Has anyone actually seen a ghost

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Not, caught something out the corner of your eye or felt a presence, I mean actually seen one, spoken to one etc?

im aware this sounds woo. I don’t think I do believe in them, never seen one but ppl I have spoken to say they have.

maybe some ppl are more receptive to these things or maybe it’s a trick of the mind?

just be interested in anyones experience really

My brother saw a face hanging in the air in the middle of the night in roughly the same place over ten years later - he was going to the toilet, and our mum was lying in bed, heard him walk down the landing and say ‘Oh sorry… Who’s there?’ Then he screamed. She said her blood ran cold. He later said he saw a face which he took for one of the family then it changed into something horrible but he wouldn’t say more.

There was also one other occasion when my
mum and brother were in the sitting room, and heard one of the cats run downstairs and scratch on the door. One of them got up to open the door then realised both cats were already in the room. So they didn’t open the door.

The house was over 100 years old… but none of us ever experienced anything else.

I saw something I categorically can’t explain, once.

I owned a pub at the time. I was pottering about cleaning up at the end of the night, & was in the lounge bar/restaurant, tidying up.

We would be busy in there until the end of food service, then once diners had left by 10ish we’d often close it so the bartender could knock off early. We had a youngish staff & there was always someone up for doing a 5-11pm shift & heading off into town.

Working that bar was still unpopular, because it was somehow deeply, deeply spooky when it wasn’t busy, & if you ran the bar, you had to clean up after the punters had left. There was a running staff joke about feeling eyes on the back of your neck in there.

Anyway, I was reasonably immune to the woo. Yes, it was rather an unwelcoming room when deserted at night - all inglenooks & fake Tudor beams - but tbh, it mostly bothered me because the business wasn’t doing too well, the dry sales were an issue, & I couldn’t afford to fix the depressing dining room. Still, I didn’t much like lingering in there at midnight, & was wiping the back bar down quite quickly, when I saw a teenage girl in a dark dress walk into the Ladies.

For a second, I thought one of the families from earlier in the night - there was a lot of holiday accommodation in the area which made up the bulk of the summer trade - had somehow left a kid behind. Then I remembered that it was 1am. & then I checked the loo & no one was there.

When I told a couple of the regulars about it next day, they came up with a story of a previous landlord’s 14yo daughter dying of leukemia 70 years previously (because of course they did - bar flies gonna bar fly!). The story didn’t check out - no landlord in the previous century was recorded as having lost an older child.

But. I saw her vividly - I could describe her in detail. I don’t think I saw a ghost. I think the human brain does some weird & wonderful stuff. But I can quite see why people do believe.

Are you sure that wasn't just the Ready Brek advert?

I don't in ghosts but am fairly sure I saw a ghost sheepdog once....a dog which vanished into thin air and I can't explain it. It was either a ghost or a hallucination.

I was in a hotel with my youngest son and was just settling to sleep when I had the urge to open my eyes. I did and leaning over me, all glammed up was a woman. She said “you” and was looking right at me. I closed my eyes tight and was aware I didn’t scream as I didn’t want to wake my son but I opened my eyes again and she was gone. It was heart stopping my scary at the time

Yes.

Walking the dog one day. Approaching a hedge with a gate in it. A man - nonedescript, contemporary dress and haircut, with an arthritic black lab - approaching from the other side of the hedge.

He and the dog stepped to their right to let me and my dog pass first. A noise to our right ( man banging his door) had me and my dog momentarily look to our right. When we looked back, man and dog were gone.

I'm here with nowt to do.

Yes my Great Grandmother’s it was quite bizarre she just floated past me - past the door of our lounge at the time like I don’t know a light. She wasn’t of this world and she wasn’t aware of me.

Our boy has been heard giggling by me and dh. Still freaks him out. Also heard him playing with toy cars one night (I had a sofa bed in the dining room which also had toy boxes in). I've seen him twice both from the back. Never his face. And he has stood next to my bed. I could sense him there but was too bloody terrified to look!! Cripes I was about 50! Wuss!

Yes. My last house was definitely spooky. I was always terrified of it and when I was home alone I refused to go downstairs. It was a town house, so only the kitchen was downstairs, lounge/bathroom and dining room in the middle and bedrooms at the top.

If i needed to go downstairs for a wee in the night, I would run.

On one occasion we went to bed and all the cupboard doors and drawers were open in our bedroom. Then I got really freaked out. I went to the loo in the night, walked into the bedroom and someone said right in my ear 'welcome back' 😳 my husband was snoring in bed so it wasn't him.

I poured loads of money into that place but could only stand it for 18 months.

Then there was the Rutland Water incident ..... but that's another story!

Someone that works for me moved house because of a ghost. Both her kids would mention this man but they were tiny then so she put it down to imagination. One day she was at home with them and upstairs changing the beds. She had everything bundled up to take downstairs and there at the foot of the stairs was a man - he wasn’t see-through or anything - she thought an actual man was in her house. Then she realised he was wearing non-contemporary clothes. She said he had a horrible face. She shouted at him to go away and he walked through the wall. When she got to the bottom of the stairs the kids asked why she had shouted because they had been playing in the lounge. She didn’t want to scare them so she just said: “Oh nothing!” And then her youngest said: “Was it the bad man?” When her husband got in from work that night she told him that they had to move - luckily they were renting and managed to do it fairly quickly. The day they moved out the kids were waving out the back window of the car and she said: “Are you saying goodbye to the house?” And her eldest said: “No to the man. I don’t think he liked living with us.” Once in a while I drive past the place when I am up in north Wales and it is a bloody scary looking place!

Please tell!

very well known local ghost. I was driving up the hill and had to emergency stop as a woman stepped in front of me. Sat for a few moments shaking and looking round for them - nowhere to be seen. Remembered where I was and accelerated off to my mate’s house.

No and while I don't think they're 'spirits of the dead' I think maybe there is just some way we don't understand that people can imprint on a place. My parents own a very, very old house abroad (c600 years old) and they are very rational, totally un-woo people but have both seen or felt a distinct presence in the house that they are sure is a man who was previous owner when there was a big fire there a few hundred years ago. Like me they think maybe it's some kind of imprint somehow left in the place; he's not scary, apparently, and tends to appear in one part of the house near where you can still see signs of burning on one of the doorframes.

No, never seen a ghost because there is no such thing.

I am interested in the paranormal and have been to many investigations, in houses, pubs, castles, stately houses, monasteries etc.
I have seen two, however I am also a sceptic, so I still question if I have or not. I don't blindly believe all I think I have experienced as paranormal.
One we think was a guard/warden when I visited Shrewsbury Prison. Quite a few people saw the same thing so it's harder to debunk.
Another I've seen in my home, a family member.
Neither time did I feel scared, but when it's in your own home it can feel odd.

Well, seeing as you asked 😆

I was camping in the grounds of a very old stately home near Rutland Water.

One late afternoon I went for a walk with my husband. There was a long driveway that led to the old home. We were walking back towards the house and I saw a lady walking towards us, down the driveway.

She was perhaps in her 60s, hair in a bun. She had on a long nightdress and nothing on her feet. It was a gravy driveway and I can remember thinking about how painful it must be on her feet.

I watched her, walking towards us for a while. She was looking straight at us. I turned to my husband to ask if he thought she needed help .... looked back up the drive, and she'd gone. My husband hadn't seen a thing, and when I turned to him she was only about 10ft away.

Why am I reading this late at night 😬😬😟😟😟😟😨😨😨

Dd2 was very calm non dramatic child never had a nightmare or bad dream. We were staying in a hotel in Dublin near the docks. Dd was about 7 or 8. She said there was a sad girl in her room in a shawl. We dismissed it as a dream / imagination. She was adamant. She was there the next night too - very sad and with a shawl. Dd2 was matter of fact about it.

Very like my own experience (earlier in the thread).

Thank you for sharing that.

I have seen two ghosts. One of them, my son saw too. I was carrying him from the bathroom to his bedroom when he was about 2. I passed the open doorway to my bedroom and thought I saw a man sitting on the bed, but it was so fleeting as I walked past that I didn’t really think much of it until my son asked who the mister sitting on the bed was.

It’s possible we both saw the same shapes in a shadow I suppose.

Then I’ve seen a woman in her mid twenties with dark hair walking through what was the kitchen of this house. She walked into a unit and kind of faded away. I can’t explain that. There was a period where there were many weird goings on in that part of the house, witnessed by my husband and my business partner but mostly just me. None of it scary, just weird - stuff moving. A picture came off the wall and flipped rather than dropped. Curtain opened. But not at all scary. Hasn’t happened for ages.

My mum and sister believe in ghosts and report many sightings. I don’t believe in ghosts. They don’t make sense to me. My mum and sis have never seen ‘my’ ghost here and they are the kind that really would if the house was haunted. My mum says she hears footsteps from upstairs when she has stayed here but I never have and we have cats that thunder about anyway.

We are where we are.

I don't believe in them but I've had a couple of strange experiences. My mum died when I was 13 and the next summer myself and my siblings went to stay with her parents (our GPs) and I went upstairs to grab something and got a strong whiff of a perfume my mum used to wear. No one else in the house had or wore this perfume. Another occasion when I was 17 I went up to my friends bedroom to get my bag after a sleepover and I could see her older brother stood in the doorway, so I said " what are you doing? Move out the way please". And reached forward to move him out the way then the silhouette disappeared. It fucking terrified me!

Yes! Non believer until we bought a very old house. There were lots of strange noises in the night which I shrugged off. Then I saw a man as plain as anything on the landing, he turned and went into my son’s room. I ran up the stairs after him shouting my husband that there was an intruder. Nobody there. We had to sell up because my nerves were shredded after that.

My daughter at a relative’s house saw a girl on the stairs and spoke to her. It was a full conversation. Daughter was about 4 and she said it was a little girl like her but in funny clothes. Years later our relative found out a girl had died there. My grandad also came back and spoke to me. It was plain as day.

Yes. I'm a scientist. Not convinced about afterlife and all that but a good scientist trys to be open minded.

I have seen two 'ghosts' in one day and heard a voice next to me.

The only way you see or hear anything is chemicals in your brain. People accept you can hallucinate on drugs or with disease. However no one believed me.

if you can hallucinate on ketamine, why was mine a lie? Weird I wasn't unwell or under any more stress than normal. The first one seemed real, the second I realised after it walked in front of me and I followed. I knew it wouldn't be there. Still freaked me right out. Thinking there was something wrong with me or it was sign of impending doom.

The freaky one was a voice both me and dh heard together. Can't explain that one.

Me and my husband were woken up in the night with lights flashing at the foot of the bed. I mentioned this to my cousin who said it had happened to him once in his house. There was no explanation and we are still freaked about it to this day