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

[lowresidue]

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?

It's interesting that several posters are repeating the assertion that ghosts always appear in historical dress, despite several posts explaining that this is not the case.

Is it that they are not RTFT? Perhaps in haste to asset that their view of things is the correct one, and to rubbish alternative views/ experiences?

Or is it that these posters are just latching on to posts that confirm their existing beliefs and ignoring any information that doesn't confirm their biases, in the way that believers are often accused of by sceptics?

I’m not sure if I believe or not.

We (as humans) tend to presume that we are the only species capable of becoming a ghost, though. I feel like if they were real, we’d also be bumping into dinosaur ghosts on the school run?

I’ve never seen anything unusual but a few days after a family member died, I was writing her eulogy and getting stressed out.

I went and found my phone and there was a message on the screen telling me to take a deep breath and relax, and other things that I didn’t have time to read. The message pinged off the screen and I couldn’t find it anywhere on my phone.
Then, a few nights later, she came to me in my dreams and told me the reason why she died and the medication that she could have taken to prevent it. I’m not in the medical field and so not clued up on the names of medicines, etc. The autopsy report proved that the dream was correct.

I do get that some of these stories could be people’s minds playing tricks on them, they think they see a shadow moving in the dark, etc. But so many people have said that they seen things so clearly that I don’t think it’s always the case.

ah - addition to earlier post! Just remembered I have on at least two occasions 'seen' particular people but at the time never thought of them as ghosts.

Both decades ago - the first was when I went next door after my neighbour's husband had died, and spoke to her and her daughters; I saw him standing a little way up the stairs just calmly watching us, so nothing frightening and I didn't say anything. Years after I did mention it to one of the daughters and she said she and her mum had seen him too.

The second occasion I'd travelled several hundred miles to see my new born grandson, and my daughter and I were near the sea when she stopped pushing the pram to talk to a friend, and I was suddenly aware my mum was standing just behind and to the side of me, so I deliberately moved so she could have a look too. She had died the previous year and never knew about the baby.

I'm undecided. I swing between believing and not believing. Had a few spooky experiences but they could probably be explained away.

I do feel that the amazing stories about the forest and the guy in the club people have talked about from other threads are just that. They don't read naturally to me. The posters are amazing story tellers I will give them that though.

I think i might have seen two ghosts:

The first was when I was nine years old. My class had gone up to another building in the school and my teacher had asked my friend and I to stay behind and wash up the art stuff. At one point my friend went to the loo and I looked up from the sink to see a girl with white blond hair running down the path to the door. It was a heavy door and it rattled as if someone was about to come in but no one did. The girl was dressed in mid - late twentieth century clothing and I could hear her footsteps as she ran down the path. I thought she was a girl from our class with blonde hair running down to tell us to come up to the TV room. Straight away I went out and saw nobody. It was during lesson time so very quiet, there were no random children running about and our classroom was in an isolated position away from any roads and the rest of the school. There was quite a transparent-brightness about her. Very odd.

The second time I was staying in Camden in a Victorian terrace where the two sitting rooms had been knocked through into one room. My friend was sleeping on a sofa in what would have been the front room and I was on a sofa in what would have been the back room. I was woken up early by a woman who was rifling through the area where our bags were, ie by the fireplace opposite me, and then she seemed to start folding things, working very quickly as she did and standing with her back towards me in front of the mantelpiece (I guess there might have been a range there once?). I watched her for some time, the room was in half light and her silhouette was grey outlined but I could kind of make out an apron etc. What was strange was that when I awoke I was sure she was my friend getting prepared for the day (she has long black hair like my friend) so I gazed at her for ages thinking something was a bit odd because it was so early and what on Earth was she doing. So I just said, “what’s the time?” And my friend blearily stirred from her sofa and said it was about six o clock. I was looking at my ‘friend’ by the mantlepiece and was very confused to hear her voice from the other side of the room! The ‘ghost’ suddenly froze when I spoke and seemed to ‘cringe’ as if guilty of being caught. As she stood there frozen for a few seconds I watched her disappear!

I wasn’t at all scared on either occasion and because I was convinced both times that the things were human and real I really don’t think I was looking for a ghost - just surprised when there turned out not to be real people there!

DH's sister is absolutely convinced she saw the ghost of her widowed neighbour's late wife walk past her kitchen window, on the path between their houses.

She was garden-fence friendly with the neighbour but had no knowledge of his late wife other than being aware that the neighbour had kept her room exactly as it had been when she died many years before. Not having been in his house or seen any photos, she didn't know what she looked like. It was only several days later, when the neighbour passed away suddenly and SIL was helping sort things out, that she saw the room filled with photos and realised that the random but distinctive middle-aged woman who'd wandered towards her garden and somehow disappeared without coming back the other way, was her.

No Victorian dress there, in fact nothing at all to suggest that she wasn't just a passer-by with strange abilities to vanish - which is exactly what SIL assumed at the time.

Ok. So how come many sightings are often dusk, dawn, nighttime incidents? Why not a ghost at the checkout at Tesco? The reality is that people snuff it any place anywhere .....not just in listed buildings or country estates.
Also why are ghosts and thwarted spirits limited mainly to human kind? What about other ghostly creatures - wildlife etc....don't they have a spirit too?

Well, a squirrel's a squirrel, isn't it? How are you going to know it's an ex-squirrel - it's not like it'd be wearing a top hat and spats.

I'd guess a squirrel would have a lot less self-awareness/consciousness and therefore not avoid passing on when it was time.

Ghosts are seen in daylight too. I've seen one at lunchtime in a crowded cafe.

Do people also entertain the idea of fairies

^

My grandmother claimed till the day she died that she saw fairies in the local woods. I believe her.

Ghosts are seen in daylight too. I've seen one at lunchtime in a crowded cafe.

Spill

dustarr TBH, it's not that exciting a tale, as not much happened.

I have seen a young man dressed in what I think is a First World War army costume twice in a local cafe I go in quite a lot. First time, he appeared standing behind my DD's highchair, then disappared fairly quickly. Second time I saw him for a bit longer, he was just kind of hanging around near the front door, again in uniform. I had a feeling of sadness, and that he was looking for someone. His face looked very unhappy.

I asked the angels to take him to the light, and haven't seen him in there since, though that could be a coincidence.

The cafe is in a building that would have been built in the late Victorian era, so I guess it's possible he once lived there, or knew it in some way.

I don't believe at all, really I don't but I've had a couple of experiences, one only a few weeks ago.

Out in the field, minding my own business, doing some jobs on a Saturday morning. I suddenly spotted a man in the middle of the next field. My immediate reaction was, ooo, he's back early but then realised it wasn't his build. The man was just kind of stood quietly and looking around a bit. I started to walk towards him, looked away for a split second and when I looked back, he'd gone. There is no way into where he was. We're behind electric gates in the middle of nowhere. There was nowhere for him to disappear to - he was in the middle of a big field. It would have taken him 30 seconds to run to the hedge. He just disappeared without a trace. Anyway, like I said, I don't believe in ghosts....

if it makes everyone better, I personally don't think its a ghost.

but, yesterday hubby saw said ghost at about 3.30 in afternoon and it was a lovely sunny day. a bit of light shade in woods but not dawn and not dusk.

on the local facebook page I simply asked if anyone had heard about anything ghosty in the woods.
first 15 mins was a POW suggestion.
I said no not really too recent and then next suggestion was woman ghost and description of clothes which matched hubby's description. I had taken care not to mention male/female or clothing.
person had seen this many years ago.

I am hopeful is a youthful 80yr old, looking middle aged who loves flowery bonnets and long dark clothes. who also likes walking in same clothes since winter, at different times of the day, frequently.
A person who enjoys walking. a lot, in same area.

its a fun mystery isn't it?!

POW? Prisoner Of War?

Anyway, I'm sure you're right, lowresidue, more than likely a woman with an eccentric style of dress who might be too shy to answer your DH.

But even so, it will be fascinating to find out.

I’ve seen a ghost and also sensed a presence. The presence was in my grandparents house and I hated going up to the loo alone and would always take one of the dogs with me as they made me feel safer. I didn’t tell anyone as ok thought they would say I was being silly. My mum asked me in the end why I wouldn’t go alone so I told her I felt I was being watched. Separately my brother had been doing something similar and would use the outside loo in all weathers rather than go upstairs. My mum asked him why and he said he had the feeling of being watched when he went upstairs and pointed to exact place I had. We had absolutely not spoken to each other about it and my mum had t told anyone either. This was also over a long period of years not days or weeks.

I saw a ghost in my first flat which was an old converted mill. My baby was on my lap and I was getting her ready to go out something came through the wall in front of me and went through the other wall into the communal hall. It was floating, blurry grey/brown shape at my seated eye level about a metre high. it passed between us and my mirrored wardrobe doors I could see our reflection but not the object and my baby was watching it too answer it went past.

About two weeks afterwards one of my neighbours approached me and said “this is going to sound mad but i think I end seen a ghost” after a chatting a bit I realised it was the same day I had seen the object in my flat.

Oh and another one my grandparents are all dead now. My grandad who I adored was the last of grandparents to pass away. I was given his bus conductors badge, it meant a lot to me to have his little plastic badge. I decided to clean it as had been in a drawer for years after he retired and was a bit grubby. I have to give a little background story here in that myself and my Nan were not that close towards the end of her life as it’s relevent.

So I’m stood on my own in kitchen exh was in garden and I was looking at the badge glad it was all nice and clean now. Suddenly I felt a bit strange and could hear my grandparents talking to each other with my Nan saying “we can’t leave her look at her” my grandads voice was then thee saying “she’ll be ok don’t worry we have to go” I felt like they were stood beside me and then they were gone.

My husband saw me through the window and came rushing in as he had noticed me just frozen to the spot and wondered what was going on. I’m not religious, perfectly sane and I just can’t explain what I experienced but nothing has ever happened since that day 15 years ago so maybe they really were on their way to wherever it is we go

I like the idea that we would all be cool with ikea just appearing and disappearing occasionally. And that a squirrel is just a squirrel!

I wonder who your husband actually is seeing out in the woods. I wonder if the person who described the bonnet lady on FB, is the person dressing up as bonnet lady to shit people up in the woods! haha.

Saying that, my university housemates and I (and several extended family members and friends who visited us) were convinced our student house was haunted. More than once, every single person in our house saw someone walking across the kitchen from one side to the other. Not just from one specific angle either; we all saw it from the living room area and people also mentioned seeing it through the plated glass front door too when it was not possible for it to have been any of us.

Ghosts don't interact though spirits do. Have you looked into the history of the place.

the woods have plenty of history as are quite old apparently. but then again aren't most woods old?

^Ok. So how come many sightings are often dusk, dawn, nighttime incidents? Why not a ghost at the checkout at Tesco? The reality is that people snuff it any place anywhere .....not just in listed buildings or country estates.
Also why are ghosts and thwarted spirits limited mainly to human kind? What about other ghostly creatures - wildlife etc....don't they have a spirit too?^

I think because most people pick up on stuff when its quiet and they are not as distracted by day to day noise. Spirits are all around us though and mediums do see them everywhere. There are animal spirits too.

I agree LilQueenie. I have a little spirit cat who visits occasionally. I always see him slipping down the stairs.

Sorry, I can't now re-find the posts upthread. But I think a couple of PPs mentioned the Molly & Tristan/camping pods in Scotland story posted by a MNer a couple of years ago. The MNer wasn't deleted as a troll at all. IIRC, she had originally started the story in the Spring with the eventual denouement to be posted by her in October to coincide with Halloween! In the October thread, a couple of MNers pointed out some big inconsistencies with her story ... and she just disappeared, never to be seen again!

She probably a) had the story in mind as a good Halloween woo story and b) NCd after that. It was a good scary story, but too harmless for her to be a troll.

Pan, is the thread still around? Should have said "made up story" rather than troll, you're completely right.

There was one about footprints in the snow in a log cabin too - which I think at some point the poster said they also invented - but who knows? That was a great read too - photos and everything.