What is the strangest thing you've ever experienced?

I've had a few strange experiences in my life... but last night I think I may have experienced one of the strangest yet...

I was laying in bed around 2AM and getting ready to turn off the light. I've been thinking a bit about my dead father and all of the related family turmoil.

I was pretty tense already, when my cell phone suddenly rang. I jumped like I had seen a ghost. I looked at the phone, and my father's cell phone number was on the caller ID. I freaked out and did not answer the phone. The number called twice again a minute later. I had goosebumps, and could not bring myself to answer the phone.

My grandmother paid for my dad's cell phone, and she may have given the number out to somebody else in my family. That's the only possible explanation I can think of for this number to call. (However - I have nothing to do with that part of my family, and none of them have tried to call in years. Especially at 2AM.)

I can't explain it, but I may throw my phone at the wall if that number calls again.

The weirdest thing for me was 2 hours passing in what seemed like a few minutes. As for your story: Weird. Keep us updated

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Why in heaven's name would anyone want to kill you for saying LIFE? It's the most awe inspiring, Crazy, wonderful, agonizing, beautiful, mysterious, bizarre, and strangest thing there is. So IMO good answer!


[edit on 18-10-2009 by ldyserenity]

I have had a few unusual happenings before.
One time me, my bro, and my uncle were playin football. I ran at him with my elbow out and hit him in the nose and he started bleeding. It was an accident but I was still feeling guilty. So me and my uncle are standing there facing my bro on the ground. Now i swear all the grass was fresh and cut no brown spots or anything. I am looking at my bro and i see someone or something beside me, like a tall dark figure, and I saw something move toward me and I yelped and beside where I was standing there was a brown spot in the grass.
Another one was when I went ghost hunting in St augustine. The whole trip i have seen and experienced things I have never and probably never will experience again. We were doing a tour of the fort there, dont recall the name, and when I was least expecting it, it happened. I was looking over one of these walls and it was a little chilly outside, I felt the coldest sensation I have ever felt on my shoulder. I dont know why but i jumped back and was expecting to bump into someone but amazingly there was nothing.
I wouldnt say this was a strange experience but also in st augustine we went into this hospital wheni went into this really creepy room, idk but me and some of my family members felt real sick and uneasy. Cant explain it.

First of all I have to say that I really enjoy this thread, thanks for posting!

One of the most strange events in my life took place about six years ago, when I was at a students' summer camp with my boyfriend. We were staying at a very small town by a river. One evening we were walking back to the place we were staying at, it was getting late and the streets were completely empty, but anyway my boyfriend decided to stop on the bridge to take some pics of the town lights reflected in the river. He started experimenting with different settings in his camera and I was just standing there waiting. Suddenly, I became aware of someone else's presence. There was a woman standing right next to me (I didn't notice her approaching). I took a look at her - both her clothes and skin were yellowish, what made her look quite strange. She was wearing an elegant suit and her hair were neatly coiffed, but the yellowish colour and sunken cheeks and eyes made her look rather sick and sad. She didn't have any handbag or anything. My first thought was that there was a party taking place nearby and she just went out for a gulp of fresh air, but the entire town was silent and the lights were off.
My boyfriend didn't notice her at first. She approached me and asked who we were, in a low and hoarse voice. I told her that we were students and I poked my boyfriend because I really wanted to go, but he was so absorbed with taking pics that he didn't react, just as if he was in a trance of some sort.
'You'd better have as much fun as you can... As long as you can', the woman answered. It sounded rather like a piece of advice, not as if she was threatening us or anything, but anyway I started feeling uneasy. I told her we had to go and just grabbed my boyfriend's arm and we started walking towards the other side of the river. I took a look over my shoulder several times and noticed her following us. By that time we were both feeling rather uneasy so we started walking faster. There was no logical reason to be afraid, but there was something about that woman that gave me goosebumps. When we reached the other side of the river, we looked back oncce more and she was nowhere to be found. She had no time to walk back to the other side and there was no place she could hide herself at. She literally vanished into thin air in the middle of a bridge.
We really wanted to go home and almost run to the place we were staying at, just to find out the at the gate has already been closed We had to call the caretaker and make him open the gate, of course it took him ages.

Thanks for reading this and sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker