Sennance
My otherwise sane (well, not sane exactly, but certainly cynical) mother claims to have had two very odd experiences.

1) Being a big Formula 1 fan, she never misses a Grand Prix. Except on 1 May 1994 when (and my Dad swears this is true too) she woke up in the morning, turned to my Dad and said ‘I can’t watch the race today, Ayrton Senna is going to die’.

She didn’t watch. He did die.

2) 10 years to the day after my Nan from my father’s side died, she woke up in the night to see her standing at the foot of the bed. They looked at each other and my Nan apparently said ‘Just checking to make sure you’re looking after my boy’ then vanished.

My Mum said she woke up, remembered and told my Dad about the weird dream she’d had.

About 9.30 that same morning the phone rang. It was my aunt – the wife of my Dad’s brother – and before Mum could even start to speak, my aunt started relaying the details of how my Nan had been to visit her the night before to check she was looking after my Uncle.

Later that evening it transpired that the third and final brothers wife had had the same experience. Oddly, my Dad’s sisters husband experienced no such thing.

Personally, despite my Mum still being freaked out when she thinks about it, I can easily explain to myself the first of those as one of those things that seem odd to the person they happen to, but, really, are statistically quite likely to happen, given that a) Motor racing is dangerous and b) It has Millions of fans. At some point, the likelihood is that of all the millions of people, a substantial proportion are going to think it’s likely that someone will die. Most will be wrong, one will be right. That day, it just happened to be my mother.

The second, I’m a bit more stumped to come up with a rational explanation.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 17:33, 1 reply)

ooh ooh
maybe it was your dad's sister's husband dressed as your nan and going round everyones house.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 13:36, closed)