Hello! -thought I would post my three most interesting Fortean things to happen to me!
1) In my parents old house, my bedroom was in the 'maids quarter' and had a separate flight of stairs. I was 15 (22 years ago) and had a friend sleeping over. We were blethering into the wee hours when someone ran up the stairs. My friend said matter of factly 'Someones coming up the stairs' , to which I replied that that couldnt be as the burglar alarm was set and if my parents or sister had decided to come up my flight of stairs they would have to had put off the alarm which we would have heard. Suffice it to say, we were pretty spooked and to my regret (now) we never investigated!
2) I took my new girlfriend (now my wife) fishing at a wee pond a few miles from town. It was surrounded by willow scrub and was quite shallow (it is in a natural phase of drying out) It was beautiful sunny day and it was a flat calm. All of a sudden about 30 feet in front of us a water spout formed , it was more of less stationary and reached a height of perhaps 10 feet and remained for maybe 10 seconds before collapsing.) It was eerily silent for a while afterwards.
3) Less exciting was driving back from Glasgow on the Dual carriageway with my wife about 10 years ago. She had just returned from a solo holiday to Borneo to see Orang Utans. Naturally I was a little jealous and she was telling me all her stories. We just reached the outskirts of Perth, still on the Motorway when an extremely large Wild Boar appeared at the verge and stood bold as you like and started sniffing the air. I felt it was trying to make up for what I had missed! (For those not in the know - Scotland is not really known for any self sustaining Wild Boar populations at present!)
That'll do for now!
1) In my parents old house, my bedroom was in the 'maids quarter' and had a separate flight of stairs. I was 15 (22 years ago) and had a friend sleeping over. We were blethering into the wee hours when someone ran up the stairs. My friend said matter of factly 'Someones coming up the stairs' , to which I replied that that couldnt be as the burglar alarm was set and if my parents or sister had decided to come up my flight of stairs they would have to had put off the alarm which we would have heard. Suffice it to say, we were pretty spooked and to my regret (now) we never investigated!
2) I took my new girlfriend (now my wife) fishing at a wee pond a few miles from town. It was surrounded by willow scrub and was quite shallow (it is in a natural phase of drying out) It was beautiful sunny day and it was a flat calm. All of a sudden about 30 feet in front of us a water spout formed , it was more of less stationary and reached a height of perhaps 10 feet and remained for maybe 10 seconds before collapsing.) It was eerily silent for a while afterwards.
3) Less exciting was driving back from Glasgow on the Dual carriageway with my wife about 10 years ago. She had just returned from a solo holiday to Borneo to see Orang Utans. Naturally I was a little jealous and she was telling me all her stories. We just reached the outskirts of Perth, still on the Motorway when an extremely large Wild Boar appeared at the verge and stood bold as you like and started sniffing the air. I felt it was trying to make up for what I had missed! (For those not in the know - Scotland is not really known for any self sustaining Wild Boar populations at present!)
That'll do for now!