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'.

I see. That sorts that out then.

No eminence you are asleep, you just don't know it!

OP YANBU

Its NICE to believe Neuromantic. You should try it sometime, rather than being a grumpy old naysayer.

Ghost are on the same level as santa to me. They add something to my life, no matter how real/unreal they are. Its the wondering that does it for me.

I would rather hear a ghost story than an scientific explanation somedays. As interesting as science can be.

I love Iceland. The majority of people there believe in fairies! Wonderful country.

Are none of you aware of the 'trouser leg' theory of time?

No thanks. The world is crammed full of real wonderful things to be amazed by, if only more people would be interested in all of that instead of the woo, we'd all be better off.
Each to their own though.

Take the batteries out.

I think it was Douglas Adams who said something like you don't have to believe there are fairies living at the bottom of your garden to appreciate the beauty of your garden.

So those of a more scientific nature don't need to believe in ghosts in order to enjoy the wonders of the world.

And the thing about Santa, sorry but I agree that is small minded. Children's beliefs and adults are completely different.

YABU ghosts don't exist imo

Yes indeed neuromantic.

Iceland is a beautiful amazing country where you can spot all fairy houses. Egypt is wonderful for the alien space craft parked there.
The ocean is incredibly for hiding the kraken.
Loch Ness is brilliant as you can try and spot good ol' nessy.
Australia is fantastic for Bunyip hunting.
California & the Himalayas excellent for Yeti and Bigfoot spotting.
Let us not also forget how dragons roamed this country and how good ol' George slayed one and the welsh adopted one.

Sorry, but I think our cultural heritage and enjoyment of the amazing places around the world are so much more enriched through myth and folklore. It adds to their marvel. It doesn't take away.

There is nothing wrong with myth and folklore, you just have to understand that myth means not true and folklore means makeyuppy nice stories.

I don't see the difference. Its just YOUR myth.

Not one you've been told by someone else.

you don't see a difference between real and not real? True and false?

Umm, ok. Good luck with that.

I'm fine with that. And no I don't. How do you think folklores started? I'd like to think new ones being created today, might have cultural value in centuries to come.

Like I said before nicer to believe than to belittle others and be rather grumpy.

Each to their own.

skips off to play with my imaginary dog and cat

I do hope not, its bad enough that it gets so much notice now, to think that Mystic Meg magazines and crystal healing and ghosties might be taken as representative of current society to future onlookers is a grim prospect.

Neuro for someone who doesn't believe in all this stuff, why are you hanging around like a bad smell taking such a keen interest in this thread? I think you're enjoying winding some of us up!

Syd, shh! I'm loving teasing her about being grumpy and not believing in santa. I don't see why she gets to have all the fun.

passes the everlasting gobstoppers around

I'm trying to distract myself from my horribly empty life, devoid as it is of any kind of magic, I have only meanness and my own black soul. Where else would one go with that except AIBU?

Indeed neuro. At least you can see the error of your ways and your cynical heart.

So neuromantic you don't think it is possible that there are things we do not know about or understand? For example, imagine how people a couple of hundred years ago viewed things compared to the way we do today. Things are always evolving and changing and our "knowledge" about those things is updated as it were.

Well I know that ghosts exist be cause I've seen lots. I don't care if people don't believe me because i know what I saw.

My maternal side come from a long line of physics, my great nan used to read tea leaves, people would travel from all over for readings and she never charged a penny. She only stopped doing it when she read for her daughter and saw her untimely death, which did come true :(

I think there are plenty of things we don't fully understand. However if there were such things as ghosts we would know something about them. As a species, we're pretty clever about many scientific things. Our greatest asset is our logic, for those of us who choose to employ it.

Psychics, also woo. Been tested many times, never ever any tiny shred of proof.

Oh well if you say so then neuro

Yes, I do know what you mean. Whenever they test psychics on telly they do always turn out to be charlotans. However, I know enough sensible, rational people who have had these experiences (not looking for them or wanting them) to know there is something strange going on!

This thread has somehow led me to WORM HOLES, links from links to links from links(and so on fgs) from someone up there talking about trouser leg theory. Oh help,now I am seriously lost,I cannot get my brain to understand worm holes.My brain doesn't work,quit fighting you lot there is weird weird shit going on and I haven't even had a drink (yet)