Spooky experiences while researching

[Rebecca Steele]

How can we get through to them to say - please stop hiding, whatever you had that you don't want known, it is quite OK, we just want to know about you and honour you!!!

MarieC

Exactly! I couldn't have said it better!

[rarebit]

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 

[CarolBurns]

he died on the way through the gates of the hospital ,that really did spook me when I found that out 

I think I would have been spooked with that as well rarebit - talk about a form of deja vu !!

BTW Where are your Thomas' from? Caernarfon?

Carol

[Gadget]

Well I've got a real spooky one and I wasn't actively researching at the time

In the mid 1990s, I had a friend who was into all this astrological and alterntive stuff. She had a friend who did  birth charts - she got mine done. Well some of it fitted but, sceptical me, I put it all down to chance, random distribution, etc.

She then took my photograph to another spiritualist friend who told the future by concentrating on the image in front of him. She returned one afternoon with a cassette tape for me. The bloke knew very little about me - female, married, artist/academic. Now here's the spooky bit:

He said I had 7 guardians who he was talking to. They didn't want him to tell me who they were but they were guiding me. He said that the words that came to mind when he looked at my picture were the words from the 23rd psalm  - the still waters and the valley of the shadow of death bit and fearing no evil. He also said that I would get in touch with lots of people all over the world. They would help me and I would help them. Then he said that my guardians knew that I would find out who they were but it was for me to discover them.

I thought that it was a load of rubbish!!!! (sorry)

Five years later, I decided to go back to the family history that I'd started when I was very young. Through these five years I've been in touch with many people all over the world - helping and being helped. I've spent a lot of time looking for dead people.

I have 7 known great grandparents.

Spooky or what?

Gadget

[MarieC]

Wow!  Rarebit and Gadget!  Spooky indeed!!!

MarieC

[Gadget]

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

[JAP]

Oh dear, I posted on this thread and now it keeps coming up in my "new replies to your posts" 

Ah well, that being the case, I might as well post again and make a suggestion 

Perhaps we could institute a RootsChat equivalent of the Bent Spoon Award  

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

JAP
    

 

[Gadget]

I suppose that will happen to me J.A.P. now. However, I have lots of them but don't look at the ones that I don't want to. It's all personal choice.

Gadget

[CarolBurns]

We have a Psychic Club at the hotel every monday night and last night I eventually got a reading (usually I am rushing about or serving behind the bar so don't get the chance)

The medium was using Native American cards (like Tarot) and I had to shuffle and pick 3.

The first one was the StoryTeller which he said were the Historians of the tribe - quite apt with me doing the family history. He then went on to say that my Tree was going to grow in all directions and that instead of a tree he saw a Triffid !! If you saw my Family tree it does slightly resemble one of those already lol

The strange thing was he said that someone was going to help me and I would find 5 generations and as a last comment he added it would be on my Mother's side.

Well here is the spooky bit - I had been concentrating on Dad's side for the past few months as I didn't seem to be getting anywhere with Mum's but on Sunday night I decided to have another look and see if I had missed anything. I searched for my Great Grandad's birth and found another man with exactly the same name, born in the same town but 6 months earlier than the cert I had. I had already sent for his cert and found his mother's name to be Margaret (unmarried) and when I sent for his sister's cert it showed a different mother's name (also unmarried). I decided to send for this 2nd cert I had found just to see if the two names of the mothers might be the same and I had just picked the wrong one initially
.
When did I post the letter and cheque? - yesterday morning.

Had I told anyone at the club before the reading? - No, not a whisper

So now I am patiently waiting for the cert to come back to see if what he told me is correct. The 5 generations would be right as well - me, mum, grandad, great grandad and last of all his mother!

Carol