Inexplicable things

Terrapins

MissAdventure

One theory is,that people who owned exotic animals as "pets" set them free when the laws changed regarding ownership.

I wonder though, if there would be enough livestock for them to predate on (assuming that is,how they would eat)

Yes, it could be true.

There's a lake near here which has a colony of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles terrains.

Sorry, I posted twice.

One rainy afternoon, I was driving towards my parents cottage. At one point the rain came down very hard and I couldn’t even see the road anymore. I slowed down to a crawl. I tied to stop by the side of the road. But, as I did the car groped some gravel, and started fish-tailing. I tried to get control but could not. Suddenly, my car became airborne and it began to spin, slowly. I remember getting ready for the crash and bracing myself by holding on tight to the steering wheel.

And, then something happened. As the car was spinning in slow motion, I suddenly felt as if the car was being carried. Like it was purposely being held and directed to a spot. No crash came. Instead, the car gently flew up in the air, left the road and ever so gently was placed in a ditch! I was farther from the road and somehow I had avoided hitting 2 massive trees behind me. I was in disbelief. I sat still in the car with my hands still clutching the steering wheel. I tried to get out but I was knee deep in water.

I looked up towards the road. I couldn’t see the road because I was deep in a ditch. But, I could hear some cars going by. I tried my cell phone knowing that there’s no way I would get a signal because I had tried earlier. It’s not an area that gets any reception. To my surprise I was able to call my parents and my cousin was coming to get me.

What happened next was even more surprising. As I sat in my car, I looked up and saw a police officer looking down at me. Where did she come from? She helped me up and had me sit in her car. She explained that she was on her way to a 2 car collision when out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimmer of white. This prompted her to stop and check it out. Coincidence? She called a tow truck and they got my car back on the side of the road. I tried the car and it worked. Other than the front, everything else looked good. I actually drove it to the cottage and then back home while my parents followed me.

I remember that the next day was Monday. I went into work but eked up leaving early as I was burning up. Due to the shock I had a fever of 103! I spent the next 2 days in bed. I have never had a fever in June.

All I know is that I felt protected that day. My car was in a ditch in the middle of nowhere as it is a rural road in the country. Yet, I received help during the wipeout and again later while waiting in the ditch.

One rainy afternoon, I was driving towards my parents cottage. At one point the rain came down very hard and I couldn’t even see the road anymore. I slowed down to a crawl. I tied to stop by the side of the road. But, as I did the car groped some gravel, and started fish-tailing. I tried to get control but could not. Suddenly, my car became airborne and it began to spin, slowly. I remember getting ready for the crash and bracing myself by holding on tight to the steering wheel.

And, then something happened. As the car was spinning in slow motion, I suddenly felt as if the car was being carried. Like it was purposely being held and directed to a spot. No crash came. Instead, the car gently flew up in the air, left the road and ever so gently was placed in a ditch! I was farther from the road and somehow I had avoided hitting 2 massive trees behind me. I was in disbelief. I sat still in the car with my hands still clutching the steering wheel. I tried to get out but I was knee deep in water.

I looked up towards the road. I couldn’t see the road because I was deep in a ditch. But, I could hear some cars going by. I tried my cell phone knowing that there’s no way I would get a signal because I had tried earlier. It’s not an area that gets any reception. To my surprise I was able to call my parents and my cousin was coming to get me.

What happened next was even more surprising. As I sat in my car, I looked up and saw a police officer looking down at me. Where did she come from? She helped me up and had me sit in her car. She explained that she was on her way to a 2 car collision when out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimmer of white. This prompted her to stop and check it out. Coincidence? She called a tow truck and they got my car back on the side of the road. I tried the car and it worked. Other than the front, everything else looked good. I actually drove it to the cottage and then back home while my parents followed me.

I remember that the next day was Monday. I went into work but eked up leaving early as I was burning up. Due to the shock I had a fever of 103! I spent the next 2 days in bed. I have never had a fever in June.

All I know is that I felt protected that day. My car was in a ditch in the middle of nowhere as it is a rural road in the country. Yet, I received help during the wipeout and again later while waiting in the ditch.

One theory is,that people who owned exotic animals as "pets" set them free when the laws changed regarding ownership.

I wonder though, if there would be enough livestock for them to predate on (assuming that is,how they would eat)

MissAdventure

Is there anything you have seen that defies explanation?

Not necessarily supernatural.

I have always been interested in the thylacine, which went extinct in the 1930s, but there have been some sightings up until now, real or imagined.
It has obviously been in the area from which the animal came Tasmanian tiger) but...

Have you ever seen a big cat, or strange creature, or weird phenomena?

There have been sightings of what were claimed to be black panthers near here although I haven't seen one myself.

That's almost as bad as a big cat!!!

Where I lived there used to be regular sightings of a big black cat like animal, local police officer went to investigate one sighting, went round the back of the cottage, came flying back round, jumped over his police mini car which was parked across the gateway...behind him? One very large, black angry boar...so nothing supernatural that day.🙂

I saw a huge black cat some years ago when with my kids up on Bredon hill.
It emerged from the tree line to attack a brood of wood pigeon.
We were close enough to hear the pound of the panthers paws on the ground. Only myself and my eldest lad saw it.
Unmistakable though.

Lived on IOWight for six years. Saw a black panther one day. Later found out our next door neighbour a retired police sergeant had seen one previously in same area.

Sorry posted above on wrong thread, was meant of 'Life after death' thread.

Yes, I read the article on weird Wiltshire Margells, but the first picture of the cottage is different to the next two pictures though?? looking like different cottages, unless part of the original was knocked down??

I think if you see/hear/experience a lot or regularly it all feels pretty ordinary and unsurprising.

There seems to be a lot of big cat sightings.

Surely they can't all be just imaginings?

I too have sen the black panther in North Yorkshire

Well, that's inexplicable to me.

Is it a link?

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In my late teens, I was in my bedroom and heard a strange intermittent hissing noise coming from a corner of the room. Some weeks later the chap I was seeing, bought me a surprise gift of a cockateil, complete with cage, and I placed the cage and occupant on a cabinet in that same corner of the room. I'd not seen that type of bird before and knew nothing about them. However, I was really spooked when the bird made the exact noise I had heard some weeks earlier! It turned out that is a sound they make when alarmed about something. Why I heard it weeks prior to the arrival of the bird and in the same part of the room I have no idea. Weird!

In my teens I was walking with my mother. It was early evening in summer time. At the top of the hill we stopped and watched a light just above the horizon, it moved slowly west to east and back again we watched it until it went west and disappeared into the trees. Neither of us had any idea what it was.

We were on holiday in Majorca in 1977
with my young son and twelve year old niece.
The big house we had rented was set in a gated garden just outside the village and the decor and furniture were very old and traditional.
The two cleaners used to arrive on a scooter quite early, sometimes before we’d got organised to leave, so we used to sit on the big balcony watching the harbour below.
Through the glass doors we noticed the old lady helping them, dusting in the living room and I commented to my husband she must be one of their Grandmothers. We wondered how she got here, as they arrived by scooter and decided she must live nearby.
I went into our bedroom one day as I thought they’d finished and she was smoothing the cover on the bed, so I just walked out again.
Once when they were almost finished and just mopping the hallway, I asked them had the other lady left, they looked confused, so I said the old lady who helps you and described her.
They both started backing away with their hands over their mouths and their eyes wide.
They rushed out of the door leaving the buckets and mops in the hallway, I went to my husband on the balcony and told him what had happened, he said they might have been scared of getting in trouble having their Gran help them.
Ten minutes later a car pulls up and a woman knocks at the door, she’s from the agency and says the cleaners are in a state and wants to know what I’ve said to them.
When I told her, I really didn’t want to get them into trouble but a lady who could be a Grandma we think, has been helping them to clean.
She now, looks totally shocked and when I described the lady, she said “omg it’s the doctors wife”.
We found out we were staying in the village doctors house and he died a while ago and his wife a few months before, the family who lived in Spain decided to rent the house out until they decided what to do with it.
The agency woman told us the cleaners were adamant they would not come back, so we would have to manage without them for the rest of the holiday.
Very strange but true.

I was on holiday in the Lot valley and went out to the washing line very early one morning. I disturbed a very large black cat, it sped off into a maize field, I could hardly believe my eyes, it had a long tail which I could see through the maize stalks. When I turned to the washing line there was a pile of poo with steam rising from it. For the rest of the holiday we wondered if we would see the bete noire again, my BIL did but I did not.

I've heard, seen and felt many strange things over the years. One I distinctly remember was when packing up to leave my childhood home at the age of 14. Our house had been an old inn and was built around 1700.

I was in my bedroom, kneeling on the floor and putting all my small personal bits and pieces (jewel box, some letters, a teddy bear) into a box to be loaded onto the removal van.

As I put the final item into the box, I felt a tear on my cheek and I said out loud "goodbye old house". At that moment I received a thump between my shoulder blades. It was quite hard and quite distinct. So much so that I immediately turned around expecting to see my irate mother telling me to hurry up.

There was of course nobody there. My parents were outside on the driveway and the house was completely empty.

I found a piece of plaster on the window-sill. The colour matches the previous colour of my living room wall, but looking at all the walls and ceilings, there’s no obvious gap in the walls. Admittedly, I had the rooms decorated but how did this piece turn up on the window-sill ? I wonder ….

Not seen but many strange events happen in my house, and other homes nearby.
We believe we have a very restless spirit who has some unsettled business with about 7-8 families on the block.
I will just mention a few.
I was sitting alone one morning on my couch and across from me stood our portable electric fan. It turned on suddenly onto the lowest speed all by it's self. In order for this fan to be on at low speed one has to take hold of the dial, push it in and turn it 3 notches one way. So if this is not odd enough for you... the fan was not plugged in.
Another even in our house my husband and I were cleaning our basement and we had just placed a few small buckets of paint onto a shelf. My husband pushed them to the back of the shelf. I turned away and he was about to turn away and we heard a scraping noise and as we both focused on the shelf... 1 can was oddly balanced on the shelf at the front, waiting to fall. We slid the can back into place and it made the exact same noise as it had prior.
My husband got up to go to the bathroom one night and upon his return to the bedroom he saw a pale white ladies hand on the door, he waited because he thought it was me ready to scare him. As he moved through the door way he was startled to see a lady in a hooped dress and a very large floppy had standing in the doorway. She quickly vanished before his eyes.
We have many more stories of our spirit in our house from others who have lived with us (children and room mates) and have been told stories by our neighbours as well. One neighbour had taken her young daughter with her to a spiritual reading. And the medium told my neighbour... your daughter talks to someone. My neighbours said yes, she speaks regularly to an old lady, she tells me all the time. (this event took place years before we encountered activity.