Do you believe in Ghosts?

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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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My mum had to call a priest into my childhood home.

We were also advised to burn certain photos, which we did.

Looking back it was quite horrific, always on edge, terrified of what was going to happen next.

I often got mad at people who said they didn’t believe when we went through this hell. It only seemed to get really nasty when my parents split. Perhaps some sort of negative energy triggered it, I was a teenager at the time too so perhaps I was more susceptible. Before this episode it was just regular, minor occurrences that never really bothered us.

I don't but my mum and other family members are big believers! Apparently my great-grandmothers apparition appeared during the night she passed away my mum and aunts (who all shared a room) say they saw her by their window wearing a black dress smiling at them, they didn't realise they all saw her til my mum mentioned it the next morning though as when she saw it she got scared and hid under the covers and my other aunts did the same!
Also apparently my great grandmother was a psychic and our family has a 'gift' I do have some dreams that end up becoming real which I guess everybody does but I told my DP when we first met not to go into a black Astra as I had a dream he died in a crash, he took my warning and when a friend who drove a black Astra offered to drop him somewhere he said no, that friend did have a crash but didnt die (so god knows how if DP really would have died or not) but the winning lottery ticket numbers have still evaded us so I'm thinking it's all bullshit!

Oh I've loads of tales.

Walking down a road, said hello to a little fella with a dog, turned around two seconds later, he'd disappeared! Nowhere for him to go.

A colleague of mine and I both saw a dark figure go into a room - I went in to investigate : no one there! No other exits, most peculiar.

Yes.

I'll always remember when I was younger in a shower in my old house, we had a see through curtain. I remember seeing a figure sit on the toilet, I screamed the bathroom down and my mum burst in and it vanished. Odd!

Ex's old house used it have a presence : you'd walk in and it would smell like flowers - no flowers in the house though. It's disappear after a minute or two.

Used to work in a very old building, I'd say 'hello' when I walked in every morning to the residents

The people who believe in woo told me the other day that I would experience a white feather as a symbol from the angels.

The car in front of me hit a dove and a thousand white feathers exploded on to the road.

So all that woo was 1x1000.

Poor bird but it was quickly dispatched.

@Goldenhandshake

We moved into a house & the garden was very overgrown. Whilst we were clearing the garden 3 gravestones were found. We asked the previous owners about them & we were told that they were the graves of cats. The thing was that they were the names of the first born sons in our family- one of them being my brothers name.
We (as children) were only allowed to sleep in one room which was locked at night.
It cumulated in an incident that resulted in my Aunt being (& still is) committed to an institution & my cousin never leaving her house for 15 years.
I can vividly remember sitting around the table with the priest unfortunately it was too late as our family had been wrecked.

@Handsoffmysweets - yes but under a different name

OMG Peaky what happened to your aunt that caused her to be sent to an institution? Was your cousin affected by the same incident? Did you find out what was in the graves?

@peaky that has to be one of the scariest stories I've heard!

Yes I do.

No I don't.

Oh I don't know!!!

peaky that’s horrific! Your poor family

I used to be totally non-woo and then I worked in a 'haunted' pub and became a 'well maybe energy replays itself in certain spots' semi skeptic. Then I lived in That House (as myself and the other people who experienced it still call it) and you can call me a solid gold a-grade believer now.

I don't actually believe in ghosts, but if I ever get a private moment alone with my vibrator I have to be completely under the covers otherwise I'm scared ghosts will watch me.

Patodp don’t worry about covering up. In my tiny head that goes against the Ghost law, one of which is don’t look at peoples fanjos

No I don't. I think there is always an explanation. People tend to believe what they believe.

Peaky, c'mon! You can't leave us like this! We need the whole story!

Ok
My Aunt was ‘sucked’ not sure how else to phrase it.
My Uncle & my Dad were physically ‘pulling ‘ her out of the doorway.
This was witnessed by 4 adults & 5 teenagers (us).
BTW this is all documented because we all felt we were going mad

“BTW this is all documented because we all felt we were going mad”

Documented? Has anyone who knows about this sort of thing looked at it?

Documented by who Peaky?

No. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever except for individual experience, which doesn’t count. No evidence that has ever stood up to scrutiny. But people believe in God and the same applies there - people will believe what the want to believe regardless of the truth

One or two people I know - normally sceptical people - have had extraordinary experiences which have shaken their scepticism.

I've posted about this before, but a normally sceptical relative had a dog which would not set a paw over the threshold of an older part of their 'new' house. None of the family sensed anything untoward but the dog's behaviour was very out of character.

There happened to be a neighbour who was said to have the 'gift' so relative asked her to take a look. She soon sussed out who was still hanging around, and why, and asked him to leave.
And he evidently did, because right afterwards the dog would happily go into that part of the house.
If dogs can imagine such things, it's news to me.

Intrigued by this, relative gave the neighbour a ring that had recently been left to her by a great aunt who had lived hundreds of miles away. Neighbour told her all sorts of things about the great aunt, which she could not possibly have known - not commonplace things anyone could make up - and which I must say sent shivers up the back of my neck when I heard them.

The closest I've ever come was after my lovely MiL died at only 68. For several days afterwards I had a very strong sense of her presence - I could almost 'see' her sitting on the sofa.

Of course I put it down entirely to my imagination, and when my father died only 6 months later, I expected to feel much the same. But there was nothing. Zilch.