Ghosts...please can you give your (true) thoughts or experiences?

has anyone ever seen anything out of the ordinary? no

There he goes again.........

go on g2d, everyone loves a good ghost story

Yes G2D, share a story. I posted some of my experiences on here a couple of years ago.
Some tried to debunk what I'd written, or experienced, but I know what I saw and felt at the time.

Nope. I would have told terry because i've told him one before. Non-believers do not interest me..

There ye go John has mentioned the very same fred..

guinness - I'm not a believer either but I do like ghost stories. My brother swears he saw one when staying in an old hotel. I'm with lfc though. I would need evidence.

I know Hank that's why there's no point discussing it. As i said earlier, some see some don't.

Having a discussion about such things is like Darwin discussing The Immaculate Conception with The Pope.

Is it still a ghost if you don't actually see it?

I don't believe in ghosts. How come they only appear at night in an old deserted house in the middle of nowhere. Everyone records everything on their phones now and still no crystal clear evidence.

There is something

The one i was going to tell happened about 2:00pm on a lovely summers afternoon..

Was it a phone call?

Mine happened whilst my late wife and I were watching tv one evening.
Lots of other things happened in that house, small things, but nevertheless had no explanation.

If yer chosen John, yer chosen.. And it has nothing to do with religion..

If you mean me, g2d, I admit to frequent ****ry but I wouldn't take the píss out a gentleman such as yourself.

Besides, I have had one or two "experiences" myself that I can't classify.

I meant the telephone remark as a genuine question. Please go on with your story.

Go on Guinness tell us your story ...

Yeah cmon guinness - I may not believe but I wouldn't take the p

Hank so you don't believe your own brother

nope - I'm sure he believes it. We're very close and have many of the same interests, but on this we part ways.

My fault for putting the brakes on a good thread. It wasn't intentional.

Okay, I'll start pour encourager les autres.

This is the story of Fred. I've never seen Fred and I don't know anyone else who has ever seen Fred. I don't even know if his name is really Fred but Fred, whoever or whatever he is, exists. Fred follows me from house to house, from country to country and even from continent to continent.

He came into my family's life on the day I was born. I wasn't born in a hospital, just on a couch bed in my grandmother's house. There was the usual fuss and palaver that a sudden birth gives rise to, I suppose. Obviously I don't remember.

The room was put off bounds to all men in the family and my grandmother took charge. We'll skip the gory details and get to the bit where I drew my first breath and made the usual protests about leaving the warmth and dark for the cold and light. That's when the room door opened. Just a little, but it opened.

An aunt, or a female cousin or somebody, one of the amateur midwives anyhow, grabbed the door to shout abuse at whichever fool had dared to enter the confinement chamber. There was nobody in the hallway.

Naturally, I didn't know it at the time but that was my first encounter with the entity that over the years my family came to call Fred. Fred visited again this morning. He no longer scares me but I'm not really sure I want to find out who or what he is.

If there's any interest, maybe I can continue, otherwise I'll let it lie.

Bigfoot just texted me, he says; Grrrr! Grrrr! Chase me! Grrrr!

Liar! Bigfoot can't get a signal in the woods!

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.

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.


Has the possibility of practical jokes been discarded DStyle, because when i was 6 years old my bother would deliberately snot in my eyes when i was asleep and when i woke up blind he would make strange noises and blame it on the blob monster.

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.

there was never anything behind us when we looked.

I'm happy to accept all sorts of rational explanations, including practical jokes. My **** of an older brother once pissed in my water cup by my bed in the middle of the night because he didn't want to get up and go to the loo. And yes, I did drink some of it.

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.

IF ghosts existed... wouldn't the nazi deathcamps be heaving with ghostly activity?
so no ghosts. just demonic activity. don't you feel better now.

I think you've cheered us all up zorro

What - you must have met a demon?

Thatcher?

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

Zorro, your theory of demons is certainly more logical than one of ghosts if we define ghosts as spirits of dead people.

However, where does that leave us with the so-called mischievous spirits? Happy hellions? Friendly fiends?

Please accept my apologies Gallivanter for being touchy.

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

No, g2d, I'm the one who was thoughtless and I'm very sorry for it.

I would genuinely be interested in your story if you ever feel like sharing it. It sounds worth hearing.

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

I've never seen a ghost or even like the idea of any sort of after life but I had an experience with an Quija board as a 14 year old that I still can't explain over 40 years later.

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..

Its something that a lot of people like to do for a laugh but IMO very rarely, for whatever reason, does anything good come from it.

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

Ffs there's not one shred of credible evidence that ghosts, ghouls, poltergeists, vampires, werewolves, fairies, god, goat suckers, bigfoot, yeti, nessie, ufos, alien abduction, premonition, spoon bending, etc etc, exist - you can add hundreds of similar delusional phenomena to the list. 

If anybody could convince me that one of the above is real then I'd be prepared to believe that Muhammed went to heaven on a winged horse.

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.

Another of my 'experiences'.
About 3 weeks after my wife passed away in 2011, I was back at work. I had been out all day, and stopped at a supermarket
in Port Talbot (she was from there) to pick something up for a meal later.
When I got back to the car, I opened the driver's door, and was hit by this overpowering smell... not a bad smell at all,
not a perfume or anything I could put a name to. I couldn't sit in the car, and had to open all the doors for the air to
clear. When it was ok to get back in, I sat there racking my brains trying to think what that smell could be?
Driving home I at last recognised what it was....
Whilst my wife was poorly, my step-daughter bought her one of those microwaveable teddy bears, the ones filled with wheat which you put in the microwave to heat up, and use like a hot water bottle. One time she'd put the teddy bear in the microwave and overheated it, and it gave off this pungent smell. This is the smell that was in my car.... and before anybody asks, the teddy bear had never been in my car.

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!

Thinly veiled, my wife's boyfriend nicked my lighter and when she made him give it back she blamed it on a ghost.

Do you still smoke that stuff johnizere?

in regard to the smell in the car, johnizere will have been preoccupied with melancholy. he will have been thinking even subconsciously of finding something comforting in relation to him and his wife and the teddy bear became the symbol of comfort in his mind..most powerfully because of that vivid smell and the comfort brought to his sick wife by it and the childhood memories that teddy bears bring of comfort.
this came flooding back, the brain has a very powerful subconscious, on opening the car doors, perhaps there was a slight car smell similar which his memories enhanced, even changed, to the smell of the bear.

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?

the question is can johnizere be sure that it was sitting on the coffee table, when he left the room can he be sure he left it sitting on the table and did not without thinking put it in his pocket.
did he then search the room and the kitchen but not search his pocket?

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

ok it was found on the coffee table, could johnizere have taken it out of his pocket and set it there while engrossed in the football match, without thinking, it is possible?

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

what were you watching on tv running on the spot, was there something in the programme that could have sparked the memory of her father.
this can happen of course and it may be something that is very abstract that can trigger these things

perhaps a cigarette advertisement

why would a ghost move a cigarette lighter, and just at the time you cant see it being moved, I don't know.

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 ,

look at it this way, the cigarette lighter was on the coffee table.
is johnizere sure of this? which of us knows were something is when we lose it.

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.

ps, this was no ordinary lighter, it was a Zippo which my wife had got engraved with my 50th birthday wishes. It was also in one of those leather pouch things.

*birthday greetings

yes johnizere, but do you ever set a cigarette lighter down without thinking, automatically.
we would do this often, many times,
It is possible to set the lighter down while watching football and not even know you have done it.
and then on wanting a cigarette at half time, suddenly you spot it there on the table, right there were you thought you had lost it many weeks before

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?

I can never remember exactly the way of things when I lose something : )

It seems as though animals and children may be more sensitive to these sorts of phenomena.

I do wonder if we "learn" perception of time.

The idea of parallel dimensions existing is a concept that has been offered as an explanation for paranormal/unexplained activity.  More things in heaven and earth etc,

I agree with some of that

Mind you i agree with Erich von Däniken on some things as well..

we only see a tiny fragment of the spectrum. there is more invisible than visible.
Scientists have 96 percent of the universe missing between dark matter and dark energy.

r dean taylor was the first person that made me aware of the phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EInKyh5QXQ

Metinks Indiana wants ya Cooperman..

I can't Go Back There, unfortunately

no such thing as ghosts - just demons.
evil spirits attach themselves to people while they are alive.
when that person dies. they have knowledge of that person.
pretending to be them while they seek out a new house(body).

“When the evil spirit goes out of a man it wanders through waterless places looking for rest and never finding it. Then it says, ‘I will go back to my house from which I came.’ When it arrives it finds it unoccupied, but clean and all in order. Then it goes and collects seven other spirits more evil than itself to keep it company, and they all go in and make themselves at home. The last state of that man is worse than the first—and that is just what will happen to this evil generation.” Mathew 12:44

hahahahaha - cheerin you up. No ghosts. happy now.

When I was living with my parents I took our dog out each night. A friend of mine who lived about half a mile away had a dog called Buster and sometimes he would call on me when he was taking his dog out. This could happen anytime between 7 and 10 at night and not every night but we always knew when Buster was on his way because about 15 minutes before he arrived our dog would get up and sit by the front door.
No hard evidence for this lfc1971 you'll have to take my word for it.

If ghosts do exist why are they so fooking stupid?

How many times have we heard the type of story where for 100's of years such and such boy/woman/man can be seen wondering up and down the road/moor looking for his dog...well, you'd think that after 100's of years that the dopey fecker would realize that the bloody dog isn't there ffs!!

sorry bix I don't think there is any evidence for ghosts in your little story as nice as it is.

my sisters cat could often be seen to walk across the fields and sit waiting at the back door of her house a little time before her husband arrived home.
I think the cat was clever enough to recognise the sound of the cars engine from other cars as he came home on the country roads with sparse traffic.

there is a million dollars on offer for anyone who can prove anything paranormal, ghosts, ufos, esp, bending spoons with your mind...

anything of that nature, the money has been sitting in a bank waiting to be claimed for over 30 years.

now that's all you need to know, the money has been there and waiting to be claimed and people like money
who could deny that?

so the question you should be asking yourself is not `do ghosts exist`
but `why do people believe in ghosts, why do people believe in ufos, why do people believe that it is possible to bend spoons with your mind

when there is not a single piece of evidence to support the belief.
how do we know there is no evidence?

the million pounds.

you see people have seen uri geller bend spoons with his mind...

that is not evidence, if it was geller would have pocketed the million pounds
the million pounds is still there, that is evidence.

are there ghosts?... I ask only that you show me the money

James Randi's million dollar challenge was withdrawn by the Foundation in 2015. If you look at the terms and conditions imposed on applicants you will see why no-one could win the money. James Randi himself said " the money will never be won as I always have an out".
He could choose who'se challenge he took up and impose whatever criteria of proof he alone decided including the right to change the requirements at any time during the test. Applicants had to sign away all legal rights to any of the proceedings including the right to legal action and/or publicity if it was shown that Randi had been less than truthful or reasonable himself. The rules and requirements of the test were only imposed after applicants had signed away all control and rights.
If James Randi wanted to proove that you couldn't jump in the air he would simply impose the rule that required you to jump 100ft. as evidence. If you couldn't do it you failed his test of proof and remember you've signed away your right to publicise your side of things.

well that's ok, why did someone not sit the test and then report to the world how Randi didn`t pay up?

you see Rhandi set the test hoping that someone would pass the test, not fail.

well that's ok, why did someone not sit the test and then report to the world how Randi didn`t pay up?

Because you had signed away the rights to do that. But his requirement of "proof" meant that most people didn't bother taking it any further anyway.

no no one signed away the rights to sit the test?
the aim of the test was to find someone who could sit the test show and prove they had any form of paranormal ability
now if you think the test was unfair, how was it unfair ?
the money was there waiting to be claimed under scientific scrutiny

If you believe there was something unfair in that in what way was the test unfair ?

the onus is on those saying that the test was unfair to say why it was unfair, did they sit the test and report back that Rhandi had **** the test., and in what way
unless they can do that I don't believe that the test was **** ....because there is no evidence that the test was ****
that is how you cut through the nonsense of the fake mystics and spoon benders

so here is the question bix,
in what way was the test unfair
how was it ****
why would it be ****
do you not think Rhandi would be as delighted as anyone to find
that someone had paranormal powers
does your belief that Rhandi set up a fake test hoping that no one would sit the
test and make it know that it was fake and Rhandi was trying to cover up psychic powers

now would that make sense to any sensible and thoughtful person?

I don't know.

if I had the money ifc id pay for you to stay overnight at bobby mackies bar in Kentucky on your own of course,then see if you still think there are no such things as ghosts or demons

well terry if you offer me a million dollars if I can come back with proof of ghosts ? then yes I will do it.

I wouldn't stay there for a million

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The spookiest place i've ever visited (and there's been plenty) was Beaumaris Gaol... I went there in my 20's and never went back. That place is full of evil chit and it's badness personified.

Care to expand?

Hard to understand really unless you were there.

On entrance i got a cold shiver (it was August hadn't even got to the cells). Walked past a door and got the horribleist feeling, like someone had just told me my Da had died. A total and complete emptiness. Walked a few more yards and there was a window, looked outside and there was like the top of a gallows; looked like it was attached to something outside that same door.

Walked into some rooms, warders and such, and i felt there was eyes on me from every corner and ceiling. Another massive cold shiver. Then someone whispered "Billy" to me. walked out trying to look brave and said to the girl i was with "come in here" She felt nothing and walked out with me. Further along ye get to the cells some downstairs. The smell was horrendous; i nearly puked. Got into one cell after ducking about 3 feet and i heard singing, sounded like kids but not sure; said to Joanne, the bint, "Can ye hear that" "What ya cóck stirring" she says (nice girl) i says seriously, to which i got called a boring bastard (nice girl) and off she pops. Then i get's "Billy" again, but this time louder and then a scream. Ran outside to see if it was someone out there and not a murmur. That was it for me went and found the bint who was in some womans room and said "I'm off". Went outside still feeling eyes on me and cold as feck. Went into a chippy i found and left the bint (nice lad me) I was still cold hours later. An awful feeling stayed with me for a while.

These things happen, g2d, I don't know why. Maybe, as you said before, you have to be chosen. I learned not to be scared of it. You cannot be harmed.

That reply was shorter than intended. I forgot to say that it was a very interesting story. Does the place have a history of this?

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