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Never mind that. I want to see the lengthy rap sheep with numerous cocaine convictions. Proper Fortean Fauna, that.

It really didn't look like it was meant to be eaten. Not by me, at any rate.

One day earlier this year, I got up and went downstairs to find one of our cats sitting patiently. It was staring fixedly at a door that was almost fully open and therefore almost touching the wall next to the frame. I could tell by the look on the cat's face that there was something living...

I have a very long drive to a workplace once a week, partly over the moors. Yesterday on this drive I repeatedly, around five miles apart each time, in villages as well as between them, encountered large flocks of jackdaws on patches of road, looking excited and distracted. I've never seen this...

Priming?

Any of you use 'grufty' to mean grubby or dirty, or is that just a northern Lincs thing?

Yep me too. A few months after I'd passed my test, driving too quickly with a car full of mates on a wet road towards a T-junction and suddenly the brakes and steering didn't work, lasted around 5 seconds I reckon, but a very very long five seconds. Cue hysteria in the car as I remained...

Mate, support a different team; you're doing far too well and playing far too excitingly this season. DM me if you need a suggestion. (Alternatively ask your GP for a referral to a sleep clinic. Specialist assessment rather than relying on side effects of drugs intended for other conditions.)

Why aren't the "mysterious things happening in the dream world ... leaking over into real life" ever pleasant or neutral, like a lot of dreams are? I haven't experienced, nor have I heard of anyone who's experienced, pleasant "dreams" whilst in a state of sleep paralysis. It could be that the...

This perhaps isn't the right place as the 'evil' bit doesn't apply (as far as I know), but I’m not sure where else to put it, and a new thread doesn't feel justified - please relocate if necessary. 20 years ago I was doing my clinical training and had a placement in a child/adolescent mental...

When I was about 11 I was ill for some time and very bored at home away from school, and a family friend did what she could and gave me some of her daughter's old Bunty for Girls annuals. They gave me unique although archaic and almost certainly inaccurate insights into the workings of the minds...

I'm lucky enough to live on the eastern fringes of the Peak District and sometimes go out riding (cycle) on the moors late at night. I'm not a brilliant cyclist but am just about fit enough to get up there, ride around for 40 minutes, and then coast home. Most nights it's beautiful, with hares...

"a UFO had landed in front of them about one hundred feet off the ground" Eh?

Thank you. That was fascinating.

I can't get a handle on it.

But I think the point WeirdExeter made stands - if everything else, such as traffic, appeared continuous but the pedestrian vanished, this argues against a transient loss of awareness. You wouldn't expect only one element of the visual field to be disturbed.

I used to work in a small hospital where I shared an office with a colleague. We were walking between buildings to go to get some lunch and he was regaling me with a tale from his childhood about when a wasp had crawled into his ear and had repeatedly stung him as it tried to escape. I have no...

I vividly remember having a dream at the age of about eight or so, which consisted solely of a plan view of a small town, drawn in a comic strip kind of way, which had a symbol on it representing me on a moped that was moving around the roads on the map. I was viewing from above but the symbol...

I appreciate that you weren't referring to it directly, but with specific regard to my previous post, the 'thing' had a definite feel of being something in and of itself. The whole experience had a very strong sense of being one step removed from reality as I knew it and I am certain it wasn't...

I remember seeing exactly this as (roughly) a five year old. I'd had a nightmare and got into my parents' bed and this 'swirl' hovered above me between me and the bedroom light above (which was on). It was terrifying and accompanied by a mumbling, insistent but indistinct vocalisation. It...

Stories like this about Skidbrooke Church have reared their heads with monotonous regularity for at least 30 years. Kids from our school would go out there for a laugh and when they got bored it would all quieten down again until the next generation came along and someone mentioned it to them...

That's a much more sensible arrangement than my thrifty version! I have no doubt whatsoever though that the ghost in my case is me. As with others above I've had light bulbs blow and objects inexplicably fall during arguments and whenever I'm stressed or angry our laptop won't work, to the point...

A couple of times when I've been especially worried about money I've gone to pay for petrol (both times petrol) only to find that my debit card has been sliced neatly in half about 60% of the way through with absolutely no way of this having been possible by usual means. Unhelpful, but I can...

It's more characteristic of TEA (transient epileptic amnesia) than TIA, if we're going to be neurological about it.

Yep. Those were the days, alright.

I shall.

Say what you like. He'll never play for us looking like that.

Goalkeepers for my hometown football team (Grimsby, which for those of you who aren't familiar with it was once the busiest fishing port in Europe) never wear green; it's considered unlucky as fishermen/sailors unlucky enough to fall into the sea whilst wearing green would be hard to see against...