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Do you believe in Ghosts?

123 replies

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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BertrandRussell · 23/01/2018 07:48

Most of us, me included, have had experiences which could very easily be put down to supernatural causes. Some of us just say-there you are, that proves there are ghosts. Some of us say hmm-now that was a bit wierd-I wonder what happened there? And when you the. "look under the curtain" the explanation is usually simple and obvious. Or sometimes complicated and not obvious. But never supernatural.

icelollycraving · 23/01/2018 08:44

I absolutely 100% believe. I have experienced ghosts several times, hearing them and seeing them. I respect others have different views but those are mine.
To the pp who felt her estranged Dad had come to say goodbye, that must have been a great comfort.

Handsoffmysweets · 23/01/2018 10:56

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sinceyouask · 23/01/2018 10:59

No, I don't. I believe in coincidences, I believe in your mind playing tricks, I believe in psychosis and hallucinations. I believe in intense emotions messing with perception. But I don''t believe in ghosts.

Chestnuts2017 · 23/01/2018 13:04

In my parents home, its a very very old country house and the man that lived in there previously apparently died in the armchair one night - nothing unusual about that he was old.

Every summer from when I can remember around 9pm in the evening in a certain spot outside in the garden or in the house in the old part (parents built an extension on the side) there was a waft of smoke, specifically the smell you'd get from smoking a pipe.

Parents just never really thought anything much of it.
Later on when I was getting a bit older in my teenage years my dad was outside as it was getting late - again in the summer, he came storming in the house demanding to know where I was (in my bedroom!)then insisted my mum come outside and I wasn't allowed to go.
He took her to the front of the house and asked her to see if she could smell smoke, which she could, turns out he thought I'd snuck out of the house for a cigarette! I didn't even smoke!
Mum then told him it was the pipe smoke smell that would always appear randomly in the summer but he was having none of it and thought she was covering up for me!

Then a few years later mum was on her own in the house and all the smoke alarms came on - they were connected to the mains and they were the ones where you could see which room had the "smoke" as the light on that particular alarm would be flashing and the rest of them would just be solid red. She ran round the house trying to find out what was going on, went into her bedroom, the old part of the house, and again smelt the really strong pipe smoke smell and that was the alarm that was going off.
Mum is not wooo at all so I know she isn't lying about that.

When I got older I started frequenting the local pub and got talking to one of the locals he said - oh you're so and so's girl aren't you from X house - yeah my great granddad owned that house before you - lovely chap but the house would stink as he was always smoking a pipe!
That - I found very odd!

Then about 8 years ago I moved in with my now ex partner, the man that owned the house before us went into nursing home and then died, the house was then sold to us.
He was constantly getting junk mail arriving at the house - from betting places and the "you've won £10k just respond to this mail" type of stuff so we were always throwing it away on a daily basis.

My partner was VERY ocd about cleanliness and things being out of place and liked the house to smell nice so used to buy candles and light them in the kitchen when I'd been cooking.
Most of the time he would go up to bed first and I would follow an hour or so later.
Every single time without fail if me and him had an argument something weird would go in in the house and I would get the blame for it.
There would be candles lit when he came down in the morning which I 100% would extinguish the night before with licked fingers (im paranoid about starting a fire so would make sure there wasn't even any smoke left before going to bed)
Cupboard doors open, stuff moved, just really random things which I always always got the blame for.
Sometimes I would come down in the morning before him to find things out of place so I knew it wasn't him moving them - I'm a very light sleeper and if he got out of bed I would wake up so no way it was him just messing around.

Now I'm in my own house, I live alone and I was doing my house up for about 6 months before I moved in.
There was a little girl next door who used to talk to me a lot when I arrived, she was often in the garden playing in the summer so we'd have a quick chat before I went inside.
I pulled up the one day and the little girl was there and she came running over asking why I'd left my little girl in the house the other day on her own?
So I was a bit taken aback and explained that I don't have a little girl and what did she mean? Turned out a few hours after I'd left the previous day, a little girl was seen in the upstairs bedroom window looking down and then just "disappeared".
That one I'm putting down to her over active imagination but several times when I'd appear she would say oh your daughter was looking out for you again and I just used to smile and nod because I gave up explaining I don't have a little girl!

Several times since I've lived there I have woken in the middle of the night for no reason and just felt "frightened" and had an awful feeling as if someone was watching me.
Things are always going missing or getting moved to the point where my friends actually joke saying I have a ghost in the house because stuff goes missing/moved that often and its only me living here.
I used to have an alarm that would go off if movement was detected and it would tell me which room it was detected in.
It was going off at least once a month, always in the same room so I swapped the sensors around from one room to another to make sure it wasn't a faulty sensor but it would still go off in that room.
Don't understand the explanation for that one - curtains and blinds are always shut in that room at night, I don't have any animals either.
I stopped putting the alarm on at night after that, I just couldn't cope with being woken up scared out of my skin!

LuckyBitches · 23/01/2018 16:37

I do, and I've had some experiences too. But I don't personally believe that ghosts have any sort of consciousness, I think of them more as echoes. Some sort of residual impression. It's amazing what we don't yet know about the fabric of the universe!

EastMidsMummy · 23/01/2018 23:11

We know there is no such thing as a ghost.

Mogginthemog · 23/01/2018 23:32

To pps that have a strong sense of the presence of a recently dead relative or who saw that person, these phenomena are a part of the grieving process. I’ve had many people tell they’ve felt, heard or seen someone who has died. Especially in early grief this is a very usual and recognised part of bereavement.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 23/01/2018 23:39

Yes I do

I saw one once

There are lots of things that can’t be explained I don’t feel I need scientific proof for everything

TooManyPaws · 23/01/2018 23:47

Ghosts aren't just around at night! I saw one in mid-morning while standing talking to the HR manager in an old police building. Some sort of replay perhaps - walked into an office that was empty when I went in to look who they were and what they wanted, with no way out except to try to scramble out of a high window on to the sloping roof. The police officers and staff just accepted that things happened in that building, particularly in the attic rooms where HR was, but elsewhere too - in a bathroom for one chief super! 😂

demirose87 · 24/01/2018 07:23

EastMidsMummy, you keep repeating yourself. You may not believe but other people do, myself included.

ShowerGel9 · 26/01/2018 18:14

I saw my grandma the night she died. The outline of her watching all my family sat in my living room. I wasn't scared and just kept staring for a good few seconds. Then I turned away and then looked back and she was still there. Looked away again...looked back and she was gone. I didn't say anything as I was kind of under some spell
I'm terrified of the thought of ghosts. However I wasn't scared seeing this image.

My nephew tells a story of how he saw his mum in the bathroom. He saw her from the back and spoke to her and she answered. He went downstairs and left his mum in the bathroom. When he entered the kitchen directly at the bottom of the stairs his mum was sat at the kitchen table.

liz70 · 26/01/2018 18:28

Spirit is our permanent form; our physical state only temporary. We - in mortal form - are the "ghosts", not them. Only, there is no "them" and "us", only us in our carnal state (temporary) , and us in our non carnal state (eternal).

BattleaxeGalactica · 26/01/2018 18:34

No.

There have been various money prizes offered over the years for evidence of the existence of spirits (among other paranormal phenomena) under controlled conditions. None have ever been successfully claimed.

bridgetoc · 26/01/2018 18:35

In a word........ No.

ShowerGel9 · 26/01/2018 18:52

Liz 70. ..I like it!!

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TeasndToast · 28/01/2018 13:28

I have one and this experience was shared with my best friend so I know it was not in my head.
When we were 19 years old I was still living at home and she stayed over one night. We were both in my bedroom in bed in pitch black but chatting and laughing. Suddenly there was an enourmous bang, as loud as a gun going off in the centre of the room. It was coupled by a ball of light. I saw the light as a blue flash and she saw it as white but that’s the only thing we differed on. We lay there frozen and silent for a minute until we plucked the courage to turn the light on.
There was nothing. No blown bold or electrical items. Sockets all fine. And the explosion was right in the middle of the room anyway, in thin air. As if someone just shot a gun in the dark. Would love to know it was.

TeasndToast · 28/01/2018 13:28

#bulb#

DreamyMcDreamy · 28/01/2018 14:00

I love thread like this! I don't know whether there is "something else" or not. I think it's pretty close minded to just flat out pooh pooh stuff....
Ok, you didn’t have an ‘encounter’ because there is no such things as ghosts. HTH.
So what was it then?

ICanStandtheHeat · 05/02/2018 23:10

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isthismummy · 05/02/2018 23:28

I don't 100% believe in ghosts, but they believe in me.

Years ago I was staying at my ex boyfriends flat. We'd just stepped out into the communal corridor and I was walking ahead of him. I suddenly felt him brush my side and distinctly pull on the strap of my shoulder bag. I turned round to him and he was standing shock still about ten feet away from me. I asked him if he'd just pulled my bag strap. He looked horrified, grabbed me by the arm and pulled me out of the front door. I asked him what was wrong and he said the reason he was so far behind me was because he thought he'd seen a shape moving in the air near the front door. He'd stoppped moving because he wasn't sure what he was seeing. He was the least fanciful person you could ever meet and did not believe in the supernatural. He refused to ever talk about it again.

I also shared a flat in Camden a few years ago where loads of weird shit went on. My flat mate had a puppy who slept downstairs in a crate at night. Flat mate would always leave crate door open for puppy to roam around living room. One morning I came down first and puppy was locked in his crate with the blanket over it. I let him out. When flatmate came down later I told her I'd let him out that morning. She asked me what on earth I was talking about. I then found out that she'd left him out the night before as normal.

On another occasion I was getting ready in same flat for a night out. There was nobody else in the flat. I was upstairs, but playing music on a CD player on living room table. All of a sudden the music went off. I went downstairs and the CD player was turned off and facing in the opposite direction to the one I'd left it in. I turned in back on and went back upstairs. Within five minutes it turned itself back off again.

Bonkerz · 09/02/2018 13:17

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