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Has my toddler and little boy seen spirits and ghosts in the house????

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bandie · 10/09/2008 10:03

I wonder if anyone has had similar experience.
when my 5 yr old boy was younger he always talked about the 'tickly man' who tickled his toes at night !Apparently he'd wake up my son and then go down the stairs. He wore a hat apparently but sometimes came out of the drawer under the bed.

my hubbie and I have overactive imaginations and loved the story, but tried not to colude . He got scared so I sprayed deoderant and told him it was special spray which the tickly man did not like.

Anyway or 2 year old is screaming in the night. and told me this am that there was a man in his bedroom. I asked him to describe him and he said Hat. It freaked me out.

My dad died 4 months ago, I had a few 'signs' but maybe just co-incidence. He broke his right arm in a fall and died of exposure.

Anyway 2 year old kept pointing to his right arm and trying to tell me something.

Maybe I am just trying to link up things that have no meaning.

Anyone else's children seen anything or is it just imaginary friends???

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bandie · 10/09/2008 21:54

I'd say that someone thinks you are very special indeed ! and that you need to be looked after and cared for right now.

I sometimes wish that if they are out there, why dont they do something obvious like move something.... but that would probably scare us ridgid. Sometimes it is about having faith but without the proof.

off to bed now... so sweet dreams...

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kiltycoldbum · 10/09/2008 22:04

ive spent years wishing that someone would move something or SOMETHING! you know but it never happens however i do get rare moments where i just know with absolute certainty someone is with me (not just a random person but a specific person known to me, not always the same one) its rather odd, ive had a couple of odd dreams where i have met someone ive never known or met but are known to people close to me (so i know who they are iyswim) and ive spoken to them in my dream and they've never said anything significant but an action they have done in my dream has transpired to be something that they did when they were alive that i certainly knew nothing about and the person who knew them had pretty much forgotten about.

One example is my dp's mother, she died young so i never knew or met her and he doesn't talk about her and there is not a single other member of the family to talk to. I had a really involved dream about her not too long back, it was just me and her in a room talking at a table, and she kept fiddling with a particular silver keyring, on waking i told DP "gosh i dreamt about your mum last night and she kept bloody fiddling with this silver keyring in a certain way" and it freaked him the hell out because he had forgotten how his mum actually used to do this with a certain keyring. Spooky huh! and very true by the way!

Night night, sleep tight

BlackEyedDog · 10/09/2008 22:37

Back again Bandie to tell you my odd signs. I really don'tto believe in the supernatural but life can throw up some good coincidences. Here are a couple.

After my dad died five years ago we were at the crematorium and looking at the Book of Remembrance where my dad had his entry; dates, achievements, a poem, that sort of thing. His was the last entry in the book. Another book was opened at its first page. Both under glass. At the top of the new book it had one line

"XX XX [my dps full name] HAS A GOOD HEART"

That was it, no dob-dod, nothing. Dp and I had been bickering a lot so it was like a weirdo message from dear dad to me to cut DP some slack. We all sniggered a bit at the coincidence.

6 months later that winter I encountered a Clairvoyant who for £5 told me about dad 'on the other side'. She said some stuff, some actually credible, but the bit that interested me was when she said 'he's saying that your DP HAS A GOOD HEART.'

Dad hardly knew DP tbh. Anyhow, the clairvoyant told me he would give me a 'sign' that he was around. That night there was a heavy snow fall. DP said 'Did your dad wear big pointy shoes [guffaw]?' Nope I said. In the walled back garden was a set of ginormous pointy toed footprints in the fresh snow leading to our back door...But they disappeared into nothing as though somebody had softly landed in the snow and walked a few feet to the door.

Was puzzling. Some weeks later I borrowed a postage stamp sized photo of my father sitting in our garden in the 1960's. I wanted to enlarge it to A4. You know what? Once scanned and enlarged I saw he was wearing the most mahoosive pointy shoes!! Had dad been stumping in the snow in his pointy 60's shoes?

Unrelated to dad but in the same Land of the Strange I was sitting alone in that garden on a hot day. Ds had a toy lawn mower which has a motor sound. The lawn mower 'started up'. Next his ride-on toy with the most annoying fireman's song started playing by itself[...if there's an emergency anytime at all, I will always answer your callll...]. Sensibly, I moved briskly indoors, deciding the hot weather was freaking out all the toys.

As I walked through the kitchen, a tiny keyring violin started to play an Irish ditty...

Quite batty all of it to be sure.

fransmom · 11/09/2008 14:44

lol someone is trying to get your attention!

bandie · 11/09/2008 22:43

Blackeyedog.

Sorry but if you are a non believer after all that then you must be a scientist or something.

Why do you say " I really dont believe in the supernatural........" you have more evidence to believe than not believe ?

That is as good as it gets mate. How can you keep explaining these things away as coincidence.- I know what you mean though because we just need to find a rational explanation.

Tell me, where do you "just encounter a clarvoiant" when you dont believe.. and for a fiver too- good rate. maybe he/she works at the crematorium for extra pocket money.

Kiltycoldbum- do you have anyone in your family with psychic abilities? Apparently we are supposed to listen to our dreams.

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BlackEyedDog · 12/09/2008 13:15

I don't believe in the supernatural in so far that I can't believe that the deceased continue in a conscious way interacting with the living. I do think that life holds many mysteries, however, and much that is hard to explain. I think there is a lot of extraordinary 'phenomena' in life that transcends the mundane. Believing that it's the deceased is one possible explanation, but not one I am happy with.

I met the clairvoyant at a village hall fair after we just moved out of London. There was bric-a-brac, arts and crafts, somebody doing tarot for £5 and the £5 clairvoyant (I think they were doing it to raise money for the village hall). I wanted the tarot reader to do me, but there were people queuing up for her so I got the clairvoyant instead lol.

fransmom · 12/09/2008 14:51

everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and that is how i have managed to not tear my hair out lol

could you thinkof it this way ...

a basic physics law is that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
as our bodies have electrical energy, it is this or somethign very similar (the soul) that is carried on, rather than the physical body which wears out.

BlackEyedDog · 12/09/2008 15:31

I could go along with something like that, Fransmom.

I saw a 'ghost' twice, many years ago. Both times he repeated the same actions (putting his tie on). Now I think it was not someone dead consciously 'revealing' themselves to me, but some sort of imprint of someone who once was, and I happened to catch it, as it were. A moving image from another time. Could not begin to explain the 'physics' behind it though tbh.

I've been umming and ahhing all afternoon thinking about this thread actually!

fransmom · 12/09/2008 15:40

maybe, then, bed that this action could have been intended to draw your attention to them, in case you didn't catch it the first time or you couldn't believe your eyes, so to speak i have had the same experience many times lol

kiltycoldbum · 12/09/2008 19:37

hi again

bandie my maternal grandmother was a bit on the "witchpoo" side as my mother calls it! despite being devout catholic! my mother is one of seven as am i, though neither my mum or i are the seventh in our lot! i think im quite perceptive and am quite an emotional person which probably explains it really. As i think im more open when im emotionally charged as it were. i do read my own tarot but noone elses (so thats not an offer sorry!), its a personal thing for me purely for a bit of guidance rather than anything else, it doesnt tell me the future or anything!

im also partial to christianity but i know it makes some people uncomfortable, i would say im spiritual rather than religious, i was raised in the church, i have a degree in theology and i have no problem with my position in life. These things to me are personal, it doesnt matter how anyone else deals with it, theres only one person i will need to square anything with in my mind and as long as ive lived my life loving as much as i can i think thats the most important thing.

as none of you know me i dont mind making a kind of shameful confession that ive never told anyone as it makes me seem totally mental and not very loving given what i just said!
about a year ago my dps ex was being such a cow id really had enough of it as it was just another thing in a long line of crap, i found in our loft 2 pics of her and was just totally miffed, infact the incandescent rage i felt just made me want to vomit, i took them downstairs set light to them in my fireplace and really let rip stating exactly how i felt and that i hoped she and every person she loved suffered every pain of hell for the misery she was bringing to my life. That night she rang dp in tears as her father had collapsed at home he was alright after a few days btw! i dont believe i have super powers and made it happen but i did think bloody hell as im well aware you should never wish ill as it comes back threefold, ive spent since then being as nice as i can by the way to make up for my over the top ill wishes and we get on rather amicably now! im full of silly anecdotes really!

oooo i could ramble for england

bandie · 13/09/2008 17:33

Kiltycoldbum-

I am a Christian too. However, us Christians are not supposed to be interested in this type of stuff.

I cant help it it is really interesting.

I tend to agree that maybe they are just impressions left behing, but I do think in some cases they might be trying to make sort of contact

Never seen ghost. I was brushing my teeth in bathroom and felt a distinct tug on my dressing gown from behing. I was sure it was my son. When I turned round,no one there, He was fast asleep snoring in bed !

I thought at the time "Oh that was probably nana (not sure why..?) After the event I just started to doubt it all again..

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