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AIBU?

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:
usualsuspect · 18/06/2011 00:25
MalkieFraser · 18/06/2011 00:25

My mum used to be a telephonist receptionist in the central station hotel in Glasgow, there were often calls from uninhabited rooms, either silence, breathing or throat clearing and static. It did have a bit of a rep for being haunted.

junecarter · 18/06/2011 00:26

nope in London..the burns unit story
and also a horrifying tale about ghosts floating horizontally around in the brand spanking new hospital (old building demolished)..
Of course the ghosts are rigid and just sort of hover there about waist height.

Or slab height

at the precise location of the victorian era morgue

expatinscotland · 18/06/2011 00:29

Back in the 1990s there was a series of rapes happening in Denver. They were found to be connected and everyone was on alert for the 'Cap Hill Rapist', because that's the area he was targetting.

Sadly, he raped a woman and killed her in a basement flat in Cap Hill.

Anyhow, a work colleague's boyfriend took over the let of this place, why I don't know. The landlord didn't even clear it out - there were dead flowers in there brought by mates and such.

Anyhow, this bright, happy go lucky man went from a sunny, easy going person to one who tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists 6 months later.

His girlfriend, my colleague, nor anyone else ever got it out of him what happened. All he said was, 'They shouldn't rent out that apartment.'

He survived, moved in with my colleague and eventually got married and had two children.

But if you're ever looking for a flat in Denver, avoid 12th and Corona, the building on the eastern side.

Also avoid the duplex on 16th and Gaylord near the halfway house.

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 18/06/2011 00:30

june - in that case of the floating spirits, I would have said that was more of an imprint, a negative if you like, so it wouldn't manifest to you at what you would conisder to be the level of a bed. Simply because it isn't "real". An imprint of something that perhaps was horrible has been kept there, and so it stays on that particular level in history. It is one of the theories behind why "ghosts" in castles/stately homes etc. seem to "float". Simply because the floors/ceilings at the time would have been higher or lower and they are just on THEIR level but we see it on OURS.

junecarter · 18/06/2011 00:30

ohhh expat tell us more..

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 18/06/2011 00:31

Good lord I should enrol on a spelling course of some kind.

kangers · 18/06/2011 00:32

no no no- can't read anymore....

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 18/06/2011 00:33

kangers - what is it in particular that is scaring you?

junecarter · 18/06/2011 00:34

yeah,TMDIH, I get you . This is apparently a very common sight in hospitals according to sis and her colleagues

expatinscotland · 18/06/2011 00:35

St Cecilia's Hall in Edinburgh.

My boss went there about 7AM to meet some caterers on winter morning. She got in with the keys and turned off hte alarm. Of course, it's pitch black in there and there was no one there. She went in the kitchen to wait and turn on the heaters.

Only she started to hear noise, lots of noise, like people dancing, and music, from the first floor concert hall.

Needless to say, she waited outside for the caterers.

A well-known academic who had the keys to the place went in there one night to practice. He said he could feel someone's eyes on him, but dismissed it, until he finished a piece and heard clapping.

He turned to see half a gentleman in elaborate brocade clothing applauding, before he vanished into thin area. Of course, this academic also knew the ceiling had been raised some time ago.

devientenigma · 18/06/2011 00:35

Hi TMDIH I answered your q about the board, curious to know what you say next. Iv'e c and p:
At first it was just me, hubby and my nanna. Done to cheer me up, finding it hard to cope etc after loosing my baby. It ended up where they done it and I sat out in hopes my feelings wouldn't come through.

junecarter · 18/06/2011 00:37

is there a link any where to aforementioned werewolf thread?

junecarter · 18/06/2011 00:40

devientenigma do u have a link to ur youtube clip?

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 18/06/2011 00:40

Sorry, this thread is moving quite quick and I have a very slow connection.

I feel a bit wary that I will upset you, and that really isn't the intention, I hope you understand that.

If you were there, engaging in a ouija board having such desolate low feelings about the loss of your baby then you were, perhaps unwittingly, participating. You made yourself VERY vulnerable. The easiest people to "pick off" are those who have suffered loss. They are likely to believe things that in a more rational/non grieving sense of mind, they wouldn't believe. If you read back, one of my first posts was that I saw my brother two hours before I even knew he had died. The nasty little hitchikers/whatever you want to call them, knew I was, or WOULD BE vulnerable. Same with you. It doesn't really matter whether or not you had your finger on the glass or not, if your energy, your grieving energy was there, you were a vulnerable "easy" way in.

kangers · 18/06/2011 00:41

Am sat in house with 14 yr old daughter, MIL died today and siding onto field. Its dark and I am now scared that my MIL will sit on my bed and stroke my arm, that werewolf will break in, that my MIL will appear through mirror in bedroom, or that I have in some way offended my MIL and she will return as a hitchiker to find her beloved son whi is not here but in woods.
Am freaked- and dogs are freaked too.

devientenigma · 18/06/2011 00:42

ahh June it's on facebook not you tube for some reason it wouldn't upload to youtube. There's 3 of them. MY DAUGHTER BF HAS MADE THE VIDEO INTO STILL IMAGES IT'S VERY INTERESTING. Sorry Re caps. My daughter sees and hears.

kangers · 18/06/2011 00:44

And now I also feel vulnerable to hitchikers

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 18/06/2011 00:44

kangers - were you close to your MIL?

devientenigma · 18/06/2011 00:45

Yeah I can see that TMDIH, how would you explain my mams board mentioned earlier?? I could talk forever on all this but I'm starting to struggle to stay awake.

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 18/06/2011 00:45

You haven't opened yourself to any hitchikers in any way, you are not vulnerable at all. Stop worrying.

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 18/06/2011 00:46

I know me too, I will trawl back through thread but will PM you a response?

kangers · 18/06/2011 00:46

Not hugely- she lived abroad for lasr 10 yrs. But been back and ill for 18 months. She stayed here a few times ( V difficult as medical issues) and also was happy for me to visit as late as last week- her birthday- and said I could come anytime (unlike her brother) so yes- have known her for 25 years.

junecarter · 18/06/2011 00:46

kangers ur dogs are wound up because you are..
and dont worry about werewolves .they are v. sexy these days I believe

Sorry about your MIL

devientenigma · 18/06/2011 00:47

Dunno if this will work June here