Has anyone ever seen a ghost?

[milcmxxx]

Never seen one - but I was feeding my baby the other night and I swear I felt someone touch my left shoulder...not just a gentle thing that could have been, like I really felt something I got so scared!!! Told myself it was just because I was tired and was imagining it 😂

[Tweacle]

There’s an elderly man in our cottage. Dh, dc, df have all seen him. He stands at the end of our hall. I’ve never seen him but I’m sure our dog came back and sat on my feet.

[user001938580]

No I can't say they were, they seemed to be just getting on without taking any notice (obviously not whoever launched the stone at my head

I have mentioned it to said friend a couple of times over the years and she also remembers seeing them

[Wolfff]

The first one I saw was an elderly person who seemed to be in difficulty, I crossed the road to try and help and they vanished. They were quite ill defined more a shape. Looked like someone wearing a long black coat - this was early morning in summer. About 30 years ago.

I also saw my cat about two weeks after she died, this was recent. I went to the loo during the night - bathroom is on a mezzanine below our room. Our new cat was sleeping on a blanket outside our bedroom door in the landing.

I saw a cat round the bannister next to me and shoot down the stairs as I turned to go into the bathroom and heard two stairs on the flight below creak. I thought 'oh no, the greedy fucker will be begging for food now'.

A minute or so later I walked back up and saw the new cat still sound asleep. It must have been the old cat I saw. It was a shape but like the first 'ghost' quite ill defined, like blurry or melted. I wasn't asleep or sleepy.

I saw a girl 'ghost' very clearly in a chain hotel in Cumbria. She looked age 6-8 blond very dirty and wearing a brown dress with a filthy roughly spun apron. I looked up the site but seems to have been farmland previously. She was clear as day, but vanished after what seemed like ages but was maybe 10 seconds. I looked up the site but it appeared to have been farmland previously.

I was wide awake on this occasion.

[madcatladyforever]

No and I really want to. I've stayed in all kind of haunted houses, pubs and hung around graveyards and forests at night but never seen a thing.
They seem to have an aversion to me. I'm a pagan so I do believe in spirits.
I even camped in the woods around Aleister Crowley's house Boleskine in the scottish Highlands which is supposed to be infested but all I had was a very restful nights sleep.

[spiderlight]

My bus ghost was a little boy, maybe three years old. I had my DS with me aged about 6 and he was hoping to sit at the front of the bus upstairs to 'drive' but there was an older lady sitting in that seat. We sat in the row behind her and across the aisle (the other seat at the very front was a single and DS didn't want to sit on his own), and a gorgeous little boy of about two or three peeked around the side of her seat and smiled at me. I smiled back and he disappeared back into his seat. I basically played peekaboo with him for a few minutes in that absent-minded way a mum will do with someone else's toddler, in between talking to my DS and wondering why the lady, who was just sitting reading a newspaper, was ignoring what I assumed was her grandson. Then she gathered her things and passed us to go down the steps and get off the bus on her own, walking through where the little boy's legs would have been. He definitely hadn't passed us and was far too young to get down the steps of a moving bus on his own anyway, there was no-one else upstairs on the bus that he could have gone to, and he wasn't with her as she walked away from the stop. I thought I was going mad, but DS said to me 'Where's her little boy?!' We got up to look if he was hiding under the seat or something, but he was just gone. DS described him exactly as I'd seen him.

[Adirondack]

@spiderlight
Eeek how spooky! Did you tell your DS you thought it was a ghost or did you just explain it away? Does he remember it?

[milcmxxx]

Omg some of these are scaring me! I’ve got my baby napping on me atm so I’m in a pitch black room reading them 😂😂😂

[spiderlight]

He doesn't really remember it now (it was about 6 years ago). At the time I think I sort of semi-explained it away as a spirit child but it was so non-spooky that he wasn't remotely scared, just fascinated. He's always been a bit fey, though - when he was a toddler and barely talking, we stopped to let our dogs stretch their legs at dusk on Christmas Eve and discovered that we'd accidentally found a Roman amphitheatre - we were on our way home from visiting friends and had come off the motorway because it was like a car park, so we weren't going there intentionally and we hadn't talked about it - it was literally 'There might be somewhere down here where the dogs can get out....oh, it's Caerleon!' We didn't say anything to him about what the place was - he wasn't 2 at the time and we didn't think he'd understand, and it was late so we were only stopping long enough for the dogs to have a wee. DS was happily running in and out of the chambers around the centre and he suddenly stopped dead at the entrance to one, sort of half-cried, and ran back to me saying 'Soldiers! Soldiers in there!'

[KnitOnePurl1]

I love a good woo thread!

Mine isn't as exciting as some of these, but a few years ago I was driving out of my old work (an old farm cottage now used as offices) in the dark. It was a hilly, twisty narrow drive way in and out of the cottage, and as I slowly drove along I saw some headlights in the distance coming towards me quickly in the opposite direction - so I slowed down even further anticipating having to pull in/pass carefully. It happened fairly frequently as there were some houses near the office.

After a minute or two I was baffled to find that the 'car' had disappeared - it was a single track, no other way to turn off, and I would have seen them turn/head back off up the drive. It was very odd.

[mogloveseggs]

Never seen anything but greyfriars graveyard is very disturbing. Our local churchyard is calm and serene and I certainly wouldn't describe it as that. It felt to me as though all the colour had been sucked out.
Inside the church I felt very emotional, although not enough to start screaming!

[HMJCMUM]

I often woke up in our family home to ghosts in my room particularly an old lady and a toddler, then my mum showed me a picture of my aunty that passed at age 1 and it was her... my mum also woke up once turned over and there was a little boy watching her!

Most recently my nan passed, I was brushing my teeth the other night thinking of her really missing her and she walked straight to me from the hallway and put her hand on my shoulder! Iv always been scared of ghosts because of seeing them growing up but I felt very comfortable with her there 😄

[Awwlookatmybabyspider]

No but It's kind of my bucket list.

[northernlites]

When I was very young, we lived in a very old farmhouse, we could hear drawers opening and shutting upstairs, my mum thought my brother had bunked off school, but only me and mum in house, no one was law there except us!

We also used to stay on a Scottish island, there was a grass path to the other houses that went through a wooded area, as a child and adult I could not walk through this without running. It repulsed me so much that I used to scramble round the cliffs over the sea to avoid it (something I wouldn't let my own kids do). As an adult I found out my sister felt the same about the wood;
After talking to a local and doing a bit of research we found out that the wood was haunted by a bearded man, and he used to turn up when children were playing there 🤢
He used to haunt a fisherman's cottage too near the wood, I still can't abide the place, just a terrible freaky feeling

Also when looking after a woman in labour in an old hospital, I was using the 'haunted room'
It was on the night shift and as the birth was close the lights flicked on and off until the baby was born. After that all was fine. Again just weird.

[Inkpaperstars]

I don't believe in 'ghosts' as such, but if they did exist it seems I would never see one. I have never felt so much as a hint of a ghost. For those who believe in them...do you think some people just don't have what it takes to sense them, in a situation where others might?