Been reading a thread on another forum and thought I'd kick one off here as we've not had one for a while. What's the weirdest thing you have witnessed or experienced? I have quite a few but am sure there must be rational explanations for them.
I remember being very young and staring down at the bottom landing from the top of the stairs. I was having such a strong feeling that I could just jump safely down. Then the next moment I was at the bottom, and staring back up at the top of the stairs. I don't know if it was a dream, a vision or hallucination but I feel like I actually did it somehow!
My mum says that as a baby she would often find my crib rocking and the rocking chair moving too when there was no draft, and I would 'watch' something going round the room. She thinks it might have been my grandad who died before I was born.
At my cousin's house one NYE all us kids were put to bed in one room and the adults carried on partying. I woke up to see a lady standing at the doorway which was right at the end of my bed. I thought she was my mum as she wore a bright red dress and I knew my mum had been in red too, so I didn't feel scared or anything like that. I called out 'mummy?' but the lady just flicked a long cigarette holder at me in a sort of dismissive way, then wasn't there any more. I went back to sleep upset that my mum had been in to check on me and not even given me a kiss before walking out! But the next day when I asked her and when I described the lady in her long red dress and long cigarette holder, my mum reminded me she didn't smoke, and showed me it wasn't her party dress (which was short.) As there were only a few other guests she knew it wasn't any of them - and none of them would have had a cigarette holder anyway! It was sort of brushed under the carpet but still makes me wonder who on earth that lady was.
The most recent weird thing was a few years ago when a friend and I both saw a distinctly blurry white human shape pass in front of us. It was at a place that had rumours of being haunted, a woman had been killed and there was a memorial bench placed there with her ashes under it - but we never believed it. The stories were all of shadows on a dark, wintery night etc etc and when we saw the shape it was the total opposite to a typical 'spooky' day - bright, summer, sunshine. Really weird and I'm glad she saw it too or I'd think I was nuts!
Any inexplicable happenings to share Otters?
