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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...

Travellers were left baffled after walking into a railway office to find a real-life monkey “working” behind the desk. One customer captured the langur monkey sitting behind the desk in an office chair on video. The footage also showed the beast typing away on the keyboard and flipping through...

Hello all. This is probably not the most exciting story posted, but rest assured that everything that I am going to tell you certainly happened. This story is not the most frightening thing that has ever happened to me, but it is certainly the most baffling experience that I have had. To...

My story begins....it was a cold dark, foggy night...OK, i shall stop and be sensible now. The building i work in was built in the 1870's, it has most of the original foundations intact, since being built it has always been used as an engineering site, through WW2 it was used to make army...

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...

Fancy a new career? GCHQ challenges code breakers via social networks UK intelligence agency GCHQ has launched a code cracking competition to help attract new talent. The organisation has invited potential applicants to solve a visual code posted at an unbranded standalone website. The...

My wife works at a university in a victorian building. One of the senior staff informed her, quite straight faced, that not many people worked out of hours because the building was haunted. The person had seen an apparition, as had a number of other's and door rattlings, chills and odd...

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 thought I'd share some stories that my wife has told me over the years regarding her experiences working on one of the wards at the local midwifery hospital. I'll give a little background about the ward first to put things in perspective. This particular ward is were terminations are...

I'm currently staying in a hostel (don't ask...long story) in Shrewsbury and have a subscription to FT. After reading my copy, I pass it on to a couple of others in the building for a read, including one of the members of staff. For the past two months, another member of staff - who is extremely...

Josh Covington In late November of 1999, my wife and I were on holiday in the United Kingdom. She had always dreamed of going to Scotland and I had always wanted to see the Salisbury Cathedral and Hadrian's Wall. Oddly, the only day it rained was the day we stopped at Hadrian's Wall in...