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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?

Willow10 Thu 06-Dec-18 11:17:08

The naughty elf? [grin)

OurKid1 Thu 06-Dec-18 11:16:32

ValerieJ43

" i had hung a shirt of my sons on some antlers i had on the wall " Only on Gransnet!!! grin

annep Thu 06-Dec-18 11:12:05

These posts are scaring me. I'm off!?

EllanVannin Thu 06-Dec-18 11:10:25

The word I was looking for is subsidence.

EllanVannin Thu 06-Dec-18 11:07:24

I know sudden changes in temperature can stop a clock but not cause the fingers to loosen. With the ornament as well it's like some sort of vibration going on ? Not an old defunct mine beneath the house is there ? Some shifting going on.

Saggi Thu 06-Dec-18 11:05:20

Things broken in our house...not by me....so I ask husband...”no” says he “why do you always assume it’s me”...ahh because I know I didn’t do it!! He will NEVER EVER admit to any breakage!! It’s so annoying...I think he used to get hit as a child if he broke anything and now just can’t can’t ‘own up’ to even the smallest breakage. And he know I just shrug and move on , no hysterics or blame attached. In my upbringing it just didn’t matter!!

CarlyD7 Thu 06-Dec-18 11:00:23

Lots of practical, simple explanations here. But I do think it's worth considering a more spiritual explanation - just in case you find it sits better with you. As moggie57 has said, do you known of anyone who has passed at 6.30 a.m. ? Are you in touch with the wider family - would you know if someone had passed there? Do you have a close friend who may have passed at that time. Or it could even be a way of signalling a birth! Do you know anyone who hated the hare ornament? Or can you find a deeper meaning to the symbolism of the Hare (I think in Celtic mythology it was thought to represent fertility / rebirth / resurrection?) Might be worth playing around with ideas and see if any of them fit for you. I've certainly had "a visitor" in the past who moved things around - it's nothing to be scared of; it's just a way of them trying to communicate an urgent message (sometimes!) And, no, I'm not crazy - I just think there's more things in heaven and earth than we humans really understand (and to think that we know everything is just ego and arrogance).

TheOldDear Thu 06-Dec-18 10:59:44

What’s all this about hares, suddenly? I spent ages the other night looking at charity Christmas cards online and was amazed to find quite a few with hares on them. Have never ever noticed that before. Is there some seasonal connection? I wasn’t aware of one (except, I suppose, the mad March hare).

DotMH1901 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:57:18

The house I grew up in was built in 1850 and had lots of 'odd' things that used to happen. Our kitchen door used to open and close on its own - a neighbour laughed when Mum told him about it but he wasn't laughing when, one evening, he was sat chatting to Mum and the door did its parlour trick in front of him. One evening Dad was sat in the kitchen and the door swung open but didn't close. Shut that bloody door, Dad shouted from behind his paper, obligingly our 'ghost' slammed it closed. An old house with wonky hinges on the door maybe? Possibly, but odd how the door closed as well as opened!

moggie57 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:41:08

someone trying to tell you something? know of anyone who passed on at that time? or maybe your dressing gown caught the hare as you swept past.the clock hands maybe the spring got a little damp...and loosened them. who knows .early in the mornings whoooooooooo......????

jenni123 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:33:57

Things happen in my small flat. I also hear voices, well so do other people so it is not in my head. I called in 2 Mediums from the spiritualist church to come and see if they could pick up on anything and yes they did.
this doesn't frighten me , they said they could have 'cleared' the flat if I wanted but as I wasn't upset by it they would leave it if I wanted. I said yes definitely leave it. A neighbour has heard the voices and so has my sister when she stayed here , 'they' even moved her heavy suitcase during the night, she thought I had fallen over the 'thump' was so loud, but it was her suitcase. It was impossible for the case to have fallen as it was laying down on a flat surface with all her things inside.

BettyEdwards1 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:30:18

We have a silver hare that periodically throws itself of the shelf. We think it's the floor vibration as you move about that makes it work its way to the edge and off. Thankfully being silver it doesn't break.

Jalima1108 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:28:37

Uri Geller?
Does he live nearby?

I am not joking btw.

ReadyMeals Thu 06-Dec-18 10:22:34

Earthquake might have knocked off the ornament but wouldn't explain the clock. I'd guess the clock was one of those radio controlled ones. I had one once, but it was too creepy, every now and again the hands would start whizzing around backwards, stop at the wrong time for a couple of minutes then start their whizzing again. It might as well have been haunted for all the rhyme and reason to it and it was NEVER anything like the right time, making it the least accurate clock I ever had

GreenGran78 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:22:27

Chewbacca. I have twice bought new prescription sunglasses and packed them in my suitcase to take to Australia. On both occasions they were not in my case when I arrived, and have not been seen since, in either country.
I also bought a Terry Pratchett book called Pyramids, as part of a gift, and put it in the wardrobe where I store gifts until they are needed. That, also, vanished from the face of the earth!
Nothing so weird has happened since, but not knowing how they disappeared is a constant niggle at the back of my mind.
Your 'happenings' are even more spooky, and I can't think of a rational explanation for them. I don't believe in the supernatural, but there are some things that just don't seem to have any other explanation. Maybe there is a ghost sitting somewhere, in a sunny garden, wearing my sunglasses and reading Pyramids! smile

knickas63 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:22:01

My Wooo moment lasted a whole year! Nearly 30 years ago!. I used to take my rings off at night and put them on a bookcase shelf in the bedroom. One day I went to put them on the next morning, and my engagement ring was gone! We tore the entire room upside down looking for it. Nothing! After a month, we claimed and hubby bought me an eternity ring. Almost a year later, same routine, I was putting my rings back on. Eternity ring, engagement ring, dress ring. I remember standing stock still. Looking at my rings. I took them off, put them on the shelf. Put them back on again and looked once more. Then I screamed for my husband! We still to this day cannot explain it! I do know that my grandmother liked playing tricks. She used to hide things from my dad, just to annoy him! (They didn't get on and she lived with us) I can't help feeling it was her.

LuckyFour Thu 06-Dec-18 10:17:59

GN games thread?? I didn't know there was such a thing. I'm going there right now!

mischief Thu 06-Dec-18 10:14:35

I've had a similar 'wooo' moment. I put my old house on the market this year and shortly afterwards I was woken up at 2.30am by a loud bang outside my bedroom door. When I went to look, the long mirror on the landing had dropped onto the floor and was lying on it's side, unbroken. I didn't really think anything of it but the next night one of my bedside light shades, which is made of metal, dropped onto the bedside table with a crash.

I thought maybe the house was giving me the message that it didn't want me to move. shock So I told it that if it could find a way for me to win the lottery, I wouldn't move. grin I'm still waiting.

valeriej43 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:14:28

Dining room not ding

Jalima1108 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:13:59

A naughty poltergeist

valeriej43 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:13:22

I have had experiences like this, sound of something crashing and sound like something heavy sliding down a wall, thought that was my indoor aerial in the loft, but son looked and it hadnt moved
Another occasion, i had hung a shirt of my sons on some antlers i had on the wall in my ding room come bedroom, as son had to cpme back home for a while, so bed in there as other rooms taken
Heard a crash, went in the room, and antlers were on the floor, and shirt on bed neatly folded
Didnt bother me as things happen in this house,no one else in at that time,only me
I could tell lots of things similiar

Megs36 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:12:10

We used to live on a busy road and traffic vibration 'moved ' things sometimes.

Rufus2 Thu 06-Dec-18 10:08:31

mouse running across your mantelpiece
Grampie; Of course! That's it! The hare gave chase to the mouse, tripped and fell off the mantelpiece! There can be no other rational explanation! tchgrin

Rosieroe Thu 06-Dec-18 09:59:12

Best call Yvette Fielding. ?

shysal Thu 06-Dec-18 09:58:32

Some years ago I had a woo moment. One evening after watching Uri Geller (the spoon bender) on TV, I discovered that the hands of my watch had bent double inside the glass! The damage was beyond repair as they broke when I removed it from its cover to straighten them. Fortunately it wasn't a vastly expensive watch, just a Swatch if I remember rightly. Can anyone offer an explanation for this occurence?