to be shit scared?

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Namechanger. My DD, who is just 3 was playing upstairs early on. All of a sudden she let out an almighty shriek and screamed help. It was the sort of cry your child makes that makes you drop everything (in my case a knife and some lemons) and dash. I dashed up as she was running down the stairs. She literally jumped in my arms and looked terrified.

i asked her what was worng and she said that was a man in her room. I said whta did he look like, she said bigger than her with blue hair (she is unsure of her colours ) My first thought was ghost. I gave my DD, 10 the phone and said if I scream, take the others and run out of the house.

Adrenalin took over and I ran upstairs and got my baseball bat and searched every nook and cranny, no one there.

I came down and reassured everyone that it was probably the cat that spooked her whilst shitting it I asked DD what the man said, she said he said, this is my room and my bed.

reassure me please.

yes. Like "The earth is NOT orbiting the sun!"

Even what things are NOT can at some point in the future be proven to be wrong.

It always amazes me, that believing in ghosts makes you a crackpot. But believing in God is quite acceptable!

Believing in God = acceptable

Seeing God in your kid's bedroom = crackpot

HTH

Are you not following? The scientific method allows for rigorous testing, experimentation and to be proved wrong properly. We know things because we have studied them, in depth.
Which is not the same thing as "have an open mind, man, believe whatever you want, all opinions are valid blah blah blah".

So yes, its ok for scientists to tell you you're wrong, because they've put the work in. Woo merchants merely "open their minds"...to nonsense.

Homeopathy anyone?

This thread is reminding me of one a couple of years ago about a poster whose DC came screaming out of the top floor of their house in terror of the floating raisin man - a man he'd seen with a black wrinkly face like a raisin, who floated in the air.

After much hysteria and discussion of ghosts, it turned out to be a bluebottle.

Blue hair? It was a surf!

Raisin man thread

It happened to me when i was 21 and scared the shit out of me so sympathise with you and dd.

It was my 1st time staying at my parents new house which was above their pub. woke up to find a man in the room who said his name was george and that it was his room and if i wanted to stay there i had to sleep somewhere else. I took my duvet and slept in the sofa no1 believed me......it was a dream, my imagination etc so convinced myself it wad true especially since i don't believe in ghosts. Again a few years later in the bar on a xmas afternoon when closed i felt someone breathing next to my ear and then a voice no idea what it said i ran screaming for my life again no one believed me blamed the noise on the fruit machine in the corner but i knew it wasnt that as was switched off let aline on the other side of the room. Again not bad for someone who doesn't believe in these things.

Strangely enough years later when my brother saw a man standing in the closed restaurant who then disappeared everyone accepted something weird was going on ........who knows what

Yes but were they all naked?

I still want to know how ghosts get to 'pass over' fully clothed

it is odd how many people see ghosts when they just "woke up" from being asleep. Not at all like a dream, then. Much more likely to be the spirit of a dead person who went to all the trouble just to wake you up.

I've written books on this - worked with psychics, mediums, all sorts.

Had more readings than you can shake a stick at.

When I was a journalist, regularly got sent to all the 'spooky' doings - something always 'happened' when I was there.

It's all baloney, complete nonsense, but, if I was the sort of person who wanted to believe in it, I absolutely could.

Bukimi - that's it exactly. Everyone I work with tells me of things that come to them in bed; they're never asleep, oh no, they've never dozed off, never ever. They just get messages and visitations.

I used to think, if you want to believe it all, go on, it's harmless. Not any more. I'm not going to write any more books on it as I am actually, appalled by some of the beliefs these people have and that they pass onto the vulnerable and lost.

I have a friend who insists she can communicate with ghosts. I agreed to do a ouiji board with her so she could convince me. Needless to say, the spirits were not in a communicative mood that night, although I did feel my friend pushing rather a lot on the glass. She really does believe in it despite it being obvious that she is bonkers making these things "happen" herself.

OP, I hope you have recovered from the shock now. It sounds like your DD is a perfectly normal toddler with a vivid imagination!

I've seen ghosts and I've lived in a house while there was a full-blown haunt going on (and very exciting it was too). If you have never seen anything like that, I can imagine it would be hard to believe but some of us know better.

After all, two years ago scientists believed that nothing travelled faster than light but it looks as though that was wrong.

Whether ghosts are spirits of the dead, accidental projections locked into the walls or visitors from outer space, there are too many stories for them not to have a nugget of truth there.

"The scientific method allows for rigorous testing, experimentation and to be proved wrong properly"
So its been proved without a shadow of a doubt that ghosts dont exist then?

YY but were they naked?

LauraShigihara - how does that work? 'Too many stories for them not to have a nugget of truth?' So, if there were lots of stories of people hearing crisps talk, there would have to be a nugget of truth in them?

DH and I were in the car driving through the countryside one night and it was really dark when we both saw a woman, everything on her and herself were bright white. Long white hair, floor length white night dress. She was peering over a hedge, then she looked at us then just disappeared in to thin air.

We both saw it and were really scared. How could it not be real when we both saw it?

EmptyBotheredPocket - because it was a person?

Worra - I'm not religious at all, but I think that the images we can see are something to do with how that person saw themself. Which is why they are fully clothed but often their face is more indistinct. Hence the clothes

If you were in the car driving...how did you stick around long enough to see her look over the hedge and disappear?

And come to think of it, if she was behind a hedge...how do you know she was wearing a 'floor length' night dress?

What, a person that vanished into thin air, as I was watching it?

So, why do they never say, 'hello, I'm Gladys, I was your granny's cousin, I died of the pox and there's a fiver in your knicker drawer that you've forgotten about?'

I've asked psychics/mediums why it's all so non-specific and they just say, 'oooh, I know - they make it hard for us!'

I bet they do . . .

Thanks Laura, still doesn't make sense though

I'm going to get a large coffin and pack for winter and summer....better make sure I'm not cremated though

She was in front of us on a straight road, on the side of the road looking over the hedge so we could see all of her. We also slowed down to see.

Empty - if she was behind a hedge, how do you know she vanished into thin air? (Not that she did.) Couldn't she have crouched down or fallen or something a bit more real?

Worra - doesn't matter if you're cremated; you reassemble. And reclothe. Not in Boden though, as has been pointed out.