was this a ghost ?

worbikeman

If ghosts exist why aren't there special ghost hazard road signs to warn drivers at accident blackspots? People have been dying in their thousands on roads for a hundred years. There are special hazard signs for deer (and kangaroos in Australia), and they're nowhere near as common on roads as dead people:D

Molly41

sparrer wrote: »

When my DGD was 3 years old she was sitting on the stairs playing and chattering away. DD asked her who she was talking to, she replied Nanny Mary' (not her real name). Mary was her daddy's mother who died when he was in his early teens, and why Nanny when her only other grandparent is Grandma? She wasn't someone who was talked about in the family so highly improbable the LO would know anything of her.

My DD regularly used to play with her "twin" when she was little. I lost a baby boy - the twin to DD. She had no idea but he was around a lot when she was little. Less so now though :A

Hillbilly1

Have loved this thread!

Worked in a haunted hospital, where the ghost nurse would turn on taps and open doors... nights were fun!

sparrer

Molly I think children, especially young ones, are far more receptive to spirits that adults because they don't know not to believe, haven't learned scepticism and don't have the fear of the unknown that older people do.

Hillbilly I worked in a nursing home for the terminally ill. One morning after a lady had passed away I stripped the bed and washed down the waterproofs. I turned away for just a few seconds to hang the mattress cover over the towel rail and when I turned back the pillow had a definite indentation when the lady's head had been. Fortunately incidents like that don't 'spook' me, I've experienced too many to be a doubter.

salena

My first ever,ever memory was when i stayed over at my Nans when i was 4 years old. I was sleeping in her bed and woke up because my ear started to hurt (had lots of problems with my ears as a youngster), It wasnt a bad pain but it was enough to keep me awake. Anyway i was just lay looking at the wall for ages and suddenly i felt like someone was putting pressure on my side, Almost like someone was leaning on me. I turned and looked up to see a middle aged man dressed in a suit hoovering over me?! :eek:

I stared at him for a good minute or so then i threw the cover over my head thinking he must be a robber (had no idea what a ghost or after life was at that age), It was freezing cold and i could see my own breath. A short while later i looked again and he was still there looking down at me, That's when i got hysterical! I screamed, bit, pinched and punched my Nan but she wouldn't wake up, Even when i had my hand on her chest i couldn't feel her breathing??? I hid back under the cover and just kept peeping over every couple of minutes and he would still be there until eventually i watched him fade away. All in all this experience must of lasted at least 30 minutes! Once he had disappeared my Nan woke up to me sobbing comforted me and promised to keep the lamp on. The next day she was sore and had a bite mark on her arm. Everyone tried to reassure me it didn't happen and it probably was a bad dream (I definitely wasn't asleep but i now know they said this because they didn't want me to be anymore scared or confused then i already was).

Not long after that happened my great grandad died, he came whispered in my ear (it was broad daylight and i was very much awake) and i told my mum and dad he had died minutes before my nan phoned to let them know. At his funeral i sat waving to him whilst he was stood in the corner watching everyone and he was waving back at me, After the funeral i remember being quite cross because everyone said he had gone to live in the sky, so all i could ask was how was he there if he was in the sky with the angels? Least to say that made everyone rather uncomfortable

A year or so later (age 5/6ish)i woke up one morning, ran downstairs and told my mum that my great grandad (who had died) came to me in my sleep and told me i had to tell my dad to go see Nan quickly because she was very poorly. My dad went round to my Nan's and she had suffered a big heart attack! Luckily he had found her just in time and she survived.

After that i had the odd dream where my great grandad came to check on me and to make sure i was looking after my Nan but apart from that everything became pretty normal.

Then when i was 17 i was waiting for my Nan to pick me and my then OH up (we had been away to blackpool for a few days). At 3pm on the dot i heard a bell chime and a breeze with a familiar smell passed me, i just looked at my then OH and said shes dead (my Nan), It was the strangest of feelings and very different from the experience i had when i was a kid, My OH just looked at me and told me not to be stupid. Then at just after 5pm my mum turned up to let me know my Nan had died (at 3pm) and she took me home.

Now if i was reading this and it hadn't happened to me i would think it was absolutely crazy and sometimes i do think its crazy but i was there and all this did happen. I cannot explain it and i haven't experienced anything like it since (im now 32). To a certain extent i can understand why some people don't want to believe it or they want to find a scientific reasons for these things happening but if im honest i dont think it is one of those things thats ever meant to be proven? Just like is there a god? Did Jesus really exist? Its one of those age old questions that's never going to be answered.

Wow this is actually the first time ive ever spoken about any of this stuff other then to a family member lol. You must all think im mad now :rotfl:

mouseymousey99

I think this has been my favourite ever thread. I have so loved reading everyone else's experiences (I've added mine). So just to say thank you to everyone else who shared one, to all the sceptics we don't know everything - Edwina Currie and John Major who saw that one coming!!!

Person_one

mouseymousey99 wrote: »

Edwina Currie and John Major who saw that one coming!!!

:rotfl:

Thank you, this is the funniest argument for the existence of ghosts I've ever seen!

Shoshannah

I don't believe in ghosts, but could be forgiven for thinking there is one in my 1980's semi. :rotfl:

First event:
I was running a bath, and opened one of the cupboard doors in the bathroom to get something out. As far as I remember, I shut it. I went into the bedroom for something and returned to the bathroom seconds later. The door I had opened was indeed shut, but the other cupboard was wide open. I hadn't even been in that cupboard, and the doors clip shut (ie can't blow open in the breeze).

Second event:
I had a table lamp on the desk in the spare room. One evening, there was a bang from upstairs. I remember saying to my OH 'what was that?' but we put it down to the neighbours and thought nothing more of it.
A couple of days later I went into the spare room for something. The china base of the lamp was smashed to bits, all over the desk and floor. The bulb and shade were intact. All windows were shut and the lamp was unplugged at the time. Everything else in the room appeared normal.

As I said, I don't believe in ghosts, but cannot think of any explanation for these two events so far.

busiscoming2

Shoshannah wrote: »

I don't believe in ghosts, but could be forgiven for thinking there is one in my 1980's semi. :rotfl:

First event:
I was running a bath, and opened one of the cupboard doors in the bathroom to get something out. As far as I remember, I shut it. I went into the bedroom for something and returned to the bathroom seconds later. The door I had opened was indeed shut, but the other cupboard was wide open. I hadn't even been in that cupboard, and the doors clip shut (ie can't blow open in the breeze).

Second event:
I had a table lamp on the desk in the spare room. One evening, there was a bang from upstairs. I remember saying to my OH 'what was that?' but we put it down to the neighbours and thought nothing more of it.
A couple of days later I went into the spare room for something. The china base of the lamp was smashed to bits, all over the desk and floor. The bulb and shade were intact. All windows were shut and the lamp was unplugged at the time. Everything else in the room appeared normal.

As I said, I don't believe in ghosts, but cannot think of any explanation for these two events so far.

Spooky! :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Curlywurli

My three and a half year old woke up in the night last night crying his eyes out and shouting that there was a ghost in his bedroom. We have never discussed ghosts in front of him. It was a really odd thing for him to say and came out of the blue. The old lady that lived here did die here so you never know.
My nan insists that she saw a ghost of her friend when they were in church. Apparently the ghost of her friend was standing next to her husband. I've never seen ghosts but I do believe.