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Me and my friend have been going crazy trying to find out what the ad was that was screened between sets on the main stage. I remember it being a photo/video montage and it having a photo Jeffery Epstein in it (which is what we remember it by) I think it had other topical events in it as well but we didn't scan the code in time and the ad never came up again :( if anyone has the link from the QR code or knows what the ad was what was it please?!

Apologies in advance for the length and the jumping around of this post, I just wanted to share these experiences myself and my family have had throughout my life. Without giving away too many personal details we are Hindu which might provide some background with some of the experiences described in this post.

Throughout my life I have experienced quite a few small things which could be deemed paranormal with some major events. We have a family guru who has predicted many things for our family which later came true (divorces between people in the family, number of attempts it would take me and my sister to pass our driving tests, the month I would receive a job offer etc). A lot of this information she would tell my mum, who would only tell me and my sister these things after those things had happened (so after we had passed our driving tests, after we had received our job offers). Our guru has always said I have been very in tune with the spiritual world which might be why I have had these experiences.

When I was younger around the ages of 6-10 I would have visions of the future, they would be visions about what would occur seconds later, super minor but this sort of fizzled out as I got older. Around the time my grandad passed away (age 4) a white orb appeared in front of me whilst I was drawing something (no reflective surfaces nearby, TV was not on) the orb manifested in front of me then travelled to the window in the room I was in and just sort of disappeared?

Other small events around the ages of 20-22 include hearing a girl's laugh in my room which woke me up at 5am for a week straight. It was just me in the house that week. When I house shared at university with my friends they said I would often sleep talk/scream around 3am and wake them up (which in itself is not paranormal) but one night I had a friend staying and at 3am I sat up in bed said "he's here" then lay back down, I have no recollection of this and I don't believe my friend is lying.

The two major events I have experienced include other family members. When I was about 14? An aunt of ours had married this guy, he turned out to be very nasty and physically abusive, he always gave all of us quite an off vibe, very quiet but in a sort of sketchy way and made no effort to integrate or get to know any of us, despite all of us trying to welcome him into our family. I'm providing this context as I don't know if his negative energy contributed to what happened that weekend.

My aunt and her husband had come to stay at our house for the weekend. They were using mine and my sister's bathroom which has a small glass panel/window thing above the door frame. The panel/window thing is quite small and you would only be able to see through it if you were stood on a stool. My aunt accused either me and/or my sister of filming her in the bathroom through this panel, she said when she was showering she saw a hand and what she thought was a phone in the window when she was in the shower.

Obviously, neither me or my sister had done this and there were a few reasons why this wasn't possible. Firstly, we were both asleep when she was in the shower. Secondly, the hallway upstairs where our bathroom was is not big at all, my parents' room is opposite to mine, my sister's at the end of this short hallway, we would've been seen and heard by my parents who would've been awake and coming up and downstairs. Thirdly, getting a stool to be able to see through the panel would've made a lot of noise as it was in my dad's office where you had to root through a bit of a mess to get to it and they would've heard their two children talking. I'd also like to rule out it obviously wasn't my parents (they were awake making breakfast in the kitchen together) or her husband (he was asleep downstairs and again would've been seen by my parents) So what or who exactly did she see, or was she lying? We have had many friends and family come to stay before and since that incident and no one has ever experienced this, a few years later my mum put wallpaper over the panel to avoid this accusation again lol.

To top this weekend off, when my aunt and her husband went to leave our front door wouldn't open. It fully just stayed locked, my parents always lock all our doors and windows before bed and we have never had any issues unlocking them in the morning. The front door would not unlock at all no matter what my parents tried, they twisted and untwisted the locks, tried opening it with a key, it would flat out not open. They ended up having to leave through our utility room door and magically once they had left our front door unlocked fine? Again this incident has never happened since. As mentioned before, maybe the negative energy from my aunt's husband manifested into these strange events that weekend?

The other major event I have experienced is to do with my grandma and her house (I was maybe 15-16). This next story of course could be explained away by coincidences so I understand not everyone may believe the next series of events. For further context her sister-in-law (A) and sister-in-law's husband (B) have always been very jealous of our family and what my mum and her siblings and their children (me & cousins) have achieved. The sister-in-law is the mother of the aunt who came to stay in the story above. Our family believe in nazar/black magic which I appreciate is very subjective.

A&B went to India and during this time acquired a bunch of objects they had got someone to curse with black magic, they then hid these items in my grandma's house, as they had keys to her house for safety reasons in case she had a fall or something etc. After those objects were placed in the house lots of bad things started happening to her, she had a near fatal heart attack, trouble with land and property in India the list goes on. Our family guru had advised as to how many objects were placed in the house and my mum and her siblings found them. This was something that was kept very private between them as not to scare me and my cousins so we had no clue what was going on. One of the cursed objects was a sari, my mum had left it out to get rid of it (I having no clue as to what this was) went over as it looked out of place compared to the other saris my grandma wears. As I got closer I felt this absolute sense of dread and my gut was telling me to leave it and get out. I felt a bit silly feeling scared of a sari so didn't mention it to anyone. That night we were staying at my grandma's house, me and my sister would sleep on a sofa bed in her living room and that night I just couldn't sleep. I just felt like I was being watched and could pinpoint this negative energy to her sewing box in the corner of the room, I felt too scared to look, but in an effort to convince myself I was being silly and there was nothing there I looked, when I looked I saw a black figure sort of sitting on the sewing box, I freaked out and hid under the covers (my sister was still asleep) and just hid there until it got light. Years later I told my mum about all this, the sari, the sewing box and black figure and she turned pale, as there were cursed photos of Hindu demons in that sewing box placed by A&B but they hadn't found them yet and subsequently told me the background with A&B and the cursed objects.

My maternal grandma has also always been very spiritually inclined, when she lived in India she would see ghosts in their farm and they would just vanish once she had acknowledged them, we have also had a few deaths in our family and she has often said she seems them in her garden and is able to converse with them (of course this is also subjective but that is her experience and I do not believe her to be a liar). I have felt the presence of my paternal grandma a few times after she died, there was a lot of sadness and grief surrounding her death as two of my dad's brothers died before her and she never got over that grief and pain before she died. When we have been back to the house to visit my paternal grandad, I have often felt a strong presence in the kitchen as cooking was her love language. I saw her very briefly in the reflection of the kitchen windows shortly after her death, but I'd like to believe her soul has found peace.

The final part to all of this is that I have had very vivid and prophetic dreams throughout my entire life. My parents have said I've been a bad sleeper since birth lol, I still am many years later, when I was reception age (4-5) I would have night terrors, my maternal grandad passed slightly after this and I remember to this day I had a dream about this white butterfly which turned into my grandad and he said "you will never have nightmares again" and they just completely stopped. No more night terrors. I had a dream about him just before graduating from my undergrad and we were in his and my maternal grandmother's house and we were talking about many things but I remember he said he was really proud of what me and my sister had achieved and he wished he had been able to see us grow up (I was about 4 and she was roughly 3 when he died). He said when I woke up there would be a sign of him and when I woke up and opened my window there was a white butterfly. I truly believe I spoke to him/ his soul in that dream. I felt an absolute sense of peace in both those dreams, as if I was surrounded by protection and love.

I have had dreams where I have had conversations with other dead people. As mentioned my paternal grandma has also passed, I was a bit older when this happened (15-16). I have had a couple dreams where I have spoken with her, these conversations were again very vivid, I used to be quite a fussy easter when I was a child, much the the annoyance of everyone in my family. As mentioned, cooking was her love language so she would get upset when I wouldn't try things she had made but I would love it when she made butter rotlis (chapatis) and I could eat 12 in one sitting lol. In this dream she asked about how I was with my eating (she seemed to know about some personal struggles I had with eating which my family were unaware of) but there was also such an element of sadness and I felt unsettled in this dream. Where her eyes should've been it was just black holes, but it still felt like her presence? I did feel a bit off in that dream and I remember waking up feeling very upset and drained.

One of my closest friend's grandma's passed away while we were at university, her grandma lived with them and they were extremely close. Her passing was absolutely devastating for their family and there was a huge energy shift in their house after she passed and you could feel it as you entered. I had stayed a few nights to support my friend and her family and be there for the funeral. One of the nights I had a dream where I was talking to my friend's grandma, we were in her favourite spot in the house and the room was very bright. I couldn't see her face, yet I felt very safe in this dream, she was telling me how she had some messages and last things she wanted to say to my friend and her family and asked if I could pass it on and I said of course. The next day I had disclosed this to my friend and her family and they were again very confused, as some of the things I had said I had no way of knowing as they had never discussed these things with each other, let alone in my presence.

The night before my GCSE results I dreamt the exact grade I would get for each subject and was correct the next day. For every. Single. Subject?! I understand coincidences with some and being highly stressed about my results I would naturally be dreaming about them, but this was just crazy.

I have had a few very scary dreams within all this, regarding my maternal grandma's house and the cursed objects, I had a very vivid dream about where one of the cursed objects was, I was in her bedroom and opened her wardrobe and a demon was sitting there and told me "I am going to murder your grandma". I woke up terrified and upset. I have since checked that wardrobe myself but found nothing. I have also had a dream where my phone has rung Hell and there were many demons on the other end of the line. The demon appeared in another dream a few years later, it was very random lol but I was at Nando's and the demon turned my food into human organs. Safe to say I was put off Nando's for quite a while.

These are all my experiences to date, if there is more I remember I will add. Apologies for the length of this post, if there are any parts which are confusing or you'd like more details on please let me know! To everyone who read this to the end thank you so much.

I know there's tonnes of posts like this on this subreddit and LIB subreddit, but I've honestly had enough of them. They are not the "couple goals" they think they are, idk where they hell they get off thinking they're the king and queen bee of reality TV couples and that they even have any justification or qualification in giving relationship advice (especially given both their messy pasts as to how they got together).

They RARELY hold the right people accountable in any reunion ever, ask the most boring questions and don't even discuss anything juicy or controversial (probably out of their hosting ability scope). They have no personality whatsoever outside of "we think we're Hollywood's power couple and therefore holier than thou".

I also just find them so fake? Like why does Vanessa always have her hands all over Nick, maybe it's just me but it's giving insecure, surely if your marriage is that rock solid you don't always need to be touching/ holding hands etc but maybe I'm just nitpicking at this point.

Seeing them constantly brush over and minimise what has become an increasing amount of misogyny and just general dangerous and toxic behaviour is what's really left a sour taste in my mouth and would love to see them replace by someone else tbh.

Needed to rant after this shitshow of a season (let's be real I'll still be tuning in for the next LIB and ultimatum seasons)

Just wondering how the STP bursary works if your training centre and university is in London, as from what I understand it can be used for travel and accommodation. So can it be used for rent in general or TFL or other things etc? Thank you :)

Just wondering if there any WhatsApp groups for Medical Physics STPs or a group for any STPs in London? :)