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Post by Mrs H on Oct 3, 2007 8:57:03 GMT -1
Radio 1 are doing a feature on "Weird things that happen in a morning when no-one else is around to witness it". I had one of these moments a few years ago.
I was working in a call centre and I just finished the evening shift so it was about 12.30am when I was walking to my flat. The flat overlooked a farm. I was walking up the crescent and there was no-one around and I heard a really weird rustling noise in the distance. Then about 100 sheep came running round the corner and I had to stand up against a wall to let them trot past. They got to the end of the road and started walking up the main road.
To this day people think I hallucinated it. It was all very Wallace and Gromit! ;D
Anything weird happened to you when no-one's been around to witness it?
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Post by jh1980 on Oct 3, 2007 9:02:53 GMT -1
100 sheep? In Sheffield?! No, someone nearly always witnesses these things. Oh - one time in Porthcawl I came across a matchbox lying on the dunes, and I opened it. Some nasty bugger had put a whole lot of earwigs inside! I dropped the box and ran off in shock and disgust! That freaked the (then quite ickle) Jules out quite a bit!
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Post by Mrs H on Oct 3, 2007 9:07:33 GMT -1
100 sheep? In Sheffield?! No, someone nearly always witnesses these things. Oh - one time in Porthcawl I came across a matchbox lying on the dunes, and I opened it. Some nasty bugger had put a whole lot of earwigs inside! I dropped the box and ran off in shock and disgust! That freaked the (then quite ickle) Jules out quite a bit! What's with the tone "100 sheep in Sheffield" We're surrounded by farmland and the Peak District. Lol you big Jessie ;D
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 3, 2007 9:09:26 GMT -1
This one wasn't just me, but was me and my cousin.
We were about 16 years old, and were stood outside my house at about 1 in the morning after having watched a load of films (without alcohol being involved, for once). We were stood just chatting away, him getting ready to head home, when I heard this buzzing/humming overheard. The best way I can describe it is being like the noise a fly makes, but mechanical-sounding and an octave or two higher. I looked up to see what it was, and he did exactly the same at the same time.
"You hear it?" "Yeah..."
We couldn't see anything above us, but the buzzing just kept going, gradually getting louder. We began speculating as to whether it might be a plane or something, but the sound wasn't 'moving', so it was pretty damn unlikely. Just as we said that, it suddenly tracked across the sky, about 60° (hold your hand out at arm's length, with your fingers spread, and look up at the sky through it; the distance from the tip of your little finger to the tip of your thumb is about 20°). I know he noticed it too, because his head moved at the same time as mine as he followed it.
It hung there for a bit, then started zipping about randomly for thirty seconds, then apparently flew off (the sound moved away and gradually became fainter). It was moving pretty damn fast; it was covering up to 100° of the sky in under a second. Still got absolutely no bloody idea what it was!
Sounds like a classic 'alien spaceship' story, but I wouldn't claim that at all - I'm just clueless as to what it would've been!
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Post by Mrs H on Oct 3, 2007 9:13:34 GMT -1
It was Noel Edmunds in a replica Hindenberg Neko.
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Post by jh1980 on Oct 3, 2007 9:17:16 GMT -1
What's with the tone "100 sheep in Sheffield" We're surrounded by farmland and the Peak District. Lol you big Jessie ;D LOL erm ignorance is bliss! I just think of Sheff as being a bit more "metropolitan" than that...! I'll just go feel foolish now... Hey! I was only little at the time, maybe about 10! I'm sure you'd have done the same!
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 3, 2007 9:22:05 GMT -1
It was Noel Edmunds in a replica Hindenberg Neko. Of course!
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Post by Mrs H on Oct 3, 2007 9:24:43 GMT -1
What's with the tone "100 sheep in Sheffield" We're surrounded by farmland and the Peak District. Lol you big Jessie ;D LOL erm ignorance is bliss! I just think of Sheff as being a bit more "metropolitan" than that...! I'll just go feel foolish now... Hey! I was only little at the time, maybe about 10! I'm sure you'd have done the same! *bloody Londoncentric attitudes* ;D
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Post by jh1980 on Oct 3, 2007 9:29:04 GMT -1
LOL erm ignorance is bliss! I just think of Sheff as being a bit more "metropolitan" than that...! I'll just go feel foolish now... *bloody Londoncentric attitudes* ;D Darling, for all my qualities, I am at the end of the day, Southern! ;D (and I've never been to Sheffield, and I didn't realise the Peak District extended beyond Derbyshire, my geography of the UK is shocking... )
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 3, 2007 9:46:54 GMT -1
*bloody Londoncentric attitudes* ;D Darling, for all my qualities, I am at the end of the day, Southern! ;D (and I've never been to Sheffield, and I didn't realise the Peak District extended beyond Derbyshire, my geography of the UK is shocking... ) Wild guess, you didn't do Geography as a GCE? (Not that I did it for GCSE; I just know stuff like that! )
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Post by jh1980 on Oct 3, 2007 9:52:54 GMT -1
Wild guess, you didn't do Geography as a GCE? (Not that I did it for GCSE; I just know stuff like that! ) No, I had to choose between that and History as I recall... Meh, I'm not very interested in the UK, can't you tell? I lack patriotic sentiment, can't think why...
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 3, 2007 9:56:33 GMT -1
Wild guess, you didn't do Geography as a GCE? (Not that I did it for GCSE; I just know stuff like that! ) No, I had to choose between that and History as I recall... Meh, I'm not very interested in the UK, can't you tell? I lack patriotic sentiment, can't think why... Funny enough, I had the same choice and the same outcome! My interest is the UK is what spawned my patriotism, not vice-versa We've got a hell of a lot going for us and a wonderful history when you bother reading beyond the 'headlines' Not related, but a nice note none-the-less, my history teacher was a direct descendant of one Edward Jenner
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Post by jh1980 on Oct 3, 2007 10:06:19 GMT -1
Funny enough, I had the same choice and the same outcome! My interest is the UK is what spawned my patriotism, not vice-versa We've got a hell of a lot going for us and a wonderful history when you bother reading beyond the 'headlines' Not related, but a nice note none-the-less, my history teacher was a direct descendant of one Edward Jenner I think it's a regular thing, schools group by subject area. It's part of why we're mostly crap at languages, we only get to learn one foreign language... I think I was talking shit. I am interested in the history. I just don't have the urge to go to the Proms and that sort of thing. Was that the smallpox vaccine guy? I forget, like so many things... Getting lunch, brb...
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Post by Neko Bazu on Oct 3, 2007 10:18:33 GMT -1
I think it's a regular thing, schools group by subject area. It's part of why we're mostly crap at languages, we only get to learn one foreign language... And even that ain't compulsory! I think ours could be jiggled so you could learn French and Spanish or German, but obviously that was at the expense of another subject group. My school was very good for that though; I came away with 11 GCSEs so I was hardly stuck for choice! I might do that sort of thing once, just for the experience (Trooping The Colour would probably be impressive), but it's not anywhere near the top of my priority list. Yup!
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Post by jh1980 on Oct 3, 2007 10:31:43 GMT -1
And even that ain't compulsory! I think ours could be jiggled so you could learn French and Spanish or German, but obviously that was at the expense of another subject group. My school was very good for that though; I came away with 11 GCSEs so I was hardly stuck for choice! I might do that sort of thing once, just for the experience (Trooping The Colour would probably be impressive), but it's not anywhere near the top of my priority list. Yup! Really? Was at mine - to learn one, didn't seem a hardship! Yeah that's right... but there was no way you could really specialise as a linguist. Ah well we weren't allowed to do more than 9 - timetabling issues apparently. Hmmm yeah I suppose so, not the chest-beating type (all the time!) Woohoo, my brain and memory is more intact than I realised!!!
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Post by Dr LuKas on Oct 3, 2007 10:39:45 GMT -1
I once saw Leeds come back from losing 3-0 to win 4-3 in less than 20 minutes. Oh wait I wasn't on my own, 30,000 other people were there too, I suck at this......
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Post by Mrs H on Oct 3, 2007 10:43:16 GMT -1
I once saw Leeds come back from losing 3-0 to win 4-3 in less than 20 minutes. Oh wait I wasn't on my own, 30,000 other people were there too, I suck at this...... I once saw a Leeds fan be humble.
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Post by jh1980 on Oct 3, 2007 10:45:45 GMT -1
I once saw Leeds come back from losing 3-0 to win 4-3 in less than 20 minutes. Oh wait I wasn't on my own, 30,000 other people were there too, I suck at this...... I once saw a Leeds fan be humble. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Dr LuKas on Oct 3, 2007 10:49:39 GMT -1
Was it me? I was kind of humble just then I said I sucked at something.
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Post by Billy on Oct 3, 2007 10:57:53 GMT -1
I thought the inability to be humble had more to do with the fact that Leeds is in Yorkshire more than anything else
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