I started at Huddersfield University in September 1993. I couldn’t move into Halls as I lived to close to the University so instead I moved into a shared house with 3 other girls.
As I was unpacking my stuff I noticed a half penny coin on the floor near the door of my wardrobe. I found this a bit odd as these coins had gone out of circulation years before, and the room had been cleaned for my arrival. Never-the-less, I picked it up and keeping it as my lucky half penny I popped it on my shelf.
A few days later I came back from a lecture with one of my housemates. We walked into my room where I noticed my half penny back on the floor by the wardrobe door. Commenting on how strange this was that it had got back there, I picked it up and took it back to the shelf, but when I went to put it down I noticed my original half penny still sitting there. Laughing the weirdness of the situation off I gave it to my friend to have as her lucky penny and thought nothing of it until a few days later when I came back into my room and on the floor by the wardrobe door was a half penny! I took it to the shelf, mine was still there. I asked my friend if she still had hers, and yes, it was on her window sill where she had put it, so bizarrely we had yet another ½p coin! I gave it to one of my other housemates as her lucky ½ p and promised my 3rd house mate that if I found another one I would give it to her.
Unfortunately no other half pennies turned up in the house. It left me a bit puzzled as to where they had all come from. I checked in and around the wardrobe but couldn’t find where they would have possibly fallen from, and if they did fall it seems a bit odd that they always landed in the same spot by the wardrobe door!
A couple of other odd occurances happened in that house but nothing significant. The oven door flew open and then slammed shut one day when we were all in the kitchen, yet nowhere near the oven. That was a bit spooky and although we all laughed about it we all legged it out of the room. One of my house mates also saw 2 of her CDs fly across the room and hit the wall one evening, which scared the hell out of her but that was about all that happened, although none of us settled very well in the house and were glad to move to a new house for our second year at Uni!
These occurances are nothing compared to some of the fortean things mentioned on these pages but I thought I’d mention it all the same!