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Do you believe in Ghosts?

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Dizzylin · 22/01/2018 14:40

Just interested in peoples thoughts really. Had a couple of experiences myself. 1st was when my Mums BF passed away her DD was staying with us at the time. It was the middle of the night and I remember feeling like the BF was in my bedroom looking for DD. I said "She's in my Mum's room x". In the morning got up to the news that BF had passed away in the night. Mum then told me how BF's DD had woken in the night and said "Mummy!" like she'd seen her. She was only 6/7 at the time.

2nd time was when I was in my late 20's I was really struggling to sleep and feeling quite distressed (can't remember why) I said aloud to nobody in particular "please help me, I just want to sleep" a White Light appeared in my bedroom and I suddenly felt so comforted and relaxed. I fell asleep almost immediately.

Anybody got any stories?

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Royalfuckup · 22/01/2018 16:32

Eh? Jesus was real. Whether he was the son of God, born to a virgin and sent to earth to save us is another matter but there is evidence that Jesus himself was a real man.

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Dizzylin · 22/01/2018 16:34

I find it interesting that you've had experiences but still don't believe Driggle Draggle.

Also would be interested in your story, if you're happy to share, Peaky.

DH doesn't believe but I do think there is an afterlife. DH often says he wishes he did because he knows the comfort I get in believing my GP visit and look after me.

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Mogginthemog · 22/01/2018 16:34

No I don’t believe in them. When my DM died I would have loved nothing more than to think she was around in some form in some dimension or other. But once the human body shuts down completely I think it’s like a broken computer. It’s shut down and can’t be re-booted because the hardware has worn out beyond repair. However much you’d like it to, that computer is not capable of functioning again. Ever.

If you notice when people have sightings they are mainly when people are on the brink of sleep, dreaming, experiencing tumultuous emotion ie during early bereavement or other loss. Some of my most vivid childhood ‘memories’ are not actual memories at all but the result of frequent delirium with very high temperatures due to chronic tonsilitis. Things that I would swear on my life happened, my brother assures me, really didn’t.

We are very suggestible and looking for recognisable voices, patterns in everything we encounter. Stick a radio on between stations, listen long enough and odds on you will hear something resembling words. Or they will be actual words randomly picked up on some frequency or other.

AssassinatedBeauty · 22/01/2018 16:36

No of course not. The power of people's brains to invent explanations for things is very great, and people want to believe there is significance to things they can't immediately explain.

LittleMe03 · 22/01/2018 16:38

No don't believe.
Never experienced anything.

DriggleDraggle · 22/01/2018 16:45

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newyearwhoohoo · 22/01/2018 16:54

My DF saw a ghost, many many years ago, when he was an evacuee during the war. It was up on the hills in West Somerset. A man in a grey mac with no face, floating down the country lane, at dusk, near to where he was walking home from school. He was absolutely and utterly terrified. He ran home and never said anything to anyone until at dinner one evening, a few weeks later, the adults at the dinner table started talking about the ghostly 'man in the grey mac' and it became apparent that this ghost had appeared to some of these adults and had been seen by others in the area. It has really affected him throughout his life. I don't think it's something he made up, or imagined and there was evidence others had witnessed it too, so yes I believe in ghosts.

Anymajordude · 22/01/2018 17:08

I doubt I'd notice a ghost in Tesco, anyone could be a ghost really. I've certainly seen zombies there Grin. You'd only notice a ghost in the house where nobody else is supposed to be. Not that I believe in ghosts particularly.

Eltonjohnssyrup · 22/01/2018 17:14

At the exact moment my Gran (who was a right bitch) died the lock on her front door broke so the door was shut and couldn't be opened. Had to break it open to get out. Always wondered if it was one last two fingers.

Idontevencareanymore · 22/01/2018 17:28

I've never seen one.
I've heard my name called at a time where I was alone and the voice wasn't a person still alive, was absolutely something they'd have said to me but Im sure there's a rational and logical reason.

As we don't and can't know, we will always be wondering.

AcronymsForAll · 22/01/2018 17:33

Re. supermarket ghosts - our Co Op is supposed to be haunted!

There was a link on MN ages ago where you could check for local reports of hauntings. There's a young blonde ghost girl haunting the Co Op, it seems. I go there c. four times a week, and have completely failed to see her.

Polarbearflavour · 22/01/2018 17:38

I was at a house party one - huge old house in Bath, one of those posh townhouses. The friend of a friend threw rather glamorous house parties where all sorts of weird and wonderful people would meet!

I went to find the loo and on the staircase I passed a lady and we smiled at each other. She was very pleasant looking and I was just drawn to her for some reason. She was wearing a grey 1920s/30s style dress. It wasn’t that unusual as there were quite a few randomly dressed people around, it was that kind of party.

I asked the host later who the lady in the flapper type outfit was as I couldn’t see her anywhere. He laughed and said “oh you’ve seen her too, that’s our grey lady.” She didn’t mean any harm apparently and was quite a friendly ghost. I didn’t know what to say to that really. Never went to another party as I moved out of the area.

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AcronymsForAll · 22/01/2018 17:41

Ooh, I googled our Co Op ghost, and found out there are ghosts in our local Tesco, too! @DriggleDraggle Tesco ghost is supposed to be an elderly grey-haired man, so I'm not sure how you'll tell it apart from shoppers. No reports of glidings through trolleys.

Eltonjohnssyrup · 22/01/2018 17:44

There's a young blonde ghost girl haunting the Co Op

Give me my divvy! Wooooh!

Cacofonix · 22/01/2018 17:49

Well I was wide awake and doing kids bath time when I saw our ghost. And I wasn't severely stressed or depressed or bereaved at the time. Just saying...

mummyhaschangedhername · 22/01/2018 17:57

I don't know. I've certainly felt things, but those could be explained. I get a bit too freaked out to think about it 🙈😂

But, I read something the other day that said something like, why are all ghosts over 100 years ago, we never hear of modern ghosts.

redexpat · 22/01/2018 18:00

If you are inclined see if rescue mediums is still on netflix. Sending spirits into the light then ending on a cheesy pun.

Thinkingofausername1 · 22/01/2018 18:01

I feel like my nana is watching me a lot. Just certain smells and things that remind me of her. But not all the time only occasionally Confused which is how I know.

NeopolitanChocolates · 22/01/2018 18:04

I do, but I only believed after living in a haunted flat.

LadyFlumpalot · 22/01/2018 18:04

I've had a couple of odd experiences. As has my mum and DH.

DH had a man, dressed in Civil War clothing and missing a leg in his bedroom for years when he was a child. However, despite this, DH does it believe in ghosts (?!?)

I once saw my own Mum, in broad daylight on a hot July day, standing outside the house and pointing at the monstrous Leylandi in our garden. I said "oh, you're home early" and turned to look at the tree where she was pointing. I turned round and she had vanished. There was no one in the house and she came home an hour later as usual. It would make a better story of the Leylandi came crashing down in a storm of something, but nothing ever happened and as far as I'm aware is still standing 20 years later (we've moved since).

My mum used to regularly see a man walking down the road as she was driving, he would wave and nod and she would wave and nod as well. He lived with his elderly father nearby. One day there were ambulances outside the young mans house then a week or so later a funeral gathering. In the interim she had continued to see the young man and passed the usual wave and nod. Imagine her horror when she bumped into the elderly gentleman who she believed to have passed away. She was even more shocked when she discovered that it was the young man who had died instead.

LadyFlumpalot · 22/01/2018 18:05

Hit send too soon.

With those experiences and a few other weird things in mind... I don't necessarily believe in ghosts in the classic "wooooo horror movie" sense but I do believe that there is something, a memory, a replay, an impression or an energy?

mrsBeverleyGoldberg · 22/01/2018 18:11

My family have had many experiences of seeing my grandma and things being moved. Me and another relative have seen my grandad. Another recently died relative has moved things. All in the day. Also a cat visits us. Dh has seen it too. I have dreams that have come true. All boring stuff, no lottery numbers sadly. I pick up on creepy atmospheres too. In a national trust place I could feel that people hadn't been happy there. A friend's house, had a really evil atmosphere in one spot on their landing. I wasn't the only one who felt it.

Lovestonap · 22/01/2018 18:14

I'm so torn with this stuff. I have never had any experiences, and have quite a scientific turn of mind. However, If someone tells me they've experienced something I tend to believe them.

I'm more inclined to time slip theories really.

mrsBeverleyGoldberg · 22/01/2018 18:16

Some of the places we've seen our relatives they never visited when alive.

Bonkerz · 22/01/2018 18:17

Yes infact it's my hobby. I spend weekends in derelict buildings calling out to spirit and trying to record communication. I'm also involved in a local paranormal museum which is opening soon.