Spooky experiences while researching

[MaryA]

I know this isn't quite the place but I must tell you that on Sunday morning I popped into our local wholesalers and who should be at the Customer Services Desk but Derek Acorah - spooky experience enough for you all??

I commented to the assistant that I wondered if he knew everybody was staring at him and her reply - "with hair like that, are you surprised?" 

Mary

[JAP]

Hi Gadget,

What's really spooky is how your non-swimming fish (used to be balloon carrying goblins) speeds across the page without moving a fin or its tail - and then, just as it disappears left, it or its clone appears again right without a break ...  Is it one fish; are there many fish (one fish, two fish, green fish, evergreen fish ...); if the latter how does the next fish know when to start ...  Spooky, eh 

JAP
See:
http://www.skeptics.com.au/spoon/aboutthespoon.htm

[Rebecca Steele]

I don't mind getting e-mails about these posts .... I like reading what other people put and sometimes putting in my two pennies worth

[buxtonwall]

Hi

I'd been living away from home (Buxton) for a number of years what with uni and work etc. I'd started to research my family history and found that both my grandfathers (one from London one from Hay-on-Wye) had been stationed at an RAF base just outside the Buxton shortly before being demobed in 1945, both met local girls and never left.

About the same time rumours of upcoming redundancies were circulating at work and I decided to look for a new job. I apply for a number jobs with little luck then I was home one weekend and saw a job in the local paper, applied, interviewed and started work a few weeks later. It turns out that the site that I now work at is the exact site of the old WWII RAF base where my both my grandfathers were posted all those year ago...

I started work in February 2005, it'll be interesting to see exactly when my grandfathers' postings began...

[kerryb]

Hi

I had a spooky experience last summer whilst looking for graves in Lingfield Churchyard, Surrey.

It was a really hot day and I forgot to take a drink.  I spent a good hour wandering around and couldn't find any of the graves that were supposed to be there, according to my mum and my aunt.

I got too hot so sat down on a bench, under a yew tree, nice and cool.  My eyes were drawn to a little gravestone to the left of me and to quote someone on this thread earlier wooah, there was John and Jane Payne, my great great grandparents, hidden beside the bench. 

I am sure they led me there!!!

Talking to Derek Acorah, has he ever summoned up anybody that anybody could trace from their tree?  I've always been a bit sceptical about him but with proof could be persuaded.  After all the spooky things related here and my own experience, well!!!!!

Kerry 

[MrsLizzy]

I'm still waiting for my Dad to "contact" me with the relevant information I need to sort out my family tree!!!!

Dad got me interested in the family in the first place - but unfortunately didn't stay long enough to get the full measure of the family!!

But ..... he promised most faithfully (if) he could he would let me know the answers to some of the questions that had been bugging us for some time.

I'm still waiting .... dear old dad has been gone for some 16 years!!!!!! 

Webby

Hi Webby - well I think that might be cheating, but who cares??  Have you actually been to see a psychic medium since your dad died?   There was a programme on a while ago, called Antique Ghostshow - it was featured in one of the family history mags, I think.  They had psychic mediums and genealogists/family historians like us - and the idea was to see whether our relatives on the other side were any more amenable to helping us out than some of them can be while they're over this side!

[Gadget]

I try  to ignore the various strange happenings that I've had - shrug my shoulders and say 'chance' but I've had quite a few and, eventually, you do start wondering

Tarot - did it once - dead spooky - never again

Gadget

[MrsLizzy]

Ever since I was a little girl I could remember being in an ambulance lying down ,it was an old ambulance with darkened windows ,looking out I could see a big building  I somehow knew it was a hospital after that nothing , when I started to do my tree I was trying to find my grandfathers death certificate ,I knew he died young in 1918 ,he died in a colliery accident ,what I did'nt know was the local hospital sent him to  the Royal Infirmary in Cardiff ,he died on the way through the gates of the hospital ,that really did spook me when I found that out 

When I was very young - about 3 or 4 - I kept having the same dream.  It always frightened me so much I used to be afraid to go to sleep, and the feeling of relief when I woke up was overwhelming.  I would dream that I was dead, and that I was floating above two graves, each covered in flowers.  I knew I was dead, I was absolutely horrified and appalled about it and desperately wanted "my life" back.  I felt I had perhaps done something stupid that had caused my own death.  There was also a strong feeling that another person was missing, who ought to have been there, and I kept silently asking over and over again "Where is she? Where is she?"    I have no conscious memories of a previous life, although I am pretty certain we do have previous lives, but I have a strong "memory" of a previous death!!  I can remember also having a very powerful response to that scene in "Flatliners" where Kiefer Sutherland has to cut his own face with a scalpel.  I don't like sharp objects at the best of times but I felt shaky and weepy for the rest of the film (and that scene is fairly near the beginning!)  It made me wonder if there was something I've buried from my past.  Also one night, when I was justbdrifting off to sleep, the thought came into my head "I've been coming back for 3,000 years" - which woke me up with a jolt!  Although I'd accepted the idea of past lives, I'd never thought in terms of thousands of years before!

[MrsLizzy]

Even spookier though - she told me he'd said to listen to the tape quietly on my own. So after she'd left I put it one and listened and i think I replayed it.
Next week, she called around again and I decided to put it on for her to hear. The tape wouldn't play. I fiddled with it but it broke. So no one ever heard it but me.
The other problem is he told me roughly how long I'd got

Gadget

Now Gadget, no way are they supposed to tell you how long you have or haven't got, not even roughly. I think that was naughty.