True Ghost Stories #3

[Pesky Tarian]

I'm went on my first ghost walk tonight. Good fun, only really two things of note: in a tudor pub a sudden overwhelming smell of lavender that went as soon as it came. Same venue I experienced a strange full body shiver, seemingly at the same time a lady had a bit of a mini meltdown and had to leave. I wonder if we felt the same odd thing. Lovely misty night for walking around .

 

[Sheeeet]

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

 

[moldwarp]

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.

 

[Borrible]

They named two passed relatives, not by their proper first name but by the shortened version (for example Bill instead of William). None of the 'I'm getting someone with the initial W', just straight out said the names.

They said that relative 1 was extremely hostile towards relative 2 because they now knew what they had done to me (relative 2 had abused me and I'd never told relative 1. In fact only my partner knew). When relative 2 'came through', it was terrifying. The whole atmosphere went dark and moody. This person was truly evil in real life. It scared me a lot, how everything became darker and more intensified. Never experienced anything like that before and never have since. Relative 2 wanted me to know they were sorry for what they'd done, they were not a well person and they should have looked after me properly 🫤

They knew about a miscarriage I'd had and that it had been a girl (which I'd always known deep down, as I used to dream of holding a baby girl).

They said "someone wants me to tell you - two people on the same day". I had no idea what they were on about, until I twigged - my uncle and my cousin share the same birthday, and it was that actual day of the reading.

I had told this person nothing, not my name, where I lived, nothing. During the reading itself, I was giving my best poker face and not reacting to try and catch them out. It unnerved me how they knew so much. They were also saying other names to me, and were insistent that these people knew me, but I genuinely didn't recognise the names. Afterwards I scared myself wondering if they were random spirits who were trying to use me or latch on to me. It was all a bit of a weird confusing fever dream to be honest, and I don't want to believe it was real. I'm not totally convinced there's an afterlife but after that I just don't know.

 

[Chickenandgravy]

Been going through a tough time lately and asked out loud for a sign. Less than 30 seconds later a wee white feather floated down right in front of me I'll take that as my sign then

 

[moldwarp]

I find it fascinating too - properly mental to experience it myself though…

I think they're fascinating. The Western mind tends to see time as linear but physics shows us that's not true (and other culture have always known it).

I think time moves in cycles and is multi-layered. Sometimes one of the layers is very thin or porous and that's how we experience things like ghosts, or get a glimpse of just one of the trillions of alternative realities that exist at any one time.

I think people who claim not to believe in ghosts or glitches are quite small-minded and certainly anti-scientific.

 

[CrazyGiraffeLady]

My mum has very recently passed away and we found her, we went to the funeral directors earlier this week and I just wasn’t in the right headspace so we went out and about afterwards for an hour. Anyway that day I saw so many dogs in really unusual places and it felt like a sign from mum. I know sounds mad but it’s comforting. Not seen any other dogs this week at all x

 

[Midsummer Son]

Just to add to the above, there are a couple of things I found odd about the 'reading'.

When talking about the miscarriage, they spoke of a girl around 7 years old. I was confused at first because I didn't know any children who had passed away.
And they said it was the child I'd miscarried, and that children continue to grow in the afterlife. Which then made me think, why would child ghosts supposedly exist in that case? Just seemed odd. Anyway, they said that the child was with relative 1 and they were together. Which could either be really comforting, or a sick joke, especially as it got me thinking about the child, what they looked like etc.

The other odd bit was when they were speaking about relative 2. They said relative 2 was in deep sadness, they felt overwhelming waves of sadness from them and relative 2 was crying. Again this was a raised eyebrow moment, because I'm like, really? Crying ghosts? Just seemed very out there.

The way I’ve heard it explained is that it’s practically impossible for us to comprehend what it’s like to exist in the afterlife because the experience is literally other dimensional. And so spirits will communicate or manifest in ways we can process and understand. I don’t believe spirits grow up on the other side because they’re not biological beings who need to mature, I assume every spirit that crosses over already becomes aware of everything because it’s no longer shackled by the enormous limitations of the body and brain. The soul of your miscarried daughter may choose to represent herself to the medium as a 7-year-old girl so you can make the connection that she passed 7 years ago?

Similarly, it’s a possibility that relative 2 has deep regrets about their behaviour but like you, I don’t imagine souls cry or deal with grief in the way we do. But as we may not be able to understand how they integrate those feelings and emotions on another plane of existence they might choose to give an image to a medium that we can understand, such as crying.

 

[Lovegossip]

Glad I found this thread

My husbands father died when dh was 17 and ever since he will get a whiff of Old Spice that his dad used to wear, he told me about it and a few weeks after he moved in with me, I smelt this odd smell in the flat at the same time as he did

"Oh thats just my dad come to visit" I was like but its happened a couple time since

Another peculiarity I have in my flat is that I sometimes see a Tall Man hovering in the bedroom doorway, but only at night time, usually wearing a long black coat and a walking cane, never see his face though, hubby says he's seen it but describes it as a shadow man

 

[Noscrubs]

Obsessed with this thread!

When I was about 8-9, my mum had my aunties round for one of our takeaway nights. I was upstairs alone and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a figure of a man with what looked like a kitchen knife. I was petrified but tried to brush it off as my imagination and didn’t tell anyone. When I went downstairs later on, my auntie came rushing downstairs saying she had just seen a shadow man with a knife. I was frozen in fear and still haven’t told anyone to this day that I saw the same!

The man who used to own our house abused his children and was an all-round awful man. My mum used to do his daughters hair (she was elderly at the time) so we knew quite a bit of info about what he did to her.

My mum said he felt his presence when she first bought the house so she told him to f**k off!

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

As much as I love hearing about ghosts, hauntings, weird experiences etc etc there is no way I'm actively going looking for trouble and contact with the other side.

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

I'm so glad we've got to thread 3. I enjoy reading about all our experiences.

 

[Stickladylove]

My grandmother died this week, as my sister and I sat holding her hand before she passed, I saw a weird, very dark, fast moving smudge type shadow on the wall the bed was against. Said to my sister, don’t want to freak you out but…she said I know, it went up towards the bed head! There was no shadow that could have cast that dark a shadow in that position, nor move that fast.

The night before I had a weird visitor dream (context; my family are known for odd dreams featuring dead relatives before or just after another member passes) set in my grandmothers house, a little being (I knew it wasn’t human) appeared with a big bottle of medicine smiled and ushered me to the living room, my auntie (still alive which threw me) appeared but at the same time I knew it wasn’t her but one of these beings, my grandmother behind her. My auntie/not really said come on time to go, pulled my grandmother behind the door and I woke up. I was telling my husband and son the next morning saying it wasn’t a proper visitor dream as auntie is still alive. Literally a minute later the phone rang with my mum saying my grandmother’s care home had called and we needed to get up there quickly as she’d taken suddenly very unwell.

 

[Chocolategoggler]

I have thought of talking out loud and asking for a sign but if I did and something happened id probably shit myself

I was told to chat to family and friends who had passed on by a psychic. I haven't yet as I'd feel a right berk.
I've only ever done it when I had ghosts in my house and a colleague's husband told me to do it, so they'd leave me alone, which strangely they have. Years later I discovered after going to a psychic, that they targeted me as I became suddenly psychic for a while, due to a health problem (heart), which made me somehow get up to their energy level. The ghosts obviously got excited realizing they could communicate with me. Scared me silly though instead. Once my heart got sorted and I spoke to thin air I had no more trouble.
It was so lovely that someone believed me rather than putting me down as a fruit loop like everyone else seemed to do.
I was watching a psychic on You Tube recently and she said to use the words "Is it in my interests to........." if you want help with something.

 

[CrazyGiraffeLady]

Little update to my encounter with my deceased mum, another day I was livid with everything. So I said out loud to my mum this is all your fault if you’d just gone the Drs we wouldn’t be in this mess. Don’t come and see me again I’m pissed off with you any way I was up most of the night just seething in bed and she appeared next to me and said you need to go to sleep the little ones will be up soon and then she just vanished? I know it sounds mad and I was stunned. She hasn’t been back since and I don’t know if it’s because I told her not to? I wish I could just have one more day with her.

 

[amarantine]

Love reading these! I know I’ve posted a couple of my own ghost experiences but also wanted to post my weird glitch in the matrix experience. Not a ghost story, but unexplained and weird and only happened last summer!

I live about 10-15 mins from the beach. In the summer, my friend and I like to go down in the evening for a walk (run if we’re feeling ambitious and a swim if we’re feeling really brave!). We would usually leave to head home anywhere between 7:30-8:30. One evening late last summer I was driving back, was just dusk so around 8:30. Bear in mind I drive this way back from the beach whenever I go and also, if I am in a certain place for work, I will drive this way home. I also drive this way to the gym and occasionally into town just because it’s much prettier than the main road. It’s not an unfamiliar route.

So, I was driving home, chilling, music on, minding my business. There is one signposted turning off the main lane down a tiny one to a little hamlet. Drove past that, and a few minutes later thought the drive felt longer than usual. Just as I thought that, I passed the same sign again. There are no other turnings off the lane. I couldn’t possibly have looped round or gone back on myself because it’s just one lane. I drive it at least weekly so I know the road really well. I have absolutely no explanation for this, and it hasn’t happened again. Every time I drive that way home though I always expect it to happen again. Weirdest thing ever.

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

Wow that's crazy, it's almost as if you willed it in to being!.

I just provided an e mail address for the tickets. Nothing identifiable in my e mail address. I suppose they would have my name from the payment but I don't do any social media fb etc.

There were some eye roll moments like saying to a woman with a strong southern accent 'I sense links to the south' !!. But then she said to one lady 'oh you put this item in your mother's coffin' and the lady said she'd never told anyone that. Jury's still out for me.

I have very mixed feeling about mediums. Most are bollocks and money grabbing charlatans but some do make you sit up and take notice.

I think I've posted on here before about the worst one I ever saw who resorted to 'has anyone bought any shoes recently?' ... It made my sister in law snort laugh and she had to leave the room.

 

[Metropolis]

I went to see a medium earlier in the week as part of a large group. The lady didn't actually approach people but said who was with her and people raised their hands.

She said at one point I have a Lizzie (my paternal grandmother's name) and I didn’t raise my hand as I didn't want the attention tbh. She then said oh well she just wants you know know she's spending time with Trevor (my fathers name) but Trevor's still alive. *I've changed the names but both are less generic.

I am sceptical but still a little blown away that she would put those two names together randomly. I don't think I'll tell my dad as he's in his 80s himself and quite an emotional person. But food for thought!.

Did you have to provide your name/address or sign up for the event? I’m always very sceptical of people who claim to be ‘mediums’.

I went to see the Uncanny: Fear of the Dark show a couple of weeks ago and it was excellent. We did the meet & greet as my son is a big fan and felt that Evelyn seemed in a bad mood (as someone else mentioned up thread) and didn’t smile at all. She was very good on stage though.

The only unexplained thing that has happened to me was when I was sitting in my parents’ lounge one night after they had gone to bed. I was in my early 20s, so can remember this very clearly.

I was sitting on the sofa reading the paper, when my mind started wandering about an account I’d read about a television turning itself on in the context of a haunting and thinking it must have been bullshit because it can easily be ascribed to the TV being on standby and an electrical surge. Suddenly, the TV in the lounge switched on and completely freaked me out. My parents were paranoid about house fires and always unplugged/switched off every electrical appliance before going to bed. Sure enough, when I went over to the tele, it was switched off at the mains.

I turned it off using the button and tried to switch it on again, but of course it wouldn’t switch on…because it was switched off at the mains.

 

[amarantine]

Just to add onto mine, I’ve started to go back and read the previous two threads and man some of you have experienced terrifying stuff! None of my experiences have ever been terrifying, just weird and unnerving and unsettling. I’ve never experienced anything terrifying like some of you have and I hope I never do

I’ll share a couple more of my experiences later and one of my mum’s, I’ve only had one weird experience recently and that wasn’t ghost related, it was like “glitch in the matrix” related. Haven’t had a paranormal experience in years. I hope recounting them isn’t going to somehow tempt fate

 

[Jelly Bean]

Okay so I think I’ve asked this before BUT..
Does anyone think if you listen to podcasts about true ghost stories and read into them a lot etc that it can attract that kind of stuff?

I watched an Uncanny programme a few months ago - the one about the haunted farmhouse and the convent orphanage nearby. It preyed on my mind terribly and unsettled me. Anyway about 6 o clock the following morning I could her my OH watching TV downstairs really loudly which was strange. So loud it woke me up. He had slept in the spare room as I hadn't been well, so I hadn't heard him get up. He then came in to my room and asked why I'd left the TV blaring and had then gone back to bed as it had woken him up. But it had turned itself on.
Maybe there was a logical explanation. But I felt really spooked and really thought it was because of how strange the programme had made me feel - but maybe I just thought that because of the programme - sort of self fulfilling prophecy. I don't know.
Anyway it hasn't happened since thank goodness.