Topic: I saw a ghost tonight.

[mrsphilthefish]

Hmmm therers something really strange in you're neighbourhood. Its f*cking weird and if I'm honest, it doesnt look too good so my advice would be to try something like this. Hope it helps mate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9We2XsVZfc

hahaha that made me chuckle........that tune will no doubt pop into my head the next night I have to go in to calm her down 

[Malaysian Kopite]

Hmmm therers something really strange in you're neighbourhood. Its f*cking weird and if I'm honest, it doesnt look too good so my advice would be to try something like this. Hope it helps mate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9We2XsVZfc

Good idea this. Especially for a child.

[Alan_X]

Send Alan X round to talk some sense into her.

Tricky one though because children's minds aren't easy to change, especially when they're scared of something. What you're doing with lights/doors etc is probably a decent start. Reassurance is all you can give too isn't it? In time (assuming there is no Mary!) then she'll get over her fear/forget about it.

We had a problem with my son seeing monsters under the bed. The probem went away when we stopped giving him Calpol, which can give some children hallucinations. Not saying that's the reason in this case but the one thing she won't be suffering from is ghosts called Mary.

[Brian Blessed]

We had a problem with my son seeing monsters under the bed. The probem went away when we stopped giving him Calpol, which can give some children hallucinations. Not saying that's the reason in this case but the one thing she won't be suffering from is ghosts called Mary.

Exactly. Ghosts never give their real names.

[JohnHobbes]

Exactly. Ghosts never give their real names.

Classic. Burst out laughing when I read that. Tricky blighters!

[simpleman]

Didn't know Calpol also changed gender 

ruh oh Shaggy! 

That would have been correct if it wasn't for those pesky kids previous posts!

[BRdispatch05]

Most of them are not all that great, but there are a few great stories on a site called "creepypasta". I've read quite a few of them looking for something good, really liked this one.

http://www.creepypastaindex.com/creepypasta/noend-house

[Alan_X]

Didn't know Calpol also changed gender 

I was using my son as an example in reply to this:

I posted on here a few months ago about our daughter seeing someone in her room most nights and she was called "Mary"...

[Alan_X]

Ahh, foot-in-mouth comment then...didn't read back enough to get context, sorry 

No problem

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Exactly. Ghosts never give their real names.

Norm grieving that no ghosts are to be found in here.

[joel]

No more experiences recently?

[theredguy03]

Not seen a ghost but I felt a presence in the Haunted Gallery when I went on a ghost tour at Hampton Court.

It was pitch black with only candles leading the way. I felt uneasy and rushed through the room. It was in fact the same room where 2 people on different tours supposedly fainted!

[Kopite B205]

What does a "presence" feel like?

[theredguy03]

What does a "presence" feel like?

To me I think it's as if somebody is in the same room as you, but you can't see them.
 
That's what most 'paranormal experts' say. This field seems to have no right or wrong answers, it's based on opinion.

[kesey]

What does a "presence" feel like?

[Phil M]

What does a "presence" feel like?

[El Lobo]

This thread is fucking gold.

[Alan_X]

What does a "presence" feel like?

Someone goosed him in the dark.

[doc_antonio]

The gf seems to be well into all this ghost stuff, she says her granny’s house is/was haunted and on more than one occasion and 3 separate kids all said they saw the ‘woman’ sitting on the rocking chair while they were playing in the next room.  I’ve been to the house and went into the room to prove that there wasn’t any ghosts, there wasn’t. but when they left I couldn’t resist hiding behind the door and jumping out and scaring them when they returned, I don’t think she’s ever forgiven me for that..

There is one experience that I’ve had with “ghost’s” when I was 10/11 in my house, I was playing with my star wars figures(as you do) when I started seeing a boy playing with toys in my room, I knew I was the only one in the room. I started screaming and shouting, my mum came up and was wondering what I was screaming for, she felt my head and I was running a fever, turns out it was tonsillitis. The same night while I was hallucinating from the fever I saw the same boy staring at me from the bottom of my bed, then he disappeared, and (I cant remember from that) but apparently my mum was saying that I was shouting “get the heads off the ceiling, please mummy get the heads off the ceiling” which I thought was kinda fucked up.. but then again kid’s say crazy things.. but the strange thing is my brother had my room before I moved into it, and he had an ‘imaginary friend’ who he only played with in his room, called him Tom and (again I can’t remember this) apparently the boy I described was exactly how my brother described his imaginary friend.. but I think that could have just been down to me hearing how my brother described him and just repeating him, as he’s 6 years older than me..

[swoopy]

Have any of you ever watched them most haunted style programmes??

The girl I live with watch them some times, and some people's houses I used to go to used to watch them religiously and get right into them.

To me, they're just a load of shite, things conviently move when the cameras not looking, noises come out of nowhere, and those on it just end up crying at nothing

[AlphaDelta]

Stayed in the Adelphi for the first time over the weekend, many people are of the opinion its haunted. Couldnt comment myself, but its a creepy place - reminds me of the hotel from The Shining!

[givemekaliber]

Stayed in the Adelphi for the first time over the weekend, many people are of the opinion its haunted. Couldnt comment myself, but its a creepy place - reminds me of the hotel from The Shining!

shithole of a place that hotel

[El Lobo]

To me, they're just a load of shite, things conviently move when the cameras not looking, noises come out of nowhere, and those on it just end up crying at nothing

They're fantastic if you're watching it for the right reasons, IE comedy. Watching Derek Acorah pretend to get possessed by some old dear is phenomenal television. Michael Jackson Seance as well, absolute genius.

I'd like to think if I was a ghost, I'd spend my time in womens changing rooms or getting into the cinema for free, and getting on planes for nothing and travelling to loads of different countries. Or sneaking onto the shuttle and going into space. Or just getting really close to a lions face and mocking it. Or do a Patrick Swyaze and try desperately to learn how to touch objects and then go to Old Trafford and keep deflecting the ball. But you never hear about them ghosts, just boring bastards who do the same shit they did in their lives. 'My Grandad died, and then came back as a ghost and sat in the same chair he always used to sit in'. It just doesn't ring true. Like, if they've got unfinished business then how is doing the same stuff going to finish it? You never hear about Swayze ghosts solving murders. just boring ghosts. And how is a ghost dog going to solve its unfinished business by coming back and clawing at a door and whimpering?

Which makes me think ghosts might not be real.....

[mrsphilthefish]

I've posted on here before how my 3 year old sees someone in her room most nights called "Mary" and when are now 7 year old used to sleep in that room she used to see "Mary" too........
Anyway, Christmas Day just gone my mum and dad paid for us all to go the Park Hotel for our Christmas dinner. We were all on tables in the big function room and when you'd finished your dinner, the kids could go and see Father Christmas to get a selection box off him in the little function room through a door opposite the big room. My dad said he would take  our 3 year old........well, the screams were deafening! I thought she was screaming coz she doesn't like Father Christmas. When she ran back to me she said there were men and ladies in the room. My dad said no one else was in there! When the main door opened as more kids were coming back our 3 year old was near enough climbing the wall shouting "they're waving at us, they're coming in. Tell them to go out" When we asked her who she said "the ladies and men"

The manager of the hotel who my mum knows came over to ask us what was the matter. We told her and she said that the room where the Father Christmas was is the "quiet room". It's the room they use to lay the dead when they're having a wake etc
Scary

[just Riggins?]

reminds me of the kid in Paranormal Activity who's best mates with that demon ghost

[dnkw]

They're fantastic if you're watching it for the right reasons, IE comedy. Watching Derek Acorah pretend to get possessed by some old dear is phenomenal television. Michael Jackson Seance as well, absolute genius.

I'd like to think if I was a ghost, I'd spend my time in womens changing rooms or getting into the cinema for free, and getting on planes for nothing and travelling to loads of different countries. Or sneaking onto the shuttle and going into space. Or just getting really close to a lions face and mocking it. Or do a Patrick Swyaze and try desperately to learn how to touch objects and then go to Old Trafford and keep deflecting the ball. But you never hear about them ghosts, just boring bastards who do the same shit they did in their lives. 'My Grandad died, and then came back as a ghost and sat in the same chair he always used to sit in'. It just doesn't ring true. Like, if they've got unfinished business then how is doing the same stuff going to finish it? You never hear about Swayze ghosts solving murders. just boring ghosts. And how is a ghost dog going to solve its unfinished business by coming back and clawing at a door and whimpering?

Which makes me think ghosts might not be real.....

Ghost dog, you say?

[Malaysian Kopite]

I'd like to think if I was a ghost, I'd spend my time in womens changing rooms or getting into the cinema for free, and getting on planes for nothing and travelling to loads of different countries. Or sneaking onto the shuttle and going into space. Or just getting really close to a lions face and mocking it. Or do a Patrick Swyaze and try desperately to learn how to touch objects and then go to Old Trafford and keep deflecting the ball. But you never hear about them ghosts, just boring bastards who do the same shit they did in their lives. 'My Grandad died, and then came back as a ghost and sat in the same chair he always used to sit in'. It just doesn't ring true. Like, if they've got unfinished business then how is doing the same stuff going to finish it? You never hear about Swayze ghosts solving murders. just boring ghosts. And how is a ghost dog going to solve its unfinished business by coming back and clawing at a door and whimpering?

Cracker. 

[theredguy03]

On Youtube there's a paranormal series called Haunted Britain, I find the OTT methods to create witness accounts very amusing using such devices as a face of a ghost in a mirror, ghost 'pressing' down on somebody aka sleep paralysis, pop-up of a ghost.

The interviewees always say that the ghost/spirit is evil. I suppose if there were Casper type ghosts, the programme would be worthless.

[El Lobo]

The interviewees always say that the ghost/spirit is evil. I suppose if there were Casper type ghosts, the programme would be worthless.

There's surely room on the telly for a new phenom who only gets in touch with friendly ghosts who are up for a bit of a laugh. Maybe pirate ghosts who have treasure buried.

[Cattive Maniere]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WOOIfYYuT0

Anyone been there and witnessed something strange? My cousin was there last summer, but according to him its nothing too special

[The Gulleysucker]

.....Anyone been there ...

Yes, several times over the years, and all on my own on a few occasions, and I've never seen or heard anything that could be described as strange whatsoever.

These stories are made up bollocks, flights of imagination, as are all ghost stories, and curiously their propagation seems to largely originate with the explosion of Edinburgh Ghost tour companies in the 90's.

(I've been told that there are estimated to be well over 500,000 bodies interred in Greyfriars, it dates to Medieval times at least. The ground was originally flat but over the centuries the bones and coffins of the rotted bodies of the older burials would be pummelled down to allow further burials on top of them to take place, hence the raised appearance of the cemetery in relation to the footpaths now. The layers, the records of who's actually buried and exactly where over the years, are available in the Scottish Records Office.)

[Fiasco]

One of the main reasons that makes me wonder about it all is that the dead people to ghosts ratio is highly disproportionate.

[The Gulleysucker]

One of the main reasons that makes me wonder about it all is that the dead people to ghosts ratio is highly disproportionate.

Exactly.

I once came up with a crude means of estimating the number of bodies in a typical old style small town or village graveyard before cremation became prevalent.

(Population of the area that the graveyard is for) / (Average Life Span of the population) = Death Rate per year (assuming equal birth/death ratio and constant population).

So for example...

If the population of the community is (only) 1500 and the average life expectancy of the community member is 65....

1500/65= 23 deaths per year so in 100 years there would be around 2300 burials and in 1000 years 20700.

That's an awful lot of ghosts that seem to be missing from these graveyards.

We should be seeing hordes of them if their existence is to believed.

[El Lobo]

One of the main reasons that makes me wonder about it all is that the dead people to ghosts ratio is highly disproportionate.

I'm more interested in ghost animals.

Loads of stories about ghost dogs or ghost cats, occassionally a ghost horse.

Ever heard of a ghost lion? Or a ghost sloth appearing in peoples wardrobes? I've never heard of a ghost velociraptor, but surely all dinosaurs have unfinished business? Or a poacher being tormented by the ghost of a hornless rhino wanting vengeance for chopping his horn off? Yet there's loads of stories about people being haunted by the ghosts of faithful dogs and cats.

[Snail]

Why have I never been in this thread before?

[Beav]

I'm more interested in ghost animals.

Loads of stories about ghost dogs or ghost cats, occassionally a ghost horse.

Ever heard of a ghost lion? Or a ghost sloth appearing in peoples wardrobes? I've never heard of a ghost velociraptor, but surely all dinosaurs have unfinished business? Or a poacher being tormented by the ghost of a hornless rhino wanting vengeance for chopping his horn off? Yet there's loads of stories about people being haunted by the ghosts of faithful dogs and cats.

Ghost dinosaurs are a big hole in the theory.

There were billions and billions of them, yet no ghost dinosaurs?

Also, the idea of being a ghost and getting in a lions face to mock it made me burst out laughing.

[Motty]

I'm more interested in ghost animals.

Loads of stories about ghost dogs or ghost cats, occassionally a ghost horse.

Ever heard of a ghost lion? Or a ghost sloth appearing in peoples wardrobes? I've never heard of a ghost velociraptor, but surely all dinosaurs have unfinished business? Or a poacher being tormented by the ghost of a hornless rhino wanting vengeance for chopping his horn off? Yet there's loads of stories about people being haunted by the ghosts of faithful dogs and cats.

this and your other post made me fucking laugh ,class

[Kopite B205]

This thread is fucking gold.

My favourite thread on RAWK - not from a piss take viewpoint but from a morbid curiosity viewpoint. Fascinating stuff.

[Samie]

Thanks for the links mate. 

Like I said I don't necessarily believe in this shit but what I want to know is  where the fuck do the spirits of a witch and another woman in a red dress fit in all this bullshit. 

I had a dream few weeks back it happened on two night's straight and I saw this witch again.

What the fuck is going on? 

[Fiasco]

Just for observational reasons I was watching Colin Fry earlier. He's an absolute fraud as has been found out as such but it got me thinking about mediums in general. My uncle went to see one after his wife passed as she was deeply into it and he had always been sceptical at best, in fact he used to mock her about her beliefs quite often!

So he went to have a personal reading up where he lives near Glasgow, this is about 18 months back. The medium said to him I have your wife here, Angela. He went on to say about how she finds it so amusing he's came to a medium after the stick he gave her. Correctly said how she passed, names of their kids, and how he shouldn't feel wrong about going to visit New York again which was where they went on honeymoon. Now to my uncle it doesn't actually matter too much if the medium guessed and hit the jackpot, to him it's brought comfort which cannot be understated.

Now, I guess everybodys reaction would be the medium guessed and used cold calling and this time he was right? I'm not saying it's not that, I just wondered how the hell he was so accurate.