True Ghost Stories #3

[FenellaTheWitch]

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

Sounds like you've had a visit from The Hat Man.

Who is the Hat Man? ‘Shadow people’ and sleep paralysis

‘Sleep demons’ have plagued our dreams throughout the centuries, but the explanation could be medical

theweek.com

 

[amarantine]

I’ve only just found this, I usually just moan about influencers in the other forums. But it is half term, I am ill and in bed, so why not. I love ghost stories! Just to add my few weird experiences…

I used to work at a local pub many years ago as a student and when I’d just finished uni and was waiting to start my teacher training. We all knew it was supposedly haunted but I had a few weird experiences:

in the kitchen I often heard what sounded like stacks of plates falling and would go in dreading the bollocking I’d get from my boss if they’d all broken. No plates had ever fallen. I started to acknowledge the ghost by name (I really can’t remember what the lore was about what she was called though I do remember the sordid story about what supposedly happened to her!) and she stopped making it sound like plates were crashing - she was clearly just showing us she was there!

Another time, I was asked by my boss to go get some extra chairs from the storage above the old stables for a function, which I went to do then as soon as I got to the staircase in the corner to go get them I just felt like I absolutely couldn’t go up there, it was so unnerving. I’d always gone into the bottom part of the stable for the freezer with no issues, just froze when I got to those stairs. I think I got my boss’s son to come and get them in the end, made up some story about needing two of us because the stairs were so tiny. The place was renowned for its ghost stories and hauntings and they started to do a paranormal night. One time, a medium did a scan of the buildings (including outbuildings) and identified the ghost in the kitchen but also a hostile male spirit who disliked women haunting the top part of the stables, where those chairs were. I didn’t know about him at the time when I couldn’t go and get those chairs; finding out after gave me the willies!

In our old house when I was on exam leave for my GCSEs I was mostly revising but I’d gone downstairs to have a cup of tea and was just watching telly in the living room for a bit. There was always a draught in there because it was right next to the cellar which had an old, open coal chute, and the door would always blow a bit due to knackered hinges. I knew this and never paid it any attention. On this occasion though for some reason I noticed the door move and looked up. I swear to god I saw a woman in a blue Edwardian style dress with a parasol walk across to the door to the extension, which originally would have been one of the ways out of the house. I even remember telling my parents (bearing in mind I am now 38!) and saying it must have been a trick of the light. Later on in our time in that house, dad used the living room as his office. He always smelled floral perfume in there, which neither my mum or I used (and I had moved out anyway, for the most part) and the dog never liked to be in there on her own, and she would happily be anywhere else in the house on her own. My brother (biggest sceptic ever!) saw someone walk past the door same as me. He still denies it was a ghost though. I was never scared in that house but had a few weird things happen there.

I have so many more experiences I’d love to share but I also realise this post is now massive, sorry! Blame my half term cold…

 

[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

 

[Lovegossip]

Sounds like you've had a visit from The Hat Man.

Who is the Hat Man? ‘Shadow people’ and sleep paralysis

‘Sleep demons’ have plagued our dreams throughout the centuries, but the explanation could be medical

theweek.com

Thanks, will take a look, but not at night time lol

 

[Tretps29]

My mum and I both get very vivid premonitions. It doesn’t happen all the time but you know when it happens and it’s incredible. It’s weird and wonderful.

My friend tentatively asked me how I was asked about fertility etc as earlier in the year I had investigations into recurrent miscarriages.
I’m actually pregnant and I told her and she said she knew because she was out running and just knew I was pregnant, just popped into her head.

 

[amarantine]

This is cool! I used to be able to tell when the phone was about to ring and who it would be but this all happened around the same time as some of the other experiences I’ve explained here - I was sort of 16-24 so I wonder if that was significant as I’ve not had anything much since!

My mum is a very no-nonsense, loves facts, not prone to flights of fancy northerner from Lancashire. Both myself and my mum had weird experiences when a relative died though not the same relative.

When my Pop died (that was my mum’s dad) I was only about 4 so didn’t really know much about it or when it happened, he was a pipe and cigarette smoker all his adult life and died of lung cancer, I don’t even know how aggressive it was or how ill he was or how long for, I just remember him being in his big chair with a checked blanket on his knees. Anyway, as he became more ill he went into hospice care. Mum has only ever told me this story once but it’s not like her to have anything except a rational explanation which she doesn’t have for this. She said that Pop had one particular nurse who was very forthright and no nonsense with a very strong Lancashire accent. She was a really good nurse and despite her brusque manner Pop really clicked with her and always wanted her to do his care. Mum said she heard, clear as day, at the exact moment she found out later Pop had died, that nurse say, in her forthright, no nonsense way, “Well come on then, if you’re coming!”. Not that spooky but pretty cool and Mum was the only one not to have some sort of experience in our old house and is so painfully rational and logical, and she couldn’t find a way to rationalise this. (I however am not and now after reading all your posts, am really not keen to wash my hair even though my husband is literally in the other room and I’ve never once had any odd experiences in our house, just lots of resident mice )

My own weird premonitions were when my Grandad (Dad’s dad) died and when my Grandy (Mum’s mum) died.

I was about 17 when Grandad died, and woke up on just a normal day. Could not shake the feeling that something was missing but hadn’t slept through my alarm, hadn’t forgotten to do my homework, hadn’t forgotten anything I needed to take to school (I was in sixth form). Then my dad came in and the minute he opened his mouth I knew he was going to tell me Grandad had died. It was weird. In fact, the minute he said it, I just said “yeah I know” - Dad was like, how? As he’d only just found out himself and hadn’t told anyone yet.

As for my Grandy, she always used to spend Christmas with us. I remember having this really vivid feeling about 9 christmasses ago that this would be the only Christmas we’d ever have like that again. Hit me quite hard and was quite emotional, but it was like I just knew. I heard myself say, in my own head, completely randomly, “This will be the last Christmas like this.”

That following year, Mum and Dad moved out of the house we lived in at the time to relocate and Grandy stopped coming to spend Christmas with us because it was too far and her health had started to deteriorate. A couple of years after that, she passed away and we haven’t had a Christmas like that one since. Again, weird rather than creepy but

 

[Tretps29]

This is cool! I used to be able to tell when the phone was about to ring and who it would be but this all happened around the same time as some of the other experiences I’ve explained here - I was sort of 16-24 so I wonder if that was significant as I’ve not had anything much since!

My mum is a very no-nonsense, loves facts, not prone to flights of fancy northerner from Lancashire. Both myself and my mum had weird experiences when a relative died though not the same relative.

When my Pop died (that was my mum’s dad) I was only about 4 so didn’t really know much about it or when it happened, he was a pipe and cigarette smoker all his adult life and died of lung cancer, I don’t even know how aggressive it was or how ill he was or how long for, I just remember him being in his big chair with a checked blanket on his knees. Anyway, as he became more ill he went into hospice care. Mum has only ever told me this story once but it’s not like her to have anything except a rational explanation which she doesn’t have for this. She said that Pop had one particular nurse who was very forthright and no nonsense with a very strong Lancashire accent. She was a really good nurse and despite her brusque manner Pop really clicked with her and always wanted her to do his care. Mum said she heard, clear as day, at the exact moment she found out later Pop had died, that nurse say, in her forthright, no nonsense way, “Well come on then, if you’re coming!”. Not that spooky but pretty cool and Mum was the only one not to have some sort of experience in our old house and is so painfully rational and logical, and she couldn’t find a way to rationalise this. (I however am not and now after reading all your posts, am really not keen to wash my hair even though my husband is literally in the other room and I’ve never once had any odd experiences in our house, just lots of resident mice )

My own weird premonitions were when my Grandad (Dad’s dad) died and when my Grandy (Mum’s mum) died.

I was about 17 when Grandad died, and woke up on just a normal day. Could not shake the feeling that something was missing but hadn’t slept through my alarm, hadn’t forgotten to do my homework, hadn’t forgotten anything I needed to take to school (I was in sixth form). Then my dad came in and the minute he opened his mouth I knew he was going to tell me Grandad had died. It was weird. In fact, the minute he said it, I just said “yeah I know” - Dad was like, how? As he’d only just found out himself and hadn’t told anyone yet.

As for my Grandy, she always used to spend Christmas with us. I remember having this really vivid feeling about 9 christmasses ago that this would be the only Christmas we’d ever have like that again. Hit me quite hard and was quite emotional, but it was like I just knew. I heard myself say, in my own head, completely randomly, “This will be the last Christmas like this.”

That following year, Mum and Dad moved out of the house we lived in at the time to relocate and Grandy stopped coming to spend Christmas with us because it was too far and her health had started to deteriorate. A couple of years after that, she passed away and we haven’t had a Christmas like that one since. Again, weird rather than creepy but

I absolutely love hearing other peoples stories. It just shows that this is more common than everyone makes out.
I wish people were more open minded and to not shut these things down.

 

[amarantine]

I absolutely love hearing other peoples stories. It just shows that this is more common than everyone makes out.
I wish people were more open minded and to not shut these things down.

Oh me too!! I absolutely always end up creeped out but it is honestly so fascinating to me, there’s so much about the deeper workings of the world that is beyond what we can see to think about and investigate - I love it!

 

[Chocolategoggler]

I had a strong feeling my mum was going to die and something took over me and I was booking trips away to places she'd never been like Cornwall and really packing them in. Then after a horrendous trip into the wilds of Yorkshire only to be told they had no record of our reservation, which I'd booked by phone, I had to drive all the way home, and after that she officially hated me and refused to go on a trip I'd paid for to York.
Two months later she was on a life support machine and she died five years later having never recovered.
I never told anyone about my premonition until after she died. I honestly felt like I was possessed for the four years I went into overdrive. My family must have thought I had a screw lose during that time. You can't just say to someone "I think you're going to die!"

 

[ThatB***hCarolBaskin]

My best friend lived in a really old massive farm house. Spent most of my teen years there cos we kind of just got left alone to do what we wanted.

I’m terrible to get to sleep, slightest bit of light or noise gets me that annoyed I can’t sleep, so I’d often go sleep in the room next to my friends cos she would annoy me with her snoring and mumbling.

Always had this really odd feeling in that room but used to push it to the back of mind and force myself to go to sleep. One night I woke randomly and instantly got that horrible feeling when the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Sat up in bed and the rocking crib in the corner of the room was rocking. Save to say I never stepped foot in that room again and put up with my friends snoring from then on!! When I told her in the morning she just laughed and said yes that happens often!!

 

[amarantine]

Posting in this thread has made me realise just how many odd experience I’ve had in my life! Less now but in that period between about 16-24 I had so many!

In the old house where I saw the woman in the blue dress, I also heard children giggling on more than one occasion. Didn’t ever creep me out, was just weird. I could usually hear it in the utility/boiler room which was next to the kitchen but could only be accessed via an old covered passageway out to the garden and in between the kitchen and the extension. I remember telling Dad once and he said maybe I’d heard the kids next door playing but it was about 10pm, and I could see he didn’t even believe his own rationalisation

In my second year uni house I had some weird experiences too. I heard knocking on the wall which I tried to rationalise as the neighbours but it was late at night so couldn’t have been them. In the same spot on the wall I had a kids’ fairy outfit someone got me as a joke which had this little battery wand that made a tinkling noise when you hit or moved it. It started randomly doing that after the knocking on the wall which was a bit weird. It could just have been the batteries were going but it just seemed strange that it happened when the knocking did!

I think that’s all my “ghost” experiences, though I still have my weird glitch in the matrix thing that happened last summer and something downright creepy I saw up on the moors with my
Dad in October. I also found a post I made years ago on a paranormal site about the pub ghost - the lore was that she was called Alice glad I’ve remembered!

ETA: on a roll with my paranormal stories! This isn’t my story but one I’ve just remembered from an old colleague. I had several jobs as a sixth form student and in the uni holidays, and one of them was working at a National Trust property. Not my experience but one that happened to a colleague whilst I was working there.

We had, coming off the main corridor area behind the tea rooms where I worked, some storage areas. One of them was almost directly opposite the door to the servery and that’s where we kept veg on those metal veg storage racks. It was dark in there because it was down some little steps and sort of built into the wall but my colleague heard a crash down there and went to investigate. He couldn’t find anything but absolutely swore when he went down he’d seen a young man with a flat cap, waistcoat and shirt sleeves with the sleeves rolled up look at him apologetically (I assume because he made the crash!) and then just vanish. Never saw him myself and never once had a weird experience there but always loved that story! Makes me smile the idea of a ghost apologising for drawing attention to himself

 

[Chocolategoggler]

My friends who live(d) in older houses have experienced giggling children, noises and sightings so I assumed I was safe moving into a modern house that was only 6 years old.
Then a couple of years in it started. Having been hauled off to psychics by neighbours and friends. I remember one of them saying it was connected to the land and what had been there before.
Turned out one of the spookies wasn't happy with what I'd done to the garden.

 

[amarantine]

My friends who live(d) in older houses have experienced giggling children, noises and sightings so I assumed I was safe moving into a modern house that was only 6 years old.
Then a couple of years in it started. Having been hauled off to psychics by neighbours and friends. I remember one of them saying it was connected to the land and what had been there before.
Turned out one of the spookies wasn't happy with what I'd done to the garden.

They’re quite sensitive souls these spookies aren’t they? Yours being upset because you’d done something to the garden and my friend’s being apologetic that he’d made a loud crash and my friend had had to investigate did you and your spookies come to an agreement about your garden? I always worry about making changes to an older house in case I upset the ghosties - but our house now is an old barn conversion so I’m hoping the ghosts here are only of cattle so won’t do anything too much

 

[Chocolategoggler]

They’re quite sensitive souls these spookies aren’t they? Yours being upset because you’d done something to the garden and my friend’s being apologetic that he’d made a loud crash and my friend had had to investigate did you and your spookies come to an agreement about your garden? I always worry about making changes to an older house in case I upset the ghosties - but our house now is an old barn conversion so I’m hoping the ghosts here are only of cattle so won’t do anything too much

It was all a long time ago and I've probably mentioned it before on here, but I do remember being a bit scared of what they said about one of the spookies - a man with a flat cap in my lounge . They said that he thought I was haunting him, and he would be very interested in any young children I had.
Being as how the other spooky is a small child who follows me around, and was the one that climbed on me in bed during the night, and was "warm," whilst the man in the lounge is icy cold - I was a bit concerned for the poor kid. However, the medium said the man can't get upstairs. I expect the child probably stays upstairs.
I haven't had any spooky goings on from them for over 20 years since my health problem was sorted and my heart calmed down. So I'm not really sure if they're still there.
ETA
To answer your question theres been no trouble despite my building an extension and changing the garden again, so if they're still there they probably approve.
I do get spirits in the extension but I think it's a relative. She is "warm" too and bumps into my aura so that's how I know she's there. Usually having a nosy at who's visiting.
Knowing her she'll have probably "sorted out" the spook in the lounge. She's very motherly so the little boy would like that.

 

[Tretps29]

I’m not sure if I’ve posted here about living in a haunted house. Well it really changed my perspective on the world and life and death. I do believe there is an after life and things beyond your understanding but to actually experience a haunting everyday for a couple of years was petrifying and mind bending.
It was the most frightening experience of my life.

 

[Tretps29]

My best friend died 20 years ago. I vividly remember two visitation dreams I had. I’ll never forget them. Very different from a normal dream or a lucid dream.
he’s not visited me since and these dreams happened within the year of him passing.

he was a kind soul, if a little complicated.
This was prior to social media but about 15 years ago I went to a psychic and towards the end of the reading she said my friend was here and said his name!!! She described him and his death and said he counselled young people and kids who have passed over. This has always stayed with me because this was my friend to a t.
I know a lot of people will scoff at this all but i know in my heart this was him and the psychic was bang on

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

My best friend died 20 years ago. I vividly remember two visitation dreams I had. I’ll never forget them. Very different from a normal dream or a lucid dream.
he’s not visited me since and these dreams happened within the year of him passing.

he was a kind soul, if a little complicated.
This was prior to social media but about 15 years ago I went to a psychic and towards the end of the reading she said my friend was here and said his name!!! She described him and his death and said he counselled young people and kids who have passed over. This has always stayed with me because this was my friend to a t.
I know a lot of people will scoff at this all but i know in my heart this was him and the psychic was bang on

There are lot of charlatans out there and I've been to a few were I have literally laughed at what they were saying. However, when I was 24 I was doing some travelling and I was in Thailand and I suppose the guy I saw was a psychic of some sort. He was an old guy with an interpreter. He eventually said that I had been ill and had had a big problem with my heart. When I was 21 I had had major heart surgery. There was no visible scarring for him to pick up on and that freaked me out a bit because that's something unusual to pick up on on a 24 year old. He also came out with a couple of other things that were true as well. I felt a bit unnerved after I'd seen him.

He also said I was going to come into a lot of money unexpectedly, like a win. I'm still waiting for that one.

 

[Chocolategoggler]

There are lot of charlatans out there and I've been to a few were I have literally laughed at what they were saying. However, when I was 24 I was doing some travelling and I was in Thailand and I suppose the guy I saw was a psychic of some sort. He was an old guy with an interpreter. He eventually said that I had been ill and had had a big problem with my heart. When I was 21 I had had major heart surgery. There was no visible scarring for him to pick up on and that freaked me out a bit because that's something unusual to pick up on on a 24 year old. He also came out with a couple of other things that were true as well. I felt a bit unnerved after I'd seen him.

He also said I was going to come into a lot of money unexpectedly, like a win. I'm still waiting for that one.

I was chatting to a till operator in Marks and Spencers once and she mentioned she'd won the Pools, then she said a psychic had predicted it and also that she was going to win them again.
Can't remember if she said how much she won as it was years ago.

 

[CrazyGiraffeLady]

So my mum passed away at new year, a coupe of weeks ago I had a particularly bad day and was weighing up my options, I couldn’t sleep at all that night so just stayed lying in bed. I was facing my door this night and I usually sleep on my other side facing the wall. Anyway about 5am I heard someone walking softly. My door opened and there was my mum, I couldn’t speak or make any kind of sound but I had a million questions going through my mind and all she said was I love you and I miss you and then my door closed again. I woke my husband up and told him and I was explaining how mum looked, she had a nightie on that I remember from my childhood so she hasn’t owned it for 15years plus, she looked like mum just a normal person although a little pale. But she had no legs. I know people will think it was a dream but honest to god I was awake. She’s never been back since no matter how much I’ve asked x

 

[amarantine]

It was all a long time ago and I've probably mentioned it before on here, but I do remember being a bit scared of what they said about one of the spookies - a man with a flat cap in my lounge . They said that he thought I was haunting him, and he would be very interested in any young children I had.
Being as how the other spooky is a small child who follows me around, and was the one that climbed on me in bed during the night, and was "warm," whilst the man in the lounge is icy cold - I was a bit concerned for the poor kid. However, the medium said the man can't get upstairs. I expect the child probably stays upstairs.
I haven't had any spooky goings on from them for over 20 years since my health problem was sorted and my heart calmed down. So I'm not really sure if they're still there.
ETA
To answer your question theres been no trouble despite my building an extension and changing the garden again, so if they're still there they probably approve.
I do get spirits in the extension but I think it's a relative. She is "warm" too and bumps into my aura so that's how I know she's there. Usually having a nosy at who's visiting.
Knowing her she'll have probably "sorted out" the spook in the lounge. She's very motherly so the little boy would like that.

I love that you have this sort of understanding with your spookies, I don’t like the sound of that man but at least he can’t get upstairs so the little boy is safe from him. I’ve never tried to properly communicate with any of the ones I’ve experienced apart from acknowledging Alice the pub ghost in an attempt to get her to stop making it sound like plates were breaking!