Ghost stories

I’ve had a few woo experiences. My great grandma used to ‘see’ things and I’ve seen a few things myself.

I’m in a new build, less than 2 years old. I’ve had a couple of woo experiences here. Someone shouted in my ear when I was in bed (not asleep, I’d not long been in bed) and I bolted so fast I nearly ended up falling down the stairs. Absolutely shit myself. My DS4 once asked why the man was there and then was gone, and my 1 year old laughs and waves at empty spots in mid air, like she’s playing with someone.

The estate is built on old farmland at the bottom of Pendle Hill. There are ruins of old farm houses on the estate, their foundations have been made into features. Neighbours have reported odd things too, some of them around these houses - voices but no one to make them, that sort of thing.

In 2009 my cousin sadly died of swine flu baby survived she didnt.

My Dad phoned me after 1 am that Saturday morning to let me know. She had been in hospital over two weeks by then.

Just after i got the call i heard heavy foot steps on the stairs.
Both me and OH were in bed.
When i got up my cat was acting really strange and nervous.

Im certain my cousin was saying goodbye that night.
She had never been to my house i lived in with OH and we we not big buddies i hadnt seen har for a few years.

I used to live in york (born and bred,but moved away when I met dp/to get away from my narc family)

One night I was in a pub called the golden fleece
It's known for being haunted
We'd walked in and decided to not bother with the first bar,as it was really crowded but to walk down the corridor to the 'lower' bar
My ex was in front of me,and I was walking down when something grabbed the back of myvtop and threw me down the corridor
Nobody there when I picked myself up and the staff didn't seem too surprised

Years earlier,I was in a cafe
Under the cafe building and the one next to it used to be a police station,the cells where underneath
At some point,they dug out the cells and found some skeletons-at least one with a knife stuck in its ribs
This news had just hit the papers when I wandered in and got chatting to a waitress
I jokingly asked if it was haunted and just as the waitress was about to answer,a set of keys came flying down the counter,almost hitting me
Nobody could have thrown them-there was nobody there

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

We had one in my old house when my son was born . It would switch on electrical items , tease the cat and hide things . My son would also laugh at something that was not there . We had a lot of bad luck in that house too .

I remember talking to a sweet shop owner and how we got on to the conversation for a billion pound I could tell you, but. He told me that when his son was going through puberty they had a Poltergeist.
I knew he was telling the truth.
He wasn’t exactly the stand up comic type always cracking jokes. He was one of those people were if everyone was like him it’d be lovely world but it would also be a very boring world.

I was watching this thing last night called Haunted Hotels narrated by Dan Akroid on You Tube. It’s on for 7 hours. The name of the channel is Haunt TV. I don’t say this lightly when I say “It’s absolutely petrifying”

Omg I had almost the same experience in our old house (also 100+ years old) of hearing my crying DC1 being “sssssh’d” and feeling bad that my husband was up and doing it. Turns out he wasn’t even in the house. I always remember this as there was zero other explanation for it sounding like a person soothing my baby, and DC1 did calm down and go back to sleep!

Just to agree with pps who say they're 'anti-woo'. So am I, honestly! But we had poltergeist activity in our house for a while some years ago, and frankly...I know what I saw.

I don't swallow any old rubbish, but some things are very hard to explain. I'm still a sceptic - I take some convincing - but I think the really stupid people are the ones who declare bombastically that it's all a load of rubbish.

As someone said, whether ghosts exist is uncertain...but people definitely see them. In other words, people aren't necessarily lying when they describe a ghostly encounter - it's just a matter of whether the apparition has any objective existence. But many stories, especially when more than one person saw the 'ghost', are hard to explain.

There's a lot more going on, I think, than science can explain at the moment. One day, as with electricity and other phenomena, possibly there'll be an explanation.

Most definitely - Danny Robbins is excellent - open-minded and willing to admit when he's really rattled.

If you google Neil Oliver and ghost stories - there are a few good ones. I'll try to be concise, but this one really caught my imagination, about a woman whose ghost was haunting people while she was still alive!

This elderly lady was at a drinks party with neighbours old and new when she overheard someone ask a young couple how they liked their old cottage. They said it was lovely, but things were spoilt by the fact that a young woman (they described her and her clothing) often appeared in their sitting room in the evenings. She usually sat and wept, but sometimes stood against the chimney breast, in great distress, banging her head against the wall until blood ran down it.

The elderly lady was aghast because she had lived in that cottage during the war (that's why she 'earwigged' the conversation) and had been deeply unhappy when, searching for a document, had found letters which proved her husband (away fighting) had been having an affair with another woman). She had a baby and a toddler, and felt in the depths of despair, and remembered crying in the sitting room and the specific incident where she leaned on the chimney breast and banged her head till it bled.

So weird - but how else would you explain that???? Neil O has quite a few well-attested stories - I recommend him.

I’m very anti-woo and prefer to believe in hallucinations and tricks of the brain but when my Nan died, just before she passed she told us there’d been a man in a green suit in her hospital ward. It somehow came up in conversation with one of the nurses and she said yes, she’s heard that from several patients, they all say that they’ve seen this man in a green suit. My Nan also said that Grandad had been there, sitting on her bed waiting for her. He’d died about twenty years previously.

A few, and I’m not a very woo sort of person. But I know what I’ve seen!

Was once walking my dog out in the sticks with a friend and we saw the ruins of an old castle. I mean proper ruins, no roof etc. On our way back home, we saw a castle in the distance where the ruins had been and there were windows with lights on inside, it was a fully standing castle as if it was lived in and very much alive. We found drawings of what the castle once looked like and it was as we saw it on the way home — it was like the ghost of the castle.

Secondly, saw a woman in a red dress on my landing when I was a child and very much awake. Ran to my mum, asked if it was her, and she said no.

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OOOh I've got one

When I was about 10/11 I went to the local cinema with a friend, It was an old seafront building that had previously been a theatre before it was a cinema (It's now a theatre again) I went to the toilet during the movie, and was completely alone in the toilets which were up some stairs.
I heard someone come up the stairs in heels and cross the toilet floor (you know the sort of 90's pumps I mean, the clicking sound is distinct)
When I came out no one was there. No one went in any of the other cubicles and there was no other access or exit to the toilet area, I even checked under the other cubicles.
The footsteps went from one side of the toilets to the other and just disappeared! Freaked me right out and I never went to the toilet in there by myself again.
I wonder if they have redone the toilets when they remodelled?

Placemarking.

1. Years ago, I took part in a Halloween walk/storytelling event. It was at a site that had previously had a large Manor house, but that had been demolished 70 or so years ago. I was one of the storytellers and had looked a little into who had lived in the house at the turn of the last century. I told my (completely made up) story, naming one of the former Lords of the Manor. We then went out for a walk.

1. Coming home from work late one evening, and missed my usual fast train. The one I got was all stops to my station where it terminated. It was old rolling stock with heavy latched doors between carriages.

1. After my cat died I'd often feel her sitting on the bed, curled up beside me.

There are an awful lot of walled-in slivers of space in the UK. I moved around the furniture in a university room and started to hear knocking from the wardrobe. I checked behind the wardrobe and found a walled-in, painted-over doorway.

My nan’s funeral was at 3pm. A friend of hers had travelled down for the funeral. She was talking about being late because her watch battery had stopped working and had visited a jeweller for a new battery. We were at the wake and somebody asked her what the time was. She looked at her watch and it had stopped exactly on 3pm. This was a new battery.

A few things have happened to me.

My Halls of residence dated back to the 1800s and had originally been a boys school. I remember one night having a very vivid dream of there being sealed up rooms inbetween rooms and you were ok if you had a yellow ribbon tied to your door. For the record I never did drugs or smoked anything. The next morning I said to a friend I’d had a really odd dream. She asked me what it was. Her face went white. She had had the exact same dream.

Odd things would happen. I would hear heavy breathing coming from the other side of the room, heard footsteps walking across the rooom and one time I heard a baby cry. I lasted one term in that room and moved to a different hall as I just got such a bad feeling.

Another occasion I went into the common room and the TV was flicking itself on and off. I was the only one there.

Just a guess.

What’s that like?

My grandparents and my mum and aunts moved to a house in a wood. Many times, at a certain time of day, a door would slam and footsteps would cross the floor but nobody was there. They got used to it.
In the house they lived in before that one, nothing unusual happened, but I recently was in touch with a lady on a Facebook local history page who lived in that house. She said all the time she and her family lived there, weird things happened like voices when nobody else was in, footsteps walking upstairs but nobody was there and things going missing all the time. Whatever was there must have been attached to her family as my family experienced nothing spooky there.

Ooh that sounds horrible! My husband has never had vertigo and he says it was more like as if it was one of those beds that can be folded up into the wall if that makes sense?
vertigo would be the preferable explanation 😂 it was in a hotel that used to house loads of workers in the Industrial Revolution so it does have quite a lot of history to it.

NC as don't want linked to my other posts.

My dad's parents both passed away in the family home that was left to my dad. They still live there now.

I've had feelings of someone just sitting at the end of my bed before when I was living there. I think it was my nan looking over me. My room was their main bedroom and where both grandparents passed away (my parents extended the house and took the new master bedroom).

One Xmas me and my cousins (on my dad side) were asking about what our grandparents were like as they died before we were born. Dad and aunty chatting about them. Suddenly the TV turns on and on the dvd blue screen mode playing the song holly in the ivy, but the cd in there was Robbie williams greatest hits. Aunty shouted hi mum! Our grandparents were florist and grew flowers etc.

Another time at a family gathering (other side) the adults all wanted to try this thing they saw on the telly about someone sitting on a chair and you try to lift them with just your fingers but it's too heavy. You then do something and put your hands above their head you can then lift them. Well it bloody worked, they were all so shocked they pulled their hands away, the poor person came crashing down and the dining chair broke too. Never seen my grandad look so white!

When my eldest cousin was born the letter J perfectly formed in mushrooms on the field and disappears overnight (his name began with J)

Another time at my cousin's house I was convinced her cuddly toys were all moving and dancing alive. Woke my cousin up and she could see it too. Went and got my bro and other cousin from the other room and they came in and layed down and could see it too. We all laid there watching. Its one of my fondest memories with my cousin's. We now think it was actually cars driving past and headlights making shadows where the cuddle toys were resting on her wardrobe and perfectly came through the gap on the curtain! But it was such a surreal night hehe! The 4 of us all laying there together.

There is an area near to me where the houses are very old. I once saw a man there, dressed in Napoleonic War uniform. I remember seeing him walking in a very purposeful way with an expression I can’t quite describe. I was really fascinated as why he’d be dressed like that and where he was going. There was nothing going on nearby which could explain the uniform and I remember thinking how authentic it looked. I then started to think maybe I was seeing a ghost. There was something about him which didn’t add up when I thought about it logically.

That's a very creepy story. Got shivers and goosebumps all over my body. I think there may be something attached to them ,or someone has put a spell. It can sound like crap but I know exactly what happened to me was 100 per cent real. Very spooky. I wonder where your creepy doll is now?.😱 When I said I got rid, I never binned mine just gave it to a relative, I think of it now and then and it creeps mw out. These things are very real.