do you believe in ghosts

[clematised]

I have read all of your stories with interest as I myself have had many experiences with the un-natural as I call it and have a contact who I met at a mind body and soul exhibition in Southport and he is a medium just take a look at his website as he is a jack of all trades so to speak and a very lovely young man

Edna

http://www.online-psychic-medium.co.uk

[cheshiremog]

Dear All
I have had so many encounters - I have tried very positively to blot them  out and ignore them.  I know if I did not - it could become a lifestyle. My mother put me off - big time- she said if you looked for old Nic - he would come looking for you. So that was enough for me. I have been taught that encounters with the other side are manifestations - sounds cranky I know and my grandad always said - the dead can't hurt you but the living will. I believe humans are sensitive creatures and when they go into an area/place where someone has suffered they pick up on the chemical reaction left behind. Perhaps it happens more when one of those who suffered are a rellie with same/similar genes.

Encounters so far - just a few - and very deliberatly not looking for them!
The ones I can remember.
Age 15 - woke in midddle of night to see a woman with grey hair - very prim in a grey 1940s suit - standing by the side of my bed- looking down at me very sternly.
Buried head under blankets -she disappeared. But I can still see her now.

I work as an Estate Agent - tried to measure an empty house with a sonic beam - many empty rooms- but beam would not work - i joked with the owner who was with me - that his 'ghost' was standing in the way of the beam. The owner was not impressed.  Found out three years later from the owners partner that the house was very haunted.

Again- as an estate agent - have actually taken a photograph  of a ghost - a little old lady - who is sitting in an armchair and has vapours that melt down to the floor.  Some can see her on the photo as clear as day. Others can not see her at all. 

The worst off all was witnessing a road traffic accident about 10 years ago - actually seeing at least one child casualty and another seriously injured - saw this with about 10 other people-thought now to be a mass hallucination -  little boy - curled around the wheel - and next day - nothing - no accident - no casualties - no news - no information - very wierd.  Wrote to several people about this - but all thought I was nuts. Thought to be a throw back in time that we witnessed again.

Belive you me - I absolutely try to avoid all of this. I avoid mediums. Gypsy's run straight for me when they see me. But I still believe it is all on the other side and should be left alone.

The needle story - I have heard before. A friend had a house in Devon and she kept finding needles in the woodwork ( door architraves,etc) - she filled a small toffee tin of needles in just a few weeks. Her bed frame kept moving so she sprinkled talcum powder on the floor to catch the culprit out, but the bed still moved, without footprints on the floor. A strange man came calling into her garden to talk to her little children -but she never saw him. The house was on Lock's Hill in Torquay - she always said it meant 'Warlock's Hill'

Sorry to spook you all -

[cheshiremog]

Part 2 of Tales from the Crypt.

My'gorra - there are so many - and I am trying to avoid them!
There are so many I have blotted out half of them.

Rooms -  have either male or female characteristics - someone mentioned this earlier - if there is a haunting you will feel what sex it is. It may be due to a ghost - or it may be due to the persona that spent most time in the room and left his/her chemical traces behind. But don't be frightened - just ignore them - do not let them worry you- I think I am saying give them their privacy and retain your own.

Places - How about Spring Lane at Riddings, also called Nottingham Lane -this takes the prize for me as the spookiest lane I have ever seen - I am sure they practiced witchcraft there. It just knocked me in the eye.

Another Place - nearby - Junction at the bottom of Crescent Road, Selston which meets Barrows Hill, Westwood - yes it must be a burial ground - but I strongly felt that it was a gallows corner.  I said to my hubby when I moved up here - I don't like this crossroads - they used to hang people here.  Someone told me last week that they did hang people but not exactly there, but further up at the top of the hill near Church Lane.  I was amazed that this really did go on in the vicinity but I firmly belive it all happened at the bottom of the hill - not the top.

Never had any real strong feelings about any other places that I can recollect apart from these two- but I was knocked in the eye with them both.

[poppysmum]

cheshiremog you're stories are fascinating!

Particularly the one with the traffic accident.  When did that happen?
When I wa young we lived on a Scottish Island (i recently saw an old map and it said burial ground where our house was later built).  The woods behind our house were terrifying, the air was very thick if you see what I mean.  Our neighbours who already lived there had put a wooden stake in the ground as they said it stopped the negative layline which ran through the area.

One evening we were playing just up from the house, there was about 5 of us and our dog, and it was pitch black as it was the country.  All of a sudden the dog took off down to the house, we shouted and she kept going , she was a very good dog.  Turned round and two red eyes (?) glowing behind us. Much screamong and running down to the house, met with shouting (my parents at each other)  my dad comes charging out the house jumps in the car and screeches off.

My dad told us it was probably a deer, but we knew it wasn't, anyway deer would not have come right up to us like that.  Another time ther was a road past our house we called the 'scary road'  there was a very old graveyard at the top of a little hill, walking past one day saw a little ball of misty cloud.  Dad said it was fog. hmm....  also we heard someone call my name when thee was noone there.

I don't supose you could explain the red eyes for me?

caroline

[mrs_tease]

I work in a forensic mental hospital which was built on the grounds of an old asylum.
There are many tales from this place but all are regarding the same area of the building and alot of the tales are from some of the more sensible people in the place!!!

there is a back corridor leading on to one of the other wards, which links into the canteen as well, this is a place that really makes you feel uncomfortable on a night. A few people have felt something touch their shoulders and you always feel as though something is watching you when you go to the coke machine.

Even when its well lit ( believe me, i dont go down there unless its like blackpool illuminations)there is a strange atmosphere.

Turns out that part of the corridor is built on the actually part of the old mortuary!   

[karenlee]

There is a very old ( by Australian standards that is ) cemetery a block or three from my place. 

They are doing some roadworks there to build a new busway and have disturbed quite a few old unmarked graves on the edge of the cemetery,  unintentionally they say. 

Walking past there is now impossible for me, and for several others that I have spoken to, as the screams and yells are just awful.  Not everyone hears them of course, but those of us who do are quite upset by it.  I don't think that they are impressed with being disturbed at all.  So sad.

Karenlee

[Gembar]

Several times I have woken in the early hours of the morning, when I know all my family members are in bed asleep, to the smell of food cooking downstairs. It is never a particular food smell that I can distinguish but it there all the same. Very strange.

[poppysmum]

quite often smell perfume

[PrueM]

Have seen things twice, and heard things once...

Most recently in 2004, staying in a 17th century house in Bermondsey, London for a few months while studying, I came in one night, opened the front door and out between me and the door dashed a very distinct, and distinctive, black cat with orange stripes!  It had very pricked up, pointy ears and its fur was all on end    I quickly looked outside to see where it went but it was nowhere...needless to say the house didn't own any cats.

About 15 years ago, first trip to England for a working holiday, staying in 18th century terrace in Earl's Court (of course!), we would frequently wake in the night to the sound of quick footsteps on the landing outside the bedrooms doors.  My friend and I slept in the lounge room, and the steps always came up to the doorway of the lounge, but no-one ever came in, and no-one ever went back the other way.  There were 10 people in the flat all up, and they all heard the footsteps.

I've seen the figure of a man in the conservation lab at the National Archives here in Canberra, although what he was doing there I've no idea, as the building is only 30 years old.  We theorised that he was something to do with our first Parliament, because a large composite photograph of the members of that Parliament was in the lab at the time, being checked and treated.