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Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask if anyone has had any paranormal encounters/experiences

714 replies

HowlingBitch · 17/06/2011 20:46

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

OP posts:
ddubsgirl · 17/06/2011 23:18

alot of the time its the person that it follows rather than the place.

BootyMum · 17/06/2011 23:19

TMDIH - do you know who the "listeners" are?

expatinscotland · 17/06/2011 23:22

Oh, yes, LOTS!

expatinscotland · 17/06/2011 23:24

And yy, DO NOT USE A OUIJA BOARD!

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 17/06/2011 23:24

Is it particularly special to you? If not, and if it was me, i'd smash it up and get rid. I feel a bit nutty saying this but seeing as we are on this thread (Hmm) I will say it anyway, certain things, can attach themselves to objects. If you carry the object around, house to house, through your life, you carry "it" with you. Happened to me with one of those horrible real looking dolls that were fashionable in late 80's/early 90's.

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 17/06/2011 23:26

Bootymum - if I was prepared to listen to them yes I would get an idea but I am not doing, am just aware of it, even now. (Nobody will ever speak to me on here again, they will run by shouting AVOID THAT CRAZY TAKEMEHOME LADY!)

devientenigma · 17/06/2011 23:28

funnily enough I loved the ornament but since associating it with his birth am not too keen.

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 17/06/2011 23:29

Get rid. Just my opinion. But smash it.

SpringFollows · 17/06/2011 23:29

Expat come back and tell tell tell!

(please)

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 17/06/2011 23:32

FWIW, and again i'm no expert, I don't think that the mirror thing is anything to do with your traumatic experiences. Please don't think I am trying to belittle what you have been through, I am not, but the mirror thing is just a superstition, dating back to roman times, where they believed that a mirror could steal parts of your soul when reflected in a mirror. It has very little basis in modern day fact or even anything spiritual/supernatural. I would be more worried about the ornament and would get rid.

kangers · 17/06/2011 23:32

expat tell all

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 17/06/2011 23:33

God I said mirror far too many times there!

FreudianSlipper · 17/06/2011 23:33

i have had a few other experiences and often have that feeling someone else is in the room, or watching me. its like my senses have come really alive as soon as i have that feeling i shut myself down and think of something else, if i concentrate i am too scared i might see something :( if that makes sense

i have always believed in ghosts and i am very spiritual and beleive messages are given for us through people or in other ways jsut it really scares me

expatinscotland · 17/06/2011 23:33

I've told many, many, over the years here.

junecarter · 17/06/2011 23:34

ooh tell me about the scary doll please, please, please TMDIH..

devientenigma · 17/06/2011 23:34

do you not think it may hold some guardian type, looking after him

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 17/06/2011 23:35

Me, no. I am not an expert I just have my own experiences and those of my witchy mother, hee hee, sorry mum.

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 17/06/2011 23:36

junecarter - I will have to pop out for a cig before I can go through that bloody doll story. (Being a tad dramatic Smile just need a smoke, back in a tick with blood curdling tales!)

LadyFlumpalot · 17/06/2011 23:37

I really want a cup of tea but I've creeped myself out and I don't want to go into the kitchen...

DF won't make me one either.

Sob.

devientenigma · 17/06/2011 23:38

Brew sorry it's virtual

kangers · 17/06/2011 23:40

flumpalot- i feel same- have turned on all lights in house

junecarter · 17/06/2011 23:45

can't wait to hear more...am very interested in two comments here; firstly re spirits or whatever and objects; and secondly about the poster who described the feeling of being pushed down by the shoulders..

expatinscotland · 17/06/2011 23:48

Here's a scary doll one I've told on here several times.

I have a mate who is Thai and an interior designer. She and I used to climb together a lot back when I was climbing a lot.

Anyhow, we were scheduled to go climbing one Saturday but she called me in the morning said she had to go to a client's house and take window measurements and as it was one of these new build mansions it would be a while.

So I offered to go along to speed things up. She came and collected me, told me the house was vacant, up for sale and she had the keys.

So we walk in and there's this massive glass case FULL of porcelein dolls.

Right away, she sort of goes on red alert. She's Buddhist and has this thing about dolls.

There was this particularly huge one right in the middle, staring at us. I'll admit, it kind of gave me the heebie jeebies but we break out the measuring tape and get to work.

As we go along, something or other just makes us both want to get this damn job sorted asap.

Finally, we're done. I went downstairs first and as I get to the door she says, 'Expat, let's get the fuck outta here now! Look at the doll!'

The fucking thing had its back to us. In the locked glass case with no one in the house!

Dude, we smoked a shaky ciggy in the car after driving away from there!

Turns out the owner's wife had loved the house, very attached to it, but had died of cancer a few weeks before at home.

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 17/06/2011 23:48

The doll; (long), when I was little, probably between 7 - 10, my parents had friends who had 5 children, the two older girls were friends with my older brother and sister and the 3 young lads were friends with me and my little sister, we used to go around to theirs and they used to come over etc. The dad of the family was an antique collector (by that I mean he used to buy crap and pass it off as antiques Grin). He bought one of those dolls, with the china faces and curly hair and painted on cupid bows, he gave it to one of his elder daughters who of course was too grown up for it and gave it to me. I had it in my room and it used to move. I never saw it move, it would be on my shelf with other teddies/dolls, and the next morning would be on the bed, or on the floor, or under the pillow. Around that same time things started happening in the house. My mum is still reluctant now to tell me exactly what but I know the dog used to hide under in the understairs cupboard at a certain time every night when "it" came down, my mum saw shadows, had dreams, even my very sceptical dad saw it in the attic room in broad daylight. My brother had the attic room, he must have been late teens at the time, he found his pool cue broken in half and (people will think i am making this up) the freaking doll at the top of the ladder to the attic.

We moved about a month or so after all this started, it was an already planned move. The same things happened in the new house. Eventually my mum found out that the doll had come from a sort of salvage/clearance at what had been a childrens home that had burned down. Something IMO was attached to that doll. They burnt it and everything stopped.

I have had to scale that story down as I have goosebumps!

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 17/06/2011 23:49

fuck me expat I need an escort to the toilet now.

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