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I used to live in Nottingham in the 1990s. But I come from a family of London shopfitters, a company that has roots in 18th century East End, London. Back then though, I was kind of drifting. Working temporary jobs or minicabbing etc, whilst attending free parties in Nottinghamshire and...

On Sunday night I let the dog out the back of the house and saw strange banks of cloud in the sky. To all intents and purposes it looked like a fog bank: atomised liquid gives an idea of its appearance as can happen with a garden hose on a fine setting. In other words unlike most clouds in the...

During a crazy period in my life, I fell in love with this girl in London (see below) and during this time returned home to Diss in Norfolk, where the insanity spread to my parents house, including a telephone call from Sai Baba, the Indian guru. Why this was interesting was that nobody knew in...

I used to be a deer stalker and owned a patch of forest. The local farmers allowed me to take deer off their land as well, so I had a large area over which to control the deer numbers. They asked me to shoot foxes, being under the impression that foxes kill lambs. I was reluctant to do this but...

Two strange little 'Twilight Zone' adventures have happened to me in the course of my work.... The Maps App sent us off the freeway onto the Old Pacific Highway. We turned again onto Peat’s Road, and it was then I began thinking about that episode of The Twilight Zone where the plane travels...

I wrote about the old Rectory in Feltwell in my book and the relevant section is here ( http://www.paullee.com/ghosts/FeltwellRectory.pdf ) I then chanced upon a website that had a very similar story, and which obviously came from the daughter of the lady I interviewed. It was in the "It...

This is a “Mandela Effect” that happened to me, but I haven’t seen discussed anywhere else. I watched the 2006 James Bond movie Casino Royale when it was released. I actually saw it twice on the big screen. I’ll have probably rented the DVD when it was released and recorded it when it came to...

I used to love taking photographs on a film camera, especially of old, forgotten places. Blogs like Abandoned Ireland enthralled me, with their ethereal depictions of old dwellings and businesses lost to time itself. Sometimes I think I should go back to taking photographs like that again – and...

I like to walk in a small wood near my home it has a lovely feel to it and I've never felt frightened there. Yesterday I set off down a path I've used countless times before I walked into something I can only describe as thicker air it felt like I was having to push my way through. I could feel...

Many years ago when I was a child about 8 years of age, I was definitely a tomboy ! I loved anything to do with Tarzan and swinging from trees was favourite pastime ! At that time I lived near a local woodland in which I used to play "Tarzan" with some of the local lads, we used to tie ropes...

Had a week in Seville (lovely city) and was reviewing photos on my phone when I saw this. Didn’t see anything at the time and it isn’t a reflection as we were sat outside. Must be some kind of lens flare but looks great

Hi, I wondered if anyone could help give me some ideas on this. A friend told me yesterday that he has been seeing a figure following him around. He first saw it in his room, then stood watching him at work, then on the sidelines when he was taking part in a race. He says it is black and fuzzy...

I’ve got a weird video from during storm Isha. There’s a weird light to the left. It looks like someone with a torch but it isn’t. The area is coming from is where the fence is. Also it’s slower than a human would move it. It’s not a drone or helicopter because they wouldn’t have stood a chance...

Hi all, not been on for a while but just thought I would share this.Sorry bit long_winded. Christmas Eve, trip to local Tesco. Remember planning to park to right of trolley park (1 of 3). Running around a bit stressed looked at car thinking MUST lock it. Quick shop, come out to leave...However...

I touched a 'night terror' several years ago as I struggled to sleep. It was roughly 2:30, I was sleeping but my mind was still highly active and racing, it being a Saturday. I was possibly even warning myself to shut up and settle down when I felt a hand grasp my arm. And I grabbed it. No...

I was chatting to a fellah (Rob) in the local pub yesterday lunchtime, and I can’t remember how the topic came up in conversation, but back in the 1980’s he told me he was walking his dog through woodland in Essex when he was approached by a man who pulled a knife and demanded his wallet. He...

For background I have always wanted a garnet ring I found the perfect one in an antique barn so brought it. The next day I was showing it to a colleague at work when from behind us came a sharp intake of breath followed by another colleague running from the room. Five minutes later I'm called...

I've always been fascinated as to why attics always seem so damn creepy. I knoe they're generally unvisited spaces in a house, often full of old things (or even sometimes empty) but for some reason some just seem really unnerving and I can never quite work out why. I've lived in houses with...

I just saw a TV commercial featuring a little girl in a deerstalker hat, and it reminded me of an odd coincidence - or was it? Back in my college days I had a lovely wool deerstalker myself. It was a brown houndstooth weave, looked very much like one depicted on a Sherlock Holmes anthology I...

Over the summer I visited my old home town It's got a a lot of really old buildings. I decided to visit the old flea pit which has been restored to its 1911 glory. There was only me and a woman in the ticket office in the building. I sat down in the middle row of seats facing the screen admiring...

I can’t remember where, but I have a memory of reading an account of a traveler on a train who was going past a field in which there were several horses. The traveler claimed that one of the horses was huge, they estimated it at about 20 feet in height. They stated that it was stood quietly...

One night in the early nineties a friend and I were out late at night walking around not far from where I live. I used to enjoy being out in the early hours when everyone was tucked up in bed for some reason. We decided to explore the grounds of the high school we had attended although we didn't...

I've reported and commented on previous occasions about being in the unusual position of realising I'm at the mundane and un-fortean end of someone else's amazing coincidence. Today I seem to have found I'm the non magical instigator of what might seem to the people at the end of the sequence...

Hi everyone, I'm a longtime lurker and new member. I have two really good stories you might enjoy, one happened to me, and another happened to a friend. I should say upfront I am a skeptic, I don't believe in the paranormal (No offence to anybody who does believe, I respect everyone's...

Sorry if this is covered in another thread. Two years ago, on a Saturday afternoon, I had one of those phone calls from my oldest friend that no one ever wants to get. She was calling me to tell me that her husband had just died there in front of her (in the last few Minutes) and could I get...

This happened last summer as I recall dawn had broken and I was still twisting and turning in bed feeling uncomfortably warm. Out of nowhere a disembodied female voice delivered a message into my left ear which caused me to shoot out of bed. I instantly forgot the content (which is odd in...

After reading many accounts of the paranormal and weird on this forum, I now wonder if my first home was haunted or had a poltergeist. Is there a difference? Sorry, this story is going to be disjointed because I started posting on another thread and realized that I was telling a full story...

The story is about the Chinese college-entrance exam. In most provinces of China, students commonly choose the targeted universities after their marks and provincial rankings are disclosed. However, the admission score was unknown at that moment. Students, particularly those who get a high...

this happened a couple of weeks ago, on afternoon of sunday 12th march in fact ... and not far from the locus of the bizarre night in mississippi i have been gradually exploring backroads of the mississippi delta by car over the last period, stopping and checking out historic blues places and...

Perhaps the easiest Fortean experience to ascribe a rational explanation for - ie 'you were dreaming', 'you were having an episode of sleep paralysis' or 'you were having an hypnopompic hallucination' - but it still doesn't take away from the weirdness of the experience. I imagine they're fairly...

I’m pretty sure there is an insomnia thread on here somewhere, but I don’t think a creepy Insomnia thread so thought I’d start one. I have been suffering mild insomnia for around 20 years now. It flares up from time to time and it’s not nice, and sometimes bloody creepy hence my post. I woke...

In the early to mid 1990s I had my first (and so far only) visit to a spiritualist church. I’d called with a friend to see one of his elderly friends and she said she was going to the church that evening as there was a guest medium appearing who she wanted to see. Somehow we got persuaded to...

This didn't happen to me, but it did happen to my sister a few weeks ago so I thought it might belong in here! She's a strange one at the best of times, although not especially interested in anything Fortean. Throughout her life she has certainly had her share of unexplainable experiences, which...

Another thread I just read about the child seeing the old lady in black with the limp triggered a memory of a sad time for my family in the early 1980s when my aunt died suddenly in London and her husband died at the funeral. Our cousins were staying with us in Ireland as the adults travelled...

I can’t claim to have had a lot of paranormal/Fortean experiences in my life, but here is one incident that I recall from time to time that I have no explanation for. First of all, a confession! I’m a bit of an Enya fan. I have bought all the CD’s and still listen to her music. Maybe that...

About 3am, several flashes of light VERY similar to a strong camera flash or a Hollywood style lightning effect went off outside my window, lighting the whole room. I was awake at the time. I live in London, but my room backs on to quiet garden areas. I looked out of the window about a minute...

I'll get right to it. I wonder if any of you forteans can connect with this. Over the years I have always enjoyed woods and forests whether it be walks, mucking around with my kids or just being in nature as a change from city life. But not all woods have the same feel. I lived near the...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this. It's my first post and I joined in order to get it written down in case it comes true. It concerns a story my Grandmother told me when I was in my early teens. She died in 1967 so it was in the mid-sixties. This story was given to her by an...

Just like my life changed after I witnessed a flying vehicle 25 years ago with 3 other women - Now I know for certain that there are mysteries out there and that we don't know everything going on in the universe. And that we are not alone.

Well then, first thread... and I thought I'd start with the tale that brought me back to this forum, in a roundabout way. Story first - and then what came after, in separate posts in case anyone wishes to quote certain sections back at me. Apologies for the length, future posts shouldn't be so...

this was a weird collection of events, compressed into a raw couple of hours towards end august 2019 fortean sidekick and i were staying in greenwood MS ( now basically my second home), we had driven down to madison to catch once upon a time in hollywood, nearest cinema ... after, we met a pal...

This is the story of the 'ghostliest' thing to ever happen to me, I've been meaning to tell it since I joined but as the time period involved concurs with unrelated events close to my heart, I've put it off for quite some time as I didn't want to mentally project myself back there, if that makes...

This morning I was woken by a loud knock on the door: a firm and distinctive syncopated pattern of 3 raps. I'm a musician and dancer and I have a good sense of rhythm and I could reproduce that rhythm now. I immediately thought I must have slept in. We are waiting for a couple of Amazon...

Hello, I’d like to share my experience that has stayed with me my entire life. I thought I ought to have it on record before I forget it. It’s sort of long, but please bear with me. You see, about 20 years ago, I lived on the southern peninsula of Michigan with my dad and my little brother. I...

I’d been meaning to tap this one up for ages, but have always been put off by the length of the bloody thing. Today however some IT dude knocked out the systems at work, so the internet is all we’ve had since 2pm Sorry, this is long, bear with though,, Dartmoor in SW England is one of my...

I distinctly remember a supernatural incident that happened to me many years ago. It happened on 16th October 1982. In those days I worked as a stage manager for the Welsh theatre company, Theatr Clwyd. We were doing a production of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith at the Grand Theatre...

Happened again. This time I took off my hearing aids in the car, carefully placed them in the bottom of my bag, got home and unpacked to find one hearing aid. They're expensive, so I went out by flashlight and examined the car and the driveway. I asked for it back and went to bed. In the...

I'm mentioned my extraordinary - though i hesitate to tempt fate or rely on it happening - equilibrium between unexpected expenses and unexpected windfalls several times on here. It happens so often its hard to credit it to coincidence. Well a variant of it has happened again, so a quick...

A couple of years ago I bought (or, to be accurate was bought) a set of teaspoons. Six, basic, ordinary teaspoons to replace the bastards that have crept away over the years. Within moments, I was down to five teaspoons - one thrown out, fell down the back of a cupboard, who knows? I laboured...

Honestly, how long have I been here? And I haven't told the tale of the thing that started my interest in the paranormal, tch! We've just sold the family house, so it's safe enough to tell now, I guess. Our family home was a two bed terrace in Exeter, and to go to the loo you had to go up the...