Have seen or experience something strange? I mean things like, UFO sightings, ghosts, Sasquatch, alien abductions, etc.
I haven't seen these myself but I know many people who have. My brother said he used play a ghost boy at my grandpa's house. My step-grandma saw a ghost boy with a ghost lady at the same house. The ghosts were wearing old fashioned clothing.
bizarre rather than strange - I was walking home from the station today and this white souped-up Porsche with a massive spoiler screamed past. As it stopped at the lights I thought 'must be some boy-racing w*nker or a man in the midst of a MLC'
it was actually a little old granny with a blue rinse with her husband in his little hat sitting in the passenger seat! wtf?
One spring break in college, I was working for a department store chain that was going out of business in many locations, driving to closed stores to pick out items from checklists, for the ones staying open. Worked with a guy named Ed, who drove the truck. Ed said that he came out of McDonald's one night, and a UFO was hovering over the lot next door. He swore that it was true, and he claimed that he was barely stoned at the time!!!
It started out strange, but then turned into a dirty trick:
We were gassing up my car at the Shell station, and a car with two good-looking young ladies pulls up next to us. The driver asks: "Excuse me, we're from out of town-can you tell us where the Big Kahuna is?" (The Big Kahuna was a trendy, after hours umbrellas in the drinks type place back then-one needed a jacket and tie to get in.)
So, I go to give them the directions, and then I notice the closely shaved stubble on their dolled-up faces, and the big Adam's apples.
I did a double take, and then told them: "Oh, the Big Kahuna changed their name. It's now called Pirates Cove, and it is down this street..."
Pirates Cove was a cut-throat biker bar. You needed to know how to use your fists to get in.
To this day, I wonder what happened to those two...
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I thought one of the strangest for me was when I had a week of work in Denver and had to go by myself that week, and was having dinner in the hotel bar one night - something I would do just to find someone interesting to hopefully strike up conversation with. The guy at the bar next to me turned out to be there from Pennsylvania. He was a lawyer, and he was there to attend the UFO convention.
A lawyer there to attend the UFO convention!! You can't walk away from a situation like that! If I was listening to someone tell the story, I wouldn't have to hear another word to know that was good entertainment for an entire evening. And it WAS just as interesting as it sounded like it would be ... It was several bottles of wine before I went back up to my room for the night.
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I woke up one morning at 4am. Crying in my sleep and remembered the dream that woke me up.
In the dream, I was 5. My sisters were 5 also (we are 5 years apart, I'm older, they are twins) and we were tugging on our dad, crying. he was leaving through the front door of a house I haven't been in in over 30 years. We were BEGGING him to stay. PLEASE, DADDY! Stay! take us with you!! To which he said, I have to go...I love you, but I have to go...take care of your gramma...I love you..." And he left. I woke up...crying and shaking.
My sister called that morning while I was at work...8:30am. She told me dad died that night...I left work and drove to his house in 40 minutes (about 60 miles away! Speed demon!) and when i got there, I talked to the coroner...He said my dad passed between 3 and 5am.
I said, No...he died at 4. I know because he came to me in my dream and I woke up at 4 and he was gone.
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I woke up one morning at 4am. Crying in my sleep and remembered the dream that woke me up.
In the dream, I was 5. My sisters were 5 also (we are 5 years apart, I'm older, they are twins) and we were tugging on our dad, crying. he was leaving through the front door of a house I haven't been in in over 30 years. We were BEGGING him to stay. PLEASE, DADDY! Stay! take us with you!! To which he said, I have to go...I love you, but I have to go...take care of your gramma...I love you..." And he left. I woke up...crying and shaking.
My sister called that morning while I was at work...8:30am. She told me dad died that night...I left work and drove to his house in 40 minutes (about 60 miles away! Speed demon!) and when i got there, I talked to the coroner...He said my dad passed between 3 and 5am.
I said, No...he died at 4. I know because he came to me in my dream and I woke up at 4 and he was gone.
Trippy ****, but....I believe in those things.
That's very, very sad, but touching. I'm sorry, it didn't seem appropriate to "like" the post, but I appreciate the story.
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I saw a woman walking by a pond. She was wearing Victorian clothing, widow's weeds, they call them, mourning clothes. When I got close to her, where her face should have been was just a flesh-coloured blur.
Thinking about that incident has made my hackles rise.
That's very, very sad, but touching. I'm sorry, it didn't seem appropriate to "like" the post, but I appreciate the story.
Wow, Erie! I've heard stories similar to this were someone passes away and a loved will feel that something terrible has happened to that person. Some people do develop a physic connection to family members.
I get occasional sleep paralysis, a not very well-understood problem. There's a lot of folklore about it. It's happened to me since I was a young child and it's terrifying. Sometimes if I try really hard, I can move my eyelids a little or make a barely audible vocalization, but not always. Like many people who suffer from it, I often get the sensation of the "shadow person" approaching my bed from the lefthand side (for some reason, it's almost always from the left for people with sleep paralysis). This figure used to always feel malevolent to me, but there were times I confused it for my dad checking on me when I was a kid or my partner as an adult.
Sleep paralysis is sometimes linked to supposed out of body experiences in the mystic communities. There were times there has actually been someone else in the room and it seemed like I was watching them from a different vantage point than my body was lying. There have been times I've verified with someone what they were doing while I was asleep in the same room. Once at about age 14, I had a very vivid dream that I floated out of my bed and sorta float-walked down the hall to the top of the staircase and then down a few steps before getting stuck...after that it was like trying to move through molasses and was very scary. Someone tried to tell me this was actually an out of body experience and that I should try to trigger the sleep paralysis to see if I could do it again.
I think it's all just tricks of the brain. The folklore is interesting, though.
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