The Weird Events Thread: supernatural stuff

[Sci-2]

Synchronicity, ghost stories, possible alien sightings, occult happenstance....any of this stuff happen to you?

ETA: Or anything you think could possibly top Datepalm's story below.

Stuff that falls into 'weird' for me:

- As a kid I swear I woke up one night and hear the Devil's voice. In fact, to this day the only reason I can write if off as a dream is because the voice kept repeating "More Programs" and was coming from the TV room.

- Another time, as a kid, I kept spouting gibberish about the gods or some nonsense, pretend I was doing magic in the backyard. The wind kept picking up, more and more, until my sister freaked out and made me stop.

- Playing light sabers as kids, my cousin picks up a huge, long piece of wood. I pretend I'm Yoda and say something like "You're weapon means nothing to me". At which point his stick breaks.

Not trying to pretend these are definitive supernatural occurrences, but I've found most people have little "weird" stories.

[Datepalm]

Oh, darn, I was all ready to go off on the weird rant a crazy nutter trapped me into this morning on the bus. (You know it's getting odd when you find yourself deliberately trying to fit the verb 'fuck' into the conversation as often as possible with a soft spoken little old lady.)

[Sci-2]

Oh, darn, I was all ready to go off on the weird rant a crazy nutter trapped me into this morning on the bus. (You know it's getting odd when you find yourself deliberately trying to fit the verb 'fuck' into the conversation as often as possible with a soft spoken little old lady.)

This seems more than acceptable for this thread, if only because I'm now curious.

[Datepalm]

Little old lady was a racist bitch and had it coming, taking excessive interest in the state of my faith and the state of my sex life in odious combination. This is what I get for ever politely giving directions in this town. After a (Ok, rather short) while I got fed up and my response to anything she said ended up being,

"Oh, ok, so I should fuck only jewish guys?"

until she figured out I wasn't actually halachaically jewish, at which point it became,

"oh, ok, so fuck anyone but jewish guys? Where does the lord stand on oral? What? I need to know these things! The redemption of mankind depends on it, you said so yourself!"

I might have been saying all this fairly loudly on a public bus. Fuck her. Jewishly. (or not, I couldn't actually work out which brand of nutter she was. Even money on evangelist, come to think of it. It was all in english, but her accent wasn't american.) I also managed to get her to apologeticaly admit that yes, it would have been better if my parents had never met, and yes, I am a bit of a dirty mistake on god's plans. After which she still kept trying to politely save my soul by way of my cunt. Christ, lady, have some shame!

[Seli]

(like your reaction, not the old lady)

[Every]

A few things have happened to me, but nothing I can't pass off with a completely rational explanation. My mum had a weird experience when she was about 13, though.

They lived in a small country town, next door to this truck-driver and his wife. Obviously the guy was away on the road a lot, sometimes for weeks at a time. One night he came over to their house for some reason. Mum says she was sitting in another room, and he came in and she heard his voice and it made her angry. He kept talking and talking and she got angrier and angrier until she finally jumped up and went into the room and started screaming at him to get out. Her mother was shocked and furious with her for being so rude to a guest, but she just kept shouting and swearing at this guy until he left. After which, she was punished for being so rude. Even she had no idea why she'd done it, she says she felt like she just completely lost control.

Two weeks later the guy was arrested for the murder of a teenage girl. He'd dumped her body by the side of the road, the day before he came to my mum's house.

[Solmyr]

- Playing light sabers as kids, my cousin picks up a huge, long piece of wood. I pretend I'm Yoda and say something like "You're weapon means nothing to me". At which point his stick breaks.

You think the power you have, now do you, master Yoda?

A few months ago there was a thunderstorm over my city. I put on some music and proceeded to enjoy it. Most of the lightnings were either far away or behind the veil of clouds. And since thunder comes after lightning, you have to keep a close eye as to not miss any of the latter. At one point I grew elated and proceeded, for not reason, to yell with the voice of the Emperor at the raging storm "Power, unlimited power!" Right as I was yelling the second "power" the sky directly above me was split by the most awesome lightning of the entire storm, all clear and not behind the clouds.

[dalThor]

I once saw the Easter Bunny. I must have been 5 or 6 years old at the time. To this day I still have the image of him in the hallway in my mind. For the record, the Easter Bunny wears a red turtleneck -- and no pants.

[MinDonner]

I once accidentally conjured up a demon, which terrorised me by making my life shit for about 6 months until I realised what I'd done and trapped it and burned its heart out. I still have the remains somewhere.

Note: I don't actually believe this happened. Nor did I entirely believe it at the time. But I was 19 and a temporary subscriber to some weird-ass magical-thinking superstitions, so it made some warped kind of sense back then.

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

When I was four years old I remember getting up early on Christmas morning (the Sun was just up) and seeing runner marks in the wet grass (this was in South Carolina snow on Christmas is a vanishingly small possiblity) in front of my parents house. It was where Santa's sleigh had run. I remember it like it was yesterday.

[MercenaryChef]

scot, i have a xmas miracle story as well.

i was about 5 or so. it was xmas eve. i am in the living room with both sisters, my mum and my dad watching tv. there is a scratch at the door. i open the door to let my beloved dog 'dutchess' in. attached to her collar is a present. it was a box of disney themed dominoes. the really nutty thing is i was the one who had let her out too.

to this day i am not sure how this trick was pulled off. mum can no longer be asked. i could as pops, but i think i would rather never know how it was done.

[WrathOfTinyKittens]

I have no stories of my own, really, but I'll share two from my gf. Now, she is a believer in paranormal phenomena, but she was not always so.

- This took place around 4 years ago. She and her boyfriend at the time were in a bar that was built in a converted house. The bar was relatively newly opened and popular, but neither of them had ever been there. Also, neither of them was from the area and so knew nothing at all of the house.

During the night, she had to go to the bathroom, which was (according to her) pretty nice if functional - it was a single bathroom but was fairly large, having been converted from a room that was adjacent to the original bathroom but not a bathroom itself. The whole time she was in that room, she had an unreasoning terror. She couldn't force herself to turn her back to a certain corner of the room. As she left, the feeling faded, and she told the bf that she was certain someone had died in that room. Come to find out from the bar's owner that a former resident had been murdered in that room, which was previously a bedroom.

- During her first summer in college she worked as a waitress but needed extra cash, so she agreed to house-sit for family friends. She slept in the house for a few nights and felt very creeped out, especially upstairs. She slept on the couch downstairs and only went up there during the day to make sure everything was fine (they had a dog who would sometimes knock things over, though even the dog wouldn't go upstairs).

One night she wakes up in the black of night, 2 or 3 am, hearing shouting and music. She lays there, obviously scared, but the sound doesn't go away and she realizes it was a radio playing. The dog is in the room with her.

She goes upstairs to find an empty guest bedroom's radio alarm clock - which had not been set - blaring random music. A picture and a crucifix that had been hanging on the wall across from the bed were face down on the floor. Again, the dog had been downstairs with her and couldn't have turned it on and gotten downstairs fast enough to be there when she woke up, plus it wouldnt go up there without her anyway.

She sprinted from the house and made her mom come with her daily to check the place after that.

[IheartTesla]

When I was four years old I remember getting up early on Christmas morning (the Sun was just up) and seeing runner marks in the wet grass (this was in South Carolina snow on Christmas is a vanishingly small possiblity) in front of my parents house. It was where Santa's sleigh had run. I remember it like it was yesterday.

Dew/frost and the neighbor's dog. Cold air can hold less water vapor.

Edit: I don't have any weird stories, Just as well since I am a superrationalist. Tesla could hear voices from other planets though, I believe (I believe he claimed that, not that he could really hear Martians).

[S John]

I love ghost stories! I have had a few weird things happen to me, but nothing that couldn't be relatively easily explained away by something mundane and boring. But my sister had some very strange experiences when she was younger. I don't put too much stock into it, but you never know I guess. I still like the stories, though.

[gryphon strike]

ok Sci you need to read some Barbara Hambly stuff time of the dark I think is what you want.

hmm where to start......ok when very young i was playing chasey with my brother running around a small tree at one particular point in the circle it felt weird sort of light, so anyway next time around I stopped on the spot and the feeling was there but even stronger so after standing still for a little while I look down and I see a gap of about 6 inches between my feet and the ground. My brother was just staring like mad and when my mother eventually came out she refused to look in my direction just said "don't be silly nobody can do that".

There is heaps of other stuff that I regard as normal but you probably would not. When very stressed i tend to affect electrical components near me. It seems to be about a one metre feild effect and yeah I have had doctors want to study it but I have run like mad from the very thought.

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

IHT,

I know. That misses the point. I still feel an echo of that 4 year old excitement at seeing proof of Santa's visit. :) . I don't claim to be offering empirical proof of the existence of Santa Clause.

[Apoapsis]

There is heaps of other stuff that I regard as normal but you probably would not. When very stressed i tend to affect electrical components near me. It seems to be about a one metre feild effect and yeah I have had doctors want to study it but I have run like mad from the very thought.

Some migratory birds supposedly have a magnetic sense. I don't know if it extends to gryphons.

[Greywolf2375]

- the prior owners and my parents are convinced our house is haunted, and I'm not far behind them. It's a two story Colonial built in the 1730s and expanded over the years. There is a hall that runs about 30ish feet from my old room past my sisters room to a loft. Every so often you can hear the floor boards creak in a pattern to footfalls - reportedly this is Mrs. Green, one of the first people that lived in that house and died in the house. I never gave it much credence - it's an old house, creaks happen - till one time my father and I were working on rebuilding part of the foundation. While digging down I found a gravestone buried underneath the line of the foundation for a part of the house that was not original. Nothing on it to read, no bones or anything so we moved it out and kept working. That night we heard the creaks while we were awake. That night while sleeping I - to this day - heard my dog run into my room, come to my bed, nip me on the leg and run away. He was a 225lb St. Bernard, so his running was pretty obvious. Oh, and he had died two years before.

Next day, we continue the work. next night, creaks. I hear my dog running again, but no nips. Next day I told my father "lets just put it back" - referring to the stone. Put it back into the ground, no more creaks, no more running.

The creaks we had heard outside of just the time we were working the foundation, though those nights it could have been related to weight shifting in the house. The dog running could have just been my imagination. Still put the damn stone back though.

[Nichole]

I once accidentally conjured up a demon, which terrorised me by making my life shit for about 6 months until I realised what I'd done and trapped it and burned its heart out. I still have the remains somewhere.

Note: I don't actually believe this happened. Nor did I entirely believe it at the time. But I was 19 and a temporary subscriber to some weird-ass magical-thinking superstitions, so it made some warped kind of sense back then.

:lol: I would love to hear the whole story.

I love ghost stories! I have had a few weird things happen to me, but nothing that couldn't be relatively easily explained away by something mundane and boring. But my sister had some very strange experiences when she was younger. I don't put too much stock into it, but you never know I guess. I still like the stories, though.

I love them too! Share your sister's stories please.

For the record, I don't really believe in ghosts. I guess there is a part of me that still can't let go of the possibility of them. I love ghost stories, but don't believe most of them. A good story is a good story to me. I never hear a noise in my house and think it was a ghost.

I did live in house that was odd though. A lot of instances are most likely perfectly explainable, but it was odd living there and when something weird happened it was easy to have a shiver go up your spine. I guess what strikes me about the oddness of living there is I have never had so many weird things happen to me in any other place I've lived.I hate to say it but most of the details have gone fuzzy with time.

Instances were mostly coming home to doors being open and unlocked when I had locked them when I left. A roommate might have come home in the mean time and left the doors open, but none of them ever admitted to it. We would hear knocking on the front door late at night, probably a prank, but still creepy when it happens. Weird stuff would be stolen from the yard, like the piece that connects two hoses together. The phones were weird in that house, yeah explainable, but when the phone keeps ringing at 1am most nights you can start to think there is pattern. My friend swears to this day that she heard someone say her name from the kitchen when she was home alone one night. Nothing OMG call an exorcist type of phenomena, but weird when experiencing it.

[Sheena]

I have plenty of strange stories and I'm not sure if it's because I'm insane (very possible) or these things actually happened. In any case, they're real to me!

Well, the least strange is my frequent Deja Vu experiences. I don't know how others experience it or if they really do, but I have dreams that seem insignificant - like having dinner with friends at Boston Pizza - and then actually come true. Take the Boston Pizza dream: I was sitting beside a friend, looking down a long table of other people in my dream. Alright, so what? I was at Boston Pizza some time later in the exact position, looking at the same scene. Most recently, I had a dream about this school. I was out in the back by the garbage cans... I can't remember exactly what happened, but I remember the brick of the school walls, the garbage cans, and the crosswalk. Last Monday I had to go meet the principal of the school I will be student teaching at next term and it was the school from my dream. I had never been there before. I first saw the brick, then I looked to where the garbage cans would be and there they were, and looked to see the crosswalk where it should be, and it was there too. I remember the dream being quite chaotic so I hope there's no truth to that one. I'll let you know.

To continue with that dream thing, I sometimes dream things just before they happen. I used to have a room in the basement and I had a poster on the cement wall, above my bed. I remember dreaming about flyers (I think) falling on my face, so I woke up only to have a poster fall on my face. Orlando Bloom attacked me, which I'm sure I wouldn't have minded at the time if it were the real Bloom.

I'm convinced of ghost encounters as well. My mom says she has had some ghost encounters, most notably her grandpa sitting on the edge of her bed smiling at her. I think I would pee my pants or vomit if I actually saw a ghost. My mom loves ghost shows and I avoid them at all costs. Anyway, I've never seen a ghost BUT I have encountered them. I think. As I said, I used to have a room in the basement of our house, which was scary enough with the spiders. One night I was working to fall asleep, eyes closed. I was on my side and I felt this weight on my face. It felt like someone was next to me and put their hand on my face - a comforting action should someone own the hand. I could feel where "they" had touched my face and I'm sure I was near tears.

Another time I was in my living room and the house was empty, except for the cats. I was watching TV and decided to mute it when the obnoxious commercials came on. As soon as I muted it I heard a shrill, bloody scream. My whole body froze and my eyes filled with tears. I grabbed a cat and hugged them. I'm not sure if it was in my head or not. I didn't look to see if that cats had noticed the sound. It was also in a fourplex, so it could have been the neighbours... but it sounded like it was right next to me.

The most recent strange event(s) surrounds aliens. I think it was last week actually. My sister, my mom, and I were sitting in our yard. There are few stars to be seen from where we are, but we can still see the big dipper and the brighter stars, as well as satellites. When we look at the sky, we see one or two satellites going by. That night we saw well over twenty "satellites" (we used a lot of airquotes that night). Three "satellites" formed themselves into a triangle formation, brightened, and then disappeared. So, we were on guard for the rest of the night. We noticed several "satellites" moving fast through the sky and even following one another; one would stop and disappear, I remember. Maybe there was something in the fire. Anyway, we decided to go to the nearby school's field to get a better look at the stars. When we got there, there was this super bright "star" in the sky. It was moving, so we thought it was an airplane. Only, the light remained constantly white (not blinking, no red, no green) and did not move perfectly straight (it kind of... wobbled). It was moving fast, too. The strangest thing is that my sister, who's obsessed with bunnies, saw some bunnies and got excited (she looked away). My mom looked to the bunnies as well at that time. I was walking backwards and had looked behind me to see where I was going. We all looked away at the same time. When we looked back, the light was gone. No sign of it at all! We wanted to find more, but only managed to locate a blinking "star" in the sky. It would flash in one place with a few seconds between each reappearance. After that nothing else happened and we gave up. But it was strange. And exciting.

I woke up at 3 a few mornings ago to strange sounds outside and thought they belonged to aliens. I'm sure that was the delirium of sleep deprivation though. Or there were robots roaming the streets and the News stations felt that it wasn't Newsworthy.

I don't think I'm a lunatic, but who knows?! The above is all I can recall right now.