Spooky experiences while researching

[Rebecca Steele]

They do say the dead come back to bring out the truth sometimes

Carol

Sometimes wish mine would!

[CarolBurns]

Sometimes wish mine would!

Lol at that- I agree totally there Chui as do many others on here

Carol

[CarolBurns]

Re-reading many of the posts left on here I noticed that we all seem to have been drawn to places we should be at that time whether it is to find information or whether it is to be in a ceratin place at a certain time for info later on.

I remember reading a book a few years ago which told about our lives being mapped out before we even get here. And here was a really strange thing that seemed to make sense to me. Have you ever that had that feeling of deja vu - that you have been in a place or said a certain thing before but not sure when?  Well, according tot his book (which I cannot remember the name of) it is a "signpost" that we are on the right road for that particular time of our life.

When we moved to Blackpool I could never understand WHY we did it. We have never run a hotel or steak house before (Pete was a doorman and I worked night shift at Tescos - not a place to learn Hotel running skills!) but once we got here things started to fall into place and deja vu was happening quite a lot. None of my family come from this side of the country so there were no ties here (now of course we have 3 beautiful grandsons)

Have you ever wondered why you up and leave an area you have lived in most of your life or you suddenly go off on a tangent with work and do something completely different? Well it could just be your "pathway" getting you back on the right road for you

Spooky to think about eh?

Carol

[wotty]

I've often thought about that Carol.

I grew up in County Durham. When I was about 7 my Dad had the chance of a job in Worcestershire. There was endless discussion about moving away from the family and in the end we didn't go. I left the north-east and 15 years later, via Manchester and Germany, I ended up working in Shropshire.

Here comes the spooky bit. I met my husband at work and he is from Worcestershire. It turns out that if we had moved when I was 7 I would have ended up in the same town that my husband grew up in.

Were we destined to be together?!!

This feeling is partly reinforced by the fact (as in my earlier post here) that one of my ancestors and one of his seem to have worked together in 1880, despite originating from opposite ends of the country.

Wotty.

[teap78]

Hi all what a night i had  i was on the puter last night reading the posts and read this thread
well of i toddled to bed and had the most horrible dream ever i cant remember much but a few things stick out

it was at the top of my front garden which has a little wall around it i mean little as in about 1 foot tall. Well in the corner with their backs to this little wall were these 2 people they had their backs to me i couldnt see their faces but im getting the strong impression it was my grt grandfather and grt grandmother who i have never even seen a picture of.
and beside them facing me was the Devil covered in blood  all three of them in a little row i cant remember anything else about it. At the start of the dream i knew who the 2 people were but now its just a feeling and i just cant remember for sure who they were.

very distressed Colette

 

[Rebecca Steele]

Oh Colette, what an awful dream

[pipkim]

Hi All,

Colette, I'm not surprised you're distressed, hope you have a better night tonight, think sweet thoughts.

I'ts all very intriguing. I Love listening everyones stories. I've tagged mine onto Miss Marples Amazing Coincidences post, a while ago.  

I have had lots of coincidences crop up with my mum's side and now my husbands. I've only just started with my dad's, but nothing yet.

There is a section road between Guildford and Woking that I always find very familiar whenever we pass it (which is only once a year if that). I was not born around here, so it's not from my childhood memories. Alas, I've not found family from Woking, but just maybe it's my coachbuilding ancestors who passed through from Odiham on their way to London (in a round about sort of way).  

Pipkim  

[MrsLizzy]

Well Colette you had just been reading all our posts, so it does sound to me as if it was probably purely a reaction to that.  As for the Devil, covered in blood, well if there was any message from your great grandparents, you know what relatives can be like when they're over here - "Why do you want to know?" "It's none of your business" etc - I am sure some of our relatives on the other side are probably just as awkward about family history as those this side of the Great Divide!  My personal feeling is that there was no message in this particular dream, it was just your mind going over what you had read.  Perhaps in your subconscious, the devil and blood are simply symbols of physical death.  I personally believe very strongly, in fact I take it as read, that death is not the end and we do go on.  I think your great-grandparents are probably happily progressing with their spiritual development, if they have not already come back to earth to continue their growth.

[Romilly]

Well Said Mrs Lizzy!

I was just typing something along very similar lines, - but you beat me to it.

Best Wishes, Romilly.