Have you ever seen a Ghost

@GoldenAge:
"Given that I have her ashes right by me and know 'she' can't possibly exist in another form, I find the notion of 'ghost' seeing hard to grasp."

Surely it would be unscientific for someone - whether because they haven't had any paranormal experiences themselves, or because they don't have a scientific explanation - to dismiss all the millions of unexplained experiences that people have had over many centuries?

What evidence do you have that someone "can't possibly exist in another form"?

I can still see a couple of my cats just out the corner of my eye walking across the room. When my DS was a baby he would chatter to someone & laugh. We could not see who he was talking too. Then as he grew a bit he would sit on the stairs & talk to ‘his man’! This went on till a friend of ours wanted to know who he was talking to & picked a lot of photos out & sat looking at them with DS. Without any prompting DS picked up a photo, laughed & said thats my man! It was my DF who had passed away 2-3 years before! Our friend said it was obvious to him who it had been but just wanted DS to confirm it! I can still smell the smoke from DF roll up cigarettes he used to smoke. A blend of tobacco no longer available. This happens when I am stressed over something. Always helps calm me as I am sure there must be something better after this horrible life now!

My sister was born in 1946, in the 'front parlour.' No phones, then, to inform her mum, who lived some distance away and was very healthy.
Mum was lying in bed when she saw her mother walk in, cross the room, and look at her new granddaughter in her cot. She then walked out of the room.
The following day my uncle arrived at the front door. My mum at once said, "Mum's dead, isn't she." It turned out that she had died around the time that my mum had had the visit.
My mother was the most down-to-earth person, but she never stopped believing that her mother had come to see the baby before she left this earth.

I have had several experiences, but there are 3 that really stand out from the rest. The first one, I was 19 and I dreamt that I was on my way to work when a car came tearing round the corner at a busy junction that I had to cross and ploughed into me, it really shook me up, for months afterwards I would hesitate before crossing when I reached that junction, then one day I overslept and feared that I would be late for work, when I reached that junction, I was just about to step onto the road to cross it when I heard someone shout my name from behind me, I turned but I couldn't see anyone so I turned back towards the road ready to cross, again I heard someone call my name, but nobody there, then it happened a third time, as I turned back towards the road after the third time, a car, exactly like the one in my dream months earlier, came tearing round the corner, someone was definitely looking after me that day.
The second one, I was 22, I had gone to bed early as I wasn't feeling well, then at 10pm i was jolted awake, and according to my Boyfriend, I sat bolt upright in bed staring at the bottom of the bed, he then asked me what was wrong, I told him that I had just seen my Grandad standing at the bottom of the bed, and that he had said "I've just come to say Goodbye", and then he had vanished, my Grandad lived over 300 miles away, my Boyfriend told me not to worry about it, and that it must have just been a very vivid dream, 2 days later, my Cousin knocked on my door, and before he could say anything I said "Grandad's dead isn't he?", he then confirmed that my Grandad had died at the exact moment that I had seen him standing at the bottom of my bed, my Boyfriend was so freaked out by this that he dumped me for "Being a Witch".
And the third one is closely related to the last one, after finding out that my Grandad had died I travelled the 300 miles so that I could attend his Funeral, and was staying at my Mother's house, on the morning of the Funeral, my 6 year old Nephew, who thought that he was simply "Visiting Grandma" and didn't know that my Grandad had died, came down the stairs, picked up the Newspaper that my Mother always had delivered, and started to head back upstairs, my Mother asked him "Where are you going with that Newspaper?", he said "Grandad wants it", my Mother said "But Grandad's not here", my Dad worked abroad and hadn't been able to make it home in time for the Funeral, my Nephew then said "Not big Grandad, little Grandad", (my Nephew always called my Grandad "little Grandad"), my Mother then asked "Where is little Grandad?" and my Nephew said "He's sitting on the end of your bed and he asked me to bring him the Newspaper".

Has anyone been listening to Uncanny on Radio4? Saturday nights 11:30
You can catch up with it on Sounds
It's really interesting, and people who say they are sceptics have changed their minds.

Yes I guess I have
I’d just taken my two children to school the youngest my daughter had just started ..
On returning home I walked up the hall, and for a split second I thought I saw my daughter leaning from the top of the stairs I was about to shout don’t lean like that and I realised she was in school, there was no one there, dismissing as my imagination I thought no more about it, until talking one day to my elderly neighbours and they mentioned years and years before a little five year old girl that fell down our stairs and died,
my daughter used to say a little girl used to sit on her bed too, other things started happening and we moved away,..
my daughter is 50 now and still remembers the little girl that used to sit on her bed but she was never frightened by her ..

The logical part of my thinking says no, but ive had many other wordly experiences that make me say yes.If you read anything on near death experiences, then it is hard to say no.
There is a noetic science which is researching the area.
There are more things horatio......

My sister and I went for a few days to Guernsey and went to see the German Occupation Museum there . We parked our hire car in the nearly empty museum car park , as far away as possible from a huge grey vicious looking dog chained to a post , by a bungalow next to it . When we got out of the car , we were petrified as am sure it would have attacked us if it could . The curator looked worried when we asked about the vicious looking dog on a chain and went to check , saying on return there was no dog there . But we felt sure he had heard this before . The Germans did use large dogs I believe . When we went to the car - no dog , chain or post for it to be chained to . People laugh at us when we say we saw a ghost dog -but-we did see it !

Yes was driving out of a town on a dark night No street lights and a black cat crossed the road Also one early morning trip to the airport saw on the verge a super fast plane :UFO as it disappeared in seconds

Cymres, had forgotten till you mentioned a hospital haunting. I worked in Cardiff Royal Infirmary during my training, there was a corridor there, called Quality Street for some reason, which was said to be haunted by women in old-fashioned garb who were visible from the knees up only. Apparently the level of the floor had been altered at some point, and they were walking on the original level. I didn't see them myself, however.

My younger brother used to get up every night, saying that 'the lady' had woken him. we just thought he was dreaming or sleepwalking. Until, for some reason I slept in that room (we had visitors and they slept in my room, and I slept in my brother's (I can't remember where he slept)
Anyway, I was sleeping when a woman's voice said sharply
"It's time you were up!" and I woke up about 5 in the morning.
We were living in a flat on the top floor of a large house - turns out that was the servants' quarters
No one slept in that room again. I got married soon after and my brother got my roob

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Merylstreep. My 4year old granddaughter maintains that she’s been here before as well. She’s told my daughter the names of her ‘former’ mother and father, who both died, apparently, as well as her brothers and sisters. She even tells my daughter what jobs they did! When my daughter asked her what nationality they were as they didn’t sound English she said ‘No, because we are from Transylvania’! She also told my daughter that she was a twin, my daughter was originally pregnant with twins but the other baby died during the pregnancy. This had never been mentioned in front of my granddaughter.

My very down to earth friend moved into an old house that I knew well; having dated the previous owner’s son for two years. One day she described a man she had seen in her kitchen, the way he was dressed, his hair, moustache, shape of nose and even that one lens of his glasses seemed to be opaque. I realised she had just described my ex’s father, dead for some years. Her brother, having spent the night in a spare room, asked if she had come in and held his hand during the night. She laughed and said “don’t be ridiculous” to which he replied “well, someone did”.
When they eventually moved their son, on entering their new home, sighed and said “phew, no ghosts”.

Since I am a Spiritualist Medium I have had some experience of seeing Spirit but more of communication with the Spirit world. We are all Spirit having a human experience. If anyone wants to make sense of an experience please contact your local Spiritualist Church.

After my Dad died I saw him at the end of my bed and he turned and walked to the side through, what is my ensuite doorway and up some stairs. I remember asking him to stay. Another time I felt someone sit on my bed to the side of me and was stroking my hair. I was too shocked to move but that was also not long after my Dad had died. I have also seen a cat sitting on the landing, so lifelike that I bent to touch it. There was nothing there.

More than 50 years ago we were newly wed, impoverished and seeking accommodation in the East End of London where we were both working
We were offered a 3 bedroom flat at £5.00 a week, less than half the price of any other property to let. One oddity was that it was a '3' bed flat but one of the bedrooms was locked permanently and no key was offered. We only needed 2 bedrooms so made no further enquiries
My mother came to stay and manoeuvred a solid wood wardrobe in front of the bedroom door to protect herself from someone who was trying to enter the room as she told us the following day. We did not pay too much attention.
A friend who had just cnverted to Catholicism came to stay in the same bedroom She left in the early morning having left a note on our kitchen table
''2.20 am I can stay here no longer and am going home I cannot explain what is happening but as a Catholic I cannot believe what I am experiencing''
She never would talk about it either
I learned later that a previous occupant of the flat had been a pilot who was so scared by the happenings that he left immediately and persuaded the landlady ( a deputy head of a prominent school) to keep the door locked
Yes, both my husband and I experienced odd events/ sights there and were relieved when he joined the army and was posted abroad almost immediately

Whatever/whoever it was manifested itself in different properties in different ways to different people and dogs, too I am still sceptical but later 3 people , unknown to each other, experienced such different but inter-related events here that I really must reserve my judgement
By the way, both husband and myself are university qualified scientists so do try to impose a rigorous attitude to what we have experienced

Sara1954

We lived in a house once, where we could hear children running from room to room upstairs, we all heard it regularly, and our own little ones were fast asleep in bed.

Yes had the same Your message reminded me and
I forgot to mention that in my message little while ago .

We could hear children running upstairs and thought it was my two out of bed, try as we might we couldn’t catch them out of bed, was back in the 1970s and we never had central heating
One night after a long spell of this feet running my Dad went running up the stairs checking my two both were not puffing and their feet were warm even the comics we had planted on
Their beds were still in place ..

A Ghost...I'm not sure...
When I first split up with My Husband and moved into My flat I woke up one night and saw a Pirate at the bottom of My bed standing side on..looking at Me I closed My eyes and counted to ten opened them and he had gone....
Another time shortly after I woke up with an Ekderly lady bending over Me and Smiling...

In the 1950's, my mother had called the doctor out for her (first) husband who was in bed, unwell. When the Dr came he went upstairs to see him and she stayed downstairs with her young children. After a while she felt her husband's arms round her giving her a warm hug from behind. Relieved that he was feeling better she leaned back into him and was about to speak when the doctor shouted down urgently to go and phone for an ambulance. Her husband had stopped breathing and tragically died.
My mother eventually married again and I was born, and she never told anybody, for fear of ridicule or upsetting them, until near the end of her life when she told me.
She wasn't a fanciful person and I believed her, but often think about what it physically was that she actually felt that sad day, or did she long for it so much that she imagined it had happened in her grief and shock.
Interesting to hear similar stories of loved ones saying goodbye too.

I was very close to my dad and was devastated when he died especially as he had early onset alzheimers and walked past me in the street one day. A few months after he died I kept smelling cigarette smoke in the house. It used to drive me mad as I didn't smoke and I'd walk outside and look to see if there was anyone near my windows that was smoking. It suddenly dawned on me that I only smelt it when I was sad or unhappy and I always felt better afterwards. I'm pretty sure it was my dad just checking up on me. My mother died six years ago and he's never been around since. I still miss him and his cigarette smoke.

I find all this totally fascinating. I guess we will never know for sure, well not in this life.

I’ve never seen a ghost, as far as I know but lots of unexplained things have happened to me. All will be poo po’pood by some readers so won’t bother but one thing happened to a colleague and I have no reason to disbelieve her. She was a very intelligent, well adjusted individual.

She moved into a house with her husband, 3 year old son and baby daughter. For some reason she hated the house. Couldn’t explain it but “felt” uncomfortable especially in the bathroom. After a short period of time she decided to move. She never discussed this with anyone at all, least her children as she felt it was her own stupid imagination. A couple years later they were driving past their old house and it was up for sale. Son (now 6) was in back seat and he suddenly pipes up “I don’t like the man who used to come into the bathroom”. Friend says “what do you mean?” He said this old man came and then he went downstairs and walked through the (child) stair gate “without opening it mummy”

Well you can imagine my friend’s thoughts then.

She didn’t know anything about the house when she bought it but after making some enquiries she discovered that one of the previous occupiers had been found dead in the bathroom. Kind of spooked her. (And hairs in my arms stood up)

Now I don’t believe ALL houses where people die are haunted. My own father died in his kitchen and my mum recently died in her own bed at same house. I never felt their presence there afterwards. But you can’t dismiss everything as imagination.

As I said we just never know.

Never seen one but do believe that they exist even though I think that many so called sightings can be explained quite simply. IMO too many occurances for there not to be any truth in them.

As a child I lived in South Africa, near Pretoria. My parents had a lovely house built in a village called Irene. We lived there for several years. But quite often when we were downstairs we could hear children running overhead. Nobody there of course.

Over the road was a long derelict building. Apparently it was an old hospital which had been built to treat people injured in the Boer War. My brother once looked through the window and saw a lady in a long white nurse's uniform walking towards him. He rushed home petrified and never went there again.

I have never seen a ghost but believe people come back to tell you things or to try to make things right about 10 years ago I was holidaying in Florida to find myself in half sleep hearing my Nan telling me my aunt had died but everything was going to be ok. As I was holidaying with my parents I told my dad I had had a sort of dream about my Nan { I didn’t actually see her but smelt her} he said phone my cousin to check before telling my mum but it was true