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Ghostly experiences anyone? Are your kids spooking you?

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kiera · 15/09/2005 11:16

I would like to believe they don't exist but I have friends who would not lie who say they have seen heard or felt something (one grew up in a haunted house and now as an adult refuses to talk about it, one stayed in a haunted house). Anyone else? I'd love to hear some experiences!

For myself I did have a wierd experience in a church once in Birmingham. I was a christian at the time and the vicar had given me the key so I could go in there to pray during my lunch break (I was pretty devout at the time). While there I started to hear all these noises like a large party was being prepared in the room off the church entrance - chinking of plates, clinking of glasses etc. I hadn't locked the door so assumed the people preparing had come in after me. I also got this feeling of being watched from the church balcony but put it down to an overactive imagination. Anyway I was looking at some pictures some kids had made and put up on the wall when I heard a door creaking inside the main empty part of the church, for some reason it spooked me and I decided it was time to go. On the way out I peeked into the side room to see what was going on in there. It was empty! I moved so fast you wouldn't believe and never went back there again.

On another note, I have a 2 year old who is just learning to talk and at home he occasionally points out a baby or asks me where the baby has gone ("baby gone?") when I can't see a picture of a baby anywhere. This has spooked me a bit as he had an older sister whom he never met who died at nine days old. Can't think of any logical explanation! Any thoughts?

K

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expatinscotland · 15/09/2005 11:19

The first time I saw a ghost, I was 29 and didn't believe they existed. In fact, I didn't believe what I saw was a ghost until I saw him featured on one of those Halloween shows about ghosts. Freaked me out!

I don't dismiss people who say they've seen or perceived them anymore.

jampots · 15/09/2005 11:19

ooh kiera - which church in brum?

kiera · 15/09/2005 11:22

The one near the Botanical Gardens, in the middle of the roundabout.

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jampots · 15/09/2005 11:23

oh i know it - looks old and scary though to be honest.

Chandra · 15/09/2005 11:25

I had some weird experience, there was physical evidence, witnesses and no possible explanation. Too long to narrate here but it definitively ended my I-don't-believe-in-ghosts phase.

albert · 15/09/2005 11:26

I lived in a haunted house for 1 1/2 years until things got so out of control I moved out. It scared the pants off me and I find it very hard to talk about without crying (I cry when I get scared for some reason). As a result I am terrified of anything remotely supernatural and get really freaked. If your friend is anything like me, please don't bug her/him to talk about it, I am still frightened by these things and that was over 20 years ago

ghosty · 15/09/2005 11:29

Don't mean to be funny but I just tried to post on this thread and it didn't come up! Spooky!

Anyway, what I was trying to say was, I believe in ghosts (not surprisingly ) but my nickname has nothing to do with that ...

We have a strong family history to do with people seeing ghosts ...

expatinscotland · 15/09/2005 11:33

I would never live in a place where someone had died an unnatural death. I research any place before I move into it.

At our current flat, an old tenement used to sit on it - from about the 1860s.

This is an old port village dating back from the 1400s.

In the corner of one of the bedrooms I started to feel - never saw, but did feel - the presence of a fair-haired boy of about 5 who'd died from an illness. Even my husband could feel this after a while, and our cats wouldn't go to that corner of the room.

I cleared the space and the boy moved on.

It was more sad than frightening, but I told him he could not stay, b/c we were not his family, and that his real family were missing him.

Never had a problem since.

kiera · 15/09/2005 12:28

chandra do tell!

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kiera · 15/09/2005 12:30

the last place we rented before we bought had a funny feeling about it, always felt I was being watched and one night lightbulb just fell out of the bathroom socket and landed without smashing. other than that nothing funny ever happened tho. just a feeling. never had it in any place i have lived before or since.

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snafsicle · 15/09/2005 12:35

I believe in them, definitely. I am fairly sure there's something in our house, although it's not 'scary' as such. Just lots and lots of unexplainabale things, and I consider myself to be a pretty rational, logical person.

I love the supernatural, it fascinates me. I think it stands to reason that there is far more going on in the world than we can logically explain.

expatinscotland · 15/09/2005 12:39

My mom and dad almost rented a house one time. But my mom said it gave her a bad feeling. My dad - ever the skeptic - dimissed it, but my mom stood her ground - my older sister was about 3 and my mom was pregnant w/me - and they rented the house next door instead.

Things always went wrong for the tenants of that house they didn't rent - financial disasters, divorce, illnesses, etc. No one stayed long.

Turns out just before my folks came round, a woman had hanged herself in that house they didn't take.

Freaky deaky.

Same thing happened in this posh high-rise flats my husband and I used to rent. The flat next door, some cocaine dealers lived there. Well I guess a deal went wrong, and two men came over to that flat and stabbed one of the occupants to death w/a pen knife.

After that, no tenant ever stayed long in there. And they always moved out under bad circumstances - they split up, lost their jobs, etc.

Of course, the apartment people never told them someone had been murdered in that flat.

But we did!

kiera · 15/09/2005 12:51

snafsicle do tell!

expat that is truly freaky. will trust my instinct from now on.

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expatinscotland · 15/09/2005 12:52

GO WITH YOUR INSTINCT! It's there for a reason - to tell you something.

Surfermum · 15/09/2005 12:56

My in laws are spiritualists. I've often heard dd laughing down the monitor and waving at the back door. They tell me that dd has spirit clowns come and visit her (family connection to the circus) and blow up balloons for her.

jampots · 15/09/2005 12:59

ive had my fair share of scarey goings on too

Papillon · 15/09/2005 13:00

Expatinscotland... you saw a ghost then saw him on TV !

Kiera I think churches have alot of residue energy in them - from deceased churchgoers and from funerals. People take their emotions to church to talk to God about them or the Priest etc - they are places that hold emotional trauma and joy on this physical plane and from other dimensions.

snafsicle · 15/09/2005 13:01

Nothing in particular. Just - like expat - nothing good has happened since we moved in here. Illness, death, divorce etc, all in the space of a few years. My mum's very sensitive to 'vibes' and she has been increasingly ill and disturbed ever since we moved here.

Lots of things moving to places you wouldn't expect to find them etc (although there is a toddler in the house!) Eg: I came down one morning and found a tall pile of toy bricks right in the middle of the living room carpet the other week, which definitely wasn't there when I went to bed, hours after ds. A picture of ds in my mum's room had some weird sticky stuff on it one day, can't find an explanation for it. We dug up a buried wheelchair in the garden once.

Just 'things' really, nothing much when taken individually, but put them all together and it's a bit strange...

jampots · 15/09/2005 13:11

Ive experienced:

  1. My bedroom lights going on despite the fact that dh and I were lying down in the complete dark with ds (a tiny baby) in the moses basket next to me and dd (3) asleep in her bed.

  2. TV switching itself onto standby mode (can only do this via remote) and room suddenly becoming v chilly despite nice July evening - warmed back up about 20 mins later

  3. DS laughing uncontrollably in his cot and then hearing a man's laughter - when I went to investigate there was no man and ds stopped laughing and told me it was a ghost

  4. "cloudy" shoulder and arm which looked like it was in the process of disappearing in my dining room one night

  5. when i lived with my parents, a sponge fell off the side of the bath and into it despite being on a wide ledge and the next day as my mum was about to tell me my best friend had been killed a stone struck the window from apparently no-where, which prompted me to tell my mum about the sponge the night before and the fact I thought we had ghosts - she then told me.

  6. relaying a story to my friend about someone I knew asking if her dead father was present and the lights flickered, when i actually told this story Jane's lights flickered on and off for about 20 seconds while we sat in stunned silence.

chloe55 · 15/09/2005 13:33

My mum has some old film footage of my brother playing on the floor with her sat in an arm chair holding me as a baby and a man stood behind her, hands on her shoulders, looking down at my brother. We have no idea who this man is and he wasn't there on the day! Mum thinks it's my brother's guardian angel watching over him

expatinscotland · 15/09/2005 15:32

Yep, I sure did Papillon.

I saw him whilst visiting a castle in Scotland. It was late Autumn and there were not many tourists about. I'd been travelling w/my mum for the 3 weeks prior and needless to say, we were getting on each others' nerves. So we agreed to tour the castle separately and then meet up in a couple of hours.

I started to go down a stairway into the lower part of a tower, and I felt strange - cold, goose bumps like. I laughed it off. Went in. And in and in. Then I couldn't seem to find the way out. It was getting dark and I was like, 'Okay, don't panic, it's all cool'. And all of hte sudden there was a man standing there. He had what I thought was period costume on, b/c all the employees were wearing period costumes. So I asked him the way out and he said nothing but started walking.

Well it seemed he was going pretty fast b/c I was struggling to keep up and I was dead fit back then.

He went round a corner and by the time I'd got there, he was gone. There was a door at the end of hte corridor so I thought, 'Well, he must have gone in there and it must be private' and anyhow I could see sunlight.

So then I went to meet my mum and have a ciggy. Whilst waiting, the employee at the gate asked me how I'd enjoyed the castle. I told him it was a fine castle and about the strange man.

He asked me to describe the man. Then his face went white and he told me that man was a ghost who'd been a prisoner there in the Jacobite revolution and executed for treason. I just laughed. I thought he was having me on.

Later, I got back home and was watching cable TV - this was in the States. And there was this special on ghosts. So I thought, 'oooo, scary!'

And I'll be damned if they didn't feature that ghost I'd seen! OMG!

edgetop · 15/09/2005 16:46

i had a experiance quite a few years ago,i lived on my own & my 17 year old dog became very ill so i had to make the decision to have her put to sleep, that night i was crying really heart broken,all of a sudden i felt a pair of arms around me,i felt conforted not afraid i am sure it was my dad ,the thing didn,t last long but it was beautiful.

Chandra · 16/09/2005 22:04

Talking about "feeling" the place, when we had just moved to this city and were looking for a house, there was one whose photographs seemed right, it had a huge green reserve in front of it (great for walking and for children to play), it was well located and fitted the bill perfectly but... eventhough the location and views where perfect I couldn't see myself living there, somewhat it felt a bit creepy (not the house but the green area, we had been around many times and still I felt somewhat unwelcomed). NEar to that area there's also a street with another nice available house, which again looked perfect but didn't feel right.

A couple of years ago, I found out the green areas in front of the first house were used for executions in past times, and regarding the other "nice" street... last year some builders digged up several bodies (including children) who were missing their heads, obviously that happened hundreds of years ago but still shocked me a bit.

Regarding the story I mentioned before... it happened at Uni, there were lots of stories of strange things happening in that building (like hearing lots of people walking down the hall or banging the lockers in a weekend (nobody there), to noises like explossions, heavy sand ashrays falling to their sides on their own, etc but I always liked to rationalise the things rather than believing the story)

I had a good friend who used to work as a lab assistant who had keys for the building and convinced him to teach me to use some software during the intersession, when the building was closed to the public/students and only one cleaner had access to it. As we were also working we used to meet around 7-8 pm and kept working until 10. Sooo... One day, as he was photographing his work I decided to use the painting studio next door, in that studio there was a clock hanging at a height of aprox 3-4 m that was obviously not working (it had been pointing 3 o'clock since a couple of terms before), at some point my friend entered the studio and joked that it was only 3 and therefore we had plenty of time (it was around 7:30 by then). At that moment we heard a scream in the hall which I can only describe as the scream of a newborn mixed with a cat in season call. As there was nobody in the hall we went up to the windows (ridiculous TBH as they were huge planks of sound proof double glass used as a wall and didn't open at all), and through them saw the cleaner out, placing the rubish in the bins before going home, there was no time for the cleaner to scream in the 4th floor (where we were) and getting to the outside in less than a minute. Then, we looked up and the clock that had been pointing to 3 o clock was now pointing to 12 o'clock. We couldn't understand how it had moved 9 hrs in less than a minute, I thought it might had been an electrical surge or something of the sort but couldn't understand the difference of 9 hrs), we tried to access the clock but there was no single thing in the studio that could be used to reach it, so we packed the things and head home, next day we arrived a bit earlier and asked the cleaner for the keys of a locked workshop in the second floor to get a ladder, we then had to unlock the freight lift in order to get it up, in total it took us around 10-15m to get the ladder all the way up to the fourth floor, I took the clock and to my surprise it was not connected to the wall, it was simple clock of bateries. The clock continued to point to 12 o'clock for at least another year, when I graduated.

Chandra · 16/09/2005 22:05

Oh dear! I knew it was going to be long! Appologies!

edgetop · 18/09/2005 15:05

a girl that goes to school with my ds seams to have been here before,her mum was telling me she talks about her other mummy she has even pointed out where she used to live. she said that her first mummy brought her to the mummy she has now,& and she told her she got poorly & died,she says every now & then she will start to chat about it all.

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