To think I've seen a ghost

[TheDayDreamBeliever]

Ok so this is a weird one, but there's been 2 incidents this year, the first I was skeptical about, the second not so sure.

I've had my share of pregnancy losses, I was told by some woman that I had 2 beautiful sons. I actually have 1 of each but DD wasn't there. She said identical in every way. I was asleep months back, I woke up to see what I thought was my son by my feet. I asked why he wasn't at his activity, there was just this giggle and the boy walked out the door. Then my DS came back with DD and I just thought that was odd.

Then recently to say I've not been having the best of times is an understatement. A few times I've woke up and it's been like a relative who's deceased, shimmering at the bottom of my feet. I've closed and opened my eyes several times and they were still there. When I got to sit up they went.

Has anyone else had anything similar or seen / heard a ghost. Before DS was conceived 2 months before we lost a baby at 9 weeks. So it would tally with what the woman said, plus what I saw followed by the audible playful giggle then disappearing.

I've dreamt about loved ones who have passed, so I know the difference between the two. What I've seen recently of the person who passed has been like a shimmery / sparkly outline of them smiling. Almost making me feel protected. The fact I opened and closed my eyes and it didn't disappear till I sat up.

I've seen like shadows before, a bit like the archetypical ghost, verified by others who saw the same. But this was different, I can't get the giggle out of my head. It was a higher pitch than both DC.

I would love to hear others stories, as I can't be alone in this.

You're not alone OP ,you're very lucky,loved ones have returned to reassure you.contact your local spiritual church.they will be able to offer free help and advice.If you want the visits to stop just tell the person not to return.many would love to see loved ones again so this is really lovely.
Ignore any posters who slate spirituality.

I have not seen anything like that in my experience, anything I have seen I think I may have been dreaming but never really had good experiences.

When I was with my ex we lived in a house that was not overly old but I never felt comfortable there, my ex would work away a lot and I had pretty bad experiences of waking up feeling like something or someone was in the room with me, it was terrifying! I put it down to nightmares and not having a brilliant relationship with my ex. It’s not happened since but i did tend to sleep walk in the past, and would sometimes dream of spiders in the bed which would make me bolt out of bed.

My current partner is a massive skeptic or all things paranormal he believes science can explain everything, I’m more of a see it to believe it. Even with what I have experienced I put it down to my mind playing tricks because the alternative would terrify me! Xx

Ignore any posters who slate spirituality.

Oh well, KarmaStar has spoken so no point in reading anything else OP

Whatever it is, as long as it brings you comfort I wouldn't question it if I were you

Hi OP,

I've had something similar, seeing and really sensing a ghost at the end of the bed, but being paralysed with fear. In my case it was classic sleep paralysis, but the absence of fear in your case suggests something different. I like to keep an open mind!

Same happened to me. A few days after my Nan had passed I woke up in the night like I usually do. I saw my Nan sat next to me in the nightie she passed away in. She looked so happy, radiant and healthy again. She said to me that she was ok now, she's no longer suffering. She smiled then just vanished

I have a little boy who I mc in our house-things happen more when I have been pregnant /new baby when I hadn't even made a connection to who it was . He makes himself known in a few ways, we have heard him giggle and call for me, heard his footsteps, heard him bouncing on beds!! I have seen him twice but only from the back. He has locked doors before and turns the TV over, let our ddogs through a baby gate!! Little bugger tbh!!
Even teens have confessed to hearing him!! Part of our family really!!

April - I want to ask both DC's why they like their lights on all night. But I don't want to put ideas in their heads. A few things have happened, I honestly wouldn't have thought anything of it till I said 'Why aren't you at your activity, where's your Dad?' I just literally got a cheeky grin and a giggle then literally through the open door.

I sense that someone is behind the chair DH sits in. Could be total baloney but when you're here alone you can really feel it, but more than you're being watched over anything ominous.

But the thing with the relative has happened a couple of times. Also I've said to DH to check the pain cupboard as stuff keeps rattling and I'm thinking of four legged things, but he said there was no way they could get in. But when I've been in the kitchen alone at night there's been a few things. So to go up one on the looney scale I decided to talk to anything that was there.

I think in all honesty the person who's passed might be thinking wow I didn't know things were like that.

I've woke up before say with what looked like a man crouching by my bed and I screamed the house down. This was different to that.

No you're not seeing ghosts. They don't exist.

I had a very vivid dream once after my mum died. I woke up (I thought I woke up) to a bright light, brighter than white in the room and my mum was there. She looked a lot younger, wearing a dressing gown. There was an older man standing quietly behind her, didn't have a clue who he was.

I got out of bed and gave her a massive hug and she asked me if I was ok and then I woke up. The dream was very comforting, even though it felt very real at the time.

My mum passed unexpectedly in 2012 only 42 years old leaving me (23 then) my little brother(4) my little sister(2) due to ill health.
I then took both siblings on as their father lived 5 hours drive away.
So their father came to see them a few months after DM past, we where at our Grans house and their father was getting ready with his mum to set off back home, When I said to him you have to make more of an effort with DC, To which my mobile started to ring on my phone it said siblings fathers name?!
To which I said to him your calling my phone(name) and showed him.
To which he said impossible my phone is dead, he pulled his phone out and YES...IT WAS DEAD!!😲😲
His mum took it off him and said it is dead!.
I then answered and put it on speaker as you should of been able to here my Grans tv in back ground...but there was...NOTHING BUT SILENCE 😐😐😐😐😐....!!!
My Gran jumped out of her chair and started shouting " I knew she was here, I knew it!".
That from this day still freaks everyone out who I tell...
I would love a explanation to how this was possible???!!!!

Aww @Cellardoor23 that is wonderful. To be honest the one crouched by me I had no idea who that was but I literally screamed the whole house up.

I've got a strange fascination with cellars a attic rooms. That's probably more batty than seeing a ghost. Lol

Friend of mine told me about something that happened to him as a teenager. He woke up unexpectedly at night and had the urge to walk onto the landing. He said it was very surreal like he was still half asleep. Despite the landing being carpet he felt hard floor under his feet and became aware of lots of light and activity round him. Then he saw his grandma who was very ill in hospital miles away. She told him to go back to bed, everything is ok. He did as she said and the next morning woke up to be told the his grandma had passed away in the night. He swears it was not a dream, he actually woke up. Either way it's quite a story.

I spoke to DC, I'd forgot about it and was trying to find a way to ask them (NC BTW) and they said nope and giggled to each other which is a sure fire way I know they're lying or one knows about the other.

Anyway they've both had similar things & apparently it's not scary as she looks so beautiful. Which would echo what I saw. DD said she still loves us you know, that really got me.

Me DC are at an age where I thought they'd be scared maybe, but they obviously feel reassured and loved.

So don't feel quite as crazy now. I guess everyone's a skeptic till they experience it.

I'm skeptic!

Why haven't I seen my mum at the foot of my bed!? I read these threads and wonder why I haven't seen any relatives? So I remain skeptic til I do

Any clairvoyants around who can tell me anything?

I want to believe

I woke up to see what I thought was my son by my feet.

I've woke up and it's been like a relative who's deceased, shimmering at the bottom of my feet.

Do you see any pattern there?

You are imagining it. Ghosts don't exist.

But if thinking they do gives you comfort, there's nothing wrong with that.

Also I've said to DH to check the pain cupboard as stuff keeps rattling and I'm thinking of four legged things

WTAF is a pain cupboard??
Torture equipment?... No wonder you have ghosts

Not seen anything but about three years ago I moved into a flat in a big, old house that was a former children’s home. Never felt anything or was uneasy there. I had a pair of diamond stud earrings that I’d packed in my jewellery box for the move. Got up one day and decided to wear them, only one in jewellery box. Searched that box and the packing box, nothing. Searched drawers, behind bed etc. (even though there was no way one could have got lost or been separated). I was annoyed but wrote it off as one of those things. As I was hoovering (all laminate floor) I though if I’d dropped it, I might see it shining at me - no such luck. The next morning, I got up went to put my makeup on and there was my earring on top of my makeup bag! No way I wouldn’t have seen it, as I used my makeup every day and I wouldn’t have separated a pair by putting one in my jewellery box and one in my makeup bag. Probably a simple explanation but if there was something there at least they were friendly!

I have similar experiences and it's sleep paralysis for me and I'm pretty sure it's what most people have for this sort of thing. I'm not asleep, not scared, can sometimes move sometimes not, can communicate etc.

However, if people find comfort in it then that's great, I'd like to believe there is something else.

There’s a common theme through threads like this which is that the majority of these experiences when the person is in bed/just woken up/at night. The mind plays funny tricks in that awake/asleep grey area. It’s not ghosts, they don’t exist.

Exactly curtains

And stress plays havoc with your sleep and brain.

Threads like this actually make me feel really sad. Because I have aunts, uncles, and grandparents who have died. It was horrible and painful to lose each and every one of them.

They've never appeared to me as lovely ghosts. Since they've died I've never seen them. So those of you who believe in ghosts, why? Why would the people who I loved dearly decline to show themselves to me? If they could?

My Dd and her friend had horses when they were about 13.
They were at the stables and her friend was walking back from the muck-heap with a wheel-barrow as my daughter walked out of her stable.
She saw an old lady walking behind her friend just at her left shoulder but before she could say anything, the woman disappeared.
She told her friend and they both laughed about it.
When her friend got home, her Grandma had died that afternoon.
Btw. My Dd doesn't believe in ghosts, the afterlife, God or anything.
So I ask her now, what do you think you saw then and all she will say is, she doesn't know!

I used to volunteer as a bereavement counsellor. Part of grief is ‘seeing’ and/or ‘hearing the deceased person. Very normal and our brains way of trying to make sense of and help us deal with terrible loss.

The brain can do all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff - make us think we are awake when we are asleep. It can produce images of things and people that aren’t there. It can remember scenes from films, tv programmes, books etc and work them into our dreams. Why do so many people feel spooked at night or in abandoned, old buildings, or in cellars or attics, or find dolls creepy? Probably because we have so many images of these thIngs that we have seen in films or read about in books all filed away in our memory banks. We associate them with ghosts, poltergeist, demons or whatever.

Many ghosts or visions or feelings of being watched or hearing weird sounds or voices are reported soon after someone has died. Loss really wreaks havoc on us physically and mentally. Never underestimate what the brain can conjure up during times of great distress or stress. If the visions or voices provide comfort, that’s wonderful and will hopefully help in the initial stages of grief in particular.

Living in a hot climate we usually wnet to sleep with just a sheet over us but during the night I was aware of OH going to the loo then pulling a blanket around me and patting my shoulder. This went on for a few months. We were talking, after we'd moved, with friends and the subject of kindness came up, I mentioned OH's kind gesture. He went pale and said But I didn't, that's exactly what you did!
A few years later we were in another country and met a couple who had lived in the same flat before us, her first words were, Did you get tucked in at night?
It was over forty years ago but the hairs on my arms still stand up