I think I had a ghostly visit ............... scared me!!!!

[Ronniebaby]

I woke up the other night with such a start.

I looked over to my bedroom door and could have sworn there was someone there, also our alarm clock dims when there are no lights on, but when I looked over at it, it was so bright.

I rolled over and tried to ignore it, but for the next hour, I felt like someone was trying to wake me up for something, but DS was asleep in his own room and DH was snoring like a trooper, and I was facing him and he wasnt moving.

I also could have sworn that the figure moved to be in front of the window, so I couldnt ignore it.

This whole thing lasted about 2 hours in total, but put the wind up me.

Has anyone else felt like this.

p.s. my house is a new house, so no ghostie's should be there.

Oh, SG, they're quite creepy! Just searched for similar story that I posted a few years ago:

janh - your story reminded me of my other spooky story. It was Christmas time about 15 years ago. My brother and I had been talking about one of his friends. I went to bed at about 2 am and then at about 4 am I woke up in a complete panic - heart racing, fearful, began to pray (I'm a non-believer!) but having an awareness of his friend whilst this happened.

Then, the feeling left me and I felt overwhelmimgly calm. I turned to go to sleep and remembered the time as 4.28 on the clock. The next morning, we were told that this friend had died in a car crash (he was only 25) that night. Later that day, we found out that the time of death had been recorded as 4.28.

There was a series on Ch4 I think a while ago called Physic Secrets Revealed. This bloke (can't remember his name, but he was good looking!) led these people into this supposed haunted house. He asked them all to take photos of the room and almost all the photos came back with these orbs on them. The house wasn't haunted. He then did the same trick with an ordinary room and you could see some orbs there too, they are just bits of dust in the camera lens. They are more prominent in digital cameras apparently. Some camera expert was on there telling us all how it occurs.

I don't believe in ghosts I have to say, I've never seen one, never heard one and I've stayed in my fair share of haunted buildings.

Sorry - too scared to stay up last night .... the mobile did it for me !
My grey lady just keeps an eye on us ... but she does set me slightly on edge ... I can't see her - but I know that she's watching me - and there would be a slight cool breeze across my face ( like someone breathing on me ) when sh comes and goes.
my angels however ... just fill me with a sense of calm ( pity they weren't there last night )

I'm sceptical about some of the orbs too but have seen a couple that changed direction then back again (on most haunted)

My Mum has had lots of experiences like this, she isn't a crackpot, fantasist or Goth ! I've had a couple of feelings too, but they have never been scary. Unnerving, yes, but not scary as I've almost always recognised the person or presence in the room.

DH believes in that sort of stuff too but has only ever had one experience, which involved me. We were lay in our own bed and DH, then DP, said to me that he thought he seen his mother (who passed away before we could meet) looking over the bed at me. She was standing over him, on his side and smiling at me. I saw nothing but then I was engrossed in a book at the time.

I also got a warm feeling just after DD was born, I can only describe as knowing that there was extra love in the room coming from a non-physical source.

I think some people are more susceptible to this sort of activity than others. Not sure what it is that sets them apart though. It is almost certainly NOT a religious belief as neither myself, my mum or my husband have a 'faith' (in fact we are fairly extreme agnostics !). I would like to say that it is some sort of pyschic link, but amn aware that it makes me sound like a crack-pot !

sorry about the grammar/spelling mistakes.

For the record, I don't believe in any of this stuff but do find these stories fascinating - love 'things that go bump in the night' stuff.

Chandra - Orbs are like little transparent dots I guess you could see that can be seen flying around where ghosts are suppose to be. It's something like they're the first signs of ghosts. I know what the word is but I dont have a clue on how to spell it. You dont usually see the with the naked eye, theyre usually only noticable on video cameras or in photos. Or so the most haunted crew say.

i was at home in the garden reading a book on 26th feb 1995. i was nearly 14. i felt a shiver and felt like someone was watching me. i looked up but couldn't see anything. i dismissed it and got back to my book. then i went really cold and then really warm again, then ny stomach churned and i had a kind of 'slipping away' feeling and went light headed....i went inside and tried not to think about it. the weekend after that i was getting ready to see my daddy again for the first time in 9 years....only to be told that he had collapsed and died and noone found him for over a week...but the coroner said he died on the 26th February 1995......i'm sure it was daddy i felt slipping away. Also, my ds1's bedroom is always cold and he talks to someone in his bedroom, always looking at the chair. we swapped bedrooms with him, but his new bedroom is still always cold and the room we are in which was his is fine. its like something 'follows' him.

The thing about orbs is that they are a relatively new phenomenon, coinciding with better cameras that are more sensitive to dust, etc. You never see them on old photos or old films.

I often wish I did have such an experience, it would be interesting, but I'm such a sceptic that I would automatically look for an alternative explanation. As Sherlock Holmes used to say "once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer"!

Haven't read all these but i will.

When i was 7/8 we moved house. I used to dream over and over that there was a huge crack in the shower openening up and someone would grab me. I found out years later that there HAD been a huge crack there before the bathroom was done up.

Another day more recently, just before i had dd, was sitting with my mam one night watching T.V and a glass vase literally JUMPED off the telly and smashed in the middle of the floor!!!

Ronniebaby - any more incidents?

Ronniebaby, just have lots of wine before you go to bed. Then no-one can wake you up - he'll soon be bored

Ronniebaby dh just read this and his explanation is as follows:

Sometimes in the first few stages of sleep (when you've just fallen asleep), the mind can dream. This is different from normal dreams that usually happen in REM sleep (the deepest form of sleep that first happens after about 1.5-2 hours but is quite common). Becuase you are dreaming after just falling asleep your mind remembers what you saw immediately prior to falling asleep which in most cases is the bedroom from the position of lying in bed. So, to all intents and purposes you think you have woken up again straight after falling asleep. Because you are dreaming anything could happen within this scenario in the bedroom and unfortunately in your case it became a nightmare that there was someone in your room. It has happened to me several times, I usually dream that something is trying to pull me out of the bottom of the bed (although sometimes this is actually happening if I am late for work and Hayls is up before me!!). This phenomenon accounts for several supposed ghost sightings, the best of which I heard about was of a man in America who, when staying in a hotel was visited in his room by Elvis who came and sat on his bed and talked to him for an hour or so.

Technical explanation or what- typical engineer!

P.S I do believe in ghosts- doesn't mean you have one though

I think I might have seen a ghost not sure really. It happened a few years ago dh and I went to Stratford -Upon- Avon for the weekend without kids I may add. We went on this ghost hunt around the local area. The guy taking the tour was all dressed up part of the act along with jumping out from behind hedges, etc.
Anyway we went to the churchyard - really spooky late at night. Walking along in the distance was a woman dress in a long black hooded cape (like the scottish widow advert).Oh yeah, I thought any minute now she is going to jump out from behind a grave stone part of the act, so I thought. No one else saw it only me, no she wasn't part of any act. That really spooked me, was it a ghost I saw? larsxx

I believe you Lars my dh is an engineer and when he was 17, he was living in this big old house in Salhouse, Norfolk; he was on the second floor in a room shared with his friend...in the middle of the night a woman appeared at the window, and from then on he slept in the same bed as male friend and with the lights on as sooo scared (btw...both very artistic with very good imaginations but I really belive him!)...I haven't seen one, just had my dad in a few times since his death.

My step-mums house is haunted. The woman who had it built originally, died in it - she choked on something while sitting in the lounge room. We often knew she was about because you could smell toast cooking when you woke in the mornings but no one was even up yet. One night I was babysitting my step-sister, who was in bed asleep and I felt her sitting on the other end of the lounge from me. After that she would turn up to keep me company quite frequently.

Scarey!!

Oh and if you are in Sydney on holiday or whatever then I definitely recommend the Ghost tour of the Quarantine Station near Manly - v spooky. It was where the new emigrants had to stay till they were healthy/or died - back in the old days.