Something you can't explain

Most of my life to be honest

You've seen or heard things?
Or is it your life that you can't explain?

On a serious note, when we moved my mum to live with us for her last five months, I searched her house from top to bottom to look for her new glasses.

All the places she could have put them but never found them

When my sister and I started clearing the house after mum had died the glasses were on the side where mum always sat in her sitting room …

Yes - I found a piece of wall plaster on a window sill. I thought it had broken off and fallen. I checked the entire room, wall, ceiling etc and nothing had been broken. I can’t tell you from where that piece of plaster came. No one believes me, till I show them the piece of plaster…

My friend and I saw a black panther, and we weren't at the zoo!

I was driving home one evening, down a quiet country road when suddenly a feeling of horror came over me and I slammed on the brakes, shaking.

About 30 seconds later a horse bolted across the road further up and threw his rider into the road, just about where I would have been if I’d kept going.

MissAdventure
I have friends who live in Eastwood, their property backs onto fields. I know what a saw wasn’t a domestic black cat.

MissAdventure

Have you ever seen or heard something for which there is no logical explanation?

It doesn't have to be supernatural, anything at all.

Yes, the trans issue threads on GN which go round and round in circles.

My mother and I were walking along the road where we lived one summer evening. Just above the horizon we saw a very bright light moving slowly back and forward. We watched it for a while, wondering what it was, when it suddenly shot off across the horizon at the same height.
It wasn't an aeroplane, helicopter or land vehicle. It remains a mystery to this day.

Many years ago now, we were in our new house, the first one we`d owned. One night we went up to bed, but the bulb had gone in the bedroom, so I got undressed on the landing, then put the light out to go into the bedroom. I could see hubby in the bed, but there seemed to be an invisible shield stopping me going through the door. He said "Are you coming to bed or not?" I was scared stiff, but then suddenly I was able to go through the door, I practically flew into bed!

Many years ago, in a foreign country we rented a duplex flat in an old mansion block. Several times we heard footsteps coming up the stairs when we were in bed and they disappeared into the spare room. There was never anyone visible. The spare room had a very old, large press in a corner which was very heavy. We wanted to rearrange the room at one time and managed to move it out from the wall and behind it the wallpaper was all torn and a lot of lumpy, plaster had been badly applied to a large rectangle. We pulled the press back into the space and moved as soon as we could!

35 years ago, we temporarily rented a house until our purchase went through. It was a quirky house with large spooky looking basement. We had the middle bedroom and DD had the small one at the back.

From the day we moved in, I was convinced my DD's bedroom was haunted. She started sleep walking and I honestly couldn't sleep until daylight. As a less scary alternative to the haunted theory, I wondered perhaps if I was having a nervous breakdown. Until the day we moved out and into our own place, when I was instantly back to my normal self.

The irony was, her bedroom looked 100% normal. Whereas the basement was scary day and night. But I never had an issue with going down there.

Did you wear a white floaty nighty and take a flickering candle with you?

You know that guarantees a ghostly encounter.

Men!

I seem to have my own inbuilt sat nav. Put me in a strange town or city, home or abroad, and I can navigate my way from A to B without any problems. This was first demonstrated when I was 4 and visiting my aunt, who lived outside London. We went to St Albans for the day, somewhere I'd never ever been, and yet I just knew how to get from the car park to the restaurant we were going to for lunch. My aunt said they all just followed me in amazement as I confidently strode ahead. It's never let me down yet.

We had a dear friend who was a leader in our church for the young people including our two . Let's call him J. . He was so interested in all the youngsters and also a neighbour so it was sad when he became frail and moved away to live near his son . A couple of years later we heard through his fellow church worker that J. had died . Many many months later I had the most terribly upsetting night. I kept on waking up and thinking how I wished we had something of J's to remember him by. The next morning , Saturday , DH and I went shopping . When we came home there in our hall was a box of ornaments . I asked my DD what it was and she said that it had been dropped off for them to choose something with which to remember this lovely man . I spoke to my friend who had left the box and she said she had held on to it for ages before getting round to delivering it yet it happened the day after I had been so consumed with the need to have a memento .

MerylStreep

MissAdventure
I have friends who live in Eastwood, their property backs onto fields. I know what a saw wasn’t a domestic black cat.

What we saw wasn't domestic either.

You wouldn't have wanted it sitting on your lap, that's for sure!

DD had a tureen which had belonged to my parents. She was close to them both, especially my father. She had used the tureen several times but once when she was going through a very difficult time, she took the tureen off the shelf to discover a 1920 old Penny in it which she had never seen before. My father was born in 1920.

Yes, I went to put on my wellington boots and found £11 in one of them.

Camping at Glastonbury I awoke to a crop circle outside in grass... no footprints and I believed wholeheartedly as a child that some teenage alien played a prank on me lol

People who saw a panther... Well it wasn't a panther but a friend of a parent had a puma and 7 chimpanzees. The chimps ended up at I think, monkey world but the puma? Well there were hints it was released and I remember hearing that that had happened more than once

An odd story from the antiques world.

Many years ago I bought an Islamic corner cupboard in Portobello Rd and arranged for it to be transported to my home. On the way it was stolen (!) but fortunately it was insured. A few years later I was in Brussels in the antique quarter when I passed a dingy looking shop full of brown furniture. It was late but something impelled me to go in and to negotiate my way around lots of unattractive looking furniture to the back of the shop. There was "my" Islamic corner cupboard together with two chairs which matched very well. I bought them and had them transported back to the UK.

The shop owner (an old Egyptian gentleman) told me he had bought them as part of a "container batch" and did not know their origin, I had no reason to dsbelieve him.

I still have that corner unit today. Somehow it had called out to me across time and space and was determind for me to own it.

When I was engaged, I was alone in the enormous Victorian house my husband to be had lived in with his mother. He had gone to play golf and I thought I would practise some scales and songs I was working on.
As I reached a high note, I heard banging on the ceiling.
I was so frightened, I sat on the front step until he returned in the dark.
I found out that the bedroom above the room with the piano had been his elderly aunt’s room and she used to bang on the floor when she needed something.

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