[Tragamin2k2]

Originally Posted by Whatsisname

My brother went to Loftus Hall today, I'm sure most of ye have heard the story about it and now its open again.

But anyway, he told me that they were getting a guide around it today or around the grounds whichever but it started lashing so the tour guide brought them inside some room where they could see monitors with 4 camera's live footage, much like "something from Paranormal Activity", (my brother's own words haha), then a child and two of my brothers friends screamed at the same time, supposedly the woman who haunts the house, who died of insanity, walked across the screen. Unfortunately, my brother didn't get to see it himself as his friend just so happened to block his view at that very moment, funnily enough he said his friend screamed in a high pitched voice "OH MY GOD, THERE WAS A GHOST, A GHOST!!" hahahaha.

He was wondering, just like I was, would it have been staged as the tour guide knew people were gonna be looking at the cameras but surely the word would have been going around if that was it.

Really wanna go there myself now, sounds so interesting!

was it recording?

[filmbuffboy]

Ok so Ive been reading through the majority of this thread since yesterday, really good stories, some freaky, some encouraging. thanks everyone.

heres what ive experienced in my time.

as a child for several years, i used to have this tall shadow like figure stand over my bed at night. not every night, but regularly. it was completely black, even if there was light in the room all you could see was black. i always got a bad feeling from it, like it wanted to scare me. i used to just turn my back to it and pretend it wasnt there. once or twice i told my mum, or the babysitter that there was a bad man in my room, but they just told me i had a bad dream.

there was this one time where the babysitter was minding us, and hours later when my mum came back, the babysitter couldnt get out of the house fast enough. the next day my mum asked her what was wrong. the babysitter said that she went upstairs to check on me and my little sister, and the door to the attic started opening and closing very fast and she could see red eyes peering out at her. then she turned around and saw black crows on the landing. a second later it all stopped and vanished.

years later, me, my mum and my sis were talking about that house we grew up in. my mum started telling us that she used to see an old lady who was see through and blue at the top of the stairs knitting. my sister freaked out because she used to see the exact same thing. i never saw the old lady but i then told them about the tall black figure that used to stand over me at night.

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years after we moved out of that house, my sister was skipping classes in the toilets with friends in secondary school. they wrote out a ouija board on paper and my sister asked what the combination to her locker in dunnes stores was as she worked there at the time. there was no way either of the girls that were with her could have known the combination. the makeshift board they created told them her combination. my sister started crying and couldnt get out of there fast enough. she told my mam when she got home and my mam was furious, saying she had invited the devil into her life. mam had us praying every evening for weeks after that and had a priest over to bless us and the house.

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thankfully everyone im close to is still alive so ive never yet experienced a loved one contacting me from the other side, yet!

most of my experiences were only ever in that house i grew up in, and they were all pretty negative but thought id share them all the same.

great thread everyone!

[Siipina]

I have a story as well.
I am still a bit shocked to be honest.
Last year, my friend moved into an quiet old house on the country side. I went over for a coffee couple of times as its wasn't too far from were i lived.
I never felt comfortable there and I always found reasons not to stay there over night even if we wanted to go out for a drink. I preferred not to drink anything then.
The house is having a good bit of land around it and nothing done with it but a sheet just beside the drive way. One day I said good by to my friend and walked towards my car which was standing just in front of the Shed. Then I got that weird feeling somebody doesn't want me there and i felt like a child on somebodies land. I jumped in the car and drove of . I could not even look in the mirror because I was to scared to see somebody there. I had the impression even if I haven't seen anything about a grumpy old man.
Not so long after that I split up with my partner an needed a place to stay for a couple of weeks as it was a week before Christmas and all the letting agency's closed. As there was a huge Shed I could bring all my stuff with me and store it there. I never ever went near this sheet in the dark.
Now was the problem that i had my dog with me and she was only 4 month old at that time and she had to go out quite often and as there is no fence around so i had to go with a lead with her.
I had always that feeling that this old guy was standing there in the door of the sheet watching me and nothing could make this nosey puppy to go over there. He was always very grumpy like he did not want people on his land. One night i felt very bad because of my ex so i was a bit drunk and sitting outside for a smoke and just started to talk with him. I told him everything what happened and after that i never had that bad feeling in the garden again. I cant tell if it was after the chat we had or before but i was in the garden one night and could feel somebody watching me so I turned around to the Shed and there was a bright figure in the dark. first i thought it would be just the headlights of the cars passing by but I have never seen it before or again. My friend moved out then a few weeks later and we spoke about it but it was more like it was just in our heads.
Then a few weeks ago my friend met a guy over a dating site :-) As they met up they started talking about were she lived before and so it came out that he knew this house, which is in a different village then she is living now. He ask her how long she was living there and as she told him she stayed there for nearly a year he was very surprised. She asked him why and so it came out that few years or more back an old grumpy guy owned the house and the land and he did`nt like to see anybody on his land and he died there then. The whole village knows about him and not many people stayed in this house more than a few month. Neither my friend nor me knew about it, as we are not from Ireland and were not talking to the locals about stuff like that. So all these impressions I had, like he didn`t like us there and protecting his land and even the picture of him in my head was right. This Guy described him exactly like that.
When she told me about that i was quite shocked.
Sorry for this long post but I did`t even mention everything what happened there.

[filmbuffboy]

Originally Posted by Siipina

I have a story as well.
I am still a bit shocked to be honest.
Last year, my friend moved into an quiet old house on the country side. I went over for a coffee couple of times as its wasn't too far from were i lived.
I never felt comfortable there and I always found reasons not to stay there over night even if we wanted to go out for a drink. I preferred not to drink anything then.
The house is having a good bit of land around it and nothing done with it but a sheet just beside the drive way. One day I said good by to my friend and walked towards my car which was standing just in front of the sheet. Then I got that weird feeling somebody doesn't want me there and i felt like a child on somebodies land. I jumped in the car and drove of . I could not even look in the mirror because I was to scared to see somebody there. I had the impression even if I haven't seen anything about a grumpy old man.
Not so long after that I split up with my partner an needed a place to stay for a couple of weeks as it was a week before Christmas and all the letting agency's closed. As there was a huge sheet i could bring all my stuff with me and store it there. I never ever went near this sheet in the dark.
Now was the problem that i had my dog with me and she was only 4 month old at that time and she had to go out quite often and as there is no fence around so i had to go with a lead with her.
I had always that feeling that this old guy was standing there in the door of the sheet watching me and nothing could make this nosey puppy to go over there. He was always very grumpy like he did not want people on his land. One night i felt very bad because of my ex so i was a bit drunk and sitting outside for a smoke and just started to talk with him. I told him everything what happened and after that i never had that bad feeling in the garden again. I cant tell if it was after the chat we had or before but i was in the garden one night and could feel somebody watching me so I turned around to the sheet and there was a bright figure in the dark. first i thought it would be just the headlights of the cars passing by but I have never seen it before or again. My friend moved out then a few weeks later and we spoke about it but it was more like it was just in our heads.
Then a few weeks ago my friend met a guy over a dating site :-) As they met up they started talking about were she lived before and so it came out that he knew this house, which is in a different village then she is living now. He ask her how long she was living there and as she told him she stayed there for nearly a year he was very surprised. She asked him why and so it came out that few years or more back an old grumpy guy owned the house and the land and he did`nt like to see anybody on his land and he died there then. The whole village knows about him and not many people stayed in this house more than a few month. Neither my friend nor me knew about it, as we are not from Ireland and were not talking to the locals about stuff like that. So all these impressions I had, like he didn`t like us there and protecting his land and even the picture of him in my head was right. This Guy described him exactly like that.
When she told me about that i was quite shocked.
Sorry for this long post but I did`t even mention everything what happened there.

tell us!

[emeraldstar]

Originally Posted by filmbuffboy

tell us!

And also what you mean by "sheet". Shed?

[aoife1991]

Kind of in relation to an earlier post about my deceased grandfather, but sort of interesting all the same. I have a dog who's fairly lazy, she only really runs around and barks if she's hungry or a member of my family comes in. I could come in from college she'll be thrilled to see me, if I went down the shop for half an hour and then came back, she wouldn't react much because she's already shown her excitement.

Anyway, back on point, the day after my granda had been cremated, my mum went to collect his urn. My dog was sitting in the front room when my mum came in, my dog went running out to the front door, ignored my mum and was running around and barking as if there was someone else there. When my mum put the urn down, my dog sat down next to it, wagging her tail as if it was someone she knew and wouldn't budge until it was dinner time, no matter how many times she was called. We had the urn in my house until we scattered his ashes, but my dog would regularly go down and sit next to it in the middle of the night. If we were out during the day, when we would come back she would always be sitting by it. (She's a house dog.) It really quickly became her favourite spot to sit and nap.

Normally if I was watching tv, she would sit down next to me and then move around to my dad, my mum then sister, then back to me and so forth. When we had my granda's ashes in the house, she used to factor the urn into her seating arrangement and disappear for twenty minutes to sit by the urn. Ever since we've scattered him, she has no interest in sitting by where the urn was. Her seating pattern has gone back to me, dad, mum and my sister. It's very strange! Anyone experience pets acting like this or have any thoughts as to why she behaved like this?

[littlelulu]

yeah an owners dog sitting beside the herse before it left the house and then howling as it left. Theres those stories of dogs sitting on owners graves too everyday

[aoife1991]

Originally Posted by littlelulu

yeah an owners dog sitting beside the herse before it left the house and then howling as it left. Theres those stories of dogs sitting on owners graves too everyday

I've heard of stuff like that, but it was the first time anyone in the family experienced it firsthand. It was very strange! Kind of comforting too though.

[Rasmus]

Originally Posted by emeraldstar

And also what you mean by "sheet". Shed?

I went over this a couple of times too and even googled some farming terms but I believe they mean 'shed'!

[purified]

been a very long time follower of this thread and love reading all the stories on it. Some great occurances and some very good explanations.

Ive had a huge amount of experiences most of the time its just a flicker here and there of someone or shadows and lights etc, journeys in meditation and i think its very difficult sometimes to get out of your head and just let the experience be exactly what it is... its very hard to accept something that is not entirely physical.

The last two house ive lived in have been rented accommodations and both have been old house, the first one there was always stuff going missing and turning up in the most obvious places, same in this house, the odd shadows and impressions of people. The weird part was from a split second impression it felt like i could relay the entire life story of that person which felt very strange. We have a pet dog and she is normally very placid and lazy but every evening around the same time she would be bouncing around the house playing fetch with a ball and jumping up as if on people but there was never anyone there.. when we would sit down to have dinner id always feel like there are people watching me and would often catch a glimpse of an old couple passing by the door. Lights would go on and off (im an electrician and have tested all the wiring so i knows its not that) stuff would be moved... there would be random stuff left around that would have been put away. In the current house the minute we walked in the door i could tell there were spirits there, and they were more than happy to let us know if they werent happy about something. It almost felt like if we brought someone or something into the house that they didnt like the atmosphere would change completeyl which i know sounds bizarre but it did, and since moving in there anybody that came in and it changed we have found wouldnt be the loyalest of people or friends.

[Siipina]

Originally Posted by Rasmus

I went over this a couple of times too and even googled some farming terms but I believe they mean 'shed'!

Sorry, I meant Shed, I am still improving my English :-)

[s08t]

My brother went to Loftus Hall today, I'm sure most of ye have heard the story about it and now its open again.

Never been there. but have been on the ghost tour in edinburgh. Before booking it, 2 people did say it was the most terrifying night of their life. Ye, I went at the end of may there, me and my sister. Their was approximately 30-40 people on it. The tour guide told us before we walked through the streets of edinburgh that nearly in every tour people fainted or was pushed by some unknown object or person. We were told it was in a graveyard. The tour lasted an hour and 15 mins approx. We spent the first 45mins listening to the history of edinburgh(V. interesting but not what I expected on a ghost tour). Then at last he took us to the graveyard, it was around 10 30 at night, it was dark but not pitch dark, you cud still see. He took us around the graveyard, then into a room where a poltergeist was. Before we went in, he went on and on about how scary it was and that he wudnt dare go in and for the women to stand at the front cos the poltergeist hurts women and not men. Some entered the room and some didnt. My sister and I went in,at this stage I was a bit scared cos he seemed very serious about what he was saying. I was excited too about, o my god what will we see or hear and it was my first time on a tour. We were in the room waiting for something to happen, then some man dressed in a scream outfit came running toward the room and everyone screamed( not cos we were scared of the the man dressed as scream but just of the fright cos we didnt expect him to come). and thats all I have to say, they actually had to get someone to dress up as scream to scare us!!!

[s08t]

My brother went to Loftus Hall today, I'm sure most of ye have heard the story about it and now its open again.

Never been there. but have been on the ghost tour in edinburgh. Before booking it, 2 people did say it was the most terrifying night of their life. Ye, I went at the end of may there, me and my sister. Their was approximately 30-40 people on it. The tour guide told us before we walked through the streets of edinburgh that nearly in every tour people fainted or was pushed by some unknown object or person. We were told it was in a graveyard. The tour lasted an hour and 15 mins approx. We spent the first 45mins listening to the history of edinburgh(V. interesting but not what I expected on a ghost tour). Then at last he took us to the graveyard, it was around 10 30 at night, it was dark but not pitch dark, you cud still see. He took us around the graveyard, then into a room where a poltergeist was. Before we went in, he went on and on about how scary it was and that he wudnt dare go in and for the women to stand at the front cos the poltergeist hurts women and not men. Some entered the room and some didnt. My sister and I went in,at this stage I was a bit scared cos he seemed very serious about what he was saying. I was excited too about, o my god what will we see or hear and it was my first time on a tour. We were in the room waiting for something to happen, then some man dressed in a scream outfit came running toward the room and everyone screamed( not cos we were scared of the the man dressed as scream but just of the fright cos we didnt expect him to come). and thats all I have to say, they actually had to get someone to dress up as scream to scare us!!!

[s08t]

Sorry no idea why that posted twice. Great stories by the way sippina and filmbuffboy. I love reading ghost stories, i posted some earlier on in the thread.

[emeraldstar]

Originally Posted by s08t

Sorry no idea why that posted twice.

No idea why you posted it at all. Where's the ghostly experience?