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Nondizzyblonde

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 Leicestershire
I do have a couple myself, but it would be interesting to hear other people's too ! Husband is back from business trip tonight, so no harm in scaring myself tonight :).
I'll start with the one that perhaps scared me the most, and made my husband who is a very rational man sleep with the lights on all night. Two years ago we had had an exhausting 400 mile round trip up north, to attend the funeral of a friend and her children. It had obviously been a very emotional day, and one could argue that this could have affected our perceptions, but still....
Anyway, I woke up at about 1 am and heard scratching downstairs. Suspecting the cat of destroying the furniture, I sent MR NDB downstairs to sort things out. He wasn't very pleased to be woken but reported back that the cat was fast asleep on the sofa. About ten minutes later, with MR NDB fast asleep again, the scratching started again - this time I sent him down to kick the cat out. He. however, returned with cat in tow and tucked it up in bed with us ( as nasty habit of his....). Then a few minutes later the scratching started again, and this time he heard it too. At this point we switched on all the lights in the bedroom. Things got worse though as we then both heard breathing and then a big sigh.
Upshot = the then toddler was also fetched and tucked up in bed with us and not much sleep was had by the grown ups that night. The following morning Mr NDB sheepishly suggested that we "might have brought one of them back" from the funeral.
Fast forward a week, and I am planting bulbs in the front garden, when the neighbour's son from over the road comes over to let me know that his dad had died the night we had all the noises. Turns out he had collapsed in the bathroom around the time we had had the disturbances and not been found until the morning.
Now I am a sceptic and we have tried to find rational explanations for what happened, but still have not come up with anything. That is only one of the things that has happened since meeting my husband - I think he is a ghost magnet.
 
Once, when I was a teenager (many, many years ago) I woke in the middle of the night and saw a a figure dressed in denim with a cap on, turned away from me, on the far side of the room. I looked, rubbed my eyes, woke up, he was still there. I thought it was my brother maybe playing a joke. Got out of bed, walked over. Still there. I reached out and touched him on the shoulder at which point he dissolved into millions of fragments.

No idea what that was all about, but now after almost 50 years I remember it so vividly and get the shivers every time I think about it. Like now.
 
Don't believe in ghosts, I believe in science.

Saying that I'm open minded and not so arrogant to think I know everything.
(If Mr M asks, I do know everything tho)
 
Sometimes in our local pub I have felt someone or seen someone in a black cloak walk past me.......... no its not the supplied spirits by the landlord as they have seen and felt different happenings also. Cornish Arms at Sparnongate Illogan. The place has been miners cottages, schoolhouse, court and morg. Near by is was a tree from where some were dispatched.
 
One night a few years ago I was on the side of the road hitchhiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a big storm.

The night was rolling on and no car went by. The storm was so strong I could hardly see a few feet ahead of me. Suddenly, I saw a car slowly coming towards me... Desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, I got into the car and closed the door.. only to realise there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn't on

The car started moving slowly. I looked at the road ahead and saw a bend approaching. Scared, I started to pray, begging for my life. Then, just before the car hit the bend, a hand appeared out of nowhere through the window and turned the wheel. Paralysed with terror, I watched as the hand came through the window, but never touched or harmed me.

Shortly thereafter I saw the lights of a pub appear down the road, so, gathering strength, jumped out of the car and ran to it. Wet and out of breath, I rushed inside and started telling everybody about the horrible experience I'd just had.

A silence enveloped the pub when everybody realised I was crying and.... wasn't drunk.

Suddenly, the door opened, and two other people walked in from the dark and stormy night. They, like me, were also soaked and out of breath. Looking around, and seeing me sobbing at the bar, one said to the other...

'Look.....there's that fooking idiot that got in the car while we were pushing it!'
 
dr_john said:
Once, when I was a teenager (many, many years ago) I woke in the middle of the night and saw a a figure dressed in denim with a cap on, turned away from me, on the far side of the room.
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Was it Jimmy Saville?? :o
 
I had a night out with a wad of cash in my pocket and at the end of the night ended up in Spearmint Rhino.
Got home at early o'clock smelling of purfume and no cash left at all.......wooooooh spooky!! :o
 
In primary school one day (2nd to last year it was) classmates were walking out of the door for breaktime but me and a mate had to stay behind to clear up a mess we had made :oops:

After all the kids had left what can only be described as a blur floated across towards the door, i watched it as it dissapeared through the doorway not really beliving my eyes and thinking "naa it cant have been anything"... my mate turned and looked at me with a somewhat startled and worried look on his face... he saw it too :cry:

We cleared up in double quick time and we left ASAP!
 
Carol M said:
Don't believe in ghosts, I believe in science.

Saying that I'm open minded and not so arrogant to think I know everything.
(If Mr M asks, I do know everything tho)
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Ah well I am a social scientist and Mr NDB a Physicist/Systems Engineer, so he is definitely a scientist. Anyway, I would say science isn't really a belief as it is based on hypothesis testing and falsifiable theories. A belief in ghost is definitely a belief as there is no way to prove it one way or the other. Not sure what happened that night, I just know that we perceived something !
 
I too am scientific and believe there's a rational explanation for most things. I try to keep an open mind, but generally find that the ghost-believers are of a gullible breed. However...
I live in a 400 year old house, reputed to have ghosts. I've never seen or heard one, but must admit the house does creak sometimes - lots of old timbers.

I had some kitchen work done recently, including the laying of new tiled floor. We took a week off and went to France, leaving the builder to it.

When we got back, he happened to say "you don't have ghosts, do you?" when we asked why, he explained that when he laid the levelling floor screed, he worked backwards to the door and then left for the night. When he came back the next day, there were footprints in the screed leading from the door to the sink (but not back again). No explanation.
 
Nondizzyblonde said:
Carol M said:
Don't believe in ghosts, I believe in science.

Saying that I'm open minded and not so arrogant to think I know everything.
(If Mr M asks, I do know everything tho)
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Ah well I am a social scientist and Mr NDB a Physicist/Systems Engineer, so he is definitely a scientist. Anyway, I would say science isn't really a belief as it is based on hypothesis testing and falsifiable theories. A belief in ghost is definitely a belief as there is no way to prove it one way or the other. Not sure what happened that night, I just know that we perceived something !
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When I say I believe in science I don't mean as a 'belief' as such. I mean I believe in things that can be proven, or as near as. I don't believe in blind faith either.
 
When I was a teenager, many decades ago, listening to hifi on a pair of studio type headphones was the coolest thing you could be seen to do. With this in mind I dragged Dad down to the local hifi shop and he generously bought me a pair, and for some reason I can't recall, we got the polystyrene head that they were displayed on included as well.
Anyway, said polystyrene head was a convenient place to put the fancy 'phones when not in use.
A few evenings later, listening to Dark Side of the Moon or something, in the semi-darkness, but through the speakers this time, as I turned to look at the polystyrene head, it, slowly, almost in time to the spooky music, turned and 'looked' straight back at me!
Shocked and spooked was an understatement, until I realised I had caught my foot in the curly cable causing the lifeless lump of polystyrene to rotate.
Having had a 'paranormal experience', and also a completely rational explanation I decided not to believe in the 'other side' from then.
 
Well I am currently waiting for 'contact'. A friend of mine who really believed in this stuff died last Wednesday and always said he would come back to haunt us, if he went before we did. Although I am a sceptic, I have slept with the lights on whilst the husband has been away.
 
When I was in the military, there was a party at some lieutenant's house. They started playing with the Ouija board. It looked kind of interesting but a little creepy. Instead of playing myself, I had the two at the board ask a few questions. (1) How much change did I have in my pocket and which one? It gave the right answer. OK, someone could have guessed at that. (2) Give me the serial number of any dollar bill in my wallet. WOW, again this thing knew. I'm starting to sweat a little. (3) What is the exact mileage on my car? (It was locked & I made sure no one was sneaking out to look). It again came up with the right answer. Had a few more beers, went home a couldn't sleep for a couple of nights. It's still spooky when I think about it.
 
lux good said:
dr_john said:
Once, when I was a teenager (many, many years ago) I woke in the middle of the night and saw a a figure dressed in denim with a cap on, turned away from me, on the far side of the room.
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Was it Jimmy Saville?? :o
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Now then, now then..... :D
 
In my last house where we lived for 20 years, just after moving in we were having a house warming party when one of the guests dropped her wineglass. It wasn't a problem as we were outside on the patio, but the guest insisted that it had been snatched out of her hand and did we have ghosts? Over the following weeks stuff just kept turning up in cupboards that we knew had been empty. This culminated in my opening the locked door to the totally empty garden room that was to become my office to find a roll of black and white negative film slap bang in the middle of the floor. The pictures were of the house when it was new, the previous owner who had died and his family. We got in touch with one of the daughters that still lived locally and returned all the found stuff.
Every so often when going into the garage there'd be a strong smell of pipe tobacco and then one day about 5 years after we'd moved in, after we'd had a new water tank fitted we found a smokers pipe in the airing cupboard, we phoned the plumber to tell him he'd left his pipe behind but he said it wasn't his and no he hadn't found it and left it in plain view. Another weird find & the last.
The previous owner had been the headmaster of the local school, and he'd had the house built. After he died his wife lived there alone until she was too frail to cope on her own and was moved to a nursing home. History books of the village always showed pictures of him with a pipe in his mouth as he apparently smoked like a chimney. All the unexplained happenings ceased after his widow died.
It's almost as if he was hanging around the house waiting for his wife to join him.
 
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