Ghosts - What are your experiences?

leddpipe

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”

FullblownRose

It makes sense to consider the possibilities and every explanation you can think of- you don't have to dismiss or doubt at the same time.

getz

purified wrote: »

My mistake...i just find it frustrating that people quiz everything constantly rather than take the time to expand their minds and just accept. sensitives are expected to pretty much break their backs trying to validate their experiences... i wold love it to jsut be sensitives or jsut normal people sharing their experiences and being encouraged rather than fearful of being ridiculed... and too be honest im probably giving that far too much thought lol

if you are like me,you often get people coming up to you thinking you are some ghost buster in the spirit world,they just do not understand that because you can see the odd ghost about they think it it meens you can communicate with them,i had one old dear in a village not far from gorey insisting i go to her house to rid her of a haunting,

ciarang85

about 1995 me (10 at the time) my brother (6) and my mam were walking up past a old abandoned house in a town in Co. Kerry, me and my brother saw a man looking out the window of the house as we walked by it, but we didnt think anything of it, we just thought it was our mind's playing with us.

Anyway years later in 2000 i was looking through a book the kerryman made with newspaper clippings from the last hundred years and on one of the pages i froze,
there was a picture of the same man we saw in the window, i showed it to my bro (without saying anything) and he also instantly recognized him aswell, as we read down through the article it turned out he did live in that house in his younger years and died in 1913:eek:

i'd love to have some explanation for this but i don't think there is any

MrMojoRisin

getz wrote: »

if you are like me,you often get people coming up to you thinking you are some ghost buster in the spirit world,they just do not understand that because you can see the odd ghost about they think it it meens you can communicate with them,i had one old dear in a village not far from gorey insisting i go to her house to rid her of a haunting,

Well, first of all, the fact that you've seen the odd ghost now and then surely must indicate that you're more attuned to these matters than someone who doesn't ever experience any ghostly goings-on.

I would probably guess I've had less incidents than you where seeing "the odd ghost" is concerned, but I still have wondered what the point of it all was. I suppose I would think that it alerted me to the possibility that there's more to life than meets the eye.

Now, in your case, the fact that you've had some personal experience with this sort of thing makes you useful to people like the old dear in Gorey. You never know, it might not be a case of a haunting at all. Maybe she's living on her own, is nervous and hears noises in the night, thinking it's a ghost when it's just mice, or something?

At the very least, it'd be very helpful for her if you helped to find out what exactly is going on in her house, and reassure the old lady in the process of doing that.

Now, if you did have reason to believe, after visiting and inspecting everything, that she really was dealing with a haunting, then I wouldn't say you'd have to go so far as to induce a feckin' trance-like state in yourself to 'communicate' with whatever's there. Talk normally (to 'it'), maybe burn some white sage throughout all the rooms, open all the windows and play some happy music. Keep it simple.

Nevertheless, I'm not suggesting that it's your responsiblity to resolve people's alleged hauntings. I'm just saying that you probably aren't as useless in this respect as you seem to think you are.

MrMojoRisin

ciarang85 wrote: »

about 1995 me (10 at the time) my brother (6) and my mam were walking up past a old abandoned house in a town in Co. Kerry, me and my brother saw a man looking out the window of the house as we walked by it, but we didnt think anything of it, we just thought it was our mind's playing with us.

Anyway years later in 2000 i was looking through a book the kerryman made with newspaper clippings from the last hundred years and on one of the pages i froze,
there was a picture of the same man we saw in the window, i showed it to my bro (without saying anything) and he also instantly recognized him aswell, as we read down through the article it turned out he did live in that house in his younger years and died in 1913:eek:

i'd love to have some explanation for this but i don't think there is any

Many would call your experience a coinicidence and, although the following is contested by some quarters, it may have just been a case of synchronicity.

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

In your own case, the first event was you and your brother seeing the man looking out of the window of the house.

The second event was you spotting the photo of the same man in The Kerryman in 2000. That's what I think..

Just recently, I was walking around Belfast, when I spotted this bloke in yellow skinny jeans (you couldn't miss them) handing out flyers. I walked past him without accepting one, but I suddenly had a change of heart and decided to take one from him. I read the flyer and saw it was about some meeting for effecting proactive social change in Ireland. Then I saw that the group who was behind this meeting had a Facebook page that I realised I had 'liked' not long before that.

Anyway, I forgot all about that until, a few weeks later, I decided to comment on some status they had posted on FB. In my comment, I mentioned knowing a bloke (without naming him, and he's dead, FYI), and that he had once told me such-and-such. Well, the administrator of their page replied and asked me if a man with such-and-such a name (say, Johnny Walsh) had said that to me. It turned out we both knew the same bloke. So then I thought that the guy who was handing out the flyers previously must be the same guy who runs the FB page and who also knew the bloke I knew.

Bit of a long-winded story, but it looked like synchronicity to me. It was definitely funny how it all threaded together like that anyway.

newmug

MrMojoRisin wrote: »

Many would call your experience a coinicidence and, although the following is contested by some quarters, it may have just been a case of synchronicity.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

In your own case, the first event was you and your brother seeing the man looking out of the window of the house.

The second event was you spotting the photo of the same man in The Kerryman in 2000. That's what I think..

Not with you there Mojo. Are you saying CiaranG and his bro DIDNT see a ghost? They both clearly saw this man as kids, and then independantly recognised a photo of him as adults. The point is though, the man had been 80 odd years dead!

ciarang85

MrMojoRisin wrote: »

Many would call your experience a coinicidence and, although the following is contested by some quarters, it may have just been a case of synchronicity.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

In your own case, the first event was you and your brother seeing the man looking out of the window of the house.

The second event was you spotting the photo of the same man in The Kerryman in 2000. That's what I think..

so do you mean that we both just imagined the face of this man?

sorry i'm a bit lost

Border-Rat

I was watching the Innkeepers the other night (Best ghost movie in years!) and it got me thinking on something I seen when I was about 5 or 6. I was being a bit defiant with my Ma in the supermarket and left her to go and look at the toy shelves. I just looked to my right and standing next to me, almost touching me, was an old woman grinning at me. It scared the **** out of me because despite my age I was aware of my surroundings and I'm not sure how she just appeared. I went round the aisle to my Ma, then got a good look on our way back past and there was nobody there.

getz

MrMojoRisin wrote: »

Well, first of all, the fact that you've seen the odd ghost now and then surely must indicate that you're more attuned to these matters than someone who doesn't ever experience any ghostly goings-on.

I would probably guess I've had less incidents than you where seeing "the odd ghost" is concerned, but I still have wondered what the point of it all was. I suppose I would think that it alerted me to the possibility that there's more to life than meets the eye.

Now, in your case, the fact that you've had some personal experience with this sort of thing makes you useful to people like the old dear in Gorey. You never know, it might not be a case of a haunting at all. Maybe she's living on her own, is nervous and hears noises in the night, thinking it's a ghost when it's just mice, or something?

At the very least, it'd be very helpful for her if you helped to find out what exactly is going on in her house, and reassure the old lady in the process of doing that.

Now, if you did have reason to believe, after visiting and inspecting everything, that she really was dealing with a haunting, then I wouldn't say you'd have to go so far as to induce a feckin' trance-like state in yourself to 'communicate' with whatever's there. Talk normally (to 'it'), maybe burn some white sage throughout all the rooms, open all the windows and play some happy music. Keep it simple.

Nevertheless, I'm not suggesting that it's your responsiblity to resolve people's alleged hauntings. I'm just saying that you probably aren't as useless in this respect as you seem to think you are.

my problem was that it was me who first brought the word haunting up,she walked up to me in the village and said ;i have found this small cross in a field,do you think its valuable ? as i held it in my hand [the cross was only about a inch long and made of pewter] i felt very strange and said to her,;have you a problem in your home;she then went on to tell me there was a bedroom in the house that she has to keep locked because it has a ghost,i do not know why but i then knew that a old woman had killed herself in it,she confirmed that what i said was true,she even said she had gone to the grave yard to put flowers on the grave in hope that would have helped,she had even had in the parish priest in to pray,she wanted me to go to her home to see if i could do anything,i felt guilty that i had to turn her down as i am not trained enough to get those lost souls to move on when they do not want to,i was very worried that anything i may do would make matters worse,all i could do was advise her to go on the net and contact a paranormal website i hope they could put her in touch with somebody that would help her,remember i was on holiday in the area[south wicklow] and i do not live in ireland.

MrMojoRisin

newmug wrote: »

Not with you there Mojo. Are you saying CiaranG and his bro DIDNT see a ghost? They both clearly saw this man as kids, and then independantly recognised a photo of him as adults. The point is though, the man had been 80 odd years dead!

ciarang85 wrote: »

so do you mean that we both just imagined the face of this man?

sorry i'm a bit lost

No, I'm not disputing that the man's ghost was seen at all. Not at all. Anyway, how would it be for me (or anyone else, for that matter) to say what someone did or didn't see when I wasn't even there?

What I was going on about was that the sighting of the man in the window and then the article featuring a picture of the same man years later in 2000 sounded like a case of synchronicity to me. That's all.

That was how I'd explain it - not me trying to figure out how, or if, you saw a ghost, or whatever. If someone believes they saw a ghost, then I'll accept, for the most part, i.e. there isn't an obvious explanation, that they did see one. I've seen a few ghosts myself over the years..

newmug

MrMojoRisin wrote: »

What I was going on about was that the sighting of the man in the window and then the article featuring a picture of the same man years later in 2000 sounded like a case of synchronicity to me. That's all...

So basically, you're saying it was a coincidence that he was in the paper aswell?

MrMojoRisin

newmug wrote: »

So basically, you're saying it was a coincidence that he was in the paper aswell?

No, I'm saying it was a case of synchronicity, which differs from a coincidence in that it's a series of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated and unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as coming together in a meaningful manner.

In ciarang85's case, that doesn't just take into account him seeing the man in The Kerryman years later - it includes the original sighting of the man in the window of the house as well. Two events.

christmas2012

been lifted from the bed its almost like i didnt lift myself,i got freaked out but was unsure it was a ghost,as i was kind of half asleep half awake..

MrMojoRisin

christmas2012 wrote: »

been lifted from the bed its almost like i didnt lift myself,i got freaked out but was unsure it was a ghost,as i was kind of half asleep half awake..

That wouldn't have been sleep paralysis, would it? I know you were half-asleep, but do you remember if you were you able to move at all?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

christmas2012

Interesting article..Yeah i remember not being able to move for like 30 seconds which felt like forever,and then moving like i had some sort of force beneath me lift me up,i didnt even feel myself moving..it was wierd,i did get freaked out completely when it happened as it never happened before..:eek:

newmug

MrMojoRisin wrote: »

No, I'm saying it was a case of synchronicity, which differs from a coincidence in that it's a series of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated and unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as coming together in a meaningful manner.

In ciarang85's case, that doesn't just take into account him seeing the man in The Kerryman years later - it includes the original sighting of the man in the window of the house as well. Two events.

I'm not trying to be a stickler here, but would it not be possible that Ciaran85's experiences were still just a very random and very flukey string of coincidences? I mean, to call it synchronicity, would there not need to be an element of timing involved? Like if two coincidences occured with an element of time, eg. if you desperately needed 50 quid, and then found a fifty on the street (at the time you needed it), or if the date the boys saw the pic of yerman was his aniversary? Thats what being synchronised is, isnt it?

MrMojoRisin

newmug wrote: »

I'm not trying to be a stickler here, but would it not be possible that Ciaran85's experiences were still just a very random and very flukey string of coincidences? I mean, to call it synchronicity, would there not need to be an element of timing involved? Like if two coincidences occured with an element of time, eg. if you desperately needed 50 quid, and then found a fifty on the street (at the time you needed it), or if the date the boys saw the pic of yerman was his aniversary? Thats what being synchronised is, isnt it?

Yes, of course. I acknowledged initially that there are many out there who would simply call ciarang85's experience(s) a mere coincidence. I think I unwittingly represented you there. That's grand.

When it comes to synchronistic events, the timing is irrelevant, unless it happens to be meaningful to the person in question (say, ciarang85 saw the photo of the man in the newspaper on the exact same date he had seen the man in the window originally).

Generally, synchronicity is considered broader and more pattern-focused than being centred on something 'smaller' like timing.

MrMojoRisin

getz wrote: »

my problem was that it was me who first brought the word haunting up,she walked up to me in the village and said ;i have found this small cross in a field,do you think its valuable ? as i held it in my hand [the cross was only about a inch long and made of pewter] i felt very strange and said to her,;have you a problem in your home;she then went on to tell me there was a bedroom in the house that she has to keep locked because it has a ghost,i do not know why but i then knew that a old woman had killed herself in it,she confirmed that what i said was true,she even said she had gone to the grave yard to put flowers on the grave in hope that would have helped,she had even had in the parish priest in to pray,

Oh I see. You happened to bring it up and that got her talking about it.

getz wrote: »

she wanted me to go to her home to see if i could do anything,i felt guilty that i had to turn her down as i am not trained enough to get those lost souls to move on when they do not want to,i was very worried that anything i may do would make matters worse,all i could do was advise her to go on the net and contact a paranormal website i hope they could put her in touch with somebody that would help her,remember i was on holiday in the area[south wicklow] and i do not live in ireland.

That's understandable. There should be a fair bit of help out there for cases like hers. I know there are quite a few paranormal investigation teams dotted around Ireland, for example, but hardly any (if any at all) of them specialise in getting spirits to move on (in genuine haunting cases, that is).

From what I know, most (maybe not all) of the teams seem to be focused on gathering evidence of paranormal phenomena only, which is fine in itself. But there seems to be a very strong element of thrill-seeking involved in it too for some of the teams.

E.g. it appears to be a case of:"We persuaded the ghost to throw an EMF meter/knock/talk and now we can move on to investigate somewhere new next week." Or else they earmark that location for a repeat investigation at a later date because of all the exciting 'hits' they got, or intense activity.

I won't name any names of the teams I'm referring to now, but, personally, I just find it all a bit juvenile and disrespectful.

Their blasé approach reminds of the Jay-Z song 'On To The Next One':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1RChZk1EU

I think the Paranormal Research Association Of Ireland (PRAOFI) specialise in the resolution of (alleged - until proven otherwise) hauntings though.

But I'm veering OT now..

GunRunner

Shortly after my family moved into the house where i live now, when I was about six, I was sitting in the kitchen drawing when out of the corner of my eye I saw something moving outside the window. I looked up and saw a man walking through the garden. This wasn't unusual at the time because the houses were newly built and most people hadn't put up fences yet, so all that separated the gardens were pieces of wire and people often walked through other people's gardens. Anyway, I went to the back door to see what he was doing, but he was gone. It takes about 4 seconds to get from the kitchen table to the back door, it takes much longer to get from outside the kitchen window to the garden next wall/over the wall to the field behind the house.

A while later, when I must've been seven or eight I was at a horse riding camp. We used to leave our bags up in the viewing area and I had left something up there so I went up to get it. As I was turning to go back downstairs I saw a man standing at the top of the steps. He looked just like the man I had seen outside my kitchen window but I assumed that he was someone's father dropping up a bag or something. But then he started walking ABOVE THE STEPS and then just disappeared into thin air. it was clear to me then that it was the same fella who had been in my garden.

I've had other experiences too, but I've always felt that these two must had some significance because the same man appeared twice. I didn't recognise him and to this day I don't know who he was, but I've often thought that there must have been a reason that he appeared twice.

Also sorry for the long post, I'm not very good at shortening stories.

littlelulu

ok first I have had a few experiences.. i have only made it to the 7th page of this thread so i have a lot to catch up on I LOVE ghost stories but after a while i get a bit uneasy. So i was reading through the stories tonight and have to say some were really wierd and i could see things flashing in the corner of my eye. I am tired and put it down to the light reflecting off a strand of hair in front of my eye... swept back my fringe and sure enough it stopped but then i saw a shadow like a head (same size) go across the wall. I thought i imagined it so continued reading, then i saw it again so i stopped reading and looked at the wall. Then it went across again and turned and went back... Needless to say i thought i was after unleashing something by reading the stories... lol! Threw the laptop on the couch and my heart started pounding. I couldn't come up with a reason for it and i was getting ready to run when a fly appeared on the light.... It scared the bejaysis out of me!!

Anyway... the most bizarre experience was a few years ago. I had just started going out with someone and for some reason I felt brave enough to go into the pitch dark hall to turn on the light (the lightswitch was down the hall a bit). I would always get a wierd feeling at the lightswitch before i turned it on. It felt like something was wrapped around me without touching me, its pretty much impossible to explain it. It kind of felt like a light draught blowing from all angles and a bit like static but nothing was touching off of me. That doesn't make sense but at the time as it was happening they are the two things i considered it could have been but also ruled it out on the spot because it wasn't the same feeling. So this went on for about a year just in one spot in the whole house and i couldn't explain it but it didnt scare me. I never told anyone about it because I couldn't explain it and it would have been put down to a draught . Anyway after a year i was informed that my bf's dad had died in the exact same spot. Well i could feel the colour drain from my face and i couldn't talk. Luckily the light was off in the room and nobody noticed. So for the next two months this feeling got a bit stronger and i spent a bit more time standing in the spot trying to figure out what it was. Then i was in a predicament whether i should say something to my bf or not. Eventually decided to say it and i NEVER ever experienced it again since i told him. It was like it wasn't going to leave until i told him it was there. Funnily enough, it never scared me when it was there and when it disapeared I would stand in the spot waiting for it but nothing and it was at that point that i got scared. It was a real empty feeling and i don't like it so i don't volunteer to turn on the light anymore

My laser card vanished and after several months it reappeared on the worktop. Nobody put it there.......:eek:

There was a loud bang off of my bedroom door. It was like the bar of a hoover falling over and hitting off the door so i decided to get up and pick it up in case i got up during the night and fell over it. There was nothing outside the door at all

When my nan died i moved into the room she had been staying in. I had a television on a sturdy table beside the bed. On the night of her 1 month anniversary the whole lot toppled over and onto the bed.

Thats all i can think of...

A dif story which is really wierd is my mam is a twin and she was out in the back garden and there was a rock. She picked it up and said she would move it in case someone tripped over it. The phone rang minutes later and it was her twin sister saying she had just tripped over a rock in her back garden.... :eek: Twin vibes!!

Thats a long post...

getz

littlelulu wrote: »

ok first I have had a few experiences.. i have only made it to the 7th page of this thread so i have a lot to catch up on I LOVE ghost stories but after a while i get a bit uneasy. So i was reading through the stories tonight and have to say some were really wierd and i could see things flashing in the corner of my eye. I am tired and put it down to the light reflecting off a strand of hair in front of my eye... swept back my fringe and sure enough it stopped but then i saw a shadow like a head (same size) go across the wall. I thought i imagined it so continued reading, then i saw it again so i stopped reading and looked at the wall. Then it went across again and turned and went back... Needless to say i thought i was after unleashing something by reading the stories... lol! Threw the laptop on the couch and my heart started pounding. I couldn't come up with a reason for it and i was getting ready to run when a fly appeared on the light.... It scared the bejaysis out of me!!

Anyway... the most bizarre experience was a few years ago. I had just started going out with someone and for some reason I felt brave enough to go into the pitch dark hall to turn on the light (the lightswitch was down the hall a bit). I would always get a wierd feeling at the lightswitch before i turned it on. It felt like something was wrapped around me without touching me, its pretty much impossible to explain it. It kind of felt like a light draught blowing from all angles and a bit like static but nothing was touching off of me. That doesn't make sense but at the time as it was happening they are the two things i considered it could have been but also ruled it out on the spot because it wasn't the same feeling. So this went on for about a year just in one spot in the whole house and i couldn't explain it but it didnt scare me. I never told anyone about it because I couldn't explain it and it would have been put down to a draught . Anyway after a year i was informed that my bf's dad had died in the exact same spot. Well i could feel the colour drain from my face and i couldn't talk. Luckily the light was off in the room and nobody noticed. So for the next two months this feeling got a bit stronger and i spent a bit more time standing in the spot trying to figure out what it was. Then i was in a predicament whether i should say something to my bf or not. Eventually decided to say it and i NEVER ever experienced it again since i told him. It was like it wasn't going to leave until i told him it was there. Funnily enough, it never scared me when it was there and when it disapeared I would stand in the spot waiting for it but nothing and it was at that point that i got scared. It was a real empty feeling and i don't like it so i don't volunteer to turn on the light anymore

My laser card vanished and after several months it reappeared on the worktop. Nobody put it there.......:eek:

There was a loud bang off of my bedroom door. It was like the bar of a hoover falling over and hitting off the door so i decided to get up and pick it up in case i got up during the night and fell over it. There was nothing outside the door at all

When my nan died i moved into the room she had been staying in. I had a television on a sturdy table beside the bed. On the night of her 1 month anniversary the whole lot toppled over and onto the bed.

Thats all i can think of...

A dif story which is really wierd is my mam is a twin and she was out in the back garden and there was a rock. She picked it up and said she would move it in case someone tripped over it. The phone rang minutes later and it was her twin sister saying she had just tripped over a rock in her back garden.... :eek: Twin vibes!!

Thats a long post...

half of a persons brain is not used,so no one knows for sure what it is there for,it is believed by those who are involved in the paranormal world that this is the part that of your brain that gives you the ability to experience and see ghosts/ and other not so normal things,i often know when a phone is going to ring and who will be on the other end,even though i may not have heard from them for some time,as far as twins it is proved beyond doubt that there is a mental and physical link

face1990

getz wrote: »

half of a persons brain is not used,so no one knows for sure what it is there for

That's a myth. Every part of the brain is used for something. Brain scans show that nearly every part of the brain is continually active over the course of a day. If it were true that only half the brain is used then brain damage wouldn't be nearly as serious an injury.

(Sources: http://bodyodd.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/18/11231080-myth-busted-you-only-use-10-percent-of-brain?lite
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=people-only-use-10-percent-of-brain)

Bubblefett

I come from a family who are big believers in ghosts. And even my boyfriends family house has a history of hauntings (2 old ladies have always been seen at various times over the last 30 years).

Anyways my brother in law's parents live in a big country guest house that has an old barn in the back of the land. When they moved in the barn still had a noose in it from the times of the rebellions.
It's an awful barn, even to stand outside it. Very negative energy, even thought he rest of the property is lovely and inviting.
I could be here all day telling the stories from there- including people going in and hearing footsteps running above them, dogs getting trapped in impossible ways (collars wrapped around planks of wood), voices, faces etc etc etc. In short, its just a bad place.

Me, the boyfriend, sister and bro in law were all down in the house one weekend and we drunkenly decided to go down and have a look in the dark. My sister (who is all too familiar with the barn) stayed in the house. We headed down and went in. We stood inside for a minute and it was the usual bad atmosphere, very creepy. We were talking when suddenly my boyfriend pushed me back out the door and started yelling for bro in law to come too. When we were out he was completely white and shaking. Said he'd looked over to me and standing in the corner behind me was a thin blonde man just staring at us. He said there was something about the guys face, it was wrong somehow.
Again, this is a man who grew up in a haunted house and who I've never seen get scared of anything. Granted we'd been drinking so who knows, all I know is that reaction from him scared the crap out of me.
He's refused to go back down to the house ever since.

Barbieliveshere

All of this paranormal stuff intrigues me but i would still consider myself a bit of a sceptic, however these certain little scéalíns i am about to share really freaked me out. I drove home from a friends house in castleknock one night, i got out of my car and came into my house going straight into my room to go to bed. I got into bed and was getting in that space between asleep and awake when as clear as day i heard a deep voice of a man whisper in my ear saying "the car".

This woke me up completely and my heart began to race i was so frightened. I got up and looked out the window at my car and it was still parked up against the wall of my house. Nothing was out of place and so i snuggled back into bed and fell asleep.

The next morning i was due to drive my brother over to a friends but i couldn't find my keys anywhere. So i took the spare key for my car and went out to get into my car and there in the door of my car where my keys. The reason i found this so unusual is because my car is central locking and so there is no reason why i would put my keys into the lock of the door. Also i used the keys to unlock the front door as the rest of my family were asleep as it was 3 in the morning when i was coming in, so i literally have no explanation for this but to this day the thought of that voice that whispered to me still terrifys me.

My other story is more weird than anything else i guess. When i was about 16 i was due to go to the gaeltacht in Connemara. Before i went however i kept having a recurring dream about an old graveyard encased within stone walls, this graveyard kind of sat on the top of a hill and onto a slope and i was at funeral in the graveyard and it was raining. It wasn't a modern day funeral as everyone was dressed in clothes from the 40s' also another strange aspect was that i was watching this funeral from the perspective of a young girl. The dream always ends with the girl looking out over the sea through the rain and walking towards the open grave.

Now i just thought that this was a weird dream until i got to the gaeltacht, walked into the room i was staying in and looked out the window right onto the exact same graveyard from my dream. I thought maybe i'd seen the graveyard before or been there when i was younger although when i asked my parents both said i'd never been. Freaky shtuff i tells ya!

littlelulu

Barbieliveshere wrote: »

Now i just thought that this was a weird dream until i got to the gaeltacht, walked into the room i was staying in and looked out the window right onto the exact same graveyard from my dream!

:eek:
were you brave enough to go near it... i don't think i would

Barbieliveshere

Not a hope haha i actually switched rooms with one of the other girls. If i had to go to bed knowing that it was right outside my window i wouldn't have gotten any sleep whatsoever!:D

torrentum

Barbieliveshere wrote: »

All of this paranormal stuff intrigues me but i would still consider myself a bit of a sceptic, however these certain little scéalíns i am about to share really freaked me out. I drove home from a friends house in castleknock one night, i got out of my car and came into my house going straight into my room to go to bed. I got into bed and was getting in that space between asleep and awake when as clear as day i heard a deep voice of a man whisper in my ear saying "the car".

This woke me up completely and my heart began to race i was so frightened. I got up and looked out the window at my car and it was still parked up against the wall of my house. Nothing was out of place and so i snuggled back into bed and fell asleep.

The next morning i was due to drive my brother over to a friends but i couldn't find my keys anywhere. So i took the spare key for my car and went out to get into my car and there in the door of my car where my keys. The reason i found this so unusual is because my car is central locking and so there is no reason why i would put my keys into the lock of the door. Also i used the keys to unlock the front door as the rest of my family were asleep as it was 3 in the morning when i was coming in, so i literally have no explanation for this but to this day the thought of that voice that whispered to me still terrifys me.

My other story is more weird than anything else i guess. When i was about 16 i was due to go to the gaeltacht in Connemara. Before i went however i kept having a recurring dream about an old graveyard encased within stone walls, this graveyard kind of sat on the top of a hill and onto a slope and i was at funeral in the graveyard and it was raining. It wasn't a modern day funeral as everyone was dressed in clothes from the 40s' also another strange aspect was that i was watching this funeral from the perspective of a young girl. The dream always ends with the girl looking out over the sea through the rain and walking towards the open grave.

Now i just thought that this was a weird dream until i got to the gaeltacht, walked into the room i was staying in and looked out the window right onto the exact same graveyard from my dream. I thought maybe i'd seen the graveyard before or been there when i was younger although when i asked my parents both said i'd never been. Freaky shtuff i tells ya!

The car keys story is one of the strangest Ive ever heard. I dont suppose it was anyone in the house playing a trick on you? Have you heard the voice since?

Barbieliveshere

No because i was last to bed and first up and my bedroom is also right beside the front door on one side and the kitchen the other so i would have heard someone getting up and going outside. Also my brother was getting so aggravated at me for losing my keys because he needed the lift and i made him late looking for them. I have not heard the voice since nor would i want to it was so frightening! I try not to think about it too much the fact that it has no reasonable explanation frightens me beyond everything else so i try not to dwell on it.

newmug

Could it not be just that some scumbags broke into your house (maybe you forgot to lock the door!!!!) and one of them just muttered "the car" to the other, as in "Lets rob the car", but when they got to it, they tried opening it with the key instead of the zapper, and when they couldn't get it open, they just legged it?

Barbieliveshere

Seriously?

rocksimmo

Hi Everyone. Wanted to share a story with you all to see what you make of it. I work evening shift and finish around 2am each night. Two weeks ago tonight I arrived home and as I was putting the key in the front door something grabbed my arm. Wasnt a threatining grab so just startled me a bit. Went to the bathroom to and as I closed the bathroom door I heard three loud knocks on my front door. Went to the door and there was no one there. Checked the three girls and the wife and they were all out for the count. Heres where it gets weird. Next evening over dinner was telling the wife what had happened and she as a pure sceptic thought I was raving. About twenty minutes later the mother in law calls and informs us that the neighbours up the road had a child pass during the night. Poor lady gave birth to boy/girl twins and the girl passed. Really freaked me out.

face1990

In reponse to Barbieliveshere's story:
My non-paranormal explanation is that you left the keys in the door of the car without realising it (how you got into the house, I'm not sure. Are you certain you didn't go back out to the car to get anything?).
Your subconcious mind was perhaps still aware of the keys being there, and when you were almost asleep you heard the voice. Dreamt it basically, because a part of your mind was aware of the keys being left outside.

That bit between wakefulness and sleep can be interesting (personally I find sleep & dreaming fascinating!). You can have all sorts of visual and auditory 'hallucinations', and physical sensations, as the brainwaves slow down and the concious part of the mind switches off.
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogic_hallucination

Not to dismiss the idea that it may be supernatural, but that's my skeptic explanation!

newmug

Barbieliveshere wrote: »

Seriously?

Yes seriously! It happens. Or else yea, it could've been a ghost:rolleyes:

Barbieliveshere

You do realise this is the paranormal forum? And i already said how it was whispered in my ear, i also mentioned my room was beside both doors in the house and i would have heard somebody coming into the house... Go back to the skeptics corner.

Barbieliveshere

face1990 wrote: »

Not to dismiss the idea that it may be supernatural, but that's my skeptic explanation!

See now this is an explanation i can work with! I am pretty sure i didn't go back out which is why i thought this fit in the paranormal forum. I also know the mind works in mysterious ways so i am open to the fact that it could have been my brain playing tricks on me. As i said at the start of my post i am also a bit of a skeptic but this to me is unexplainable because of the circumstances and what i experienced.

RedFFWolf

newmug wrote: »

Yes seriously! It happens. Or else yea, it could've been a ghost:rolleyes:

It can happen, but in the same way that if ghosts exist, then a more likely explanation is ghosts than the one you suggested. Even then however, I wouldn't choose the word "ghosts" for this situation, it suggests something too impersonal.


As for the comment on the subconscious mind, I find it a hard enough line of thought to follow. It's something I hear people say enough but the problem is this little aspect of unfalsifiability that attaches to it. It is a fall back comment almost: i.e., if you were not initially aware, then it must have come from your subconscious.

However, with your case Barbieliveshere, even accounting the voice in your ear (if you feel it bore no externality), that explanation seems quite possible seeing how there appeared no threat in relation to your car or similar. That is to say, had you been warned by some external being about the keys of the car, then it might have been for more of an important reason. Unless of course, your brother being late made some sort of an impact on him or even your relationship with him (i.e., how he was aggravated with you). Even if there was enough of an impact that way, then the reasons you were not "warned" again may suggest just the subconscious at work. On the other hand, the mind may be more receptive in the state of sleep you were in, hence receiving it then; but the message not severe to conjure a definite attention-grabbing repeat of the communication, for the reasons were not that impactful, e.g., a life threatening situation would prompt more warning had it been a message from another being (or even if your car was about to be robbed).

dogmax

Hi there everyone I move house about 7 or 8 years back I live in my first newly built house for over 20 years a great family home but coming up to Christmas every year we where visits by two small children, I say they would be around 10 maybe a bit older it was only the shape of them you could see as they would be surrounded by a grey haze, the first time I saw them I was going up stairs and about half way up I look up and their they where on top of the stairs on the landing I has no fear of them we stared at each other for a few seconds then they just drifted through the wall into the hot press between the front room and back room, I carry on doing what I was doing and for some strange reason I forgot to tell my wife, the following week I was in the kitchen and my wife was up stairs a few minutes later she can into the kitchen and without any fear in her face she told me I'm just after seeing two children floating through the bedroom wall, I told her that I seen the exact same thing last week and she say the strangest thing about it is I wasn't scare I said neither was I, our children where small at the time but we never told them and they never mention anything to us about seeing them and every year my wife and I would see these two kids only for a few seconds and funny enough they look as if they where having fun, and then a few years before we move they stop coming, when our kids where older we told them and I have to admit they where disappointed we didn't tell them at first, they said they would have has great found with them, which I thought was a very funny thing to say, just like to think that those two kids are happy wherever they are, now my wife had a very scary moment one time in the same house she was hoovering the back room when she turn to see a dark shadowy figure sitting on the edge of the bed she fall to the ground and literally crawl out of the room when she look back the figure was gone, the worse thing about it was she was on her own but thankfully that was the only scariest moment she had, I know there will be some who won't believe this but I wouldn't have taking the time to write this if it wasn't true and I don't get a kick out of lying to people, just in case someone ask the shadowy figure appeared long before the two kids stop coming, thanks to those who put this website together, great job.

Whatsisname

My brother went to Loftus Hall today, I'm sure most of ye have heard the story about it and now its open again.

But anyway, he told me that they were getting a guide around it today or around the grounds whichever but it started lashing so the tour guide brought them inside some room where they could see monitors with 4 camera's live footage, much like "something from Paranormal Activity", (my brother's own words haha), then a child and two of my brothers friends screamed at the same time, supposedly the woman who haunts the house, who died of insanity, walked across the screen. Unfortunately, my brother didn't get to see it himself as his friend just so happened to block his view at that very moment, funnily enough he said his friend screamed in a high pitched voice "OH MY GOD, THERE WAS A GHOST, A GHOST!!" hahahaha.

He was wondering, just like I was, would it have been staged as the tour guide knew people were gonna be looking at the cameras but surely the word would have been going around if that was it.

Really wanna go there myself now, sounds so interesting!

Tragamin2k2

Whatsisname wrote: »

My brother went to Loftus Hall today, I'm sure most of ye have heard the story about it and now its open again.

But anyway, he told me that they were getting a guide around it today or around the grounds whichever but it started lashing so the tour guide brought them inside some room where they could see monitors with 4 camera's live footage, much like "something from Paranormal Activity", (my brother's own words haha), then a child and two of my brothers friends screamed at the same time, supposedly the woman who haunts the house, who died of insanity, walked across the screen. Unfortunately, my brother didn't get to see it himself as his friend just so happened to block his view at that very moment, funnily enough he said his friend screamed in a high pitched voice "OH MY GOD, THERE WAS A GHOST, A GHOST!!" hahahaha.

He was wondering, just like I was, would it have been staged as the tour guide knew people were gonna be looking at the cameras but surely the word would have been going around if that was it.

Really wanna go there myself now, sounds so interesting!

was it recording?

filmbuffboy

Ok so Ive been reading through the majority of this thread since yesterday, really good stories, some freaky, some encouraging. thanks everyone.

heres what ive experienced in my time.

as a child for several years, i used to have this tall shadow like figure stand over my bed at night. not every night, but regularly. it was completely black, even if there was light in the room all you could see was black. i always got a bad feeling from it, like it wanted to scare me. i used to just turn my back to it and pretend it wasnt there. once or twice i told my mum, or the babysitter that there was a bad man in my room, but they just told me i had a bad dream.

there was this one time where the babysitter was minding us, and hours later when my mum came back, the babysitter couldnt get out of the house fast enough. the next day my mum asked her what was wrong. the babysitter said that she went upstairs to check on me and my little sister, and the door to the attic started opening and closing very fast and she could see red eyes peering out at her. then she turned around and saw black crows on the landing. a second later it all stopped and vanished.

years later, me, my mum and my sis were talking about that house we grew up in. my mum started telling us that she used to see an old lady who was see through and blue at the top of the stairs knitting. my sister freaked out because she used to see the exact same thing. i never saw the old lady but i then told them about the tall black figure that used to stand over me at night.

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years after we moved out of that house, my sister was skipping classes in the toilets with friends in secondary school. they wrote out a ouija board on paper and my sister asked what the combination to her locker in dunnes stores was as she worked there at the time. there was no way either of the girls that were with her could have known the combination. the makeshift board they created told them her combination. my sister started crying and couldnt get out of there fast enough. she told my mam when she got home and my mam was furious, saying she had invited the devil into her life. mam had us praying every evening for weeks after that and had a priest over to bless us and the house.

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thankfully everyone im close to is still alive so ive never yet experienced a loved one contacting me from the other side, yet!

most of my experiences were only ever in that house i grew up in, and they were all pretty negative but thought id share them all the same.

great thread everyone!

Siipina

I have a story as well.
I am still a bit shocked to be honest.
Last year, my friend moved into an quiet old house on the country side. I went over for a coffee couple of times as its wasn't too far from were i lived.
I never felt comfortable there and I always found reasons not to stay there over night even if we wanted to go out for a drink. I preferred not to drink anything then.
The house is having a good bit of land around it and nothing done with it but a sheet just beside the drive way. One day I said good by to my friend and walked towards my car which was standing just in front of the Shed. Then I got that weird feeling somebody doesn't want me there and i felt like a child on somebodies land. I jumped in the car and drove of . I could not even look in the mirror because I was to scared to see somebody there. I had the impression even if I haven't seen anything about a grumpy old man.
Not so long after that I split up with my partner an needed a place to stay for a couple of weeks as it was a week before Christmas and all the letting agency's closed. As there was a huge Shed I could bring all my stuff with me and store it there. I never ever went near this sheet in the dark.
Now was the problem that i had my dog with me and she was only 4 month old at that time and she had to go out quite often and as there is no fence around so i had to go with a lead with her.
I had always that feeling that this old guy was standing there in the door of the sheet watching me and nothing could make this nosey puppy to go over there. He was always very grumpy like he did not want people on his land. One night i felt very bad because of my ex so i was a bit drunk and sitting outside for a smoke and just started to talk with him. I told him everything what happened and after that i never had that bad feeling in the garden again. I cant tell if it was after the chat we had or before but i was in the garden one night and could feel somebody watching me so I turned around to the Shed and there was a bright figure in the dark. first i thought it would be just the headlights of the cars passing by but I have never seen it before or again. My friend moved out then a few weeks later and we spoke about it but it was more like it was just in our heads.
Then a few weeks ago my friend met a guy over a dating site :-) As they met up they started talking about were she lived before and so it came out that he knew this house, which is in a different village then she is living now. He ask her how long she was living there and as she told him she stayed there for nearly a year he was very surprised. She asked him why and so it came out that few years or more back an old grumpy guy owned the house and the land and he did`nt like to see anybody on his land and he died there then. The whole village knows about him and not many people stayed in this house more than a few month. Neither my friend nor me knew about it, as we are not from Ireland and were not talking to the locals about stuff like that. So all these impressions I had, like he didn`t like us there and protecting his land and even the picture of him in my head was right. This Guy described him exactly like that.
When she told me about that i was quite shocked.
Sorry for this long post but I did`t even mention everything what happened there.

filmbuffboy

Siipina wrote: »

I have a story as well.
I am still a bit shocked to be honest.
Last year, my friend moved into an quiet old house on the country side. I went over for a coffee couple of times as its wasn't too far from were i lived.
I never felt comfortable there and I always found reasons not to stay there over night even if we wanted to go out for a drink. I preferred not to drink anything then.
The house is having a good bit of land around it and nothing done with it but a sheet just beside the drive way. One day I said good by to my friend and walked towards my car which was standing just in front of the sheet. Then I got that weird feeling somebody doesn't want me there and i felt like a child on somebodies land. I jumped in the car and drove of . I could not even look in the mirror because I was to scared to see somebody there. I had the impression even if I haven't seen anything about a grumpy old man.
Not so long after that I split up with my partner an needed a place to stay for a couple of weeks as it was a week before Christmas and all the letting agency's closed. As there was a huge sheet i could bring all my stuff with me and store it there. I never ever went near this sheet in the dark.
Now was the problem that i had my dog with me and she was only 4 month old at that time and she had to go out quite often and as there is no fence around so i had to go with a lead with her.
I had always that feeling that this old guy was standing there in the door of the sheet watching me and nothing could make this nosey puppy to go over there. He was always very grumpy like he did not want people on his land. One night i felt very bad because of my ex so i was a bit drunk and sitting outside for a smoke and just started to talk with him. I told him everything what happened and after that i never had that bad feeling in the garden again. I cant tell if it was after the chat we had or before but i was in the garden one night and could feel somebody watching me so I turned around to the sheet and there was a bright figure in the dark. first i thought it would be just the headlights of the cars passing by but I have never seen it before or again. My friend moved out then a few weeks later and we spoke about it but it was more like it was just in our heads.
Then a few weeks ago my friend met a guy over a dating site :-) As they met up they started talking about were she lived before and so it came out that he knew this house, which is in a different village then she is living now. He ask her how long she was living there and as she told him she stayed there for nearly a year he was very surprised. She asked him why and so it came out that few years or more back an old grumpy guy owned the house and the land and he did`nt like to see anybody on his land and he died there then. The whole village knows about him and not many people stayed in this house more than a few month. Neither my friend nor me knew about it, as we are not from Ireland and were not talking to the locals about stuff like that. So all these impressions I had, like he didn`t like us there and protecting his land and even the picture of him in my head was right. This Guy described him exactly like that.
When she told me about that i was quite shocked.
Sorry for this long post but I did`t even mention everything what happened there.

tell us!

emeraldstar

filmbuffboy wrote: »

tell us!

And also what you mean by "sheet". Shed?

aoife1991

Kind of in relation to an earlier post about my deceased grandfather, but sort of interesting all the same. I have a dog who's fairly lazy, she only really runs around and barks if she's hungry or a member of my family comes in. I could come in from college she'll be thrilled to see me, if I went down the shop for half an hour and then came back, she wouldn't react much because she's already shown her excitement.

Anyway, back on point, the day after my granda had been cremated, my mum went to collect his urn. My dog was sitting in the front room when my mum came in, my dog went running out to the front door, ignored my mum and was running around and barking as if there was someone else there. When my mum put the urn down, my dog sat down next to it, wagging her tail as if it was someone she knew and wouldn't budge until it was dinner time, no matter how many times she was called. We had the urn in my house until we scattered his ashes, but my dog would regularly go down and sit next to it in the middle of the night. If we were out during the day, when we would come back she would always be sitting by it. (She's a house dog.) It really quickly became her favourite spot to sit and nap.

Normally if I was watching tv, she would sit down next to me and then move around to my dad, my mum then sister, then back to me and so forth. When we had my granda's ashes in the house, she used to factor the urn into her seating arrangement and disappear for twenty minutes to sit by the urn. Ever since we've scattered him, she has no interest in sitting by where the urn was. Her seating pattern has gone back to me, dad, mum and my sister. It's very strange! Anyone experience pets acting like this or have any thoughts as to why she behaved like this?

littlelulu

yeah an owners dog sitting beside the herse before it left the house and then howling as it left. Theres those stories of dogs sitting on owners graves too everyday

aoife1991

littlelulu wrote: »

yeah an owners dog sitting beside the herse before it left the house and then howling as it left. Theres those stories of dogs sitting on owners graves too everyday

I've heard of stuff like that, but it was the first time anyone in the family experienced it firsthand. It was very strange! Kind of comforting too though.

Rasmus

emeraldstar wrote: »

And also what you mean by "sheet". Shed?

I went over this a couple of times too and even googled some farming terms but I believe they mean 'shed'!

purified

been a very long time follower of this thread and love reading all the stories on it. Some great occurances and some very good explanations.

Ive had a huge amount of experiences most of the time its just a flicker here and there of someone or shadows and lights etc, journeys in meditation and i think its very difficult sometimes to get out of your head and just let the experience be exactly what it is... its very hard to accept something that is not entirely physical.

The last two house ive lived in have been rented accommodations and both have been old house, the first one there was always stuff going missing and turning up in the most obvious places, same in this house, the odd shadows and impressions of people. The weird part was from a split second impression it felt like i could relay the entire life story of that person which felt very strange. We have a pet dog and she is normally very placid and lazy but every evening around the same time she would be bouncing around the house playing fetch with a ball and jumping up as if on people but there was never anyone there.. when we would sit down to have dinner id always feel like there are people watching me and would often catch a glimpse of an old couple passing by the door. Lights would go on and off (im an electrician and have tested all the wiring so i knows its not that) stuff would be moved... there would be random stuff left around that would have been put away. In the current house the minute we walked in the door i could tell there were spirits there, and they were more than happy to let us know if they werent happy about something. It almost felt like if we brought someone or something into the house that they didnt like the atmosphere would change completeyl which i know sounds bizarre but it did, and since moving in there anybody that came in and it changed we have found wouldnt be the loyalest of people or friends.

Siipina

Rasmus wrote: »

I went over this a couple of times too and even googled some farming terms but I believe they mean 'shed'!

Sorry, I meant Shed, I am still improving my English :-)