Spooky experiences while researching

[PaulaToo]

    
Yes, and I've just had a bit more encouragement to keep going, Carol.
It's done it again. The printer switched itself on, scanned itself, printed a blank page, spat it out and turned itself off.
    
It was a Eureka! moment.
IGI has John Foster and Hannah Olliffe getting married 20/7/1715 in North Crawley.
I had just put John Foster and Hannah Olliff, married 20/7/1715 in North Marston into my family tree, because I had found it in the North Marston Register.
Was she telling me 'Yipppeee,' or perhaps, 'It took you long enough.'
    

[PaulaToo]

It's happened again.. ..they've been getting at me.

Sitting here this morning having a quiet little saunter through the archives looking for Henry Norris and I suddenly realise I should be cooking dinner...nothing unusual in that, but I had a sudden desire to make a cake.

Now I make a pretty tasty Anglesey Cake. Family love it, all rich with black treacle, spices and sultanas, lovely dark brown.

Met the mother in law's friend one day, she wanted to know what it was, because it seems, MIL had been keeping an eye on the clock, and made hurried departure, saying she wanted a slice when it was still warm from the oven.
Did me a lot of good knowing that. MIL was a fantastic cook.

Now I've just realised the date, 21st March...would have been Mother In Law's birthday.

Didn't realise it was a birthday cake I was making.

Would have been my lovely Gran Sarah's birthday too, only she didn't have a chance to taste Anglesey Cake.

[Lesanne]

Goosey pimples Paula....Henry Norris...me too....late 1780/90's Berks or Oxon 

[PaulaToo]

   Oh hurumph and pshaw!
Different one, Lesanne, mine is getting married in Portsea, Hampshire in 1838.
He's a twig on an offshoot of the family tree. But legend says two of the family were drowned, and he is the only connection I can find so far with the sea. His wife is down on the 1841 census as seaman's wife, 1851 widow.

So, if I come across one in Ox'n'Berks I'll let you know, and if you find one who was drowned...

[lisalucie]

Great thread!!! Thought Id share my spookiness....although I have loads coincidences too, but this one seems too spooky:

  My daughter was having a bad dream and, half asleep I went into her and fell asleep in her bed. Sometime in the night I shot up and saw this really bright light and a lady standing there, with a shawl over her head, and she was making her way towards the bed. I picked up my daughter, whose fast asleep, and the "woman" walked straight past us and "out the window". I had only in the days prior to this found my GG Grandmother who I had been searching for for ten years, and found she died in childbirth along with the baby. Now when I saw this "woman" my first and only thought was that she was trying to steal my daughter  .....bizzare I know, and most probably a dream, but it seemed soooo real...was it my GG Grandmother?

Lisa 

[lisalucie]

Also, on the subject of orbs, we got married in June and on the photos of our first dance, the dance floor is chocka-block with orbs...the biggest one REALLY spooky when u zoom in (looks like a face lol). I told my husband that its all my family tree people come to see me get married and mingle at the party....he just rolled his eyes lol

Lisa

[PaulaToo]

Great to see this thread come back up again, and just at the right time of year.
Let's have some more, um ... interesting happenings.

[roopat]

Back to graveyard 'coincidences'...

About a year ago OH and I took his elderly uncle to find OH's g-grandfather's grave (from 1927). The cemetery was so big it was on either side of a busy road. After searching for quite a while, we realised the grave could be anywhere so decided to give up until we could consult the council. Something made me wander off on my own one last time to look at a grave under a low-hanging tree, with a huge bush growing up from it, all overgrown, I pulled back the leaves and yes, it was the one we'd been looking for.

Today we've been back to that town for the first time since then, I had to see someone so OH decided to go looking on his own for other family graves in that graveyard. He didn't have any luck until he had a chat with another man who said 'It's probably right in front of you'. OH agreed, turned round, and there it was - the grave of his gg grandfather, 1901 (father of the one we found before). OH collected me and was so excited he had to take me back to show me.

As I'm typing this, I'm even wondering about the identity of the 'random man' he spoke to....... 

Pat

[Caz1960]

More graveyard 'coincidences'

Back in 2010, I took a trip to Logie Cemetery in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, to visit my gt aunt and gt uncles grave.  My mum originally came from Menstrie in Clackmannanshire, and had mentioned that her maternal grandparents, McLaren, were buried there.  I wandered around looking for their grave without success.  Wandered past a Lindsay tombstone, and ignored it, even though my gt grandmothers maiden name was Lindsay.  Eventually discovered that said Lindsay tombstone is the resting place of my gt gt grandparents 

While wandering up between tombstones, on a path naturally, I suddenly felt icy cold, as if someone had placed their freezing hands on my shoulders, looked to my right at the tombstones and nothing rang a bell ......... looked to my left and nearly joined the occupants, as it was the tombstone of Samuel and Lucy Higham, my mothers grandparents on her fathers side ...... I hadn't even been looking for them 

Caz xx