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?

Honestly, I'd be more worried about your DH having a stalker!

I'll send you my DC. They're obsessed with ghostbusters at the moment! They'll get to the bottom of this for you.

Ghosts do not exist.

Surely you should say "I don't believe in them", you don't KNOW they don't exist.

so, there is a lady ghost in our local woods!

There really isn't, I promise you.

I believe him, i have seen one, scared me to death, but i have 2 sons who are very psychic, and described what they have seen and they have been recognised as someones relative even down to clothes they were wearing

So apparently saying "No such thing as ghosts" is ARROGANT to some now? Fucking hell, mumsnet is bloody hilarious at times 🤣🤣🤣

I saw a ghost in the woods, a man in horseback, when I was age about 10, lost with my younger siblings for 5 hours.

He rode past but I didn’t ask for help.

Then I heard children playing in the near distance, and saw a bunch of adults and kids.

I didn’t go over to them.

My disorientated state of mind promoted these ‘ghosts’ or images, but my mind required some sensible guidance. I avoided contact with the ‘ghosts’ because maybe I realised they weren’t real, but I found a way out of the woods afterwards.

As an adult, I learnt the woods have a folk story of a gypsy family living in the woods centuries ago, right by the place I thought I saw kids and adults playing.

It’s not a case of believing in dead people wafting around in spirit form or not, it’s just a circumstantial state of mind you either accept or deny. People only seem to see ghosts when they’re in a state of flux or confusion.

Your husband probably has worries he needs to address.

‘ my hubby ‘ ( boak ) has seen a ghost five times already ‘

He’s clearly a fucking nutter love.

I've seen ghosts. They do exist, usually because their death was sudden (murder) and they can't escape.

I have many stories of things I've seen.

He's trying to get you to take some turns walking the dog.

DH was walking home from work along a gravelled towpath near Ware, gloomy evening just before Christmas, no-one else apparently silly enough to be walking in the semi-dark. He saw a couple wearing voluminous dark clothes coming towards him, and moved to the side to allow them to pass. As they did, not responding to his "good evening". DH realised that they made no sound at all on the gravel. Glancing up, he noticed that the apparently male figure had no facial features, just a grey "mist". DH was bemused, but not scared. Just how to explain the experience?

I went into an old maternity hospital for an induction of labour 32 years ago. We were new to the area at the time, as husband was in the forces. Was put in the same room as a woman who was already in labour, having a difficult time and was swearing and shouting at her husband telling him it as all his fault she was in so much pain, was going to leave him, etc etc..

It was my first child and my DH had been sent home for the night as they said nothing would happen until the next day. I had been put on a drip already. Listening to the conversation, I became very anxious. A woman in a long grey uniform with an old fashioned apron arrived, it was just after the night midwives handed over, so no staff were about. Also late December, so dark for several hours. The woman smiled at me and smoothed the bed sheets. I spoke to her, but she did not reply. Nonetheless she made me feel calmer.

I had a long induced labour and delivered a healthy baby boy. About 18 months later I was working on the children's ward of our local hospital as a nurse. A midwife was sent down to help as we had a very young poorly baby on the ward and not enough nursing staff.

By this time the maternity unit from the old hospital had been moved into a brand new maternity unit on the DGH site. The Midwife talked about the old hospital with nostalgia and said that there had been a Grey Lady who haunted the wards. It was said that she comforted expectant mothers who were in distress. I had goose bumps at the time, but had not been given any pain relieving medication which might have obscured the experience.

To this day I believe that the grey lady was a ghost, yet I have experienced many deaths during my nursing career and never had a similar experience before or since.

I love a woo thread too , I've had enough weird experiences now to not dismiss anything, despite being a staunch skeptic prior to them.

In a previous woo thread on here I can't remember the poster's name but her account of housesitting on the edge of Savernake (sp) Forest still scares the bejeesus out of me!

Where are the woods OP? Can you link to the FB page talking about the ghost?

Love me some woooo

There is no scientific or compelling evidence that ghosts exist. It’s a lady with bad fashion sense, or he’s being a prat.

I don’t believe in ghosts but I also don’t think it is useful to ridicule people like the ops show who thinks he has seen one. Unless he’s outright lying, he has experienced something which he thinks was seeing a ghost - and that needs some sympathetic thought surely?

Show - husband

I haven’t seen a ghost but I’d never write off the possibility. There’s a lot of stuff we don’t understand out there and I’ve read enough woo threads on here over the years which have made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The werewolves one still haunts me,

Ghosts don’t exist and it’s not arrogant to say so.

Most ghost sightings happen when it’s quiet, dark, deserted... no one ever see ghosts at ten o’clock on a Tuesday morning in Tesco.

The ghost-seer is often alone and even more frequently, in bed having been asleep/about to go to sleep.

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.

Despite the prevalence of cameras, video and audio equipment available, no one has ever satisfactorily captured recorded one.

BlameIt I immediately thought of the Savernake story when I read the op.

Ghosts do not exist

Surely you should say "I don't believe in them", you don't KNOW they don't exist

No, they really don't exist. As is 100% definitely DONT exist.

I would go walking with him. It will just be an old lady

I want to believe.

Never seen a ghost but heard monks signing/chanting and so did my family I was with. We were at a ruin in the open air about 30 years ago. It was wonderful. It was a 15 sec burst of it.

You fuckers mentioning the Savernake story while I'm walking through some woods with my dog

In the 90s when DW and I first got together, before the DC came along, we lived in a very ordinary 1950s semi in a very ordinary street.

The kitchen was at the back of the house next to the room we used as the main living room. Several times we walked down the hall, turned into the room, and out of the corner of the eye saw a figure standing at the sink. We never saw it full on but it gave the impression of being an old woman. FWIW the previous owner had been an elderly woman who had died.

One night DW woke up and decided to raid the fridge. As she came back, she heard footsteps on the landing. She though she must have woken me and that I had got up to go to the loo. When she got upstairs she found me still asleep in bed.

Were these some remnants of dead people? We cannot say. But whatever the explanation may be, this is what did happen!