Something a bit wooo just happened

Craftergran, You are a scream. Thanks for the laugh.

Since when did clocks have ‘fingers’?

I had a similar woooo experience. With a friend at Thomas Hardy's house Max Gate, we were sitting in the kitchen watching a video about him. My friend said something personally critical of Hardy and immediately afterwards one of his novels, which was standing with others at the very back of a shelf catapulted off the shelf onto the floor. Two other people witnessed this and we were all amazed, Woooooooo.

And very old-fashioned. I believe they are called "fire surrounds" now :D

That should have been "mantlepiece". Sounds weird when you see it written down!

We had a porcelain statue of a lady on our masterpiece for years. One evening we heard a loud crack and jumped up thinking it was the mirror about to fall or shatter. Mirror was fine but when DH was next dusting he noticed a crack running up one of the folds of the lady's dress. Our thought was that the porcelain had been gradually drying from warmth in house,especially being on the fireplace and that had cracked it. Over years crack got wider and we eventually had to dispose it statue. Maybe same happened to your hare??

Being a dozy practical sort of person a 'woo' event would have to hit me on the head before I noticed it, although I have had one or two occasions of - obviously explainable - déja vu. Is it only me who would quite like to have a 'woo' moment? Although you probably just slammed the door too hard when you went back to bed ? Chewy.

Chewbacca it's simple. Hare who suffered from insomnia had just got to sleep when he was woken by inconsiderate human who came in in the middle of the night and messed about on the sofa. Unable to get to sleep after you left he decided to end it all. Cuckoo Clock uncertain that he was telling the right time because no-one was usually there at 02.30 spun his hands in panic and finally let them drop to 6.30
Here's one for you. My DGD was very close to my mum. She has been wearing a pair of mittens my mum knitted ,which were too small for her, but she refused to be parted from them. Last week she lost one. Going through the gloves and scarves drawer, looking for something else, I found a pair of children's mittens. I will swear these had not been there before. We had a couple of adult sized ones my mum had knitted, but no children's ones. DGD is delighted!

I had a photograph on the third shelf of a bookshelf, deliberately placed there so not easily in view, went to the loo , came back into the living room, the photograph was on the top of the bookcase, I did not touch it, no one else in the house the entire day

Any news of sunspots etc which might upset the electical balance? - that could effect car electrics and electronic clocks. Don't know about hares leaping off the mantelpiece, though.

This morning DH went out early to his car, the central locking wouldn't work, so he went for his spare key in case the fob battery needed changed. It wouldn't work either..
I suggested he take my car. My key wouldn't work, then the spare wouldn't work. So we couldn't get into either car.
Had some mysterious force affected the electronics during the night?. After half an hour DH's keys started working, but still not mine.
Eventually the AA got into my car, and the electronics were all behaving weirdly. .
Something very strange going on.

Yes, that was an unfortunate turn of phrase! Things do keep happening in my house though, all the downstairs doors were unlocked two nights ago, I got up around 3am and everything was locked then, I HAVE to do the rounds if I’m up, and at 7am all was unlocked, only person up was me and all keys were on my key ring

not sure how to respond to that OoohDear!

Yesterday I heard a Big Bang upstairs that sounded like someone jumped from the loft hatch, scared me silly, went to investigate, not a thing out of place, including the loft hatch, and no sign of the ‘person’ that jumped. It’s really put the willies up me.

For the record, Keith was Auntie’s nephew ? who lived with her. Apparently other ‘strange things’ had happened in the cottage. When it was sold, after Aunt’s death, the couple who bought it didn’t stay long - they said that it was haunted.

PS Sorry - I'm on my third glass of red
Jennygran; You must be a careful drinker! You posted at 20.36 and yet only on your 3rd. red. It must have been a pretty rough red, or perhaps you use pint-size glasses, the ones with handles!
Have a good day and watch your step!

Perhaps it was the ghost of Christmas past.

‘oh, that’ll be Keith’. He had died not long before this happened

But who was Keith?

Many, many years I was staying with my Aunt who lived in a very old cottage. During the night I was awoken by a noise which was the metal door latch (depending on your age some of you might know what this is) on the old wooden bedroom being opened. The thing was it was being ‘opened’ at such speed repeatedly it was not possible for a human to do it at that speed. I dove under the bedclothes- my dog joined me! The following morning I told my Aunt about the happening, she said, ‘oh, that’ll be Keith’. He had died not long before this happened.

Do you have an Elf on the Shelf? I’ve heard that they get up to all sorts. Mine is fine, just moves from Shelf to Shelf and brings chocolate coins for my grandchildren but my daughter’s is the elf from hell and she finds a different disaster every morning. This morning she found him inside an upturned bag of flour, having the time of his life, playing in the “snow”. What a mess and she was particularly narked as the cleaner had just been in.
Just a thought...

Oh Marmight, you’ve reminded me. My bedside touchlamp kept switching on in the middle of the night - just after my mum had died - for three nights running I seem to remember. I was just thinking of replacing it and it stopped doing it. I did wonder if ........

you may well be right lemon, I hadn't considered that as a possibility until you mentioned it. What if I'm not really writing this post? What if my hare smashing, clock hand interfering, light bulb popping poltergiest has taken over my laptop and is actually writing this?

If this is possible; that means that all the daft threads about getting off on scaring grannies on the phone and demanding sole ownership of GC on Christmas Day, might also be written by poltergiests? Just think.... all those poor people with haunted laptops and iPhones.... that's really woo, now.

Is this Chewbacca a suspiciously new poster I wonder?
Posting an unlikely scenario which gets worse and worse!
Do your onesie or plimsolls move about on their own during the night, hmmmm?
See me immediately in The Argy for a talking to and a pint.

Oh Chewy. I bet you never imagined you would get so many posts! ?

^ and light bulbs pop a lot in my house^

This happens in my house too! I have a central light, that has a sort of dish shaped light shade under it; that I don't use very much (prefer the lamps or wall lights). But on more than a couple of occassions, the whole lightbulb just jumps out of the bayonet fitting and then rolls around noisily in the light shade. Always frightens the bejaysus out of me! And it happens in the same room that the hare was broken in and the cuckoo clock hands fell down.

wish I hadn't started this now, it's getting worse!