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HannaRivers · 13/07/2017 22:53

We haven't had a woo thread in a while and I need some woo to read, so go..

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DonkeyOaty · 13/07/2017 22:59

Woo Topic

YABU

HannaRivers · 13/07/2017 23:01

Thank you Blush

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DontBuyANewMumCashmere · 13/07/2017 23:01
Grin Quickest thread killer ever!
HannaRivers · 13/07/2017 23:03

Not much to read over there though. Grin

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EllaElla · 13/07/2017 23:04

Ok I'll go. One of a few I have. I had reoccurring dreams as a child and young teenager, involving an unknown man rowing me in a boat across a lake and then walking up hand in hand with him from the shore of the lake over a hilly meadow beside it. When I visited my grandmothers house for the first time aged 8 or so (she lived 1000s of miles away and always visited us rather than us to her) I recognised him in a picture on her wall. It was my grandfather, who had died just after I was born. My mum wasn't especially close to him so for whatever reason I'd never seen his picture. But the really woo bit was when I was about 15 and visited his grave for the first time. The graveyard is hilly and meadowy. His grave is partway up the hill next to the lake from my dream. I had a full on panic attack and freaked out and had to urgently leave. Never had the dream again after that. 😳

tigercub50 · 13/07/2017 23:06

Some years ago , adverts were coming on regularly for the movie " Scream". Every time I watched, my tv would switch off at exactly the same point 😲Needless to say, I didn't watch the film!

TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth · 13/07/2017 23:07

Ah, lovely... new woo! I'm off to bed now, but will be back tomorrow with my contribution!

OverTheHammer · 13/07/2017 23:08

I went to Poveglia island (google it - old plague come psychiatric hospital) last year. There was only me and DH on the entire island. DH decided to climb the clock tower, I stayed on the ground and heard footsteps walking towards us. I waited for the new urban explorers to appear but nobody ever did. The guy with the boat who was waiting for us said nobody else stepped foot on the island in all the time we were there (he was keeping watch). As soon as DH came down from the click tower, the footsteps stopped. "Legend has it" that the crazy doctor threw himself off the clock tower to his death before the island was abandoned.

On the way to the island, as we approached the camera stopped working, my phone suddenly drained its battery and died and the computer on the boat went haywire. The skipper said "see, this is why nobody comes here".

TwoBusyCnuts · 13/07/2017 23:15

oh please...... come on mumsnetters....
only 3 months to hallowe'en.
shameless placemarking.

lovetowasteitagain · 13/07/2017 23:22

shameless placemarking.

Shit. should I be getting on the 'AIBU to not invite my inlaws to Christmas' thread now?

DontTouchTheMoustache · 13/07/2017 23:28

Two stories and I'm already hiding under the duvet

Graceflorrick · 13/07/2017 23:36

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Elphame · 13/07/2017 23:45

OK - I have a new one! I spent the night at St Briavels Castle the other week in the Hanging Room. Basically the condemned cell - the only way out was at the end of a rope.

There were 8 of us in there that night. About an hour after we went to bed we were woken by a loud crash...... after a chorus of not me someone switched the light on - nothing to account for the crash.

OK so back to sleep. I was woken later by a gasp from the next bed. There were half a dozen beautiful blue cylinders of light dancing around the door way. I've never seen anything like it. They were pulsating from dark blue to bright neon blue and back again and just moving around. Absolutely stunning. They should have been terrifying but they weren't - they just "were". After 10 minutes or so I got bored and went back to sleep! Out of the 8 of us 4 saw the lights.

TartanDMs · 13/07/2017 23:49

Not my anecdote but my sister's. She was driving down a country lane with her girlfriend late at night, it was a clear and warm summer night. She went round a bend in the road and saw what she thought was fog a bit further down so she slowed down a bit, and as she got closer her girlfriend thought she saw someone through the fog. She continued down the road still going quite slow, and as she got up to the foggy patch it suddenly went freezing cold, as soon as she had driven through it it went warm again. The patch was only about 3 metres long and there wasn't anyone there - but she said it looked nd felt like she was driving through something very strange.

Fluffyears · 14/07/2017 00:20

*loveto your leaving it late, I put the sprouts on last week.

Fluffyears · 14/07/2017 00:21

Aargh *you're leaving it late

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 14/07/2017 00:23

I have posted this before but wth 😁
When I worked at a care home, we used to sit vigil with residents nearing the end of their lives.
One night, about 3a.m., the lady sat bolt upright in her bed, smiled the most beautiful happy smile I have ever seen, and said "there you are. I knew you'd come" then laid down. She passed away a few minutes later, still smiling.
Another resident was born in 1898, and had fought in WWI. He was convinced he was back in the trenches, with his comrades crawling across his room, and talking to them.

CrispPacket · 14/07/2017 00:34

Not very woo but has definitely made me more aware. Last month at my boyfriends house I was talking to my dps mum and I heard my dp ask me something behind me so turned round and said 'What babe?' And no one was there. He wasn't even close but I know I heard what i thought was him behind me, his mum told me it was probably his grandad, apparently he potters through occasionally :)

Comedyusername · 14/07/2017 10:36

Crisp My husband unexpectedly appeared as I was reading yours and scared the life out of me Grin

Justhadmyhaircut · 14/07/2017 10:41

I have a ghost in my life who I hear and have seen. . Dh a previous non believer has heard him speak and laugh, he plays with toys and moves stuff. . Older ds heard him bouncing on his bed and turned his light on /off.

Will stop there as there is so much else!

peachgreen · 14/07/2017 10:53

My mum - total non-believer in all things spooky - was a nursery-nurse and first-aider in a very old school where there was a legendary ghost, supposedly an old headmistress who had lived (and died) on site. The school had big heavy doors - very dangerous really. One day she was going into another classroom in a bit of a hurry as the teacher had radioed over to say a child was unwell. As she went to open the door, she felt a hand on her own, stopping her from turning the doorknob. When she managed to open the door the child had fainted moments earlier, and they'd just moved her head from right in front of the door.

The girl was only 3 and my mum is convinced that if she hadn't felt the hand she would have flung open the door and could have killed the poor wee thing. Brr.

FruBayerischOla · 14/07/2017 11:05

Many years ago I used to go to a brasserie on my lunch break so I got to know the staff quite well. They told me they thought they had a ghost there - they decided he was a little boy called George. I can't remember all the things they told me that George did, but there was a basement store room which they all hated having to go to and there were other odd things late at night just as they were about to lock up.

Actually, I do recall one thing they mentioned. Anything child related - high chairs, colouring paper and crayons were the things that were always moved/strewn around overnight when the place was empty.

One day I'd arrived early lunchtime and there was only the manager and I there. He served me and went off to a back room to do something. I was sitting up at the bar doing a crossword. Struggling to think of an answer I was gazing rather absently towards the rear of the bar at the soft drinks shelves. Suddenly a whole row of bottles came flying off the shelf, not all together, but in sequence as though a child had run past with an outstretched hand to push all the bottles off the shelf, which landed on the floor with a resounding crash.

The manager came haring back round the corner and said "bloody hell, what was that? Are you alright?" I just pointed at all the bottles lying on the floor behind the bar. He and I both looked at the bottles and then up at each other and both said simultaneously "George!".

Yes, I guess there are rational explanations - but it was weird.

HannaRivers · 14/07/2017 13:04

Hopeful bump Grin loving these so far.

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Lucisky · 14/07/2017 13:46

I was staying with an aunt whose husband had died a few months before. The death was unexpected and he was only in his early forties. He had a massive heart attack in the sitting room. The marriage hadn't been good, and it would be fair to say he wasn't much missed, he had been a difficult and rather aggressive person. One night we were all woken by persistent and very loud hammering. We all got up, wondering what on earth it was. We wandered round trying to find the source. We tracked it down to the very large green house (almost an orangery) that was attached to the house. The noise in there was almost deafening, bang bang bang! There was nothing in there except plants. In exasperation my aunt said "oh for gods sake Bill, shut your racket up". It stopped! Really spooky. I got to hate going there as there was always a strange atmosphere, and other strange things happened, but that is the most memorable.

Beerwench · 14/07/2017 13:58

Dd has just become interested in ghosts and the paranormal. We walk regularly and she told me she has seen a man in a dark cloak with a white 'bib' in the same place each time we walk that way who watches us. Might be teenage imagination though!
We moved to our current home in Feb and I've had my older dog checked by the vet for illness etc due to odd behaviour. Dd says she's seen a young girl with dark hair here, dog regularly growls and grumbles for no apparent reason, and will get excited and run around as if someone is playing with her at other times - she's will also yelp for no reason and cower as if someone has scared or hurt her - vet has said she's healthy and it could be 'doggy dementia' but he can't find any other evidence and she's eating/toileting normally and enjoys walks etc. Just this odd behavior sometimes. The younger dog does watch her when she does this but doesn't want to get involved and will leave the room when it happens which is odd as she's the attention seeker out of the two!
I've also noticed things move, a light where my dd saw the figure and where the dog usually has her moments exploded too.

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