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AIBU?

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

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lowresidue · 16/07/2018 22:21

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?

OP posts:
Mix56 · 23/07/2018 14:08

Drop it

BertrandRussell · 23/07/2018 14:09

And, just as an illustration, the first time you mentioned it, you said it healed with no scar in 2 days- which would have been remarkable. Then you said that in 2 days there was only a scab. Which is pretty normal for a slight burn that has been put in cool water. And it must have been a slight burn ( which can, of course, still be horribly painful) or your silo would have insisted on A&E because burns on children’s hands are potentially serious.

BertrandRussell · 23/07/2018 14:11

This is AIBU. Not really controllable, I’m afraid!

KittyKlaws · 23/07/2018 14:22

Ghosts always seem to be wearing long Victorian dresses or suits of armour. No one ever sees the ghost of a caveman or a seventies hippy.

I haven't RTFT so apologies if I'm repeating here. Just to clarify I have no idea if ghosts exist or not - if they do, I'm certainly not sensitive to them.

That said I heard chanting in Latin as a child at a monastery and no one else could hear it at all. No idea what that was.

Anyway - with regard to the above point (bolded - hopefully) on one of these 'woo' threads someone posted this story about a nightclub and a dancing ghost and he WAS wearing 70s clothing so, sometimes these ghosts don't wear Victorian garb Wink. I have no clue if the dancing man story was true but I swear it was a damn good creepy story and certainly spooked me a little. I loved it - still the best story I've seen on these threads.

heartsease68 · 23/07/2018 14:27

So remind me what it is about these threads you find fascinating bertrand? I think you just see an easy way to be right.

heartsease68 · 23/07/2018 14:30

From reading your recent posts ber, it's not belief you find fascinating. What you like doing is seeing if you can kill it, like a child pulling apart a butterfly.

Mix56 · 23/07/2018 14:44

Thank you for a lesson on burns, I am not justifying & I feel no inclination to prove I am right, I did not say this was a chubby little 2 year old, I said "my daughter".
not interested in point scoring, you don't want to believe me, Don't.

AgathaRaisonDetra · 23/07/2018 16:21

I wish I could sit next to Bert* in a pub quiz.

Plimmy · 23/07/2018 16:31

This thread...Confused

It's like watching a nineteenth century mob trying to run the local doctor out of the village because he insists on treating people with vaccines or medicines and they want to believe in the healing powers of Old Goody Smith who does the laying on of hands.

VanillaSugar · 23/07/2018 16:48

This thread....

It's like those two people at a Christmas party who say It's not the real Santa. It's that bald guy with a cotton wool beard on. Oh, and I pissed on your Kettle Chips.

Plimmy · 23/07/2018 16:57

Which is it then - just fun which everyone knows is only pretend, like Santa, or is this ghost and paranormal stuff real?

Because many people on this thread have spent a lot of time and effort saying it's all real.

If it's just make-believe like Santa you all should have said so. Then we could have stopped at page 1.

VanillaSugar · 23/07/2018 17:39

It's like sitting round the camp fire telling ghost stories on Halloween. And then those people come stomping in shouting THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GHOSTS and then they get stroppy when we tell them to leave and they piss in the camp fire to put the wood chips out.

Plimmy · 23/07/2018 17:42

So it's all make-believe.

VanillaSugar · 23/07/2018 18:29

In your head, yes.

HonkyWonkWoman · 23/07/2018 18:54

Plimmy! Some people may choose to believe that the unexplainable things which have happened to them are real or even get some comfort from them.
There's no harm done to anyone else at all, if they enjoy recounting these tales to other people, who by the way can think whatever they want about the veracity of the tale.
Why does it give you so much pleasure to keep on telling people that you think that it's all a load of rubbish.

Relentlessly! On and on!
We hear you! You don't believe in anything supernatural.
You are embarrassing yourself now on this thread and sounding like a bitter old Witch!!! See what I did there!!😂😂😂

HelloEllo · 23/07/2018 19:03

For goodness sake people, are your egos that big that you have to keep arguing?

If you think people are being rude, winding you up or trying to detail the thread, ignore them, massive egos hate being ignored.

PortiaCastis · 23/07/2018 19:09

I believe in the supernatural because I've seen my Father many times and it's very comforting to see him. I do not care or give two fucks what anyone else thinks because they're not me and they do not know what happened to my Father.
People are so quick to dismiss others without experiencing their situations, I try to keep an open mind myself.

heartsease68 · 23/07/2018 19:12

You're comparing bertrand to a vaccine???

Who is she helping, exactly?

PanPanPanPing · 23/07/2018 19:19

Despite the side arguments, I still want to know whether @lowresidue has gone dog walking with her DH to check out BonnetWoman!!!

recluse · 23/07/2018 19:45

Haven’t read the whole thread but I have a genuine question for those who have seen ghosts or believe in them -

why would the person’s spirit reconstitute itself in the form of a recognisable person and how?

Sounds stupid I know but I genuinely would like to know what people think.

I myself have never seen a ghost but a family member of my Dad’s regularly did as a child. I have felt things and had an extremely vivid dream once - but of course these things could be in my mind. My grandad was in the dream and it was so vivid it woke me up. Years later someone who was into spiritualism told me that a spirit visitation in a dream usually causes the person to wake up. I know it was just a dream, but it was very comforting and I remember every detail of it more than 25 years later.

BertrandRussell · 23/07/2018 19:49

“So remind me what it is about these threads you find fascinating bertrand? I think you just see an easy way to be right.”

Grin Glad you’ve accepted I’m right!
heartsease68 · 23/07/2018 19:56

I think there's more than one way to be right.

Plimmy · 23/07/2018 21:59

I think there’s more than one way to be right.

No. Not when you’re talking about drivel like ghosts.

Centuries of trying to overcome nonsense and superstition. Centuries in which people - mostly women - were put to death because of belief in magic and the supernatural. And MNers still want to believe in ghouls, ‘wise women’, ‘healers’ and people who can foresee death.

FFS.

PortiaCastis · 23/07/2018 22:13

Some people do not agree that ghosts are drivel and some people repeatedly post drivel

AnxiousPeg · 23/07/2018 22:42

Still going, Plimmy Grin

Bless you.

Just keep on asserting your superiority and everyone will fall into line...

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