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To ask if anyone has had any paranormal encounters/experiences

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HowlingBitch · 17/06/2011 20:46

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

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ledkr · 18/06/2011 15:05

there is a mini roundabout nr me and i also once slammed on the brakes as i saw a car come towards me,it kind of wooshed thru me,twas so weird.Ds1 was with me and about 12.I said omg i thought id been hit by that car but i disappeared,he said "yes and me,i even felt the wooshing" used the exact same term as i had thought,he is an adult now,i am going to ask him later if he remembers.

sue52 · 18/06/2011 15:16

Our house is very old and every time we do some work on it odd things happen. My car keys went missing and turned up in the greenhouse, all my bank and credit cards were bent, the toothbrushes all vanished from the bathrooms only to turn up in the gardener's loo. Most annoyingly of all the headlights on both my and DH's car stopped working on the same day. This all stops the moment work finishes on the house. We are just about to get the outbuilding reroofed and I'm not looking forward to it at all.

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LadyFlumpalot · 18/06/2011 15:56

differentnameforthis - I have never seen a white deer before, and I live out in the sticks so I see deer every day. It may just be a coincidence, but I really believe that someone/thing saved my DF's life that evening and that seeing that stag was a sign that all was going to be ok.

If I had seen it in the woods, ok, strange but normal.
It was standing, on the hard shoulder next to the A35, shining!

HowlingBitch · 18/06/2011 16:00

I cannot believe all these premonitions! I sometimes wonder if these things are more primal that paranormal. Like some advanced instinct tho I doubt it. ( Verity Nice to see someone else with a farseers trilogy username!)

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expatinscotland · 18/06/2011 16:02

Not sure how true it is, but Sharon Tate is alleged to have seen a premonition of her own death.

HowlingBitch · 18/06/2011 16:08

Just researched the Sharon Tate premonition. That is truly chilling.

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LadyFlumpalot · 18/06/2011 16:13

We have big cats round here as well. Sheep keep getting munched. The council keeps saying it is foxes. When was the last time you saw a fox capable of dragging a sheep carcass up a tree!

Not my story - but a friend of my mums who shall be called Sue for this story.

Sue was out walking her dog down the lanes. Sue's husband owns a reclamation yard so they have guard dogs. Big fuck off scary Rottweilers.

About an hour into their trip, it was getting dark, that sort of funny purple-y light. Sue can hear the sheep in the field on one side of the lane making one hell of a fuss. All of a sudden her Rotty stopped, dropped his tail and snarled. Then, his tail went between his legs, he tugged on the leash so hard his collar snapped and legged it.

Sue was flabbergasted. Then, she swears, a lioness jumped over the hedge and landed about 4 ft away from her. It turned, looked at her, looked her up and down slowly, made a sort of "Harumph" noise, crossed the lane, leaped the other hedge and loped off across the field.

Needless to say, she turned and made her way swiftly home. There she found her dog, cowering and whimpering inside it's kennel...

DoingTheBestICan · 18/06/2011 16:31

I love these threads,i have to say i really enjoy reading expats stories too.

There was talk where i live of a large cat stalking the fields where the sheep & lambs were grazing.Apparantly a farmer found large paw prints on his land which judging by the size, a zoologist claimed could only belong to a panther type creature.

I have walked across this bridge many,many times at all times of day & night,its very creepy to say the least,
bridge ghost

quirrelquarrel · 18/06/2011 16:42

The weirdest thing that happened to me was hearing a very wheezy voice calling out my name when I was 7 or so, I lay frozen with fright in bed, turned out to be a firework :o

And my mum dreamt that her great grandmother, to whom she was very close, was going to die two days before she did die. She says it wasn't frightening, more special.

izzywhizzyletsgetbusy · 18/06/2011 17:00

I'm clairaudient. When I was a child I'd hear bells at the precise time that any family member died, and thus I'd always know of the death before my branch of the family was notified. These bells were not church/school bells, or like any bell sound I've heard in real life.

I now live in an old house which has the boards that once contained the servant bells in what used to be the kitchen and scullery, and in the attic bedrooms.

The boards no longer have the bells attached - all that remains is brass T-shape plates where they once were. I've never been able to locate the actual bell pushes/pulls in what were the drawing, dining, day, breakfast rooms etc, but it's probable that the connecting wires are still in situ.

Despite being non-existent, these bells still ring on occasion and I'm not the only one to have heard them. I'm well aware that I share my home with more than my family and incredibly intuitive cat (black, of course) as I sometimes hear snippets of conversation and radio broadcasts from another era.

Thankfully, I'm able to tune out of anything I don't want to hear, or don't have time to listen to, but one weekday morning (when I'd had nothing stronger than a cup of tea) a few years back I was sitting in my kitchen, which is way at the back of the house, when I heard the distant sound of trumpets.

As the sound became more distinct, I recognised a New Orlean jazz style tune which sounded for all the world like one of those used to accompany funeral processions in Louisiana. I was trying to concentrate on some work so I tried to ignore it.

However, the sound kept getting louder and seemed to be coming from outside my house; I eventually gave up and went out the front door fully expecting to see nothing. Instead, I saw a full New Orleans-style funeral procession making its ceremonial way down the hill towards my home.

The smartly-dressed black band members slow-marched past my home followed by a black-plumed horse-drawn hearse and several limousines containing black mourners, As the procession reached the bottom of my road, it made a seamless left turn onto the (usually busy) main road, and disappeared from my sight.

Oddly, there were no pedestrians or other motorists on my road at the time, and no neighbours came out to witness the spectacle although I was outside for 15+ minutes. When I subsequently mentioned this event to my neighbours and shopkeepers on the main road, nobody had heard anything unusual. I even scoured local obits but there was no mention of any relevant death.

I still don't know wtf that was about; I'm not black, and the nearest cemetary is miles away.

hackingandhewing · 18/06/2011 17:07

My story will only interst you if you believe that some people can "speak to the dead" - or at least listen to them.

A very dear friend (now deceased) had a bit of a gift and she and my DH were very in to the spiritual side of life. They went on an organised night tour of some local council rooms which used to be court houses with cells in the basement. Not much happened, they came home in the wee hours and that was that.

The following week, DH & I were at home alone as DD had gone to stay at her GPs for the night. We started watching a DVD, wound up the surround sound and settled down. Suddenly we started hearing extremely loud bangs on the ceiling as if someone was jumping off the bed or banging on the floor upstairs. It's hard to explain but they were VERY loud. Not just like when the DCs are banging about, very solid and purposeful. I didn't think much of it. We went to investigate, nothing. We were having an extension built at the time so we checked all that out, nothing. It stopped after about 10 minutes so we got on with the film and didn't think about it much more.

A few days later my friend with the gift came over for a cuppa (she lived across the road) and said DH had told her about what had happened. She had been over the following day when I was out and had heard from the spirit of a little girl of about 7 or 8. She had apparently "followed" my DH home from the night at the courtrooms. Apparently the banging was her expressing her anger at my DDs room. She had said the little girl who sleeps in this room is so well cared for and has lovely things and I had nothing - my parents hated me and abandoned me.

It was a few nights before I could take DD to bed and not be freaked out!!!!

LadyFlumpalot · 18/06/2011 17:09

hackingandhewing - That's so sad. Sad

Did the little ghost girl stay?

VivaLeBeaver · 18/06/2011 17:11

Izzywizzy - when I was 13 I heard a specific tune chiming when washing up with my mum, as clear as anything but my mum didn't hear it. The tune was the same tune that my grandad's clock played on the hour but we were 60 miles away. I told my mum that grandad had died and 10mins later we had a phone call saying that he'd just passed.

I've never heard anything like that before or since.

CBear6 · 18/06/2011 17:17

Not so much a spooky one but more a coincidental coincidence. I hate the idea of fate and destiny because it's such a such a cop out and stops some people from making the effort to change their lives because of some notion of what is/isn't meant to be being preordained. My odd coincidences ... I mc'd my first pregnancy and later that year got pregnant again. The baby I lost was due 16th November, when I had my 12 week scan for DS and got given my due date I counted the weeks back and had gotten pregnant on 16th November. Last year I lost a baby to mmc, due 5th December. I'm now pregnant again, 28wks tomorrow, and counting back I got pregnant on 5th December.

I've had a few experiences that I can't explain, I don't know if they're evidence of the paranormal or just oddities that there's no explanation for yet.

The first was when I was little, about six years old. I woke up one night and I'm not sure what time it was but I could hear my parents downstairs so probably not that late. I don't know what woke me up but there weasel an extra pair of feet in my bed. Know when you're a kid and someone sleeps over and you top and tail in the bed? It was exactly like that. I could feel a pair of feet, ever so slightly larger than mine, pressed against my own feet. I know they were feet because I could feel the toes curled over the top of my toes, they were feet shaped, and when I gave them an experimental push they pushed back a few seconds later. I wasn't brave enough to sit up and look but I did turn my head and my younger brother was still in his own bed, fast asleep. The bottom if my bed didn't have a footboard, wasn't against a door or wall, and there were no other children in the house. I don't know how long the feet were there but after a while they gave me a gentle kick/tap against my feet, one then the other (and I felt toenails when this happened) and then withdrew, at which point I started screaming for my dad convinced that the owner of the feet was about to come round the top of the bed.

Last year we went to York for a few days and on one very rainy afternoon we went to Barley Hall, it's a restored Tudor house (I'm a history geek) and as good a place as any to shelter. DS (celebrating his first birthday that day) was oblivious, he just enjoyed being carried round, DH was indifferent but mildly interested, I was in nerd heaven. I don't know if anyone has been and knows the layout? Anyway, from the front upper chamber you go down a flight of stairs which take you to the Buttery, the Pantry, and a large room which is currently a sort of children's activity area. These stairs are in a small square corridor/hallway and the three rooms lead off from it. DS was kneeling in front of the stairs drumming on the steps with his hands and I went to pick him up, DH right beside me. As I bent to pick him up there was a scuffling sound behind me (stone floor) and a woman's voice loudly whispering in an urgent/angry way "what are you doing here!?". I nearly shat myself scooped DS up and turned round, no one there. DH heard it too and peeked into the three rooms down there - no one in any of them. Being rational sorts we laughed and realised it must just be part of the tour as some of the upstairs rooms have little speakers playing traditional music/songs, etc. Obviously we tripped a sensor. When we got to the gift shop we were chatting with the two staff there and started giggling about how the speaker in the pantry area nearly caused us to have kittens. They told us there are no speakers in that area and asked us what happened. We told them and they told us that people sometimes hear/see things in other parts of the house but never in that area. The one who had to lock up that night told us she was scared to do it alone after that! When we printed up our pictures when we got home later that week there were blurred spots and lights in some of them, not even the whole photo would be blurred, just one patch of it. In one photo, which we took from the staircase, there is a huge streak of light at the bottom of the stairs. At first we thought it was the reflection from a door handle but when looking closely the light is a good distance in front of the handle and at the wrong angle to be a reflection, in the next photo (taken at the same angle and exposure literally a second later) the light is gone.

hackingandhewing · 18/06/2011 17:17

No ladyflumpalot she was there for a few days but friedn thought she just kept quiet so as not to frighten my DD who was only 5 or 6 at the time. When friend came over, she disappeared off upstairs for a bit and when she came down said that she had todl the little girl how to get to where she needed to be. I have been on and off sceptical in my adult life but my friend was truly an amazing person in many ways and what she seemed to experience was so real that I have to beleive something happens after we die and that some people can be in touch with those who have died. It gives me much comfort.

My more sceptical friends often ask, if it is all real, why hasn't said friend made herself known to anyone since she died? I beleive that's because we havent needed her. I think spirits only come to us if we need them or they need us.

LadyFlumpalot · 18/06/2011 17:29

I'm a history geek to CBear6. I love the Tudors and am in the Sealed Knot. Again, not my story, but my Step-dads:

Our regiment in the Sealed Knot was hosting a bank-holiday event at Newbury. We were camping on part of the original battlefield. My DSD and his mate were on guard duty in the early hours (as the camps have gunpowder on them it is a police requirement that someone is manning the gates at all times and ID is shown on entry).

DSD and his mate had been dealing with drunk Knotters coming in from Newbury centre for a little while. It had all gone relatively quiet when DSD spotted a large group coming down towards the campsite. He said they were very quiet, all he could hear were footsteps walking in time. He reckoned there must have been about 40-50 people.

As they got closer he noticed they looked weary, dragging their feet.

He moved out of the awning to challenge them for their membership cards. Just as the first of the group came close enough to see facial features...they vanished. Not suddenly, but like when mist dissapates...

He was very shaken up.

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 18/06/2011 17:31

Can't believe this thread is still going!

zukiecat · 18/06/2011 17:39

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GreatScottWeDontNeedRoads · 18/06/2011 18:19

Some of the experiences on here are amazing! I shared my small encounters earlier but I wanted to tell you about my mum now. She's very interested in where we go after we pass away and she went to see a medium (i think that's what she was) the medium told her lots of things that she couldn't possibly have known herself and claime that my nan, grandad and aunt were in the room with them. The medium told my mum that she was to pas on a message to me from my nan. I was experimenting with my look at the time and I had platinum blonde in my fringe and front of my hair (my hair is naturally dark) and my nan apparently didn't like it one bit and told her to tell me I was to get rid of it because my own hair is beautiful as it is :)

Wabbit · 18/06/2011 18:19

Battlefield spooks! I wanted to do an Edgehill midnight walk after I heard Sarah Kennedy talking about a Christmas Eve experience she had on Radio 2... then found out the MoD owns the battle site and you can't walk over it. Humph.

Helenagrace · 18/06/2011 18:29

I was duty managing a central London teaching hospital one night and had a conversation with a female patient in a waiting area on a ward in a remote part of the hospital. I then went round the corner to the nurses station and relayed the conversation to the two staff nurses there ... who promptly told me that they didn't have any female patients on the ward.

To get to this ward you had to go through three swipe card entry doors and use a key to over-ride the lift. Needless to say we couldn't find the lady and CCTV footage of the ward entrance showed me entering but nothing else.

Cue one freaked hospital manager and two terrified nurses.

Another hospital I worked at had to have a four bed side-room on a male surgical ward exorcised as patients were waking up feeling pressure on their chests and seeing staring yellow eyes leaning over them.

Another hospital regularly used to find surgical instruments moved - even behind locked doors.

expatinscotland · 18/06/2011 18:35

I've told this one before.

A mate of ours lives in a maisonette in Edinburgh. We went there to play cards. No alcohol consumed, as both he and DH are teetotal.

He put his 1-year-old granddaughter to sleep in her cot in an upstairs bedroom.

This man is very tidy and clean. Room was spotless. I went with him to wave wee 'T' night night.

We got the deck of cards out and he started to shuffle. Played a few rounds of poker.

Heard T giggling away. So DH says, I'll go and check her. Then came running down the stairs to say all the drawers in two chests had been completely emptied out and the clothes were all on teh floor, but the drawers were back in.

And yes, they were.

He's had a number of similar incidents happen in there and yes, he and his wife still live there.