Have you ever seen a Ghost

I feel the same Pammiel he always said he would not want to live alone, that's why I say aswell that they are lucky because they never had to live alone. It is quite brutal and for some reason it makes me feel like a looser. I wish I knew whyy

Pammie1

Msida

These stories are so interesting

In a way I think our departed husbands are lucky,, up in Heaven or hopefully on the way and we still here struggling being alone and trying to cope

I hope my late husband is up there safe and sound. I wouldn’t wish what I went through after he died on anyone, let alone him.

??Pammie1

Msida

These stories are so interesting

In a way I think our departed husbands are lucky,, up in Heaven or hopefully on the way and we still here struggling being alone and trying to cope

I hope my late husband is up there safe and sound. I wouldn’t wish what I went through after he died on anyone, let alone him.

These stories are so interesting

In a way I think our departed husbands are lucky,, up in Heaven or hopefully on the way and we still here struggling being alone and trying to cope

AGAA4 that is such a lovely lovely story ?

You'd have been locked up in a ghastly asylum Witzend and probably burnt at the stake for such devilish ideas not much further back but see how quickly technology developed in 100 years, who knows, in another 100 years maybe someone will prove that there is an afterlife and it becomes normal to talk to our loved ones in their dimension, now wouldn't that be a wonderous thing?

Sassanach512

I agree Msida there is so much we don't understand and can't explain yet and like Nanee49 said, electricity was always there and just needed someone to discover it. People shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as rubbish when so many have had experiences. One thing is certain, we'll all find out if it's true one way or another when our time comes

Can you imagine, say 100 years ago, if anyone had said that in less than 100 years you’d be able to buy a small device called a Kindle, smaller than a small book, where you could touch a little button, and within seconds an entire book of your choosing would have whizzed through the air into that device, for you to read? And that you’d be able to store umpteen books on that device, to read whenever you wanted?
How many of us would have believed that, even 50 years ago?
I’m not sure I would!

Msida
It doesn’t hurt me, and I’m sure many others because we are 100% sure of what we saw.

AGAA4

There is still a lot we don't understand and too many people have strange experiences that can't be explained.
On my birthday 8 months after DH had died I was woken with a kiss and his voice saying " Happy Birthday Darling". Maybe it was just imagination but it felt very real.

How lovely ?

We booked into a B&B, an old house set in the woods of a deep mountain valley in Piedmont. My daughter had the room next to us, which contained a very old and large double-doored wardrobe whose doors were very difficult to open and close. That night we had to hammer them shut with our fists.
Next morning, I peeped into my daughter's bedroom to tell her to get up and noticed both cupboard doors wide open. Thought it strange but went back to our room without commenting. Two minutes later we heard my daughter screaming. She too had just seen the open wardrobe and was terrified. She then told us that during the night she had heard hammering and scratching, thought it was the B&B owners doing stuff outside her window; yelled at them from her window to be quiet and jumped back into bed. Now
she was convinced the noises she had heard were, in fact, somebody trying to get out of the wardrobe and succeeding.
We then discovered that this old house was set by a railway line and was where Jews had been imprisoned overnight before boarding the train that would take them to Germany.

I agree Msida there is so much we don't understand and can't explain yet and like Nanee49 said, electricity was always there and just needed someone to discover it. People shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as rubbish when so many have had experiences. One thing is certain, we'll all find out if it's true one way or another when our time comes

This is an amazing thread apart from were people are calling it a load of rubbish

It's fine if you don't believe

But its hurtful calling it a load of rubbish

There is still a lot we don't understand and too many people have strange experiences that can't be explained.
On my birthday 8 months after DH had died I was woken with a kiss and his voice saying " Happy Birthday Darling". Maybe it was just imagination but it felt very real.

No but a plumber who had to go into our cellar told me he'd seen a ghost down there. I casually said "oh, that'll have been Willie McG" (someone who lived here long ago) then saw that the plumber's face was dead white!!!!

Oops!

In our previous house the ghost lived in the loft and he was called Henry. We never saw him.

After my exH and I had split up. I was alone in my cottage and it was fairly isolated. I always felt very comfortable and safe there. There was a friendly atmosphere about the place. One night I was awoken round about 3am. I was wide awake, not dreaming. Petrified, I could hear two men talking to each other in fairly loud voices as they came up the stairs! I couldn’t investigate. Too scared. The house was locked up. I pulled the duvet over my head and waited…. and waited. Nothing.
In the morning after eventually falling asleep again, I checked the house over and nothing was amiss. Ghosts? I don’t know.

There’s something called ‘stone tape theory’ which tries to explain paranormal experiences. The theory is that traumatic events, unhappy atmospheres and strong personality traits from the past, are all stored in the fabric of the building where they took place. These events are then played back periodically, which is why we see what we perceive as ‘ghosts’. Similarly where other sensory experiences such as smelling perfume or tobacco, or sensing a presence, is down to the personality of the deceased person being imprinted on the building and manifesting to others from time to time. Another theory is that we live in a multiverse and all possible variations of our individual lives being played out. Occasionally the different planes interact, and as a result we see what we think are ghosts, but are actually fleeting scenes from the other dimensions.

Two of my colleagues have experience with the supernatural. First colleague – she lived in an old house. One day she woke up and saw a puddle of water on the floor but it was in the shape of a perfect circle - a sign of poltergeist.
On her last day at the house, she was standing at the open doorway and the doorbell rang when there was no one outside.

Second colleague works part time as a caretaker in a village school. Many years ago, a schoolgirl from that school was found murdered in nearby woods and the ghost of a young girl has been seen at the school.

My colleague had seen her, she said it was getting dark outside and the apparition was standing about 30 feet away from her.
A teacher who worked late one evening had also seen her . She made a big fuss about it, so the school had to do something. The local priest was invited. He, witnessed by the school representatives, carried out an exorcism session and it worked.

Not long after that, my colleague was talking to a lady who lived in a caretaker house next to the school and the lady said ‘The ghost has left the school but is now in my house!’

Not me personally, but I know people who have.

A nurse at a hospital where I used to work told me of an encounter she had. It was 0300 and she was going to a particular room to set up a couple of tube feeds. She saw someone enter the room ahead of her. When she reached the door, it was CLOSED. The person had walked through a closed door. She told me that other staff had reported being in the same room, hearing a noise, looking up and seeing a man reflected in the mirror, standing next to them, but when they turned to look there was no one there.

Another nurse colleague told me of an experience she had as a child. A woman came to the door and my colleague answered it. The woman asked for my colleague's mother and was informed she was out. The woman left. When my colleague told her mother of the incident and described the woman, her mother said, "That was your grandmother. She died years ago."

Hubby has also seen the ghost of our late cat, Gatsby, coming down the hall toward him.

I have had a few inexplicable occurrences which may or may not have been ghostly but I think it's wrong to dismiss these experiences as over-imagined rubbish.
There may well be energies, for want of a better word, that we don't have a clue about, much like electricity which was always there in nature but a complete unknown until Benjamin Franklin was credited with it's 'discovery'.
Maybe ghostly phenomena are like that, existing but waiting to be fully discovered and explained? Bit philosophical for a Monday morning

BlueBelle wrote:
"No because I don’t believe there is anything that isn’t in your own mind".

Same here BlueBelle. Some anecdotes about ghost experiences can be explained as hallucinations. But others seem to have no normal causes

Coastpath

I have another!

In the week after my mum died I was in her back bedroom, which she'd used as a study, looking for photos to use in the Order of Service at her funeral. The room suddenly filled with the smell of fresh cigarette smoke. Mum loved a cigarette so I found it very comforting. The window was closed and I was alone in the house, so I can't think of a reasonable explanation.

I didn't tell anyone about it for fear of spooking, or upsetting them. The next day I walked into the house to find my dad and brother sitting, looking very shocked. They had been sitting chatting about mum and suddenly the air had been filled with the cigarette smell!

I know some people are sceptical but when these things happen to you they seem so real - and when others experience the exact same thing it's so hard to just dismiss them, however much you want to.

I agree. I had never really had strong feelings one way or the other about an afterlife, but that experience after my husband passed away really made me think. I was so distressed that night, as the loss had started to really hit me, and suddenly there was such a calming presence. I can’t explain the movement of the bed, but I know it wasn’t imagination and it was no dream as I was fully awake and aware of the noise from the TV in the background. Maybe some would put it down to wishful thinking, but I can’t dismiss it that easily.

Yes a dog and I wasn't on my own in seeing it. I also saw someone before I knew they had died. Things may be in your own mind but there is something very powerful that happens when someone dies ime

We lived in an house that dated from around 1600, we had a very naughty ghost, there are so many stories I could tell.

I never saw our ghost but she often spoke, she was good at switching lights on and off but her party piece was hiding things!

On the day we left one of our removal men saw her,poor man was really shocked, he’d been telling her to keep out of the way as some heavy furniture was being lifted down the stairs and she just disappeared!

Some friends ( non believers) came to stay and only confessed recently that they had had an incident in the night!

I was sitting on my bed, singing to my new baby daughter, when my Granny's face and upper body appeared on the other side of the cot. She smiled and nodded and then faded away. It was a lovely experience.
My daughter and her husband and young family rented an old farmhouse for a couple of years. It was in the countryside next to what remained of a castle. Just part of one wall left standing.
My granddaughter was 5 at the time having just started school.
One early summer morning she awoke, got out of bed and looked out of the window. She saw a boy sitting cross legged on the lawn. He was wearing strange old fashioned clothes and was wearing a hat. Realising it was too early to be up She went back to bed.
Later that day she told her mum about the boy, but wondered if he was part of a dream.
My daughter related this tale to my son in law. He looked very surprised and told her that he too had seen that boy.
A tale is told in the locality of a boy sent out on an errand from the castle. Before he returned the castle was locked up for the night, nobody realising that he had not returned. In the morning when the castle door was opened the body of the boy was found sitting frozen to death on the doorstep.

After my lovely MiL died, too young, for a few days I had a very strong sense of her presence in our house - I could almost ‘see’ her sitting on the sofa.
I put it down entirely to my imagination, so when my father died only 6 months later, I fully expected to ‘sense’ the same, either in our house or in my mother’s.
But there was nothing. Zilch.