This happened about 5 years ago at St.Paul's church in my hometown of Skelmersdale.
Recently single, I moved back to 'Skem' as we call it. I was bored and needed something new to do, so I went out and bought a brand new Kona Dew mountain bike.
Bike rides became a daily thing and I would ride for miles, either alone or with friends.
One day I was going past St.Paul's church, where my grandad is buried. If I was ever going on a bike ride I would always pass there and go in to see him. He died when I was just 1 year old so I never remember him but I think maybe he met and held me at some point in his life. I would occasionally visit just to say hello and show my face to let him see how I've aged.
Anyway, the last time I visited before this day, I remember his headstone was in a bad condition and I could barely find it because I couldn't read his name. Also I would always forget where in the graveyard his resting place was and I would always be searching for at least 10 minutes until I found it, sometimes I wouldn't even find it which was weird and frustrating for me.
This one day I was riding past the church, I stopped by the gate to go in and thought to myself, it's been at least 2-3 years since I've been here and thought about the state of the headstone last time and told myself I'll never find him, so with that thought I decided to not look and come back when I had more time and wasn't all sweaty from riding all day.
As I was about to set off, I went to roll my bike and jump on like I usually do and exactly at that moment two weird things happened. My back wheel seized up and scraped and skidded across the pavement for about a foot and my hand wasn't on the brake at all, I was pushing off to leave so my hand being on the brake doesn't fit in, nor was my wheel stuck in a gap in the pavement. I also received a huge ping of tinnitus in my ears to the point where I kind of wobbled a bit. I sometimes get tinnitus I'll admit, but never had it like that before. I really believe it was my grandad stopping me from leaving and the tinnitus, for me, tells me he was present.
Thanks for reading.
Sam.
Could you have inadvertently engaged the brake before you considered going into the graveyard?
Good story, I'm just a bit of a skeptic.