Ghosts - What are your experiences?

6th · 04-07-2006 12:52pm

I'm suggesting taht she is creative the image not imagining it.

Oryx · 04-07-2006 1:01pm

6th wrote:

I'm suggesting taht she is creative the image not imagining it.

In the same way that poltergiest activity is often believed to be caused by emotionally upset people (teenagers) in a house?

6th · 04-07-2006 1:05pm

KatieK wrote:

In the same way that poltergiest activity is often believed to be caused by emotionally upset people (teenagers) in a house?

yes in a way, I think people are responsible (unknowingly) for quiet a few paranormal phenomenon.

imprezza · 04-07-2006 4:05pm

I've had a couple of things happen that I can't explain in my house because Im not really sure that ghosts exist. My partner believes in them thinks our apartment is haunted, it's the basement of a very old house. A few times I picked up my phone and 666 was on it, I joined this board because I need advice from someone who knows about these things. My partner is totally freaked now, we've been here 7 months. Every night at 9 o'clock the livingroom door opens by itself. A few times we both felt someone watching us in the bathroom. I swear something pulled the duvet off us when we were asleep, we both saw the duvet and it looked like it was being pulled off the bed by someone at the end if you know what I mean. My partner says by a ghost but it could have been sliding off by itself. Sometimes th telly turns on in the middle of the night but maybe its switch is dodgy. And the bedroom gets freezing sometimes, my partner always feels someone there when that happens. Probably sounds stupid I know these things can all be explained.

imprezza · 04-07-2006 4:16pm

Plug wrote:

The frightning bit was when the friend had also saw her father a few times and just took it for granted. Also my mother said his clothes were left in the house at this stage, could that have anything to do with it? Just clothes left in the wardropes.

Were the clothes still in the house from the time the grandfather died, or did they suddenly appear in the house? sorry not sure what you mean about the grandfathers clothes. thanks.

6th · 04-07-2006 4:37pm

imprezza wrote:

I've had a couple of things happen that I can't explain in my house because Im not really sure that ghosts exist. My partner believes in them thinks our apartment is haunted, it's the basement of a very old house. A few times I picked up my phone and 666 was on it, I joined this board because I need advice from someone who knows about these things. My partner is totally freaked now, we've been here 7 months. Every night at 9 o'clock the livingroom door opens by itself. A few times we both felt someone watching us in the bathroom. I swear something pulled the duvet off us when we were asleep, we both saw the duvet and it looked like it was being pulled off the bed by someone at the end if you know what I mean. My partner says by a ghost but it could have been sliding off by itself. Sometimes th telly turns on in the middle of the night but maybe its switch is dodgy. And the bedroom gets freezing sometimes, my partner always feels someone there when that happens. Probably sounds stupid I know these things can all be explained.

Sounds almost exactly like a place I was out at, turned out not to be a bad thing as such - just misinterperated.

Plug · 04-07-2006 5:02pm

imprezza wrote:

Were the clothes still in the house from the time the grandfather died, or did they suddenly appear in the house? sorry not sure what you mean about the grandfathers clothes. thanks.

They were just left in the house for sometime after he died.

imprezza · 04-07-2006 5:22pm

right thanks, what's misinterperated btw?

6th · 04-07-2006 5:26pm

No I meant in the case Iof the place I went out into. The guy was convinced something nasty was going on when it turns out it was a positive entity and he was just getting freaked out by what was going on and building on what was happening in his head.

If you're worried about the place you're in now drop me a mail or pm and i'll give you some advice. Dont want to be giving it out here.

Plug · 04-07-2006 5:43pm

I'm not acting dum but whats a poltergaist?

Oryx · 04-07-2006 6:29pm

Plug wrote:

I'm not acting dum but whats a poltergaist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist

kshiel · 04-07-2006 9:22pm

Not sure if this is counted as a ghost story. So I'll just tell. On sunday we were walking through a local forest park with family. Now I was not really thinking of paranormal per say. I say not really cos it seems always to on the back of mind these days. Anyway. Just started down i would say 10 steps into the path and I could here battle noises and as i looked around I could see soilders hiding within the trees these came in flashes more than fixed but one did turn and wink at me and put his hand to his lip to say shhh. Now it looked like these guys were about to ambush something. Next thing I heard from the other side was charge and the vision was strong of men running with swords drawn. Now I looked the area up and so far no record of any battle or fight taking place in this particular area am hopeful though. So was it a ghost or was it just an imprint. Winking at me said ghost rest says imprint

mysterious · 04-07-2006 9:34pm

kshiel wrote:

Not sure if this is counted as a ghost story. So I'll just tell. On sunday we were walking through a local forest park with family. Now I was not really thinking of paranormal per say. I say not really cos it seems always to on the back of mind these days. Anyway. Just started down i would say 10 steps into the path and I could here battle noises and as i looked around I could see soilders hiding within the trees these came in flashes more than fixed but one did turn and wink at me and put his hand to his lip to say shhh. Now it looked like these guys were about to ambush something. Next thing I heard from the other side was charge and the vision was strong of men running with swords drawn. Now I looked the area up and so far no record of any battle or fight taking place in this particular area am hopeful though. So was it a ghost or was it just an imprint. Winking at me said ghost rest says imprint

"chokes on pretzel and falls off the chair, big black eye (like bush)
Seriously are you for real, I mean, did you have a camera, was there anyone with you etc..

If it were really true, Firstly I'd roar then I'd make a run for my life, Now don't take it the wrong way? but does this lay the line down as it was a ghost setting? in the past.. Please elaborate?

I've heard could be wrong that these visions whether true or not happen in different dimension, or well that's the theory, so I don't think it's possible that they would be aware of this dismension. Now I've read ghost stories in the past, and watch documentaries most stories that are comparable to this were in a different dismension scenrio.

Example at the roman wall between scotland and England, there were ghost sightings of Romans marching through the land were to totally unaware of the present state i e other people.

kshiel · 04-07-2006 10:29pm

mysterious wrote:

"chokes on pretzel and falls off the chair, big black eye (like bush)
Seriously are you for real, I mean, did you have a camera, was there anyone with you etc..

If it were really true, Firstly I'd roar then I'd make a run for my life, Now don't take it the wrong way? but does this lay the line down as it was a ghost setting? in the past.. Please elaborate?

I've heard could be wrong that these visions whether true or not happen in different dimension, or well that's the theory, so I don't think it's possible that they would be aware of this dismension. Now I've read ghost stories in the past, and watch documentaries most stories that are comparable to this were in a different dismension scenrio.

Example at the roman wall between scotland and England, there were ghost sightings of Romans marching through the land were to totally unaware of the present state i e other people.

Ok I dont know if it was a ghost setting or someone somewhere was just kind enough to let me see in. All I can tell you is what i saw was what i saw and truthfully it not scare me at all. I was in total awh at it especially the wink and shh. Now if it was a different dismension I had entered and they were unaware of me and we hold this bit to be true then the only other explaination to this would some other spirit was standing in my poistion and it was them the wink and shh was entented. Have to say though it felt like it was meant for me.

My hubby and two kids were with me now all I did was stop dead and stood in awh now I have to say this was more of flash imagery and not soild all the time but for those few moments i was stuck to the ground. Every one else just walked by and no one else seemed to notice. This was a sunday afternoon about 3. Unforuntaly I did not have a camera but am planning go back very soon and see if same privialge is given to me.

6th · 04-07-2006 10:44pm

Heres a little spin on it: "what if" it is an imprint but at the time of it happening the guy who winked at you was aware of you being there in his "time"? He may be "sensitive" in the same way you are kshiels - maybe working on a similar wave length?

Of course its a far out idea but interesting none the less.

kshiel · 05-07-2006 8:30pm

Maybe a far out idea but is difinitely an interesting one. Maybe it was this guy who was showing me the imprint even more out there but what if ghosts or souls could show you what and where they were at a certain time and place to make contact I mean they say spirit guides can show you images and speak words to you (this i believe as I have been shown images and been spoken to by my spirit guide) why not a normal ghost so to speak. Ok thats really out there but again interesting thought. Ok maybe this topic is for an other tread. May start one.

Gillo · 05-07-2006 9:44pm

6th wrote:

Heres a little spin on it: "what if" it is an imprint but at the time of it happening the guy who winked at you was aware of you being there in his "time"? He may be "sensitive" in the same way you are kshiels - maybe working on a similar wave length?

Of course its a far out idea but interesting none the less.

I remember hearing a story a few years ago, I think it was someone who worked with my dad. But basically there was a guy who lived in an old house, which he believed to be haunted. He often saw a different family going about their usual business in the house they didn't interfer with him and didn't cause any harm so he wasn't particularly bothered. Anyway one day when he saw the man (of the house?) he decieded to try communicating with him, (in a competly amature fashion) he simply called out to the man, the man replied, and he asked the "ghost" why they haunted the place and didn't move on to "the other side", the ghost told him that he was actually in the correct time and that he (my fathers colleague) was the ghost.

It seems that there was some sort of time slip, and they two were indeed sensitive to each other.

my_house · 10-07-2006 3:54pm

that was the basis of a published ghost story - must google it to see what it was called, but it was on the same premise.

When i was a teenager I used to stay over the odd time in a friends house, as I lived 5 miles outside the town (and i had no car), so it was handy the odd time to stay over. Anyway, I'd been sleeping on the sofa one night and pretty early the next morning one of the boys in the house told me to pretend I'd been making tea earlier. I kinda said " eh???2 and basically yer man hadnt time to explain and just said that if his mother asked, I;d been making tea - so I said grand. I'll say that if she asks. There was myself, the two boys (they were brothers) and their elderly mother in the house that night and morning.

So as it happens, about an hour later after I'd nodded off again and woke up, I meet the boys mother in the kitchen and she asks was I making tea around 6.30am and I said 'yeah - couldnt sleep'. The woman seemed pretty relieved and told me she'd heard noises in the kitchen, came downstairs and as she got into the kitch, the kettle had just knocked itself off after coming to the boil. Neither of the two sons had been up (and they swear by that) and it certainly wasnt me.

The thing was that the mother had really really bad nerves due to so many things like this happening (including how one of the sons years before kept claiming he'd see a woman in white walking into his room in the middle of the night) so the minute the mother had asked the sons if they'd been making tea and they had said they hadnt, they'd decided to have me pretend I'd make it so the old womans nerves wouldnt get any worse.

11-07-2006 2:28pm

Not exactly paranormal fully.

Recently myself and a friend were sitting at the end of the Claddagh in Galway. There's a small stone pier at the end, its ancient. It was coming close to midnight and we were sitting there and talking. Then suddnely I heard this whisper. It was so distinctive but I couldn't make it out as it was more of a mumble. I asked my friend if she had said anything, and she said no, I asked her if she had heard anything and once again, no. It was definately a male voice though, it sounded somewhat foreign.

For the rest of the time we spent there, I kept getting the feeling that we were being watched. Though there was nobody around. Behind us was water, there was nobody standing over, or around the corner. And yet the feeling still remained.

Weird, huh?

The whisper just sounded so close.

twanda · 13-07-2006 6:58pm

Sorry for this long post but i hope you find it interesting.

My mother has has a good few experiences with 'ghosts' or the paranormal.

One experience when she was very young. She was standing with her older sister on the street in the town where they lived. There was a funeral procession passing. As the coffin was being carried past, my mother swears she heard a young childs voice -clear as a bell- say 'where am I?'
She swears to this day that it came from the coffin because she remembers distictly that it came from the box being carried ( she didn't fully understand what it was at the time) She said it was like she could hear it, but nobody else did. She always wonders if it was someone buried alive, but in that case, someone else would surely have heard it. Weird.

Also, on the road where my mother lived, there was a well known ghost - they called her 'the white lady'. My mother was walking to work one summers evening and she saw a woman come towards her in the distance, on the other side of the road. My mother glanced at the ground for a few seconds as she was walking, and when she looked up again, the woman was right in front of her! She said she was peering into her face as if she was looking for something. It startled my mother because the woman had been so far away and the next second she was right there! I don't remember much else about that story - I know my mother walked on and didn't look back. Her sister also saw the white lady on the road, and her father - a grown man - came running down the road one night and jumped the gate - didn't even wait to open it, because he had had an encounter with the white lady aswell.

there are a few more things she told me that I can post if you want. I myself have never had any experiences

kshiel · 13-07-2006 8:42pm

my_house wrote:

So as it happens, about an hour later after I'd nodded off again and woke up, I meet the boys mother in the kitchen and she asks was I making tea around 6.30am and I said 'yeah - couldnt sleep'. The woman seemed pretty relieved and told me she'd heard noises in the kitchen, came downstairs and as she got into the kitch, the kettle had just knocked itself off after coming to the boil. Neither of the two sons had been up (and they swear by that) and it certainly wasnt me.QUOTE]

Lately when I go to my mothers house the kettle seems to go on by its self. This has happen over the last 2 months. First time it happened when I was there was when myself and mother were sitting down talking and in the middle of the conversation the kettle pop on and started to boil. I just said what the fu*k was that. Ah see said its been going on an off for the last few days now. So we made a cup of tea. Again about two weeks ago I was down there and I made a cup of tea about 10min after the kettle went back on again. It could be an electrical fault I suppose but for now we just say ah it must be time for tea.

Zillah · 14-07-2006 9:04am

Wow, creepy.

tk123 · 14-07-2006 9:32pm

Pink Bunny wrote:

I guess that's the most interesting story I guess.

Wooo thats freaky. I had a little 'experience' today. I was in work - we have a few buildings and I've always thought one of them was a bit haunted. I spent a lot of time in it out of hours on my own and always used to hear bumps etc and doors closing (they're firedoors so the wouldn't just blow open) or felt a presence when I was on my own. Anyhoos I was sitting there today on my own and could have sworn I saw somebody walk by me - I'm sure I heard the floor creaking as well. It was just in the corner of my eye but when I turned around there was nothing there. I've mentioned to a few people that I think it's a bit haunted - everybody has laughed except one person who agreed with me!

Calibos · 14-07-2006 11:41pm

<calibos banned for a week>

IrishAirCorps · 15-07-2006 5:16pm

Haunted is such a cold word how about "Tennants" or "Occupied"

kshiel · 15-07-2006 7:30pm

Years and years ago myself and a friend were invited to stay over at another friends house as her parents were out of town. While we were there she mentioned she had a freind that could contact the dead. She called her and she came over. They made up a Quija borad so to speak by writting all the letters of the abc out and yes / no Boy/ girl etc etc. Now I did not take part in the actual playing of the board as as I have said before I think and always have that these borads should be used by someone who knows how. Anyway I watched from outside the circle and I do remember the glass did move and it was a man who came in (of course knowbody knows if they were moving it or not) Her mother came home very suddenly and the board was just thrown under the bed and we were sent home. As we waited in her hallway the lights started to flicker on and off nothing to strange about that. But when I got home and went up to my own room I felt really uneasy and so I asked "Is there anyone there, if there is please knock the stereo" Sure as god the stereo knocked (shook) it was one you could carry around with you. I remember running down the stairs and confessing to My mother and father what had happened. It scared the hell out of me.

Zillah · 15-07-2006 7:35pm

I just remembered, my Mom once told me about a light she had seen. She was in bed in her sister's house in Tipperary, and she woke up to find a glowing yellow light floating around the room.

I had completely forgotten that.

kshiel · 17-07-2006 4:54pm

This happened to my sister a good few years back. She had a dream she saw this car crash and outside the crash was the spirit of the man inside the car. He looked at her and said it is not my time, why didn't you tell me to wear my seatbelt (or something to that effect). Now she used to go to this local club on a saturday night and the following saturday night she saw the guy she dreamt about she said she did not know him that well so obiviously didn't want to look mad telling him to wear his seat belt. The following day it was on the news that a crash had taken place on the road and the man she dreamt of had been killed.

hairyfairy00 · 17-07-2006 8:24pm

My mum was a nurse in London in the late 60's early 70's, the building that the nurses lived in had been bombed during WW2. Anyway my mum told me that one night she was in bed and was just about to nod off but for some reason she opened her eyes and saw a woman standing at the end of her bed. She remembers it vividly, she wasn't scared of the "ghost" because she was smiling at my mother. The "ghost" was in full nurse uniform from the 40's, she was there for about 5-10 mins and then just faded away.
Do you think she could this have been one of the nurses killed during the bombing?
I like the fact that she was smiling down at my mum, mum was really ill at the time, she was just getting over glandular fever, i'm sure she was continuing her duty as a nurse even after death.

P.S. She knows it wasn't a fever induced illusion

Pipp · 20-07-2006 10:52am

jimmidy_cricket wrote:

I think your right! I often see flashes of light or sometimes light in the corner of my eye...kinda out of reach from my sight, like if I look to see it then its gone and I think these are my guardian angels making themselves known and making me aware of what Im doing at the time and to be careful. I love it when it happens.

Hi,
This happens to me too. My grandfather always said that I had a "shine" to me and its only now that I understand what he meant. I see these lights all the time, but even more when something bad happens. I take it as a warning when I see them, to be careful and to make sure all of my loved ones are accounted for.
One paranormal encounter I had that touched me very deeply was about two years ago. I had been very ill, in and out of hospital, being put through test after test and I was almost at rock bottom with being tired of feeling so ill and not knowing why. Anyway, I was alone at the time, husband was at work, and I was just turning off the tv and lights to go to bed and I turned around and there in the doorway was a young-ish man, with blonde hair in 50's style clothing, leaning against one side of the door frame, with his hands in his pockets, smiling at me. In that instant it was like he was saying "dont worry, You will have your answer soon and I will watch over you". Its hard to explain but there was such a farmiliar feeling from him, like i knew him. He disappeared right in front of me and I went to bed and slept with a lovely feeling of comfort and being taken care of. So, next day I get a phonecall to come in to the doctor where I finally got my diagnosis.
I told my mother about this the next day, and when I described him she went white instantly and had to sit down. It turns out it was her father, my grandfather, as he would have been when he was first married. She had a photo in a box of him wearing what I saw him in.
Needless to say it touched me deeply that he would chose to come to me when I was in need, and I have seen him since, always in my peripheral vision, and he always makes me feel loved and encouraged.

littlebug · 26-07-2006 4:34pm

This is probably just a story of overactive teenage girls’ imagination rather than a ghost story… but hey I’ll tell it anyway!
When I was about 18 I was home for a weekend and was asleep in my room in my parents house. As we had visitors that weekend my sister was also sleeping in my room. At some point in the night I started to wake feeling that there was something choking me, something round my neck. As I properly woke thought … ah it’s just the blankets, but then I heard a slithering noise and looked up and saw a man about 3 ft tall, move (slither/ float rather than walk) from the left hand side of my bed, down to the end, looked up at me from under his wide brimmed hat with a wicked grin and proceeded to move up between the 2 beds. At that point I freaked and called to my sister. All I did was call her name, I didn’t say what I had seen and she looked up and started screaming the house down! My dad came running in to see what was wrong… of course the light was on then and there was nothing to be seen. My sister was hysterical though and went on to describe what she had seen and it was identical to the man I saw, wearing the same clothes and in the same place in the room ( I still hadn’t said out loud what I saw). The only difference was that she said “I know who it was” and said it was a friend of my dads (a man who we never liked as children and always called “the devil” because of his sharp facial features) except she said he was “all small” and had my dad look under the bed etc! (she was 19… blush!). Now the “thing” I saw actually did bear a resemblance to my dads friend with those sharp, wicked looking features. Anyway we all eventually went back to sleep content (sort of) that we were imagining things. My dad was mortified because there were visitors in the house and he nearly accused one of them, a young man, of coming in to our room. No- one had come in to our room as the door was really stiff and hard to open and it was stuck in it’s usual closed position when my dad got up the stairs all of 5 seconds after we started screaming. There was a knack to opening and closing it and a stranger would have had trouble with it.

Now there are a few things to be taken into consideration here. Firstly there was usually a street light just outside our bedroom window. It was off that night so it was darker than we were used to. Secondly one of the men who was staying in the house had just gone to bed as all of this kicked off. The light on the upstairs landing was off so he was probably sliding his hands along the wall to feel where he was going… that could have been the slithering sound I heard. But would that sound have been enough for us both to conjure up the exact same image? Thirdly I am blind as a bat without glasses/ lenses so I know couldn’t possibly have really seen anything and certainly not the features of someone at the end of the bed! I am also renowned among family and friends for seeing/ imagining things in the middle of the night e.g. huge bugs in the bed, a horrible wee man who used to sit at the other side of the room and even a weird alien looking woman one night. I would accept that the “devil man” was a similar figment of my very overactive night-time imagination but for the fact that we both saw the same thing in the same place.

Is it possible that somehow the sliding slithering sound somehow led both of us to conjure up a similar image of a man we were always a wee bit scared of and disliked as children? Or was there really something there? We still find it a bit freaky to be honest!

Pink Bunny · 26-07-2006 10:55pm

That is incredibly terrifying! You poor thing, it's a wonder you were ever able to go back to sleep in that room. The fact that your sister saw the same thing as you really makes you wonder just what it was that you saw. Can you remember anything else about his looks?

Your father's friend-is he still alive?

GreenDoor · 26-07-2006 11:33pm

Pipp wrote:

Hi,
This happens to me too. My grandfather always said that I had a "shine" to me and its only now that I understand what he meant. I see these lights all the time, but even more when something bad happens.

I saw lights like that twice in my life. I felt light headed and at ease on both occasions.

6th · 27-07-2006 12:09am

littlebug wrote:

This is probably just a story of overactive teenage girls’ imagination rather than a ghost story… but hey I’ll tell it anyway!
etc etc.

Ok from reading this here are a few possible (though some are farfetched) explainations:

1) Someone (a living person) was in the room and their physical appearance was misinterperated in the darkness, and the fact that both witnesses would have been confused due to sleep/tiredness.

This can be ruled out as on inspection noone was in the room at the time.

2) The possible noise of the hand running along the wall (which may sound like hissing) caused the both the OP and her sister to create an "imaginary" event whos details once discribed aloud by the sister where taken up as as the OP on thoughts. By that i mean in her confused state the events may be jumbled in the OPs mind and she believes she thought of the same explaination before her sister said it.

3) Similar to "2)" the possible noise of the hand running along the wall caused the OP to imagine or create an event which she then both mentally and possibably phsyically projected onto her sister.

4) This living person, believed to be similar to the entity, projected their image (possibily in a controlled manner) into the room.

5) An entity, taking a form similar to one they believed would cause extreme distress, entered the area and was witnessed by both parties.

6) Shared halucination.

I've other ideas which would mix bits and pieces of those but i think i've been creative enough.

littlebug · 28-07-2006 9:49am

6th wrote:

1) Someone was in the room.

Definitely not.

2) The possible noise of the hand running along the wall (which may sound like hissing) caused the both the OP and her sister to create an "imaginary" event whos details once discribed aloud by the sister where taken up as as the OP on thoughts.

That is possible given that I know I do tend to see things in the dark, that aren't really there, in my half sleep state. There did seem to be an order to this though i.e it was when he reached the bottom of the bed when I shouted and that's where my sis saw him. It is entirely possible that my strange wee mind got a tad confused though it didn't feel like it at the time.

3) Similar to "2)" the possible noise of the hand running along the wall caused the OP to imagine or create an event which she then both mentally and possibably phsyically projected onto her sister.

Also possible though I wouldn't have thought my strange wee mind had that capability!

4) This living person, believed to be similar to the entity, projected their image (possibily in a controlled manner) into the room.

Nah!! he was just a slobbery drunken git... can't imagine him being able to do that. Although... now that I think of it the visitors in the house were either related to him or were good friends from his home town. hmmmm....there's food for thought. He projected himself to our house so as not to miss the fun? Nahhhh!!!!

5) An entity, taking a form similar to one they believed would cause extreme distress, entered the area and was witnessed by both parties.

ummm...maybe? :eek:

6) Shared halucination.

No alcohol or drugs involved... no history of hallucination/ psychotic episodes.

To be honesty I'd say number 2 is the most likely though there's still something.....um...niggly (for want of a better word) about it.

Pink Bunny

It's a wonder you were ever able to go back to sleep in that room

It's still my bedroom up home and I love it! It is a very old house but nothing ever happened there before or after that episode.. though I do always sleep with a lamp on!

Is he still alive

Yes and now that I'm all grown up I can see that he's not so scary and he is just a fairly normal, though frequently drunk and slobbery, git!

P

Lexie · 28-07-2006 12:16pm

Hi all, Great thread. I really should visit this forum more often.

Anyways, just one or two stories:

My gran died about 2 years ago suddenly. We were always a really close family and we were all gutted that we never got to say goodbye. For days after her funeral I could smell insense. One night a couple of weeks later I had a dream about her. All the family were in her sitting room and it was dark outside. She was sitting on her chair beside the fire. Suddenly each of the lightbulbs started to blow. My gran got up off her chair and walked to her bedroom where she lay on her bed and died (its where she really died). There was pandomonium (sp?) as we tried to search for candles and torches.

Anyway I think her message in this dream was, even if we did get to say goodbye, would it make it easier to let go? Her time had come and she was going. I think the lightbulbs blowing represented a countdown or some time to say goodbye. No matter if we found candles or torches, she was going. Kinda hard to understand, I know.

Also, when I was a child I used to stand in my cot and giggle & babble at something high up the wall in the corner of the room. It used to frighten the s**t out of my mother.

Its a weird feeling because I feel like Im very susceptible (sp?) to paranormal behaviour. Sometimes when Im relaxing at home, I can feel myself been drawn to something, somewhere or someone. Because I dont fully understand or Im not open enough, I just get up & forget about it. Its a strange feeling I cant describe. I visited a couple of different psychics/mediums with my friends over the years. Each time I went they would make a comment about my eyes & possible psychic abilites. Weird eh!

I'll post more expereinces as they come to me.

Pink Bunny · 28-07-2006 3:36pm

Lexie wrote:

Also, when I was a child I used to stand in my cot and giggle & babble at something high up the wall in the corner of the room. It used to frighten the s**t out of my mother.

I used to do that also, so does my baby. In fact I would hazard a guess that most babies do.

I wonder if that's a common thing for all babies? I have a couple ideas on that myself but wonder what you others think.

stevenmu · 29-07-2006 1:30am

Pink Bunny wrote:

I used to do that also, so does my baby. In fact I would hazard a guess that most babies do.

I wonder if that's a common thing for all babies? I have a couple ideas on that myself but wonder what you others think.

I've heard a lot of people say that babies and young children are very much more open to seeing spirits than older people, they haven't yet been thought what is 'real' and what isn't. The theory is that everyone is born with the ability to see spirit, but as we get older we're told "no, there isn't anyone there' or "so and so doesn't actually exist" and so we lose that ability.

Pink Bunny · 29-07-2006 1:52am

I tend to agree with you Stevenmu.

I also believe that all spirits were created at the beginning and that we follow a cycle of rebirth and so since a baby is so recently come back to the earth from wherever it is that spirits hang out between lives, that it's easier for them to still see into ummm.... I'm not really sure exactly what to call it...the spirit world maybe?

But they say babies don't really get the concept of being autonomous until they are older and become aware of themselves and their bodies and I guess as we become more grounded to the earth we lose sight of and get sidetracked away from those things.

6th · 03-10-2006 4:31pm

Glad to be able to dig up this thread (its one of the best on here), anyway I just had an experience.

I went down to the mail room in the building I work in (huge building). The mail room is a big room with a desk at one end and 4 rows of lockers, making 2 small corridors. I was on one side when i heard a bag like someone slamming a locker door closed. I was the only one in the room (you have to scan in) so I got a fright. I finished up and looked down the other row when I went to leave and as i thought no one there. All the doors were closed (and locked i presume) but i walked down to have a gander. I heard a noise behind me and turned around but again nothing. So I stood still and tried to relax ... next thing I got a warm sweet breath on my face. I got out of that room, don't know why I'm just not used to stuff in work.

nacho libre · 04-10-2006 2:52pm

i have had no concrete/definite experience. the closest i've come is the following unexplained experience; i was sitting at my computer when i was pushed forward from behind.
so i did the logical thing and discounted all the plausible explanations?
it was not due to the wind. I'm 15 stone and there was no window open and the weather conditions were calm. There was no other person in the room- unless they were capable of disappearing in nano seconds. most importantly it was not my imagination and i'm not suggestible or am i

I thought that ghosts are not reacting to the present, that when they appear they are reacting to an event in their own lifetime. Is this correct?

6th · 04-10-2006 3:19pm

nacho libre wrote:

I thought that ghosts are not reacting to the present, that when they appear they are reacting to an event in their own lifetime. Is this correct?

Well its one view of one type of spirit, though tthere are believed to be many types of energies/spirits/ghosts/entities and more than a few ideas on how and why the act the way they do.

nacho libre · 04-10-2006 3:24pm

okay. thank you for your explanation.

6th · 04-10-2006 3:42pm

No problem, theres been some very good threads with discussions of what ghosts are (or may be) but unfortunately with the search function gone they are hard to find.

daiixi · 08-10-2006 10:40pm

I've got quite a few stories which I can share.

I used to work in Kings Cross in Sydney in a store which used to be a brothel. I would be at work cleaning, restocking and rearranging products and would feel a girl watching me. Sometimes I would see someone running across the store and at other times I would hear video boxes being moved around the corner from the cashier desk where I'd be sitting and reading/waiting for customers. This would only happen when there was noone in the store and when I would check, the cases would all be messed up.

The second experience in the store was the noise of someone walking down the entrance hall and down the stairs into the shop. A man would then walk across the front of the shop until he got to a big support pole which he would walk behind and then disappear. We had buzzers on the doors and it would never go off when he walked down the corridor so the noise was definitely not a customer.

We also had a store room where we kept extra stock, cleaning products and the video recorders which taped the cctv images. Sometimes I would go into the store room and the video recorders would be switched off even though there was no reason for them to be and others had witnessed me turning them on. Also in the storeroom was the fuse box for the store. At various times the lights in the store would switch off and when I'd go into the store room to flick back on the fuse switches and the cover of the box would be open. This would happen more than once in an evening as well when I knew very well that I'd shut the box.

I'd been working in the store for about six weeks when one of the other employees asked me if I'd seen the guy who disappeared behind the pole. I'd never told anyone what I'd seen. There was another person we worked with who had seen them too. Apparantly a girl had died of an overdose while working in the brothel and a man was killed by the bouncers of the brothel in the room that we used as a storeroom.

kshiel · 19-10-2006 8:06am

Had an experience last night that hasn't happened in a while. First of all I was suffering from insomina last night and just couldn't get to sleep, so after going down stairs for a while and after coming back up to bed I settled in hopfully for a nights sleep. After getting into bed I was turning to my side which would make me face the door when it opened slightly and standing in the door way was a man, now he was gone as quick as he appeared but It was so clear for those few seconds, so I said to myself (as I have a pretty good idea of who this person is) Its ok come in, but nothing happened, so after a few min of just looking I thought he must be gone and lay down to go to sleep and it was then I felt this very light touch on my head, O course my eyes shot open and I could see this man sort of fading out. It gave me a lovely warm feeling inside, as I think he was just visiting, (if indeed it was who I think it was, he use to live here). Short and sweet but quite a pleasant experience.

greenkittie · 20-10-2006 6:20pm

My major experiance...
This happened 10 years ago when i was 10 and will always be something i remember. It was during the afternoon, i was totally relaxed, not feeling weird or freaked out in anyway so it wouldnt be my mind playing tricks on me. The house where it occured was recently built at the time, part of a housing estate that had been built over the site of one old house that had used to stand there. I was just sitting in the study of my old house messing about in the way kids do. Then a figure appeard before me beside the door. I say it would have been about 5 and a half feet in height, the general shape of a person with arms, legs, head and torso was distinguisable but detailed features were not. It was dark grey/black and was almost like looking at thick smoke, it didnt look completely solid but still pretty thick with slightly blurred edges. it didnt move or do anything but i sat and watched it for a prolonged period of time. im not sure how long but it was definatly long enough for me to get a proper look at it.

triskell · 26-10-2006 11:28pm

great thread!
i have been seeing odd things most of my life, march 1994 i was working as a taxi driver in the midlands i used to work nights 1 thursday night/friday morning i was comming home it was 3:50, i came over the brow of ahill and in outskirts of my headlights i could see cattle on the road comming towards me at a fast pace, so i slowed down and pulled in to let them pass, but as it got nearer i realised it was 2 horses witha carraige behind it, then i saw the 2 men with long coats driving the carraige , the horses had black feathers on their heads the carraige had clear sides and i could see a coffin inside there were a lot of people walking behind ti in old fashioned clothes. it got to acar lengths away and just faded away i drove home the rest of the way about a mile and can rember being quite calm and trying to reason it out what i had just seen. when i got home i was completely freaked out i slept with the light on for weeks.
i told my wife who told the neigbours, their attitude was i was dreaming/ drunk or it was new age hippies. i know what i saw and i wasnt drunk

6th · 27-10-2006 9:36am

excellent dfaf, would love to know where that was (name of the road), there are a few stories like this around Ireland but I've never heard an account where the figures/coach/horses were so clear.

triskell · 27-10-2006 9:44pm

6th wrote:

excellent dfaf, would love to know where that was (name of the road), there are a few stories like this around Ireland but I've never heard an account where the figures/coach/horses were so clear.

About 2 miles north of Glasson heading towards ballymahon.
writing that down last night gave me the gawks last night.
here another personal experience of mine, i was in lebanon in the early '90s we were maning checkpoints overlooking a little village, at the time it was lively with the israelis pounding the are every couple of days, so the locals would move their goats up out of the villages to the hills when it was quite to feed, it was mainy kids who used to look after the herds.
we used to minesweep the roads between tthe checkpoints early every morning because mine were somtimes placed under the road to try and hit israelis vehicles or their friends.
you could occasionly see the girls moving the herds around just at daybreak. we had a bad run of artillery barrages last 3 to 4 days stopping for the odd hour or two and then starting up again it finally stopped at
23:00 and all was quite for the night the follow morning we heard a local girl had been killed by a mine on the road where she had crossed after her goats, we all knew the girl shiaa(bad spelling sounded like that) was 12 and she used to come up us and barter stuff.
about 2 weeks later i was on the check point on the road at around 04:30 in the morning. lovely clear morning with just ahint of mist in the hollows when i heard whistling , i looked down accross the hill to see a figure herding the goats up the hill towards us. it got closer up til it was maybe 40 metres from observation post where the other lad was man the gpmg, the girl waved he waved , i walked accross the road to see did i know (bored stupid after 2 hours on the road) i got to maybe 3metres i spoke and then i realised that i was looking at the girl that had been blown to bits (and whose remains had been picked up by some of my mates 2 weeks earlier
she just half smiled and waved at me and followed the goats over the hill I called to the other guy and he asked me who was it. he siad i could swear that it was shiaa. we told nobody.
i heard afterwards her father telling stories about how good the goats were for going up to to the pastures themselves
ps.sorry about length of post

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