To ask if anyone has had any paranormal encounters/experiences

[HowlingBitch]

Or do we all need another ? I just find it all fascinating.

Aw.I missed a spooky Friday night thread.
Ill tell you what ive posted before.
22yrs ago was living in an ordinary semi with my 2 boys 1 and 3.Had been burgled a few months earlier so was nervy.I often heard running about upstairs as did others,my babysitter used to check dc's adn they were fast asleep.
One night i was seeing out a friend and the running noise came from upstairs,he looked over my shoulder and said "whats that" i explained i often heard it and he seemed reluctant to leave me.
I went to bed and could hear all sorts of banging downstairs so was led awake holding my breath.Ds 3 then runs in and snuggles up with me.Everytime this noise occurrs he moves closer.Realising this was not my imagination i called 999 and the operator told me he was sending a van full of police,i was crying so he offered to stay on the line. The phone suddenly went dead and then a mans voiced laughed. Hysterical i was screaming downm the phone when the op came back on,he asked if i had a downstairs phone and i said i did,he advised me to get against the door until the police arrived,he sadi he had heard a man laugh too.I was literally beside myself,the baby was asleep in next room and i was torn betwee getting him and opening the door as i had ds1 with me.
The police arrived and it took them a bout 20mins to persuade me to open the door,they refused to break it down. I ran down with a bseball bat (id been burgled remember)and let them in. There was no sign of any break in and the phone had not been tampered with. I went to my Mums for the night with ds's. Things continued to happen there for many years but never that bad,i got remarried so was alittle less scary with dh around.
One night we came in from a bbq at around midnight.The ds's were at my mujms and we went staright to sleep (bit drunk)
The following morning the wardrobes in the ds's room were in the middle of the room and were twisted and broken. My neighbour later complained to me about the terrible banging that had been coming from the ds's room at around 2am!!!!!!!

Me too Jaspants i gave up reading this thread after reading about the dolls {those type of china dolls have always terrified me } .
Stairs also give me the creeps in this house , i often get a feeling of someone behind me when i walk up them .

In answer to the OPs's original questoin - no, nobody has because they don't happen. There is always a rational explanation. ALWAYS.

If they did, there still wouldn;t be a million dollars waiting in the bank for the first person who can prove they do.

Bloody Hell ledkr

So whats a rational explanation of hearing glass smashing in an empty room because even I couldn't explain that one when my ex asked me what all the noise was when I was on the phone to him.It sounded like someone was throwing glass bottles at my wall on the 3rd floor upstairs.My poor mum used to have to get bolloxed when we was round our dads weekends because she hated being alone in that house

Ive told it before and i swear it did happen,i am a rational mother of 5 and can still remember it all and ds is now a soldier and will still tell the tail of Mummy weed her pants cos she was scared. I still rack my brains for an explaination.

And i will still not be alone in the house at night,ever.

Holy shit, ledkr! That sent chills down my spine!

Ledkr - oooooh that's creeped me out again.

Expat im sure i told you that last yr.You have a few i believe.Have you already posted on this one?
I didnt want to put this one as it make me look like i have many tales but hey ho.
I used to hum a little tune to go to sleep wehn i was a child.One night i herad tapping in time to the tune.Eg lalala-taptaptap iyswim.
Yrs later i was telling friend about this whilst stood by a lift at ahospital i was working and when i said lalala the rythym was re tapped on the lift doors.
Another few yrs later i was telling this to another colleague and the tapping was this time heard on the pipes.We actually thought a patient may have fallen and checked all the rooms but everyone was ok. Weird.

I mentioned my experience on the angel thread. I lived in a block of old warehouses in Liverpool and I could definately sense a presence. The air was electric and there was an atmosphere. i wasn't scared. My friend came to visit me when I first moved in and the first thing she said was that it's haunted. Then about 6 months later someone at work asked me where I lived and when I told her she said ''Oh H (other work colleague) lived there. It was haunted. She saw a man walk through the wall.'' i never saw anything but there was a lot of loud babnging. I thought it was the nieghbours but now I'm not so sure.

I was attacked by the McKenzie Poltergeist in Greyfriars Churchyard in Edinburgh and have a photograph of the injury

Are you going to share out James Randi's million bucks, or will it be first come first served?

In the very first flat I lived in after leaving home, the previous tenant had been an old lady who had lived there for many years and died in the flat.

I used to work shifts and when I had an early start, just after the alarm went off I would hear the kettle start up and a cup would be put out with a teabag in it ready for me when I got up.

The house I live in now stands very close to what used to be an old church with a small cemetery, which is now a children's play park. We've had running up and down the stairs, keys and things being moved, lights turned on and off, tv channel switched over, a face at the window when we approach to come home. There were also several cold spots, not in places with draughts or anything.

The visitor in the end became a bit of a nuisance so I contacted the local spiritualist church and a lady came who spoke to him, it turned out he was a teenage boy and his girlfriend used to live here and he was looking for her. The spiritualist lady got his grandad to come and get him and we've never seen/heard anything since.

so the ghost made you a cup of tea? like really, not just you hearing it but the cup was sitting there with tea in it??

my friend has this vile looking glass figure of a dog which she kept under the stairs. when we were having a clear out as she was moving. she went to pack it, i asked why doesn't she just bin it (its really ulgy). she then told me that it belonged to her great grandmother and everytime she tried to throw it away it always came back so she had given up trying to get rid of it

i really did think she was pulling my leg, until her mum started telling me about the times she tried to chuck it and the only way she has managed to get rid completly was by giving it to her daughter.

would love to get them to prove it to me but if it turned up again it would really shit me up lol

in my mums house she used to keep a clock that belonged to my nan on the landing. every morning we used to find that it had been turned round, she ended up moving it as she got fed up of it 'dursbing the dust'

the only strange thing to hapen to me was that i dreamt about princess di dying. god knows why as i was still at school and not really a fan. i dreamt that she died in a car crash but it was on an open road in daylight and the car crashed into a tree. woke up put the tv on and it was all over the news

Loving this thread!

My experience was a long time ago when I was 17. Was relaxing in a lovely warm bath when I felt a real cold feeling come over me in the room, it was really weird. Around 20 minutes later we had a phone call from my Dad to say my Gran had just passed away. I swear I felt the moment she left this world.

Aside to this story, she had had a stroke earlier in the week and was very poorly in hospital, my Dad had been away working and she passed on shortly after her arrived, and I'm sure she was waiting for him.

Only 2 skeptics in 295 posts. I think Mumsnet believes!

driving home alone at about 11.30pm across the Somerset moors, I heard a voice behind me say'dont look in the mirror!' Scared me witless and have never driven that road again on my own in the dark!

Oooh eebie-jeebies Kasmus!

I've not had anything weird happen of late (for last 15 years or so) but when I was in my 20's I lived in a terraced house in which the front door would knock by itself - knocker was too heavy to be lifted by a gust of wind and the knocks were deliberate, not little taps... Other people experienced it whilst in the house with me, and when I was not there on numerous occasions we never caught anyone in the street however quickly we managed to get to the door (Front door opened onto the living room). Also the radio and the cooker ignition would switch themselves on - I'd hear a tic,tic,tic of the cooker being lit oh, and the electronic timer for the central heating and boiler would randomly re-set itself...

One day whilst Ironing in the living room after coming home from a shopping trip the front door gave an enormous bang, as if someone had kicked it, I went to the door and looked through the little spy hole... no one there. So I turned to go back to the ironing, whist next to the door the same thing happened, I even felt the vibrations in the floor the bang was so loud - I whipped the door open to find my keys in the lock but still no-one there... not a soul!

Bizarre! But I never felt spooked by the house - I wonder what it was all about?

Not far from that same spot at a notorious accident blackspot, my girls who were both in the car with me (late teens in age) with one in the front passenger seat, wondered why I suddenly slammed on the brakes for no reason. They had not seen the very real figure who had stepped in front of the car waving wildly for me to stop! He was very real and very solid, just invisible to the girls!

did you know this thread has also hit facebook......with one of the posts saying when my hubby does the ironing without being prompted.....that's paranormal.