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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #180 on: Monday 05 June 06 09:10 BST (UK) »
When I first started work, I worked in a solicitors office as a Jr. The local solicitors use to send their Jr to a empty house (which one of them owned in the town). We exchange mail which was to each other, to save postage. It was a beautiful house. When I started to trace my Grand Father family. I found out it was my 2 times great Grand Father house. He had lived there for 40 years and had died there. Not Spooky but funny, don't you think!
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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #181 on: Monday 05 June 06 19:20 BST (UK) »
Oh Gadget...... don't let my brother hear you say the lens was dirty he would kill me  :o (I was on big trust with his precious camera)

I have looked the photow before and left on the numbers as they appeared on the camera. I have missed out a few as they are clear and are of folk and the headstone and the ones directly after the spooky ones were taken in doors and were clear as a bell!!

& Jap I did not breathe on the lens!!
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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #182 on: Monday 05 June 06 19:22 BST (UK) »
sorry don't know how to multi attachments so here are some more.... the spooky ones were after the second photo on here
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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #183 on: Thursday 15 June 06 00:15 BST (UK) »
This made my hair stand on end.  We had gone on an open day to Sefton Church, we did not know what to expect really, but were thrilled when we could look at all the transcribed registers.  There was a queue of people waiting to be helped, so we had a look around the very old and beautiful building.

I saw a lady leaving the area so made my move and asked about the registers.  I gave the oldest of the names I had and the gentleman turned very pale, I thought he was ill!  He said that is very strange, the lady that was just in front of you, asked about the same person.  Now this was just a minute in time even less really and I rushed outside to find her.  He had shown her to a place of burial before taking her back inside to view the registers for the name I had asked about.  She was nowhere to be seen and the road was long and clear to see.  It was as if she had just gone up in a puff of smoke.  :o

I can honestly say I went cold and everyone thought it was really weird, the gentleman was telling everybody as it had never happened before and no, she was not in a car either!!

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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #184 on: Thursday 15 June 06 02:55 BST (UK) »
Wow Pam  :o :o :o  Definitely spooky!  Perhaps it was one of your ancestors paying you a visit  :D

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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #185 on: Thursday 15 June 06 20:53 BST (UK) »
I'd have been heartbroken to have missed her.  Probably would have been up and down the road etc plaintively calling out . . . . what??!
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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #186 on: Thursday 15 June 06 22:36 BST (UK) »
Hi Prue

Yes it was very eery!!  Especially being in the Church as well and nobody had ever seen her before.  Each time we visit, I am looking for her and I can even remember what her coat was like.  666 came to mind at one point!!  The goose bumps were like boils on my arms!!

Hi Mrs Lizzy

I was really sad to have not got the chance to talk to her, she may have had some info that I hadn't.  Also she may have been a long lost relie and that is sad.

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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #187 on: Sunday 18 June 06 21:59 BST (UK) »
Maybe she was longer lost than you thought!  ;D
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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #188 on: Sunday 18 June 06 22:22 BST (UK) »
Oh Gadget...... don't let my brother hear you say the lens was dirty he would kill me  :o (I was on big trust with his precious camera)

I have looked the photow before and left on the numbers as they appeared on the camera. I have missed out a few as they are clear and are of folk and the headstone and the ones directly after the spooky ones were taken in doors and were clear as a bell!!

Just caught up with this Cal  ::)

Was the camera digital or film? If it was digital and you looked after it, was there anything, anything at all  - weather like a sudden sun beam, hair in front of lens, etc. that could explain it  ???

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