Ghost and Paranormal Activities

[anjelikaferrett]

I've never experienced anything myself but I've been to a few spiritualists or mediums in the past. never since I moved to Durham but with my mates in Liverpool. Some were charlatans but others said things that I thought - how on earth did you know that. One, who lived on Edge Lane and who was a tiny Argentinian woman predicted the day that I would meet my now husband. I wasn't seeing anybody at the time, had just ended a relationship and was in the "I'm off men" phase. This woman got hold of my hand and said "you must say yes, you must say yes, he is your darling, not this week but next week, Saturday, YOU MUST SAY YES, You will be married by the end of the year." The following Thursday at a joint stag and hen do in Wakefield I met my husband, That was April 1991, we got married in October 1991.

For a while I had responsibility for sorting out travel and accommodation for Union reps travelling to other offices. I booked a room in a pub for a Health and Safety rep who was doing an inspection in Gloucester. He was also a bit of a real ale fan so thought he might like the place.He rang me when he got back to Swansea where he lived and worked, "Don't ever book me in that hotel again. At 3 am the wardrobe doors flew open, banged closed again and did this three more times. I nearly pooed my pants" or words to that effect with lots more swearing. Turns out it is allegedly one of the most haunted pubs in England - The New Inn Gloucester.

I also think places have an aura about them but I'm not sure if that is based on your own feelings. For example when I drive back to Liverpool on the M62, Saddleworth Moor has an eerie sadness about it, even in sunshine it is bleak. Is it because I think of that poor boy who is still out there somewhere or does the place have a memory of its own. I went to the site of the battle of Culloden once. That was the same. Just a feeling of incredible sadness about it.

So I definitely think there are things out there that happen that we have no knowledge or understanding of and should not dismiss these things.

 

[bluerobert]

I think what we think of as ghosts are rips in space time, I think that’s why a lot of the ghosts people see are from a different time period. Maybe they’re from an alternate reality which is why people are visited by loved ones. Some sort of connection to the wider multiverse. I think people who are psychics are just more in tune with the layers upon layers of reality that make up everything. There I said it out loud, might come as no shock that I came to this conclusion when high. Laugh if you like but it’s no more mental then a guy making everything in 6 days and chilling on the 7th to watch Super Sunday

 

[wandyr79]

For those that are amazed when mediums and psychics get things right, the power of suggestion is massive, people don't realise that they are being suggested to give away little bits here and there and the rest is educated guesses, using that information. It is very, very clever stuff.

All this, oh they 'predicted' nonsense as well. For every person that says, they 'predicted' this and that there are thousands (probably more) that never got it right. Like a lot of things, you hear more of the amazingly correct predictions than the mundane nothing happened predictions. You will meet somebody in the future, etc. it is just biring guesses, 99.99999 times out of a 100 they will be wrong, or at least wrong about a major detail. Even then people will go 'oooh, they said I would meet somebody with blond hair in the next 6 months, I know it was 5 years later and they had dark hair but that was spooky'.

 

[paultheblue]

A mate of mine, intelligent lad and not one partial to bull poopery told me a story once. He was in hospital a good few years back awaiting surgery on his gammy knee and went onto the balcony to have a snout.
He spotted an elderly lady up and to his right with a grey dressing gown on and a small flower pinned to it over her right breast. Next thing she just kind of zoomed off into nothingness whicvh obviously freaked my mate out a bit.

A nurse came in a while later and he described what he'd seen, apparently her face went ashen and she walked out the room, another nurse followed not long after and explained that the aforementioned nurse had been tending to an elderly woman who matched the exact description and had died not long before.

I have no reason to doubt the lad, I've no experiences of that ilk however my old dear loves it and swears by it, she's had mediums tell her things they have no right to know including one who randomly stopped her in town and told her to make sure my dad kept on eating the fish from the drawer as it was helping him a lot (he's had a triple valve bypass replacement). Had a load of tinned fish in one of the cupboards he was eating religiously.

I'm hardly a full on believer but I like to think there is something there, offers a bit of solice to those who have lost and know they will pass. I don't think there's anything wrong with hope.

I regularly talk to my wife who passed away just before Christmas (When I am alone like , I am not completely nuts) .
I would like to think she hears me but who knows?

 

[Tommy.]

I regularly talk to my wife who passed away just before Christmas (When I am alone like , I am not completely nuts) .
I would like to think she hears me but who knows?

Sorry for your loss mate, I've done it myself when I've lost previously, raised a glass and looked up, little things like that. I think it's perfectly normal behaviour and a coping mechanism. If they can hear it, who knows, none of us do so no harm in trying.

 

[Cels]

I once didn't see a ghost.

Sometime during the nineties, I was driving along a very poorly lit lane at night with a couple of mates when suddenly a cyclist appeared, with no lights on the bike, causing me to swerve to avoid hitting him/her. When I looked in my rearview mirror, swearing and moaning, I could see no sign of the cyclist. My mates asked what was going on and why I swerved across the lane and then told me that there was no cycist.

Now a few people I've told this story to suggest that I saw a ghost, but if I had surely my mates would've seen it also, not just me. So maybe the beam of my headlights reflected off something and my mind took over and filled in the gaps. A bit of a boring story, I know. Sorry.

PS: I have experienced all types of ghostly and weird stuff over the years, but I tend to try and find a rational explanation for them.

 

[Chewbacca]

I think what we think of as ghosts are rips in space time, I think that’s why a lot of the ghosts people see are from a different time period. Maybe they’re from an alternate reality which is why people are visited by loved ones. Some sort of connection to the wider multiverse. I think people who are psychics are just more in tune with the layers upon layers of reality that make up everything. There I said it out loud, might come as no shock that I came to this conclusion when high. Laugh if you like but it’s no more mental then a guy making everything in 6 days and chilling on the 7th to watch Super Sunday

Why do people always see ‘romantic’ ghosts? it’s usually grey ladies and waifs just wandering about. Nobody ever sees the ghosts of cro-magnon man Pulling the pud.

 

[PaddyJames]

Demi Moore was fit in Ghost.

 

[bluerobert]

Why do people always see ‘romantic’ ghosts? it’s usually grey ladies and waifs just wandering about. Nobody ever sees the ghosts of cro-magnon man Pulling the pud.

Put your address on here mate, I’m sure you’d end up with a few ghouls slapping the salami through your window

 

[bluerobert]

Demi Moore was fit in Ghost.

Only woman I’ve ever fancied with short hair. Except maybe Rose Namajunas

 

[Yarrgh]

Why do people always see ‘romantic’ ghosts? it’s usually grey ladies and waifs just wandering about. Nobody ever sees the ghosts of cro-magnon man Pulling the pud.

You've obviously not heard about the most haunted house in all of Skem.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Missus loves all those ghost hunting programs on TV.

They'll often start up by interviewing someone about their ghostly experiences and it'll be something that happened while they were working, tidying up or going about some mundane activity at pretty much any hour of the day. It'll be a huge often terrifying event and leave them in no doubt as to what happened.

And then the "Paranormal Investigators" create an entirely artificial environment by turning all the lights off and standing around listening and concentrating intently while scanning radio waves, measuring temperatures and recording audio/video.

It's even more idiotic when they start babbling about knowing how "entities" use energy to manifest and other such things. If they said it was a hypothesis or similar when talking about their camera running out of battery then sure, but the way they present their wild ideas as sound knowledge winds me up.

 

[Sassy Colombian]

I think what we think of as ghosts are rips in space time, I think that’s why a lot of the ghosts people see are from a different time period. Maybe they’re from an alternate reality which is why people are visited by loved ones. Some sort of connection to the wider multiverse. I think people who are psychics are just more in tune with the layers upon layers of reality that make up everything. There I said it out loud, might come as no shock that I came to this conclusion when high. Laugh if you like but it’s no more mental then a guy making everything in 6 days and chilling on the 7th to watch Super Sunday

I have also thought about that theory, that ghosts my be energies or entities from alternative universes. I’m a not a physics but I do enjoy learning about such theories as the string and multiple universes. I also believe that there are many dimensions out there that our human brain doesn’t have the full capacity to comprehend or assimilate. And while several members of my family have encounter "ghost" before, what’s happening at my mum’s house has been the most prevalent and intense experience that my family has ever encounter with such entities.

 

[Methuselah]

My brother is a priest. He was based in Edinburgh for several years and the church and buildings were very old and formed part of the tourists trip. One day, one of the young priests got an old white sheet, cut two eye holes in it and waited on the fourth floor for the tourists. The tourist guide was telling the tourists about the history of the buildings and when he pointed and all the tourists were looking, the priest glided past the fourth floor window covered in the white sheet. I guess there are some of those tourists who quote that experience in threads like this! lol

 

[Ivo]

My brother in law lived in an old house in Scotland when he was younger. He said him and his brothers were so used to paranormal activities they didn't bat an eye lid. Lights and taps turning off and on and toilets flushing on their own throughout the night etc.

Only experience I've had is being woken up by the sound of a carrier bag being violently shaken in my bed room, like really loud with no valid reason.