hubby says he has seen a ghost five times so far.

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Hubby has taken our dog to a local wood, and lets the dog go for a run.
He goes at different times and different days.
He came home and told me that he has seen the same woman ghost five separate times so far. Tonight with bonnet wearing woman made him jump when she popped up in front of him. When he said 'you made me jump', she smiled nodded and walked away from him.

He was quite serious but I asked why he thought she was a dead/ ghost? He said because she is wearing a long coat and a bonnet type hat.
AIBU to suggest that this woman isn't dead, isn't a ghost and is an odd lady with a strange fashion sense?
He is quite firm she is a ghost, and walks along the path but not on it though the trees.

personally I am glad we are going on holiday soon my hubby really needs it asap.
Then again AIBU?

used to see all sorts when younger.. soldiers on horseback but halfway thru the road as on an older road.. church was full of people but mum said it was really quiet 🤷 a lot of ppl aren't connected enough to see anything.. he's lucky he still can

I keep an open mind on this sort of thing. I've never knowingly seen a ghost but perhaps I have and not realised. I wouldn't dismiss someone's claims to have seen a ghost out of hand but I'd look for other explanations first before I'd automatically think "ghost."

I have been mistaken for a ghost though. I was at a rarely used bus stop late at night and another lady came to the stop, she stared at for ages before asking me if I was real, because in her words I'm so pale I'm practically see through.

I know some people have jokingly mentioned Gilead but could bonnet lady be a protestor of some sort a la Handmaids IOM

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I’ve seen ghosts. I am THE most logical, and needing to see evidence type of person, and yet I’ve seen ghosts. I’d love to hear it explained in some sort of scientific way, I don’t know.... light particles, memory, I really don’t know. I have wondered if perhaps the people you see as ghosts are actually genuine memories of people (or pictures of people) that you’ve seen before and your memory casts them in front of you as though they’re really there. If you can see things in your minds eye, which I can and some people can’t, or if you have a strong visual memory, perhaps that’s a factor. I wonder if that makes a difference, as I know for a fact that I don’t ‘beleive’ in malevolent ghosts like poltergeists, or that there are Victorian people just floating about everywhere! On the other hand I know what I saw, and it was definite and clear.

Once saw a ghost at work, was working on a locked ward with mainly non ambulant patients and with other staff when we all heard running footsteps, we turned as a group to see who could possibly be running up the ward and myself and a colleague saw a woman so we set off after her and then she was gone, the other two staff members had heard her but didn’t see her and couldn’t believe that we had both seen the same thing!

See quite a few ghosts. Always excited to see them

I have always longed to see a ghost.No luck so far.

Haven't read the full thread but several people mentioned that there were never any sightings of cavemen and few of animals. There have been several sightings of an ancient Briton in Dorset, though. This ghost is on horseback and is supposed to be the UK's oldest ghost as appears to be from the bronze age (1924 sighting by an archaeologist ). The bones of a man and a horse were found when a nearby barrow was excavated. One person who saw it said it seemed to be trying to race his car!

Two days before my dh died he told me he felt his mother had been haunting him recently.

He was notoriously sceptical of all things spiritual his entire life. So I thought he meant he was feeling guilty about not having intervened more during his parents’ turbulent marriage. I tried to comfort him by saying it wasn’t a child’s duty to parent the parents etc, and he said “No, I don’t mean that. I’ll explain when I’m not like this”. “Like this” being very emotional and on the edge of tears.

We never did finish that conversation. I wonder very often what he meant by that remark :(.

Zaphodsotherhead they probably thought oh, there goes someone on horseback.

@PaulaRobeson If it is any comfort at all, when my mother was in the final stages of cancer (she was also young and angry as she had so much to live for and do), she mentioned on more than one occasion that she had seen them "waiting for her". I appreciate that all of that could have been down to Oromorph and various other physical symptoms but I took great comfort from the fact that at the moment of death, she had the most lovely smile on her face, as if she had seen who were waiting and that would have included recently deceased parents and a younger brother. I realise this thread is heading off somewhere else now...!

How interesting paula. - when my DSF died, he spent the week before saying that he was hallucinating and that his (deceased) family had come back to see him. About a year after he died, I did a fright night thingy in aid of Anthony Nolan (more to give them some money rather than ghost hunting) and I had the most extraordinary experience regarding DSF which I can't explain.

My mum also said her dad was waiting for her and he was coming to her in dreams, she was pushing him in a wheelchair to the seaside.
She was gutted to leave us but not scared at all

And she has come to me twice. In dreams, but it was sefinitely her, and im not woo at all.

I’ve heard a lot of people say that deceased relatives have spoken about loved ones appearing towards the end of their lives etc. But dh was so utterly disbelieving in anything that it’s really given me food for thought. He wasn’t on any medication at the time either.

Anyway, as you say, slightly different route!

For the people saying that they've seen things like a grey mist or a dark figure at the end of their bed this is typical of sleep paralysis hallucinations which is well documented. Our brains can create hallucinations to try to make sense of or illustrate things that we don't fully comprehend, or when we feel fear etc. I'm sure that if I had an hallucination I'd be frickin terrified because I'd be seriously worried about my mental health. OR if I was mentally ill would I think 'I've just seen a ghost' rather than 'I've just had an hallucination'? Having said that, I'm a cynical realistic person but these threads always make me feel v.uneasy!

Before my nan passed away, in the local cottage hospital, she said a little man in a green suit came in to see her. We asked the nurse later who that might have been and she said oh they all say that before they pass away, we’ve never seen him.

Nan also said that grandad was sitting on the bed talking to her. She said he was waiting for her. I like to think this really happened as she’d been a widow for over thirty years and it would be lovely to think that he was still waiting as loyally for her as she’d been to him.

I should also add that I suffer from sleep paralysis but I know this...so most nights when somebody screams in my ear, or there is a loud bang, even in my near deep sleep state, I know that is what it is. My experiences of supernatural persuasion have been entirely different, largely peaceful, from childhood and regular. I am not superstitious, an idiot, or anything else. As I said previously, I 100% stand by what I have experienced. If they can be explained, that is absolutely fine, I should stress that.

I had a strange unexplained experience just after my father in law died. He passed away on New Years Eve some years ago. A few days later I'd taken my then toddler to Tumble Tots and when we got home I put my bag down on the second step up of the stairs while I got his coat and shoes off, a routine I usually did when coming in.

My son ran through into the living room and I'd followed him when we heard a bang in the hall. We had floorboards and it was quite a loud bang. I turned back around to see what had happened and my bag was standing the right way up in the middle of the floor. It was open, which was how I'd left it on the stairs, and nothing had fallen out of it.

I walked back into the living room puzzling over how my bag had fallen, landed away from the bottom of the stairs and not spilled any of it's contents in the process just as a Christmas card fell from the shelf, when I picked it up it was the card which my father in law had sent to us.

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this is the place we stayed in Cornwall that we had that experience I mentioned. It was completely empty as it was March, so just me and my son in a lodge. www.whitsandbayfort.co.uk

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It is very common indeed for people on the verge of passing to see their deceased loved ones, who come to help them over. I think it's absolutely lovely.

Alleycat1 that's a very interesting story. Are you aware that it's believed that some Iron Age tribes in the British Isles had a custom of sacrificing somebody (possibly willingly....) at important tombs and monuments, so that their spirit would act as a site guardian?

Apparently, if anyone were to take anything from the site (e.g. grave goods), the guardian would try to prevent it, and if they didn't succeed, would follow the item/robber to try and retrieve it..... Quite a few ghost sightings/horrible atmospheres etc have been reported around barrows, etc.

Aw god I wish I had never owned this thread. I've been fixated on it all day and now it's bedtime I'm freaking and home alone with my dc as my dp is working away 😭

Anduinsgirl

Spot on.

I was thinking the same myself.

@AlleyCat1 I'm in Dorset.. maybe the same one I've seen on Horseback?