Thank you. I guess we're never really going to know for sure (for now anyway!). But safe to say, that's the first and last time. Staying well away from anything like that in future
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Would you mind saying where or who was this medium as I would be interested in seeing what they would say. If that is allowed of course
I have quite a few ghost/spirit/supernatural stories and experiences, some experienced by me directly and some by other family members:
- When my younger brother was a baby my mum's sister came over from abroad (my mum's family is from mainland Europe) to help for a week or so. The baby was sleeping upstairs with a baby monitor in the room and everyone else was downstairs, with some people in the kitchen, others in the living room etc. The baby monitor downstairs alerted the adults the baby upstairs was crying so my aunt went up the stairs to get him and as she walked up she saw a shadow of a person leave the bathroom and go into the baby's room and as soon as it went in the baby stopped crying. My aunt thought it was my mum who had gone in, but she continued to go up and when she entered the room no one was in there except the baby. Needless to say, her hair stood on end, she grabbed the baby and flew downstairs, finding my mum was down there who confirmed she didn't go up.
- In that same house a family friend stayed over not long after and she was sleeping one morning when she felt someone stroking her cheek. She opened her eyes and there was a Victorian-dressed boy standing in the room with a ball and he wanted her to play with him. Despite all this the family friend wasn't scared but I don't remember what she said about the experience ending. Obviously she didn't play with him but I don't know whether she just fell back asleep and he was gone when she woke up or whether he just vanished while she was looking at him. I could ask her the next time I see her.
- Back in my mum's country of origin, one of her brothers was alone in the house one day when he was around 8 or 9, just playing by himself in the hallway I think. And suddenly from one of the rooms off the hallway there poked out a little head wearing a hat and then it came out fully and was some sort of elf or little gnome. It gestured to my uncle, beckoned and said ''come come, come play with us" while wearing the most sinister-looking smile. My uncle shat himself (not literally) and was like ''duck that'' and ran away. He's now in his 50s and still swears up and down that experience was real and just thinking about it makes his hair stand on end. I did some research recently and found there's a type of house spirit called a brownie. I found the wiki page, sent it to my mum, who forwarded it to her brother and when he saw it he was really shocked and said what he saw looked exactly like the first brownie drawing on the wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(folklore).
- Another of my mum's sisters (different one to the first story) has had so many freaky experiences. She once died on the operating table and had a classic NDE where she floated outside her body, could see herself flatlining and went into the light. Another time she was driving alone and when she looked in the rear view mirror she saw someone sitting in the back who was apparently otherworldly beautiful with long, curly red hair but who looked androgynous. He/she was still there when she looked a few more times but on the 4th or 5th look it was gone, my aunt is convinced it was her guardian angel. My aunt also never sets alarms because she calls on benevolent spirits to wake her up at the needed time (haven't properly looked into it but I believe these spirits are part of Catholic tradition or folklore, they aren't just random spirits of unknown origin she's calling on!). But anyway, she says it works without fail and that when she's sleeping she'll start hearing them gently whisper and stroke her face to wake her up.
- Yet another of my maternal aunts went to her mum's apartment once and brought her young son with her (he must have been 5 or 6) and they were the only 2 people in the flat at the time. She left him in the living room while she started to clean and after a while she heard him talking to someone. She rushed into the living room, he was the only one there but he said he was talking to the little girl who lived in the flat. She obviously freaked out and when she went back into the hallway some CDs which were on a cupboard started flying around as if they were being thrown like frisbees by an invisible hand. She grabbed her son and legged it out of there!
- That same flat has had quite spooky goings on. I think it was the same aunt as above or her twin sister who as teenagers were sleeping in their room at night once and woke up to see a face high up in the corner of the room. Years later in that same room their mum was putting clothes away and just pottering around and organising stuff in the cupboards when she says someone pulled her hair from behind quite violently. Obviously when she turned around no one was there and she was alone in the flat at the time. My mum also once slept in that room and had someone grab her leg violently although she admits she can't be sure whether that actually happened or if it was a dream. I've been in that flat many times and slept in that same room quite a bit too, even as recently as last Christmas but I've never experienced anything paranormal in the room or anywhere else in the flat. Still though, many family members now refuse to sleep in that room because of all the stuff that's allegedly happened there.
- After my paternal grandmother died we were all staying the large house she and my grandad had built for themselves and in the morning one of my siblings was in the garden and on the concrete patio bit found a large, perfectly symmetrical heart made completely out of grass and what looked like bits of straw. In other words, there's no way that shape could have formed naturally or by accident. We initially thought it was our mum who had made it because she's always been spiritual, artsy and slightly loopy (in a good way). But nope, my mum swore it wasn't her. What's even weirder though is that my sibling sent the photo to the group chat, I remember seeing it but then a few months later when we tried to find it again it was completely gone from the chat photos. None of us have been able to find it again and no one remembers deleting it, why would we? Anyway, the same day as finding the grass heart we were sitting outside a café in the town centre and next to us was a tree in a square patch of earth on the pavement. And on the soil there was a piece of white string, again in the perfect shape of a heart. We can't prove it of course but we're convinced that was our nan sending us love.
- I myself have been outside my body on various occasions, although it wasn't anything to do with being ill or on the operating table. I'd always wanted to astral project but despite how much I tried I could never do it. And then one day in my early 20s I randomly ''woke up'' in the morning (it was already broad daylight outside) and I was floating in mid air in my room. But even in mid air it was like I was lying on my back because I was looking directly at the ceiling and could see the top of my bedroom door. I then rolled over in mid air to face the other way and could see my body lying in bed. I couldn't believe I had finally astral projected completely randomly and wanted to fly away and do all the cool things people say you can do in spirit form. So I started to will myself to move towards my bedroom window to fly out but for some reason it was really hard. I barely moved and only got halfway there before I was suddenly, and for no apparent reason, just dragged back into my body which jolted the body itself awake even though consciousness-wise I had already been awake of course. It was one of those experiences that felt more real than reality and not blurry or hazy like dreams often are. I can still remember it in perfect detail about a decade later and have never had as spectacular an experience since. More recently though I've left my body a couple of times, always where you're in that state right about to completely fall asleep. One time that happened and before falling asleep I rolled out my body, fell off the bed, went through the floorboards and then circled back up into my body, which again jolted me awake. It all happened totally automatically without any control on my end and was over in a couple of seconds. This falling out my body, falling through the floor and then rising again has happened a few times. Not particularly exciting compared to the first OBE but all this has left me in no doubt that consciousness does not depend on the body to exist and will continue after physical death.
- When my younger brother was a baby my mum's sister came over from abroad (my mum's family is from mainland Europe) to help for a week or so. The baby was sleeping upstairs with a baby monitor in the room and everyone else was downstairs, with some people in the kitchen, others in the living room etc. The baby monitor downstairs alerted the adults the baby upstairs was crying so my aunt went up the stairs to get him and as she walked up she saw a shadow of a person leave the bathroom and go into the baby's room and as soon as it went in the baby stopped crying. My aunt thought it was my mum who had gone in, but she continued to go up and when she entered the room no one was in there except the baby. Needless to say, her hair stood on end, she grabbed the baby and flew downstairs, finding my mum was down there who confirmed she didn't go up.
- In that same house a family friend stayed over not long after and she was sleeping one morning when she felt someone stroking her cheek. She opened her eyes and there was a Victorian-dressed boy standing in the room with a ball and he wanted her to play with him. Despite all this the family friend wasn't scared but I don't remember what she said about the experience ending. Obviously she didn't play with him but I don't know whether she just fell back asleep and he was gone when she woke up or whether he just vanished while she was looking at him. I could ask her the next time I see her.
- Back in my mum's country of origin, one of her brothers was alone in the house one day when he was around 8 or 9, just playing by himself in the hallway I think. And suddenly from one of the rooms off the hallway there poked out a little head wearing a hat and then it came out fully and was some sort of elf or little gnome. It gestured to my uncle, beckoned and said ''come come, come play with us" while wearing the most sinister-looking smile. My uncle shat himself (not literally) and was like ''duck that'' and ran away. He's now in his 50s and still swears up and down that experience was real and just thinking about it makes his hair stand on end. I did some research recently and found there's a type of house spirit called a brownie. I found the wiki page, sent it to my mum, who forwarded it to her brother and when he saw it he was really shocked and said what he saw looked exactly like the first brownie drawing on the wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(folklore).
- Another of my mum's sisters (different one to the first story) has had so many freaky experiences. She once died on the operating table and had a classic NDE where she floated outside her body, could see herself flatlining and went into the light. Another time she was driving alone and when she looked in the rear view mirror she saw someone sitting in the back who was apparently otherworldly beautiful with long, curly red hair but who looked androgynous. He/she was still there when she looked a few more times but on the 4th or 5th look it was gone, my aunt is convinced it was her guardian angel. My aunt also never sets alarms because she calls on benevolent spirits to wake her up at the needed time (haven't properly looked into it but I believe these spirits are part of Catholic tradition or folklore, they aren't just random spirits of unknown origin she's calling on!). But anyway, she says it works without fail and that when she's sleeping she'll start hearing them gently whisper and stroke her face to wake her up.
- Yet another of my maternal aunts went to her mum's apartment once and brought her young son with her (he must have been 5 or 6) and they were the only 2 people in the flat at the time. She left him in the living room while she started to clean and after a while she heard him talking to someone. She rushed into the living room, he was the only one there but he said he was talking to the little girl who lived in the flat. She obviously freaked out and when she went back into the hallway some CDs which were on a cupboard started flying around as if they were being thrown like frisbees by an invisible hand. She grabbed her son and legged it out of there!
- That same flat has had quite spooky goings on. I think it was the same aunt as above or her twin sister who as teenagers were sleeping in their room at night once and woke up to see a face high up in the corner of the room. Years later in that same room their mum was putting clothes away and just pottering around and organising stuff in the cupboards when she says someone pulled her hair from behind quite violently. Obviously when she turned around no one was there and she was alone in the flat at the time. My mum also once slept in that room and had someone grab her leg violently although she admits she can't be sure whether that actually happened or if it was a dream. I've been in that flat many times and slept in that same room quite a bit too, even as recently as last Christmas but I've never experienced anything paranormal in the room or anywhere else in the flat. Still though, many family members now refuse to sleep in that room because of all the stuff that's allegedly happened there.
- After my paternal grandmother died we were all staying the large house she and my grandad had built for themselves and in the morning one of my siblings was in the garden and on the concrete patio bit found a large, perfectly symmetrical heart made completely out of grass and what looked like bits of straw. In other words, there's no way that shape could have formed naturally or by accident. We initially thought it was our mum who had made it because she's always been spiritual, artsy and slightly loopy (in a good way). But nope, my mum swore it wasn't her. What's even weirder though is that my sibling sent the photo to the group chat, I remember seeing it but then a few months later when we tried to find it again it was completely gone from the chat photos. None of us have been able to find it again and no one remembers deleting it, why would we? Anyway, the same day as finding the grass heart we were sitting outside a café in the town centre and next to us was a tree in a square patch of earth on the pavement. And on the soil there was a piece of white string, again in the perfect shape of a heart. We can't prove it of course but we're convinced that was our nan sending us love.
- I myself have been outside my body on various occasions, although it wasn't anything to do with being ill or on the operating table. I'd always wanted to astral project but despite how much I tried I could never do it. And then one day in my early 20s I randomly ''woke up'' in the morning (it was already broad daylight outside) and I was floating in mid air in my room. But even in mid air it was like I was lying on my back because I was looking directly at the ceiling and could see the top of my bedroom door. I then rolled over in mid air to face the other way and could see my body lying in bed. I couldn't believe I had finally astral projected completely randomly and wanted to fly away and do all the cool things people say you can do in spirit form. So I started to will myself to move towards my bedroom window to fly out but for some reason it was really hard. I barely moved and only got halfway there before I was suddenly, and for no apparent reason, just dragged back into my body which jolted the body itself awake even though consciousness-wise I had already been awake of course. It was one of those experiences that felt more real than reality and not blurry or hazy like dreams often are. I can still remember it in perfect detail about a decade later and have never had as spectacular an experience since. More recently though I've left my body a couple of times, always where you're in that state right about to completely fall asleep. One time that happened and before falling asleep I rolled out my body, fell off the bed, went through the floorboards and then circled back up into my body, which again jolted me awake. It all happened totally automatically without any control on my end and was over in a couple of seconds. This falling out my body, falling through the floor and then rising again has happened a few times. Not particularly exciting compared to the first OBE but all this has left me in no doubt that consciousness does not depend on the body to exist and will continue after physical death.
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Robins are said in Celtic folklore to be psychopomps which bridge the line between this world and the next, it is thought that they represent the spirit of a lost loved one when they follow you or land close to you x
I've just had a little Robin following me in the garden today when I've been tidying up (ready to put up the Xmas lights).
I don't know what it means that my husband had a Robin looking very closely at what he was doing with the car a few months ago, flew a circuit round the boot and then shat into it 
I am actually too scared to watch Uncanny.I wrote about something on this thread that happened to me earlier.
A few months ago I'd watched an episode of Uncanny that involved a TV. In the morning we were both woken by the TV downstairs blaring - it had somehow turned itself on. That's never happened before or since.
Anyway yesterday evening I was listening to a new Uncanny episode on the radio - about a UFO in the US. Anyway at the moment the witness said 'the lights went out' all the lights in my house went out. I nearly shat myself tbh
Now obviously this could be coincidence and an overactive imagination. Probably is. But I'd avoided Uncanny since that first thing and this was the first time I'd listened since. Which is annoying as I like it.
I just wondered if anyone else thought if you are a sensitive and receptive person you can open your mind to wierd stuff. Not necessarily bad - but odd. I can't watch any horror or occult things as I dwell too much.
I hope this all makes sense!
I watched the first series and it dwelled on my mind so much, I just couldn’t watch any further episodes. I’m always interested in the supernatural, but I have to go easy on it and watch it in small doses. 
Like you say, many of us have an open mind and I believe that spirits present themselves to people who do. Whilst I’ve always been interested in the paranormal since I was a child, it wasn’t until I reached adulthood that I experienced any of it. Until then, I was open-minded about the subject, but never quite sure whether it was all fictitious.
Now I do believe it exists and when you think about how many people have experienced the supernatural worldwide, they cannot all be making it up.
But if I watch/listen/read about anything particularly frightening, it does play on my mind for a few days.
I don’t know what it is, but child ghosts always make me feel so scared. The ghost I saw was a child (although at the time I didn’t know it was a ghost as it looked solid, like you or I). Maybe it’s because they are too young to die.
i sometimes have the sensation I can ‘see’ myself, like my soul or whatever is temporarily coming out, I feel like I can almost see myself, my face etc
also we live in a new build that was just built on farmland and have a spare bedroom and when I had Covid in 2020 I slept in there and had dreams of like a cupboard above my head with something creepy in it, but obvs nothing could have been there before, but I still don’t like sleeping in there, gives me bad vibes
had a similar dream when I lived at home, stairs going to a doorway in the top corner of my room, a b woman climbed the steps, turned, looked at me then disappeared with a noise that woke me up
I’ve always since a child had a thing about buying from charity shops/second hand bc I’ve always been scared I’ll bring something home with me
like the knowledge someone else has used the object and it’s absorbed a strangers vibe is weird to me
This is something I’ve always thought about after someone I know took a jewellery box to another charity store after buying it second hand and it kept playing the tune even when it was closedI’ve always since a child had a thing about buying from charity shops/second hand bc I’ve always been scared I’ll bring something home with me
was probably just faulty but it had to go.
The podcasts are the best...although the shadow man episode on TV was excellent!....there's a thread on uncanny on here! I love it xxI am actually too scared to watch Uncanny.
My mum has one of those old fashioned wall units that have shelves in with glass doors, where you store your best crockery etc (they have a name and I can’t remember what it is!) from her best friends mums house after she died - her mum was lovely but it makes meThis is something I’ve always thought about after someone I know took a jewellery box to another charity store after buying it second hand and it kept playing the tune even when it was closed
🫣 every time I go round 
I always say hello to the person who’s unit it was incase she’s listening lol, she was a stickler for manners
I saw a shadow moving up an aisle in work the other night and someone independently told me they have seen it today as well. Thousands of people have worked there over the years so odds are someone's died there. It wasn't a negative energy though.
I'd say I've never actually seen a ghost but had a few experiences where I've felt a presence or had what I can only describe as a bad vibe or I'm being watched.
In one of the first places I remember living at as a child I wouldn't use the downstairs bathroom as I could always sense a bad vibe (one of those feelings where everything in your body says don't go there) coming from that room. My parents always said it was weird that I'd happily go use the upstairs one as a lot of kids would be scared to go upstairs on their own. I'd have been no older than 4 or 5.
At my grandparents house whenever we'd visit I'd always make sure I was never left alone as no matter what room I was in I'd always felt like something/someone was watching me but it wasn't a bad vibe like the other experience. Felt this presence my whole life up until they downsized when I was about 18.
I'd never do anything to try contact or reach out to loved ones who've passed on. I'm too paranoid about inviting bad spirits into my life. I just tell myself when it is my time I'll be reunited again with everyone who has passed on before me.
In one of the first places I remember living at as a child I wouldn't use the downstairs bathroom as I could always sense a bad vibe (one of those feelings where everything in your body says don't go there) coming from that room. My parents always said it was weird that I'd happily go use the upstairs one as a lot of kids would be scared to go upstairs on their own. I'd have been no older than 4 or 5.
At my grandparents house whenever we'd visit I'd always make sure I was never left alone as no matter what room I was in I'd always felt like something/someone was watching me but it wasn't a bad vibe like the other experience. Felt this presence my whole life up until they downsized when I was about 18.
I'd never do anything to try contact or reach out to loved ones who've passed on. I'm too paranoid about inviting bad spirits into my life. I just tell myself when it is my time I'll be reunited again with everyone who has passed on before me.
Has anyone here ever been to a place that was either reputed to be haunted or where they felt a presence? I have a few:
1. The Edinburgh Vaults, they run ghost tours round there. There's a horrible oppressive hostile atmosphere in some of the vaults. In one we went into, the guide explained that a black magic society was found to be operating there in secret in the 1910s and using that particular vault. It was by far and away the worse room I've ever been in in my life. Much colder than all the others, to the extent that we could see our breath (which we hadn't in any of the other places) and just this sense of pure evil, like there was something in there that really didn't want you in there and wanted to do you harm. The whole group felt it, we were in there about 5 seconds and then some weird energy shift happened and we all just stampeded for the doorway.
2. Bridgend in South Wales, where the suicide cluster happened. I visited it years before that awful series of events but there was just a 'dark energy' about the place. Not actively malevolent like the Edinburgh Vaults but just sort of like heavy, oppressive, depressive.
3. Dachau. There's such a sad, empty energy there. Oddly enough, I didn't sense that at Auschwitz. Auschwitz actually, for me, it had a sort of cold quiet dignity about it. But Dachau felt....grim.
I don't know whether I'm sensitive to energies in places or whether everyone can sense it and would be keen to hear others' experiences.
I'm a keen amateur student of history and very much wish to visit some of the major WW1 battlefield sites in France and Belgium one day. There's a number of community forums where visitors recount seeing ghosts, spirits, or just the terrible energy especially Verdun, Ypres and the Argonne are mentioned. All those young lives so violently and unjustly ripped away, under the soil. They're probably angry, and I wouldn't blame them.
1. The Edinburgh Vaults, they run ghost tours round there. There's a horrible oppressive hostile atmosphere in some of the vaults. In one we went into, the guide explained that a black magic society was found to be operating there in secret in the 1910s and using that particular vault. It was by far and away the worse room I've ever been in in my life. Much colder than all the others, to the extent that we could see our breath (which we hadn't in any of the other places) and just this sense of pure evil, like there was something in there that really didn't want you in there and wanted to do you harm. The whole group felt it, we were in there about 5 seconds and then some weird energy shift happened and we all just stampeded for the doorway.
2. Bridgend in South Wales, where the suicide cluster happened. I visited it years before that awful series of events but there was just a 'dark energy' about the place. Not actively malevolent like the Edinburgh Vaults but just sort of like heavy, oppressive, depressive.
3. Dachau. There's such a sad, empty energy there. Oddly enough, I didn't sense that at Auschwitz. Auschwitz actually, for me, it had a sort of cold quiet dignity about it. But Dachau felt....grim.
I don't know whether I'm sensitive to energies in places or whether everyone can sense it and would be keen to hear others' experiences.
I'm a keen amateur student of history and very much wish to visit some of the major WW1 battlefield sites in France and Belgium one day. There's a number of community forums where visitors recount seeing ghosts, spirits, or just the terrible energy especially Verdun, Ypres and the Argonne are mentioned. All those young lives so violently and unjustly ripped away, under the soil. They're probably angry, and I wouldn't blame them.
I felt exactly the same in the same Edinburgh vaults when I went last year. I couldn’t wait to escape back up and I usually love anything supernatural. Like you said it just felt very cold and menacing. Really oppressive energy.
I’m going to see uncanny live on Friday and looking forward to that.
Has anyone done any kind of paranormal event, ghost walk etc in York? I watched Charlie and Daisy May Cooper's show last night filmed in York and I was there recently but didn't actually realise it had such a reputation for the paranormal. I'd love to go back and do an organised tour or something.
So I’ve been on the ghost tour in the Vaults too but didn’t feel any of that, to the point I stood in the stone circle that had some sort of premise about witchcraft I’m sure. It only felt creepy because of the stories being told, or maybe I’m just not in tune with that kind of thing.
Enjoy Uncanny! I went a week ago and loved it. Danny is super engaging, Kieran comes across really well too it was more Evelyn was like she was in a bad mood but still brilliant nonetheless. Just hope your audience stories aren’t as bad as mine were!