Do you believe in ghosts?

Tinky · 05-09-2006, 10:22

We had the Mother-in-law come to stay for a few days, she slept in the spare bedroom. In the morning she said that she had woken in the middle of the night and saw a little girl standing by the bed, when the girl was asked who she was, she disappeared. Needless to say that's one bedroom I won't be sleeping in. My Grandmother's house had some very strange and unexplained happenings there too, like lights being switched back on after we had left a room, and the sound of someone with a walking stick, wearing slippers, shuffling through the lobby.

Anyone else had similar experiences?

bopdude · 05-09-2006, 12:56

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Originally Posted by Tinky

We had the Mother-in-law come to stay for a few days, she slept in the spare bedroom. In the morning she said that she had woken in the middle of the night and saw a little girl standing by the bed, when the girl was asked who she was, she disappeared. Needless to say that's one bedroom I won't be sleeping in. My Grandmother's house had some very strange and unexplained happenings there too, like lights being switched back on after we had left a room, and the sound of someone with a walking stick, wearing slippers, shuffling through the lobby.

Anyone else had similar experiences?

Quiet a few have, try the search feature.... here's one thread to start with

Jules · 05-09-2006, 12:56

Yes I believe

dilligaf1701 · 05-09-2006, 13:01

No I don't believe in ghosts and yes I've had a similar experience.

TheBlueRaja · 05-09-2006, 13:13

I woke up as a kid once after watching gremlins on the telly during the night to find a gremlin in the room sitting on a small silver bucket which then proceded to turn round and look at me before dissapearing.

Moral of the story - dont watch Gremlins before bedtime. Oh - and ghosts dont exist - its just your mind playing tricks on you.

Steve H · 05-09-2006, 13:25

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Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

I woke up as a kid once after watching gremlins on the telly during the night to find a gremlin in the room sitting on a small silver bucket which then proceded to turn round and look at me before dissapearing.

Moral of the story - dont watch Gremlins before bedtime. Oh - and ghosts dont exist - its just your mind playing tricks on you.

Woo! I've finally found someone who knows the meaning of life... care to explain it to me?

Don't write something off just because you can't contemplate it.

**Russ** · 05-09-2006, 13:31

We did an outside broadcast from a reputedly haunted castle 2 years ago and the show's psychic was there to try and "make contact". I was uncomfortable with the goings-on so when I wasn't needed I stuck to the other side of the hall where we were placed. Looking out of the bay windows I saw a woman staring at me with a really sad face - she looked extremely upset.

Feeling a bit surprised at why a stranger would be looking at me like that, I stared back at her - and she disappeared. One moment she was about 10 feet away from me, the next she was gone. My jeans took on a slightly darker colour at the back as I ran back to the others, I spoke to to the psychic to tell her what I saw. She asked "was the woman dressed in all white with long straight hair?" I said he was and asked how she knew.

"Because she's standing next to you".

Talk about 'squeeky bum time'.

TheBlueRaja · 05-09-2006, 13:35

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Originally Posted by Steve H

Woo! I've finally found someone who knows the meaning of life... care to explain it to me?

Yes - your going mentally insane.

**Hugh** · 05-09-2006, 13:59

I don't believe in ghosts - I put my faith in spirits (single malts, cognac, calvados, mmmmmmm, yummy!)

budwieser · 05-09-2006, 22:09

I believe in Ghosts. I know.

**Stuart** · 05-09-2006, 22:56

We used to have a shop in the New Covent Carden market (note: the one in Wandsworth, not near the Strand). The shop was inside one of the market buildings, and had windows all along one side and along the front. My dad was just walking past, ready to open up. He saw a young soldier, in an old Uniform, standing insde the shop, facing the cash register.

Thinking someone had broken in (obviously in fancy dress), he unlocked the door, ran in, looked around and saw nothing.

Then, the alarm went off. Dad was furious. Not only did he have to explain to Market Security why he had set the alarm off, but he had to pay a ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£50 call out fee to the alarm company to get them to send an engineer out to reset the alarm (this was years before alarms that had pin numbers).

As it turned out, up until the sixties, when the New Covent Garden Market was built, it was a railway yard, and soldiers who died in one of the wars (the second, IIRC) were buried near there.

05-09-2006, 23:07

I believe, i've seen and I've felt things.

I've been hounded and terrified and I have felt completely relaxed.

I felt good and I've felt very very bad.
Am I special? nah, but I do have psychics in the family.

**Damien** · 05-09-2006, 23:12

I think its the mind playing a number of tricks. Its sounds unlikely but the mind is VERY powerful. When you consider your mind processes information before you know it then its also very likely. Ghosts never interact with the world nor can more than one person see one at once, both of which suggest its the mind.

05-09-2006, 23:16

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I think its the mind playing a number of tricks. Its sounds unlikely but the mind is VERY powerful. When you consider your mind processes information before you know it then its also very likely.

yeah I used to think the same too, but how can the mind play tricks on facts that can be verified and happened before your life began? In a building you have never been in before and did not know was haunted?

**Damien** · 05-09-2006, 23:59

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yeah I used to think the same too, but how can the mind play tricks on facts that can be verified and happened before your life began? In a building you have never been in before and did not know was haunted?

Not to sure what you mean, but on the topic of 'facts that can be verified' then it is very likely that you already knew these facts? Your brain colllects information passively. People who are trained can get you to recall many odd, bizarre information you never knew that you knew.

So you see, hear, read information and then your mind plays it out in front of you.