Ghosts....whoooooooooo

[Grauntie Mag]

Are you a believer, have you had an experience?
I'll start. Yes, several.
The spookiest was at a house we lived in when the girls were small. We bought the house knowing that the lady who owned it before had committed suicide in the car in the garage. She was elderly, her husband had passed away and she was bereft. We understood from her friend (who showed us around) that she was a lovely lady but mistreated by her step children.
When DD2 was about 2 or so she came into the house singing a nursery rhyme I hadn’t taught her. I asked where she had heard it and her answer was that the lady in the garage sang it to her.
From then on Mrs Jones was part of our family. We liked having her and I think she was probably blamed for things she didn't do!
The latest was today, my pal has been sitting on my shoulder all morning whilst I sorted a tricky situation. She didn't help much though! I told her to go and see her daughter and she went from me.
I'm really not mad. I guess you have to be a believer.

[Mimi]

No I’m not a believer at all but I do understand that some people firmly believe in ghosts so who am I to say they are wrong.

[Plantaholic]

I was listening to a friend from Aqa, she said she worked at Bisham Abbey for some years and there were many ghosts there, all friendly. I think some people are mor susceptible thank others..We stayed in a house in Norfolk and there was one bedroom I felt uncomfortable in, a GS slept in there. When the owner came to check us out, he said did we see the ghost, it apparently appears in that bedroom GS was in. Very spooky.

[Oma]

Now I'm not a believer but I did have a experience many years ago when my dear Father died ,
It was late at night and I saw him walking towards me just outside our house, I must admit I got a fright he hadn't been dead long , I stopped and asked if he was coming in he said no he had to go but he was watching over us , I went through the garden gate turned around and he was gone ,

Now I know this sounds like I had a encounter but did I ?
Was it not that I was desperate to talk with and see him again so all my imagination ? .

[Plantaholic]

That is amazing Oma, not sure what to say, it could have just your imagination.

[Daisy]

GM - it's hard to explain something like your DD2's experience - she was too young to have made that up. I wonder if your pal will come back after you sent her packing!

Oma - it sounds as though you weren't frightened by seeing your dad so soon after you'd lost him.

Plant - Some years ago I visited Braemar House, not far from here, with my Sister-in-law and her husband. The guided tour was interesting and we wandered from room to room. I usually find these old houses rather dark and a bit depressing, but we got to this lovely bright, sunny bedroom painted in lovely spring-like colours. I was the first one in and walked round to the far side of the bed thinking how lovely it was, but as I stood there a really strange feeling came over me and I just had to get out and I edged my way round the back of the group and went and stood in the doorway. Afterwards the guide told us that that and one other room are said to be haunted.


I've had several 'unexplained' experiences - the first one when I was about 8 or 9 and I woke to find someone sitting on my bed. I didn't recognise the person, but it seemed ok for them to be there, but I never told anybody. It happened a couple more times and then stopped.

I've been in houses where I've felt uncomfortable for no apparent reason, and just wanted to get out.


I do believe the mind can play tricks on us - things like false memory are well researched - but I also believe that there are things we can't explain and just have to accept.

[Enfys]

My mother regularly saw things. When she first moved into this bungalow, where we live now, she told me she saw an old gentleman in a wheelchair. It didn’t bother her st all, she used to say hello to him and then he’d disappear. A few months later, we were talking to one of her neighbours and she told us about different people,who had lived there. The person before the family Mum bought the bungalow from was an old,gentleman in a wheelchair! Mum said he was just checking she was looking after him home for him.

[Clover]

I’m not sure what to believe. We contain electric impulses in our brain so where does this energy go when we die? I have never had any personal experience of “ghosts” but my son and his partner stayed in an old house that was said to be haunted and they felt very uncomfortable and would have left if it hadn’t been the middle of the night.

[Oma]

I don't dismiss anything as there is more things we don't know than do ,
My encounter could have been my longing to see my Dad but at the time was very real ,
Another thing was I once had a dream my Mother was lying on the bed holding me in her arms telling me she loved me and everything would be ok ,
I woke up and I swear I could still feel her holding me tight for several seconds ,
Again maybe its what I wanted to feel ?
I do believe children have the ability to see and hear what we cant ,

For several years GS1 had a friend called Nenkqnue
He told us he came to play with him but disappeared when people came up the stairs ,

my DD asked him questions and he said he was brown but looked like a shadow and he had black curly hair like fizzy coke ,
His brothers and sisters were called Baby, Nefatie and iyee( with two E's) He drowned when he was 4 because he jumped in a pool when his parents told him not too go near it ,

GS was very specific about the spelling of the names , this was when GS was only 2/3 so couldn't spell anyway ,

From being a baby he would talk to the wall in his room and when he was able to walk would try to open a door that wasn't there .

When he was almost 5 he came downstairs and said Nenkqnue had gone he wasn't coming back again as he had to go somewhere else , that was the last we heard about him .
GS cant remember now ,
It freaked SIL out but DD just took it in her stride

So although I say I don't really believe I'm not too sure.

[Grauntie Mag]

That's spooky Oma.😳.

[Gemini]

I want to believe, I really do.
I don't have any definite experiences, but some things which maybe. And to misquote Shakespeare "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by mere mortals.!

[Oma]

That's what I think Gem , so don't want to decide either way

[Qwerty]

I havnt but OH has long before he met me, near where we live now is a road called Mary Parnell Road, Mary was supposed to have been a witch and burnt at the stake in the woods alongside the road. On his way home from somewhere he saw a young lady in a long white dress running over the road into the woods screaming, there was a car in front of him that stopped as did he, OH got out to have a word with the person in the other car and said should we go and look for her, he thought it could have been a woman that had been attacked or raped but the chap wouldn’t and drove off at quite a speed. OH walked along the road shouting are you ok and hello a few times but nothing and so eventually he drove off, he didn’t know the origin of the name of the road until he spoke about it to a colleague, who told him the story 👻 was that the woman named Mary Parnell 😲

[Nana]

It's a standing joke with our family that I take after an Auntie (who died last yr) for 'seeing spirits'.

I'll tell you one. I was in bed trying to get to sleep (this was in 1974) when I noticed a movement in the corner of the bedroom. It was a Dominican monk who just stood there smiling really kindly at me.

The following day I had a fone call from my brother to say he was joining the Dominican order. I later found out that the house I lived in was built nr the site of a Dominican monastery that there was no longer any trace of.

Strange eh? Hope you don't think I'm going batty.

[Plantaholic]

Reading these posts it is amazing that so many of you have seen visitations of one sort or another.