Weird things that you can’t explain.
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I don't always plug my USB in right on the first try. But when I turn it over, it's wrong too.If I fiddle with stuff that isn't mine, it ends up broken and I don't know why. I also seem to get the blame for it. This must be a family trait passed down to the first son as my nephew often uses my garage and tools, I'm forever finding my stuff broken, though he denies everything.
Turbotechnic said:
My great aunt who is in her 90’s and still very much with it lives in a residential home. On one visit she told my dad and I what happened to her recently in the middle of the night.
She woke up in the night and standing at the end of the bed was a tall dark figure. She naturally panicked and shouted at the figure to go away.
The dark figure then turned and walked towards a wall in the room and disappeared. My great aunt was shaken up by the ordeal and poured herself a stiff drink before going back to bed.
When she woke up later that morning she was visited by an on site friend who informed her the gentleman next door had passed away in the night.
What did she witness? Death himself? The spirit of the recently deceased? A dream and a coincidence?
I must admit it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up on end.
Sleep paralysis. Very common.She woke up in the night and standing at the end of the bed was a tall dark figure. She naturally panicked and shouted at the figure to go away.
The dark figure then turned and walked towards a wall in the room and disappeared. My great aunt was shaken up by the ordeal and poured herself a stiff drink before going back to bed.
When she woke up later that morning she was visited by an on site friend who informed her the gentleman next door had passed away in the night.
What did she witness? Death himself? The spirit of the recently deceased? A dream and a coincidence?
I must admit it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up on end.
DrSteveBrule said:
As previous posters have mentioned, I used to have a lot of deja vu and pre-emptive ‘visions’ years ago but not so much as I’ve got older.
One of the strangest experiences that actually happened - and there were 2 witnesses with me, took place in ‘98. One of our close friends had died in his sleep aged 21. On the first anniversary of his death 3 of us bought a wreath and went to the cemetery. We were in my car at the time, an ‘89 Mk1 Golf Cabrio with the twin headlights. We went to leave and had moved no further than a few feet when a few dull thuds cane from the front of the car.
I stopped, got out and went to see what was wrong. Laying on grass was the glass from all 4 headlights. They’d literally detached themselves from however they were fixed to the headlight unit (glue?) and were now on the ground. Not broken and no damage to them or the rest of the unit still firmly attached to the car. We went straight to the breakers to get some replacements. I’ve never worked out how or why that could happen.
Hand on heart, every year when I lay flowers I head back to whatever car I’ve owned at the time half waiting for the doors to catch fire or some such. The friend who died was always tinkering with cars. I don’t believe in religion or heaven but if he was sending a sign then that would be it as far as I’m concerned.
So people that have died can cause headlights to fall out or other malfunctions to a car - but can't use their ability to affect the living world in order to write down a message on a piece pf paper saying 'hey I'm dead but in some way my consciousness continues'.One of the strangest experiences that actually happened - and there were 2 witnesses with me, took place in ‘98. One of our close friends had died in his sleep aged 21. On the first anniversary of his death 3 of us bought a wreath and went to the cemetery. We were in my car at the time, an ‘89 Mk1 Golf Cabrio with the twin headlights. We went to leave and had moved no further than a few feet when a few dull thuds cane from the front of the car.
I stopped, got out and went to see what was wrong. Laying on grass was the glass from all 4 headlights. They’d literally detached themselves from however they were fixed to the headlight unit (glue?) and were now on the ground. Not broken and no damage to them or the rest of the unit still firmly attached to the car. We went straight to the breakers to get some replacements. I’ve never worked out how or why that could happen.
Hand on heart, every year when I lay flowers I head back to whatever car I’ve owned at the time half waiting for the doors to catch fire or some such. The friend who died was always tinkering with cars. I don’t believe in religion or heaven but if he was sending a sign then that would be it as far as I’m concerned.
You have been back many times to the cemetery, so why doesn't your deceased friend do something every time? That would be more telling wouldn't it?
Have you researched to see if headlights units fail over time - glue degradation by UV on a ten year old car?
You mention that the units were unbroken - they are designed to be pretty tough.
Had anything else ever happened to a car you have owned, if it has did you attribute this to your friend, if not why not? Are you suggesting that he can only affect vehicles near his dead buried body? Does that not seem unlikely to you, if you actually put some thought into it?
How about people that are cremated, for example? What radius from the dead body are they are to operate this power to affect cars?
Why is your friend so special? Why isn't everyone visiting cemeteries experiencing these type of events?
Finally, if you genuinely thought this was your dead friend trying to make contact in someway why haven't you been back every day?
If I genuinely thought a dead family member was trying to contact me from the other side I wouldn't be popping back every year or so: I'd be camped out there trying to make better contact and prove there is life after death....you went to a breaker's yard.
Spot of critical thinking - you should try it...that what my Grandad told me, 10 years after he had died....oooooooooh spooooooky!
Gargamel said:
Please explain how Neil Warnock still gets given jobs in football ?
Good Championship level manager really. (And hes never managed "my" club)Just not Pep or Arsene or Sir Alex. Which is seemingly what every premier league club think they are getting when they hire any manager. And are then surprised that they don't win every game. Especially when said owners haven't bought any players. Or in some cases bought the wrong players!
Lofty expectations.
DrSteveBrule said:
... Laying on grass was the glass from all 4 headlights. They’d literally detached themselves from however they were fixed to the headlight unit (glue?) and were now on the ground. Not broken and no damage to them or the rest of the unit still firmly attached to the car. We went straight to the breakers to get some replacements. I’ve never worked out how or why that could happen.
... if he was sending a sign then that would be it as far as I’m concerned.
Seems a strange way of sending a message, by costing you money ... if he was sending a sign then that would be it as far as I’m concerned.
Dr Jekyll said:
jdw100 said:
So people that have died can cause headlights to fall out or other malfunctions to a car...
etc.
...oooooooooh spooooooky!
I said IF he was sending a sign then that would be it as far as I’m concerned. For arguments sake, if asked 'Has anything happened that you could possibly attribute to a message from beyond the grave?' then I would tell this tale. I don't believe it was for one minute but I haven't got a better example to give.etc.
...oooooooooh spooooooky!
The question was 'weird things you can't explain'. That was a weird thing and I can't explain it. I'm sure there is a perfectly rational reason but until I reach the point in my life where I have nothing better to do than investigate the UV properties of adhesive used in Bosch headlights in the mid-to late 1980s I'll never know what it is. I'm happy to live in ignorance on that matter.
The context makes it appear stranger than simply stating 'One day all 4 of my headlights simultaneously fell apart. The end'.
I have to say, after re-reading your reply I don't appreciate the sarcasm.
I explicitly said I'm not religious and I don't believe in heaven – and by extension, an afterlife – so your smart-arse remarks about waiting for further signs (camping by his graveside instead of heading to breakers yard for example) aren't appreciated.
You might have amused yourself when typing your reply but you're being flippant about the sudden (and still unexplained) death of a friend of mine aged just 21. He's now been dead longer than he was alive and as years have passed we are acutely aware on the things in life he never got to experience.
I wouldn't be feeling particularly smug about myself if I were you right now.
Gargamel said:
Seems a strange way of sending a message, by costing you money
Yeah, he was a sod like that.Edited by DrSteveBrule on Monday 6th May 12:18
Bear with me here because this is very odd, really very odd and is becoming freakishly consistant.
Over the last year I have known four old geezers drop dead, their ages range from 64 to 83. Thing is, they've all been the sort of guys that you'd bump into in the pub and have a casual chat with, none of them could be considered friends and two of them I actually found really annoying.
In every single case, a few weeks prior to them popping their clogs they started telling me (and the bar staff) what a great bloke I am. Even though I never considered them friends and would quite often go out of my way to avoid them. They'd actually start coming to the pub when they knew I'd be there, so they could 'have a chat'. Two weeks later - dead.
There's now a new kid on the block ( 82
), same thing. Apparently he came to the pub yesterday asking if I was there, when he was told I wasn't he left again.
He's done it again today!
I bet he's dead within two weeks.
Over the last year I have known four old geezers drop dead, their ages range from 64 to 83. Thing is, they've all been the sort of guys that you'd bump into in the pub and have a casual chat with, none of them could be considered friends and two of them I actually found really annoying.
In every single case, a few weeks prior to them popping their clogs they started telling me (and the bar staff) what a great bloke I am. Even though I never considered them friends and would quite often go out of my way to avoid them. They'd actually start coming to the pub when they knew I'd be there, so they could 'have a chat'. Two weeks later - dead.
There's now a new kid on the block ( 82
), same thing. Apparently he came to the pub yesterday asking if I was there, when he was told I wasn't he left again.He's done it again today!
I bet he's dead within two weeks.
jimPH said:
Which pub? I'll send the wife.
:ROFL:New couple!
1) Yesterday, saw a Mk 6 Ford Escort on 7 spoke alloys. Reminded me of the Brooklands Capri alloys I had years ago.
Then yesterday. PH posts a story on the 280Brooklands!
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2) Grumbled on another thread about a girl I know constantly texting me. Was suggested by other posters to mention this. Was planning to when I saw her next. But since that post, she's cut back massively. I've never mentioned PH. I've been replying as normal, just re-read the messages and nothing subconsciously will have said "calm yourself love"
When my wife and I were renting we rented a victorian terrace that had an alleyway running alongside the house to the garden behind - The night after we moved in we found a dead cat in the alleyway, no visible sign of injury just seemed to have chosen to die there, turned out to be owned by a neighbour from across the road. We only lived there for six months and then moved to another rental across town, this time a flat in a converted stable block. Again The morning after we moved in we discovered a dead cat at the entrance to the communal parking area, with no sign of injury and again turned out to be a neighbours. We lived in that flat for around 18months then moved back in with my parents as we purchased some land from them to do a self build, around half way through the build when the skeleton of the house was in place but it wasn’t quite water tight I went into the house one morning and there in the middle of what would be our future living room was a dead cat, I knew a neighbour had a missing cat and it turned out to be that one. All coincidence no doubt but pretty creepy nonetheless.
Four years down the line and we’re in another house and I thought it had happened again (though we’ve been here a while now) as there was a very still cat sprawled in the middle of our driveway one afternoon and no amount of loud clapping or noises seemed to rouse it ... anyway perhaps the curse is broken or something as it was just a local cat that is completely deaf so despite not responding to my noise as soon as it’s owner came and knelt down to touch it it leapt up and scarpered.
Four years down the line and we’re in another house and I thought it had happened again (though we’ve been here a while now) as there was a very still cat sprawled in the middle of our driveway one afternoon and no amount of loud clapping or noises seemed to rouse it ... anyway perhaps the curse is broken or something as it was just a local cat that is completely deaf so despite not responding to my noise as soon as it’s owner came and knelt down to touch it it leapt up and scarpered.
98elise said:
Shuvi McTupya said:
And on the same vein, how come if you put two wires or charging cables into the same drawer/bag/box they form a tangled mess without any human interaction?
The wire thing simply cannot be explained. Behind my AV stuff is a bunch of wires that were plugged in at both ends when installed, and don't move for years. Logic says they cannot tie themselves up with other cables, yet that's exactly whats happened.Essentially, there is only one way in which they remain untangled, and a huge number of ways they could tangle. The probability of tangling exceeds 50% above 147cm if I recall correctly, hence why Apple headphones are only 139cm, again if I remember rightly.
Turbotechnic said:
My great aunt who is in her 90’s and still very much with it lives in a residential home. On one visit she told my dad and I what happened to her recently in the middle of the night.
She woke up in the night and standing at the end of the bed was a tall dark figure. She naturally panicked and shouted at the figure to go away.
The dark figure then turned and walked towards a wall in the room and disappeared. My great aunt was shaken up by the ordeal and poured herself a stiff drink before going back to bed.
When she woke up later that morning she was visited by an on site friend who informed her the gentleman next door had passed away in the night.
What did she witness? Death himself? The spirit of the recently deceased? A dream and a coincidence?
I must admit it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up on end.
Your aunt screaming in the night caused the guy next door to have a heart attack.She woke up in the night and standing at the end of the bed was a tall dark figure. She naturally panicked and shouted at the figure to go away.
The dark figure then turned and walked towards a wall in the room and disappeared. My great aunt was shaken up by the ordeal and poured herself a stiff drink before going back to bed.
When she woke up later that morning she was visited by an on site friend who informed her the gentleman next door had passed away in the night.
What did she witness? Death himself? The spirit of the recently deceased? A dream and a coincidence?
I must admit it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up on end.
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