do you believe in ghosts

[elaine447]

does anyone believe in ghosts
my son was playing in dad's house one day when he asked me who the lady on the stairs was
thinking he was talking about the neighbours across the street I told him who they were
his reply was no not them stairs and pointing inside the house said those ones
I never thought anymore about it until a few years later my dad brought out some of the old
pictures and as we were going through them my son suddenly went quiet and then out of the blue
said that was the lady on the stairs
it was a picture of my mum who had died six months before he was born
a few years later my daughter moved into her first flat I took my son down to stay the night with her
but he just said I cannot stay in this house and walked out
cousin who used to live in the same close told me a little boy had fallen down the stairs in that close and died
vivid imagination or spooky
Elaine

[Tephra]

Your son has a very open mind Elaine....he's one of the lucky ones inasmuch as he has a mother who will listen to him and not ridicule him.......there are certainly things we will never understand out there.

And Yes, I believe in 'ghosts'

Barbara

[kerryb]

I don't know whether I believe in ghosts or not, I thought I was sceptical until an experience I had a couple of months ago.

It was a dull, dark October afternoon and I was in a local graveyard hunting for one of my family.  I had also gone there to photograph a gravestone which has a Jonthan Harmer Terracotta on it.  I walked round and round and couldn't find one Funnell buried there and was getting a bit frustrated.  Found the terracotta and took some photographs.  I was bent over the gravestone and as I stood up I glanced over to a large Yew Tree in the corner of the Graveyard. 

There was someone standing under the tree that I saw briefly.  Looked again and they were gone.  I noticed some graves I had not seen before under the tree and began walking over.  There was noone to be seen, I was totally alone but yes when arrived at the six graves under the tree, there they were my Funnell family!

Now I am sure it was a trick of the light or something but I swear it was a person I saw standing there.  A friend asked me if I was spooked and strangely I wasn't in the slightest, in fact anything but.

Well that's my story, make of it what you will.

Kerry

[Tephra]

Sometimes they help and sometimes they don't.........you were lucky Kerry, they helped you.


Barbara

[ggrocott]

Well my son very calmly informed me he had been talking to his grandad and gave details of the conversation which led me to believe he probably had been talking to my dad - who died before I got married as had my husband's dad.  I think children are probably more sensitive and have more time to listen.  By the way my ggrandfather was a spiritualist healer with 2 'contacts' who apparently 'appeared' to my mother and sibling on a regular basis so maybe there is a degree of genetic susceptibility too.   I have never to my knowledge met a ghost but there are many things we don't understand yet so who knows?

[KathMc]

I have chills. I definitely believe in something, but I haven't really experienced anything like this. I wish I would for a few branches, but I think my brickwalls want to stay hidden. 

Kath

[Windsor87]

I don't like admitting a belief in ghosts, but some circumstances can spook the heck out of you.

I work part-time in the kitchen of an old peoples' home, and have done for the last 5 years. Needless to say, there have been quite a few deaths in that time as we have large capacity. There have been some spooky encounters in my time there. There is one particular wing which is said to be really haunted. The 'ghost' up there tends to target new members of staff for some strange reason.
There are only two occassions where I personally have been affected. A few years ago I was visiting with a youth group (in my holy days) singing. As I was standing, I kept feeling something poking my side. I was at the edge, no one was beside me. This went on for the entire night.
More recently, the cook and me were standing preparing food. From the corner of my eye I saw something fleeting across the other side of the kitchen. I thought it was my work mate but when I looked up, there was nobody there. I asked the Cook if she had seen something at the other side of the kitchen (which is basically behind a small work station) and she said she had also. Both of us were so puzzled that we checked behind the work station to make sure it wasn;t my workmate mucking about, but there was no one there. So that was spooky...

[pipkim]

Elaine, your post gave me the shivers.

We recently visited Hever Castle in Kent.
When we entered the main hall, my young son immediately said did some die in here. My husband and I were a little startled, looked at each other in surprise and said probably, lacking any information.
I don't recall talking about anyone dying at the castle. It could be that he put two and two together and decided castles were where people died at some time. I'll keep an open mind.

I did wake up in bed one night to smell cigarette smoke. The windows were shut and no-one smokes in our house. My Dad died aged 50, when I was 16 and he was a smoker. I like to think he was just checking up on me!


Pipkim

[4kni]

I have always believed in the spirit side of death but my oh had always thought I was making up things as he was a non believer, that was until I had our third child, all was well with the pregnancy and birth so we had no reason to suspect anything wrong with our daughter but when she was 4 days old my mum ( who died when I was a child) came to both myself and my oh in a dream during the night, she told us both that she had to take our daughter with her. I woke up startled to find my oh diving out of bed to check on the baby, she had some how managed to be lying face down and as he grabbed her up we both heard a loud gasp. The doctor who came out to check her over ( she had stopped breathing for a few seconds) said that if oh hadn't picked her up in the way he did she would most probably be another cot death case. From that day on he has become a firm believer and has often thanked my mum for her warning dream, I also caught him having a quiet word the other night to her asking her to watch over me and our 5th child which is due in 2 weeks time.