To ask if anyone has had any paranormal encounters/experiences

[HowlingBitch]

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

I've also experienced time slips too - big sigh of relief reading this thread as I didn't know what on earth they were.

They have happened at times of extreme stress (or rather afterwards) and were quite frightening.

VFV- your comment about disassociation resonates with me. I frequently feel disassociated.

I often feel like I don't belong here on this earth, as if I am a separate entity from the human race. Other wordly (though "where" I've no idea) except I fully appreciate how "poncy" that sounds, as if I'm saying I'm "superior" or something and I'm truly not

Gahhhh, really wish I could explain it better :(

The feeling of watching yourself happened to me when having bipolar episodes. Never ever when I'm well though.

An interesting point is where you are watching yourself from when you "dissociate" - if that is what it is. I'm willing to bet that most people watch themselves from a point sfaattr
(I'll give you the answer when there are a few responses)

I don't 'see' myself, though I sometimes did during druggy experiences! I've spoken to other people who do - not always from above, if that's what you were after.

It's a shame that Sam Parnia's AWARE project (the pictures on high shelves experiment) isn't releasing any results yet. They don't even seem to have established contact with their clinical death survivors, which is beginning to make me a tad sceptical about whether any results will be achieved in fact.

this is a fab thread.
I don't really have any stories of my own, but I've found out that my family home, where my dad died in the living room, has had no less than three owners in the six years since my mum sold it. Nobody seems to want to stay put there too long.
Maybe my dad is haunting it!
He was an alcoholic with a mischievous sense of humour so I reckon bottles of Gin would go mysteriously missing.......

ooh dear, murdered another thread

IvaNighSpare, It's okay. It will come back from the dead :o

Bump. It is this thread did come back from the dead!

It is time this thread did come back from the dead.

It's taken me 2 nights to read all 23 pages... Slept terribly last night but very much enjoyed reading all the stories. Found the Sharon Tate premonition most freaky I have to say.

Come on lets bring this thread back from the dead!

I stayed in house once which was built on the site of an old cemetery and when they were doing work in the cellar found the graves of several monks. Lots of weird stuff happened, like doors banging and locking, the radio turning itself on when it was unplugged and a general sense of being watched. It was a huge house and we all ended up sleeping in one room.

I got talking to the caretaker and she said that at Christmas you could hear singing and chanting coming from the cellar - I would have wet myself if we heard that!

Love this thread and have always been fascinated by the paranormal. Have had a couple of 'odd' experiences my self but not seen anything as obvious as you lot.

What strikes me funny though is why should ghosts only be limited to humans how is it that we don't hear about ghost cats, dogs, cows, chickens, hamsters and fish?! Maybe its just silly old me with a daft imagination but it would be soooo cool to visit a ghost zoo!

I used to work in a nursing home and alot of us saw things, I've recently been looking for my sons birth certificate and change of name deed which I know my mum had, she says she hadn't

Had a dream a few nights ago where my dad told me they were in a file in mums bedroom with her insurance policy, sure enough that's where mum found it this morning! She was looking for her insurance policy as there is some thing wrong with her kitchen floor.

My dad died 16 years ago

I was at university with someone who claimed to have a ghost cat utopian so you never know!

My Mum has seen many ghosts over the years, but one in particular sticks with me. By the way she is a v sensible sort and not given to nonsense in any way!
Some friends of hers lived in a very old house in Lancashire, which had been a nightly rest place for coffins travelling from one town to another to be buried. They'd lived there for years and were used to the goings on...most nights someone could be heard poking the fireplace vigorously, even when no fires were lit, and running up and down stairs. And Mum saw the other resident many times, who would be dressed in an old smock with a hat, stoof in the kitchen but with his knees at floor level - presumably where the old floor was when he lived there? Mum said she felt no threat at all
They lived there for many years and felt he meant no harm, he was just a house guest....

I have only seen one, but in broad daylight and as real as I am.
Was driving into town on a bright day when I drove past a large gateway to a big old house. On the floor was an old man , lying on his front and with his arm outstretched to me, mouth open like he was shouting in distress (I had radio on, heard no sound) - looking like he'd fallen or been run over. I immediately pulled over, turned the car round and drove back (twenty seconds if that) to find noone there. Got out, looked around, walked up and down -nothing. Took me about a day to finally work out that I'd seen a ghost.

and my DH who is the most sceptical sort EVER told me in very hushed tones that his favourite of our cats, Floyd, who was run over and killed, had appeared next to him on the sofa and actually spoke, saying , "I'm ok now ".

He claims not to believe in ghosts or the supernatural but just simply cannot explain what happened in any other way.

I had a dream when pregnant that my nan was telling me I would have a baby boy on sunday - I did

I also came up with ds's name during labour. Not a name we had ever discussed.

Turned out it was my nans favourite boys name

My brother and I were sharing spooky stories one evening and I started to tell him about an experience I'd had as a child, where I'd seen a hooded figure (like a monk, but grey robes not brown), sitting by my bed. Before I finished, my brother interrupted and said, "sitting on a chair that wasn't there, reading from a big book," which was exactly what I was going to describe. Turned out he'd seen exactly the same thing.

I'm very cynical, though, and think we probably both saw the same television programme or picture in a book and dreamt it. Having said that, when we told my parents about it, my mother said she'd seen a monk on more than one occasion.

The last ghost a saw was a few years ago at work, I was at the far end of a corridor and saw an old women in black turn the corner and go into one of the bedrooms, the lady who's room it was is bedridden and as I'd never seen this old women before I decided to go down to the room to check on them. I walked in and the lady who's room it was pointed to the wall and said she went through there.

There was no way she could have gone back out the door without me seeing her and when I told other staff members they said my description matched the women who used to live in that room before she died.

Staff used to see the dead husband of another resident sat on a chair at the end of her bed at night

Me and a few others have seen people sitting in the lounge chairs in the reflection of the patio doors at night when the room was empty

All the residents staying in one corridor would complain about noisy children comming into their rooms at night

My ex husband who also worked there did a double take one morning after greeting a resident who had died the previous month

I've only ever "seen" a ghost cat Utopian though I've had a few other spooky experiences. All pretty explainable, but still spooky.

Aaargh about the hooded monk stories. I heard one in the 80s on Arthur C Clarke and can still (at 35) make myself have sleepless nights over stuff like that!

He claims not to believe in ghosts or the supernatural but just simply cannot explain what happened in any other way.

noniks I think that is a function of the brain when we are grieving, that we have visions of someone we loved and lost - whether human or pet - which comes back to "tell us they're ok".

Still bloody interesting though what the human mind can do even if it isn't a "ghost" in the traditional sense.

A dog, belonging to a once close friend who'd moved away and consequently I hadn't seen or spoken to much, appeared in a dream to me. He was really happy and wagged his tail (he wasn't that friendly in RL ).
I rang friend the next day to tell her and... yes, you guessed it, dog had died the previous day.
She was thrilled, of course. So that was nice for her to know that he'd come to say goodbye to me (still not sure why he'd pick me...) and he was happy.

saw a ghost day before yesterday - walking passed the kitchen window. I was washing up and glanced up at the window as this figure walked by - older man wearing old-fashioned black wool suit jacket and flat cap. Shot out the door to challenge who was walking through my garden..........no one there! . Theres no way anyone could have managed to get away before I got there iyswim. btw it was 6.30 pm.

Another one to add to our "collection" in our house - so far we have a ghost cat, old man in the attic (well his footsteps) and both ds and dd talk about the "little boy who comes to visit when they go to bed"