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Anyone ever seen a ghost? or felt someone's presence after they died?

50 replies

sleepinbeauty · 16/09/2006 13:38

just wondering, am curious thats all!

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southeastastra · 16/09/2006 13:41

my mum died about 6 years ago now. just after she died i had some really vivid dreams about her, one i was in her body and felt exactly the same as (i imagine) she felt when ill. it was very weird but comforting.

i still have them now, when i am going through something when i feel i need her.

laneydaye · 16/09/2006 13:42

feel my nanans presence all the time... usually when there has been a family gathering ie wedding funeral, party......

When i was young i used to have ghost come to my room every night this used to happen for about 13 nights???? it felt real to me... it never touched me just came in my room....

im very open minded about these things so i would never say "I've seen a ghost"......

LieselVonTrapp · 16/09/2006 14:39

I dont beleive in ghosts but I do beleive in angels and I beleive we allhave a guardian angel.

Mateychops · 17/09/2006 22:29

Liesel, who's your guardian angel?

LieselVonTrapp · 18/09/2006 08:49

Well dont know these things on first name terms its just what I believe so ((((blows a raspberry)))

Papillon · 18/09/2006 08:56

Two relatives that I have felt since they died. My granny whose hand I held when she died and my FIL after I contacted him after he died. His presence was more heavy but soon moved unto places he needed to be.

I have guides, some have come in dreams and I feel three have been around me that I am aware of in the house. The children have guides too I have seen and felt, so lets hope it doesn´t get tooooo busy

TheRealCam · 18/09/2006 09:04

I felt my grandmother's presence as she died even though I was 300 miles away at the time.

I felt her love for me extremely strongly and the room was bathed in a kind of peaceful warm light.

I knew she had just died, although she was in hospital but wasn't expected to die.

My brother rang me the next morning and before he could tell me I said "She died at 10.00 pm last night" He was astounded and asked me how I knew.

All I could tell him was that I felt it.

CarolinaMoon · 18/09/2006 09:08

I haven't.

MIL reckons she has - she and her SIL were clearing out MIL's mum's house after she died, and her mum's stairlift miraculously moved itself upstairs without anyone pressing the button. MIL took it as a sign from her mum that she was watching over them.

CarolinaMoon · 18/09/2006 09:09

I have to say I don't actually believe the stairlift was operated from beyond the grave.

Cam's story is pretty spooky...

iris66 · 18/09/2006 15:41

southeastastra - I experienced a similar thing after my dad died in June only I wasn't asleep. It was like I was inside his body (and, as you said, feeling everything he did when he was ill) it scared me witless at the time as I particularly felt his hands like gloves round mine (he used to jokingly be called "hot hands" by friends for his healing ability). I feel his hands over mine now when I do healing (which is lovely)& the healing effects are much more powerful (according to my clients). I feel honoured that he chose to keep some energy around to help me in what I do.

fransmom · 19/09/2006 21:33

they all sounds lovely experiences x
i had been called over to my moms house cos it looked like it was the night she was going. my sister and dad wouldn't let me stay downstairs that night and i had a strange feeling that she would go that night. i went upstairs cos the heated discussion was starting to upset my mom and when i got up there i saw my nan quite clearly and i remember arguing with her cos i wanted to tell my mom that she would be okay. it seems quite strange, in a way,now i think of it but it wasn't at the time. now bearing in time my mom had stopped smoking two weeks previously, i woke later that night (very early next morning) coughing cos the room was full of cigarette smoke - no-one else in the immediate family were smokers.

the day she was dying, there were quite a few presences in the living room where she was sitting.

a week or so later when we were all back at the family home for her funeral, i was talking to my brother (we were the only ones in the living room at the time) and i could feel her about.

have seen her in several dreams since she died and she looks like she did before she was ill, always round times when i miss her quite a bit or when i miss my dad (who since remarried - but i couldn't tell you if he was alive or not), it still feels like he abandoned us adn i always wondered if my granddad (his dad) had too, i was sitting inmy living room and he appeared on the other settee as if to prove to me that he hadn't. he also visited my lo at bedtime, with storybook, to read her a story. it's lovely to know that she still around.

fransmom · 26/09/2006 21:24

have i killed this thread off then?

smeeinit · 27/09/2006 10:21

have seen many spirits..........most recent my grandad who passed over more than 20 years ago came to see myself and my parents whilst we were on holiday,i saw him sitting with his arm round my dad grinning from ear to ear,proud as punch!
i see my cat who passed early in the year almost daily,my other grandad has visited me in my sleep a couple of times, my cousin who passed over aged 19 has whispered my name in my ear not long after she passed.........the list goes on.....!!
my son has seen his great nan and grandad as they were when they married, needless to say we are a very spiritual family!

sugarfree · 27/09/2006 10:26

MIl and I were discussing one of her mother's recipes once and MIL decided to look for the bit of paper her mother had written it down on.Hunted high and low all round the place and couldn't find it and we thought the recipe was lost forever.
Bit later on MIL was cooking dinner and opened a kitchen cupboard to get plates and the recipe floated out.
(and yes,I'd seen MIL look in that cupboard earlier.)

mosschops30 · 27/09/2006 10:28

yes and i eventually had to move house because I couldnt stand it any longer, however looking back not sure if they were just night terrors as part of the stress reaction.

I have an angel too, everyone has one, i trust her more than I trust myself, its very comforting at times.

expatinscotland · 27/09/2006 10:30

Yes.

The first time, I was 29 and witnessed a classic 'residual haunting'.

I'm now 35.

I won't admit it to myself, but I think I might be some sort of medium.

expatinscotland · 27/09/2006 10:35

I often feel my paternal grandmother's presence - mostly in the form of great strength and protectiveness.

She was by far the strongest person I ever met. Spiritually, that is.

Even when she was alive, I felt she was a very old soul indeed.

SaintGeorge · 27/09/2006 10:36

expat

You actually got vaguely close to an admission there!

You are a very gifted empathic medium.

ledodgyrobespierre · 27/09/2006 10:57

I haven't seen a ghost as such but when my mum died I asked her not to come back and see me as a ghost but to come in my dreams. I sometimes have dreams about her but I know these are not the ones where she visits me. The dreams where she visits me are different she and my dad speak to me but don't actually speak it's as though I can read their minds. My dad also visited my mum this way a few months before she died. I found my mum crying onme morning and she told me she'd had a vivid dream of a beautiful garden and although she gardened herself she didn't recognise any of the flowers. She said my dad was there and although he was the same age as when he died he'd never looked more alive or healthy. He was on the otherside of a stream and she floated over and he beckoned her away saying (in his head) "Not just yet Barb, Soon but not just yet". I knew then that she would never recover and I think she did too.

After my dad died I was crying one night and I felt him hugging me when I told my mum the next day and asked her if it could be true she replied "Who do you think has been hugging me every night?"

Also on the night my mum died we were in a Marie Curie Hospice with her she had been on Morphine and it had finally let her sleep and we knew it wouldn't be long she'd been asking all day if her mum was coming for her. About half an hour before we died we could smell lavender just over my mum's bed, My nana always wore lavender perfume and my mum always said whenever she felt upset or lost she'd smell lavender and knew it was her mum. We checked with the nurses at the hospice to see if they'd been burning lavender oil and they hadn't.

What made me really believe that there is life after death is when my mum actually died. Her breathing started to become laboured and she started fighting death. I don't know why but I started telling her that i'd be ok and that I had Mark now (my dp) and that she must go towards the light at that moment you could she she physically relaxed opened her eyes for the first time in 8 hours and the whites of her eyes were completley clear they'd been yellow due to jaundice before, she looked at me exhaled and died. Even 2 seconds after this you could tell she had gone what was left was her body and it didn't look like she was asleep it looked like a latex dummy and that was the point I truly believed we all have souls.

smeeinit · 27/09/2006 11:15

ledog you have bought tears to my eyes, what a moving story.

SaintGeorge · 27/09/2006 11:16

((hugs)) ledodgy

(please note, they are spiritual hugs, not those wishy washy virtual hugs - don't do them )

On the day my dad passed, the family gathered in his room at the hospice over a few hours. He was taking those slow, deep breathes were each time you think it will be the last. With the family gathered we thought he would go but he hung on, for more than 6 hours.

I realised he was waiting for my sister who was 300 miles away. I leant over and said to him 'Look dad, grab that rainbow outside the window and take a ride. Caz can see the rainbow too, she is with us. Love you'.
With that he looked at my mum for a brief second and left us. I sincerely belief he was just waiting for word of Caz before he took that last step.

SaintGeorge · 27/09/2006 11:16

believe not belief

expatinscotland · 27/09/2006 11:22

On the day my paternal grandmother passed, she opened her eyes and began to whisper the name of her first child, a daughter who had died of Spanish Flu when she was just two years old, over 70 years before.

She was speaking to her, the way a mother speaks to her child.

Her second daughter was sleeping but woke to this and knew that the end must be near, b/c she was calling their sister.

She passed w/i minutes, very peacefully.

I know she will never be a ghost, b/c her spirit is another place, but she told me many times before that death was no strong barrier at all for some.

At the time, I was only about 22, and thought it was more of her 'witch doctor', as my dad always teased her, stuff.

But she spoke the truth, as always.

SaintGeorge · 27/09/2006 11:23

It will get easier expat, I promise. I know you are still struggling, but I sense that you do seem to have accepted it more in the time we have 'known' each other.

xx

ProfYaffle · 27/09/2006 11:24

Ledogy - really interesting about the dreams. I had a very similar experience when my best friend died. I told her not to haunt me because it would scare me but she spoke to me in a dream. Hard to explain but it was very different to a normal dream. I know a couple of other people who've had similar dreams about recently dead friends/relatives as well.