Weird things that you can’t explain.

[kev1974]

DrSteveBrule said:

jdw100 said:

DrSteveBrule said:

Yeah, he was a sod like that.

Edited by DrSteveBrule on Monday 6th May 12:18

Of course you can explain it.

I had a petrol pump fail once, near Birmingham airport. It’s just one of those things - bits of cars break or drop off from time to time.

You are only saying you can’t explain it because it happened in a grave yard. Given the millions of visits to grave yards every year it’s highly likely failures (some of them a bit odd) will happen.

If your lights had popped out on your driveway you would have been surprised but not attributing it to supernatural causes.

It’s this kind of thinking that holds back the human race.....

It could have happened anywhere, I still can't explain what made the glass on 4 separate headlights fall out at exactly the same time. Someone with more technical savvy than me may be able to but I can't. My statement still stands.

I did astronomical mileage in that car, at least 170,000 miles, so the lights had plenty of opportunities to break at speed on any number of bumpy B roads or high-speed jaunts on a motorway. I mentioned the graveyard because that's precisely where it happened. With regards to the context I make a light-hearted comment about it being a 'sign' and now you think I'm convinced my friend is signalling from the afterlife?

I'm sorry you're struggling, let me rewrite my post so you can concentrate on just the facts;

As per the title of the thread, here is my recollection of a weird thing I can't explain. The glass on all 4 of my headlights fell out at exactly the same time as I went to drive out of a carpark. For further clarification NO GHOSTS WERE INVOLVED.

My money would be on the surrounding temperature being precisely right for the right length of time for them to contract enough to pop out. Or you had just driven over a particular set of bumps that were just right to shake them out. Or a combo of the two.

[PAULJ5555]

I picked 6 random numbers in a shop last week and on Saturday night they appeared on the telly.

How does this happen.

[cuprabob]

PAULJ5555 said:

I picked 6 random numbers in a shop last week and on Saturday night they appeared on the telly.

How does this happen.

In my experience, with a great deal of difficulty

[Prizam]

Getragdogleg said:

I can accurately tell you when my eldest child has fallen asleep. I formed a strong bond with her when she was a baby because I always put her to bed and held her hand until she was asleep, now she is 8 I can still tell the moment she falls asleep, its a feeling and a certainty that is accurate, she can be awake when I check on her and a few minutes later I will know she is asleep before I get to the door to check on her.

Its freaky because I can be in the living room and suddenly know when she is not awake.

Yep, I'm the same.

[gr1340]

The day I got married, a clock that had stopped working and belonged to my Grandma (who had died a few years earlier) started working.

It was one of these:

[Front bottom]

DrSteveBrule said:

This'll be interesting considering the flak I've had for mentioned coincidences and death in the same breath.

These sort of threads are usually a great read. I've had plenty of unexplained things happen to me in the past, but some posters on here are determined to discredit you, as if they were there at the time of the occurrence.

I just ignore them these days.

[wildone63]

languagetimothy said:

Decided This morning to do a late spring clean, so headed for the supermarket. I bought a few bottles of cleaning stuff, sponges, gloves, dusters etc., went to the checkout. £10.65.
Then I had to get some fags (b&h blue...cheap) whilst there I bought a lottery scratch card as I occasionally do. "That's £10.65 please".

That reminds me of something that has happened to me probably hundreds of times over the years,i will make a small purchase in a shop or any other retail outlet and the price of the goods comes to exactly 1p more than I have got in loose change in my pocket, hardly ever 2p or3p or a little more but nearly always 1p.

Something that I still sometimes think about to this day was when myself and a schoolfriend were walking down a country lane near home one summer day in the mid 70's,there was an Austin Landcrab parked on a short uphill driveway just off the lane facing uphill towards a roadside cottage,with no driver in it,just as we got to the car it rolled quickly back downhill towards us and into the lane and bumped into the hedge opposite,we had to jump out of the way,obviously the handbrake had been left off,but ive always felt it spooky that the car should have moved at the precise moment it did.

[AlRaven]

Robbo 27 said:

I had an accident when I was 10 years old, badly injuring my toes in York City Centre.


My sister, 10 years older than me, was at home at the time and cried out in pain at exactly the same time as my accident. The pain was in the right foot in the same toes that I had injured.

About 10 years ago I was driving to work and distinctly heard a cry of "Dad!". I was completely flummoxed and thought it was something on the radio, I wish I'd rang home at the time but later the wife rang and my youngest had had a fall and was unconscious for some time - and yes it was exactly the time I heard that cry.

[slopes]

A few years back i worked in a food warehouse and one night, i got tasked to collect the cardboard and sweep the freezer unit. So collected all the cardboard in the stillage and pushed it outside and went back in with the broom.
Sweeping away and out the corner of my eye i saw something humanoid shaped and sized, flash past me towards the emergency excape door.
Went and had a look and nobody else there, thought nothing of it until about 5 minutes later when i was up another aisle sweeping and damn me if it happened again.
This time it was definitely human shaped, about 6 ft tall and moved like a person.

I went out to find which one of my stupid colleagues was playing a joke only to find every single one outside unloading the night delivery wagon and nobody walked past me.
Then a few people mentioned they had seen the same 'ghost' in the freezer. I don't know if it was a trick of the light, a trick of the mind or something was there but i kept my wits about me after that just in case and still to this day don't know what it was.

[jdw100]

Front bottom said:

DrSteveBrule said:

This'll be interesting considering the flak I've had for mentioned coincidences and death in the same breath.

These sort of threads are usually a great read. I've had plenty of unexplained things happen to me in the past, but some posters on here are determined to discredit you, as if they were there at the time of the occurrence.

I just ignore them these days.

These events can be discredited though.

I'm amazed on this thread that people seem to think sight, memory and the other ways we perceive and interact with our world are in any way reliable.

They just seem to have no understanding about the brain.

Also, the lack of critical thinking skills that some people exhibit....

Here's two for you from my experience:


1. My Great- Grandfather died at about 95 (in Gloucestershire), he had owned a grandfather clock since he was about 25.

On the day he died - it stopped. No one including my Grandad and my Dad could get it started again, just couldn't wind it up.

2. In January I saw a tall black figure in the corner of our living room, at the same time I felt such a sense of fear (like nothing I have ever felt before). A terrifying event.

Supernatural, not able to explain? Some on here would immediately jump to a conclusion that these events are inexplicable.

No, just understand a few simple things about the way the world works and apply some thought to both.

Edited by jdw100 on Monday 13th May 00:54

[TameRacingDriver]

This has become a bit of a bone of contention for me lately, but I work in IT, and I'll never be able to explain why, when I build machines, that I have a seemingly have a different problem every time a new one is built, when in fact:-

- Same make and model machine
- Same OS
- Same applications
- Same process used to build

I should be able to rely on it, but I just can't. In fact, nobody who should be able to explain why/fix it can seemingly do so. It's making the job far more frustrating than it should be. I understand computers are complex beasts but still the same software images/apps SHOULD work the same way on the same hardware, no ifs or buts, should it not??

At least I wont be out of a job for some time yet...

[Shuvi McTupya]

TameRacingDriver said:

At least I wont be out of a job for some time yet...

Unless someone comes along that doesn't fk up every build in new and interesting ways

[Fastchas]

At my GF's house a few years ago, my car's alarm bipper stopped working. It would not lock the doors unless I was 6" away from the driver's window.
My GF's car also refused to lock.
Scratching our heads, we looked around and saw an AA van at the neighbour's house across the road. He couldn't unlock his car and called the AA out. He bought a brand new Mitsubishi PHEV after this as he thought he car was now causing problems.
Lasted for a couple of weeks then the problem went away.

[TameRacingDriver]

Shuvi McTupya said:

TameRacingDriver said:

At least I wont be out of a job for some time yet...

Unless someone comes along that doesn't fk up every build in new and interesting ways

That would suggest it's my fault except it isn't, I have nothing to do other than press the buttons to tell it to do its work. Not my fault if someone can't come up with a process that works!

[jimPH]

Johnnytheboy said:

I had an odd little one just now - just a coincidence but a funny one.

I was looking for somewhere on Streetview got distracted by something and left it up on screen, by chance pointing at the building of one of my firm's clients in the same road.

That client - who I haven't spoken to in a couple of years at least - rang me up!

Did he ask why were you pointing to him on Google?

[jimPH]

On 21st march 2014, Leicester were bottom of the premier League with 19 points.

Richard the 3rd was finally buried with full honours in Leicester cathedral on 22nd March.

Leicester went on a 9 game winning streak, the rest of that season and won the premier League the following year.

Thanks Richard!

[jdw100]

Fastchas said:

At my GF's house a few years ago, my car's alarm bipper stopped working. It would not lock the doors unless I was 6" away from the driver's window.
My GF's car also refused to lock.
Scratching our heads, we looked around and saw an AA van at the neighbour's house across the road. He couldn't unlock his car and called the AA out. He bought a brand new Mitsubishi PHEV after this as he thought he car was now causing problems.
Lasted for a couple of weeks then the problem went away.

Not unexplainable at all.

Someone using a device operating on the same bandwidth as most car alarm fobs.

Strong signal, interfered with yours.

Signal then stopped. Fobs back to normal.

It’s happened loads of times, there were lots of articles on this a few years back. Interference caused by radar, remote lighting (at a club, as I recall) etc etc etc.

I’m amazed you wouldn’t know this..

[Front bottom]

I work all sorts of random shifts, I'll set my alarm for say 2:00am, having been on afternoons a couple of days before, and I'll wake up 2 mins before the constantly changing alarm time surprisingly often.

There's no set pattern to my roster btw.

[Badda]

Front bottom said:

I work all sorts of random shifts, I'll set my alarm for say 2:00am, having been on afternoons a couple of days before, and I'll wake up 2 mins before the constantly changing alarm time surprisingly often.

There's no set pattern to my roster btw.

Same on all counts.

[The Moose]

Front bottom said:

I work all sorts of random shifts, I'll set my alarm for say 2:00am, having been on afternoons a couple of days before, and I'll wake up 2 mins before the constantly changing alarm time surprisingly often.

There's no set pattern to my roster btw.

I don’t work shifts or similar, however I do have different things to get up for at different times (e.g. I was in court a few weeks ago at an unusual early time due to the distance from the house).

I also wake up 1-2 mins before the alarm is due. What’s weird though, if I forget to set the alarm, I don’t wake up.