To start another spooky thread?

[Elfintreehuggywugger]

DD (3) came downstairs earlier this week and said ‘mummy, there’s a man in my room and he knows my name.’

Cue frantic search upstairs through cupboards, under beds etc. Nothing.

I asked he what this man looked like, he apparently had a hat on and ‘bits of material from his trousers and over his shoulders’ which I assumed to be braces. He was old, very tall, with sticky out ears and had ‘a nice, squishy face.’

I told DH and he said that she’d described his DF to a Tee. DH’s DF would’ve been 110 had he still been alive, he was 40 odd years older than DH’s DM. He died before DH was born.

He dug an old photo album out and sure enough, loads of pictures of this old man with a very kind, soft featured face, very prominent ears, a hat, braces and very tall. DH sat DD on his lap this evening and went through the photo album. After flicking through the album she went back to one particular picture and said ‘mummy, that’s the man who knew my name.’

DH is freaked out but I think it’s quite nice.

Could leave you to is easier if you went to the forum set up for this bunkum instead of spreading it everywhere else.

Why are people so scathing?

I had a minor spooky moment a few years back. I felt the very deliberate steps and the weight , of our cat picking her way across me at 3am as I lay in bed.

Except the cat had dies years before.....

It wasn't a mouse or rat and my guinea-pigs who were in the next room don't walk like that even if they could get out of their cages and get onto my bed.

Ah so content and forum police now luca?

Ah so content and forum police now luca?

Er whatnow? the poster was telling ME not to post, so shouldn;t you have said that to them?

or to yourself in fact! even less excuse for that stupid comment

Luca feel free to report the thread.

why would I want to do that?
What is about these threads that people get so upset about someone pointing an alternative view? This is AIBU, so don't get in a snit when someone says YABU

On my phone at the mo but shall return tomorrow on the laptop and share a few ghostly / creepy experiences I've encountered! Love these threads

@Aprilmightmemynewname that is so interesting! Do you see him? And you've actually heard him calling you mummy? That's so creepy to me I think I'd have to move.

jelly please do!

Elfintreehuggywugger Oh yes full of supernatural entities and dark forces!! I shouldn’t have watched it this late but only chance I’ve had while ds is in bed!

Jelly I love these threads too... 👻

I have an extremely vivid memory of talking to my great-grandmother when I was about 5 or 6. My grandparents had recently moved and were having a housewarming party. She was sitting in an armchair in my grandmothers bedroom and I was sitting on the floor playing with her dog. I still remember me telling her about starting school and about a trip I had taken to Hampton Court, and her saying that when she comes over to visit me, we could go together and I would show her around. I even remember her getting cross with me because I was getting the dog all riled up and hyper.

Before Christmas, me and my dad (she was his grandmother) were talking and he was asking me if I remembered certain relatives from his side of the family. I mentioned about that memory I had with her, only to be told it could not have been possible because great-grandmother had died two years before my grandparents moved to that house.

I know that memory can be extremely complicated, and the human mind can very easily mix things up and what not, but I swear to god, I spoke to my great-grandmother that day. I'm almost 100% sure I even wrote about it in my diary at the time.

NightRaven52 That is so eerie...

Love these threads!

Love these threads. Unfortunately nothing to add.

caviar that’s unnerving, especially the burning bit!

Nightraven similar to what happened with DD then. When I was 4/5 months old my paternal grandfather died. My mum said that she used to often hear his voice through the baby monitor and the sound of me giggling in response. She said that I always giggled in my cot and would wake the house up with my giggles but there would be no apparent cause for my giggling. She always thought it was my grandad tickling me.

This will out me as I've mentioned it to a few people IRL recently but hey ho

When my marriage broke up, ds and I went to live with my parents in their house. We stayed there until ds was 5. He slept in the room that used to be my grandmother's bedroom (she died in the late 90s). He regularly used to talk about 'the lady' that would wake him up in the night, coming into his bedroom and sitting on his bed.

I used to assume that it was my mum, coming in to check on him in the night, I would ask her over and over again not to do it. She would swear that all she would ever do was poke her head around the door but would never actually go into the room and certainly never sat on the bed.

My mum sadly died in 2016. A couple of weeks ago my nephews stayed the night with my dad, sleeping in ds's old room.

In the morning, my nephew, who is nearly 4, told us that he was really tired because of the lady who came into his bedroom the night before and woke him up by sitting on his bed.

Can't decide whether it was more likely to be my mum or my grandmother

My dog sees things, he will stare into space and growl and yet I can’t see anything. He got very growly earlier this week walking past my next door neighbours house. He stared growling and staring at her house and as I was trying to pull him away he kept looking back and growling.

Fennel that’s quite lovely! I’d still be freaked out but quite ‘touched’ at the same time.

I always struggled withthe fact that my DD would never meet my grandad (who was like a dad to me) so it’s nice to think that maybe, they’re there.

Tara we’ve had cats act very bizzarely in my childhood home with was 450 years old. We also ‘adopted’ after my stepdads sisters terrier in the latter years of his life and he used to stand and bark at this certain corner of this certain room, he would then move his head like he was following something across the room. Strange.

In our last house, where we lived when DD4 (4) was born we had a few odd goings on. Most easily explained of course but odd when all put together:

• First week i kept smelling pipe smoke randomly.
• Twice the 'manual' clocks all changed to 6 o'clock and stopped while we were all out.
• When new born DD would always stare up at a certain corner of our bedroom. Crane her neck to look.
• Once old enough she would laugh and reach her arms up to that spot.
• It happened one day downstairs; she reached a toy out to nothing and smiled - aiming at the door way.
• Our cats often used to watch something invisible to us going up one wall and across the ceiling and down the other wall.
• Once she could talk DD would point and say 'man up there' - point at the ceiling in our room. Or man in the wall.
• Later asking unprompted about the ''man who lives in the wall. With a blue shirt''.

We've moved now. (Not because of it). DD's never mentioned anything like it here and the cats have stopped following invisible nothings

I broke the thread !

I think those who are skeptical have in the main just never had anything 'spooky' happen to them [or didn't take note of it when it did!].
For example, I sometimes wonder if all the people that you see out and about are still alive... could some of them actually be ghosts and we just don't know that they are. Unless we tried to speak to them and they disappear in a puff of ectoplasm I guess

Personally I have never knowingly witnessed a ghost or ghostly behaviour. But I have been witness to strange lights in the sky travelling at incredible speed. I am sure some people would be equally skeptical about that, would disbelieve that I had actually seen what I say I have or that they were 'UFOs' rather than a rational, earthly explanation such as rogue Russian fighter jets or chinese lanterns.

To me, it makes a sort of spiritual sense [I am not religious] that our energy carries on in some form when we die. Of course our bodies feed plantlife ultimately but our spiritual energy is utilised in some ongoing way as well, not such in the form of the memories we leave behind in the mind of others.

And what would be more natural and lovely than a parent, grandparent or great grandparent visiting their loved ones in spirit form... perhaps just to see how they are and to let them know that they are okay.... So I do want to believe this might be the explanation but otherwise I have no reason to disbelieve the accounts of PP on this thread.

Not very spooky but here it is anyway.

One of my aunts lived 2-3 hours drive away. A few years ago, dh was going to be in the area for a sports event so we all planned to go with him, and I'd carry on with the kids to visit her.
That morning I had the most horrible sore throat and felt generally awful so I sadly cancelled the visit. I mentioned to my sister that I'd thought "what if that was the last chance to see her!".
It wasn't, however, last year I had a visit planned, knowing it would be the last one as she was very ill by then but expected to live a couple of months. Again I had to cancel as I was so unwell the day before that I had to finish work early (same symptoms, temp, sore throat, generally lousy) and sadly that had been my last chance, as if I'd had a premonition years earlier.
That might be scraping the barrel a bit! But this is the same aunt who sent me a lovely note after my mother (her sister) died saying that from her personal experience, those who we are close to in life remain close a little while after death. And less than 24 hours after my aunt died, I witnessed the clock in the car change time which it had never done before or since. It should have shown 18 something but instead it showed 07:59 or something like that, then it changed back to the correct 24 hour time.
Probably reading too much into it.

My first thought on reading the op was the BFG who has been around visually quite a lot with the film that came out not to long ago.
Sorry