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Ghosts - What are your experiences?
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Just found this thread, so interesting! I don't believe in ghost myself but my OH tends to have hallucinations in bed and sleep paralisys, so I always find interesting to hear what he "saw".
Went to the Auld Reekie ghost underground tour in Edinbrugh. The place was dark, cold and dump as one would expect. We walk through the hallway and guide tells us stories about each chamber. We enter one of the chambers and the tour guide makes us women lean against one of the walls, and sends men to the oppositte wall and they lean against it- guide stays in the middle of the room telling a story with the light torch is carrying turned off. It's very dark, cold and damp and most people have been separeted from their friends (mostly couples on the tour) so you find yourself alone sourrunded by strangers while your OH is in the other side of the room. Guide keeps telling us the story about the women and children that died in a fire in that room and how they suffered. Everyone is on edge. All of a sudden an actor wearing clothes of the time runs shouting throught the hallway (playing ghost)- everyone has a mini hart attack and then laughs and tour is over.
I meet my OH and he seems shocked and he doesn't wanna talk. Turns out while guide was talking a man entered the room and walked towards him. Apparently he looked like somebody in his 30s that has aged badly and looks like 40-50. A bit taller than him with flappy ears and rotten teeth. Grubby looking and all clothes torned. Looked like somebody really poor and in bad health that one can see in pictures of our ancestors. He entered the room and slowly walked towards OH and stopped right in front of him- few inches from his face. OH says he wasn't blurry or anything, that he looked very real and he could see his features sharply. He was blinking and breathing. OH kept telling himself he was allucinating but the "guy" wouldnt go away; OH wanted to leave the room but didn't wanna make a fool of himself being the "chicken" that got scared with the story the guide was telling so he stayed. So OH tries to touch the "guy" to show to his brain that the "guy" isn't real; his fingers get pass through him as if he was a ghost but the "guy" still doesn't go away. Eventually the actor running through the corridor thing happens and silence is broken and everyone is laughing and only then the "guy" vanished.
I know it was his mind hallucinating but still sooo creepy
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Could be condensation getting into the toy during the day and by the time the water droplets drip down through the toy it's later in the night which in turn is shorting out the toy, just a possibility!sniperviper wrote: »Hi Folks.
I havn`t posted in a while in this thread as all has been quiet in my home until recently. we have one of the kids toys in the bathroom its made to stick on the wall and plays music and makes bubbles when you press buttons, so 2pm we are all asleep in the house when im woken up by music im still half asleep and im thinking one of the kids is awake so i get up head for there room and there asleep.
I then realise that the music is behind me coming from the bathroom i turn around and nobody in the bathroom music still playing im frozen to the spot i mean realy freaked out which never happens to me.The music stops and then i hear what sounds like the button been pressed and the music starting up, at this point i thought about waking the wife but then i decided to go and look in the bathroom so as i get about 3 steps away from the bathroom the music stops i switch the light on and nobody there.
over the nexted week and a bit this happened a total of 4 times my wife witnessed it twice. we changed the batteries and it still happened we moved the toy to a different part of the bathroom and it happened again. It has not happened in nearly two weeks and all has been quiet. It happened pretty much the same time on the nights it happened and also we allways leave the bathroom light on without exception as we have kids and each time this happens the light is switched off.
The batteries where changed for new ones
The toy was 3 weeks old without any damage
There was no water damage
its in perfect working order and not the first toy to come on by itself in the house
I cant explain this one but im open to any ideas. 0 -
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To keep it short:
Whenever I was on my own (back then when I lived home with parents), I would hear things or how someone opens doors or walks through them.
As I was alone, no windows or doors open and even my cat and dog looked towards the noise (like they would expect someone to enter the room), I knew I'm not on my own haha
The first few times it scarred me a lot and I wouldn't sleep those nights but I started to "tune in" and kinda felt a peaceful presence, like someone who just pops by.
I (for fun) called him "Wilson" and whenever I heard "him" I would great him etc.
Often I also heard how things were moved. I was too freaked to check right away but the next morning I had a look and stuff clearly was moved to somewhere else.
I kept a close eye on this as it happens regularly (to make sure I'm not crazy haha).
Since my dog and car always felt the presence too I got relaxed and wasnt worried.
At some point it stopped but my mum still mentions that he "every now and then" seems to be around.
We just feel it somehow and it's like an old visitor. 0 -
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Kontrapasa wrote: »Just found this thread, so interesting! I don't believe in ghost myself but my OH tends to have hallucinations in bed and sleep paralisys, so I always find interesting to hear what he "saw".
Went to the Auld Reekie ghost underground tour in Edinbrugh. The place was dark, cold and dump as one would expect. We walk through the hallway and guide tells us stories about each chamber. We enter one of the chambers and the tour guide makes us women lean against one of the walls, and sends men to the oppositte wall and they lean against it- guide stays in the middle of the room telling a story with the light torch is carrying turned off. It's very dark, cold and damp and most people have been separeted from their friends (mostly couples on the tour) so you find yourself alone sourrunded by strangers while your OH is in the other side of the room. Guide keeps telling us the story about the women and children that died in a fire in that room and how they suffered. Everyone is on edge. All of a sudden an actor wearing clothes of the time runs shouting throught the hallway (playing ghost)- everyone has a mini hart attack and then laughs and tour is over.
I meet my OH and he seems shocked and he doesn't wanna talk. Turns out while guide was talking a man entered the room and walked towards him. Apparently he looked like somebody in his 30s that has aged badly and looks like 40-50. A bit taller than him with flappy ears and rotten teeth. Grubby looking and all clothes torned. Looked like somebody really poor and in bad health that one can see in pictures of our ancestors. He entered the room and slowly walked towards OH and stopped right in front of him- few inches from his face. OH says he wasn't blurry or anything, that he looked very real and he could see his features sharply. He was blinking and breathing. OH kept telling himself he was allucinating but the "guy" wouldnt go away; OH wanted to leave the room but didn't wanna make a fool of himself being the "chicken" that got scared with the story the guide was telling so he stayed. So OH tries to touch the "guy" to show to his brain that the "guy" isn't real; his fingers get pass through him as if he was a ghost but the "guy" still doesn't go away. Eventually the actor running through the corridor thing happens and silence is broken and everyone is laughing and only then the "guy" vanished.
I know it was his mind hallucinating but still sooo creepy
Been on that tour twice, not a believer in ghosts but it is very creepy and very well setup. The guides are adamant though if you see anything to say so immediately (torches hidden in the wall can be quickly grabbed etc).
Last time I was on that tour they said people were separated in that room as its normally the male half that are "approached". Women are told to keep hold of kids too, noticeable incident occured when a woman felt her kid left go and a cold hand grasp hers. She screamed torches came on, her son was 4 feet away facing the wall!!
Of course when he was saying this I tried to scare one of the girls by pulling lightly on her jacket tail, she screamed blue murder... torches on... wrong lady, some woman from Liverpool instead. She almost killed me, her husband thought it was hilarious. I couldn't apologise enough!0 -
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Absolutely loving this thread! Been lurking for a while reading all the posts and creeping myself out over the more scarier ones.
Thought I'd contribute my own experiences as I've had a few over the years. The major one happened when I was a wee lass of 5 and living in the box room of my house at the time.
The room had only one window which had the view of the wall seperating my house from the neighbours and was part of the laneway where we kept the bins. Since at the time there was only a very flimsy net curtain covering the window, I was often kept awake by my neighbour's security light coming on at night and so I was used to flickering lights.
One dark and stormy November night, however, the wind was howling excessively and the ominous crashes of thunder and lightening were scaring little old me, preventing me from sleeping. I tried to ignore the noise by sticking my head under the duvet but it was futile. I was about to get out of bed and run to the saunctuary of my parent's room when I heard a shrill, unearthly scream.
It was clearly a woman's shriek and distinguishable from the wind. I looked out the window and saw a tall, thin woman in a flowing grey dress with scraggly white hair screaming at me.
I let out a yell and dived under the covers and didn't move until the screaming stopped.
When I related the story to my mother the next morning, my mother assumed I had simply had another of the night terrors that I was prone to getting at that age and said, in a manor of explaining things, that I probably was imagining a banshee.
She told me not to worry too much about it though she did tell me that banshees were considered bad omens and never to pick up any combs I found in the street lest bad luck be visited upon me.
So, after being soothed, I went back to sleep feeling rattled.
A few weeks after that incident, my grandfather died after a long battle with cancer. I think the banshee was trying to warn me in some way as the death came as a terrible shock to me- I had been purposely kept in the dark about his illness as I was too young to comprehend it at the time.
On a much lighter note, in the years since he died, I have been visited by my grandfather's ghost on more than one occasion.
He was known for being a bit of a joker and a jolly sort of man and often during times of stress and emotional turmoil, I often feel his presence- as though someone is patting my back or giving me a gentle caress-and I find it a comfort.
Though, I must tell you the funniest incident that happened quite recently.
For the sake of background, you should know that my granddad died in the bedroom he shared with my grandmother and ever since, I've always felt he still lingered in there. Anyways, I was in the room one day fixing my hair at the mirror affixed to the door of the wardrobe when I became acutely aware of the feeling of someone standing behind me.
I looked at my reflection but there was no-one there. Next of all, I felt a very clear and distinct hand pinch my bottom!
I told my grandmother and she laughed at me, saying my granddad often did that to anyone using the mirror.
It made me laugh anyways.
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