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Chewbacca Wed 05-Dec-18 14:31:00

Any thoughts on what could have caused this....

Went to bed at about 11 o'clock last night; nothing out of the ordinary. Woke about 02.30 and couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up, came downstairs and made a cup of tea. I sat in the living room and browsed GN (and even posted on a games thread) whilst I drank tea and went back to bed at about 03.30. Got up this morning and went back in the living room and I immediately noticed that a small ornament of a hare, which had sat quite comfortably on the mantlepiece for 10 years or more, was lying shattered on the floor. It was in fragments. I couldn't understand how it could have happened because I know that it was not like that at 03.30; I'd have noticed immediately. Whilst I was clearing it up, I looked at the cuckoo clock hanging on the wall. It was ticking, as normal, but the hands were at half past six. I went over to the clock to put the hands to the right time but both hands just swung back down loosely to half past six again. Several times it did that. I eventually managed to get the hands to the correct time and they've stayed that way since. But I didn't touch the clock before going to bed last night and can't understand why both hands would suddenly become loosened overnight.

Although both of these occurrences aren't particularly important, I'm mystified as to what on earth went on in my living room between half 3 and half 6 this morning. I don't normally believe in wooo, but I'm a bit hmm about this. Any ideas GNetters?

Gonegirl Thu 06-Dec-18 11:47:32

I think there is a lot going on at the moment. I always leave my bedside radio (with earphones) on just the right volume for listening in the night. About two thirty this morning when I went to listen it was turned right down low. I had been out most of the day and DH never would touch it. As someone said further up thread, "More things in Heaven and earth......"

I wonder if the turmoil of Brexit is influencing the unseen world around us.

Gonegirl Thu 06-Dec-18 11:48:38

I can blame most things on Brexit.

TheOldDear Thu 06-Dec-18 11:54:57

The little DAB radio I keep in my bathroom is constantly turning the volume right down, so that it’s on but silent. I’m sure it’s just because the batteries are running low.

Jaye53 Thu 06-Dec-18 11:57:29

Yep.frackinf

Jaye53 Thu 06-Dec-18 11:58:13

Fracking

breeze Thu 06-Dec-18 11:59:54

Draught. When my boys were small they always slammed doors and if there were cards on the window cill the draught of the door closing would blow them off even though they were about 12 feet away. So if you left the room and closed the door behind you the hare may have blown off the mantlepiece and the clock hands that were already a bit loose were loosened further by the sudden draught.

Either that or you've got a poltergeist! Call Derek Acorah. Although personally, I'd rather have a poltergeist in my house smile

I don't believe it was Brexit though!!! Too far fetched! smile

hippie Thu 06-Dec-18 12:05:09

Chewbacca - don't let this worry you - there's no obvious explanation for everything in this world it only takes a ripple on a pond for a chain of events which may never be either known or seen - the tail end of an earthquake miles away has got to fizzle out somewhere hardly noticed by anyone. Thank goodness we don't know the answer to everything otherwise life would be really dull! sorry about your hare though.

teepee55 Thu 06-Dec-18 12:20:17

I lay in bed once and felt the house shake when a huge lorry went past. I think it was noticeable because it was quiet and late. Maybe something like that

EllanVannin Thu 06-Dec-18 12:29:02

Things that go bump in the night. Old places creak.

Jan66 Thu 06-Dec-18 12:58:49

Something similar happened to me years back when I was a young girl - some pictures in frames that were on the wall above my bed, being found next morning at the side of my bed in a pile and me with no recollection of how they got there. I guess sometimes there are no earthly explanations for things like this. See if anything else happens.

Gonegirl Thu 06-Dec-18 12:59:30

No batteries Theolddear. It's plugged into the wall. Nope! Definitely something weird going on.

NfkDumpling Thu 06-Dec-18 13:17:41

What an interesting link Elegran. What’s going on around Blackpool?

giulia Thu 06-Dec-18 13:46:21

Around 1950, the vicar of our parish Church in Central London got a black eye. He told us (and he was not joking) that he had been to a house to exorcize it and got hit in the eye with a bar of soap.
Although it's totally irrelevant, he later became Bishop of Worcester. I just say this to say that he had all his marbles!

starbox Thu 06-Dec-18 13:47:34

Weird things do happen...I'll always remember my father made a (REALLY heavy) Meccano crane...you'd have struggled to lift it, and it was standing flat on a solid workbench upstairs. We heard a crash and found it on floor. No way could a breeze/ the cat have done it. Workbench hadnt been damaged.No one else in house....creepy!

Bekind Thu 06-Dec-18 13:58:37

I have these sort of things happen every once in a while. I've had my computer come on blaring in the middle of the night and one time my tv! I've also had a clock which was held to the wall with a screw mount, crash to the floor. I've also come downstairs and found doors wide open. I know there must be logical explanations, but it makes you wonder!

CarlyD7 Thu 06-Dec-18 14:02:01

Just to add to the creepy stories ... One that didn't happen in MY house (too many of those to go into) was when I was staying overnight at a friend's house - downstairs on the sofa bed. In the early hours, I woke up to hear a noise in the kitchen. Thinking that one of the kids had got up to make himself a snack (and hoping for the same) I went to the kitchen. The light was off, but her son's football was gently rolling from one side of the room to the other, again and again, then it would stop, then it would start again ... I ran upstairs and knocked at my friend's bedroom door, apologised, and explained what had happened. "Oh that's just Eric" she explained, and settled me down on a campbed in her daughter's room. In the morning, she explained that Eric had been the caretaker at a sports club at the back of the houses (which had been built over the field where he used to play football). She said that he often visited a couple of the houses where the children had footballs. BTW she was a chemist, science to the core, not religious, but she was prepared to just accept it and not worry about Eric's nocturnal visits !

notanan2 Thu 06-Dec-18 14:11:11

Scramblers! Mod high tech air craft practicing fancy interference type tech that can stop enemy tech? grin

Its usually the mod
UFO type stuff usually is anyway

Hollydoilly10 Thu 06-Dec-18 14:12:09

Someone contacting you from the other side?

sylviann Thu 06-Dec-18 14:20:19

I wouldn't worry about it as long as no harm has become you

EllanVannin Thu 06-Dec-18 14:31:08

giulia that really made me laugh.

EllanVannin Thu 06-Dec-18 14:42:02

One of the weirdest things was in 1966 in the lead up to Christmas when the cards start arriving. On the mantlepiece they went and there was a sparkly one in the middle with a three candle candelabra where it looked as though the candles were lit, on Christmas Eve I remember saying to my H " that's strange, only two candles are lit " .

On Christmas Day, my pa-in-law, who was in hospital, died . That 3rd sparkly on the card stopped sparkling altogether. It was the strangest thing I'd ever noticed.

Not keen on the sparkly candle cards now. I don't like " messages " like that.

Riggie Thu 06-Dec-18 15:01:16

I have a glass fronted cabinet and on one of the shelves I have a little row of my childhood Noddy and friends ornaments.
Big Ears keeps moving. Doesn't matter where in the row I put him but he, and only he, moves. Even moved the whole row to a different shelf. Big Ears still moves. Rotates around and if left will move away from the line.

Logic tells me that it's vibrations from the floorboards as we walk round the room. But why only Big Ears?!!!

sarahellenwhitney Thu 06-Dec-18 15:48:55

Chewbacca. Sure it was' only' tea you put in the cup?

breeze Thu 06-Dec-18 16:25:28

Chuckling away at Guilia's post (good one! Attacked by poltergeist with soap!) …. then read Riggie's post. Something to do with the aerodynamics of his ears? grin

garnet25 Thu 06-Dec-18 16:26:50

Chewbacca is there any way a small bird could have got into the room?