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Sensible DH saw something spooky

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Listengold · 24/05/2024 09:37

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.

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AliceOlive · 29/05/2024 05:37

Pertinentowl · 29/05/2024 05:05

So I’ve recently been having hallucinations, visual, and I KNOW they aren’t real. So they completely offend me because how dare something that isn’t true come into my field of vision.
And if I am honest they are scary. I have been to two neurologists and three psychiatrists and demanded they tell me if I was mad or experiencing seizures. I am not. The next things I have to check is sleep apnea and two (pardon me, these two are scribbled in doctors handwriting) hypnogogic (?) and hypnopompic. And if I don’t respond to meds then it’s just a thing, possibly brought on by stress. You can have hallucinations without being mentally ill because I argued with them that no you can’t, because these people I see in my room trying to kill me are not really there. Therefore I am mentally ill. And then they point out that I know they are hallucinations. And I say yes, so how do we switch them off.

it’s distressing and my first reaction is to scream my head off when I turn it and see a completely detailed person standing in the corner or standing on the bed looking down at me. And you know what’s funny? They are all different but all redheads. And there aren’t any redheads in my country.

This is basically just a whinge because I do not approve of imaginary people but just to say it’s not always epilepsy or psychosis. Next stop, sleep apnea study.

I am sure this is entirely unhelpful and inappropriate, but I need to tell you that the ghost at my grandparent’s house was called “the red headed ghost”.

CormorantStrikesBack · 29/05/2024 06:03

gardenmusic · 28/05/2024 18:20

I would quite like someone to explain this away:

I found a 'medium', she was several miles away from my home, and had advertised in the local paper (no internet in those days).

Feeling quite lost and sad, I decided to visit. She did not ask my name, at the time of booking, or at my arrival. You will just have to take my word for it that there was no way she knew me, or of me. I was just the 6 o' clock appt.
I didn't tell anyone I was going.

Now I can quite believe that she could see the unhappiness in my face, and could attribute it to a loss or perhaps a failed romance, she could easily guess that I was looking for 'something'.
Her first words were (and I cannot forget them) 'Oh my dear, you are a widow.'
I was, and it certainly wasn't the first thing you would guess faced with a 21 year old who looked like a teen.
My husband's death was not high profile, not reported anywhere. It was in the hatches matches and dispatches in the local paper, but only to note the funeral arrangements, and she did not have my name, anyway.
How could she know?

She searched your phone number on WhatsApp or fb and found your social media?

bibop · 29/05/2024 06:08

CormorantStrikesBack · 29/05/2024 06:03

She searched your phone number on WhatsApp or fb and found your social media?

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You didn't read the post properly.

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CormorantStrikesBack · 29/05/2024 06:12

bibop · 29/05/2024 06:08

You didn't read the post properly.

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I’m dyslexic so sometimes that happens. 👍

Pertinentowl · 29/05/2024 06:28

AliceOlive · 29/05/2024 05:37

I am sure this is entirely unhelpful and inappropriate, but I need to tell you that the ghost at my grandparent’s house was called “the red headed ghost”.

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I live in Middle East any reheaded person would melt. Ghosts or not.

gardenmusic · 29/05/2024 07:02

No wedding ring on - took it off on purpose, 'medium' lived 30 miles away.

1976, so information not so accessible. She did not know I was not local to her, she was on the fringes of the local paper's coverage.
As I said, no name given.
If this distant lady in her 80's (I think) tracked me down, without my name, hats off to her. I cannot really believe in some very elaborate con, because she charged so little, even for those days - would not have covered her expenses!

Completely agree that I looked exhausted and sad, but looking at 21 year old, who looked younger, would you have jumped to death of a husband? What are the chances? I would not have guessed that, I would have gone for 'breakdown of a relationship', or I would have had a stab at 'a loss' which could mean anything.
I am fully open to evidence that she knew something, somehow, but I know what she did not know, and could not access if you see what I mean.

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