Inexplicable things

When I was a child we lived in a large old house . In one of the attics there was a terrible atmosphere /presence . There were pictures of features in churches lent up against the wall . They were in black and white and seemed to add to the sinister feeling about the place . You could also sense things as you passed the door to the attic on the landing below .

I saw a wild cat (chat forestiere) near my house the other day. And a nightingale was on my birdfeeder last week. I'd heard them but never seen one. I had to look it up as i had imagined it to be black, it was a light tan.

Recently I saw a wild mink on a river bank near here.

I was at a picnic with a group of mums when a mini tornado hit me. It was the oddest feeling, it only hit me and took my son's shoes which were not near me. It was like we were being targeted. It was very odd.

Many years ago my husband and I were walking over the hills near Therfield when I spotted a big black “cat” going up a field. It was the size of a panther. To this day my husband still thinks I was imagining things - I wasn’t !!!!!!!

The evening before my mother's funeral my husband and I were just sat in our lounge watching TV.
It was a calm Spring evening, only about 6ish so still light. There was a freak gust of wind which made us both look up and we saw an empty black plastic garden pot spinning around in one spot right against the window like it was on a string. It spun whilst keeping upright, on the spot faster and faster and then zipped off in a straight line. We had a walled garden but I never found that pot though I ran straight outside after it zoomed off!
Both my husband and I said neither of us would have believed the other if we hadn't both seen it.
I took it as a sign I needed to put more pots of flowers out for her funeral so I lined the driveway with them as much as I could!

Both of these are true stories,
Two things: One- Years ago my hubby and I were homeless for nearly 2 years so we lived in/from our car. Both working full time.

We'd park the car in the woods at night. I'm not a driver so I laid my seat flat then put my feet up on the dashboard and hubby did the same in his driver seat.

One night I had a terrifying dream where we were in the car but there were 2 huge red demonic eyes watching us from the front with a really evil atmosphere. It was a horrible dream and I couldn't get out of it. In the morning when we woke up I burst into tears and told hubby, who then told me he had exactly the same dream and he was really scared too and couldn't get out of it. We think maybe one of us had the dream then somehow accidentally sent it to the other one.

Two- Hubby told me that years before we met, he was driving around as a mobile salesman and was driving in/around Pendle Hill, Lancashire. He spent several days at a time on the road and couldn't always afford B&B's so would just park up for the night in the car.

This time it was wintery and freezing cold and he'd discretely park on the edge of a farmers field for the night, just around the edge by the hedge. He got all tucked in, doors/windows locked and nodded off.

Sometime during the early hours he was suddenly woken by his car being shaken violently and he heard the most horrible noise that he couldn't explain, he's 5'9, 18 stone and ex-army bomb disposal so there's not a lot that scares him but that time he was petrified.

He immediately yanked his feet off the dashboard, switched on all the lights, beeping his horn and drove out of there at supersonic speed with whatever it was chasing him, straight up the road shaking with fright for several miles. He eventually pulled over and burst into tears, shaking violently and in shock. Thankfully ''the thing '' stopped chasing him as soon as he speeded out of the field and through the hedge,

He made quiet enquiries with farmers a few days later about if they had any escaped bulls, cows etc. and none of them did. He said he's never ever heard any animal making that sort of noise, whatever it was was massive and could have easily turned his car over. He paid the farmer for his damaged hedge.

He went back to that spot during the daytime ... very carefully ... with a farmer and spotted strange non-human footprints that neither he or the farmer could identify ...

A Scottish wildcat?
Where my ex lived, people were quite matter of fact about having seen them.

I remember them at Colchester zoo, when I was a child.

Exactly how I feel about it, too, Juliet
It's awful watching it trying to get out of its enclosure.

I'd like to think there is some truth to the rumours that it is still around.

Whethertomorrow so so shocking but as for you being spared, well you were, luckily, and needed for some greater purpose? or completely random.

There are many things which cannot be explained rationally. I am happy to accept that there is still so much that we do not know.

I have not seen a large cat although I once spotted a wildcat in the far north of Scotland. No camera but it had all the features.

I always feel sorry for that poor, caged, (supposed) last thylacine. I’m hoping some of these recent sightings are real.

How awful whethertomorrow

Definitely seen a big cat, we lived in a barn in rural Lancashire, one morning I opened the curtains to see what was certainly a big cat (black) stalking across the field opposite.
Sadly it was before the days of camera phones.

Oh wow!!!
That is shocking and undeniably odd.
Did or does it make you believe in some sort of "hand of fate"?

In 1978 I and my boyfriend were walking home and holding hands tightly. We were 19 and police officers and not drunk or mucking about. It was foggy and about 9.30 on a winter’s evening. Had to cross a dual carriageway at a popular crossing place. I remember standing there for a while until it was safe to cross. We were hit by a car and he was killed outright. I was hit on my chest somehow, I had a massive bruise but nothing else. I was nearer to the car so why did he die and I survive. At the coroner’s court it turns out the driver was in his 80s and driving without lights. To this day I still cannot understand why I was spared when I should have sheltered my boyfriend with my body as we were very similar in size. I think this defies explanation.

My friend and I had been out for the night, got off the bus in a built up (ish) area, then both saw a black panther!!!

Gosh no. But I'd like to!