Ghostly experiences anyone? Are your kids spooking you?

[kiera]

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

just been reading over these old threads.

dd 2 yrs old, looks and points at someone she calls nandi, often giggles at what nandi is doing. freaks me out a bit, but then i remeber 'seeing' things when i was small, so maybe i've passed it on, or kids are just more open to these things.

my dad died several years ago and he said hello to me the day after his funeral, i knew it was him as he called me by the nickname he had for me.

have heard lots of things over the years, peole talking, things moving. after dd was born could hear babies crying then when i'd go check on dd she'd be fast asleep, keeps happening even now. not as often though. probabley just my heightened senses now that i'm a mum.

when is halloween, we should have a vetual campfire ghost story session.

I had 1, I was sitting alone one night in our flat which was above our vry old pub. I was watching a video was just me and the baby. As I sat there a flash of brilliant light which lasted seconds filled the room it was a bit like a camera flash but much much bigger. I almost thought I imagined it. I looked outside wondering if it was a storm. I convinced myself I imagined it. I settled back down to watch the video when suddenly what looked like a surge of light/engegy came from the wall near the t.v. and shot across hitting the empty video casette and it moved.
It totally freaked me out and I remember running downstairs, baby in carrycot and asking people if they had seen lightening outside and they all just looked blankly at me and said no. I spent the rest of the night downstairs in the pub with the baby in the carrycot.