Have you ever visited somewhere that was haunted?

[Rosieposy89]

Just that really. Have you ever visited somewhere and had a paranormal experience?

When I was a teen, camping with family in the Lake District I had an experience. The campsite had an odd atmosphere. It felt dead and flat. I woke in the night. It was quiet, I then heard a childlike voice saying it hurts over and over. When I looked outside the tent there was a white silhouette. My dad says it was a nightmare but I was definitely awake

No , because ghosts, spooks and apparitions don’t exist

@Slobberchops1 I used to think that too.

Yes, friends flat in barcelona in the old gothic area. hot water from tap would turn ice cold in seconds after filling the basin and a few rooms were always freezing cold and the others roasting hot. doors would just often close, no open windows or drafts, she got used to it, massive old 5 bed flat.

I did the Edinburgh ghost tour that goes through the Covenanter’s Prison. Long time ago. It was almost midnight, they turned off the torches and someone pushed between me and my now ex-husband. Then there was a jumper outer. We went to Greyfriars Bobby for a drink at the end… walking into the pub when there was light I saw there were three big scratches on my ex’s cheek, I thought it was where the person pushed between us and maybe a zip mark from a coat… he went to the loo, came back and said: “What is this on my face?” Downed his drink and made us go back to the hotel where he made up sleep the light on. McKenzie’s Poltergeist? Who knows? Not me, I bite my nails!

I used to work once in a week in an old building which is noted on one of those "most haunted buildings in Britain" type websites. One afternoon I had a call from the front gate to say I was the only person in that building so could I check in with them regularly as per policy.... I packed up and left to finish work at home 😀 I would normally say I don't believe in ghosts / woo etc, but I wasn't going to risk it!

Stayed at the renowned Golden Fleece Hotel in York.

Have to say, some weird stuff happened when we were there such as the TV turning on in the middle of the night and a really shit song on loop at breakfast. Could hear movement up and down the stairs all night too. BUT whether it was real or them playing on their status I don't know. I wasn't convinced!

Also attended a most haunted live event at an old mental asylum in Wales. Again all felt a bit like for entertainment but I guess the fact we were actually in the building made it feel a bit sinister.

I lived in a house where a lot of weird shit happened for a couple of years when I was about 10-12 ish. Not in the 7 years we’d lived there before, nor the 5 years we lived there after. I honestly wish I could be a casual sceptic, but I’m 41 now and still regularly dream about one room in that house and wake up sweating and heart racing. I recently managed to watch the Uncanny series on BBC (in the middle of the day) and a lot of that resonated so much that my skin crawled.

Edinburgh Vaults. I still can't explain what happened to me in there and no one believes me.

I stayed there and had the same thing! TV turning itself on and off in a rhythmic pattern. Also something being dragged across the floor upstairs and someone coughing & walking around the bathroom of the room we were in.

Happened both nights. Me and DH bravely hid under the covers 🤣

Hahaha it was a testing evening to say the least lol!

I have a friend who swore her house was haunted - old victorian house or something. i always thought it was a load of nonsense but she swears someone was watching over her at night. LOL

Chingle Hall

Yes. And I’m generally a sceptical person. Really old holiday cottage. Thought my MIL was up in the night wandering around as flood breaking and doors opening. Another night felt a weight like someone sat on the bed. Then woke at dawn one morning and heard a weird laugh.

Oooh can you tell us a bit about it?

What happened? I've done the Edinburgh vaults tour, it's very creepy.

Lived on many military bases. They all have stories. Seen many no nonsense people having doubts.

The theory is the amount of emotion and death that those places had (especially the bomber bases) left their mark.

When I was a uni student I lived in a tudor house opposite the Dell - the old football grounds in southampton, the house has been knocked down now but I saw a ghost there in my bedroom and another girl who i'd lent my room to in the holidays also saw her on a separate occasion and i hadn't mentioned anything - I'm afraid I was fairly rude to said ghost and never saw her again.

Yes, but we didn’t see anything. We stayed in an old bakery, converted into a cottage, adjoining another cottage. According to the guest book, there was the ghost of a man in breeches, wandering about.

My pub is haunted.

And prior to being here I'd have thought what a load of made up bollocks.

But no.

We moved in last year and straight away, stuff moved around. Tins of paint went over when no one was in the room. Then DD and I were in the kitchen, which is huge, and a plate came flying off the side at us, followed by a glass and cutlery. It wasn't windy, nothing was making it move, it genuinely looked like someone had swiped it violently.

We then found out a previous landlady had passed away in the bar, in 1985. She had sat in her usual spot on the other side of the bar whilst her staff worked, she was getting on a bit and sometimes would nod off, so no one thought anything of it that she had seemingly done so again.

A regular (who still drinks here to this day) told us he had said "hey, what do you think then " and said her name, but she didn't flinch. Someone said she didn't look well so she was checked and yep, she'd gone.

I was advised to speak up in the bar that we were here to look after it and don't worry (ladies name), and hope you don't mind. We invited her to stay and watch us doing it up and putting her fave table back where it should be. We've had no plates flying since. We do sometimes hear footsteps at night but she seems happy what we've done! Considering the pub nearly ended up as flats I think she approves.

In 1997/8 I did some driving in Poland on these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRB_Class_52

In the opening scene of Shoah this is they class of locomotive you see steaming into the camp.

In Poland there were two different number series, TY2 built during WW2 & TY42 built after the war.

The war built ones would amongst other things have hauled trains to the Concentration Camps.

I first drove a postwar built TY42, lovely bit of kit, on my second visit the loco in steam for freight was a wartime built TY2 which had a creepy feel about it, I was certainly glad I never took it to Konotop which during WW2 was a minor border crossing into Poland used for 'concentration camp' trains

My sister almost fainted at Edinburgh vaults and I thought saw orbs. Very strange as I've never seen orbs before.

I just couldn’t do the Edinburgh vaults. DH and I went on a ghost walk in Stockholm that ended in the basement under a church. I opted out and stood outside and DH came back reporting that I’d have just passed away from fear on the spot 😳

I have also heard the "emotion and death " theory where if someone was deeply traumatised or was deeply evil or felt very deep emotion or physical pain at a particular place (even if they actually died sometime later or somewhere else) then it somehow leaves a mark or a feeling that other people can pick up on in later years with a certain bad sense about that place.

Over time this "mark" on a particular place fades so that people are less likely to pick up on say Roman era events and more likely to pick up on say WW2 or even Victorian events.

But I believe in any of the floaty apparition stuff.

What happened?

No.

I'd love to though.