instinct & intuition

Not sure where to put this, mods are welcome to move this if there is a good thread it would fit in. I am listening to a podcast (when I should be working...) from the British Psychological Society (and an author discussing his book) about people who feel an 'unseen presence' or a 'felt...

I've been looking at houses to buy over the last couple of months. Does anyone get the feeling that they can or can't live somewhere as soon as they enter a property. One of the houses I viewed which was a new build felt so horrible I made my excuses and left Mr Wombat thinks I've lost it he...

I don't mean in the social sense of not fitting in. I'm more concerned with the place itself, the combination of landscape, water, location - and the feelings that we have about them. I do believe that we have a tendency to anthropomorphise (or personalise) places in the same way that we often...

Route 1 offers breathtaking vistas of the ocean along the Central California Coast. Unfortunately, following a sea cliff exposes it to washing out and landslides nearly every winter. Come summer, construction and rubbernecking tourists slow traffic to a virtual standstill on the winding road...

Hello again everyone.. Had a few odd experiences over the years and i've posted a couple on here.. Just thought i'd throw out there my latest quite unremarkable but worth mentioning oddity. I work in an industrial unit and have for over 20yrs. I'm in a small team or often on my own -...

As a reformed believer in all things paranormal it surprises me that, when I’m alone at the allotment, I often get weirded out by the feeling that a presence is near me. I’ve never seen anything there, or if I have, it’s a pigeon or similar flying by that I catch in my peripheral vision. It...

I'm sure there is probably already a thread somewhere related to this, but I am interested to hear anybody's experiences of getting 'bad vibes' around certain people. What causes us to have these feelings? I always remember one incident when I was about 10 and I went into a shop that I never...

(I couldn't find an existing thread that this quite seemed to fit, but by all means merge/move it as appropriate.) Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone else has encountered odd 'regulars' at their local library? Being sadly unemployed once more, I've been spending quite a lot of time at the...

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...

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...

My wife and I are expecting our first baby. I was talking to a friend the other day who is also expecting. He mentioned that the moment said deed was accomplished, he somehow knew that he had just conceived his first child. He and his wife had not been trying to get pregnant, so he had not...

[edit: I thought this deserved its won thread - it was split off from "Earthquake Prediction Advances": www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12689 Link is obsolete. The current link is: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/earthquake-prediction-advances.12689/ where you can...

Last weekend I visited my folks. While we were there we went to Poundbury. Poundbury is essentially a housing estate, but rather than being rows of Barrett homes all the houses are different. They follow a number of design styles right though the ages. What they have tried to do is to create a...

I used to live in a rented house with a friend of mine, and he'd often go away to visit his girlfriend on a weekend. I really didn't appreciate this, since whenever I was alone in the house, whatever the time of day, I felt genuinely afraid. I have no idea why, but the house would just...

Has anyone incountered or heard of a incounter with any strange folk (anyone not classed as a typical human)? lucydru