True Ghost Stories #2

[amysiobhan84]

watched the paranormal: series in one go last night (BBC iplayer) one. what was everyone's thoughts? the scientific background of the people living in the house was interesting...I felt like the presenter maybe didn't believe after interviewing the woman but didn't want to say?

 

[Butterfly88]

Back in the early 90's, through work, I had to go to Friern Hospital in Colney Hatch, London. It was a an old Victorian Asylum and had previously been known as Conley hatch Lunatic Asylum. I went there a few times when it was operation and I always found it a creepy place. It has the longest corridor in Europe.

Anyway, the place closed in 1993 and stood empty awaiting development. I was called there because there was some structural issues and I was to meet a colleague there and the security man. It was one of those early winters evening at about 4.30 so getting dark. I got there and couldn't see anyone but the main door was open. I went inside and started walking through looking for the security guy. I walked through a couple of corridors and past some offices .I didn't get very far when I was just so overcome with an urge to get out that I literally ran back outside. A really weird sense of forbodding came over me. I didn't see anything but It was just so creeped out I literally ran back to my car. It just felt very dark inside there.

The main building is still there and it was turned into luxury apartments that had various celebs live in them from time to time but I would never in a million years have bought one. the residual energy in that building must be off the scale.

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I think my friend may have lived in one of the newer apartments near here as I remember her telling me about the site being an old asylum! Very creepy

 

[allyouneedislove]

I always look at the clock at 12:34 x

 

[emmer_moans]

I would try unplugging it and then hope it doesn't do it again!

 

[Ally Pally]

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Some really good reviews and free with kindle unlimited too. Thank you.

 

[PopTarte]

Has anyone got any stories?! I love this thread.

 

[MillionDollarBaby]

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Your name and postcode is visible hun x

 

[katz2022]

I wish they’d spoken about if anyone else in her family had seen the ghost. Unless I missed it

 

[PrincessCharming]

Every time I've done the Ouija board it's been one we've made ourselves and a glass. We used to use Kan U Go cards at school plus a bit of paper with 'yes' on and another one with 'no'; the other times we just cut up bits of paper and wrote the alphabet, and yes and no on them.

When I was at school my friends and I used to do this.

I don’t remember much about it but we’d get one of us, say Tracey, not to touch the glass and ask questions like “what is Tracey’s gran’s middle name” stuff the rest of us wouldn’t know…and the answers were always right.

 

[airier.kiddish]

All of the above really! It’s a very intuitive practice so you’ll find that the cards speak to you on a spiritual level, whether you’re looking for advice or predicting what might happen if you make a certain decision. You can definitely learn from YouTube, websites or books - ‘Tarot for Dummies’ (excuse the name ) is really good and easy to follow for beginners if you’d prefer to learn from a book. I’ve never found it frightening personally but it does have the potential to warn you about certain things that might happen. Often times it might just confirm what you already know or suspect.

Also a book called Fearless Tarot by Elliot Adam is brilliant. Gives you all the tarot meanings for upright or reversed but from a positive perspective.

 

[Jellybean093]

Ooooh thanks I’ll have a look back through the last thread x

My daughter used to say she saw the hat man (well, a man in a hat) but she was a toddler, and unsure if it was connected to sleep paralysis

 

[Lorny]

I'm enjoying this book atm it's true ghost stories if anyone's looking for something to read

Ohh thanks for the recommendation. It’s free on kindle unlimited if anyone has it, I’ve just downloaded it.

 

[Eirawen]

I always thought that black cats were considered lucky in Britain but unlucky in the States.

 

[PrincessCharming]

The dropped glove one, I’ve heard more than once while handing one over to its owner who dropped it “there’ll be more between us”…and thought that must be part of the superstition.

 

[Clickbait]

Did anyone watch Uncanny last night at 9pm on BBC2? It was quite good, and they were investigating a ghost known as Miss Howard? It's a 3 part series, and next week's episode is about a poltergeist. I believe last night's episode is now on iPlayer.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just watched it and really enjoyed it. I couldn’t quite work out how the Phillip Experiment fitted with this case, it felt they were shoehorning in a theory that didn’t quite fit. I’m looking forward to the next one.

 

[nichew]

I really enjoyed this I read it in a day!
I'd love to know what happens going forward.

glad you enjoyed it. Have you looked the book up on FB, people have been asking for a follow up, he’s not long since had a baby. And I’ve seen he’s had events with Adrian Finney (author of Strange Sheffield)

 

[BashmentLady]

Off we went - it’s called Santuario di San Bernardino alle Ossa if anyone else is interested - and it has a room where thousands of human bones have been stacked up and skulls organised into crosses etc.

I have a photo where I'm absolutely beaming through my face mask as I was there during the panny d! Have you been to the Capuchin crypts in Rome? Or the catacombs in Paris?

We visited a city in Ireland seeped in history over the summer and went to a museum.

Where is this?

 

[#botsforlife]

Are sleep paralysis apparitions “real” then? I’ve always read that they are just the result of whatever is happening to your brain in that state but tbh, I’ve always wondered if, in that half awake/half asleep state, you’re not just more susceptible to seeing the spirit world.

No I don’t think they are real. I just googled and there’s lots of people out there saying they’ve seen the hat man!

 

[candyland_]

My old house felt like that! Honestly thought I was going mad until others would mention it x

I had some family admit that they felt it too once I had moved out

 

[candyland_]

Any more stories?