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?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1239819-To-ask-if-anyone-has-had-any-paranormal-encounters-experiences

This is a great thread for spooky stories. It all goes a bit metaphysical at the end...but a great read.

Could it be someone into Japanese Gothic Lolita fashion. They wear bonnets sometimes.

I think I've been mistaken for a ghost once. My back gate opens to the woods, and I went looking for the source of a strange noise I heard once at 2 am (turned out to be a cat trapped in some sort of loose wire and attacked by a fox). Long white night gown, braided / tangled waist long red hair, residue of sudocrem on my face (dermatitis sufferer). Of course, I just had to meet someone trying to take a shortcut home after Friday night celebrations. I swear they ran away, I figured out why only later.

craxmum - that is excellent

I don't necessarilly believe these ghosts are lost souls walking the earth.

I see them more as an "echo" or reflection of what went before. A blip where time has skipped a beat due to the electrical fields of the planet.

Also with regard to so many ghosts in victorian costume.
Spiritualism really took off in the victorian era. Maybe all of these mediums are attracting the ghosts from that era?

Picture or it didn’t happen

Are you sure this isn’t an extremely elaborate ploy for covering for an affair?

If anyone sees him with another woman you’ll be the first to explain it’s just his “ghost”.

"time has skipped a beat due to the electrical fields of the planet."

I used to walk by an old railway line on the way to a nature reserve. I saw a man there one day, dressed in a boiler suit. He was just stood there and I couldn't see a dog anywhere near him. So I called my own dog, turned round and went a different way, out of a perfectly reasonable sense of self preservation. Not because I thought he was a ghost but because strange men early in the morning in a dog walking area with no dog are best avoided imo.
Talking to another Mum at the school gate a few months later about where we walk our dogs and without me mentioning it she said "tell you somewhere I DON'T go!" and it was that place. Ghost of a man who died working on that old railway line, apparently and many people have seen him too.
I think it's sad - it was a freak accident of some sort so he is probably still disoriented and lost, having expected to do his work and go home that day.

I'd be more inclined to believe in some kind of weird "blip" than souls - but wouldn't some scientist have measured something by now?

Also, how would those blips interact with people the way they sometimes say they do? And why is always people - why don't we sometimes see floating bits of poo, or unseasonal plants, meals, animals, pens, paper?

Why don't buildings randomly appear and vanish again? Why don't we all nod knowingly when a demolished Ikea block resurfaces every now and then?

Honestly, I just think it's so much more likely that our brains have the capacity to misinterpret stuff than that the entire space-time continuum loves replicating humans sometimes.

It's why we have religions and beliefs after all, because we grasp on to these ideas.

But I'll shush now, I agree the stories are fun.

Re: the Savernake woods post: I’m from that part of the country. There’s a Wiccan coven meets in there (or did some years back anyway) , and the woods (were, back in the 90s) popular with all night raves. Not that Wiccans would besmirch the name of Jesus or any idol - they’re fully inclusive - but as previous posters have said, funny how ghosts are always in centuries old attire, no shellsuits or jeans (even my own ‘ghost’ that I saw was a bit ‘Heatchliff-on-horseback’ dressed), and always at a point when someone is in emotional flux, distress or searching for answers.

I live in a beautiful old hospital daring from the 18th century. It definitely has ghosts but I haven’t seen one yet!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound

Infrasound is interesting and could explain a fair amount of 'ghost sightings'. I'm sure science will explain even more in the future

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.

Why no Neanderthal ghosts? Anglo Saxons?

and always at a point when someone is in emotional flux, distress or searching for answers.

Which is most people a lot of the time!

and always at a point when someone is in emotional flux, distress or searching for answers.

And what's the point. Does the spirit world think seeing a Victorian school boy riding a penny farthing will somehow help me decide wether to study biochemistry or astrophysics at uni?

Honestly, I just think it's so much more likely that our brains have the capacity to misinterpret stuff than that the entire space-time continuum loves replicating humans sometimes.

That's always been my own explanation (to myself) too.

I agree our brains are amazing things - but damn, it was just so real, and unexpected. Just out of the blue like that - you see a person who isn't actually there. You sort of say to yourself 'nah, that didn't really just happen did it? It couldn't have!" And then you just carry on with life, occasionally chatting about it on MN

I worked at a hospice which opened 14 years ago, so the ghosts there are modern I would think.

Oh love a ghosty thread.

My dh saw his mum in a hotel room the week after she had died. She was standing smiling by his bed and then faded. He was immensity conferted. Who knows

I'd be more inclined to believe in some kind of weird "blip" than souls - but wouldn't some scientist have measured something by now?

Maybe they have. I read on the internet a year or so ago that Stephen hawkings confirmed that a team of scientists had received coded messages from people in the future. But the scientists didn't reply because it would not get there in time. I'm really crap at that kind of stuff but find that idea fascinating. I reckon there's loads going on in quantum physics that would blow our minds if revealed.

But children are not stressed and they see more sightings than adults.

Are some of the sceptics not that observant?! At least four of them have popped up with the "why aren't ghosts dressed in modern dress", appearing to think they've come up with an original and bullet-proof point!

But children are not stressed and they see more sightings than adults.

I think its because children are not conditioned to not believe.Children are more open.
I know i seen more stuff when younger than i do now.And i still live in the same house.

Ooh, not seen the Savernake forest story before.

The ones that stick out for me (apart from the couple in the camping pod on the Scottish island in a snowstorm one, was gutted that was bollocks) is mainly one where a MNer was in a caravan on a site in Dorset and her and her dh went to take the dog for a wee and a quick walk late one night before turning in. They left the caravan site and crossed a stile into a large field which went down I think to a wood. While they were in this field she saw the figure of something large and dog like which appeared to be stalking them but sticking close to the field edge. She pointed it out to her dh and at this point the thing raised to it’s back legs and ran at them, they had a head start and made it back to the caravan. Maybe it was bollocks but it was quite detailed and she seemed genuine.

I also seem to remember @Jux saw a werewolf type thing once? Sorry Jux if I’ve got the wrong poster, sadly was years ago and all these stories were always in Chat so I can’t look them up!