Are there such things as GHOSTS

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Hi all, I am home alone for the first time since we have lived in this house and I am a little aprehensive.

The house is about 160 years old, which doesn't usually bother me as it is a friendly house, but I have never stayed here on my own before, and we have lived here 3 years.

Compounded by the fact that dp said he crapped himself staying here on his own when I was in hospital giving birth.

So....are there such things as ghosts and has anyone ever seen one????

Ha ha - another punch and judy freak - my best friend is like this!!!

I cannot go near clowns or knomes or dwarfs - completey freak and have a panic attack - I think clowns especially are so scary - I have even refused to go to a b'day party because there was going to be a children's entertainer dressed as a clown!!

i can`t stand the old fashion dolls with the porcelain face,they really freak me out,also anything like furniture,clothes,movies etc from the 18th century really depress me,maybe i had a horrible time in a previous life
excuse me i have to go and put my strait-jacket back on

My Mum's house is haunted - several weird unexplainable things happened when I was living there - once I was in my bedroom reading and all the coat hangers in the wardrobe suddenly started jangling together, like someone was shaking them really hard, it was very loud - I thought the dog had got in the wardrobe and rushed to open the door,and when I did it stopped instantly and the inside was immaculate, nothing out of place. Another time I was in my room again when there was a very soft continuous knocking on the door, it went on for ages and when I eventually flung the door open, again it stopped instantly and there was no-one there. And then another time I was hoovering in the hall and someone actually touched my back, when I spun round - nobody there. I could go on for hours. The funny thing is, Mum and I are convinced its a friendly ghost as she and I have never felt scared by any of the incidents.

Have just discovered this thread and I've had goosebumps reading some of the postings. I've never seen a ghost although a friend of mine has seen two. My Dh would love to see a ghost but hasn't yet, I think he lives in hope.

A weird thing that has happened to me though is a smell. My mum died 4 months after my daughter was born. We moved into her house after she died. It must have been about 6 months to a year after she had died. I was sitting in the house on my own dd in bed and I was watching tv and all of a sudden I could smell johnsons baby powder. We don't and never have used baby powder on our dd and didn't even have any in the house. But I could smell it so strongly. My mum always used baby powder. I used to smell it now and again for a few months afterwards.
Then a day or two before my daughter's second birthday she was playing early one morning and wandering in and out of our bedroom and she came in to us and said there's a ghost in the hall. It was so weird she wasn't even quite 2 years old and I'm not sure that she would even know what a ghost was at that age. The funny thing was I wasn't in the slightest bit scared as I thought a statement like that would freak me out. She mentioned the ghost a couple of times in the next few months and once when we were about to move to another house and were packing up the bedroom, which was previously my mums room, she pointed to the corner and said the ghost is standing there. dh and I looked but couldn't see anything or feel anything.

She's never mentioned it again since we moved and that was 3 years ago. In Our new house I've only smelt baby powder once. I like to think that it's my mum checking up on us to see that we're all ok.

oh and on the friendly house theory, the flat that we lived in when dd was born never felt quite right to me. We lived there while I was pregnant and for the first few months of dd's life before moving to my mums old house. I never liked that flat. There was never anything definite I could put my finger on but I just didn't like it, bad vibes or something, you never know maybe it was haunted it was in an old building in town built in the 1890's.

I'm so jealous of anyone who is confident they have seen a ghost. I've no reason to believe in them but wonder what it must be like to believe that you have. I'm still haunted (excuse pun) by that programme on Borley Rectory when I was a child. Allegedly The Most Haunted House in Britain, a camera and sound crew were sent in there for the night. There was this blood chilling moan recorded during the night which the crew insisted was genuine (and obviously scared teh shIt out of them). Great tv. Anyone else remember that?

a friend told me the other day that her 2yo dd kept talking to someone while upstairs on her own,when my friend asked her she said she was talking to grandad and alex,knowing that both dds grandfathers had died,she asked her dh who alex was but he didnt know until my friends mum said alex was the dead grandfather`s brother who had died as a child

I find this kind of thing fascinating. I just don't think these things can be exlained away. Pie did you ever see sixth sense? Your story (which really freaked me out!) reminded me of a scene in that, lol.

Tinker, I remember that programme my brother watched it and didn't sleep properly for weeks afterwards. But he likes to watch programmes and read books about ghosts and spooky circumstances now.

i think my daughter has possibly seen ghosts. i was living in a womens refuge for six months at the end of last year and this year, when we moved into the move-on flat she used to tell me there was a man in the flat even tho men arent allowed in the flats. at our old home she used to be scared of her bedroom, absolutly terrified of it, even my ex hated sleeping in that room, says it just felt horrible and unfriendly.
she chats to people who arent there, and not in her imaginary friend way, if its her imaginary friends she gives them names and plays games, sometimes she just chats away and if i ask her whp it is she just says its a man. very odd.

I'm not really sure if this can be explained away as something else or not but I was convinced DS1 used to see 'things' when he was a baby.
We moved into our flat when he was 4 weeks old and although very young his eyes were always drawn to the space above the door in our livingroom. We had very high ceilings so the space was quite big. He would literally be cranning his neck to look up there if he wasn't positioned to look directly at it and it went on for months and months, way beyond his fisrt birthday.
I love to think it was my Dad who died when I was 13. I've always felt he was watching over me although have never seen a ghost, I'd be terrified, and so was looking after us in those first hard weeks with a newborn.

Apparently babies are very psychic - I have read this several times and believe it totally. dd1 used to always look just over my shoulder into the corner of the room, smiling and reacting as if someone was there, and dd2 is already doing it at 6 weeks old.

My ds has visits from his Nana who died when he was 7 weeks old. You can hear him laughing and talking with her, when you ask him he says its his Nana Eileen. If you show him a photo of her he recognises her as well. Its not as if we talk about her a lot or have photos on display.

Dahlia - my 9 month old ds is always looking up at the ceiling and smiling. I've often wondered if he's looking at angels...

When I was little I used to have ladies that walked around my bed as I was trying to get to sleep. This is going to sound weird, but they used to kiss me too before I fell asleep. It was an icy cold kiss that sent a shiver down my spine. I wasn't scared, I just accepted them being there.
Anais, the scene in Sixth Sense where the boy is describing what a ghost feels like brought back so many memories and was such an accurate description it made me cry. Quite embarassing in a packed cinema!

My dp is convinced he saw a ghost after his grandfather died - walking around his bed, Funny though that it always happens at night!

Just logged back on after a week away, when I was little we lived in a very odd house, friendly in the day but no one, and I mean no one, would get out of bed to go to the loo at night. (HORRID PRESENCE)
I was once having a bad dream when I was about 7 and was woken by a tap on the back, my brother swears a gypsy lady used to come in his room and pick him up and my sister often saw my dead grandfather in our bedroom.

My mum says I terrified her when I started talking as I used to ask her if she remembered me looking after her when she was little, with examples I couldn't know.....

I am SUCH a chicken when it comes to this kind of stuff. Sixth Sense really scared me. I hate the idea of a malevolant spirit out to get me!
I do believe in ghosts though and lou71 I think it always happens at night because people are kind of more receptive, sleepy, less 'on guard' - either that or ghosts don't like daylight

Yep there definitely is such things as ghosts, i have one living with me!! a nice one if a little bit annoying! He is always doing irritating things around the house, turning things off/on moving things, once i found all my nicely folded washing thrown all around the room agggrrh!
I used to scare my mum when i was little she says i had an imaginary friend that wasn't so imaginary! i don't remember but apparently i used to tell her things my friend had told me that i couldn't have known. once she says she came into my bedroom where 'we' were playing and i was sitting on the bed chatting away and on the other side of the room my rocking horse was rocking away!! scary
Not sure about the night time thing, things happen in my house any time of the day or night so apparently my ghost just isn't too fussy!

Katierocket IMO the malevolant spirit is a horror movie myth. I think the vast majority of ghosts/spirits have good intentions. There are a few I guess who are evil, but I think most are good 'people.'