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?

Vanilla 😂

Ghosts don’t exist and it’s not arrogant to say so.
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Oh of course they do, and actually it is arrogant to make such a claim*^

Would I be arrogant to say that there really are not 9 foot moth men in the woods outside Arkansas? Loads of people have claimed to seen them so it must be true!

The fact that people choose things with no reasonable evidence is what makes these threads riveting, not the actual sightings, it's the posters thinking process' that draws unbelievers in.

On a few rare times, even walking into the edge feels repellent and wrong, like a magnet pushing me away.

There are many reasons this could be. Why would someone choose to believe a reason that has no evidence, such as one based on the existence of evil spirits etc? And why not believe a reason that has evidence, such as evolutionary psychology of being cautions in certain habitats that our ancestors would have had cause to be hyper vigilant in due to the real threat of wild animals?

Bananas do u live in Gilead?

I find it very frustrating that people who believe in ghosts will never admit that they only believe in them on their own terms.

There have been any number of threads on here about spooky things happening: doors opening or banging by themselves, objects moving around, things going missing without explanation, apparitions, vanishing people and so on and so on.

But if any of these 'believers' go to the police after, say, a burglary or a bag theft or a stolen bike or being stalked by a stranger, would they suggest to the cops that it might have been a ghost that did it? If not why not? Ghosts are apparently capable of entering houses and moving or taking things and following people around. The truth is that it doesn't suit anyone to think that ghosts might be responsible for things we can - rightly - hold real people accountable for and that we might get our property back from.

And as others have said, why don't ghosts appear in the pickles and sauces aisle in Tescos of a Saturday morning? Or on the penalty spot of a World Cup shoot-out being broadcast to billions? And why do they wear centuries old outfits and not bikinis?

Because people want to believe in ghosts as it suits them, not as it accords with any common sense or reality.

Both my parents have seen lots / had lots of ghostly experiences. I see no reason why they'd both lie about it, it seems unlikely they both spent much of their life hallucinating. I was raised to believe in ghosts with the same sense of conviction as many people do any creature David Attenborough has seen but I haven't.

However I get why people who have had no experience or don't trust the judgement of anyone who has wouldn't believe.

My sister saw things too but it missed me. I have had a very accurate psychic reading though

MadMary it really stands out w
doesn't it (Savernake)?

Madison reading while dog walking in a forest!!!

Its funny really, I used to be a committed skeptic (still loved woo stories though) I was so adamant that I was right and that there was no such thing, I often used to think, why don't I experience anything then, why's it only those who believe and not skeptics who see stuff?

Then one day I did experience something and I have honestly never felt that level of fear (and I've been in some pretty leery situations), and it kept running through my head that this couldn't be happening and it couldn't be real. I wasn't on my own either, and my two colleagues experienced the same thing.

I wouldn't say I've ever seen an actual ghost, but I've seen and experienced some very evil, unpleasant stuff.

People often see stuff when they are stressed. You said he needs a holiday. At least she's not frightening.

headinhands my job involves spending all my time in forests, and I've worked in places where there are very dangerous animals in the forests, and there are where I live (not UK, obviously ). They are very different feelings, like chalk and cheese.

I read once that ghosts do walk among us in the Tesco aisle but we don't see them as ghosts because they're in modern dress.

I'm 60% sure I glimpsed a ghost. I have friends who claim to have seen ghosts. I believe them because I know their characters.

I have made the point about ghosts always being in historic dress rather than shell suits or jeans to ghost-credulous friends before. They had to admit it's valid

I have no doubt OP's husband's 'ghost' is somewhere having a cuppa (having hung her bonnet up) and telling her family how that bloke and his dog were in the woods again.

Alternatively he's fallen through hole in time and space and landed in Gilead

Disco Boy wasn't in Victorian clothing, albeit his clothes were a bit dated, according to the MNer who posted her story (I think it's on the thread which a PP linked to earlier?)

Hushnownobodycares there’s a shell suited ghost near my work - see my last post!

I love the sceptics and their stubbornness. They're like the flat earthers of yesteryear. ("How could you possibly think the earth is a sphere? Use your eyes - it's so OBVIOUS that it's flat!")

Re: getting proof, what would work for you? A picture could be photoshopped. A video could be fake. A whole bunch of people seeing something could be a "group hallucination". So what could possibly constitute proof?

P.S. I've seen deer TONS of times in the woods near me and I've never managed to take a photo, even when my phone has been in my hand They're too quick to disappear into the trees. So I can see why a fleeting glimpse of a ghost would be tricky to capture.

I'm not a believer, purely because I have not seen proof. Show me some proof and I will change my mind.

That's o.k.. No one is saying you have to believe, and it may be that physical proof would never be a possibility anyway.

I've never to my knowledge actually seen - as in made physically visible to my eyes - an apparition. I have however been made aware through a variety of experiences that there's more out there than is easily explainable. None of my experiences were actively sought by me - they just happened!

The scariest was years ago (posted this before) when I'd been lent a cottage for a few weeks holiday. On arriving I went round to check which of the three bedrooms I would sleep in and as I opened the door of one at the back I was aware that something got up from where it was sitting on the edge of the bed and moved straight towards me. It was so sudden and unexpected I closed the door, feeling sick to my stomach. Then after a strict word with myself I opened the door again and it was still there totally filling the gap; had I tried to walk through I knew it would feel like trying to walk through thick jelly. Anyway I closed the door again and chose a different bedroom. I somehow had no worries because I think I knew whatever it was couldn't come out of its 'own' room. I enjoyed my holiday, but a few days further in when I decided to have a look through the window of that room and approached from the back garden, I could get no closer than a few yards because there was suddenly some kind of protective but invisible barrier... I mentioned this on my return to the colleague who'd lent me the cottage and she said they hadn't told me about this presence beforehand as not everyone experienced it! She also said that her husband who was the most sceptical of men refused to go into that room because he too was aware.

On other occasions it's been as though a little window has opened very briefly in my mind and I know about something that's going to happen, then the window closes again and I forget what I've seen, until later - one time it was a year later, when somebody I'd never heard of before (Benazir Bhutto), was assassinated. It was then I remembered seeing her briefly on a news item on tv and having the prescience of her death for what was perhaps only a split second...

Other things too, but different, and I've met others who've had unexplainable experiences - not all bad but weird at the time. One woman who was away and worried about leaving her husband who was in poor health, 'saw' him twice and realised he was all right; when she got home his first words were something like 'o thank God you're o.k. I thought something happened to you because I saw you out of the corner of my eye when I was watching tv and again another evening when I was getting ready for bed.' Those were the circumstances in which she had seen him, too.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio... and all that (thanks Shakespeare!)

Has anyone ever seen a very modern looking ghost..,..I'm thinking a rapper, someone in a hoody, maybe a spectre of the 80's complete with ra ra skirt and a perm?
My point is why are these apparitions always historical / yesteryear type characters? Anyone know? 🤔

RTFT Tinkobell & others - plenty have seen modern looking ghosts.

My saw a ghost miner, in the 80's so contextually modernish

Yes, I have often pondered why ghosts are always in Victorian garb or a long white dress or on a horse?

Has noone has ever seen a caveman or a modern day ghost? It seem very niche.

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I believe that people see things, I don't think they're lying.

But I don't believe in human souls existing and hovering around after their death looking exactly like their bodies used to do.

Nothing any random person on the internet posts will shift me into suddenly believing in immortal souls thanks, anymore than organised religion managed to as a child.

I agree. People imagine they see things. It’s as simple as that.

Can anyone link to the other famous MN woo story about a couple and camping? I know it’s been disproved but would love to read it again.

Oh I think the couple camping was making it all up, and was deleted as a troll. Great fun though.

There are fewer modern-dressed ghosts because the majority of people who, for example, wore shell suits in the 80's are still alive presumably.

I don't know if I believe in ghosts, but I have had several experiences which for want of a better word I would describe as 'ghost'. Not seen at night but at all times of the day, I wasn't asleep or stressed or temporarily insane and I'm not lying. The whole family occasionally saw a man in a dark suit standing either at the top of the stairs or in the hall of our very old house. We all saw the same thing many times over many years, we aren't mad or liars. My Mum sold up 15 years ago as the place was too big for her on her own, and has stayed in touch with the new owners. They've seen the man too and also they say a little jack Russell dog occasionally runs through the hall into the lounge & disappears. We had such a dog about 30 years ago and he died in the house, his name was Basil.