Ghost/past lives stories-please entertain me!

[Schooldilemma2345]

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My husband is away and I’m bored! I love reading stories or listening to podcasts about unexplained or supernatural phenomena. I’ve no idea if I actually believe that ghosts exist but I find stories about this sort of thing utterly compelling.

I’ve had a few different experiences, I’ve never actually seen a ghost (think I’d shit myself tbh!), but I would consider myself a pretty intuitive person- I often pick up on atmospheres or that certain places have a negative energy.

I’ve lived in one particular flat which I’m convinced had something terrible happen there. It had a really strange negative energy.

I’ve had a few prophetic dreams, one that predicted the separation of my aunt and her husband who I hadn’t seem for ages and had no idea were having issues in their marriage. Then another dream more recently where I was having a conversation with someone and I said “did you know x had a stroke and died”. This poor person actually did have a stroke 2 days later and died in hospital later that week. she had been ill but her death was sudden and unexpected.

My middle son has always been very sensitive and empathetic. He seems to know things beyond his years. As a baby/toddler he never slept, he would wake for hours in the night and just stare. I often wondered if he could see something I couldn’t. He once said that he chose me to be his mamma. He also said ‘this isn’t my first life you know’!

There’s lots I’ve forgotten, I’ll share more as it comes to me…..

DS was absolutely certain, when he was little, that he'd been here before. Lots of stories of Africa, and when he'd lived with boys, and later when he'd been an artist living by a river. I always used to tell him he/ l had never been to Africa and his response was always 'oh no mummy, you weren't there'! Really strange from a little chap... It stopped when he was about 4 or 5! He now (at 22) thinks it's quite funny, but it does make me wonder...

Ooh, that’s freaky. I watched an interesting documentary about kids who were convinced they’d been here before. They all seem to ‘forget’ by the age of about 5. I wish I’d written down some of the things my son said to me bc I’ve forgotten lots of it.

My eldest when she was little used to tell me that she had lived before. She used to talk about her husband and his name, tell me about her first mum, and similarly to a pp said she lived near a river. It was fascinating but also unsettling. She had so much detail when she talked about it.

I don’t really believe in ghosts or past lives but when my dd was 3 she told me that when she was a boy she got a record for her 18th birthday and that made me wonder a bit because she had never been near a record in her life and we didn’t know any 18 yo boys,
it just seemed to come from nowhere . However she spouted a lot of nonsense at that age so 🤷‍♀️.

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I find this so fascinating

I’ve seen a few things although mainly linked to sleep paralysis. One thing I did see in normal waking life as a child with witnesses was a girl in the woods. She was grey/ transparent and in front of a tree. From a distance it looked like moss but going closer as if in an optical illusion this girl in Victorian dress was popping out like in those magic eye pictures. I could see her hair, the folds in her white dress, her face. I was screaming and trying to get away and the ground had suddenly turned to swamp.

A ghost type thing I saw during lucid dreaming was also grey and transparent.

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I believe in reincarnation, it's very interesting and some accounts are incredibly compelling.

I have no concrete experiences, but from being a young child I had a horrible upsetting recurring dream. I used to have it all the time (like multiple times a week), and as I grew older the frequency grew less and less. After I met my now husband when I was 16, it really declined. Although I still occasionally have it now, it's less than once a year.

In the dream I am in a small group of people, and some other people are trying to kill us by shooting us. It's always quite confused feeling, dark and dim environment. The others are killed and as I'm trying to escape I'm shot too. Then as I'm on the floor dead, the person who killed me just keeps shooting my dead body with real malice.

I have wondered whether it could be related to a past life, and I'd love to have past life regression at some point.

When my son was around 6 or 7 he used to tell me he was talking to his grandad in his dreams. I asked him which one and he said the one on the farm. Who had died 10 years before he was born..,.

I used to run a ghost hunting events company for 4 years. Seeing a ghost/spirit is super rare. I saw a couple at Stanley palace chester, 1 at newsham park liverpool. couple at Ancient ram inn gloucestershire. Mainly seen shadows, taps, the odd occasional whisper, poltergiest activity, beng touched etc. I used to go to mediumship classes as the local spiritualist church as well which was a lot of fun.
Ghost hunts can be non activity also, so you have to be prepared for nothing to happen as well. The ghost hunting shows make it look like one night filming when its actually 3/4 nights so they condense it to make it more interesting on the show.
Would say top ten places in the UK and why are put on in a wordpress blog, but I also listed other venues I went to as well : https://ghosthuntsuk.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/10-ten-venues-and-future-ideas/

When my son was around six or seven he used to tell me he had been talking to his grandad in his dreams. I asked him which one and he said the one with the farm. Who had died 10 years before he was born....

Why am I reading this at this time of night in the dark 😱

My daughter used to have an imaginary friend called coiney when she was around 5. Apparantly he appeared as a giant banana. My grandad who died before I was born and that was his nickname, so maybe he presented that way as if not to scare her as a ghost? lol

My thoughts exactly, but I'm dead chuffed it's a Woo thread 🍿🎉

One of my sons was similar. He used to say things like “you’re a nicer mummy than the last mummy because you don’t shout” and used to speak about being in an aeroplane that turned to fire. He had an obsession with remembrance poppies too so I did think ooo, I wonder!

I have a couple of ooo stories of my own. The first one was me driving along Suffolk countryside single track roads while the crops were ready to be harvested, so they were really tall, you couldn’t really see anything coming. Despite driving at the speed limit, I had this overwhelming urge to brake, but ignored the urge. That’s until a CD ejected with force out of the cd player at significant speed which made me go WTF and slam on the brakes in shock; where I came pretty much nose to nose with a little van travelling in the opposite direction. I didn’t have steering wheel buttons to control the radio/cd player so I still have no idea why the cd catapulted it’s way across the car, but I’m very appreciative of whatever was behind that.

The other: my mother passed away a few years ago and I live abroad. I was in my wardrobe and said out loud, “if you’re there mum, give me a sign”. The lights begun to flicker a bit and I was wallowing in grief and guilt, so I believed it was her. I spoke to a lightbulb for the best part of 2 hours asking it yes and no questions. It continued with the flickering. A few days later I told my DH about it and because I was in a better state of mind, I was convinced the bulb was going faulty or geckos had chewed wiring, or anything…it hadn’t flickered since despite me sneakily speaking to it.

Anyway, we flew back to England for her funeral and I visited her beautiful body the day before. The light above her was flickering like crazy. Before this, I’d told my step dad and brothers about the wardrobe incident and had written it off as a mad moment, but this made me think perhaps it was her all along. During my mother’s wake, one light on the wall of the pub was flickering like crazy, so much so that the landlord person changed the light bulb, yet it continued. At this stage I was convinced it must be mum. I said to her that she could go and rest now. No flickering happened on any lights for months.

…..However, when mum passed, I was pregnant with a little girl. While in labour there were some complications and I can’t remember too much of what was going on around me at the time because I was too fixated on the flickering light behind my bed. The midwives were getting frustrated because the light kept flickering (really noticeable as it was late at night so the whole room was like a disco!), and my husband said to me “that’s your mum, everything will be ok”. And it was.

That was 3.5yrs ago now, and it hasn’t ever happened since, which feels so bittersweet.

I’m still not sure what to believe, but those experiences encouraged me to open my mind.

I kind of freaked my parents out when I was a child I told them I did not live in England and i lived in a small house but it was not in the city. This was over 40 its crazy but I still remember the little house and being older and poor. I watched a series years ago on children that claimed they had a past lives and it was very good. one little boy in India said he had to visit his wife and children hundreds of miles away. His parents eventually brought him he knew the names and things that he should not have known. He went to a part of the house and got a box that was hidden that none of the family knew about he even told his parents how he died before meeting the family.

Anyone has recs on Podcasts on this? Fascinating

Have you listened to Uncanny? It’s such a good podcast if you like paranormal stories. I’ve just finished listening to series 2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0010x7c?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Oh my gosh this one made me cry. 🥺🥺🥺

I was about 7 or 8, we were driving through France to Spain and it was getting late so my parents were looking for somewhere to stay.
We drove into a town and I told my dad we’re to go because I’d been there before (never been abroad until then). I definitely wasn’t map reading and this was 60+ years ago!
I described exactly where the town centre was and how to get to a three storey house with a fountain in the front garden.
It was exactly as i described.
i know I lived there in the past, it was just before WW2.

I’m a nurse who works in a quiet community clinic. I’m often the only person working there apart from the admin and a security guard/maintenance guy.

It used to a hospital and all the call bells etc are still set up. One morning I got to work early, got set up in my room and one of the nurse call bells started going off in an empty room. Could have been a technical fault but it did freak me out.

Last week one of our most long term regular patients died. She used to bring us biscuits she’d baked herself. Yesterday she should have had an appointment and around the time she would have arrived, the whole corridor leading to my room started smelling of cookie dough. Nobody was eating, nobody was cooking anything … there was no logical reason for that smell and I know it wasn’t my imagination as my next patient (who ended up in her appointment slot) sniffed the air and said “oh it smells lovely in here, who’s been baking?” ❤️

I’ve woken up to so many good stories, thanks everyone!

I LOVED the Uncanny podcast- my absolute fave was the Luibelt episodes- the updates made my blood run cold. Won’t spoil it for anyone who’s planning to listen but the coincidence of who might have lived in the Edinburgh flat was chilling.

I can recommend Real Life Ghost Stories podcast with Emma. My story was on there last year. It's a mix of viewer stories and famous stories and is really entertaining.