Some odd family experiences...

kranog

In the Hellfire club thread, I mentioned that there's been a few incidents in my family over the years and I've decided to throw them up here to see what ya'll think.
Here goes...


Alright then...where to start!

I'll start with the oldest one...which apparently happened to my grandfather...I dunno whether I believe this one myself or not as I've heard a similar story before as an old "urban myth"...but anyways.

My grandad used to work the evening shifts at some mill when he was a younger man and he'd cycle to and from work everyday....he always hated the winter, one, for the obvious reason that it was freezing out and two, because he had to cycle passed a big wheat field and at night time it really creeped him out as most nights he saw a man's figure in a white shawl or gowen or whatever...it just stood there.
Anyways...he never spoke of it until one evening out with the lads, he mentioned it and they all laughed at him. After he'd gone home, the lads had the idea of dressing one of them up as a ghost with a white sheet and standing out in the field the next night to scare my grandad....
My grandad finished work and cycled passed the field and stopped as he looked in total astonishment at two white figures in the field! The other lads that were hiding saw it aswell...the lad dressed as a ghost didn't see anything and he was apparently standing right next to the real "figure"!


But, here's some I do believe...the last of which happened to me!

Before I was born, my family lived in a little house in Milltown.
One night, my eldest brother, Pat, went into the kitchen to get a drink, as he walked into the sitting room to get to he kitchen, he stood before two monks that appeared to be poking the fire. He was telling me that one of them actually looked at him before the two figures just sorta vanished from the outside inwards...as in to fade from vision.
He still tells this story to some people...he didn't think much of it back then either!

Another strange occurance could be put down to sleep walking to any skeptics.....but sleep-walking with two people is rather rare!
When I was only young...another of my eldest brothers (I have 6 older brothers!), Brian, and his best friend, Ian, went on a walk by the old railroad tracks near Clondalkin, I can't remember exactly were, all I know is that it's not too far and they were used for cargo as opposed to passengers...I'm not even sure if they are still in use today...I should really look that up!
Anyways....as they went on their little hike, they were deciding if they should just camp out there just off the tracks...they were in their later teens.
They got off the tracks and looked for a house with lots of light they could just fall asleep outside.
They found one.
It was a massive house, alomst like a mansion with garden lights and everything....it was perfect. They lay down outside the house's garden, not wanting to freak out the owners by tresspassing! They fell asleep.
The next morning, Brian awoke to a very concerned Ian.....he stood up and noticed that they weren't outside that big house they fell asleep outside of....in fact...they seemed to be in the middle of nowhere with no houses around in sight!
Wanting to clear this up...they decided to split up for an hour or two and each of them would take opposite directions to look for the house and meet back up after the hour or so and report if either of them found it.
They didn't....and when they got back to the tracks...they realised that they had gotten back to the exact same place where they came off the tracks and found the house the night before....yet it wasn't there the next morning!
True or not....it's a creepy story and I've no reason to think Brian would make something like this up!

Oh....whilst I think of it....my eldest brother, Pat, was walking the dog along those tracks some years ago aswell and nearly got run over by a steam locomotive....he called to complain the next day and he was told that there was no train, least of all a steam locomotive, on the tracks the night before!
"A steam locomotive?....are you serious, it's 1985 sir, we don't use steam anymore to pull cargo, it's not very cost effecient!" *click*

The last story I'll tell you, concerns me....I was about 5 years old maybe but I still remember this very vividly.
My folks had gone out for the night, leaving my and my twin in the care of another brother, Trev, everyone else was out!
It was kinda late....my bedroom was downstairs (where the kitchen is these days!).
My twin was sound asleep and I wasn't...I was looking at some colouring book or something whn the lightswitch turned off.....I got out of bed and yelled at my big brother for doing it..."Trev....I'm trying to read...knock it off"....to which he yelled back "Go to sleep Chris, if I have to go down to ya, I'll slap the head off ya!"
His voice came from upstairs....so he didn't turn off the light and there was nobody else in.
Back then, I had a wonderful imagination and I rmemeber thinking that maybe it was the ESB man falling asleep at his desk and accidently turning off my light from his deadly control room!
I turned the light back on again and got back into bed, completely unphased....a few seconds later, the light switches itself off again...I get up and turn it on....I return to bed...a little annoyed but oblivious to the lack of an actual explanation....the light switches itself off again....I say to myself "right...I'll just go to sleep then"
And I fell asleep.
When I think about that night, I really freak myself out as there was nothing to cause it...anyone got any notions?

iamhunted

the first story sounds very much like one told of a bridge in wexford or somewhere - guy goes to pub, every night on his wya home he sees a ghost under the bridge, friends in pub decide to scare him and the guy then sees two ghosts under the bridge - the friend scaring him and the real ghost

Another neutral ghost of the Slaney Valley stands at the ford by Kilcarry Bridge. Tommy Kinsella used to cross that ford every night on his way back from courting one of the Furlong girls. Every night, so he told his cronies in the pub, he saw a white shape standing in the bushes. One night his friends decided to play a trick on him. Mick Hughes dressed up in a white sheet and lay hiding by the ford. As he heard Kinsella approaching he rose up from the undergrowth and let out a dreadful moan. Kinsella glanced across and, with no terror in his voice, commented, "Two of them tonight, by God!" Hughes glanced around and saw, standing right beside him, a huge and shapeless thing. He fled!

Gillo

I couldn't help making a link between the "ghost" in the shawl / gown and the monks, ask anyone to describe what a monk wears...

Could there be a family haunting??

kranog

I dunno mate....these incidents are several years apart in completely different parts of the county....
Beside's...as I mentioned...I'm not sure about the first one myself....it's just a story my dad told me about his dad....but I've heard the same stary that Iamhunted mentioned...sounds very similar!

Today, I have a very busy in work....I plan to read all of other personal paranormal experiences or at least as many as I can!

iamhunted

is your brother trev, trev of the face-lovin?

kranog

Hahahaha....no. I h\ave a brother called Trev...
Mr. Mooney is my band brother though....smelly guitar player!