House i lived in until i was 6. My brother, me, and cousins who stayed all got woken up in the middle of the night by something tapping us on the shoulder. Handful of cases of windows breaking when they were touched and mirrors falling off walls more than they should.

Weird goings on in one house i lived in when electrical devices would switch themselves on in the middle of the night.

Happy to entertain ideas that time, or our perception of it, may not be as simple and inflexible as we think.

I used to go out with a woman who had the 'gift' of seeing spirits. I was a bit sceptical of her ability and when in a pub one evening, i asked her if she saw any spirits as we spoke.

She said an old woman was standing behind a man, [maybe his mother]. I then asked if she ever saw any spirit attached to me.

She replied by saying a woman about mid 50's was beside me. She gave a very accurate description of my stepmother, and she could not have known any details of her.

I got several old photographs of different women and showed them to my friend, as she picked out my stepmum straight away.

I mentioned that something happened in my old house, well here it is again. I posted this story a couple of years ago on here.
For those that missed it....
My (now late) wife and I were watching tv one evening, with our two cats and a dog laying on a rug in front of the fire.
All is well and normal.
Suddenly my two cats raise their heads quickly and stare at the doorway leading to the hallway, jump up and run to the kitchen
which is directly behind me to my left.
The dog looks up to the doorway, sat up, looking upwards.
Next thing the dog is sitting with her front paws raised, as if someone is holding them. They move up and down together.
I looked at my wife, she is looking at me also... not a word is said.
I look to the kitchen and a really funny sight greets me, one cat is on top of the other, eyes popping out... frozen to the spot.
A few moments later, the dog is back sitting down as normal, although she felt colder than normal, taking into consideration she was laying in front of the fire. I took the dog to the vet a few days later for a check up, as I thought she might have had a fit, or something to make her behave the way she did. Clean bill of health for her.
Took quite a while before the cats ventured back into the living room.
We talked about what we had just seen, came to no conclusion, but one thing we both agreed on was there didn't seem to be anything sinister or threatening at all. We both said if anything there was a very peaceful feeling to it all, if that makes sense?
There were lots of unexplained things happened in that house over the 20 years I lived there. Things going missing and turning up, really heavy feelings of being watched, some rooms I couldn't stay in for more than a few minutes... which tells another story.

I think you've cheered us all up zorro

Blackrock 21 Mar 17 11:47 
I used to go out with a woman who had the 'gift' of seeing spirits. I was a bit sceptical of her ability and when in a pub one evening, i asked her if she saw any spirits as we spoke.

She said an old woman was standing behind a man, [maybe his mother]. I then asked if she ever saw any spirit attached to me.

She replied by saying a woman about mid 50's was beside me. She gave a very accurate description of my stepmother, and she could not have known any details of her.

I got several old photographs of different women and showed them to my friend, as she picked out my stepmum straight away.

You need to remember that next time you are knocking one out

Please accept my apologies Gallivanter for being touchy.

The experience i was going to relate changed my life so i am delicate about it..

Another day mucker.. When i'm feeling melancholy again..

Ouijas are nothing but bad news. The singlemost head masher on this planet.. I have another story about them that i didn't see but my family did; and if i relate that then your hair will turn grey..

Just badness. I would advise against anyone ever using one.. Especially alone.

I'm not a believer or anything and this is just one very small incident.

My Mother died at around 10.15 pm in the family home where I grew up.  We had the doctor and funeral directors come that night so didn't get finished until after 1.00 am.

We laid in the next morning and at around 8.30 am the main light in the centre of the room above the bed lit up and stayed on until we switched it off.

AFAIK, never happened before and hasn't happened since so not faulty electrics.

Here's another..
At my house we had 2 living rooms.
Always handy when she wanted to watch the soaps, and I wanted to watch the footy.
My wife bought me a Zippo lighter for my 50th birthday, all engraved etc., (amongst other things).
I was in 'my' living room one evening, and went to the kitchen to get a drink. When I sat down in my chair
back in my room, I couldn't find my lighter. I went back to the kitchen to see if I'd taken it with me and left it there.
Couldn't find it anywhere. Searched every nook and cranny in that room, still couldn't find it and gave up.
In the following weeks and months, I completely stripped and redecorated that room, and others, forgetting completely about the lighter. One evening I was at home and went into 'my' room, and right in the middle of the coffee table was my lighter!
I said to my wife 'you found the lighter then?'... to which she replied 'what do you mean I know nothing about it'
She swore blind she knew nothing about it's reappearance, and I believed her.
There was no-one else living with us at that time.
That was one spooky house to live in. More to come!

Do you still smoke that stuff johnizere?

the cigareete lighter, is it possible it was in a trouser pocket, or jacket which hadn't been worn and when sitting down in the room again had without though taken it and set it down on the table.
and then on thinking of having a cigarette had seen it sitting on the table?

when I lose something I can never be sure how I lost it, or where I lost it. and it always seems to be lost in a place that I can`t find it

Two cases from me first was when my girlfriend at the time dad had just died ,this was about two weeks after ,we where watching TV in the living room and this smell appeared it was the smell of tobacco , the two of us looked at each other as if to say can you smell that .
Now this was 15 story's up in a high rise concrete building with no way the smell could have travelled from next door or outside .
Her dad smoked a pipe for most of his life so the smell was instantly recognisable . Never felt spooked or anything

Second case was same flat around about the same time ,I went into the kitchen to get a drink or something and the best way I can describe what I seen was like a cloud of dry ice it only lasted for a second or two the first thing I looked at was the freezer because that is what seemed a reasonable explanation ,but no everything was shut ,
Again wasn't spooked at all just left scratching my head at what I had seen

perhaps a cigarette advertisement

Honestly can't remember what we watching ,I can honestly say it happened as clear as anything like smelling a fart this smell came from nowhere
Really strange ,

lfc... I think I told of the time I lost it, and the months later when it reappeared. During that intervening time period, I had emptied that room to decorate etc. The lighter was sitting in the centre of the table when seen next. I have no explanation of how this happened, I'm only telling how it was.

*birthday greetings

perhaps the ghost knew that you liked to set the lighter on your coffee table, and that's why the ghost left it back on the coffee table?