Ghosts - What are your experiences?

28-02-2006 12:57am #1

Ok, I know this is going to be filled with sceptics, saying they don't exist, but I personally believe they do. Mainly because I have experienced them my whole life, and have seen them before.

Years ago in my old house I would be in bed. It was a bungallow and all the rooms were close enough each other. I would always hear the footsteps in the hall, yet there would never be a door opening, or closing. Not only that but I can remember slightly hearing things whispering to me (and before someone says it, no, not telling me to burn down things).

A while afterwards we move out of that house, and I go to America for a holiday by myself. I go to San Diego, to Old Town San Diego where I find this house-cum-museum called the Whaley House. Sounds interesting enough. So I walk in, pass into a room. It was a kitchen, with a table in the middle and chairs all around. In the corner of the room was another chair, and as I walked in there was the flash of a woman sitting there, before vanishing. There were other people in that room, and yet only I saw her
So I go upstairs, slightly unnerved by what I saw and into a master bedroom that had been converted into a small theatre. I sit down, chatting to one of the people that work there, basically about Ireland, and my own personal experiences with ghosts. In walks this woman. Pale. Long white gown. Walking slowly. The room seems so.. tense. She walks over to me. Stands in front of me and stares. Then she vanishes. I'm the only one who saw her. Only afterwards did I realise that Whaley House is officially recognised as being a Haunted House.

Shortly after that, I was back in Ireland, and living in rented accomodation with other students. Its close to midnight. I'm in that phase in between being awake and being asleep. I'm drifting off to sleep. Something blows in my ear. But I can't feel any wind. I could definately hear sound. Really close to my ear. But no sound. There was nobody else in the room. I am not sure if it was the same night, or a different night, but one of the girls in the house came down around midnight to see every press in the kitchen wide open. Nobody had come down. Everybody swore it was like that when they went to bed.

Well thats some of my experiences, what are other peoples?

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Sorry for long-ish post

6th · 28-02-2006 1:28am

nice post bab (better than typing ur name). This is the type of post this forum needs. And btw if you dont want people coming in slating it just state that its a topic for believes to share.

Heres one of mine.

I was working in a small factory of sorts in an oldish part of dublin. I was there on my own one night which was not that unusual with the hours i did. I have to say that at this stage i was used to experiencing alot of different things but never felt anything in this place.

I was standing at the kettle which was against one wall with two large machine behind me and alot of stacks of paper. Its a noisey place at the best of times even when no one is there. next thing a male maybe 17-20 walked by me coming from what is now a toilet, he came through the door not the wall, as he walked past me he turned his head and looked straight at me. I smiled lightly and closed my eyes and bowed\nodded my head slowly. when i open my eyes (was only a second) i looked around and saw him dissapear behind one of the machines.

He wasnt the friendliest but there was nothing off about him. He wasnt a typical 17ish year old in that he had the presence of someone older, like how maybe 60 years ago a guy would be married and have a few years work behind him at 20.

He wasnt see though, and was quite a solid form but there was something either blurry about him or possibly it could be discribed as there not being a strong contrast in the tones of his form.

Anyway thats one of mine.

Lets hope more people share.

Cheers bab for starting that thread and i hope you stick around here in paranormal.

6th

Zillah · 28-02-2006 2:03am

Deleted User wrote:

I know this is going to be filled with sceptics, saying they don't exist

Correction! Cynics will say they don't exist, sceptics will ask interesting questions so we all get a better understanding!

The closest I've come is to hear some unexplained whistling in the basement of Charleville castle...which is far from conclusive I know...

p2kone · 28-02-2006 2:13am

this is as true as god!

in an estate in westmeath their was a girl renting a room out in the town and one night she was woken up by a girl with long hair looking through her wardrobe, the girl froze in the bed said nothing that night.

the next morning she was talking to the landloard and was asking about a girl with long hair etc ... turns there was a girl a few months back renting that room who died in a swiming accident !!!

she promptly moved out.

jcoote · 28-02-2006 2:24am

one night my ma's claddagh ring went missing out of the blue and she had had it in her jewlery box..

only my parents and my dad's twin brother where in the house..

so my ma thought right it was the brother ya know...

anyway my uncle killed himself a few years later

my ma woke up one night after feeling a draft or something and the ring was sittin on the same jewelry box that it had been stolen from!!!!

Archeron · 28-02-2006 9:55am

Travelling home on a Bus Eireann bus one night (last bus home, would have been about 9pm ish). Sitting at the very front of the bus, on the passenger side. The seat behind the driver was empty, except it wasnt. When I wasnt looking directly at the seat (in other words, when I looked straight ahead, but could see the seat throught the corner of my eye) there was a kind of older woman, about 55/60 years old sitting there smiling to herself. She looked very kindly, and very much like she was enjoying the journey, and didnt come across as threatening in any way. Every time i looked directly at her, she wasnt there, but everytime i looked ahead, I could see her perfectly. I wasnt drunk, and i was watching her for about an hour of the journey before i got off the bus. Left me with a weird feeling. I thought maybe it was a person who used like to take bus journeys.

Another time, i spotted a young girl outside the local church in my town. Dressed in really olden days school outfit.(called a gaberdine maybe? Like the cloths the girls out of that "St Trinnians" film wore) Seen her a total of about three times, just standing there outside the church.She always was a bit of a distance away, but she always gave off a feeling of utter misery. One night, I was talking to a friend of mine as we were walking past the place where I seen her standing. At the place (outside a church, and there is a pelican crossing there as well, the type with the orange ball light that flashes on and off). As I was talking about her, and describing her, I walked past the flashing light and the flipping thing exploded right beside me. The globe didnt break, but a huge crack noise came out of it, and the light just stopped immediately. That episode did freak me out.
Theres been a couple of other episodes as well, but I dont want to bore ye:rolleyes:

6th · 28-02-2006 11:25am

From talking to alot of people over the years and a couple of experiences myself it seems to be very common to see spirits on forms of transport. I suppose itt makes alot of sense seeing as we spend so much of our time geeting from one place to another.

I had a woman sit down beside me on a bus, i saw her out of the corner of my eye and took my bag off the seat beside me. I felt her sitdown and smelt her (i notice smells alot), I even felt her touching off my arm. I took no notice coz theres nothing weird with having someone sit beside you on a bus. When my stop was coming up i turned to her slightlly and said sorry, she looked at me smiled and dissappeared in front of my eyes. I got the same smell for the next couple of days very strong.

I've had a fair few experiences and wish i wasnt in work so i could tell you them all.

6th

Archeron · 28-02-2006 11:45am

dublin6th wrote:

I've had a fair few experiences and wish i wasnt in work so i could tell you them all.

6th

Sure post them as you get a chance. I've a few more to post as well, so as I have time over the next couple of days. I'm always fascinated to hear other peoples stories.

6th · 28-02-2006 11:57am

Yeah I'll put them on as and when. I really should have them all written down. I think I'll put them on here then list all 19ish on my website.

This is the kind of thread that could go on for ages ... which is a good thing!

6th

magnumlady · 28-02-2006 8:20pm

Great thread, really enjoying reading about everyones experiences.
I've had a lot of experiences, mainly sounds and smells of things out of the blue. I've only ever seen ghosts twice. When I was a child a little boy used to come and stand by my bed, he was dressed like he was from the 1800's and then the other time was when I was really ill and went to open my bedroom door and saw all the people that I had known that had died waiting outside the door for me, it was really bright and they were all dressed in white.. I knew that if I left the room I'd never come back again so I went back to my bed.

Hal1 · 28-02-2006 9:01pm

Wow that was freaky magnumlady,

Well I got a story to tell too. This didnt actually happen to me but I heard about it one night about 4am because I was in the same room :eek:.

My sister was the second eldest in our house she was about 8 years young at the time. It was the 1980's and billy jean was playing on the radio lol j/k, and we lived in a housing estate in Crumlin. We weren't very well off at the time (well who was in the 1980's) and we lived in a 2 bedroomed house, the 5 of us kids at shared a bedroom.

Anyway one night my sister awoke screaming and crying it was about 5 minuters later before my parents and us kids calmed down a bit because it startled us all.

When we eventually asked what was bothering her she said she seen an eldery man standing at the end of her bed pulling her by her feet slowly out of the bed. She described him wearing blue and white stripey pj's and having pure white hair and red evil eyes and he was grining at her! :v:.

Since that night she slept with the parents for a few weeks. A few months later we discovered an eldery man died in the house.

Archeron · 01-03-2006 10:03am

magnumlady wrote:

Great thread, really enjoying reading about everyones experiences.
I've had a lot of experiences, mainly sounds and smells of things out of the blue. I've only ever seen ghosts twice. When I was a child a little boy used to come and stand by my bed, he was dressed like he was from the 1800's and then the other time was when I was really ill and went to open my bedroom door and saw all the people that I had known that had died waiting outside the door for me, it was really bright and they were all dressed in white.. I knew that if I left the room I'd never come back again so I went back to my bed.

Wow! How did you feel during this when you saw the people and the light? Was it a sense of peace like so many people say or something else? My gran spoke of something like this as she was dying in hospital. She seemed delerious, and started speaking to her husband who had died about 50 years previous. She said she could see bright light in front of her, and minutes later she had passed on. Someone told me that this is known as dying from the feet up which is quite rare, but aside from books, I've never known anyone else to experience this. Were you calm or terrified?

magnumlady · 01-03-2006 1:19pm

I was very calm, and really at peace. I can still see the image now, it was so clear, because of this I wouldn't be afraid of dying. I saw relatives that had died before I was even born and it was just like they had come to get me but it was really clear in my mind that if I left my room then there was no going back.
Another strange thing that happened was I ended up in hospital and they managed to remove the blood clot and when I came around my mum told me that her cousin had died the same night from a blood clot. I don't know if that is just a coincidence.

tk123 · 01-03-2006 1:47pm

Thats a great story magnumlady! Its good to hear positive experiences not just stuff that scared the crap out of somebody! I love hearing about stuff like this! I've had a few experiences like this myself. Mine are more like feelings - I feel a presence but usually try to get away/distract myself before I have to face it/or a think about something out of the blue eg - I was thinking about my cousins little girl one morning - i'd only met her once and she tripped up and somebody commented on how she's always falling. Anyhoos I'm in the shower one morning and that pops into my mind. I got home from work and heard that she'd fallen into a bath of hot water and scalded herself - she's fine now btw.. My sister died when I was little and sometimes I think I feel a presence - in or around the room where she died but it kind of scares me..I've never spoken to my family about it for fear of upsetting somebody...

magnumlady · 01-03-2006 7:42pm

tk I'm really sorry to hear about your sister. I'm sure when you feel her presence she is around. If it scares you you could always ask her to leave you alone.
My MIL used to frighten the life out of me, I used to get her perfume smell and then she'd start slamming doors and freaking the cat out, so I told her nicely that I knew she was there but not to scare me. Now I just get the smell the odd time.

Archeron · 02-03-2006 9:46am

magnumlady wrote:

My MIL used to frighten the life out of me, .

What does MIL mean?

6th · 02-03-2006 10:10am

Archeron wrote:

What does MIL mean?

Mother-in-Law, at least thats what i took it to mean.

Archeron · 02-03-2006 11:54am

Aah, thank you. Common sense didnt prevail for me on that one.:)

magnumlady · 02-03-2006 12:17pm

Sorry I should have written it properly, it is indeed Mother in law.

GuanYin · 02-03-2006 1:28pm

I've had one or two experiences I can't explain.

One involved me staying with my cousin on all souls night. Was only in my teens and was just the two of us in the house. Went to bed (sharing a room with my cousin) and she stayed up. I woke up later, in what I figured was the middle of the night, to see her getting out of bed across the room (I'm a really light sleeper). Remember her walking out of the room, because I remember the light coming in as the door opened. I also remember not recognising her nightdress , which was long and white, and thinking her hair looked longer than normal.

Anyway, went back to sleep and was woken a second time by the doorbell. Got up, a bit confused and wandered down to open the door. Was my cousin, fully dressed (in what she had been wearing earlier). It was 3am, I asked her why she got and got dressed so later and she said she popped to her friends house across the road shortly after I went to bed and had never gone upstairs.

When I questioned my aunt the next day, she says that that is the room (and location of the bed) where her mother died. Needless to say my cousin moved her bed over to the other side of the room.

Even if I was dreaming, I'd have no reason to imagine someone I didn't recognise getting out of a bed in that area of the room. I don't think I was dreaming though, because I certainly remember it all clearly and I don't remember my dreams usually.

Scoops · 02-03-2006 2:03pm

When is all souls night?

GuanYin · 02-03-2006 2:06pm

November 2nd, unless its a sunday in which case its November 3rd.

Scoops · 02-03-2006 2:10pm

I've never heard of it, whats the deal with it?

GuanYin · 02-03-2006 2:24pm

Google/Wiki are your friends.

fruitcake · 03-03-2006 4:31pm

anyone ever know anything about Padre Pio coming to visit someone right before they die?

CountryWise · 03-03-2006 5:19pm

My aunt had an experience on a beach with her husband, 3 people had drowned the week previously,it was a major tragedy as you can imagine at the time.
Anyway she was walking on the beach late one evening in the summer and it was getting dark when she saw three people walking towards them,hardly unusual and quite common, when she stepped aside a bit to avoid walking into them she said good evening............nothing and instead of the oncoming three stepping aside a bit they brushed straight through them.......my aunt and uncle froze completely, looked around eventually but nobody there.

I know alot of these stories go around when your kids and alot of them are just ghost stories but the thing i always remember was my aunt didnt like talking about it.....

boneless · 04-03-2006 4:41pm

I'm one of those persons who does not believe in spirits or ghosts. I have to state this first off.

In Edinburgh a few years ago, I went on one of those walking tours of the haunted sites. Well, to cut a long story short, we ended up in Greyfriars Kirkyard, in the tomb of one Black MacKenzie; an evil sod by all accounts.

This tomb had a rep for poltergeist and other activity. Me being the unbeliever was having a good time watching the reactions of those around me. When the tour was over I went back to the pub with a few people for a pint or three... Everyone was staring at me as soon as we got into the light. I had a long scratch down my right cheek and the beginnings of a bruise under my eye. I did not feel a thing in the tomb or anywhere along the tour.

When I got back to the hostel, much to my surprise, when I took the jeans off there was what looked like a hand print on my ankle; as if someone had gripped it real tight. It freaked me out a wee bit!!

It took weeks for the scratch and 'print' to disappear.

I have been back to the place a few times since but have had no other 'injuries', but one night I was convinced I was followed around the graveyard but could not see anything or anyone else when I turned.

Hope you don't mind an unbeliever posting, but I think it might interest you all.

stormkeeper · 04-03-2006 4:54pm

boneless wrote:

Hope you don't mind an unbeliever posting, but I think it might interest you all.

Not at all

That was a really interesting story. Thank you for sharing it with us.

tk123 · 04-03-2006 5:11pm

But if you don't believe in it how can you explain what happened boneless - i'm really interested in that?!!? I've tried to be an 'unbeliver' for a long time and take the sensible approach but there's lots of little things that make me a believer..well kind of.. My house for one - I'm freaked out by 3 rooms in my house - the front room, my old room and one of the bedrooms. Now in all 3 i'm a bit scared if I'm in there in the dark - I feel like i'm not alone. As mentioned earlier I had a sister who died - she died in one of the bedrooms 20+ yrs ago. To this day i'm a bit scared to go in there after dark. My nephew was staying a few years ago - he would have been abt 5ish at the time..anyhoos I was on the landing with him and we were walking by the bedroom in question, he asked me to close the door because he didnt like that room(he had no idea that somebody died in it) - that really freaked me out because he has no idea somebody died in there and when I was his age(and still now if i'm honest) I would close the door when I passed the room. In my old bedroom I'd get really bad nightmares and sleep paralisys(sp?) all the time with 'figures' coming into the room. I started calling for my mum one time when it happened and freaked her out out a bit - when I said it to her she said that her sis was babysitting for them on evening and flipped out because she thought she heard something in that room and made them come home..they moved me out of it after that! My mum's not religious at all but always says she wishes she had of gotten the house blessed when they move in - i'm tempted to ask her why but can't find the right time to bring it up....

My friend is really into ghosts etc since his brother died in an accident a few yrs ago. He's gone to mediums etc. Anyhoo one night I was in his place(we'd bought had a few drinks) and he starts showing me photos of all his family. Anyhoos he shows me one of his bro holding one of the grandkids close enough to when he died, his bro is smilling in the pic but the kid looks scared to death, he asks me do I see anything weird abt the pic, when I take a closer look there's a hand on the back of the kids neck and there was definitely NOBODY standing behind them. If that wasn't enough he tells me the room I'm sleeping in is where his grandad died and that one of his sisters has seen him a few times at the end of the bed....with that I told him I was going to go home - he really scared the crap out of me!!:p

Samhildanach · 06-03-2006 3:31pm

I and my family have had lots of weird experiences - I'll start with this one:-

Our family home was built on the site of an old thatched cottage. The first day we moved into the house a little black cat appeared on our doorstep - I kept feeding it and so it became our cat, we had the cat for about 4 years then it was killed on the road, anyway about a month later another cat appeared on the doorstep (another small black cat, this one had white paws), this cat eventually disappeared (we thought it went the same way as the other cat - killed on the road) anyway 2 weeks after this cat disappears another cat appears - a brown and black cat. We all thought it was wierd ... our house just seemed to attract cats - and the cats always came to the front door and sat outside waiting for someone to open the door to it! The strange thing was that we had a dog for 10 years and it hated cats ... none of these cats were scared of the dog. So that strange thing No. 1. Now to the real story. My parent's bedroom was directly above the sitting room in a dormer style room. About 10 years ago my aunt came over from the UK with her friend for a holiday, my parents gave them their room. Sometime during the night my aunt's friend had a heart attack and died in my parent's bed. Over the next few years the cabinet (with my mother's china collection) in the sitting room directly below my parent's bed would shake or rattle, sometimes my sister would be on her own watching TV and the drawer handle would rattle like someone was trying to open it. This was always happening. Then one night my father died of a heart attack in bed (he slept on the same side as my aunt's friend the night she died). A week after my father died we were all sitting in the sitting room with some visitors and there was a huge smashing sound from the cabinet ... my mother's prize china tea pot had just exploded in front of everyone! It was so wierd - nothing else was broken just the tea pot (it had been in pristine condition before) but now it was broken in two and the spout had multiple fractures, the handle had fallen off - it looked like someone had physically smashed it. We were all really spooked.

My mum couldn't stand to stay in the house after that, it seemed to be unlucky and so we moved.

Zillah · 06-03-2006 3:45pm

Samhildanach wrote:

My mum couldn't stand to stay in the house after that, it seemed to be unlucky and so we moved.

I was about to ask you if you have any Asian cultural background, but then I noticed your location was "China". Its a very eastern idea that certain things or places can be "auspicious" or not, as the case may be. I think its an interesting cross cultural thing that western cultures have a habit of noting some areas as "cursed" or "haunted" and eastern cultures go for "lucky" or "auspicious". What do you mean when you say it was "unlucky"? When did these thing occur?

gracehopper · 06-03-2006 6:55pm

My Aunt was 36 years old when she died of a massive heart attack. It was an untimely death and she is still missed as much today nearly 12 years on. On the morning of her funeral i went into my mothers room for something and i was engulfed by the smell of incense. I was young enough but i recognised the smell instantly from my grandad's funeral. I called my mother & sister into the room and the 3 of us were overawed by this strange smell. I always think about that time as we have never been able to explain what caused the smell. Throughout her life my aunt was always a joker and i like to think she took that trait into her next life. If It was her presence that morning it was exactly the sort of benign stunt that she would have laughed at. Occasionally i think about that time and am comforted by it.

I experienced another more sinister situation when i was about 12 or 13. Myself and my friends went to a waste ground and were messing around getting up to your usual pre puberty mischief. It was about teatime in the summer and it was one of the them nights were the sun was going to shine until about 9 or 10 in the evening. One of my friends bought an ouija board from a fella at a car boot sale. He of course thought he knew everything about it so i preceded to watch but not join in and adopted the stance of a slightly scared skeptic. So the 2 lads initiated the session and i thought it was a bit of a joke with them moving what looked like a paper weight around the board. From watching the conversation and reaction of the others i established that there was someone called Michael that they were communicating with. The conversation consisted of about 4 or 5 questions. The process was slow but an answer always came. Being the at the curious age of course the next question was "Show us a sign that you are here". There was no answer. The guys didnt move the weight but instead looked into the sky. It had started to rain really heavily and the wind whipped into the enclosed field and whipped dust all around us. My friends that took part were now clearly distressed. We took this drastic change in weather from a mild summer night to wind and rain as the sign we requested. it was a scary experience I have never felt anything like it nor do i want to ever again. I'm always curious about paranormal activity but i would never mess with an ouija board again. We burnt the board and never set foot in the waist ground again. I'm still friends with the guys and when this comes up in conversation it is never in jest. every one of us was frightened that day. I pass the waste ground on the way home from my girlfriends most nights and Its black iron gate nearly always rattles in the wind as a reminder of that day.

Sorry for the long post!
It's an interesting thread

cheers
David(Gracehopper)

Samhildanach · 06-03-2006 8:02pm

Zillah wrote:

I was about to ask you if you have any Asian cultural background, but then I noticed your location was "China". Its a very eastern idea that certain things or places can be "auspicious" or not, as the case may be. I think its an interesting cross cultural thing that western cultures have a habit of noting some areas as "cursed" or "haunted" and eastern cultures go for "lucky" or "auspicious". What do you mean when you say it was "unlucky"? When did these thing occur?

Hey Zillah - firstly I'm Irish but I've been living in China for the last 3.5 years. I never really considered this before as this happened a few years before I came to China. You're right about that though - the 'lucky' or 'auspicious' connoctation, although the Chinese believe strongly in Feng Shui and they consult a specialist before they build anything here - for good positions/directions (N-S-E-W) for doors/windows etc. I suppose westerns call this leylines - or natural energy fields. They are superstitious people.

To answer your question about my mum - she just couldn't stay in the house because of all the wierdness, she felt that because 2 people died in the same room and on the same spot that maybe she might be next.

I'm not a superstitious person and am very cynical about most things, but then when some things have no logical explanation and happen to you ... you start to wonder.

boneless · 07-03-2006 12:23am

So far I have no rational explanation for what happened to me in Edinburgh; that's not to say there isn't one!! I do think that telekinesis is one possible avenue which could be explored though. There is no doubt that the human brain is more powerful than the actual amount used.

Possibly one of the people in the group who believed in a spiritual presence transferred their belief in a 'physical' manifestation of their 'psychic' abilities? And me being percieved as a 'scoffer' (although I did not openly belittle any beliefs that night, nor would I, unless they were being used in a bad way) became the focus of this.

I'd like to explore the area more.

Thanks for the welcome and responses...

GuanYin · 07-03-2006 12:27am

Yeah, I've heard people suggest previously that ghosts are imprints left on a place by some sort of energy emission from the brain in times of emotional distress.

This then leads to some people "or psychics" being atuned to this type of energy.

6th · 07-03-2006 12:38am

Boneless, I've been to GreyFriars kirkyard myself and am a regular to edinburgh. I have never been injured at this site but have seen the results for Sir George Mackenzies handy work. Though in saying that i do not believ the poltergeist is him but an entity taht is using the vast amounts of energy in the vacinity.

With regards to Imprints and there difference to entities/spirits/ghosts I suggest anyone with a genuine interest read "how to hunt ghosts" b joshua p. warren. am nearly finished it and its the most informative book on paranormal i hav ever read, and writtien so that anyone from believer to skeptic can get alot out of it.

6th

boneless · 07-03-2006 12:39am

psi wrote:

Yeah, I've heard people suggest previously that ghosts are imprints left on a place by some sort of energy emission from the brain in times of emotional distress.

This then leads to some people "or psychics" being atuned to this type of energy.

Well, Greyfriars is one place where human emotional distress happened!! It was in effect a concentration camp in the 17th century. The Scots Covenantors were imprisoned there after their uprising. The mentioned Black MacKenzie was also the judge who condemned most of the inmates of this prison to death.

boneless · 07-03-2006 12:44am

dublin6th wrote:

Boneless, I've been to GreyFriars kirkyard myself and am a regular to edinburgh. I have never been injured at this site but have seen the results for Sir George Mackenzies handy work. Though in saying that i do not believ the poltergeist is him but an entity taht is using the vast amounts of energy in the vacinity.

With regards to Imprints and there difference to entities/spirits/ghosts I suggest anyone with a genuine interest read "how to hunt ghosts" b joshua p. warren. am nearly finished it and its the most informative book on paranormal i hav ever read, and writtien so that anyone from believer to skeptic can get alot out of it.

6th

Thanks for the info!! I look forward to reading that when I get a chance... have to sit me finals for the BA first though!!!

Then I can actually read for pleasure!!

GuanYin · 07-03-2006 12:53am

dublin6th wrote:

With regards to Imprints and there difference to entities/spirits/ghosts I suggest anyone with a genuine interest read "how to hunt ghosts" b joshua p. warren. am nearly finished it and its the most informative book on paranormal i hav ever read, and writtien so that anyone from believer to skeptic can get alot out of it.

6th

Any chance of the jist (I may buy the book, but just forthe sake of discussion here) - does he mention EM energy of some sort? The brain apparently generates some immense energy levels at time of stress - would be interesting if someone characterised it fully.

6th · 07-03-2006 12:56am

psi wrote:

Any chance of the jist (I may buy the book, but just forthe sake of discussion here) - does he mention EM energy of some sort? The brain apparently generates some immense energy levels at time of stress - would be interesting if someone characterised it fully.

He covers it in such detail it will blow your mind! he is the founder of L.E.M.U.R. a research group in america that are second to none i will post his breakdown of key points for each type of activity on a new topic

6th

stonecat6 · 07-03-2006 1:44am

I have not seen anything, but I have heard & felt things that I could not explain. Like someone breathing really close to my ears when there is nobody near me; furniture being moved & I cannot see anything moving; the sensation that someone is in the room & I felt it pass near me - But I have never seen anything.

xzanti · 07-03-2006 12:29pm

The first house we lived in, that I grew up in till I was about 12 was haunted… Apparently a young boy electrocuted himself in the kitchen before my parents moved in .. Strange things would happen every now and again...My parents were meticulous when it came to switching off electrical appliances and locking internal doors etc in case of fire or burglary etc… One summer when we would come home from days out the whole house would be lit up like a Christmas tree, every light in the house would be on and all the doors still locked.. Also guests in the house would often come back from trips to the loo and ask who had been knocking on the door while they were in there.. When everyone else present in the house at the time was accounted for.. Things would go missing into thin air never to be seen again.. Right from under our noses.. Lots of strange things..

We moved out of that house when I was about 12 and things were normal enough for years, then one day I was alone in the house, sitting in the living room watching tele and a small picture of my deceased granny flipped over on its face.. I didn’t really think much of it cause it was quite a flimsy little frame so I put it down to vibration from the tele… So over I went and propped it up, went back to the sofa and when I looked the frame was turned sideways.. I didn’t think much of it again, assumed I had just not fixed it right, so went and turned it facing the right way.. When I got back to my seat again it was facing the wall.. It had turned 180 degrees… My blood went ice cold.. I screamed like a moron and ran out into the garden and sat there till my sister came home.. Shook me to my bones..

Then not long before I moved out and got my own place… There was one day I had come back to my room from the shower and closed the door behind me.. My key was on the outside of the door and when I tried to get out it was locked.. I almost died.. My dad was the only other person in the house.. I had to ring him and get him up to let me out.. His face was white as snow, he was totally freaked out.. And it’s a fairly sturdy lock, there was no way that key would turn without some force… I happened again about 2 months later, this time my mother had to let me out.. Needless to say I stopped leaving my key in my door… My mother reckons someone didn’t want me to move out..

6th · 07-03-2006 1:26pm

Hi xzanti,

I find cases like this very interesting because I personally dont believ that these happenings are thye works of a ghostor poltergeist (which would be more suitable to your experiences).

I believe that these cases are subconsciciously produced by your own psychic abilities, weather you are aware of it or not. When things like this, physically effects on the enviroment of one person, happen over a few locations I believe thats a spirit is rarely involved.

These are just my opinions and take nothing away from the ghostly activities themselves. Your experiences are just as impressive and paranormal no matter what the cause. There are a few things you can do to lessen or even stop these things happening, if you want me to point you towards text which may help you just let me know.

6th

xzanti · 07-03-2006 1:46pm

These are just my opinions and take nothing away from the ghostly activities themselves. Your experiences are just as impressive and paranormal no matter what the cause. There are a few things you can do to lessen or even stop these things happening, if you want me to point you towards text which may help you just let me know.

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Well nothing seems to have happened since I moved into my own place (touch wood) Which is good because my bf would run a mile from the place.. He hates even going to my parents house because my friend let it slip one day about the door locking episode (which I had refrained from telling him) :rolleyes: Hes not good with stuff like that bless him

07-03-2006 9:46pm

I have to say that when I first posted this thread, I had no idea that it would be as successful. And its pretty awesome.

Anyways, theres a few other experiences I had previously, which I had totally forgot about. Both involve my dog and both take place in my old house (where I would hear the footsteps in the hall)

It was night-time. I was sitting at the computer, typing away. My dog was curled up at my feet sound asleep. He wakes up. Stands up straight. Stares at the door and growls. He is a carefree dog, so its very out of character for him to growl like that. There was nothing at the door, nothing behind the door bar the hall. It was empty. Yet still he growled. I called for him, asking what was wrong. He stared at me for a moment, before returning his glare to the door once more and continued growling. He was definately looking at something.

A few weeks later I was in my bed. Sam (the dog) was curled up at my feet. Its the middle of the night. I am awoken by something moving. Its Sam. He's backing into me. Afraid. He's whining. His ears are down. I don't know what he's looking at. I look around the dark room but see nothing. The room is empty except for us two.

Both experiences freaked me out, but not as much as it probably freaked out Sam

scojones · 08-03-2006 7:00pm

I'm sure I've posted this on some thread on this forum before but here goes....

It was 2001/2002 when I started college. I moved to Tralee. I was sharing the back of an old farmhouse with three other people, one of whom I had grown up with, so we were both starting college together. Anyway, the house was haunted. It started off with little things over the first few weeks and months but as time progressed it got worse and worse and eventually became unbearable and we had to get the place blessed.

Weird things would happen, like we'd all leave for home on the Friday and have everything except for the fridge plugged out / turned off, and we'd come back on Sunday and all the lights would be on. Doors that were originally closed on the Friday would be open on the Sunday. Stuff like that. At first I thought, **** maybe the landlady is renting this place out at weekends, so myself and my friend stayed down one weekend - we had told the landlady we were going home just incase she was letting people stay there at the weekends. Not much happend that weekend to be honest. Just the usual, I'd leave the toilet seat up, he'd go into the bathroom about 10 mins later and it'd be down. This stuff happend all of the time.

About a month went by and we kinda thought nothing of it. Until really weird **** started happening. Our power was out, and the shower only works when there is power, I walked past the bathroom and on came the shower - something that was impossible. I figured it could just have been an electrical fault and thought nothing of it. So we were all downstairs watching tv, we had it on low enough, I used the downstairs bathroom, came out and everyone looked at me in shock. They thought I was upstairs because they said before they heard the downstairs toilet flush, someone flushed the upstairs toilet and came out of the bathroom. They could hear someone walking about upstairs. I shrugged it off and we watched the rest of the movie. My mate went upstairs, used the upstairs toilet and got into bed, this we could hear because the house was really noisy. Then the toilet flushed in the upstairs bathroom, i could hear the door being unlocked and someone going into his room and getting into his bed. WTF I thought and I went upstairs to see what was going on. He was fast asleep...

Then the worst started, we'd all be downstairs and the toilet would flush in the downstairs bathroom, the door would be unlocked / locked from the inside at random times. The presses in the kitchen would bang from time to time.

I was asleep in my room with my gf-at-the-time. She woke up me screaming, I didn't know what the **** was going on. She said she saw some light in the room, so I stayed awake for a bit. About 20 minutes later the wall lit up, a perfectly round circle of light. What the **** I thought, so I went over to it, and put my hand over it, there was no light on my hand, or shadow of my hand on the light, it was as if the light was coming from INSIDE the wall, the otherside of the wall where the light was, was the shower that came on when I walked past before.

Really weird **** like this used to happen all of the time, we'd be woken up at 4/5am with the tv blaring on full volume, yet we'd have went to bed and have unplugged it. We could constantly hear people walking around upstairs, yet there was nobody there.

We got a priest around to bless the place a few weeks later, and it all stopped. There was absolutely no more weirdness after he blessed the place. It totally freaked us out.

tk123 · 08-03-2006 8:23pm

How did you stay in the place sjones?!?!The 'feeling' of a presence etc is one thing you can make yourself dismiss it but stuff physically happening like that - i reckon i'd run screaming from the house!!..

08-03-2006 9:00pm

Stuff like that happened all the time in my student accomodation too. Not as extreme. I believe I mentioned before about the breathing sensation in my ear, but not feeling any actual breath. Or about the girl going into the kitchen at midnight and seeing every press open.

I believe another experience the girls had before I moved in was when one of them would be alone in the house. They would be in their rooms. And all of a sudden there would be a banging on one door. Then each door in the house. Freaky.

There was also a room at the top of the stairs. A small bedroom. Anytime anybody entered this room, they all report getting the same sensation, that there was just something incredibly wrong.

jimmidy_cricket · 08-03-2006 11:56pm

I've had a few mental experiences. One I guess can be explained as being an alchol induced halousanation (I tell myself this) but I'll let you decide...

When I was 18 I moved out of home. My first time living away from home soon became drink binge after drink binge and my health suffered. After my third vist to the doctor in as many months I was given yet another course of anti-biotics. Nearing the end of my course of anti-biotics my friends had planned a trip to see me for a major piss-up. Now having been on two couses of the tabs already, I was determined to see this course out and I was to take my last tab on the Friday morning anyway so figured I'd be ok to drink.

I'll try make this quick so; Friday night saw me get very very drunk and eventually pass out, then wake up and I talked to realatives in the room that had passed away. Now to be honest I don't know how much of the night I actually remember and how much of it I recall only from what my friends told me...like when your not sure if you've seen a movie or you just think you have because of all that you've heard about it...anyhoo, I was vary emotional and wanted to go 'home' with the people that were in the room and got very distressed and curled into a ball under a table. One of my friends took my pulse, it was strong and fast and I was burning up.

Ok so that's the episode that can be put down to drink fuelled delirium. The following Monday (after a heavy nights drinking Saturday and Sunday) I went to bed at 10am (I know some of you may think there was more to it than just drink but I assure you these were drink and only drink filled binges.) At about 6'oclock that evening I awoke to darkness, it was winter after all and it got dark at about 4. Well in my half awake/half asleep state I got up and tried the light switch..nothing. I looked to my alarm clock to see the time and nothing, "Ok so the electricity is gone, no big deal I thought", I opened my door and called out to my house mate, she answered me from upstaris and informed me the electricity was indeed gone and that one of our friends was on the phone come up to talk to her.

I remeber it so clearly, as I walked out into the hallway(my bedroom was downstairs) and as my eyes adjusted to the light, there was a figure, it was a dark figure but I could sense a beauty from it. It seemed familar around the same age as me, long dark hair and when I took a step forward she took a step up the stairs, stopped and I felt her look back, as if waiting for me to follow.

I wasn't frightened, I was uneasy as to why it was going on but anyhow I followed her to the top of the stairs and when I reached out to touch her she stepped back, away from me (Backed awy) into the wall.

I turned to go into the room that my house mate was in (where I could hear her on the phone) and at the end of the bed I saw two figures that I can only describe as worshiping. It was so weird, still I wasn't scared, I sort of had the feeling my mind was playing tricks on me, go with it and see what happens.

Apart from the two figures kneeling at the end of the bed, there were other figures in the room, one of which was my housemate on the phone, but because the electricity was gone and it was dark I couldn't deferenciate who was who until she spoke. I calmly told her I was freaking out a little and that I thought I was tripping (although I have no experience of drug induced tripping) but I imagined this must be what its like.

I took the phone from her so she could go look for a torch and I remained calm until one of the figures reached out and touched and held my arm. With that I screamed and told the friend on the phone we'd have to ring back when we figured out what was going on. It wasn't a figure that had reaced out and touched me, it was my house mate, whom I thought was at the door but now that figure had walked out to the hall, but that fright of my freind touching me was enough to put the s4its up me and the presence turned different.

This is so difficult to explain in writing, but when I first entred the room where my friend was there was a sort of messing feel to it, it felt like there was a bit of craic going on, yes it felt strange, bizarre and so surreal and then when I let the raor out of me it changed, it was as if they realised I wsa watching, I could see and they were angry and wanted to frigthen me.

My house mate took me by the arm and led me down the stairs toward the kitchen to find a torch and some candles. As we walked down the corrider I could sense all these beings leaning out from the walls, over us, I kept my eyes shut because I was too frightened of what I might see.

I kept assuring myself everything would be ok once we had light, and I kept my eyes closed and my house mate by my side until we found candles and the torch, and once there was light it was fine.

Nothing like that has ever happened to me since, although I have had many angel encounters. I don't know what to make of it, I often put it down to the amount of drink taken that weekend and the end of the corse of anti-biotics. Sorry it was so long.

Hal1 · 09-03-2006 12:10am

jesus. that was freaky I didnt have any paranormal expriences that happened to myself except for what i explained earlier in the thread.

6th · 09-03-2006 12:27am

the taking of drugs and alcohol to alter ones state of conciousness have been a common occurance for hundreds (if not more) years. Shamans did it because they felt it brought them to a higher level where they could contact spirits. Of course there is no way to prove it was not all in the mind but it has a strong founation in many cultures .... still lay off the booze girl!

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