To consider we may have a ghost..?

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DH obv think I am AIBU but we live in a cottage built in 1856 and the incidents so far:

Hearing footsteps on stairs thinking it's our DCs only to find them fast asleep. Happens a lot!

DCs special 'taggies' (comfort blanket) disappearing for days, only to reappear in really obvious places we have looked at before.

DD's electric toothbrush turning itself on at 3 am in the morning. Bzzzzzz.

A friend convinced she saw a Childs face peering through our bannisters. DCs def in bed at the time.

DD 5yrs old saying 'who is the little boy that came to stay last night?' No little boy was staying!

I dont know. Possibly some could be explained but the toothbrush and footsteps freaks me out! Even DH has heard them, checked kids who are fast asleep and stated 'that's weird'.

They do? Every single one of them?

The school where I work is haunted. I never believed it until this year when I was marking work in my classroom and noone else was in the building. I heard heavy footsteps coming across the wooden floor from my friends classroom to mine and back again. It lasted for about 5 minutes. There was absolutely no way it could have been anything else. I could see all the way into the other class and there was noone there. Lots of other things were happening at that time similar to the ones you have described, things being turned off and on etc.

I never believed my colleagues before but when it happened to me it was not subtle in any way, big, heavy footsteps with noone there lasting 5 mins!

Our headteacher got someone to come into the school and they said that the ghost (we are pretty certain we know who it is-as far as you can with a ghost!) was probably reacting to our new headteacher and that the activity would die down within 12 months which it has.

The school is not haunted. There is another explanation...you're not actually arrogant enough to think that because you haven't thought of one it must obviously be woo-bollocks?

You're right though, gullibility does seem to run in families.

Just because you've never seen £1000000 doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

Daft analogy. Plenty have seem £1000000 and it can be touched, verified and proven in existance.

For what it's worth, Bugs (and I say this as a devout-in-my-own-way Christian and someone who believes in the possibility of pretty much everything :) ) I don't think you were being condescending. You're entitled to your beliefs.

I absolutely believe in ghosts in that I do believe most people who say they have experienced things. I just don't necessarily believe that ghosts are dead people, I think they are caused by one of numerous easy explanations, or electromagnetism, or imagination, dreams, sleep paralysis, collective hysteria or the brain in general.

Even reading these threads makes you jumpy, adrenaline starts to flow, your perception is heightened. I think the scientific explanations are just as exciting as "I can see dead people" though. Has anyone read research on lucid dreams? Fascinating stuff.

Plenty of people have seen ghosts

Or have had experiences that can't be explained

Ghosts exist.

This is a spooky tale, but TRUE
I often speak to the ghost in our attic. He died in the civil war at the age of 77 and was the seventh son of a seventh son. I asked him for help and he told me he knew about horses and could predict the future.
So I withdrew all my life savings put 77,000 pounds on horse seven in the seventh race at Newbury

it came seventh

LOL OldMac!!

"There are more things in heaven and earth that can be dreamed of in our philosophy"

(Hamlet, but quote prob not accurate - hey it's been 20 years since GCE!!)

My intellect says No Ghosts - my instinct and experience say otherwise!! A bit of a dilemma!

We were told that we have a resident ghost (house built 1888) but no sighting by me or DH. Dog not spooked (no pun intended) either.
(But I did ask deceased Mum, Dad, Fiance to "protect" us!!!)

the quote is close enough BMW6
but a theory that cant be proved wrong is an opinion or a religion.

If the ghost believers can tell us how to set about proving it wrong, that would be fantastic.

That goes for the religious folk too

strange things have happened in my house too
last week my dd had emptied her little purse on the rug in the lounge and my dh helped her to count it they then put it back into the purse.i felt around where the coins had been to make sure they had all been picked up [patterned rug so coins didn't stand out].dh and dd went off upstairs so i decided to hoover when i came back there was a small pile of coins in the same place i'd checked.
i've also found a picture dd painted that was stuck on my dining room door [dining room side] out on the hallway floor even though the door was shut
i've also seen on numerous occasions a figure pass from my kitchen door to the utility room pressuming it to be dd but there was no-one there when i've looked

There's always a rational explanation. 'Mediums' are con artists who do their research before they go anywhere. And yes, most of the people who 'see things' are the ones who want to see them. The sort of outraged squawking you get from them (and people who believe in gods, too) is because they know that really, believing in woo/religion is a bit childish and absurd, but they take some kind of comfort from it.

Hands to SGB

Always interesting to examine the Flight From Reason

Someone very close to me was fucked over by a so-called "pyschic healer".

£25K down the hole anyone? With no legal redress? 5 years of their life wasted paying off the debts and still trying to undo the damage inflicted on their family?

I also met someone who was screwed over for £65K (!!!)) by the same cunt. He lost his relationship with his parents, his wife and his 2 kids. He lied, and they couldn't cope with the betrayal. He'd borrowed money from them to pay the "psychic", who convinced them that they would be cursed for all eternity if they didn't pay up.

Pyschics are con-artists. and criminals. They are deeply controlling, greedy and probably psychotically-entitled loons. At best they are frauds.

Add message | Report | Message poster Proudnscary Thu 10-Nov-11 17:26:14
How come everyone who believes in ghosts lives in a house where someone was murdered?

My parents bought their house really cheap when mum was pregnant with me, as sadly, a mother had suffocated her two children to death in their beds there. I grew up there and my parents still live there, and we've never experienced anything remotely spooky.

I am open-minded to these things. The other week at 5am the TV standyby light in our bedroom went from red to green then back to red. I was alerted to a sense of light in the darkness, opened my eyes, saw the green light come on as though the TV was coming on, then it went back to red, the TV didn't actually turn on.

I told DH but he laughed at me and said I was seeing things. It has spooked me especially as at the time we were, you know, doing what married folks do and it put me right off. Reminded me of some of the older scary movies where the TV's came to life and I would love an explanation. Needless to say I always make sure the TV is switched off at the wall now before bedtime!

Oh ffs...you don't think an electrical answer is more likely than a ghost? Who despite going to all the trouble of coming back from the dead, seemingly can't be bothered to do more than flick a light from red to green?

Why do ghosts spend all their time slightly moving coins and making footstep noises? Seems a little banal to me, you'd think they'd have some purpose.

Well if you live in an old-ish house it's statistically likely that at least one person will have died there at some point, what with lifespans having been shorter, medical care less effective etc in the past.

Snort!!!! So agree Neuromantic!

YANBU, I would have come to the same conclusion, and I don't believe in ghosts!

Neuromantic you may well snort at some of the stories shared on this post but have you not considered that some of these goings on may be a friendly hello from above, after all a high percentage of communication is non-verbal!

If I am able to "communicate" in some way to my loved ones after I have gone you better believe I will be turning things on and off, flashing lights, moving things etc if I cannot actually speak to them!