Sensible DH saw something spooky

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Recently we went to visit an old jail.
In the reception area DH was laughing and talking to the man on the desk.
All good advised to go through the door into an annex and read lots of information to help us understand and make the most of the tour. There was only us in that part.
Go through the door into the annex which was empty and DH started to feel down.
Read the info and started to the next room DH started to get upset.
After 3 more rooms we had to leave as DH was crying.

Outside the man on the desk told us that a séance had been performed 3 nights before. DH wouldn't say much.
It was nearly 5 hours later DH felt comfortable to say that there was a man following us which made him worried. The way he described the man was that he was dressed in tatty clothes and had something around his legs. He said he was getting upset because of the sight of this poor man.
There is a lot more but he said that he couldn't tell me anymore as he thinks I'd not believe him.

DH is sensible, not prone to exaggerate and always says it is rubbish people seeing things.

... Because of all the explanations in the world that's the most reasonable one?

It can happen - my dad is very logical and anti-woo, but my parents own an extremely old house in my mum's home country and my dad says he has experienced a definite 'presence' in one of the rooms after the clock in there started chiming when it wasn't supposed to. My brother's MIL was visiting, and also isn't 'woo' and experienced similar, having not heard about my dad's experience.

Does he cry a lot?

I think the problem is that "We don't know what's going on here" does not mean "This must therefore be something paranormal." It just means "We don't know what's going on here."

Well, forget about the afterlife, surely other sceptics like me would be fascinated to discover the existence of a supernatural realm? The woo-peddlers on here appear to operate on the assumption that we’re all closed-minded and determined not to believe, but faced with actual evidence, surely everyone would be agog, because it would simply be so interesting!

Quite.

But as I said, one would hope this wouldn't stop them investigating their mental health?

Yep, every.single.time!

There's more to this world than we know, and most people don't believe such things until it happens to them.
I'm not bothered by the dead. I'm more wary of the living.
I have worked in a building that was an old work house, cold spots, smells, weird feelings, your neck hair standing on end all seem normal after a while. I also worked in an old nursing home that had been a monastery and the another that was turned into a cafe. Same stuff there.
I found a lot of the younger staff would turn up in my office looking pale and scared and would have to go into rooms, turn on lights and show them theres nothing to be afraid of.
I do think we sometimes leave behind some sort of signature especially after traumatic deaths, or much sadness.

Rather than psychosis , could it be a sign for past trauma and actually being in this sad , contained environment may have reminded him of past (maybe childhood trauma) ?

Possibly, but then I am not a Mental Health Specialist

Why would someone "investigate their mental health" as you put it, when they are otherwise doing well and have been for a long time?

I've had these experience on and off throughout my life. Am I to consider that I'm actually insane, and have been all along? Despite being healthy and happy.

I was in the Prison Service for a number of years and worked in a Victorian jail too. We still had the hanging cell, the call light would often go on during a nightshift even although it was never used. Lots of us seen weird things on a nightshift.

These threads SO disappoint.

why are so many people prepared to state categorically that ghosts don’t exist. Just because you haven’t seen anything.

People HAVE seen them, many people have seen them, I have seen one.

I didn’t think they existed. Until I did.

At the very least be open minded and say you don’t know as you’ve not seen one, rather than insist that anyone who has a different experience MUST be mad and dismiss their experiences.

Oh and I am not mad, don’t have a brain issue, nowt wrong with my eyes.

There is plenty of evidence from psi researchers such as Julia Mossbridge, who is a cognitive neuroscientist who conducts research in this area. When she alters the Wikipedia articles on the topic, to talk about said research, it always get altered back pretty quickly.

Given the conditions in the Victorian jails I’ve been in (literacy teacher rather than inmate), I’d say that was far more likely to be dodgy ancient wiring than the vengeful spirits of executed criminals.

Beaumaris Jail has been featured on Most Haunted. Sadly no “Mary loves Dick” this time. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4666258/

Because they're a doctor and their patient has just told them they were followed around a visitor attraction by a dead Victorian that made them cry?

Seems a decent reason to investigate.

Theres a lot of energy at beuamaris jail i went on a haunted wales night there a few years ago , i got a boy following me all night, knocked on some glass and someone knocked back, felt a lady in the nursery , sat waiting for my friend heard footsteps and a key in a lock, saw a dog run round a corner who couldnt possibly be there, the atmosphere in the dark had an electricity to it, come daylight i went to the toilet as my friends house is a way from there and it was like the jail had gone back to sleep

My DH is not ill mentally or physically.
He is now feeling silly about it.
It was something that can't be explained to septics.
I believe him because I know him.
He doesn't cry or get emotional normally.
It was as though that doorway was the catalyst to his emotions.
The reason he got to the 3rd room was him trying to brave it out.

The place had been rewired and was checked regularly. The sparks were never away from that bloody cell as we reported it every time it happened. It was a bit of a joke on nightshift in the end, we all tossed coins to see would be in that hall 😂

He obviously saw a spirit. It's trapped there and needs to move on. I saw my neighbour and remarked to my family how well he looked, after a long hospital stay. Turns out he was dead and never returned home! I felt embarrassed that I'd seen him as I don't want people to think I'm crazy! It made me wonder how many others I've seen, who have actually passed?!

My great aunt had a gentleman friend who was ill in hospital.

One day she saw him coming up the path to her house. He looked totally normal. She was pleased to see he was better.

She went to the door to let him in and he had gone.
She was baffled and looked up and down the street for him.

So she rang the hospital and because she wasn't a relative they wouldn't give her any information.
So she rang his family and they said he had just died.

Make of that what you will.

"Why would someone "investigate their mental health" as you put it, when they are otherwise doing well and have been for a long time"

That's a bit like saying "Why would you investigate a sprained ankle because the rest of your leg is absolutely fine?"

Yes I find it so depressing that so many people have such a limited mindset.