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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #171 on: Monday 29 May 06 12:57 BST (UK) »
Amazing redspookhunter - especially the dreams

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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #172 on: Monday 29 May 06 13:04 BST (UK) »
Nobody as ever believed this so I'll see what you think,I was just a boy when this happened,on a clear night I always looked up at the stars before I got into bed,one beautiful clear night the stars shone at their very best,out of the corner of my eye this object came into view,it looked like a star but was much bigger,it went round and round in the same area for ages,it must have been a good hour before it vanished,now I've seen loads of shooting stars up in the Yorshire dales and the Welsh hills on our camping trips but nothing like that experience as a child. :o :o :o
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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #173 on: Monday 29 May 06 13:05 BST (UK) »
Throughout my life I have had loads of those de javu moments when you think you've been somewhere before and you know what you are going to say next.  But I also have had recurring dreams about places and years later I go somewhere and I think, hey I've drempt about this place. 

I know I definitely have never been there before.  One in particularly that I used to have as a child was about a railway platform and running up some stairs to go across to the other station.

Then years later I visited a steam railway on the North Devon and Somerset coast and as I was walking up the stairs, I realised it was the place of my dream.  There was a poster that I remembered.

I don't know why I should have drempt about it.

Weird  (Mind you my partner, Pete reckons I'm spooky because I have guessed right the sex of 35 + babies born to friends and family.  I don't know how I do it, except to say that the couple expecting are a male or female couple and it can change between pregnancies.  :o :o :o :o :o  He thinks it might be to do with smelling hormones!!!!) 

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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #174 on: Monday 29 May 06 14:06 BST (UK) »
I do believe you Derek but would not like to say what I think it may have been. Many would agree and many would possibly shout from the roof tops how crazy I am lol


Kerry - I have always been told that deja vu experiences are sign posts showing that you are in the right place in your life. You are supposed to have chosen your life and how it goes and these experiences are to show you that you are still on the right road. That station must have meant more to you than you realised at the time

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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #175 on: Monday 29 May 06 18:59 BST (UK) »
Hello Carol.
So you think you know what it was,you can give me your thoughts if you like,
believe me,I'm completely shockproof and pretty good at facing any gremlins. ::) ::) ::)
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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #176 on: Tuesday 30 May 06 11:59 BST (UK) »
Hi Gadget, you sceptic you!!  ;D

I could post my pictures, but a) I think they're all on a CD somewhere in the midden of boxes that are yet to be unpacked from the "recent" (i.e. three months ago) house move  :-[ :-[ ... and b) I would not be able to tell you any of the aperture, speed etc. details as it was done automatically with a digi camera.  Same with Cal's I expect.

I have seen alot of "fake" ghost/mist/orb photos, but I've also seen alot that defy explanation, and had enough experiences of my own to remain open-minded to the idea of a spirit "world".  Anyone who has been to Port Arthur in Tasmania, and seen the ghost photos that have been submitted by visitors to that place (they used to be up in the building next to the cafe that was the scene of that dreadful massacre - expect they are all gone now) would be in very little doubt!

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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #177 on: Tuesday 30 May 06 12:08 BST (UK) »
Well I had a quick look at the CDs I had here near the computer and found the photos!  They weren't packed away after all.
My photo doesn't show anything weird at all.

As for why the "orbs" or "mist" would show to one relative and not the other, I have no idea.  If that's what they are, and they are able to control when and where they appear, then maybe they can appear to whomever they choose...there was nothing that we saw with our eyes that can explain the things on Cal's photos...

Who knows?

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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #178 on: Tuesday 30 May 06 13:40 BST (UK) »
Prue, your photo is an excellent photo - you are obviously an excellent and careful photographer!

'Ghostly Orb' = a drop of water or somesuch accidentally dropped (by a human - most probably the photographer) on the lens.

'Spooky Mist' = someone (a human - most probably the photographer) accidentally breathed on the lens.

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Re: Spooky experiences while researching
« Reply #179 on: Tuesday 30 May 06 14:30 BST (UK) »
Hi Prue

Only just caught up with this again - been digging in KKD and Yorkshire  ;D

Anyway, thanks for digging out your photo. I've put them all together . Your's is from a slightly different angle but I'm convinced now that Cal's lens was (ssh) dirty or smudgy; possibly even out of focus.

Gadget the neutral sceptic  ;D

It would be interesting to see the photos that came before and after the ones you took Cal

Just had another look - there is definitely some dew or something on your branches - or is it sunlight.
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