Seen a Ghost?

[Azagoth]

Our house is haunted, for want of a better word. Don't know what it is, but there's definitely something at work.

Quite regularly you can hear footsteps going across the room above you when there's nobody upstairs. Quite often, you can hear a bell too. Sounds much like one of those butler bells from the 19th Century.

Every now and then you catch sight of something out of the corner of you eye, and the hairs on the back of your neck suddenly stand up. Plus the cat used to sit and stare right at the exact spot the thing you saw was.

Things are moved! For instance, we put the cutlery down in the kitchen after a meal, went in to get the glasses and the cutlery had moved into the bathroom, yet nobody was in the house apart from me and the missus and the kitchen is off the living room where we were.

 

[Lysander]

Things are moved! For instance, we put the cutlery down in the kitchen after a meal, went in to get the glasses and the cutlery had moved into the bathroom, yet nobody was in the house apart from me and the missus and the kitchen is off the living room where we were.

I'd be pretty freaked out if that happened. How old is the house? 19th or 18th C?

 

[Azagoth]

Mid 19th as far as I know, around the 1860 mark or so.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

In my old house (about 10 years ago) I was "dreaming" that my grandfather had died, and during the dream he'd come in to my room, sat on the bed and told me to take good care of my grandmother.

I woke up crying (as you do), rushed downstairs where I saw my mum and gran talking, as they looked up I burst in to tears and they came to calm me down, upon which I said "I know what happened to Bampa" and they just cried.

I never was told that he'd died (wasn't even ill.. heartattack) so it must have been a ghost.. who knows

 

[meghatronic]

Actually. Something did scare the preverbial out of me as a child... now I put it down to a series of misobservations BUT.

I was building some lego thing and I couldn't find a particular brick (I was young and there were easily <30 pieces). I went and got my mum and when we came back the brick was there. Anyway, I carried on building and then it wasn't there again. I get scared and pack everything away putting each piece back in the box piece by piece but it wasn't there. I go and watch my mum cook in the kitchen. Later that day I go back to my lego box and the brick is there again. Only my mother and I were in and she didn't even know where I put the box to put it back in. Odd.

 

[Glaucus]

No, had loads of weird experiences though. Which can all be explained, however to someone who wants or does believe in ghosts etc would believe they seen something unnatural.


Flaming Satan in my room - Sleep paralysis
Doctors injecting me in my stomach - Sleep paralysis
died so many times, in loads of diffrent ways - sleep paralysis
A very unearthly scrapping noise when I was very young, scared the hell out of me -Turned out it was a birds nest in the loft above my bedroom.
Again when I was very young saw a weird object in the sky, that then shone a light in my room - Police helicopter, with a search light on.


Any off those experiences could be unnatural if I wanted to believe in ghosts and other such rubbish.

The mind is a complicated and very powerful thing. When it can't explain something it will and does clutch at straws.

 

[Lysander]

Any off those experiences could be unnatural if I wanted to believe in ghosts and other such rubbish.

Sleep paralysis can't explain everything, though I accept that it is accoutable for quite a few things.

I am convinced that the paranormal is real, and I'm not talking about rubbishy things like Most Haunted. But then my family has always been interested in things like that so it's not surprising.

 

[Glaucus]

Sleep paralysis can't explain everything, though I accept that it is accoutable for quite a few things.

I'm not saying it does. Look at the other two statements. One could easily be explained as a ghost and the other as a ufo. If another person saw it.
I've yet to see anything that supports the unnatural, you had any unnatural experiences?

the only thing that is even remotely possible is remote viewing and I think this is worthy of further research.

 

[Lysander]

I've yet to see anything that supports the unnatural, you had any unnatural experiences?

I've yet to 'see' anything either, but for me it's not always about seeing something. I can just be as convinced of something by feeling it as I said in one of my above posts. But then I am hyper sensitive to vibes, essences and others' emotions. Sometimes these linger in places and it's very possible to pick them up.

 

[Glaucus]

I've yet to 'see' anything either, but for me it's not always about seeing something. I can just be as convinced of something by feeling it as I said in one of my above posts. But then I am hyper sensitive to vibes, essences and others' emotions. Sometimes these linger in places and it's very possible to pick them up.

But that could easily be the décor, smells, vibrations in the building and a number of other things, that you only experience subconsciously but give you a weird feeling.

 

[Zogger]

I've yet to 'see' anything either, but for me it's not always about seeing something.

I think he is using 'see' in a general sense.

It does seem like most ghost sightings do come down to how you interpret an event. Someone who believes in ghosts will naturally tend towards a supernatural explanation, while a sceptic will always have another explanation.
Derren Brown's book is good. People will see something and then in their head over time (long or short) it changes into something much bigger than it actually is.
You can see something and really not have any idea what it is, and then if someone else mentions it you will slowly convince yourself that you definitely saw a ghost.

The only one so far to me that actually seems like a strange occurrence is this

Things are moved! For instance, we put the cutlery down in the kitchen after a meal, went in to get the glasses and the cutlery had moved into the bathroom, yet nobody was in the house apart from me and the missus and the kitchen is off the living room where we were.

If that happened I would be very confused, but that's not to say there isn't a normal explanation... Does remind me of the time one weekend a few years ago in uni halls when everyone on my corridors' forks went missing, even though my room was locked the whole time I wasn't in and the cleaners didn't come on weekends

I don't generally believe in ghosts but I am not closed to the idea...

 

[Lysander]

But that could easily be the décor, smells, vibrations in the building and a number of other things, that you only experience subconsciously but give you a weird feeling.

No, it's a very definite feeling. None of those things has made me want to cry before. Sometimes it's like feeling a deep emotional pain of someone else, sometimes it's the sense that the residue of someone or something has been left over.

 

[Zogger]

No, it's a very definite feeling. None of those things has made me want to cry before. sometimes it's the sense that the residue of someone or something has been left over.

Is it an onion?

 

[Glaucus]

No, it's a very definite feeling. None of those things has made me want to cry before. Sometimes it's like feeling a deep emotional pain of someone else, sometimes it's the sense that the residue of someone or something has been left over.

But that doesn't discredit anything I've said. It's quite possible you are picking up on something, that reminds you of another experience or a story. Which brings back those feelings.

Just like every time I hear Dath Vader, it brings back memories of my granddad lying in a coma, struggling to breath.

 

[V4NT0M]

In my old house (about 10 years ago) I was "dreaming" that my grandfather had died, and during the dream he'd come in to my room, sat on the bed and told me to take good care of my grandmother.

I woke up crying (as you do), rushed downstairs where I saw my mum and gran talking, as they looked up I burst in to tears and they came to calm me down, upon which I said "I know what happened to Bampa" and they just cried.

I never was told that he'd died (wasn't even ill.. heartattack) so it must have been a ghost.. who knows

I guess your mother and grandmother were talking about your grandfather's death? Your sleeping mind picked up on the conversation

If not did I miss something from the story? :S

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I guess your mother and grandmother were talking about your grandfather's death? Your sleeping mind picked up on the conversation

If not did I miss something from the story? :S

They were two floors down, and all the doors were shut

 

[Pinter75]

Ghosts, bah - its just time repeating itself.

 

[Jimbo]

No I don't think so, as a lot of the time the will actually talk with you, and interact. However some sightings may be caused by the stone tape theory.

 

[Hxc]

Ghosts, bah - its just time repeating itself.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear non-subjective view point, it's more like a big ball of wibley-wobbley ... timey-wimey ... stuff.

 

[THMRK]

Clearly ghosts are just something being changed in the Matrix.