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mardatha wrote: »

Can I tel you a story?? a true spooky scaaaary one
My daughter rented a house that wasn't at all normal. It was spooky as hell, scared the life out of me, and eventually her 4 kids as well. But she didn't mind it, she liked it. I saw stuff, the kids saw stuff/had bad dreams, the toddler used to talk away to an invisible lady and scream at a horrible man.In the end they were all sleeping in one room with the lights on, and they had to get out.
But this story is about the night the lights went out :eek::eek::eek:
We had got in a medium - my first ever encounter with such a being lol - who told us the story of the house. And it wasn't nice. (We checked with the local newspaper archive and various other bodies and it was all true.) Part of the story was a previous tenant who was mentally ill and who killed his wife then shot himself. (This man was the strong presence in the house, and the medium described him perfectly cos we compared her description to the newspaper photos).
Few days after we found all this out, daughter woke in middle of the night, son was crying cos his light went out. She realised the meter had run out of credit... had no torch, no candles, no matches, nothing.
She had to creep down a really steep victorian stair (in utter pitch blackness cos no streetlights).... through bottom hall....through kitchen....into the utility room....and then the garage. She says every single second she was expecting to see this man loom in front of her or feel him standing behind her. She wanted to run like hell out into the street but couldn't leave the kids.
This was ten years ago and she still has flashbacks. If she had had a torch or candles she wouldn't have to do that nightmare trip. Ever since then she has a house FULL of candles :D
(the other part of the story was a pit disaster right under it. )

Funny how some people get really scared when you talk about experiences like this. OH and I used to be members of a paranomal investigations group and we both also did some medium training. TBH once the kids came along we kind of put things aside. But I still often sense things and see things. Prior to meeting OH when younger I worked as a guide showing people around a house in Lancashire which was "famed" for being the most haunted house in the UK. Anyone heard of Chingle Hall?

Saw and experienced lots in there. Interestingly the overnight stays with groups could lead to fascination experiences. I especially loved seeing cocky young guys who thought it was all "rubish" reduced to gibbering wrecks by the morning and the number of times people actually left in the middle of the night was crazy.
I always felt very welcome there, but got the sense there were a number of presences there and if they didn't like you could make the atmosphere unpleasant.

I wasn't always a believer, and even now I would say try to look for logical explanations. The most interesting things to me are where there was corroborating evidence. Like we kept books where people could list their experiences. When you looked back in the books you found people months, or even years apart having the same experiences without any knowledge of what had gone on before.
Plus all the electrical physical effects and photos.

Madartha, sounds like your daughter had a scare and although I feel presences around me fairly often, most of them I feel are non threatening. I have however stayed on holiday in a house where one of the bedrooms had "someone" who didn't want us there lol. So we all slept in the other rooms. The technique to use if something feels scary or you feel "someone" is around you is to visualise white safe positive light surrounding and protecting you.

Can post some spooky stories from things we have experienced if anyone wants to get in the halloween mood lol.

Ali x

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

Weeeel, hit the fatigue wall yesterday at 8.30 and went to bed and resurfaced exactly 12 hours later. Feeling much restored, so will have to see how much trouble I can get up to today. Rats, most of the day will involve working for my living; dammit, it does cut into my prepping time.

Agreed! Bleeping inconvenient to have to work for a living :rotfl:

I see empty shops on the high street in this southern English city, and empty stalls on a market where you only used to be able to get a space as a newbie trader when someone died.

I live in southern England too, GQ, very prosperous commuter town with a bit of home grown industry, and thats my experience too. I went into the centre last week, for the first time since I got ill at the beginning of September, and I counted 8 empty shops, plus more charity shops than there were before. And the YHA CS selling furniture has closed - prices were too near the ordinary shops, they got too greedy.

Yes, my spies and informants who live near Waitrose tell me that it's doing a roaring trade, but with only two very specific parts of the demographic; affluent pensioners and harrassed yummy-mummy county wives with five children in tow.

Agreed - I'd also add Waitrose "pensioners", like my sister, she gets a discount there that puts it on a par with Asda, as long as she shops carefully.

My life just doesn't run to new clothes, it runs to new-to-me clothes, ditto housewares etc. I've been living this way quite happily for so long that it's just my personal culture and would be very hard to change.

Me too ... and I don't think I'd want it to change, actually, apart from more organic food (I know thats often contentious, its just my take), and a bit more variety. I don't want to consume more.

tryingtobethrifty

Thought you might be interested in this. It's about a family who live at the end of a glen in Scotland on a croft with no electric, it was on BBC2 last night.
It looks like a hard life but very interesting. The nice thing was that they didn't make them out to be "weird" or anything just told it how it was, they seem like a happy family.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01gygxp/Power_to_the_Pococks_A_Year_in_the_Life_of_a_Crofting_Family/

Talking of losing things. We got a new tv in January and lost the remote a week later. We looked everywhere for it, my mum and dad stayed for a week and looked for it, I offered the kids £5 to find it. In June I finally gave in and bought a new one online. 4 hours later my husband found it.
This isn't a one of incident, generally if we give in and buy a replacement we will find the item within the next day or two.

Karmacat

Losing things ... there's a hole in the space-time continuum. Buying a replacement will inevitably send energy to the hole, meaning that it closes up and the original object will re-appear

jk0

Karmacat wrote: »

Losing things ... there's a hole in the space-time continuum. Buying a replacement will inevitably send energy to the hole, meaning that it closes up and the original object will re-appear

Seriously, you have to wonder, don't you?

I have lost my television viewing glasses for a fortnight. I am presently using some I got in 1986. I know very well that if I go and buy some more, I will find my others the next day.

mardatha

Well ever since that house I've been able to see and sense spirit so it did me a huge favour ALI

herbily

Really enjoying the reminiscences about old washing machines - I for one am very glad of my (slightly leaky) automatic. I read a book about a man in New York who was trying to minimise his impact on the world (think it was called No Impact Man) and the point when he caved in was when his toddler had a gastric upset (to put it nicely) and suddenly all his principles went out the window, he wanted to use his washing machine! It's one of the few domestic inventions I would really miss.

I'm busy reading "The World Until Yesterday" by Jared Diamond (from my local library, while we still have one, and while it's still buying new stock - they've had their budget for stock halved already) and it's all about life in tribal situations. The author was an anthropologist in New Guinea, and he said the most important thing he learnt from people there was "constructive paranoia" - i.e. common sense, not taking daft risks, because there was no modern medicine or emergency services to bail you out. It's a good read (I can also really recommend his earlier book "Collapse" on how cultures die out by outgrowing their ecological niche).

Raining lots here, and the dog is trying to force me to take her out - I know as soon as I've got us both into rain-gear, I'll open the front door, she'll look at the weather, and turn straight round again.:rotfl:

ginnyknit

OOh theres real rise in the economy :j is there a smiley for 'this is a load of tosh'?

Just had 2 brown letters...panic...first one says Im exempt from jury service - yay second one says I can retire at 66 ...wow am I having a good day or what...sarcasm alert....

So tempted by approved foods but will not have room in the pantry so giving it a miss. need to empty freezers and run down a few stocks before the 'C' word.

Also apparently the government has published advice on how to keep warm, hope they send me a letter about it then I can burn it to keep warm. Will keep todays post towards my Christmas day bonfire.

Feeling very angry about the whole lit and kaboodle but will not be defeated I am a toughie and proud!

I actually went in Waitrose recently, it was all the pretty flowers in the doorway that drew me in and of course the fact that you dont need a pound coin for the trolleys. I bought 2 packs of reduced pasta - 50p each and a few whoopsies which were amazingly cheap. Dont think I will figure in the statistics :rotfl:

mardatha

I read Collapse by Jared Diamond and found it very interesting and disturbing.

7_week_wonder

Please can a long-time lurker pick your collective brains?

First - does anyone have recommendations for a good small light-weight torch that I could keep in my handbag? I've got torches and candles in places where I can find them at home, but nothing for if I was out and about.

And second - my mum (in her 80's but completely independent and able when she is well) has been struck down with a stinking cold. Poor thing sounds awful, so we are heading down to visit her on Sunday, basically to cook her Sunday lunch and cheer her up a bit. I also want to take her some emergency bits and pieces to tide her over for similar occasions when she can't get out to the shops for a few days. She normally has a well stocked freezer and the neightbours are pretty good, but she hates bothering them. I'm thinking:
Tins of soup
Tins of tuna
UHT milk
Squash
Lemon juice (to make soothing drinks)
Honey (to add to soothing drinks)

What else would people suggest? My mind has gone blank!

Thanks everyone.