only area. I jump up to stop him, even though I was 7. This back area filled with new shipments. I turn the corner but nobody is there. There was nowhere he could've gone. I ask my dad to check the CCTV after closing, but it's only shown me jumping up and running, and running out of frame. Weird stuff, never felt comfortable there again.
Tobias Reaper 3 years ago
sounds like the start of most horror movies dont believe the kid then all hell breaks loose
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
It's awful if they don't believe you then they have "proof" no one was there - makes you question your own sanity!
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Alleman Jennifer 3 years ago
I was laying in my bed and I saw my daughter at about 6-7 yo tip toe into my 2nd story room to get something. She popped down at the end of my bed out of sight. Sweet! She didn't look to see if I was awake so I thought oooohhhhh I;m going to make her jump! I jumped up from the bed suddenly saying boo or something expecting her to be very surprised. I was surprised. There was no daughter at the end of my bed, in my room, . Nowhere. Whoa. I just saw her come in. Well, she was somewhere. She was downstairs watching tv and eating snacks with her sibs. She hadn't gone upstairs all day. Pretty crazy.
Alias Delfs 3 years ago
Sounds like shadow man or a sentient ghost. Or there was a gas leak making you see things?
#29
I was just a 6-year-old kid deciding what to do after school while I was in my grandparents living room. I saw a red flash shoot out of the wall and go from that side to the other wall and into it. A second later a big earthquake hit. I saw some sort of visual shock wave from the earthquake. And no it wasn't those weird lightning ball things. In my childish mind I thought that I just saw the flash (The comic book character) run through the room. Another cool one that is explained by sheer unbelievable coincidence is that I phoned a friend so I hadn't spoken to in at least 3 years and it went to voicemail. After I left a voicemail I saw I had a voicemail notification. It was a voicemail from the person who I just called. The weirdest part is that we must have called each other at exactly the same moment otherwise it would have done the call waiting thing instead of sending to voicemail. We immediately called each other back and tripped out about how weird that was.
El Dee 3 years ago
This is a thing, National Geographic have an article on it. They're still researching why it happens..
XRaine 3 years ago
that's so cool! do you have a link to it? thanks so much :)
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Robin Ward 3 years ago
My dad thought that tectonic activity put pressure on a vein of quartz in the ground, which created an electric field (Piezoelectricity). This can lead to sightings of ball lightning and other strange effects.
Stacey Montebello 3 years ago
The women on my mother's side of the family do this like once a month to one another.
Eb 3 years ago
I once called a friend and the line connected without ringing first. I thought she .ust have picked it up quickly but she started talking as though she was starting the conversation rather than answering a call, and it turned out we both dialled each other at the same time and somehow the calls met in the middle and connected.
otplus 3 years ago
Not ball lightning, thats earthquake lights, or if they are red lightning above the clouds they are sprites, ball lightning as the name implies is a ball made of electricity
Load More Replies... Amy Sadler 3 years ago (edited)
yes, I called someone and heard silence....I heard heavy breathing and said whos that? It was the person I had rung, they had picked up the phone just as I rung so that the ringer didnt even go off on their phone.....
#30
My girlfriend got out of the shower and called me into the bathroom to show me the mirror. There was a very strange, distinct handprint placed on the mirror.
I lived alone and she was the only adult that had been to my house in about two years. We each placed our handprints on the sides of the mystery handprint for reference and neither look anything like the mystery print. I still have no idea how it got there.
Shelp 3 years ago
that's more than crrepy why am I reading all those stories while being home alone anyways
Megan Boswell 3 years ago
I'm usually dumb and read these things right before bed.
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Isidien Gudmundsdottir 3 years ago
About 3 years ago my late wife wrote on our bathroom mirror when it was all fogged up. She passed away about 2 years ago. I didn't clean that mirror for at least a year but then just had to even though I really didn't want to do it because of her sweet message. To my surprise it's still there as if she just wrote it, this is now 2 years later after her passing and 3 -I had t0- cleaning of the mirror.
Misstaken138 3 years ago
That's a beautiful story. I'm so sorry for the loss of your wife.
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cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
As they put their hands on the mirror, the girl on the other side removed her hand, smiled and thought "Gotchya!"
Persephone 3 years ago
OK this is pretty common... any guest could have put their hand on the mirror MONTHS ago; oils you can't see remain, and repel the formation of condensation when it gets really steamed up. Then it becomes visible at an unexpected time.
#31
It's hard to pick the strangest, but there was the time a can of soda exsploded, and then didn't. I was working in my garden and had gotten myself a can of coke zero. I cracked it open on my way out the back door, took a few hearty chugs and sat it on my small garden table I keep out by my raised beds, and got back to working in the garden. I have on wireless earbuds and listening to a podcast as I work on cleaning the pumpkin patch of weeds, when out of the blue I hear and practically feel a loud BANG, to the point I exclaimed louded "what the f*ck?!" and pull my ear buds out. I live in a rough neighborhood, there's been shootings and what not so I kind of duck down and start looking around to get a feel of things. That's when I see it. My can of coke is knocked down to the ground and just spitting foamy coke every where. No way that's the noise, right? But I run over and pick it up (with the logic being diet coke probably isn't even good for plants) and I wipe it clean and start looking it over and I realize not only is it full, it's completely unopened. I know I opened it, I know I drank half of it, and I know moments before I had seen it laying on the ground shooting coke up into the air. I even had to wipe it off. I have no idea what the bang was, or how my open spilled coke suddenly became full and unopened in my hands.
Fraxinus excelsior 3 years ago (edited)
I think the plants you are growing may be a little dubious?
A.S. 3 years ago
Maybe it saved you from being shot. Or you actually died and switched realities?
Alexej Dvorak 3 years ago
I like this one. I am choosing your explanation to be correct.
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Celena Camps 3 years ago
A couple of weeks ago I was driving and went to switch lanes . I was in the car by myself. I suddenly hear my name being called/ whispered in my ear and a rustling sound .. i turned and saw vehicle whizzing by. If i had turned when i planned to i would have hit it. Not scary, more like a guardian angel.
cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
The bang was air displacement as you dropped back in time by a few minutes without moving from your current spot
Cody 3 years ago
A slightly more boring explanation. Maybe you finished cleaning up the spilled coke, took care of the spilled can, and got yourself a new one, but all on autopilot and lost the time in-between.
Ryan teah 2 years ago
Why is it boring? Why is the truth boring? I don't understand you people
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When I was like 8 I had a battery operated lamp that worked for like a week with no battery’s in it
Natalia Maciel 3 years ago
In the context of all this stories it is quite mundane and yet strange and hard to explain
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MaireC 3 years ago (edited)
I walked into a shop selling Lucky Waving Cats in Fremantle in the early 2000s. Woman at the counter was staring at a large one that was waving away, looking worried. I asked her what was wrong, and sounding completely confused she told me that when she put the batteries in,it would stop waving. Take them out and the paw began to move up and down. Saw the empty battery compartment and everything. It was so wierd.
Dadolwch 3 years ago
Could have just had a really good capacitor built into it. Not to rain on anyone's mystical parade or anything...
Tami 3 years ago
Maybe a really big capacitor, and an LED bulb. But why would there be a capacitor in a lamp?
Load More Replies... Monkey Spunk 3 years ago
Did you though? Or did you have a sibling with a toy that had dead batteries?
#33
This one is strange to me because it was so long ago and I'm convinced I have to be remembering things wrong. I was a young kid at the grocery store and I saw this toy helicopter (like hot wheel sized) that I really wanted for some reason. I, of course, didn't buy it, but it the memory of it stuck in my head. A few nights later, I had a dream where I was playing with the helicopter, but I realized it was a dream and stupid young me thought that if I put it under my pillow, it would still be there when I woke up. After that, I woke up and eagerly checked under the pillow to get it. For some reason, it was right where I left it in the dream. As a kid, I wasn't surprised to find it there as it all made perfect since to me then, but years later I have no clue how the toy helicopter actually got underneath the pillow.
T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
Parents saw him take an interest in the toy helicopter, bought it for him, and put it under his pillow.
Iampenny 3 years ago
Hmmmm, so what if I dream about placing the deeds to my dream house in Greece. under my pillow... ? ;-)
Gini Sarver 3 years ago
I have photos of my daughter playing with a Barbie sized 🐎, it disappeared one day… about 7 yrs later doing some 🏡 remodeling, removing the wall ((playroom)) we found that 🐎, behind the drywall covered in cobwebs, still have no clue
Teresa Stabler 3 years ago
Like the tooth fairy but his parents took his desire and replaced it with the actual helicopter.
#34
I'm too young to remember this, actually. But my mom always tells this story.
Apparently, when I was younger, like barely able to speak, I was sitting on the floor playing with some toys nonchalantly with my mom when I just said "when I was in heaven, I met a woman who said you'd be the perfect mommy for me."
I apparently held the belief that I was in heaven before being born, and an angel looked at me and chose the mom I went to. My mom asked me to describe the woman, and I apparently described my mom's great grandmother perfectly. Down to the eye colour. I had never met my great great grandmother, nor seen a picture of her.
Jo Morris 3 years ago
"Barely able to speak" yet was able to articulate a complete sentence. I'll take this one with a grain of salt.
Nubis Knight 3 years ago
Yes and "barely able to speak" but able to give an in depth description of a person... -.-
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Tobias Reaper 3 years ago
when i was young and barely able to speak and before the internet i said to my mother "mother why do people make up obviously fake stories online to make themselves seem special" i was so a head of things as no internet back then
Bored Birgit 3 years ago
Oh come on, you didn't say Mother, you said Mom or Mommy, yes?
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Bi bird️y 3 years ago (edited)
Bloody snorkel? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%‰%‰%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%‰%%%%%‰%%%%%%%%%‰%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% | | | | | | | | | | | | | (I know what bs mean) frick i can't get to do the "click here to read morev thing!
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Felicia Dale 3 years ago
I’ve heard so many stories like this, parents or other adults recounting how they or their children said the most unbelievable things, often with much better language abilities than the kids usually demonstrate.
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Great Gram or great great? And barely able to speak but that's a lot of detail to get out w/o speaking very well or much at all. Things that make you go hmmm.
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
Parents indoctrinate kid with heaven and god stories, kid repeats it.
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This is one of the saddest ones because a child that small shouldn’t know about the concept of heaven or religion at that age. At least give them a chance to think within the realm of reality.
#35
I was in my room watching Hulu (The Simpsons, doesn’t matter) and a Burger King commercial comes on but it’s just the king mascot and he’s like “let’s have a staring contest” and I’m like “hmmm, okay” and I’m staring, he’s staring and suddenly I blink... IMMEDIATELY he says “gotcha, I won” and I was like WTF!??? I slammed my laptop shut and was creeped out the entire night. I watched Hulu all the time in hopes of running into that commercial but I never saw it again.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Quick question, why in the picture is the Burger King wearing a Stormtroopers uniform?
cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
I've seen this neat little trick. Your camera on the laptop watches your eyes and loops the video of the character staring at you and when you blink it detects the eye movement and plays the next part of the video
Cozma Ioan 3 years ago
Jolen here probably got hacked, and the hacker was bored. Used the mascot to hide his true face. I fear he's been or might even still be watching her...
NatalieC 3 years ago
OK, this is weird but not scary: My high school chemistry teacher hated me with a passion and picked on me relentlessly. One day I was told that the report I turned in was messy and I had to stay after school to rewrite it. The rewrite was done on some unusual 5-holed paper. As I was almost finished, I realized that I ran out of paper and had no idea where to find some to finish the report. I sat for a moment with tears welling up in my eyes, when someone from behind me tapped my shoulder. It was Jeff V., the school hunk and football star. He hands me a stack of 5-holed paper and says "This is for you" and walked away. To this day, I am still perplexed.
#36
I have very vivid and intense dreams. One night when I was around thirteen or fourteen I was dreaming of a safari hunt for t-rexes and we had to save a golden idol from pirates in the jungle. Strange dream but during it, while running, everything suddenly stopped. I saw myself face me (not sure how to phrase that) and I said, "Amythystia wake up! Everything is about to shake and you're in danger. Wake up!" I woke up instantly and sat up confused. Roughly fifteen seconds later my boxer puppy woke up and started whimpering and whining and the rabbit I had started hopping in his cage. Seconds later an earthquake occured. It wasn't very big, but strong enough to knock several photos down and my shelf. Now this specific shelf was mounted above my head. It was made of a very thick type of wood and on it was a collection of random "prized" items, including a quart jar filled with sand and shells, several large books, a heavy statuette, etc. Sufficient to say it was quite heavy. When it fell, it fell directly onto my pillow where my head had been a moment before. I hadn't ever felt an earthquake and live in a northern midwest state that rarely gets earthquakes strong enough to be felt. I have had other dreams since that foreshadowed events but that was the only one that happened immediately after. It still gives me chills.
DuchessDegu 3 years ago
Never place anything heavy over the headboard/where you lay your head. So many things can make the stuff drop directly on your noggin, at best you'd be very rudely woken up, at worst you'll never be woken up again!
Needmorecowbell 3 years ago
The most amazing thing about this story is her name, which sounds like that of a mystical dragon!
Jennifer Barrett 3 years ago
good reason not not put a heavy shelf or items on a shelf above your pillow... even if you aren't expecting earthquakes
Katie Thompson 3 years ago
I have had similar dreams about tornadoes and always assumed it was the change in barometric pressure. But when I started predicting personal interactions.....it gets weird
#37
Active duty us army here. Sometimes we have to pull 24 hour duties, just part of the life. For the most part its sitting at a desk and answering a phone. Well, I'm 17 minutes from getting off my shift. A few hours ago I had to step outside to salt the stairs cause its snowing. I had the door propped open with a chair, my #2 guy is away doing checks in another building. This chair is sturdy oak, pretty heavy, not going anywhere without some effort. Anyway, I'm clearing the snow and salting the ground. Turn around and the chair is upside down. NotAlone.JPEG. Carry on cause the ghosts dont like being looked at. Get done and the chair is side ways now. Say "ok mr ghost I dont wanna bother you, but I have to go inside now." Walk inside and bring chair with me. See empty trash can ontop of desk that wasnt there earlier. Say "Look Mr. Ghost I get out of here soon, can you leave please?" Black shape runs down the hall and hear a whisper in my ear "yes". Proceed to freak out internally. Say "Thankyou" and go back to watching Community on Netflix. Yep.
El Dee 3 years ago
Sounds like a typical Army prank. My uncle served and was in a hot/desert/scrub type country. They were away from camp and any kind of latrine so it's dig a hole etc. Obviously you find some scrub to shield you when 'doing your business' so the pranksters would quickly follow the pooper with shovel in hand. As the pooper squats they position the shovel, quietly, to catch the poop. It is then quietly removed and they remain hidden. After standing the first thing everyone does is look at what they've just left and on finding nothing he is shocked, worried and baffled - until he hears the laughing..
Kisses4Katie 3 years ago
My dad was a ranger. He has great prank stories. He also had a few ghost stories. Seems pretty common to the army
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
What a fuçking idiot lol. His coworkers must have been dying laughing.
#38
I once shut my ear in a car door. No idea how, have tried to recreate it and can’t, but my god that hurt!
Misstaken138 3 years ago
I can't even fathom how the heck you could get your ear shut in a car door. Too funny 😂
Kar D 3 years ago
I used to work in a store, sitting in the check out. I once slammed the lid to the money (don't know the term in English) and got my nipple caught.
#39
When I was around 14 I went to the kitchen around 2am for a snack and the refrigerator door was wide open. Our cat, Maguret, was sitting on the floor looking inside the fridge. He turned his head and looked at me then the fridge door slowly closed and he strolled away. Also several years later my step-dad woke me up at like 6am and "Maguret's dead" popped in my mind. He then told me that Maguret had died. That cat was mystical af.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Sometimes we hear something but don't fully absorb it. Then it feels like a premonition. Rather like deja vu.
#40
When I was a kid, my mom and I were sitting at a red light. The car in front of us went on red while the other side was turning. The car T-boned a vehicle that had a boat on their trailer. The boat flew off the trailer and was heading straight towards our car. It was going to crash straight through our windshield. My mom screamed at me to bend forward as far as I could so it wouldn’t decapitate me. At the very last second, the boat turned left and scrapped the side of our car. It turned so abruptly...like a big invisible hand just turned it for us. Wind, could be said...but there was no wind. Just a gorgeous day where a boat should have killed or very seriously maimed us and turned at the last second out of nowhere.
Sarra Johanssen 3 years ago
Boats are usually attached to trailers at at least 3 points - there are two tie-down straps on the back, and then there's a strap/hook with a winch at the bow. This one is used to reel the boat in onto the trailer when loading it onto the trailer at the boat ramp (and also to make sure it doesn't float away when launching!). I bet that the rear tie-downs failed on impact but the bow strap held, causing the abrupt turn. Yay, safety!
Who cares what I think, but... 3 years ago
Maybe it was still connected to the trailer and snagged sideways?
#41
My great grandma died and we buried her across town. Like, way catty corner. So we’re at the burial and they release some doves that are supposed to fly out, turn around and buzz us. But instead, they keep flying. So ceremony ends and we drive to my grandmas house waaaaay across town in the styx. We pull up, and the doves are there. My grandma starts bawling, saying it’s a sign and stuff. We had to call the guy to come get them. Said he had never seen anything like that before.
Rage of Aquarius 3 years ago
Either way, they shouldn't be releasing Stygian Death Birds, too dangerous for the general public.
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#42
This happened a couple days ago, and I’m really hoping someone can tell me there is a perfectly logical reason for it to have happened. I got a 2nd monitor since class is all online now. I was moving my floor lamp when the cement fell out of the bottom. Weird, but okay. I got that lamp from my aunt. I then grab another floor lamp from my guest room (that I’ve had since like 2007) and as soon as I step through the threshold to my room, that floor lamp’s bottom dropped out. Crazy! I ask my SO to borrow one of his he isn’t using. Guess what happened when we got to my place with it. Yup. That’s right! Bottom fell out. This is gonna be the most boring story on this thread. I can feel it.
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
Could be the way you hold them or the moisture levels in the air. It’s not a cement goblin.
#43
So, one night I had a dream that I was working out in the gym that I regularly go to. In the dream, I was in the normal spot where I work out, exercising, when all of a sudden, the lights in the gym go out. All the TV screens go off. Can’t see anything but, in the dream, it feels like some sort of smoke is filling up the gym and I can hear and barely see people panicking, running to the exit. Feels like maybe it’s a terrorist attack? I start running, trying to get to the exit, and it’s getting harder and harder to breathe. Just as I’m kind of hyperventilating and succumbing to the toxic smoke... I jolt awake. Very intense dream that stuck with me. A week later, in real, actual life, I’m working out in my gym... and boom, the lights and TV screens go out. It was this incredibly surreal moment where I actually thought I was dreaming again. I stood there stunned for a moment before realizing that the power just went out due to a thunderstorm. It came back on about 5 minutes later. I told a gym employee nearby that I dreamt about this! She laughed politely and probably thought I was insane. Really strange.
#44
I drove home at 2 am one night. I live way in the country. I was on back roads I've drove many times, and this car looked like it was coming over the hill quite a ways away. As I got closer it seemed like it was parked just over the hill waiting. I stopped and waited as it was a long way off when I first saw it so it should have come over the hill a while ago. Waited 5 minutes. ( seemed really weird for where I was. No houses around ) Started to drive up to it and the light got super bright and then it went dark. There was this blue stuff in the air above the road as I drove to where I thought it was. "Ive gone insane" I thought. Looked like ozone burning. The second time it happened my buddy was with me. same time same spot. Blew his mind. We never talk about it now. Location : 53.540777,-110.177447
insomniac assassin panda 3 years ago
I know this isn't the point but if you look up 53.540777,-110.177447 and go to images almost all of it is bored panda. odd, to me at least.
Load More Replies... blue_molly 3 years ago
It's a crossroad in the middle of nowhere. And you know what they say about crossroads https://www.google.com/maps/place/53%C2%B032'26.8%22N+110%C2%B010'38.8%22W/@53.540781,-110.1796331,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x69541b06bb9423d9!8m2!3d53.540777!4d-110.177447
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
I pulled it up on Google Maps and looked at the satellite view. A little ways north of there and just west of Cold Lake are the most interesting patterns of roads and industrial looking facilities of some sort. Oil derricks? Refineries?
#45
So when I was a kid, I slept with my bedroom door open because my cat liked to cuddle me. Our hallway was just a round hallway, and I could see the bathroom door and my parent's bedroom door (though it was dark, it was in view). I also slept with my lights only dimmed.
One night, I can't sleep for some reason. I for some reason call out for my mom, and I see her standing near my doorway, kind of turned away from my with her hand on her face and her hair draping. I know it's her because she slept in a big purple t-shirt that night, but she's completely still. Static. Mind you, I'm wide freaking awake. I might have been watching TV before this (3 am disney channel, probably). When I call out to her, she doesn't move at all.
Blink. She's gone.
I start freaking out and calling out to her for real, and that's when I hear their door open and close and my mom rushes to my aid. I think she either slept with me all night or I stayed up all night watching TV to pacify myself.
I started sleeping with my door closed out of that and I don't look too carefully in darkness.
Needmorecowbell 3 years ago
When I was 3 or 4 I woke from a nightmare screaming and my mom tried to comfort me. I kept pushing her away and screaming, “No! I want my OTHER mother!” Still freaks her out…
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#46
I once was changing pants in my room before work and took off my belt. After putting on my other pair of pants, I went to put my belt back on but it belt was gone. No one else was in the room and I spent a good 10 minutes looking for it as I had simply set it on the floor. It’s been 10 years and I’ve never seen that belt again.
Steve Fischer 3 years ago
I've had things totally disappear in a closed room. Searched every inch but couldn't find it.
Marisol L. Banks 3 years ago
When stuff has disappeared that I know I had moments before I’ll politely ask to please have it returned and most of the time when I look again, it’s back. Happens with stuff that has fallen on the floor or an item placed on the counter.
#47
Sometimes when I walk at night street lights will go out above me and turn back on when I’m a few meters away. It’s happened ever since I was a kid. It’s frequent enough that other people notice it happening around me. I literally don’t understand how or why it happens.
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
I used to have this happen two to three times a week while driving home from work. My "record" was three in one night. The oddest one was the night I picked out a light about two blocks away and stared at it as I got closer. Sure enough, as I reached it, it went out. It stopped happening eventually.
Adam Williams 3 years ago
Every person on the planet has an electromagnetic "field" they carry with them. At times, when things are just right, it can cause street lights and various electronics to short. It happens to me sometimes, I just chuckle and mumble that I must be a wizard.
Cat Palmer 3 years ago
Years ago my little sister came to visit and we went out to a bar and had one or two (or maybe three!) too many drinks. Walking home we found a streetlight where, if you stepped on the paving slab underneath it, the light went out. Do it again and the light came back on. We turned the light on and off a dozen or so times, giggling madly, before realising it was 1am and f*cking freezing, so we went home. Of course we tried again every time we passed the lamppost after that, but we could never make it happen again.
Ogre Juan Canolli 3 years ago
One Particular Light Did Often That To Me . Would Come Back On About 25 Feet Past
Agata Konador 3 years ago
I have the same when I am very tired. Like I was sucking their energy.
#48
When I was in primary school (like year 1-2) ;in the cafeteria there was all these cups filled with milk every lunch. Red, green, blue BUT ..only one yellow cup. Everyone would fight to get the yellow cup like it was the holy grail and it had been this way for years.
One night I had a dream that the cafeteria had gotten more yellow cups in, and low and behold the next day...
Hundreds of yellow cups.
Scagsy 3 years ago
I'm gonna take a shot at explaining this mystery. Maybe the school saw that they didn't have many yellow cups and ordered some. I know it's a long shot but maybe, just maybe.
Micah 3 years ago
The mystery isn't how more cups showed up, it's that the op dreamed about it happening the night before it did.
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Driving with the hubby and I see a bunch of bikers having a cookout. Out of the blue and I don't know why I said this, " People look down on bikers but I bet if the house across the street catches fire this men would run into it to save the little old lady" and I pointed to the house. That was the first time I've ever driven down that street. We just moved to the neighborhood. My husband and weren't even talking just listening to music. That night at 2am that house that I pointed to burned down and an elderly woman died.
ComfyPanda 3 years ago
And no censorship on yours either!!!! About damn time!
Load More Replies... Carrie Smith 3 years ago
They bet wrong and their idea killed a little old lady. GOOD JOB, OP.
#50
I was walking to work one really early winter morning, and about 30 feet from my house it felt like it got significantly colder. I zipped up my jacket and kept walking, about a third of the way to work the light I was going to cross at went out. No crash I could hear or anything obvious, it just went from green to dead. I thought, "weird but I got work to do." At the half way point, with no sun light anywhere, a street light way ahead of me went out. I stopped because as it flickered before dying it made me uneasy. I stood for less than a minute, and all the streetlights in front of me, starting from the closest to the first light, started flickering and going out, and it was only the ones on my side of the road. At this point I said nope, turned around, went home and called in. I heard sirens later in the morning but was not going to investigate. Been maybe 5 years and it still freaks me out when a street light suddenly flickers and goes out.
Anne Reid 3 years ago
Especially in the winter, when salt from the streets gets into the cables and erodes them.
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KC Nordquist 3 years ago
I've had sort of the same thing happening to me. I'll be walking along in the dark and suddenly a street light will blink out right above me. That's the only one, no others blink out. It's happened many many times.
Bunzilla 3 years ago
SLI, I think is the term for this (Street Light Interference). It's surprisingly common. They call people who experience (or cause, depending on opinion), SLIders. Really makes me wonder about possible abilities of the human body that we're not fully aware of.
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On Reddit one night, I read that thread where the OP hallucinated weird stuff until a commenter suggested that he check for a carbon monoxide leak. The commenter probably saved his life. I went to bed thinking, “Oh yeah, I never did check whether my new house’s smoke alarms also detect carbon monoxide. I need to check that out in the morning.” At maybe 6 AM, my wife and I awoke to our fire alarms screeching, with a recorded voice telling us carbon monoxide was detected. We grabbed the baby and the dog, piled into our car in the driveway, and called the fire department to check it out. After they tested, they told us no carbon monoxide was detected, but sometimes fire alarms behave unexpectedly when their batteries are low. This was maybe 5 years after moving into a house that’s new construction, so yes, I was super delinquent in checking it. It wasn’t even the first time I’d read that story on Reddit. Anyway, there is absolutely a logical explanation: an improbable but possible coincidence. But that’s how I ended up spending huge piles of money on a bunch of Nest Protect units, so I could at least get a pleasant phone notification when my alarms’ batteries are low.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
A quiet notification could go very much overlooked in our house. Last year the air filter for the return was finally changed after much insistence and was over a year old. It had July from the previous year written on it. My daughter's husband had sworn he had changed it every couple months and would act indignant towards me for asking. It felt like my eyes were being pelted by something every time it turned on, because the vent was above my pillow. The return is in the dining room ceiling and neither I nor my daughter can reach it, we're just 5' tall and even with the step ladder, it's a no go. That was the most disgusting warped air filter I've ever seen. He probably took years off the life of his one year old hvac unit.
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
Are we sure this isn't just an advertisement for Nest Protect units?
#52
When I was younger, in elementary school, I used to have the same dream every weekend starting on Saturday (when I would go to sleep) and then waking up in the middle of the night (on Sunday) and throwing up. The dream was always a bunch of numbers. Not even anything happening just a bunch of random jumbled up numbers all over the place. I never understood why that happened where the same dream would happen on the same night every week and I would throw up every single time. I always think about it and wonder what it was or if it was just some weird coincidence. Also I would not have any signs of being sick before or after. Maybe someone else has experienced this???
Arwen 3 years ago
Migraine, most likely. They can take many forms. My dad used to have a recurring dream with his.
Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago (edited)
I wonder if it could be related to some type of migraine. A lot of people get migraines on weekends or holidays because of the relief of stress (or something like that). At one point I also woke up every single Sunday morning with a migraine and throwing up. No number dreams though.
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
That reminds me of something that happened to me. I had been thinking about computer AI research before I went to bed. That night I dreamed about lots and lots of intersecting circles. I felt that this was the key to a leap forward in AI technology, but I could never make sense of it. I dreamed that same thing all night and woke up exhausted.
Debra Timah 3 years ago
In elementary school, I sometimes had a dream where there was a grey concrete or stone wall, and on the other side of the wall were monuments (like tombstones) with historical information on them that I was supposed to remember. I would wake up and still see it in front of my eyes for a bit. It didn't recur on a regular basis. I assumed it was just about school anxiety, about history in particular.
#53
Was at my girlfriend’s house and in the kitchen chatting with her and her daughter, when I see one of my shoes, which I’d taken off next to the door, drop from two feet high from thin air. My girlfriend didn’t see it but her ten year old daughter did. I still remember the slap sound as it hit the ground and rolled onto its side. I have no explanation other than a ghost, of which I fully believe in but had never experienced previously.
#54
So theres this band called birthday massacre that a weeb introduced to me in the 7th grade. They were Japanese spoke Japanese and seemed all around wierd. Watched some of thier videos for a few months, forgot about them. 6 years later start listening to them again accept all thier music is in English, watch all the videos same thing accept the band is white. I still have no clue what the f*ck happened.
El Dee 3 years ago
They use images, costume and makeup that makes them look like they are a Japanese band, or they did anyway..
La Petite Morte 3 years ago (edited)
I don't really ever remember them doing that. The band I was in played with them 3 or 4x between 2002 and 2007, they were goth and odd... but didn't do anything I'd class as overtly Japanese- like. ~~~~ My daughter absolutely loves them. She had no idea I'd played with them back in the day and she lost her mind when I showed her pics of the shows.
Load More Replies... La Petite Morte 3 years ago
Nope, same lead singer the entire time, and she's a sweetheart.
Load More Replies... #55
A car going 50-60 kpm hit both of my knees in 2008 (it was 100% my fault, I wasn't paying attention when I crossed the road) and not only I didn't have any broken bone whatsoever, I dind't even fall. (I did flinch quite a lot, though.) My knees and leg hurt for about 2 days, but I really can't explain how a car going relatively fast hit me only got me to have barely more than a couple bruises.
Laura Peterson 3 years ago
Something similar happened to my dad, but the car threw him into the air. most of the injuries were minor from him hitting the concrete. Doctors said because he wasn't expecting it he didn't tense his body. The body being relaxed allowed it flex and not take as much damage.
#56
I was driving to work on a two lane highway, and I was going about 65 in a 45 zone when for some reason I got the feeling that I should slow down. I don’t know why that thought came into my head as I was a young douchebag who sped all the time, but it was strong enough that I let off the gas and slowed down tho the speed limit and right then, like 30 seconds later, a guy in a pickup pulled out of a parking lot right in front of me. I got on the brakes, but still t-boned him hard enough to knock the bed clean off his truck, and totaled both vehicles. Neither of us were injured, but hard to say what effect another 20 mph would have had on that...
Beck 3 years ago
You might would have passed him before he pulled out had you not slowed down.
maryhadalittlelamb 3 years ago
You may be right, if the statistics given here is accurate. In 30 secs, OP would have travelled 0.54 miles at 65mph and 0.38 miles at 45 mph. A difference of 0.167 miles is significant enough to pass the guy. Then again, the time given here may not be accurate.
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
“For some reason.” Could the reason be you were already speeding ridiculously?
#57
Had a dream that I got a phone call saying my brother that I haven't seen in 10 years had died. Two days later I got a call that he actually had died.
#58
When I was 8 I had one of those life size rag dolls with yarn hair. one night I woke up and she was waving her arms around while placed on my bean bag. I know it’s not malicious, I know it sounds crazy. I know it sounds like I was dreaming...but I wasn’t. she was moving around all by herself. to this day I don’t f*ck with dolls.
Bunzilla 3 years ago
I've read quite a few things about Raggedy Ann dolls, especially moving around. They creep me out, and I generally like dolls.
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#59
My grandpa died, and after about a year or two, my baby brother went looking for him in my grandpa’s room. My parents thought I was with him, as he was laughing and babbling, and seemed entertained, which knowing him, would be if someone else was there. But I was in my room. And my parents were downstairs. 30 minutes goes by, parents start looking for him, and find him just there. He’s not playing with anything in the room. Just lying there. Now, he still goes into that room. Looking for him. I wonder if he had seen his ghost, or something like that.
#60
I swear my 4 year old can read my mind or we think on the same wavelength sometimes. I’ve randomly thought of a specific food (ie ice cream which we rarely have) and he ask me “can we get ice cream?”. Or I’ll be thinking about my mom and he’ll ask “can we go to grandmas?”.
insomniac assassin panda 3 years ago
when I am playing Go Fish with my mom, I can guess the exact card she is trying not to think of. is this normal?
Load More Replies... digitalin 3 years ago
I was dating this guy for a while, and every once in a while we'd have ice cream after dinner. We were sitting watching TV and I thought to myself, without saying anything, " you know, I'd really like some ice cream." Immediately, the guy gets up and makes me (and not himself) a bowl of ice cream. He said it just seemed like a thing I would like at that moment.
Stace Maree 3 years ago
My boyfriend can do this to me. Random things, like rice krispies or something. He also has premonition dreams
#61
Very strange coincidences and moments where I have a sudden understanding I’m completely in the exact time and place I am suppose to be in, and everything that ever happened in my life had led me to that exact moment
insomniac assassin panda 3 years ago
whelp. something weird goes on for me, I don't know if it is alike in any way. it goes something like this: I am worrying about something for about a year then someone says something and poof it is gone, I feel great .... then 3 seconds later I feel even more bad (sorry I can't seem to be able to spell the right word).
#62
As a young teen, my friend and I were playing with a Ouija board. Being a curious virgin, I asked it the name of the first girl I would sleep with. It spelled out the name 'N-A-N-C-Y'. Neither of us knew anyone named Nancy, so we both laughed and moved on. I didn't touch a Ouija board again until 3 years later, at a house party. We were all taking turns asking it silly questions. One person in the group was a girl I had just met that evening. Her name was Nancy...and you can probably imagine how my night ended. Very, very weird.
insomniac assassin panda 3 years ago
Ouija boards sound cool, but NOT for the same reason as you, OP.
Ogre Juan Canolli 3 years ago
Heard Of A Man Asking The Board "How Many Daughters Do I Have?" Board Answers "3 " "No I Have 4" Board Says "Not For Long". A Daughter Died 2 Days Later.....
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
Yeah I had the same “person” on Ouija boards for years. Not sure what that was about, the only explanation I can think of is my sister must have controlled the planchette.
#63
I will never forget witnessing this moment: In my physics gen ed last year, we were split up in groups and working on a lab. A guy at another table let out a yell while extending his arms, and fell headfirst off his chair. The very second in between his yell and hitting the floor, a beeping started going off in the room, followed by the words “an emergency is happening in your building. Please evacuate at the nearest exit.” and accompanied by flashing lights. The guy is having a seizure on the floor, so all we’re focusing on is getting him help. A campus police officer comes in and tells us the rest of the science buildings have already evacuated for the fire alarm. Most of us leave to give some space to the people helping the guy. While outside, we’re talking amongst ourselves, absolutely baffled by the coinciding events we just witnessed. Did the flashing of the alarm trigger epilepsy? No, because he was already on the floor by the time the lights kicked in. Was there some kind of sensor on him that alerted when his body was experiencing an emergency? No, because it was his first seizure. Just reading it might sound lame, but witnessing it and working out what was happening in real time was just eerie. TL;DR: I watched a guy start having his first scary-looking seizure the MILLISECOND before the building’s fire alarm went off.
#64
After putting my daughter to sleep, she was around 4 or 5 at the time I laid next to her for a while to go to sleep as well but I could not fall asleep. For some reason I kept thinking of my daughter’s name in my head and she woke up and said what mom? And I told her, I didn’t say anything sweetie and she said yes you did you kept saying my name over and over. Another time I dreamed that the father of my kids had shot his brother in law with a gun. I woke up crying and told him about my dream and he told me that it was very strange since he had been thinking of shooting him that night.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
I have that with my daughter and husband. They've both responded to things I've thought but not said. They've even gotten angry at my thoughts.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
This sounds really special and sweet on one hand that they could hear unspoken loving thoughts from you to them, but on the other hand, it's also spooky and worrisome that they could hear when you may have concerns that you may not want to share yet.
Load More Replies... Carrie Smith 3 years ago
Who just says "that's weird because I was thinking of shooting him" that sounds so offhand.
#65
Had a baby bottle next to me on the couch while holding my baby. I reached for it and it wasn’t there so I got up searched everywhere. Tore out the cushions and put them back. Then gave up and made a new bottle. I sat back down and the bottle was there again
Misstaken138 3 years ago (edited)
Sounds like sleep deprivation. When my kids were babies and not sleeping through the night, I experienced stuff like this all the time. Lack of sleep can do funny things to your brain.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
I have stuff like this happen often. Not a parent and never when I was sleep deprived and it just happens. Can't for the life of me figure it out and I've had people watch me when it happens. I will look for something in a pocket or bag, completely empty it and go through each individual thing i pull out, literally turn the pocket or bag inside out and then after putting everything back I look again and it's right there. Pisses me off more than anything
#66
I've shared this story before, but when I was 17 I was at my friend's apartment building, which his parents owned. It was a pretty old building in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, and according to his dad it used to be owned by Al Capone, but I'm not sure how true that was. We had an apartment on the top floor that they let us use to just hang out and it allowed us easy access to the attic (it had a lock but we had a key) so we could go out to the roof and smoke cigarettes. One night, we were about to go up, but I had to pee, so I told him I'd meet him up there. After I was done, I went up the stairs to the attic portion that was connected to the roof. There were no lights, so we always used our phones to guide us. We had those old flip phones without lights, so you only had the light from the screen to help navigate the cluttered mess that was up there. As I made my way to the roof door, I saw a shadow pass by me. Now this wasn't like the shadow of something moving with the light of my phone, this shadow felt solid like a person. I followed the direction it went thinking it was my friend. I kept saying that I knew it was him and to stop playing around. It passed me a few more times, before heading to the other side of the attic and that's when I heard my friends voice from downstairs. He got a call from his girlfriend and was in another room talking to her the whole time. It really freaked me out, since I know I was following something, so I basically jumped down the stairs. I told my friend what happened and that I did not want to go back up there and he agreed, so we decided to go for a walk instead.
#67
Driving through Michigan. Saw a green orb sitting in the middle of the sky. Then all of a sudden it moved very quickly past the horizon. I was with a friend and we were both quiet after seeing it until she finally said “ am I crazy? Or did you see that weird green orb too”. Now I do believe we are not alone in the universe. But I generally do t believe there are lots of “alien or UFO” visitations. But this, this sticks with me to the day.
#68
I was walking between bars in a college town and felt something hit me in the back. I turned around and saw a cue ball rolling down the sidewalk. I then spent the next 5 minutes walking up and down the street trying to figure out who threw it or what happened. I never found anyone, and I still have the cue ball.
#69
When I was 10 I had a radio and bean bag chair in my room. As I was starting to fall asleep the radio suddenly changed the channel multiple times before I heard the bean bag chair in my room slowly fold in on its self making the noise a bean bag chair would make if someone where to sit in it. Not sure what caused this but certainly freaked me out
#70
Uh I have one! When I was a kid I’d sometimes wake up in the middle of the night. It happens but the weird part is that I have this feeling of immense fear and all of a sudden I would hear really loud sounds. An example is hearing an orchestra play a note off key for a few seconds and then suddenly silence. It was awful. I use to think it was paranormal but now I’m 100% sure it isn’t. I still have no idea what caused those insane moments to happen. I know for sure I was awake and I know it wasn’t sleep paralysis cause I would be able to move. It was just a really strange thing that would happen to me. If anyone else has gone through that or knows what it is please do tell! Oh and I also use to feel like I’m falling when I’m laying in bed. I would jolt up in fear like “what the f*ck was that?” I know others have felt that too. Just find it weird how our bodies and mind can create really powerful illusions or trick ourselves into thinking we’re falling or hearing a live concert while laying in bed.
Anne Reid 3 years ago
There’s a type of migraine that causes people to hear music. I get them all the time, but only while lying down at night. And someone here on BP said there’s a type of tinnitus that mimics music.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
Holy hell! I've had this on and off since my teens, and it only happens when I'm in bed for the night. I've driven my husband crazy trying to get him to hear it, as well. Also, it always seems to be big band type of music. Thanks for possibly solving this for me - I couldn't ever figure out what I was hearing.
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Gin 3 years ago
Could be - I have that. It really does sound like a massively loud cracking explosion and there is a physical sensation as well. The other thing, feeling like falling, is often when a person starts to fall asleep and is woken by a hypnic jerk. Not that rare (60-70% of people get them) but weird if you know nothing about it. I have musical hallucinations as well. Makes it all very entertaining!!
Load More Replies... MellonCollie 3 years ago
I feel that too, and sometimes hear really loud sounds that do not seem to be really there, when I'm lying in bed. I once read there was a name for this, it is something known, apparently. It doesn't scare me as such, because I'm convinced it's someting my brains makes up, but it can be startling at times.
Bunzilla 3 years ago
Exploding Head Syndrome? Sounds like a strange thing to live with.
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#71
So one night I'm driving home from a friend's place, it's pretty late, like two or three in the morning. I live in the suburbs and the streets are relatively tight so I am typically driving pretty slow (don't speed in your neighborhood, happy neighbors are good neighbors). I'm nearing the turn to enter my close and from a distance I see what looks to be someone outside. Pretty unusual this time of night as it's all young families and retiree's around me. As I get closer it's definitely a kid which is even stranger, like, doesn't this kid have parents? They're standing directly under the street light with a rain coat on (not raining) and their hood up over their head so that the shadow cast completely covers their face. I know my neighborhood pretty well and while I don't know most by name, you know who has kids and who doesn't. This corner house 100% doesn't have any kids. That kids gaze was locked onto my truck, unwavering, turning their head and staring straight at me as I slowly pass, turning right towards my house, this kid only a few feet away. This kid did a full 180 with their body and watched me drive down my street. While I only live six or so houses into the close, it's just enough I lost site of the kid. It was super unsettling, I couldn't even quite explain to you the feeling I got from it. I back into my driveway, put my truck in park, think about what I saw, and say f it, Ive got to check this out. Back into drive and back down the street, maybe twenty seconds, tops, since I passed and kids gone. Vanished. The roads are straight enough in any given direction that in that short amount of time that kid would of had to straight up sprint to stand a chance of being out of site. F*cking demon child is gone. I went home, parked quick and didn't take my time getting inside and locking the door. To this day never saw the kid again or anything that's given me a bad vibe like that. Damned if I know what was going on.. if it was a prank, hats off, you did it kid. TLDR: Creepy a*s kid disappeared after staring me down in the middle of the night.
#72
Bf, his sister, and I visit their cousin and his roomie to cook dinner and hang out. The television is on, on a movie channel, w the sound turned down. While we’re prepping & eating dinner, a Robert Duvall movie is on. Shortly after dinner, the sister takes the bf home bc he’s not feeling well. By this time, a different movie is playing, also starring Robert Duval. I sit down in the living room, look at the screen, and say, “Robert Duval again? Huh - what is this...Robert Duvall night?” About five minutes later, the sister returns, we greet her, get fresh drinks, and she sits down where I had been sitting, looks at the screen, and says, “Robert Duval again? Huh - what is this...Robert Duval night?” with the exact same inflection and tone I had just used. Cousin, roomie, and I all almost jump out of our skins...
Kisses4Katie 3 years ago
Lol, we have this joke at my house. It can hardly be original. It started for us with a double showing of 8 Legged Freaks and Ready to Rumble. One of us said “what is it, David Arquette night”
#73
I was about 18-20 (around 2008) and in the backseat of the car going down the highway. It wasn't windy out in the slightest (unless you count the wind from the car going 60mph on the highway, but that's irrelevant). We're going between two large hills (not mountains, but they're about 50ft+ tall) and atop one of the hills is what looks like an all black hot air balloon kind of thing, but not made of cloth or fabric. It's clearly metal and had no basket and it has no sunlight shine/reflection, like a black matte color. No wind, but this thing is moving like you see UFOs zip around in movies. It's literally going like 100+ MPH all over the place in different directions and turning upside down and sideways super fast. There were several cars pulled over on the side of the highway with people outside gawking at it. We didn't pull over but mom and dad also commented that they had no f-ing clue what it was and had never seen anything like it before. My dad tried rationalizing that it was a fallen weather balloon, but it looked nothing like a weather balloon on google images. Someone else I told this to said it was probably a broken hot-air balloon, but this was very clearly not made of anything flexible like cloth, it was very stiff and not 100% the exact same shape.
#74
In middle school there was a period of time where I thought my life was being recorded like on the Truman Show and I would have my inside voice narrate my actions in the third person all the time. It was automatic, not me consciously doing it. Felt like I was an actor in my own life. One day it just stopped. Not sure if it was a period of psychosis like the Truman Show delusion or what. I only vaguely remember it happening now. I felt like it happened for at least a year but I could be wrong.
Bored Birgit 3 years ago
I had this as a kid as well, for some time a voice in me described and commented all my actions as in a reality documentary, and I had the feeling to be filmed all the time. It was in the 70s, where none of these TV documentaries existed. Kid's strong Imagination, I think.
#75
I once saw a car without a driver on the interstate and there was even someone in the passenger seat talking to literally nobody in the driver seat
#76
I went to uni in a big city. A guy and I met online and started talking. Found out we were moving into the same building in the same month. We started dating. We broke up. He moved on hella fast. I moved apartments at the end of my contract. He and his fiancé moved across the hall from me one week after I did. It sucked. And was weird.
#77
When I was probably 14 I had a paper route. Once, my cousin slept over the night before and delivered with me. There’s a wooded area in the backyard and when we opened the garage door to leave that morning, there was some strange noise coming from there. To this day, we don’t know how to describe it other than that it sounded like a pterodactyl. It was this extremely loud squawking it seemed. Scared the sh*t out of us. We went back inside and left out the front door and could still hear it from down the street. Neither of us ever heard it again. So strange and still have no idea what it was.
Kisses4Katie 3 years ago
Lol, someone in our neighborhood has a Maccaw. You can hear him squawking blocks away.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
I have two in two different houses on my block and yes, you definitely hear them. Still makes me jump sometimes.
Load More Replies... blue_molly 3 years ago
Could've been a pheasant, those things make this squawk like what I imagine a pterodactyl would sound like.
#78
I was out on a deep sea fishing boat just a few miles off Cape Canaveral before a shuttle launch. We hear this loud rumbling noise come across the water. Everybody heard it, and we all assumed it was the launch but couldn’t locate it. Then we see the shuttle climb its trail of rocket exhaust into space...silently. That is not the order in which those things are supposed to happen according to...physics.
T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
The sound wave hit you long after the initial launch happened, which was too far away for you to see. By the time you could see it way up in the air, it was too far away to hear it. That is most certainly the order in which those things are supposed to happen.
What do you think ?
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I've had a really bizarre and unpleasant experience very recently. Somebody here on BP has decided to report literally every post I make as inappropriate, which gets me an automatic one day ban (presumably while they look into it). So every day I have been getting bans and then when I ask them, they say it's a mistake, except their algorithm then banned me for five days because of "repeated violations" except there hadn't been violations in the first place. It's been really sad, because this is a happy place for me and someone has just randomly decided to spoil it for me. So whoever you are, please leave me alone.
Dog Fanatic 3 years ago
I'm sorry, Jo Choto. I understand how infuriating that would be. I hope the a hole doing that gets caught.
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MEB 3 years ago
Wow! Reading those stories brought back a memory.... When I was 10 yrs old, I was home with my mom when the phone rang. I then - for no reason at all - said "It's the hospital. Dad has been in an accident.". Well, I was wrong, it was not the hospital. 5 minutes later, the phone rang again and it WAS the hospital, calling about my dad having been in a car accident. Ok, that is spooky in itself. Now, what I feel equally spooky, is that I am thinking about this today. My dad's accident happened on April 1st 1982, 40 yrs ago today... BTW, while dad was hurt pretty bad in the crash, he healed nicely. He turned 80 last week and us in perfect health.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Creepiest thing ever? My mom going Smeagol/Gollum due to her brain tumor. You don't know freaked out till you've heard *that* in the back seat on the way to the surgeon.
Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
Years ago I took my 1976 Ford Maverick to the auto shop. The car was on a ramp over the pit where the mechanics worked. The guy wanted to show me something underneath my car. Of course they don't let you do this anymore, but I could jump down in the pit. So I was in the pit, and the mechanic showed me whatever it was, and suddenly the car started to move forward and down into the pit! Crazily, I pushed the guy out of the way, stepped forward, and put my hands up on the car bumper to stop it from falling. And the car just stopped and hung there. Now I know that Pandas will tell me that the car got stuck on something, or the emergency brake kicked in, and they're probably right. But it sure felt unexplainable at the time. The mechanic and I just looked at each other and said, OMG, what just happened? We were both shaking.
Bethany Turton 3 years ago
When I was young there was a room in our old house I never went into. Like I would throw fits if my parents tried to make me go sleep in there ( it was supposed to be my bedroom) I swore blind there was a strange man who stood in the corner staring at me. Mum didn't believe me, for years I told her that he followed us wherever we moved He was always in the corner always watching. I thought I was going crazy as I got older and it still didn't stop Until one day mums saw him too. Since then there's been none stop activity wherever we live. We have pictures of a shadow figure and videos of things moving by themselves. It only ever happens when I'm home too, the house is quiet when I'm not around
WiTchY_WoMaN 3 years ago (edited)
Something like this has happened to me. On our independence day, we had chairs lined up in our culdesac, and my dad was lighting fireworks. Well, for some reason, I thought I would move to a different chair that no one was sitting in, just cause....Well, a minute later, the firework canister tips over and fired right into that chair I had been sitting in... Wasn't a big one, but still would've hurt...
Tami 3 years ago
When I was in junior high school I started drawing a little cartoon of a lion's head when I doodled. I even signed my papers with it, instead of writing my name. I don't know why I did this. Shortly after that, I found out I was adopted, and 20-some years later found out my birth mom's name: Frances Lyons.
BA Nelson 3 years ago
My sister and I were watching TV with a seat in between us. I thought it was a great idea to poke her for fun. Without looking I got to poke her with my finger only I hit something halfway to poling her: it was her finger I hit. She had decided at that same moment to poke me too.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I've had a really bizarre and unpleasant experience very recently. Somebody here on BP has decided to report literally every post I make as inappropriate, which gets me an automatic one day ban (presumably while they look into it). So every day I have been getting bans and then when I ask them, they say it's a mistake, except their algorithm then banned me for five days because of "repeated violations" except there hadn't been violations in the first place. It's been really sad, because this is a happy place for me and someone has just randomly decided to spoil it for me. So whoever you are, please leave me alone.
Dog Fanatic 3 years ago
I'm sorry, Jo Choto. I understand how infuriating that would be. I hope the a hole doing that gets caught.
Load More Replies... MEB 3 years ago
Wow! Reading those stories brought back a memory.... When I was 10 yrs old, I was home with my mom when the phone rang. I then - for no reason at all - said "It's the hospital. Dad has been in an accident.". Well, I was wrong, it was not the hospital. 5 minutes later, the phone rang again and it WAS the hospital, calling about my dad having been in a car accident. Ok, that is spooky in itself. Now, what I feel equally spooky, is that I am thinking about this today. My dad's accident happened on April 1st 1982, 40 yrs ago today... BTW, while dad was hurt pretty bad in the crash, he healed nicely. He turned 80 last week and us in perfect health.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Creepiest thing ever? My mom going Smeagol/Gollum due to her brain tumor. You don't know freaked out till you've heard *that* in the back seat on the way to the surgeon.
Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
Years ago I took my 1976 Ford Maverick to the auto shop. The car was on a ramp over the pit where the mechanics worked. The guy wanted to show me something underneath my car. Of course they don't let you do this anymore, but I could jump down in the pit. So I was in the pit, and the mechanic showed me whatever it was, and suddenly the car started to move forward and down into the pit! Crazily, I pushed the guy out of the way, stepped forward, and put my hands up on the car bumper to stop it from falling. And the car just stopped and hung there. Now I know that Pandas will tell me that the car got stuck on something, or the emergency brake kicked in, and they're probably right. But it sure felt unexplainable at the time. The mechanic and I just looked at each other and said, OMG, what just happened? We were both shaking.
Bethany Turton 3 years ago
When I was young there was a room in our old house I never went into. Like I would throw fits if my parents tried to make me go sleep in there ( it was supposed to be my bedroom) I swore blind there was a strange man who stood in the corner staring at me. Mum didn't believe me, for years I told her that he followed us wherever we moved He was always in the corner always watching. I thought I was going crazy as I got older and it still didn't stop Until one day mums saw him too. Since then there's been none stop activity wherever we live. We have pictures of a shadow figure and videos of things moving by themselves. It only ever happens when I'm home too, the house is quiet when I'm not around
WiTchY_WoMaN 3 years ago (edited)
Something like this has happened to me. On our independence day, we had chairs lined up in our culdesac, and my dad was lighting fireworks. Well, for some reason, I thought I would move to a different chair that no one was sitting in, just cause....Well, a minute later, the firework canister tips over and fired right into that chair I had been sitting in... Wasn't a big one, but still would've hurt...
Tami 3 years ago
When I was in junior high school I started drawing a little cartoon of a lion's head when I doodled. I even signed my papers with it, instead of writing my name. I don't know why I did this. Shortly after that, I found out I was adopted, and 20-some years later found out my birth mom's name: Frances Lyons.
BA Nelson 3 years ago
My sister and I were watching TV with a seat in between us. I thought it was a great idea to poke her for fun. Without looking I got to poke her with my finger only I hit something halfway to poling her: it was her finger I hit. She had decided at that same moment to poke me too.
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