Spooky experiences while researching

[Tephra]

I don't know if this qualifies as a spooky experience - but - last night I spent over two hours going along a different path trying to find Gr Grandad and finally gave up (with a few swear words thrown in for good measure!!)   During the night, my bedside lamp was going on and off like a yo-yo and then I woke up at 4am to the ceiling fan going        Nobody shares my bedroom so nobody could have switched it on and I sure as h*ll didn't . .. . ..  Strange       

Barbara           

[PaulaToo]

There are spooky experiences, and spooky experiences. Some you know are imagination or just plain made up.
The messages on this thread have a real feeling. Do you think it is because we are genuinly trying to find our ancestors because we love them and want to know about them. Perhaps this opens the path for those nearest and dearest to us to make contact.
Paula

[MarieC]

I don't know if this qualifies as a spooky experience - but - last night I spent over two hours going along a different path trying to find Gr Grandad and finally gave up (with a few swear words thrown in for good measure!!)   During the night, my bedside lamp was going on and off like a yo-yo and then I woke up at 4am to the ceiling fan going        Nobody shares my bedroom so nobody could have switched it on and I sure as h*ll didn't . .. . ..  Strange       

Barbara           

Barbara,

I've warned you before about the demon drink - especially taken just before bedtime!!     When you start hallucinating like that, it really is time to think about taking the pledge!! 

MarieC

[Tony Payne]

I'm waiting to prove one of my spooky coincidences....

Last autumn when I started to research my family tree, my cousin and I came across a relative that we didn't know about.  She lives in London, and is related to my Grandfather's sister on my Mother's side, the family coming from Warwickshire.

Her husband is Irish and his family come from the southwest of Ireland.

I moved to the USA in 1994 and got married to an American.  Her mother's family are from Maine, but before that from County Galway.  Wouldn't it be a coincidence if my wife's family are connected to the husband of someone on my Mother's side.....

[Bitza 5]

Although i don't remember this my mum told me when i was about 3 years old i sat by my Nan's legs a said Nana thats the leg you hurt when you fell. the adults looked at each other as my Nan said yes honey it was then turned to my mum and asked how does she know. apparently my Nan fell down stairs about a year before i was born breaking her leg. because it happened years ago no one talked about it. to this day there is no explanation how i knew. since reading there is mention about cornwall wales and ireland. i have just found out my great ancestors are from cornwall they moved to wales and married welsh girls and my Nana was a direct descendant to this line also my grandads line is from ireland. my mum is also from Scotland.
          Bitz

[Trees]

Not really spooky just a big surprise for us.
My ancestors were all Midlanders Oxford Warwick and Worcester my husbands were a mixture of Wales Devon Cornwall Somerset His mum was from County Durham so after nearly twenty years research I wasn't surprised to find lots of my dad's line in Ombersley Worcestershire but three weeks ago we found mother in law had ancestors in Ombersley just a few census entries from mine what a surprise Did the ancestors influence our meeting-oo er!
Trees

[Tephra]

I don't know if this qualifies as a spooky experience - but - last night I spent over two hours going along a different path trying to find Gr Grandad and finally gave up (with a few swear words thrown in for good measure!!)   During the night, my bedside lamp was going on and off like a yo-yo and then I woke up at 4am to the ceiling fan going        Nobody shares my bedroom so nobody could have switched it on and I sure as h*ll didn't . .. . ..  Strange       

Barbara           

Barbara,

I've warned you before about the demon drink - especially taken just before bedtime!!     When you start hallucinating like that, it really is time to think about taking the pledge!! 

MarieC

Marie, I was stone cold hadn't had a drop sober . . . ..     I've had some weird experiences, but that one takes the cake!!   I still don't know how it came about   

Barbara              

[PaulaToo]

Does anyone else feel that when Remembrance Day comes round, the veil between their world and ours is very, very thin?

The first time I 'heard' my father's voice was on a Remembrance Sunday. At home we always all watched it together.  The first one after his death I was watching it with the dearly beloved and son and heir. It seemed just as though he was standing right behind me.

[stockman fred]

PaulaToo wrote:Does anyone else feel that when Remembrance Day comes round, the veil between their world and ours is very, very thin?

There is a spot on the farm here where a Hurricane crashed in 1941, killing the Czech pilot. Dad was ferreting nearby and saw it happen so it passed into legend as it were.
A few years ago on Remembrance Day, I stopped for a few minutes at the spot and there was the most strange smell for a few seconds. It was the same acrid metallic smell that comes from a fired cartridge, only it was stronger. This was in the middle of a field a long way from houses and I often wonder where it came from.
Fred