House Ghost?

DN lived in a very old converted farm building and he said there was definitely a presence there. The cat was aware of it, and when someone came to stay with a large dog, the dog was completely spooked, staring, growling and with his hair standing up; afterwards the dog refused to enter that room.

When my DS was about 3 years old he used to talk about the 'big man' that was in his bedroom at night, who sometimes used to tuck him in. He described him, which sounded like my Father who had died some years before DS was born. There were no photographs of my father in the house, so he wouldn't have known what he looked like. My DS wasn't afraid and would talk about the man quite frequently, until it was forgotten. Now when I remind him it scares him to death!

We lived in a very old farmhouse in Portugal for a while, it still had the animal stalls in the centre area of the house, on the right side of the house were two bedrooms and a large hall; X and I had one room DD then 10 the other. After 2 nights X was out of the room sleeping on the sofa in the other end of the building, kept asking me why I could'nt see the old man sitting on the bottom of the bed, he was white and shaking, He doesn't drink alchohol at all, so we couldn't blame it on too much to drink, and we even had to move his clothes out of the room. DD and I had no problems but her cat who had always slept at the bottom of her bed would not walk through the area at all, we had to open her bedroom window and he jumped from the sill to the bed.then she would carry him out in the morning. The building dated from the 14th centuary so i suppose there have been a lot of deaths there. X's Grandmother was known to be Fey, but I am afraid it just never affected me.

No, it has wandered off-piste as usual!

DD2's friend's house has a ghost, and her mother has seen her. She is a caring, friendly ghost who appears when there is a new baby in the house.

I might add that DD2's friend's mother is a sensible and down-to-earth person.

Magic is not what this thread was originally about though, was it?

Magic is anything that we can't explain at that given moment. I wonder what someone from the middle ages would make of mobile phones, TV, antibiotics, electric light and all the other things that we take for granted. And stage magicians like Uri Geller have some very clever tricks.

James Randi published The Magic of Uri Geller in the early eighties - it's now titled The Truth About Uri Geller and is a complete exposé.

Neither do I, but I don't think it was Yuri Geller's remote psychokinetic abilities. Someone wrote a book called "Gellerism revealed" which is decribed and reviewed at www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=56935&forum=110

There is also an article in Wikipedia. www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=56935&forum=110

I still don't know what happened to the front door key!

I also remember someone demonstrating just how Uri Geller did it, too, rosequartz, so some things are explainable prosaically. UG made a good living out of "spoonbending"

I remember Uri Geller demonstrating his spoon bending on the TV.
The next morning I asked DS what he had done to his Yale front door key which was lying on his bedside table. He replied 'nothing, why?' The top third had bent right over.

Children do seem to see things that we can't and so do dogs.

I find these stories fascinating. There is a lot we don't understand. I believe that people's lives / emotions especially if they are in any way intense somehow become part of the fabric of the house and some people are sensitive to these. Children I think may be born with the ability to sense things as they have not learned to be distracted and can focus perhaps more easily on feelings and emotions.

We have had a cat ghost! After DD's cat had a stroke she lived in our spare room till she died. Since then DH ( who I have previously mentioned has no belief in the supernatural) has several times felt a cat walking over his face when he has been sleeping there.

At my last house there definitely seemed to be 'something' inexplicable. Sometimes my cat would sit on the back of our sofa and just stare at the top of the door for ages and ages and could not be distracted even if we flapped our hands in front of her face. Sometimes she would make her teeth chatter at whatever it was that she saw, but not every time. After she died, it was two years before I had another cat. She did exactly the same thing in exactly the same place . . . It was actually quite freaky to watch.

The other thing, in the same house, I would frequently be aware of someone else in the kitchen and would turn to speak to them thinking it was my OH or whoever else was in at the time, only to find there was no-one there. My Sister iL, without my ever having mentioned anything about this, told me that she often turned to speak to me in the kitchen, but I wasn't there. Whatever/whoever it was seemed benign, I never felt afraid. The house wasn't old and, as far as I know, had no history of anything spooky.

I'm very open-minded and just feel that there's so much we still don't know about our world.

As children when we used to go out riding there was one particular country lane where all the ponies used to spook at a certain spot. We never did figure out what caused it but we found out later the lane used to be called Gallows Hill.

I know what you mean Flower as our DGS used to do that a lot, also have you noticed how sometimes cats stop washing and stare intently at something?Always a bit disturbing.Do dogs do that as well, I wonder? I know that my Uncle's dog would never go past a certain house on a walk and would growl [there was no other dog at that address.]Spooky stuff.

My little DGD (9 nine months) spends an awful lot of time staring into the corner of the living room ceiling and laughing, burbling and squealing with delight. We all look up but nothing to be seen at all.

I absolutely love exclamation marks!
I know some don't approve of them, but I think they give emphasis to a sentence or point where appropriate - the exclamation mark police are a dour bunch IMO!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's ok they are free, just never seen so many.

So?

Galen that's a lot of exclamation marks.

It felt real. Comforting and nice!

My house is reputed to be haunted by someone who hanged themselves in the eighteen hundreds!
I've never seen or experienced any thing!
The only strange experience I've had was a week after my husband died!
I was in bed and I felt his warm comforting hand on my shoulder!
It felt read during and nice!
I wasn't asleep, drunk, or sedated!
I still can't explain it. I am NOT superstitious or credulous! That was almost eleven years ago!

rockgran this sort of thing you mention reinforces my belief that that the person is not really there [or ghost] and we are just seeing what is more or less a photograph. A ghost doesn't need to use a handrail coming down the stairs.Whatever it was, I would want to move house too!