To be really freaked out about seeing someone that wasn’t there??

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My partners mum, step-dad, brother and 2 nieces are on holiday at the seaside so to we took our little one for the a day trip to have a beach day with his cousins today.

As we were driving into where they are staying and my partner was packing I said to him ‘I didn’t know your whole family was here’ when I saw his grandma standing next to his mum. He must have assumed that I was talking about his stepdad as he didn’t respond to it in a weird way/ask what I meant.

Then when we were inside I asked where his grandma had gone and where she was sleeping as they only have 2 bedrooms. Well it turns out that she isn’t there and is at home and I couldn’t have seen her because she’s not there??

What on earth happened?? What/who did I see?? Am I crazy now? 🙈

Like PPs, I immediately thought of crisis apparitions when I read this. I hope your DP's gran is okay, OP. 🤞

Maybe granny was there and they are all gaslighting you.

😂

A few weeks after my dad died I took my mum out for the day with my sister. We visited a lake in Chichester. My mum and sister went out on a row boat on the lake. I sat with the bags at a table by the lake in a Riverside cafe. My sister and mum appeared in their boat. They had startled and confused expressions on their faces. My sister came over and said she looked over at me and saw dad sitting next to me smiling.

“I see dead people.”

I see gullible people.

It isn’t a day later yet, OP posted ‘yesterday’ because it’s after midnight now

Not sure if this link will work to get to the right page (should be page 113 of the book as originally numbered) but I’ve always really liked this Edwardian apparition story. It’s not a fictional story, but someone’s personal recollection of a weird experience:

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207735/page/n122/mode/1up

edit — actually a Victorian story, I guess! But he wrote it down around 1912

Hope the granny is ok.

Has anyone suggested logging the apparition with 101 yet?

REM intrusion?
(apologies if already mentioned, I did read the thread)

Actually going to tell my woo story.

I did not believe in anything woo. My Nan died not long after my son was born. She was in her 90s. She always said if she could come back and visit us she would. Skeptical me thought it nonsense……until it started happening. I kept getting a strong sense / feeling of my Nan being present around my son. It was weird as I did not believe in woo. The presence got stronger especially in the morning when he first woke up. I could almost feel her there. One day I decided to turn round and look next time there was a feeling. I had to know if it was my Nan. So one morning, I turned around; my heart thumping:

Reader, there was noone and nothing there. Moments later when the idea of ghost Nan being there was shattered, I realised that the reason I felt her was because of familiar smells. We had somehow bought lavemder scented baby wipes and as she was very much incontinent, the strong smell of wee in my son’s morning nappy mixed with lavender was the scent of my dear old Nan!

She would’ve laughed so much a that: I do miss her.

I don't buy the whole "mind playing tricks on you" unless you happen to be unwell/extremely tired or half asleep. Stuff out of the corner of your eye or shadows in the dark I get but not what OP describes. I'm more likely to believe it was a ghost than her brain just randomly hallucinated a whole person-assuming OP is well of course!

Party pooper opinion.. unconscious bias. You saw something, a shadow a movement, your brain interpreted that as an extra person alongside the other people, the most likely person to be there, that fit the smaller size of the ‘shape’, was granny.
Pretty basic brain functioning.
Or the yeah, the more common view it seams: granny’s dead and ghosts are real.

Well I’m going to have to placemark now for the update. Way too many stories on page 1.

As an aside ghosts have always interested me. I once saw one as a child. Either that or I and an intruder scared the living daylights out of each other.

In young adulthood I asked the internet and someone said ‘it’s probably quite unlikely; but so are the chances that every single person who has seen a ghost through the whole of human history imagined it.’ And that was a good enough conclusion for me.

Has that happened to you? I've never hallucinated people that weren't there, I mean as far as I can be sure!

I had this once in my life and I actually had a UTI, could that be it Op?

Icy dead people

Cryogenics

Brains and eyes do some very odd things - they see what they expect to see, and what you think you see is your brain translating a TON of information into something a bit easier to grasp.

It's been very well studied, not only people seeing things that are not there but they expected to be there, but also people NOT seeing what would appear to be really bloody obvious things that are there... because they do not expect them to be there.

Also ... people on web forums do sometimes.. just occasionally... write a load of bullshit for fun.

Does granny get up early? Might be time to make that call, OP....

Placemarking. I hope granny is ok.

I started reading this in the early hours and scared myself so had to stop and put the light on.

I’m such a wuss in the dark.

I too would like to know if Granny is OK when it’s a more reasonable hour.

😂

Im invested in how granny is now

I've had a similar thing. I find it all fascinating 😍

The day of my grandmothers funeral, my sister woke up to her stroking her hair telling her it would all be ok. Wearing the traditional burial outfit of her church....

Me too 😁