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In the early morning of 15 May, I had a very vivid dream. The first thing I said to my husband was 'Eric Burdon is dead'. The dream was very vivid so I raced downstairs and booted up the computer. Eric Burdon was fine, but BB King had died. As my husband said, 'Well, you got the genre right'...

Monster in the room I was renting a flat that had a long hallway with a damp bedroom at the end. I never used it and for some reason it began to frighten me. On my way to the kitchen I would sometimes have to carry a knife because of my fear of this room. One day I turned my back on the door to...

My first time posting here, please bear with me as I describe the area where this took place, as it is important in understanding what happened, I think in 2000 or 2001. I live in the Pacific Northwest on some acreage that includes forest. That forest includes big trees and smaller ones, ferns...

Late last night, when everyone in the house was asleep except me, some odd things began to happen. For convenience, I'll describe the layout of the house and where everyone was sleeping, hopefully it will give a better idea of what it was like: The bedrooms are on one side of the house, in an...

Ive posted in the Cryptozoology forum asking for info. My experience goes back to two years ago in north yorkshire to what only can be described as seeing a werewolf. Im a logical person, to me they are something from horror films and science fiction and dont exists but after hearing what i...

Most people will be aware of the film Duel. (Speilberg's first). My memory, however, insists I've watched two different versions of it, one in black and white with the shabby dark tanker lorry and and old rounded car driven by a 50's businessman type, one with a newer red flat fronted lorry...

Hello, everyone, I'm a longtime lurker finally decloaking. This isn't the story I'd planned to tell, and it didn't even happen to me, but it did happen to my nine-year-old daughter, and I'm posting on both our behalfs (behalves?). It's quite long, for which I apologise, but I'd like to include...

I stared at the goat, its eyes were square, and I didn't understand why, but the vision stayed with me for the rest of my life, and that night I woke up, I knew the goat had come for me. It all started off innocently enough, I took a mild interest in goats, I found them interesting...

Back in 1987 I was driving with my future spouse very late at night down from the highlands of Scotland, and was passing a loch side into a long quiet village that we both knew well. We'd become used to the street lighting, as opposed to the total darkness that we'd been driving through...

Dear Forteans, there is some weirdness happening in my life and I really could use your wonderful, collective wisdom to shed some light on it. Certain details will have to be excluded for privacy's sake, but I will try to explain as clearly as possible. Some years ago now, there was a...

How were you murdered? N...O...S... Girl who was clearly pushing the planchette: "Noose!" Me: No. That spells nose. He was murdered with a nose." On Sunday last (19th January) I attended my first paranormal vigil. A ticketed event investigation into a purportedly haunted building. I had...

Not so much "happened to me" as "happened to my Dad." Which is even weirder since the guy is as straight thinking as they come, atheist and logic obsessive previous Bank Manager. This story, to my utter delight, was first hinted at over the Christmas dinner. My Dad was scoffing at my website...

I just heard after something like 38 years of not hearing it that a long time ago in the house I grew up in my sister, who was around 3 at the time walked from the bathroom into my mother's bedroom one morning and said 'there's a man in the bathroom'. This was met with 'no there isn't, your...

Odd things do happen to us all, if only we'd realise and take the chance to look. Here's some weird things that have happened to me over the 30 years of my life; I can remember when I was a kid and I was falling asleep in bed, I can sort of subconsciously remember something stroking my hair...

It has been many moons since I last posted in these here parts, so I thought I’d return with a tale to tell. The tale of the door that rattled… In July 2011, a girlfriend and I decided to have a few days break in Liverpool. I had booked an apartment for the visit, so it gave us more...

These are three things that I experienced that I'll share for anyone interested. The first I can't actually remember happening, it was just always told to me by my parents. When I was very young (I'm guessing maybe 3 or so) I drew a picture with crayons. It was obviously very crude, but my...

This is an account told to me by my father. It's always intrigued me. Before I delve into the story, I want to say I'd describe my dad as level-headed, a bit skeptical about most things, and pretty up-front. When my dad was younger, he often hung out with his mates in London. He'd often...

Hi Everyone, A friend has recommended that I come on here a share a story with you that my Dad recently told me about something that he saw around 40 years ago. Looking at some of the other topics this story seems a little bit tame but its the best I've got at the moment! A few weeks ago I...

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oeo0h/reddit_tell_me_your_glitch_in_the_matrix_stories/ Some interesting IHTM-type stories.

Ok Ive had this sensation many times whilst at work in my business suit. Yes, Im already seeing crude replies of amusement :) Many times when stood and in almost any everyday situation I experience a vibration in my right side trouser pocket. When it begins I think my phone must be ringing...

In 2000 I was alone in a nicely furnished flat and loved the feeling of independence etc. I was in a new area and it was a private flat surrounded by council ones - nice :) I made a few friends who where elderley but those of my age range ignored me which later led to a stalker and anti...

I saw a bright light in the clear night sky, back in 2001. At first me and my mate thought it was a satalite, but then realised that it was moving too fast. It then shot across the sky from one side to the other, changing direction at incredible speed, flying one way, then another, turning at...

OK this is one removed. It happened to another not to me so I can't quickly answer questions. My wifes friend sadly lost her husband last year. Last week she was in a jewelers when a woman (another customer) approached her and said "you love rubies dont you"? Somewhat taken aback by the...

I have been noticing a dramatic increase in synchronicity recently. E.g. thinking about a film and finding it's on TV a few days later, thinking about a fairly obscure topic and than reading about it in an newspaper article, even reading a rather obscure word just as someone on TV says that...

This is a bit weird and at the time I wondered if it was normal for everyone or just me but I didn't tell anyone. I tell you all now at the risk of finding out it's totally normal and nothing strange but I don't know. WHen I was a teenager I lived with my Dad and regularly would see things...

My mother has told me a few times of an occasion when she was left alone in her house when she very young. Her father wasn't caring for her well and she was upset that she was left in the middle of the day, when it was sunny outside. As she sat on a chair in the kitchen she noticed the back...

I recently posted about weird lights appearing in night-time photos taken outside the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. My girlfriend, who took the shots, seems to be a magnet for such anomalous artifacts - last month she took this shot of her sister at her house in the USA, which...

I know that there is probably a whole thread on this, but being new to posting you'll forgive me for putting this out on this particular forum. About ten years ago i was going through a particularly down patch in my life. I had just split up with a boyfriend and decided to accompany a friend...

Not sure if this will be allowed as it happened to a colleague of mine, not me. However the person in question is a very hard-nosed, no-nonsense businesswoman (let's call her Sarah) and I can't for the life of me think why she would make this up. Also, the creepiest thing about this story is...

First post here so be gentle… When I was very young, probably about four or five, we lived in a lovely old detached cottage in East Devon where all manner of very odd things happened, but this one incident seemed madder than the rest. I had a Pooh Bear at the time, and took it absolutely...

This story is in response to my previous strange occurrence within my Grandparents house. From a very early age I would very regularly stay at my Grandparents house while both of my parents were running a business at the time. So sometimes I would either spend all afternoon there or arrive in...

Alright so, um well theres this kid I know and I don't know, sometime around the winter of 08, he came over my house to drop something off and well as he was standing outside my door, and we were talking. I then noticed his eyes looked snake like, yknow like slits. And well I chalked it up to...

I'm sure it's been covered here before, but here goes, nothing major, but I was cycling to work last week when I passed a parked car on the opposite side of the road, the driver's window was wound down and a women was sat in the driver seat. I looked at her, (as a cyclist I'm always checking...

Hi All This is my 1st post on here so please bear with me and be gentle. Has anyone got any info or stories about look-a-likes? My intrest began about 4 years ago when my Granma passed away. We went along to the residental home she had been living in after suffering a stroke and were...

I gotta theory that places with a lot of earth disturbance are creepy - ex-mining villages, ironstone extraction, china clay, quarrying. They don't get any better when slagheaps are reassimilated into weirdly smooth grass hills. Strange villages got worse since they lost their railways IMO...

Okay, this is a bit embarrassing but if I can't tell my story here, where can I tell it? :D I must have been around two years of age when I had this experience. I remember the world being 'brown' and then I opened my eyes. (The brown color had been because my eyes were closed.) I...

I enjoyed reading issue FT240 as I am a strong believer in time slips, De ja vu and parallel universes, for example the loch ness monster is a dinosaur from 63 million years ago but is only seen when a time slip occurs in the ness area, mothman is a creature from a parallel universe which doesnt...

My son was born in July of 1995, by November 1995 the child could climb stairs and stand up - he talked really early and was obsessed with drawing - but he was wary of water. I remember the plughole in the bath used to make a slurping sound when the water went down and it terrified him. He...

Hi everyone! I posted this on SSPR before I found out about Fortean Times Message Boards. I had a weird experience in my own home, if someone could help clarify this for me it would be useful. This was summer 2006 and it was stinking hot. I couldn't sleep in my bed and so I went...

Me and my boyfriend went out today, and on the way to a supposed haunted location, (Northwood Park), we decided to tell each other our scary experiences. Whether or not the experiences we had MAY have been our imagination, some of them he told me left tingles down my spine. So, I was...

The following happened to me in Banglumphu, Bangkok, about 3 months ago. I'd be interested to hear any thoughts, as this was one of the most scary and inexplicable things I've experienced. I was walking up Rambuttri Road early one evening, on my way to a music venue in a backpacker ghetto...

As much as I would like to say this happened to me, it didn't. This is my mother's tale, recounted a few times to me (under duress, mind you), so I'm posting it here via her. This happened when I was about 5 years old. It was late January, and it was snowy and cold. The now old Christmas tree...

When visiting my old place of employment, after moving up north to 'Thurso' (coincidence it was same basis of name as day?), after an absence of 3 years, I found nobody I recognised at all. Going back a couple of days later, I bumped into someone I knew outside and half a dozen other co-workers...

I was reading in FT219 about SLI in the Letters when I remembered an incident that happened to me and a friend in college (Western Washington University, Bellingham WA, probably in winter 1993). As I recall, my friend had an argument, a nasty loud argument, with someone else and stomped off in...

Is it worth having a thread for minor IHTM strangenesses, that dont quite warrant their own threads, or should I be posting this in chat? I was in a bakers shop in chorlton, south manchester a couple of days ago. As I was walking towards the door on my way out, I noticed there was a poster in...

Not sure whether this should be here or in Cryptozoology, but here goes. A few years ago I was seeing a girl in Stevenage (luckily I have since moved ) who's sister was single with three kids. I never asked what happened to her husband - this being Stevenage I probably assumed she never had...

I was house sitting for my girlfriend's aunt last week as she (and most of the rest of my girlfriend's family) had gone on holiday for the week. My girlfriend's aunty has a dog, as does her mother and I had to look after both the dogs as well. My girlfriend had been away for the weekend as it...

In the summer of 1994, when I was unemployed for a while, I took a walk down to St. Mary's Church in Llanfair P.G., Anglesey, North Wales, U.K. The church is centuries old and the adjoining cemetery is full - there is hardly any room left for further burials. The church is right next to a...

This event happened to me when I was about 9 years old and living in Preston, Lancashire, which would make it 1989. I was playing in the street with two friends, it was late summer and a very warm evening. At about 6pm my friends were called by their parents to go and have their dinner. I...

I just thought I'd post this and see if anyone has experienced anything similar. From time to time I will hear a word or phrase that I've never come accross before. While this is not extraordinary in itself, I do have a fairly large vocabulary. The strange thing is, it always seems like...