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To be a bit spooked

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TheShoeBoxDiva · 24/01/2019 18:11

I'm a very cynical person but I don't know how to explain this.

Today I walked past a very distinct looking homeless man. He was wrapped up in several layers/blankets etc with various bits around him. I don't give beggers money but I did offer to get him some food and a hot drink. I had trouble understanding his very strong scottish accent. We are nowhere near Scotland. He only wanted a tea so I went to the cafe that was almost next to him. It was a teabag thrown in a polystyrene cup job so I was in there literally a minute. I came back out to find he had vanished. As in, no trace he'd even been there. All his bags and blankets etc were all gone.

I felt a bit foolish and cross (and in awe of how quickly he could pack up) but never mind.

When I got home a few hours later I looked on the local news website. It had a picture of him saying he'd moved from Perth a few months ago. It also said he had died... 3 weeks ago.

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FridgeFullOfChocolate · 24/01/2019 19:42

A cleaning ghost, that’s my kind of haunting!

rytonsister · 24/01/2019 19:42

Think this is how most "ghosts " are seen from my humble experience! I'd take comfort in that you were kind to him x

Laiste · 24/01/2019 19:48

OP you've only got this thread in your name and one random answer on another. It wont hurt to link to the news article surely? Just name change again after this thread.

I'm not a non believer. I'd just like it very much if this is true that you backed it up, seeing as there is a way. So many times stories are poo poo'd because people cannot or will not provide the proof of the basics of the story.

LuckyLou7 · 24/01/2019 19:56

I'm sorry OP but I'm not sure that I believe you. I'm sure you bought a homeless man a cuppa, which is commendable, but either you took longer than you thought, and he packed up his kit and moved on, or was moved on by someone, or he accepted the cuppa with good grace, and the rest is the result of a fevered imagination. So post the link to the story, or give us the rough geographical area so we can read the article for ourselves. As I posted earlier, how did you know it was the same man anyway? Other than the Scottish accent?

chemenger · 24/01/2019 19:57

When I was a student in Edinburgh my boyfriend of the time and I used to walk past a homeless lady sitting on a particular bench on our way in to university. We noticed her because although she had all her belongings in carrier bags she was quite smartly dressed and nicely made up. We used to smile and nod because we saw her every day. Nothing unusual.

While we were together we went on two trips; to York and to London. We met our bag lady in York Minster, she smiled and nodded as usual. Then we met her walking down a street in Belgravia, she smiled and nodded again. Guardian angel? Still puzzles me after 30 years.

SerialChangerOfName · 24/01/2019 20:00

Nobody is really falling for this are they?

Mookatron · 24/01/2019 20:01

I think it's most likely the report was wrong.

If people keep troll hunting all the woo threads will be banned and then will there be any joy at ALL on MN or just people forensically criticising other posters?

OhDearHowSadNeverMind · 24/01/2019 20:01

Oh but of course you can link the article! It doesn't name you does it? No - course not!
Just N/C again after - you say you regularly do anyway - and then we can read it. I'm intrigued I must say!

dayswithaY · 24/01/2019 20:07

I'd love to read the article too. I was in a town today with so many homeless people asleep on cold wet pavements. I would be interested in reading it.

FabulouslyGlamorousFerret · 24/01/2019 20:08

If your area is big enough to have a 'large homeless problem' I reckon you can risk linking the article pretty anonymously... otherwise I call bollocks!

Queenie8 · 24/01/2019 20:12

@Eliza @Whywont my OH knows of Lenny the Tramp too

AllSuits · 24/01/2019 20:27

Why are posters going on a troll hunt? If you don't think it's a genuine post then just report it.

Otherwise, as we were, please supply more woo!

Whywonttheyletmeusemyusername · 24/01/2019 20:30

waves to Queenie I always remember Lenny by Mcds and Barclays....haven't been up that end in ages though...mainly down by the Tescos now. Has it all gone downhill as bad as everyone says ? 😂😂

Whywonttheyletmeusemyusername · 24/01/2019 20:32

Not Barclays...doh...the Post Office. ..

KarmaStar · 24/01/2019 20:53

It takes a lot of effort,I understand,to appear to mortals when you have been passed a short time.
I wonder why he did this?is this your first spiritual incident?if you are interested,you could consider contacting your local spiritualist church for advice/reassurance if required.
There may be a reason why he appeared to you.🌷🌈

Eliza9917 · 24/01/2019 21:13

Yeah it has @why. I don't live there anymore but my family do. I get news articles daily on FB about new stabbings and shootings. I wouldn't move back.

Queenie8 · 24/01/2019 21:35

@Whywont we moved out 15 ish years ago, but like Eliza I see all the updates on Facebook etc. The Town is nice for shopping but I wouldn't venture further or late at night/after dark.

Crunchymum · 24/01/2019 21:36

Why, if you've namechanged, won't you link the article?????

Eliza9917 · 24/01/2019 21:49

Yeah I wouldn't walk anywhere. Especially in edm.

Greatorb · 24/01/2019 21:55

If people keep troll hunting all the woo threads will be banned and then will there be any joy at ALL on MN or just people forensically criticising other posters?

All the "woo" threads are fake anyway. Banning them will be a good thing

Whywonttheyletmeusemyusername · 24/01/2019 21:56

It used to be such a lovely place as well....sad 😕

Eliza9917 · 24/01/2019 22:08

Yes, very :(

CurlyhairedAssassin · 24/01/2019 22:24

I don’t believe in woo but I don’t think the wood threads should be banned. Unless they’re terrifying vulnerable people. People love a bit of woo and I bet deep down people know it’s really bollocks. Doesn’t stop programmes like Most Haunted being popular.

Fiddie · 24/01/2019 22:53

Linking is ok as you've nced I think?

HarrietSchulenberg · 24/01/2019 23:16

My family have a couple of woo stories, including a very long and rather good one that I've posted on here before.

A shorter one is that when my great-grandma died, my grandfather used some of her furniture to refurnish two flats in a large house that owned and rented out. He gave her armchair to an elderly tenant in the hope that she'd find it as comfortable as his mother had. After a few days the tenant rang and asked him to remove it, but wouldn't say why. So he drove back down to the flat and removed to his house, a journey of 100+ miles involving a motorway, with the chair strapped to the roof of his car.

The tenant later told him that she couldn't use the chair as every time she went to sit in it there was an old lady already in the seat, scowling at her. The lady she described was my great grandma, to a tee, and her friend had seen her too.

My (then) teenaged uncles thought it was hilarious as they wondered how many motorists had seen their grandma in the chair, on the roof of the car as it hurtled north up the M6.

Once the chair was "back home", no-one saw anyone spectral using it again.

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